Participate in God’s Mind to have the Mind of Christ and Participate in God’s Being

Because we believers in Christ have become God-men through regeneration, we have the right to participate in God’s mind and have the anointing, the inner sense of life in our spirit, and we have the right to participate in God’s being.

The New Testament clearly tells us that as many as believe into Christ, that is, receive Him, they have the full right to become children of God, sons of God, born of God (John 1:12-13).

This means that we have been born into another kingdom to enter into another realm to be a new kind of person; we are no longer merely men but God-men, men born of God, men having the life and nature of God.

We were fallen men, but now we have the life of God in us in addition to our human life.

And because we have this life, we have certain unalienable rights; we have the right to participate in many aspects of God’s divinity!

First of all, we participate in God’s life and in His nature. Wow, we human beings can partake of the life of God, grow in the life of God, enjoy the life of God, and live by the life of God!

Day by day we can contact the Lord and fellowship with Him, and His life flows in us, grows in us, expands in our being, and is expressed through us.

This is something mysterious yet so wonderful.

It is truly a miracle that we, human beings, can partake of the life and nature of God to be God-men expressing God!

Christ died to bring us into the right position for us to partake of the riches of God’s divinity so that we may become the same as He is in life and nature but not in the Godhead.

We are blessed people, for we can wash our robes and partake of the tree of life, and we can enter into the city of New Jerusalem by the gates (Rev. 22:14).

May nothing distract us from exercising our divine right to enjoy God, experience God, and partake of God.

May we come forward to the Lord day by day by applying His precious blood to be cleansed from anything that His light exposes in us, and may we partake of Him as the tree of life.

As children of God, we are daily growing in the divine life and we realize more and more the riches of this life.

When we were born again, we did not realize that much what it means to be a child of God.

But as we enjoy the Lord, fellowship with Him, and meet with the saints, we enter into the enjoyment of our divine right to partake of what God is.

God Himself with all His being flows into us to supply us, water us, nourish us, and saturate us with what He is. We are partakers of God’s divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4).

May we remain in the word of God with an attitude of prayer and seeking the Lord so that the riches of His being may be infused into us day by day.

We have the Right to Participate in God’s Mind by Setting our Mind on our Spirit to have the Mind of Christ

Phil. 2:5 says that we need to let the mind of Christ be in us; the same mind that was in Christ also needs to be in us.

Because we have become God-men through being born again of God, we have the right to participate in God’s mind.

We are in God, and we have the elements of God; however, we still have our mind, and we need to also have God’s mind in us.

It is our right to participate in God’s mind by setting our mind on our spirit.

May we let the same kind of thinking that was in Christ also be in us.

He emptied Himself, humbled Himself, taking the form of a slave; He was found in fashion as a man (Phil. 2:6-8), and He obeyed God even unto death, and that the death of a cross.

May we be one with Christ in His inward parts (1:8) so that we may have the mind of Christ.

May we be one with Him to the extent that His tender inward feeling and His thinking is in us.

We, human beings, have the right to participate in God’s mind by letting the mind of Christ be in us.

This means that we need to be renewed in the spirit of our mind (Eph. 4:23).

Our human spirit is regenerated and indwelt by the divine Spirit, and this mingled spirit needs to spread into our mind to become the spirit of our mind.

How can the spirit spread into our mind to become the spirit of our mind? It is by setting our mind on our spirit.

The more we set our mind on our spirit (Rom. 8:6), the more our spirit spreads into our mind to saturate it with the Lord’s element and with His mind, and our spirit becomes the spirit of our mind.

May we come to the Lord in His word day by day to set our mind on our spirit.

May we allow the mingled spirit to penetrate our mind, saturate our mind, and possess our mind so that our mind may become like the mind of Christ.

We believers in Christ have the right to participate in God’s mind by setting our mind on our spirit so that we may have the mind of Christ.

If we let Christ’s mind be our mind, we may have the mind of Christ (Phil. 2:5).

We have not only the life of Christ but also the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16).

We may be a proud person, never being able to be humble; but when we set our mind on our spirit, we have the mind of Christ, and He never exalted Himself nor did He consider His equality with God as something to be grasped upon.

The more we set our mind on our spirit, the more the mind of Christ becomes our mind and we participate in God’s mind.

Christ must saturate our mind from our spirit, making our mind one with His mind.

As we set our mind on our spirit, something wonderful happens: the Lord is moving within us as the anointing to lead us and guide us in all things (1 John 2:27).

When the anointing is moving within us, it anoints God into us and reveals God’s mind to us.

The Spirit’s leading doesn’t derive from nor does it depend upon outward things; it is an issue of the inner life.

When we set our mind on our spirit, we have an inner sense of life and peace.

We have the consciousness of the divine life within us.

The leading of the Spirit is a matter of life, the divine life in our spirit spreading into our mind to saturate our mind and to anoint us with God and all that He is.

There’s an inner sense from the divine life within us, from the consciousness of the divine life in our spirit.

It is by that sense that we can know this divine life.

We all can testify that, when we set our mind on our spirit, we are inwardly strengthened and satisfied, and we sense being watered and refreshed.

By this inner sense we can know the divine life in us, and by this sense of life, we can know that we’re walking rightly.

May we listen to the Lord’s inner leading by the anointing in our spirit.

May we simply set our mind on our spirit and allow the Spirit to anoint us, seal us, transform us, and bring into us the essence and ingredients of God with His life and nature.

May we never disobey or violate the inner sense of life in our spirit, for this is the leading of the Spirit in us.

May we give heed to the sense of life, the leading of the anointing, so that we may be under the Lord’s leading.

May we set our mind on our spirit and walk according to the spirit so that we may be led by the Spirit in all the details of our daily life.

Lord Jesus, we exercise our right to participate in God’s mind by setting our mind on our spirit! Hallelujah, the mind set on the spirit is life and peace. We choose to set our mind on our mingled spirit and we allow the spirit to spread into our mind. Amen, Lord, we want to be renewed in the spirit of our mind so that we may have the mind of Christ. May the mind of Christ become our mind. Yes, Lord Jesus, may the same mind that was in You when You were on earth become our mind today. We want to be one with You in Your inward parts, even in Your tender feelings and in Your thinking. May Your thinking become our thinking. May our mind be saturated and possessed by the Lord so that we may participate in God’s mind. Oh Lord Jesus, we treasure having the anointing teaching us in all things. We want to give heed to the teaching of the anointing and obey the inner sense of life and peace.

As God-men, We Believers in Christ have the Right to Participate in God’s Being

2 Corinthians 3:18 is a wonderful verse telling us that we as believers in Christ have the right to participate in God’s being.

In this verse, we see that we, with an unveiled face, can behold and reflect like a mirror the glory of the Lord to be transformed into the same image as His, even as from the Lord Spirit.

On one hand, we can participate in God’s image, but on the other hand, we can participate in God’s being, for this transformation into His image is carried out by the Lord Spirit.

What is this “Lord Spirit”?

The Lord Spirit is a compound title of Lord and Spirit; the Lord is the Spirit, and as the Lord Spirit He imparts the riches of His being into us to transform us into the image of Christ.

Our basis for saying that we have the right to participate in God’s being is Paul’s word in 2 Cor. 3:18 about our being transformed with God’s very being.

How are we transformed into the image of Christ? It is from the Lord Spirit.

The Lord Spirit imparts and dispenses all the riches of God’s being into our being so that there would be a metabolic process going on, a process of transformation, for us to be in the image of Christ.

The dispensing of the unsearchable riches of Christ into us (Eph. 3:8) means that we participate not only in God’s life, nature, and mind but also in His being. Wow!

The very being of God, what He is in His being with all His riches, can become our experience and enjoyment today.

This is what He desires.

He desires not that we outwardly worship and revere Him, always obeying Him or else; He desires to impart the riches of His being into us to transform us organically into the image of Christ.

We as God-men have the right to participate in God’s mind, and we also have the right to participate in God’s being.

We can turn our heart to the Lord and remove any veil from our eyes to behold the Lord with an unveiled face.

When we do this, when we behold the Lord in prayer in in His word face to face, the Lord dispenses the unsearchable riches of Christ into our being.

It is like Moses spending time with God on the mountain: the glory of God is wrought into him to the extent that even his face was shining.

When we truly touch the Lord and spend time with Him, having face-to-face time with Him in our spirit, the Lord Spirit dispenses the riches of Christ into us and we are being transformed into the same image as Christ.

God’s very being is conveyed and infused into us.

All the unsearchable riches of Christ are conveyed and infused into our being so that our inner being is reconstituted with the being of God, with all the riches of Christ.

In this way, we are being transformed with God’s very being.

This is something intrinsic and organic resulting in an outward conformation to the image of Christ.

We are today in this process of being daily infused with the riches of Christ until we become His fullness, His corporate expression.

We may not know what is happening in our being, but the more we spend time with the Lord, the more He infuses the riches of His being into us to reconstitute us with Himself and transform us into the image of Christ.

Lord Jesus, thank You for giving us the right to participate in God’s being. Hallelujah, we can come to the Lord with an unveiled face to behold Him and reflect Him, and we are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit! Amen, Lord, we open to You today. We open our whole being to You. We turn our heart to You. Infuse us more with all that You are. Infuse us with the riches of Christ, the unsearchable riches of the all-inclusive Christ. May we remain under the daily infusion and transfusion of all that God is in Christ as the Spirit. Oh Lord, dispense Yourself with all Your riches into us so that we may participate in God’s being. Amen, Lord, may we be transformed with God’s very being so that we may look like Christ, being conformed to His image. Hallelujah, we as God-men have the right to participate in God’s being!

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 Minoru Chen in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Incarnation, Inclusion, and Intensification,” pp. 215-216, 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 10, entitled, The God-men’s Divine Right to Participate in God’s Divinity.
• Similar articles on this topic:
  – The Renewing of the Mind, article via, Living to Him.
  – Christ Makes His Home in Us, We are Strengthened to Apprehend His Vastness, article via, New Jerusalem blog.
  – To participate in God’s life, a portion from, Incarnation, Inclusion, and Intensification, Chapter 4, by Witness Lee.
  – Deification by participation in God’s divinity, article by Ed Marks in, Affirmation and Critique.
  – Mind Bending or Mind Renewing? Article via, Contending for the Faith.
  – Renewed in the Spirit of Your Mind – What does it mean and how do you experience it? Read more via, Holding to Truth in Love.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – Now He must have our cooperation. / We must set our mind upon the Son. / We must turn away from all that leads astray, / Till our mind is set on Him each day. / Lord, our human spirit now contains You. / Still Your purpose in us You would do; / If our wandering mind would leave old thoughts behind, / Then Your life and peace in it we’ll find. (Hymns #1193 stanzas 4-5)
  – Christ to me is so subjective, / All my being He transforms; / By the mind and will renewing / To His image He conforms. (Hymns #537 stanza 3)
  – O the riches of my Savior, / So unsearchable, immense; / All the fulness of the Godhead / I may now experience. / O the riches, O the riches, / Christ my Savior has for me! / How unsearchable their measure, / Yet my full reality! (Hymns #542 stanza 1 and chorus)