We are Saved by Grace through Faith: God’s Saving Grace is the Dispensing of God into us

According to Eph. 2:8, we have been saved by grace through faith, and this is not of ourselves but the gift of God; God’s saving grace is not merely unmerited favour but the dispensing of the Triune God into us, for we are saved by the transmission of the processed Triune God into our being. Hallelujah!

We need to be saved not only initially when we believe into the Lord; rather, we need to be saved daily, even moment by moment.

God’s salvation is a continual matter, and it is in life; we are saved in His life (Rom. 5:10, 17). So we need to receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness so that we may be saved in His life.

On His side, God has done everything; He went through a process to become a life-giving Spirit to reach us and impart Himself as life into us.

The Triune God became a man, lived a perfect human life, died an all-inclusive and all-terminating death on the cross, resurrected to become the life-giving Spirit, and ascended to be enthroned far above all things.

Now there is a way for us to receive and enjoy God as grace, for the embodiment of grace came, and grace can be with our spirit when the Lord Jesus is with our spirit.

Hallelujah, the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with all the saints in their mingled spirit, for the Lord is with their spirit!

In particular, we need to realize that we have been graced in Christ.

We were sinners, far away from God, but by faith in Christ we have been organically joined to Him and even put in Him.

Now God sees us in Christ, for we’re organically joined to Him, the Beloved of the Father. In Christ, God finds all His delight; in Christ, we become God’s delight.

On one hand, our situation and our condition may not be that good, for we still fail, we still make mistakes, and we still live so much apart from God.

On the other hand, whenever we turn to the Lord and exercise our spirit, we are in the Beloved, and in Him, we are also.

Grace is not something outward, something that God would do for us or give to us; the natural understanding is that God gives us grace by giving us something or by doing things for us, but this is not what grace really is.

According to the divine revelation in the Bible, grace came in the person of Jesus Christ, and of His fullness we have received, grace upon grace.

When we receive Jesus, we receive grace, for grace is embodied in Jesus Christ.

And we are saved by grace through faith – this is not of ourselves but it is the gift of God, not so that we boast that we were better but that He would gain all the glory.

We are Saved by Grace through Faith, and God’s Saving Grace is the Dispensing of Himself into us

We were dead in our sins and offenses, in which we once walked according to the age of this world, but God, being rich in mercy, even when we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ.

He raised us up together with Christ and seated us together with Him in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus so that He might display in the ages to come the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus (Eph. 2:1-7).

It is by grace that we have been saved through faith, and this is not of ourselves – it is the gift of God; it is not out of woks, that no one should boast (vv. 7-8).

In this short book of Ephesians of only six chapters, grace is mentioned twelve times; in the entire New Testament, grace is a tremendous matter, for it is mentioned more than one hundred and five times.

Here in Ephesians, we see God’s saving grace: we are saved by grace through faith.

We may naturally think that yes, it is by grace that we’re saved, for it is God’s unmerited favor that was bestowed on us, the sinners, so we were saved all by His grace.

In the natural concept of man, we think that we sinners didn’t deserve God’s salvation, but God saved us freely by giving us His unmerited favor; this, however, is a very superficial understanding of what it means to be saved by grace through faith.

Grace is nothing outwardly that God would do for us or give to us; grace is God dispensed into us.

To be saved by grace means to be saved by having the processed Triune God dispensed into us.

It is not adequate to merely have God granting us His favor and forgiveness and freely giving us grace as a thing; grace is the dispensing of the Triune God into us.

Our God doesn’t just outwardly forgive us and allow us to be, and we remain the same; He wants to work Himself into us.

For this, He went through a process and was consummated to be the Spirit who dispenses life and grace into us.

The saving grace of God is God Himself being wrought into our being; God’s saving grace is the dispensing of the processed Triune God into us.

May we be saved from the low and incomplete concept in Christianity today concerning being saved by grace through faith, which says that God was rich in mercy and reached down to us in our low estate to rescue us.

May we have an uplifted view of God’s grace to realize that grace is a person, Christ Himself; when Christ comes into us, we have grace, and the dispensing of Christ into our being is our being saved by grace through faith.

We are saved by grace through faith, and God’s saving grace is the dispensing of Himself into us.

It is by faith that we substantiate all the things that Christ has accomplished for us.

When we heard the gospel initially, faith was infused into us; Christ as faith was infused into us to become our ability to believe. We believe not because we’re more inclined to believe or because we were convinced by the person who spoke the gospel to us.

We believe because we were infused with Christ as our believing ability; He as faith was infused into us to believe in us and for us.

Through such a substantiating ability we have been saved by grace. Hallelujah, on the day we were saved, faith was imparted into us, and we believed!

Whenever we are under the hearing of faith, faith is being imparted into our being and we simply believe, that is, we receive by faith all that God is to us as grace.

Though we have never seen Him with our physical eyes or touched Him with our hands, we cannot help believing in Him; this faith is not of ourselves but it is part of the grace transmitted into us.

Hallelujah, we have been saved by grace through faith, and this is not of ourselves but it is the gift of God! Thank You, Lord, for giving us the gift of faith and of grace. Thank You for coming to us as grace to dispense Yourself with all that You are into us. Hallelujah for God’s saving grace, the dispensing of Himself into us. We open to You, Lord Jesus. Dispense more of Yourself into us today. Dispense all that You are in all Your attributes, virtues, attainments, and accomplishments into our being as grace. May there be more of God dispensed into us today. May we experience God’s saving grace as we remain under the dispensing of the processed Triune God today! Amen, hallelujah for God’s saving grace!

When the Processed Triune God is Dispensed and Transmitted into us, He becomes Saving Grace to us in our Experience

Many believers and unbelievers think that we need to be saved, and their concept of salvation is that it is once for all; at the time of our being born again, we are saved.

What the Bible reveals, however, is that we need a continual salvation, not only an initial salvation.

God’s salvation is continual and is lifelong; we are in the process of being saved throughout our Christian life.

And to be saved doesn’t mean that we do so many bad things, we sin so much, and we make so many mistakes, so we need to be saved again and again.

Being saved means that God is continually dispensing Himself into us to make us the same as Christ.

Being saved is not merely being rescued from a pitiful situation; being saved is in the life of Christ and by grace. God has a saving grace, and this saving grace is His dispensing into us.

When the processed and consummated Triune God is dispensed and transmitted into us, He becomes saving grace to us in our experience.

Grace is in Christ and Christ is grace; when Christ comes to us as the Spirit, we are saved.

And His coming to us is not just once and for all; the more we come to the Lord, contact Him, fellowship with Him, and meet with the saints, the more we experience God’s saving grace and we are saved by grace through faith.

Grace is the transmission of the processed Triune God into us; this transmission is something continual.

This is why we need to come forward with boldness to the throne of grace so that we may receive mercy and find grace for timely help (Heb. 4:16).

May we daily come to the Lord and fellowship with Him to receive His divine transmission of Himself into us so that we may be made alive, be raised up, and be seated with Christ in the heavenlies.

Hallelujah, grace is the saving person of Christ Himself, and the saving grace is God being dispensed into us day by day and moment by moment!

God in His economy went through a process to be able to dispense Himself into us as grace; He went through incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension to be able to dispense Himself into us as grace.

God wants to not only rescue us from our pitiful situation; He wants to dispense Himself into us as life and as everything to make us part of His corporate expression, the organic Body of Christ, consummating in the New Jerusalem.

When the processed God is transmitted into us, he becomes the saving grace; this grace is not only the “amazing grace” but also the abounding grace.

The saving grace has surpassing riches and virtues and attributes, such as life, light, power, love and wisdom.

Ephesians reveals that saving grace is God Himself in Christ wrought into our being; hence, to be saved by grace actually means to be saved by the dispensing of the Triune God into us.

That’s it: we are saved not only by hearing the gospel – we are saved by the dispensing of the Triune God into us.

Our regeneration is the element of God coming into us to regenerate us, to cause us to receive another life.

And our salvation day by day is our receiving the divine dispensing to enjoy God’s saving grace; in this way, we are continually being saved in His life and by His grace.

This is a deeper understanding of being saved by grace through faith; it is much more than merely receiving God’s unmerited favor.

When the processed Triune God is dispensed into us, He becomes saving grace to us in our experience.

This is what we see in 2 Cor. 13:14; the love of the Father is the source, the grace of the Son is the expression of the love of the Father, and the fellowship of the Spirit transmits and dispenses the love of the Father and the grace of the Son into us for us to enjoy God’s saving grace and be saved much more in His life. Hallelujah!

Lord Jesus, we thank You for saving us by grace through faith. Thank You for God’s saving grace, the dispensing of the Triune God into our being to save us much more in God’s life. Hallelujah, the saving grace of God is God Himself in Christ being wrought into our being to save us in the life of God! Amen, Lord, keep us under Your divine dispensing today. We want to be saved more today by the dispensing of the Triune God into us. May we experience God’s saving grace today. Work Yourself into our being until we do everything by the grace of God and live by grace. Amen, Lord, keep us enjoying You today.

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, Life-study of Ephesians, msgs. 5, 21 (by Witness Lee), 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:
  – At God’s right hand He took His place, / And while for saints my Savior pleads, / My heart for sinners intercedes / That they might know His saving grace. (Hymns #485)
  – I know not how this saving faith / To me He did impart, / Nor how believing in His word / Wrought peace within my heart. (Hymns #333)
  – Oh, what a wonderful place / Jesus has given to me! / Saved by His glorious grace, / I may be even as He. / When with my Lord I appear, / Like Him I know I shall be; / But while I walk with Him here, / I may be even as He. / Even as He, even as He, / Wonderful words that even we, / Saved by His marvelous grace may be / One with the Savior, even as He. (Hymns #479)