Lesson 6 – The Dispensing of the Divine Trinity

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.

1 Cor. 15:45 …The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

Eph. 1:22-23 And He subjected all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church, which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all.

1. God’s dispensing being for God’s economy:
   1. To dispense God Himself to men:
      1.The first step: becoming flesh ¹
      2.The second step: becoming the life-giving Spirit ²
   2. Regenerating, transforming, and glorifying the believers ³, ⁴, ⁵
2. The divine dispensing in Ephesians chapter one:
   1. The Father’s choosing and predestinating ⁶
   2. The Son’s redeeming ⁷
   3. The Spirit’s sealing and pledging ⁸
3. The believers’ experience of the dispensing of the Divine Trinity:
   1. The law of the Spirit of life—the dispensing of the Divine Trinity becoming the law of the Spirit of life in the believers ⁹
   2. The spirit—making our spirit life because of the regeneration in our spirit ¹⁰
   3. The soul—making the mind in our soul life by our setting of our mind on the spirit ¹¹
   4. The body—giving life to our mortal body through our putting to death the practices of the body by the indwelling Spirit ¹²
4. The divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity producing the church ¹³
   1. To be the Body of Christ
   2. To be the fullness of the One who fills all in all

READING

Bible References:

1. And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality (John 1:14)
2. …The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. (1 Corinthians 15:45)
3. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)
4. And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect. (Romans 12:2)
5. And if children, heirs also; on the one hand, heirs of God; on the other, joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him that we may also be glorified with Him. (Romans 8:17)
6. Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish before Him in love, predestinating us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. (Ephesians 1:4-5)
7. In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of offenses, according to the riches of His grace. (Ephesians 1:7)
8. In whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, in Him also believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise, who is the pledge of our inheritance unto the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory. (Ephesians 1:13-14)
9. For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death. (Romans 8:2)
10. But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness. (Romans 8:10)
11. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace. (Romans 8:6)
12. And if the Spirit of the One who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you. (Romans 8:11)
13. …The church, which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all. (Ephesians 1:22-23)