Grace is the manifestation of the Triune God in His embodiment in three aspects – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit; grace is the Triune God dispensing Himself into us in His Divine Trinity with the Father as the source, the Son as the element, and the Spirit as the application.
Grace is not mainly what God does for us or what He gives to us.
Many Christians – and non-Christians alike – think that grace is unmerited favor, the gift that God gives to us, the things that God does for us, and the outward things He blesses us with.
God is not in the business of giving us things, and His main goal is not merely to help us or give us material prosperity or blessing.
God wants to give Himself to us for our enjoyment; He wants us to be with Him, enjoy Him, partake of Him, and be constituted with Him so that we may build up the church as the Body of Christ to express Him in a corporate way.
For this to happen, He came as the embodiment of grace; He came to us as grace upon grace.
And grace is not something He gives us or does for us – grace is God Himself in His Divine Trinity being dispensed into us to be enjoyed by us.
2 Cor. 13:14 shows us that, in His economy, God is Triune for the purpose of dispensing Himself into us, His chosen and redeemed people, so that He may be our enjoyment and experience.
God the Father is love as the source, God the Son is grace as the expression of God’s love, and God the Spirit is fellowship, the flow, the transmission of the love of God with the grace of Jesus Christ.
When we touch Jesus, we touch grace. When we come to the Lord in His word, we enjoy grace.
Grace is something of God that is dispensed into us for our enjoyment and experience to be our everything.
If grace were merely something that God gives to us or something He does for us, it may not affect our being but rather, it may even distract us from enjoying God and experiencing God.
But grace is nothing but the Triune God being dispensed into us to be our everything.
Grace is God but not in doctrine; grace is God in our experience and enjoyment.
Grace is God as our life, strength, rest, comfort, light, holiness, power, strength, peace, and all the divine attributes to be our enjoyment and experience.
May we come to Him, again and again, to enjoy Him as grace. May we come and open to Him, contact Him, and enjoy Him as grace.
May we come to the Lord day by day and ask for His supply of grace to meet our timely needs.
Grace is the Manifestation of the Triune God in His Embodiment as the Father, the Son, and the Spirit
A very good definition of grace is, Grace is the manifestation of the Triune God in His embodiment in three aspects – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit (2 Cor. 13:14; Num. 6:22-27; Psa. 36:8-9).
Where can you hear such a definition of grace? In this materialistic world where everyone is after their own benefit and tries to get more gain for himself, where can we hear a proper and genuine definition of grace according to God’s New Testament economy?
It is only under the ministry of the age that we can hear that grace is the manifestation of the Triune God in His embodiment as the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.
Grace is not any thing or matter; grace is God Himself, and this God is triune. He is not “three Gods” but He is the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.
He’s not three separate Gods – He is the Three-one God, the Triune God, the God who is the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.
Grace is the manifestation of the Triune God in His embodiment as the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.
2 Cor. 13:14 tells us that the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit is with us all.
These three – the grace, the love, and the fellowship – are not three unrelated items but one thing seen from three angles.
From one angle, it is the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the first item; this grace is also the history of the entire New Testament. From another angle, speaking of the source of grace, we see the love of God.
The love of God the Father is the source and the grace of Christ is the expression, the manifestation, the coming out and reaching out of the love of God.
And how can God’s love and Christ’s grace reach us practically?
The application is the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. It is through the fellowship of the Holy Spirit that we can enjoy the transmission of the grace of the Lord and of the love of the Father.
Grace is the outflow of God’s love and Christ’s grace, and grace is transmitted through the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
We can say that the source of grace, the element of grace, and the application of grace are of the three persons of the Divine Trinity to be our everything (Matt. 28:19).
Grace has three aspects: grace has a source, an element, and an application.
Grace is not winning the lottery, getting a promotion, or getting lucky at something; grace is not the benefits that God gives us or things that God does for us.
Grace is not by chance or accidental; grace has a source, which is God the Father, and an element, which is God the Son, and an application, which is God the Spirit. The source of grace is God the Father Himself.
The substantial and solid element of grace, which is grace itself, is Christ; Christ is grace, He is the embodiment of grace, and He is grace.
The application of grace is the Spirit; for grace to be applied, the Spirit comes in to apply this grace of which the Father is the source and the Son is the element.
Grace is the manifestation of the Triune God in His embodiment in three aspects – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.
The Triune God in His Divine Trinity – the Father as the source, the Son as the element, and the Spirit as the application – applies this grace to us in a solid way.
In the divine dispensing, the grace is called the grace of God (1 Cor. 15:10; 2 Cor. 1:12; 8:1; 9:14), the grace of Christ (8:9; 12:9; 13:14), and the grace of which the Spirit is (Heb. 10:29).
When we say, the grace of God, these two terms are in apposition, that is, grace is God. The grace of God indicates that grace is God and God is grace.
Grace is the manifestation of the Triune God in His embodiment in the Father, the Son, and the Spirit as the source, the element, and the application.
Hallelujah, grace is not merely something God does for us or gives to us but grace is God Himself for our enjoyment! Amen, Lord, cause us to realize that grace is the manifestation of the Triune God in His embodiment as the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. We open to your divine dispensing today. Dispense Yourself as grace into us. Keep us under the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity today so that we may enjoy the Father as the source of grace, the Son as the element of grace, and the Spirit as the application of grace. Amen, Lord, grace us today! Keep us enjoying the Triune God in His Divine Trinity as grace being dispensed into us to be our life, our portion, and our everything!
The Triune God went through a Process to Dispense Himself into us as Grace
God in Christ is grace, and He wants to give Himself to man to be enjoyed by him. However, how can the holy, righteous, and glorious God come into man to be enjoyed by man, when man is sinful, corrupt, and rebellious against God?
How can man contact and dwell with the God who dwells in unapproachable light because of His holiness, righteousness, and glory?
For man to enjoy God as grace, God had to go through a process.
Grace is the Triune God in His incarnation to be dispensed into us, the believers in Christ, by the Father as the source, by the Son as the element, and by the Spirit as the application (2 Cor. 13:14).
First, God took the major step of being incarnated; the infinite God became a finite man, the unlimited God became a limited man, and the eternal God became a man in time.
Without being processed in His economy, God can never be enjoyed by man.
But praise the Lord, the Triune God went through a process to dispense Himself into us, the believers in Christ, as grace!
The grace in God’s economy in our experience is the processed Triune God.
God is one yet three – He is one God, and He is the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The Father is the source, the Son is the embodiment and expression of the Father, and the Spirit is the reality and realization of the Son.
When God became man to be Jesus Christ, God was seen and touched by man; when man saw God in Christ, they saw and received grace, for Christ came full of grace and reality (John 1:1, 14, 16-17).
The infinite, eternal, and unlimited God became a finite and limited man in time, and this man was a God-man; in Him dwelled all the fullness of the Godhead, and of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.
How we thank God that He passed through a process in His economy so that we may enjoy Him as grace.
He came that we might receive grace, even grace upon grace. He didn’t come with the law or commandments, and He didn’t come with rules and regulations; He came as grace, and He came to dispense grace.
The law was given through Moses, but praise the Lord, grace came through Jesus Christ.
He lived on earth for thirty-three and a half years, and people saw how God is full of grace, patience, kindness, and compassion.
In His human living, Jesus Christ the God-man was just grace; He lived out the all-inclusive, all-sufficient God among man to show man what grace is.
The life He lived was just grace; His living was full of grace.
Then, He passed through death and resurrection, and He entered into ascension; in His resurrection, He became the life-giving Spirit, the Spirit that can now enter into us to dispense what God is into our being.
When Christ was on earth, He didn’t leave the Father in the heavens; rather, He told people that, when they see Him, they see the Father. And He did everything by the Spirit of God.
Through death and resurrection, Jesus Christ was transfigured to be a life-giving Spirit to dispense God into man.
The incarnated God, Jesus Christ, brought grace and reality to men, and now He is the Spirit. In Him is the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, and when we touch Him, we receive grace.
Now we can contact the Lord through the exercise of our spirit and enjoy the dispensing of the processed and consummated Triune God as grace.
On His side, He went through all the necessary processes to be dispensed into us. On our side, we simply need to open to Him and enjoy Him. Praise the Lord!
Thank You, dear Lord Jesus, for becoming a man to be the first God-man, full of grace and reality. Hallelujah, when Christ came, grace came, and of His fullness, we have all received, grace upon grace! Thank You, Lord, for going through the processes of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, death, and resurrection to become a life-giving Spirit. We come to You today to enjoy the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity as grace. Hallelujah, the Triune God in His economy went through a process to be dispensed into us as grace. Amen, Lord, we take You as our grace today. We open to Your divine dispensing today. Give us the portion of grace we need for today. Lord Jesus, we love You. We come to You. We take You as grace. Hallelujah!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother James Lee, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991-1992, vol. 2, “The Law and Grace of God in His Economy“, chs. 2-3, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Grace of God in the Economy of God (2022 International Chinese-speaking Conference), week 1, entitled, The Tremendous Significance of the Grace of God as Revealed in the New Testament.
- Hymns on this topic:
– God is incarnate in the flesh that we / Him may receive, experience ourself; / This is the grace which we receive of God, / Which comes thru Christ and which is Christ Himself. (Hymns #497)
– God’s deepest work of grace goes on / Each day, though hidden, small, / Until that day, when manifest, / It is revealed to all. / By then God’s wrought His finished work: / Himself dispensed to us; / And all creation ’round admires / His product, glorious. (Hymns #1321)
– The love of God, the grace of Christ, / The Spirit’s flowing free, / Enable us God’s wealth to share / Thru all eternity. / The Father, Son, and Spirit-one, / So richly care for us; / Thy love with one accord we sing / And e’er would praise Thee thus. (Hymns #12)
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