It is Only by God’s Becoming Man to make man God can God gain the Body of Christ

The high peak of the vision given to us by God is that it is only by God’s becoming man to make man God that the Body of Christ can be produced, for God became man to make man God for the mingling of God and man so that He may gain the Body of Christ, the organism of the Triune God living the God-man life for God’s corporate expression.

Lord Jesus, may we truly see that God became man so that we may be made God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead for God’s corporate expression on the earth! Amen, Lord, thank You for becoming the same as we are so that we may be made the same as You are in every possible way for us to be the Body of Christ as God’s corporate expression! We give ourselves to You today to cooperate with You the best we can for the mingling of God with man. Mingle Yourself more with us today. Live in us today the life of a God-man for the corporate expression of God! Amen!

This week we have been prayerfully considering how we can arrive at the highest peak of the divine revelation and what is the revelation of the eternal economy of God.

According to the divine revelation in God’s word, God became man through incarnation so that we who believe into the Lord Jesus may become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.

God is the source of all things, and the entire Bible is the autobiography of the Triune God seen in the two sections of eternity and on the bridge of time.

It is amazing to realise that the Triune God came from eternity into time and with His divinity, to enter into humanity and became the incarnated God for His direct move in man.

God went through a process so that, just as God became man through incarnation, so we who believe into Him may become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.

The essence of the entire Bible, the diamond in the box of the Bible, is the eternal economy of God.

What the New Testament shows us is that we as believers in Christ are children of God, born of God with His life and nature, and we have the divine right to participate in God’s divinity.

We have the divine right to participate in God’s life, nature, mind, being, image, glory, sonship, manifestation, likeness, and even to be Godkind, God’s species.

This truly is the high peak of the divine revelation, for in Christ God has become man in order that man might become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead.

The result of us being regenerated, renewed, transformed, sanctified, conformed, and glorified is that we become part of God’s corporate expression on the earth to have a God-man living for God to have a manifestation, even to bring in a new revival that will end this age. Praise the Lord! Amen!

Only by God’s Becoming Man to make Man God that the Body of Christ as the Organism of God can be Produced as God’s Corporate Expression

How can God gain what He is after, a corporate expression of Himself? How can He gain a group of people on earth who are just like Christ, expressing Him corporately? It is not merely by man trying to express God and somehow represent God, as we see it in a pitiful and low way in Christianity today.

The only way God can gain a corporate expression of Himself, the church as the Body of Christ to be the organism of the Triune God, is by God’s becoming man to make man God.

Wow, it is only by God’s becoming man to make man God that the Body of Christ can be produced – this is the high peak of the vision given to us by God (Rom. 8:3; 1:3-4; 8:14; 12:4-5).

This truly is the highest peak of the divine revelation. Only God can express Himself; God has to become man, and man has to become the same as God – of course, not in the Godhead, not for man to be worshipped – so that God may gain a corporate expression. Amazing!

God became man to make man God so that He might produce the Body of Christ, the organism of the Triune God, the ultimate manifestation of which is the New Jerusalem (see Eph. 1:22-23; 4:4-6; Rev. 21:2, 9-10).

This is the crystallisation of the divine revelation in God’s word.

We are the church of the living God, the Body of Christ, the organism of the Triune God, and this is because God Himself became man to make us, human beings who believe into Him, God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.

The Bible shows us how man can become God to have a God-man living and thus become an organism of God (Rom. 1:3-4; 12:4-5).

Wow, the Lord Jesus, as the first God-man went through death and entered into resurrection, and in resurrection He was transfigured and begotten to become the firstborn Son of God.

He took the lead to do this. Now we as believers in Christ are regenerated with God’s life and we have God’s nature, and we are being transformed by the renewing of the mind so that we may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.

On the corporate side, just as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function, so we who are many are one Body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Amen!

Together, all believers in Christ are the organism of the Triune God; this organism is God joining and mingling Himself with man to make man God.

The issue of God becoming man and man becoming God is an organism; this organism is the Body of Christ, the union and mingling of God with man (Eph. 4:4-6, 12).

We need to take the word of God, especially these verses showing us this high revelation, and pray them to the Lord.

We need to exercise our spirit to read and pray the word of God to the point that we are infused with the divine revelation in God’s word and the Lord shines on us.

It is only by prayerfully considering the high peak of the divine revelation by means of praying it, studying it, reciting it, and prophesying it that we can enter into the reality of the highest peak of the divine revelation.

May the Lord show us that God sent His Son to be a man and to live a God-man life by the divine life.

When we see this, when we’re infused with the human living of Christ through prayerfully reading God’s word, we will have a similar living, for we will live the life of a God-man.

Such a living issues in a universal man that is exactly the same as Christ is – a corporate man living a God-man life by the divine life (Rom. 8:3; 12:4-5).

The reality of the Body of Christ is the union and mingling of God with man to live out a corporate God-man. May the Lord bring us into this reality today. May the Lord gain this among us so that He may have an organism, the Body of Christ, to express Him corporately.

Lord Jesus, unveil us to see that it is only by God’s becoming man to make man God that the Body of Christ can be produced! Amen, Lord, thank You for becoming the same as we are, putting on humanity, so that we may become the same as You are in life and nature but not in the Godhead! Hallelujah, God became man to make man God so that He may produce and build up the Body of Christ, the organism of God. Wow, Lord, we praise You for making us Your Body, Your organism on earth, the ultimate manifestation of which is the New Jerusalem. We love You, Lord, and we open to You. Mingle Yourself more with us today. Mingle Your divinity with our humanity. Have a way to live in us. Live in us today the kind of life You lived while on the earth. Amen, Lord, gain a corporate living of the life of a God-man for You to have a corporate expression in man! May we be in the reality of the Body of Christ as the union and mingling of God with man so that we may live out a corporate God-man! Amen, Lord, do this in us and among us!

Live in the Resurrected Humanity to be Conformed to Christ’s Death and Live the Life of a God-man for the Manifestation of God, the Body of Christ

We thank and praise the Lord for granting us to see the high peak of the divine revelation according to which God became man to make man God for the producing of the Body of Christ, the organism of the Triune God, for God’s corporate expression.

This high peak is not too high for us to know or live out, for we believers in Christ have the divine life and nature of God in us (John 1:12-13; Col. 3:4; 2 Pet. 1:4).

We are partakers of the divine nature, the very nature of God. As men, we have the human nature, and as children of God, we have God’s nature.

We are God in His life and His nature but not in the Godhead. We believers in Christ shouldn’t strive to be good men, nice men, or gentle men; rather, we should realise that we are God-men.

And we are not God-men in an individual way; rather, God wants to gain a corporate man, a corporate God-man who expresses God.

He will gain this: the New Jerusalem is the enlarged mingling of God and man, the corporate God-man, the aggregate of all the God-men. Hallelujah!

How can we attain such a reality and how can we live in such a way? We need to realise that the divine life has been mingled with our human life; we now have both the divine life and the human life, and we need to live by the divine life. We are a mingling of God and man, a mingling of divinity and humanity.

According to the New Testament, our human life (the old man) has been crucified for the living of the divine life with the resurrected human life (the new man) – see Gal. 2:20 and Eph. 4:22-24.

We shouldn’t try to cultivate, improve, or build up the old man; rather, it needs to be cut off, to be crucified.

Our old man has been crucified with Christ on the cross (Rom. 6:6), and today we need to live a crucified life. When Christ died on the cross, He crucified all His believers so that we may not live by the crucified life but by the divine life in a humanity that is resurrected! Wow!

When we were born again, we were resurrected in our humanity; now we have a resurrected humanity, and we should live in this resurrected humanity by the divine life to express God.

This is the new man. We are no longer walking in the vanity of the mind as the rest of the people do, nor do we try to improve ourselves to somehow express God according to what the Bible says.

We need to see a vision and realise that our old man has been crucified, and in regeneration, our natural humanity was resurrected.

Wow, our regeneration was a resurrection to us, for we were regenerated with the divine life (Acts 13:33). Now we live a life conformed to the death of Christ (Phil. 3:10) so that the divine life may have an opportunity to live with our resurrected humanity.

This is what Paul strived to do and this is what the Lord wants us to do in our daily living: we need to live by the divine life in the resurrected humanity to be conformed to the death of Christ and have Christ lived out in us for the corporate expression of God, the Body of Christ.

Confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: He who was manifested in the flesh (1 Tim. 3:16).

First, God was manifested in the flesh in the person of the Lord Jesus, and now we as the many God-men are the corporate manifestation of God in the flesh.

Godliness is not merely piety but the living of God in the church; godliness is God lived out in the church. Godliness means that God becomes man and man becomes God, for the many God-men live out God for the expression of God in the flesh.

Amazing, God became man so that man may become God for the corporate manifestation of God in the flesh.

This is a great mystery in the universe, for the eternal, infinite, immense God became man so that man may become God to produce a corporate God-man for the manifestation of God in the flesh as the new man.

This corporate God-man grows up for the purpose of building up the organic Body of Christ for the fulfilment of the eternal economy of God (Eph. 4:12-13, 15-16).

This is the only way that God can be manifested in the flesh in a corporate way: only if God becomes man to make man God in life and in nature.

It is not by us building ourselves up or trying to express God in ourselves; it is by being mingled with God to live out God that we can express God.

May we give up trying to cultivate ourselves or improve ourselves, for in ourselves we can never express God; may we realise we are God-men born of God to have God’s life and God’s nature, and may we live by the divine life today in our resurrected humanity.

The Bible teaches us that we as human beings must be born of God to be a God-man, and we need to be raised up, grow up, be built up, and be part of God’s corporate manifestation in the flesh, the Body of Christ as the organism of the Triune God. Praise the Lord!

Lord Jesus, thank You for crucifying us with You on the cross and then resurrecting us in Your resurrection! Hallelujah, our old man has been crucified with Christ on the cross, and we now live by the divine life in the resurrected humanity! Amen, Lord, we pray that we remain in our spirit today. Keep us one spirit with You. We don’t want to build ourselves or cultivate our natural humanity; we simply want to be in our spirit! May Your divine life live in our resurrected humanity for us to live the life of a God-man for the manifestation of God in us. Hallelujah, great is the mystery of godliness, God manifested in the flesh! Amen, Lord, remind us that our old man has been crucified, and keep us living by the divine life so that we may be conformed to the death of Christ and express God! Oh, what a mystery this is, for God to be expressed through us! Praise the Lord, God has become man so that man might become God to produce a corporate God-man for the manifestation of God in the flesh as the new man! Amen, Lord, gain this manifestation of God in the flesh in us and among us today! Amen!

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 Ted Williams on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 2, “The God-men,” pp. 438-441, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Great Need for a New Revival (2026 Memorial Day Blending Conference), week 2, “Arriving at the Highest Peak of the Divine Revelation” – day 6.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – God and man will have one living, / Always in the mingled spirit; / We two are incorporated / One organic entity! / This the vision of the ages / Will control our daily living / That the Lord may have His Body / Shining as the holy city. (Song on, God has called us for His purpose, stanza 4)
  – No longer I alone that live, / But God together lives with me. / Built with the saints in the Triune God, / His universal house we’ll be, / And His organic Body we / For His expression corp’rately. / And His organic Body we / For His expression corp’rately. / Jerusalem, the ultimate, / Of visions the totality; / The Triune God, tripartite man— / A loving pair eternally— / As man yet God they coinhere, / A mutual dwelling place to be; / God’s glory in humanity / Shines forth in splendor radiantly! (Song on, What miracle! What mystery! – stanzas 3-4)
  – God’s eternal economy / Is to make man the same as He is / In life and nature, / But not in the Godhead / And to make Himself one with man / And man one with Him / Thus to be enlarged and expanded in His expression / That all His divine, that all His divine / Attributes may be expressed in human virtues. (Song on, God’s eternal economy)