Christ Leads us into Glory by being our High Priest and by His Divine Sanctification

Christ as the Author of salvation leads many sons into glory by being our High Priest to pray for us and to minister God into us, and also by saving us organically through sanctification, for the sanctifying Spirit in our spirit carries out the divine sanctification in us.

Thank You, Lord, for taking the lead to enter into glory and now leading us into glory! Praise the Lord, we are being sanctified daily so that we may enter into the glorious expression of the Triune God! Hallelujah!

Our Christian life is a life of looking away unto Jesus, who has gone before us and who took the lead to enter into glory! And now we follow Him!

The goal of God’s salvation is for us to enter into the glory of God. God will never share His Godhead with us, for only He is God, and only He can be worshipped.

However, He wants us to be glorified so that we may express God corporately. This is what we see in the New Jerusalem: the One sitting on the throne has the appearance of jasper, and the building work of the wall is jasper.

God as the light is in the Lamb as the lamp, and the lamp is diffused through the wall of the city to shine the divine light to all the nations! We are becoming part of God’s glorious expression!

This is our glorious destiny. Today, however, we need to realise that Christ as the seed of glory is in us, and we need to let Him grow and be developed in us.

He needs to expand and spread in us until He swallows up anything negative in us and brings us fully into His glory.

Christ as the Captain of our salvation is the Man in the glory, and He is also the seed of glory in us. Christ in us is the hope of glory.

In ourselves, we have no hope, for we were dead in sins and offenses; but praise the Lord, Christ came into us and now lives in us. He dwells in us.

He took the lead to fight through into glory, and now as the seed of glory He is within us, and we are also in a fighting process.

We are growing in life. And our sufferings are helping us to grow, develop, and gain an eternal weight of glory.

May we not despise the sufferings and trials we encounter; may we simply open to the Lord and enjoy Him, patake of His riches, and let Him work in us.

May we remain in the process of being glorified so that God may gain all the glory in us and through us! Amen!

Christ as the Author of our Salvation Leads us into Glory by being our High Priest to Pray for us and to Minister God into us

In order for God to gain what He is after, that is, in order for Him to gain a group of people who are part of His glorious expression in humanity in the whole universe, God Himself became a man.

Jesus Christ took the lead to humble Himself to the uttermost, suffer to the uttermost, and be obedient unto God. Then, He entered into glory, and as a Man, He is now in glory.

Now He is leading many sons into glory. Christ as the Author (the Captain) of our salvation fulfils His duty to lead us into glory by being our High Priest to pray for us and to minister God into us (Heb. 2:16-18; 7:25; 8:2).

Right now Christ is in the heavens, in His heavenly ministry, praying for us and ministering to us. He is praying for each one of us individually, and He is praying for us corporately.

Our Christ is the High Priest interceding for us before God, and at the same time He is ministering God into us.

He always lives to intercede, and He is able to save us to the uttermost as we come forward to God through Him.

As long as we come forward to God through Jesus Christ by exercising our spirit to contact Him, Christ intercedes for us behind the scenes, and He is able to save us to the uttermost.

He has been interceding for us throughout our lives.

We may think that we’re a pretty good brother or sister, for we do not have great failures and we don’t cause too much trouble; we need to realise, however, that it’s not because of us that we are this way, but it is a result of Christ praying for us and ministering to us.

On the other hand, we may have a lot of failures, and we may think that we’re not qualified to be a Christian, for we fail more than we succeed. Even this, however, is under our High Priest’s interceding and ministering, for He is leading us into glory and prays for us, intercedes for us, and ministers God to us.

We can see a good example of Christ as the High Priest and His work in His heavenly ministry in John 21, when He came to Peter and the disciples who went fishing. He did not rebuke them; rather, He helped them get some fish, and then He prepared breakfast for them on the seashore.

He then rekindled Peter’s love for the Lord, and He told Peter, Simon, Satan wanted to shake you as wheat, but I have prayed for you.

He prayed for Peter that his faith would not fail. He wanted Peter, when he returned from his backsliding, to take care of his fellow disciples, the fellow sheep.

Peter was down; he was backsliding, he even went back to fishing, and some brothers joined him in this.

But the Lord came to where he was, shepherded him, restored his love for the Lord, and told him that Christ is praying for his faith to be strengthened.

We may think we will never deny the Lord, for we love Him “more than these;” however, the Lord has a way to expose us and show us how natural we are in our love for Him, and He rekindles our love for him.

He prays for us. He ministers to us. He intercedes for us. We need to receive the help that is from God (Acts 26:22) to live the Christian life and testify for the Lord.

May we open to the Lord. May we remain in the organic union with Him. May we be in alliance with God and receive His assistance in this alliance.

Lord Jesus, You know that we love You. We open to You. We are nothing, but You are everything. Thank You for being the Captain of our salvation. Thank You for taking the lead to enter into glory. Hallelujah, Christ is the Author of our salvation, and He fulfils His duty to lead us into glory! Amen, Lord, we open to You as our High Priest. Thank You for praying for us. Thank You for always living to intercede for us. Such a High Priest is what we need, for He is higher than the heavens! Hallelujah, Christ is able to save us to the uttermost, for He always lives to intercede for us. Thank You, Lord, for praying for us. Thank You for living always before the Father to pray for us so that, even though Satan wants to shake us and sift us as wheat, our faith would be strengthened. Thank You for ministering God into us for us to go on with the Lord. Take us on with You. Bring us fully into Your glory! Hallelujah, Christ is leading us into glory as the many sons of God!

Christ Leads Many Sons into Glory by Saving them Organically through His Divine Sanctification, Carried out by the Sanctifying Spirit in our Spirit

Thank the Lord that Christ is the Author (the Captain) of salvation who leads many sons into glory by saving them organically through sanctification (see Heb. 2:10-11; Eph. 1:4-5; 1 Thes. 5:23; Rom. 5:10; 15:16; Eph. 5:26).

This divine sanctification is carried out by the sanctifying Spirit in our spirit. Christ leads us into glory as the many sons of God by saving us organically through sanctification.

Both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of One; for this cause, He is not ashamed to call us, brothers.

We are being sanctified both positionally and dispositionally to be sons of God in full, even to enter into glory and express God corporately. Our sanctification is for our sonship. We are made holy unto sonship.

The divine sanctification for the divine sonship is the centre of the divine economy and the central thought in the New Testament.

The divine sanctification is the holding line in the carrying out of the divine economy to “sonize” us divinely; through God’s sanctification, we are made sons of God so that we may become the same as God in life and nature but not in His Godhead, so that we may be God’s expression.

Every step of the way in His economy involves sanctification. Sanctification is the holding line of God’s economy.

Just as a fisherman goes fishing and the line with the hook and the bait hooks the fish, and the fish is held by the line, so we Christians have been “hooked” by Christ in His sanctification, and we’re held in God’s economy by a holding line, which is His sanctification. Wow!

In the ocean of humanity, the Lord caught us, and through His sanctification, we are held in God’s salvation until we are fully made sons of God.

We cannot explain what happened to us and why we are here, believing in the Lord and enjoying Him in the church life; we can only thank the Lord for reeling us in to fully sonize us and make us glorious sons of God!

Sanctification is the holding line in the carrying out of God’s economy; we are led as many sons into glory by being sanctified.

First, there’s the seeking sanctification, the initial sanctification, which is unto repentance to bring us back to God (1 Pet. 1:2; Luke 15:8-10, 17-21).

We were like the prodigal son, in a faraway land spending the riches of our Father, but one day we came to our senses, for the seeking Spirit was sweeping in us, lighting the lamp of the Word of God, and we remembered that in our Father’s house there’s plenty of food and enjoyment!

The Spirit’s seeking sanctification led us to repentance to bring us back to God. Thank the Lord for shining in us through His word so that we may realise that we can come back to the enjoyment of God.

Then, the redeeming sanctification, the positional sanctification, is through the blood of Christ, to transfer us out of Adam into Christ (Heb. 13:12). By faith in Christ, we were redeemed and transferred out of Adam into Christ; this is positional.

The regenerating sanctification, which is the beginning of the dispositional sanctification, renews us from our spirit to make us from sinners into sons of God (2 Cor. 5:17; John 1:12-13).

Our regeneration is also a sanctification, for through regeneration we are renewed and sanctified with God’s life and nature to be sons of God.

Regeneration is the first step for us to enjoy God’s dispositional sanctification so that we may be sanctified in our very disposition, in our nature, by participating in God’s life.

The renewing sanctification, the continuation of the dispositional sanctification, renews our soul from our mind through all the parts of our soul to make our soul a part of God’s new creation (Rom. 12:2b; Eph. 4:23; Gal. 6:15).

We have God’s life in our spirit, and as this life spreads in us as we set our mind on our spirit, even our mind becomes life.

We can participate in God’s mind by our opening to the Lord in His word to enjoy Him for the renewing of our mind.

The transforming sanctification, the daily sanctification, reconstitutes us with the element of Christ metabolically to make us a new constitution as a part of the organic Body of Christ (2 Cor. 4:16; 1 Cor. 3:12).

Hallelujah, we are being transformed by beholding the Lord face to face, and His element is wrought into us to replace our old element.

There’s a metabolic process going on in us. As we are being transformed, we participate in God’s very being.

The conforming sanctification, the shaping sanctification, shapes us in the image of the glorious Christ to make us the expression of Christ (Rom. 8:28-29; 2 Cor. 3:18).

God is conforming us to the image of Christ, shaping us to be the same as the firstborn Son of God, so that He may be the firstborn among many brothers. Conformation is our maturity in the divine life to the extent that we even express Christ in His image to others.

Finally, the glorifying sanctification, the consummating sanctification, redeems our body by transfiguring it to make us Christ’s expression in full in glory (Phil. 3:21; Rom. 8:23). Hallelujah! In this way, we participate in God’s glory.

From its beginning to its ending, the divine sanctification is altogether the fine work of the Spirit.

The Spirit is the consummated, compound, life-giving, and indwelling Spirit of Christ, who is the embodiment of God. May we open to His sanctifying work today so that we may be led into glory as the many sons of God!

Lord Jesus, we open to Your divine sanctification as the Spirit today! Hallelujah, the divine sanctification is the holding line in the carrying out of the divine economy to make us sons of God in full! Thank You, Lord, for sanctifying us initially by seeking us out and leading us to repentance, thus bringing us back to God. Thank You for Your positional sanctification through the blood of Christ to transfer us out of Adam into Christ. Praise You for Your regenerating sanctification, which renews us from our spirit to make us sons of God! We open to Your renewing sanctification to be renewed in our soul from our mind to all the parts of our soul to make our soul a part of God’s new creation! Amen, Lord, sanctify us daily and transform us so that we may be reconstituted with the element of Christ metabolically to make us part of the organic Body of Christ! Praise the Lord, the sanctifying Spirit works to shape us in the image of the glorious Christ to make us the expression of Christ by means of the conforming sanctification! Hallelujah, God will glorify us to redeem our body by transfiguring it to make it Christ’s expression in full in glory! Praise the Lord for the divine sanctification to make us sons of God who are glorified!

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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 Ed Marks on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1993, vol. 2, “The Spirit with Our Spirit,” chs. 11-12, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (part 3 – 2025 Summer Training), week 31, The Author (the Captain) of Salvation and the Forerunner Leading Many Sons into Glory by Entering within the Veil and Going outside the Camp – day 3.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – He’s pledged to save us to the full, / His life is operating; / He’s doing everything for us / ’Tis all for our perfecting; / Our life’s a failure at its best, / Only His life can stand the test: / His life brings full salvation! / He’s living now to intercede, / Continuing forever; / He undertakes into the age, / His priesthood changes never; / He always lives to intercede, / Such a High Priest is what we need: / He’s higher than the heavens. (Hymns #1130 stanzas 5-6)
  – Oh, sanctify us, Lord; now add Thyself to us, / In our experience, Thy Person spread in us, / That in reality the church be glorious, / O Lord, do add Thyself, we pray. / Oh, sanctify us, Lord, today; / Lord Jesus, You’re the only way. / We take Your Person, Lord; / Oh, spread Yourself abroad. / Oh, sanctify us, Lord, today. (Hymns #1135 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – God’s intention is to have us / All conformed to His dear Son; / Thus a work of transformation / By the Spirit must be done. / Lord, transform us to Thine image / In emotion, mind, and will; / Saturate us with Thy Spirit, / All our being wholly fill. (Hymns #750 stanza 1 and chorus)