God is Everything to us in the Divine and Mystical Realm of the Consummated Spirit

The Bible reveals that Christ has become the pneumatic Christ, Christ as the life-giving Spirit, to be a realm in which we can live, move, and do all things; everything we need to live the Christian life is in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ. Wow, Hallelujah!

We as believers in Christ are those who have been shown mercy by God to believe in the unseen One; though we have not seen the Lord Jesus with our physical eyes nor have we heard Him with our physical ears, yet we love Him and we pursue after Him.

We love the Lord Jesus, we have been captured by His beauty, and now we live a life in fellowship with the Lord.

This means that we are learning to live daily in a different realm; we live not only in the physical realm where many things are happening outwardly but in the spiritual realm, where Christ is.

We believers in Christ have a regenerated spirit, and when we contact the Lord in our spirit, we live in another realm, where the Lord is.

This realm is the divine and mystical realm.

It is a divine realm, for it is the realm where the Lord is, and it is mystical because the Lord causes us to be the same as He is, which is quite mysterious.

We Christians are not doing our best to improve our behaviour according to what the Bible says, nor do we ask What Would Jesus Do right now in my situation.

Rather, we have a living union and communion with the One who indwells us.

Christ as the Spirit indwells us, and our spirit is a mingled spirit.

In our spirit, we can contact the Lord, and we can live in the spirit, walk according to the Spirit, and do all things in the spirit.

When we do this, when we have our being and do all things in the spirit, though outwardly we live in the human, physical realm, inwardly we live in another realm, the realm where God is.

And the God who is in this realm is not merely the Creator of all things, the Almighty God, the One who is self-existing and ever-existing, but the God who became a man, passed through human living, died on the cross, resurrected and was ascended.

Our God is not just God but a God-man, a God mingled with man, a man mingled with God, to be the Man in the glory, the God-man on the throne above all things. Wow!

This One is not just in the heavens, seated on the throne; He is also the Spirit with our spirit, joined to us as one spirit.

When we turn to our spirit and live in the spirit, we live in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ, and here we have everything we need to live the Christian life according to what the Bible shows us.

May we be here, in our spirit, to enjoy and partake of all that God is and has so that we may live Christ, express Him, and manifest Him.

Christ has become the Pneumatic Christ, the Consummated Spirit, to be the Divine and Mystical Realm for us to Live in

John 7:39 is a very mysterious verse; in the previous verse, the Lord Jesus said that everyone who is thirsty can come to Him and drink, and then this verse says that this drink is the Spirit, who was not yet.

In Gen. 1 we see that the Spirit of God was there, right from the beginning, but here we are told that the Spirit was not yet.

How can this be? The Bible unveils an amazing fact concerning God: He is not only the Creator, the Almighty One, the One who is above and beyond all things human, but He also became a man.

John 1:14 says that the Word, who was God and was with God, became flesh; God in His economy became a man. He put on the human nature.

On one hand, in His Godhead, in His very person, God can never change, for there’s no need to change or improve.

But on the other hand, in His economy, God became a man. Furthermore, He went through human living for thirty-three and a half years, and then He died on the cross.

On the cross, this God-man who was spotless, sinless, and perfect, was put to death on our behalf, so that He may redeem us and shed His blood for the forgiveness of our sins.

Then, after three days of being in death, He resurrected and became a life-giving Spirit. 1 Cor. 15:45 clearly says that the last Adam, Christ in the flesh, became a life-giving Spirit.

First, God became a man, then, He became a life-giving Spirit.

He was already the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Jehovah, and the Holy Spirit (or the Spirit of holiness), but He went through a process to become the Spirit, the life-giving Spirit, who is also called the Spirit of Jesus, the Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Amazing!

The consummated Spirit – the Spirit who went through a process to be consummated as the Spirit – is the Triune God who in Christ has passed through the process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection.

Now He is “the Spirit” spoken of in John 7:39, who was not yet before the Lord’s resurrection but now is. He can be enjoyed by man.

Before His incarnation, the Spirit could only move man, inspire man, and speak to man, but He could never be inside of man.

Yes, the Spirit could fall upon man and make man do great and wonderful things, but the Spirit could not be in man nor could He remain in man to be mingled with man.

After the Lord’s incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection, the Spirit can come into man.

The Lord Jesus came on the evening of His resurrection to His disciples and breathed into them saying, Receive the Holy Spirit (John 20:22).

All believers in Christ are those who have the Spirit, the consummated Spirit.

Even more, God went through all these processes so that He could become the pneumatic Christ (Christ as the Spirit), the consummated Spirit, for Him to be a realm in which we can live, move, have our being, and do all things. Wow!

Through His death and resurrection, Christ became the life-giving Spirit and thereby became the pneumatic Christ, ready to be enjoyed, received, and experienced by all those who believe into Him (2 Cor. 3:17-18).

Thus, today we may speak of the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit and the pneumatic Christ, in whom we live, move, and have our being (John 7:39; Gal. 3:14; 1 Cor. 15:45).

May we learn to live in this Spirit, walk by the Spirit, do all things according to the Spirit, drink the Spirit, be immersed and baptized in the Spirit, be filled in spirit, and do all things in the Spirit.

Thank You, dear Lord Jesus, for going through a process to become the life-giving Spirit! Hallelujah, today we can enter into the divine and mystical realm of the pneumatic Christ and the consummated Spirit! Yes, Lord, we want to be in this realm, live here, and do all things in this realm. Thank You for coming into us as the Spirit to regenerate us, transform us, renew us, sanctify us, and glorify us. We open to Your inner working and to all the things You are arranging for us. Fill us with Yourself. Amen, Lord, fill us in spirit! Fill us with Your Spirit in our spirit and also in our soul! We want to be in the spirit and do all things according to the Spirit. Amen, Lord, we want to live in the spirit, walk by the Spirit, and do all things in and according to the Spirit. Keep us in our spirit today so that we may live, walk, have our being, and do all things in the divine and mystical realm of the pneumatic Christ and the consummated Spirit!

God is Everything to us in the Divine and Mystical Realm of the Consummated Spirit

May the Lord have mercy on us the believers in Christ to show us that we live not only in the realm where we are, such as the country we’re in or the city we live in, but in a different realm, in the realm of the Spirit.

We are not like those around us, the people we meet at work or on the street who do not have God’s life in them; we have Christ as the Spirit in our spirit, and we live in another realm.

Our realm is not the UK or the USA, nor is it Germany, France, the Philippines, Malaysia, Nigeria, Romania, Ghana, Spain, Portugal, or the country we live in.

Our realm is the Triune God, and more specifically, we live in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit where God is our everything.

In the Triune God, there are no complications, but when we look at the processes He went through, we see many complications; the realm we live in is the complicated and complicating Triune God.

We live here with the Triune God – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit – and here we have Christ’s incarnation, His human living, His crucifixion, His resurrection, and His ascension.

In the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit we have God in Christ as the Spirit to be our everything.

Sometimes we may find it hard to die to the self and be crucified with Christ, for in the self we’re very much alive; if we simply live in the divine and mystical realm, here we have Christ’s crucifixion.

In this realm we have Christ’s resurrection; when we live in this realm, we realize we have been resurrected with Christ.

In John 14:1 the Lord Jesus said, Do not let your heart be troubled. In the physical realm, there are many troubles, and our heart is very much troubled (16:33); but in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit, there are no troubles.

In this realm of the consummated Spirit, we believe into God and also into Christ, and we have peace.

We not only believe in God; we believe into God, we are joined to Him as one, and in this organic union with Him we enjoy a peace that is beyond understanding.

When we live in the world but not in the divine and mystical realm, our heart is troubled.

But when we believe into Christ, we enter into the consummated Spirit as the realm, and there are no troubles here.

There are two realms: the physical realm where all the troubles are, and the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit, where peace is.

We need to choose to live and be in the mystical realm of the Triune God, where peace is found.

Similarly in John 16:33, the Lord said that, though in the world we have afflictions, in Him we have peace.

He has overcome the world, and in Him we have peace.

Today there are wars raging in many parts of the earth, some being closer to home while others are further away.

People rise against people. Nation fights against nation. One ethnicity hates another ethnicity.

Racism is prevalent, hatred and violence are widespread, and the news media report and even encourage such matters.

There are many troubles in the world, and the more we live in the physical realm, the more our heart is troubled. But in the Lord we have peace.

In the consummated Spirit as the divine and mystical realm, we have peace, for here God is everything to us. Hallelujah!

And this is all because Christ became the flesh and then He became a life-giving Spirit.

If He had not been incarnated and had not become the Spirit, there would be no way for us to enter into Him and be in Him as the divine and mystical realm.

In order for us to enter into the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit, which the Triune God became after going through a process, God had to become a man and He had to become a life-giving Spirit.

Now we can simply call, O Lord Jesus, and we can live in another realm, the realm of the Triune God as the Spirit. Hallelujah!

May we be those who day by day live not only in the physical realm, the outward human realm where so much trouble is but simultaneously live in the divine and mystical realm, where God in Christ as the Spirit is everything to us.

In this realm, we have the power of resurrection, the conformity to Christ’s death, the ascension of Christ, and everything we need.

In this divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit, the all-inclusive Christ is everything to us for us to live the Christian life and the church life.

Lord Jesus, we believe into You! We turn to You. We exercise our spirit to be one spirit with You. Amen, Lord, we love You and we love to remain in the organic union with You in spirit. Keep us in our mingled spirit today so that, as we live outwardly in the physical realm, we would live inwardly in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit! Amen, Lord, we want to live in our mingled spirit today! Hallelujah, in the realm of the Spirit we have life, peace, redemption, salvation, joy, and everything we need to live the Christian life and the church life! Amen, Lord, we want to remain in this realm of the consummated Spirit to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as our everything. In You, we have peace, and this peace is the real peace, not as the peace in the world is. Hallelujah!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ron Kangas in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” pp. 113-115, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth of the Lord’s Recovery Before His Appearing (2023 July Semiannual Training), week 2, entitled, The Divine and Mystical Realm.
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