Abiding in God and God in us, Receive of His Spirit, and Enjoy Christ as the Saviour

We believers in Christ are abiding in God the Father and He is in us, God the Father has given us of His Spirit, and the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world; the Epistles of John show us the Triune God for our enjoyment and experience in our daily life.

Lord Jesus, unveil us to see the Triune God and enjoy the Triune God in our daily living. Hallelujah, the Father has sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world, and by faith in Christ we become children of God! Amen, Lord, we want to abide in You today by means of the Spirit, which You have given to us. May today be a day of abiding in God by being in the mingled spirit! Amen!

The entire Bible is structured with the Divine Trinity, for both in the Old and in the New Testament, we see the Triune God being expressed, working together, moving as one, and doing things as one for the fulfilment of His eternal purpose.

In the Epistles of John, in particular, we see that we believers in Christ can come to know the Triune God by experiencing and enjoying Him.

The apostle John was not concerned merely with dealing with some of the negative factors in the church; he was concerned with the experience and enjoyment of the Triune God.

In his epistles, we see that the Triune God is not just the object of our faith but even more, He dwells in us to be our life and our life supply for our experience and enjoyment.

Praise the Lord, the Triune God is our life! He has come into us to be our life, and we can live in Him and because of Him!

We have the anointing from Him, and this anointing causes us to know all things, even not to have any need of being taught by anyone, for the anointing teaches us all things, and according to the teaching of the anointing, we abide in the Lord.

This is what the Lord wants us to do, according to John: to abide in the Lord. No matter what happens, we need to abide in the Lord.

We may fail, we may make mistakes, and we may trespass; we have the precious blood of Christ to be cleansed and washed, and we can come back to the Lord to just abide in Him.

This is the process of our growth in life. As we continue to abide in the Lord, we grow in life unto maturity, we remain on the line of life, and we are concerned with the Divine Trinity.

The Father, the Son, and the Spirit become something very subjective to us, actually Someone we enjoy, live with, live in, express, abide in, and do all things with. Hallelujah!

Know the Father as the Source, Christ as the Word of Life, and the Spirit of Truth in the Epistles of John

In the Epistles of John we see the Triune God – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit (see 1 John 1:1-2; 2:23-24; 3:24; 4:2, 6, 13-14; 5:6, 11-12; 2 John 9). John does not speak of the Triune God in a doctrinal way but in the way of experience.

First, we know God the Father, who is the source, the unique Initiator; He is the One who plans, originates, and initiates (see 1 John 1:2-3; 2:23-24; 4:2, 6, 13-14; 2 John 9). Amen!

Everything originates from the Father and everything proceeds from Him. If we know God the Father, we will realise that it is a serious matter for us to make any decision or to do something without being one with the Father, even without taking the Father as the source.

Especially in the Lord’s work and also in our daily life, we need to take the Father as the source. He needs to be the source of our relationship with our spouse and our children.

He needs to be the source of our getting married, our choosing a job, and our doing everything.

It is good to pause, now and then, and check with God regarding this, so that we would not be the source of anything but rather, let Him be the source of our thinking, feeling, and decisions.

The Father is the source of the eternal life; from Him and with Him the Son was manifested as the expression of the eternal life for those the Father has chosen to partake of and enjoy this life (1 John 1:2-3; 5:11-12).

God the Father is the source of life; it is from Him and with Him that the Son was manifested as the expression of God’s life.

The title Father refers to the impartation of life; through Christ’s resurrection, the Father imparts His life to His children (3:1; 1 Pet. 1:3).

What manner of love the Father has shown to us that we may be called children of God – and we are! We are children of God! This is the dispensing of the Father.

In 1 John 1:1-2, both the Word of life and life denote the divine person of Christ, the Son, who was with the Father in eternity and was manifested in time through incarnation (John 1:1, 14).

Christ was with God and Christ was God; He is the Son of God, the eternal, preexisting One who is the word of life from the beginning (1 John 2:13-14).

Christ as the Son of God was manifested so that He might undo and destroy the works, the sinful deeds, of the devil (3:8). Thank the Lord that He came to destroy and undo the works of the devil in us! Hallelujah!

God sent His Son as a propitiation for our sins (4:10). On the one hand, God loves us, and on the other hand, He is righteous; no matter how much He loves us, He can’t just forgive us of our sins.

Sin has to be dealt with, the price has to be paid, otherwise none of us can receive God’s life. Thank the Lord that Christ came to make propitiation for our sins.

We love Him. We enjoy Him. We stand on His redemption and enjoy the Triune God as our portion!

God sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we may have life and live through Him (v. 9). We have life and live through the Son.

The Son of God is the means through which God gives us His eternal life (5:11-12).

We have eternal life; today we enjoy the divine life, and for eternity we will enjoy God in Christ as the Spirit as the eternal life. Praise the Lord!

Our Advocate with the Father is Jesus Christ the Righteous; when we sin, the Lord Jesus, based on the propitiation that He accomplished, takes care of our case by interceding and pleading for us (2:1; Rom. 8:34). Thank the Lord for Jesus Christ, our Advocate with the Father.

As the Lord shines on us and exposes our sins, we confess, and He forgives us. He forgives and forgets. Hallelujah! He also intercedes for us and pleads for us to repair and restore our broken fellowship with God. Praise the Lord!

This is the dispensing of God the Son, Jesus Christ. The Spirit of truth in 1 John 4:6 is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of reality (John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13).

The Spirit is the reality and the Spirit is of reality. This means that the Spirit is the reality of all that Christ as the Son of God is (1 John 5:6).

By the Spirit whom Christ gave to us, we know that the Triune God abides in us (3:24). Hallelujah!

He abides in us and we abide in Him. By the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity as seen in the Epistles of John, we can enjoy and experience the Triune God by abiding in the Lord.

We can simply turn our heart to the Lord and exercise our spirit to apply the blood of Christ, and we are in the position to abide in the Triune God.

We don’t have to wait for a feeling; we can simply exercise our spirit with our being renewed will, opening to the Lord again and again for Him to dispense Himself into us.

Lord Jesus, unveil us to see, know, and enjoy the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity! May we know the Father as the source, the unique Initiator. Amen, Father, You are the One who plans, originates, and initiates. May we see that everything originates from the Father, and everything proceeds from Him. You are the source of the eternal life, and You are the One who imparts the divine life into us, Your children. We love You, Father! Hallelujah, Christ is the Word of life and the life! Amen, Lord, may we see Christ as the Son of God who was with the Father in eternity and was manifested in time through incarnation! Thank You, Lord, for coming as the Son of God to destroy the works of the devil and also to be a propitiation for our sins. Now we can have life and live through You. Praise You for being our Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous! Amen! Enlighten us, Lord, to see the Spirit as the reality. Guide us as the Spirit of reality into all the reality of what Christ is as the Son of God, the embodiment of God! Amen, may we abide in God and may God abide in us by means of the Spirit!

We are Abiding in God and He Abides in us, the Father has given to us of His Spirit, and the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the World

In 1 John 4:13-14, we see that we are abiding in God the Father and He is in us, that God the Father has given to us of His Spirit, and that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world.

Here we see the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into us for our enjoyment and experience, with the result that we abide in God and God abides in us.

First of all, as 1 John 3:1 says, we have been begotten of the Father to be children of God (2:29), and God is the Owner of the children; now we partake of the Father’s life to express the Triune God. Amen!

Now in 1 John 4:13-14 we are told that in this we know that we abide in Him and He in us; in this refers to the fact that God has given to us of His Spirit.

How do we know that we abide in God and God abides in us? It is by means of the Spirit whom He has given to us.

The Spirit was given to us by God to dwell in us (James 4:5; Rom. 8:9, 11), and He is the witness in our spirit (v. 16), witnessing that we dwell in God and God dwells in us.

The sphere and element of the mutual abiding of God and man is the Spirit, and this Spirit is with our spirit.

We abide in God and God abides in us by means of the Spirit whom God has given to us. We dwell in God and God dwells in us; this is a mutual indwelling.

This mutual abiding is evidenced by our living, which is a living that habitually expresses His love.

We know that we can abide in God; to abide in God is to dwell in God, to remain in fellowship with God, so that we may enjoy His abiding in us.

We abide in God according to the teaching of the anointing (2:27), thus practicing our oneness with God. By faith in Christ, we became one with God, and this oneness in spirit is practiced by our abiding in the Lord and by Him abiding in us.

We practice our oneness with God in spirit by the operation of the all-inclusive compound Spirit, who dwells in our spirit and who is the basic element of the divine anointing. Hallelujah!

God has given to us of His Spirit; He has given to us out of His Spirit (3:24).

God gives us not just something of His Spirit, such as the various gifts seen in 1 Corinthians 12:4, but He has given the Spirit Himself as the all-inclusive gift (Acts 2:38). He has given to us the Spirit without measure, bountifully (Phil. 1:19; John 3:34). Praise the Lord!

It is by means of this bountiful, immeasurable Spirit that we know with full assurance that we and God are one and that we abide in Him and He in us! Amen!

Wow, we abide in God and God abides in us; we dwell in Him and He dwells in us. This is coinherence – mutual indwelling, and mingling and union. God is not only in us; He also abides in us.

In the organic union with the Lord in spirit, in the mingling of the divine Spirit with our human spirit, we are one with God, and He becomes us and we become Him. Praise the Lord!

We become what He is and He becomes what we are. We love others with God as love, and the God who abides in us is expressed through us in our love.

Thank the Father for sending the Son to be our Saviour; now through our confessing the Son, He can abide in us and we in Him (1 John 4:14-15).

On the one hand, He is in us to dwell in us as an inward evidence that we abide in Him and He abides in us.

On the other hand, we testify that we abide in Him and He abides in us. We know the true One and we are in the true One (1 John 5:20). Amen!

Lord Jesus, unveil us to see that we are abiding in God the Father and God abide in us! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ abide in God and God abides in us by means of the Spirit whom He has given to us! Praise the Lord, God the Father has given to us of His Spirit, and our spirit is mingled with the Spirit. Amen, Lord, thank You for coming to dwell in us as the Spirit. Thank You, Father, for giving us the bountiful Spirit without measure! Praise the Lord, by such a bountiful, immeasurable Spirit we know with full assurance that we and God are one and that we abide in each other! Praise the Lord, we abide in God and God abides in us! Amen, Lord, keep us in our spirit today so that we may abide in God and God may abide in us. Thank You, Father God, for giving us the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit, who is the bountiful supply of Jesus Christ, the Son! Hallelujah, the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world, and the Son is now the Spirit in our spirit for us to abide in God and for God to abide in us!

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 the brother Ron Kangas on this topic, and portions from, Life-study of 1 John, msgs. 26 and 34, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (part 3 – 2025 Summer Training), week 36, The True One – day 2.
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• Hymns on this topic:
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  – We to our spirit would return / And there would contact Thine; / ’Tis in the spirit we may share / Our heritage divine. / What oneness, O my Lord, is this— / Two spirits intertwine! / Thy Spirit in our spirit lives, / And ours abides in Thine! (Hymns #745 stanzas 7-8)
  – Divine anointing in me dwelleth, / And it teaches me all things; / It ever leads me in the Lord to live / And to me His presence brings. / In my spirit the anointing dwells, / O the anointing dwells and / teaches everything; / In my spirit the anointing dwells / And ever teaches everything. (Hymns #266 stanza 1 and chorus)