As he lived in the wicked age at his time, Noah found grace in the sight of Jehovah; we need to come forward to the throne of grace in our spirit to receive mercy and find grace for timely help, and we need to walk with God so that He may mingle Himself with us for God’s building, for Him to gain a corporate God-man, the mingling of God and man.
Lord Jesus, may we be those who find grace in the eyes of God today! We come to You! We exercise our spirit. We apply Your precious blood. We come forward with boldness to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace. Amen, Lord, give us more grace today. We want to enjoy You as grace, for only Your grace meets all our needs! Mingle Yourself more with us. Build Yourself into us and build us into Yourself today! Amen!
It is so amazing to see that these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, are patterns of living an overcoming life, and with them we see something of God’s dispensing of Himself into man.
With Noah we see God the Father in His faithfulness, for He is faithful to keep His eternal covenant – signified by the rainbow – to dispense Himself into us and obtain a wise exhibition of Christ. What a covenant! He not only promises not to destroy the earth with a flood but even more, He makes a covenant to infuse us with Christ and make us the expression of Christ. Praise the Lord!
With Daniel, we see something concerning Christ as the centrality and universality of God’s move. Also in Daniel, we see that the goal of God’s economy is to have a corporate Christ, which is the smiting stone cut out without hands, which will crush the great human image.
Wow, Christ is gaining His overcomers today, and we want to be His overcomers, and He will return with them as His bride so that He may destroy human government and bring in the kingdom of God, even filling the whole earth with God’s kingdom! Praise the Lord!
With Job we see a lot of suffering, complaining, and murmuring; he was under the work of the Spirit. The Spirit brings us, the lovers of Christ, through the process of transformation by the renewing of the Holy Spirit in our seeing God so that we may gain God!
Amen, when we see God, we gain God! When we see God, when we behold God, we are infused with what God is, and we are transformed into His image so that we may become the same as He is in life, nature, appearance, and expression but not in the Godhead.
The entire Triune God is working and dispensing Himself into us, as seen in the life and work of Noah, Daniel, and Job.
Noah Found Grace in the Sight of Jehovah: Come to the Throne of Grace to Receive Mercy and Find Grace today!
In the days of Noah, the situation in the world was very evil, and every inclination and thought of man’s heart was evil and rebellious. In the midst of such a corrupted situation, we see Noah; Genesis 6:8 tells us that Noah found grace in the sight of Jehovah.
But Noah found grace; this little word, but, shows us that each one of us can find grace in the sight of God. We need to find grace today. Among the fallen people all around us, we need to be those who find grace in God’s sight.
What is grace? Grace is God Himself to be Noah’s power, wisdom, and everything so that he may encounter the situations he’s in, face all those things, live a godly life, and even work for God to build the ark. Noah’s life and work reveal how much grace can do for us, fallen people (vv. 1-14).
It is grace who does everything in us and for us in our Christian life. Grace is not something God does or gives to us; grace is the wonderful Christ as our burden bearer, doing everything in us on our behalf for our enjoyment (Matt. 24:37-39; 2 Cor. 12:7-9).
We today live in the days of Noah; people’s hearts are toward evil, there’s so much corruption and immorality, and men have become flesh.
But we today can come to the throne of grace; Hebrews 4:16 tells us to come forward with boldness to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and find grace for timely help.
We can come forward to the Lord in our spirit, for He is on the throne of grace in our spirit.
When we exercise our spirit and touch the throne of grace, we enjoy grace. On the one hand, the flesh is present all around us and even in us; on the other hand, we have grace with our spirit.
Many times the flesh bothers us so much, causing us to sin, fail, and be weak and even impotent in doing the will of God.
As we pass through many human experiences and fail so much, we realise that the flesh is the presence of the devil, but praise the Lord, we have grace as the presence of God with our spirit (Gen. 6:3, 8; Rom. 7:17-21; Heb. 4:16; 1 Cor. 15:10).
In order for us believers in Christ to face the presence of Satan, the flesh, we need the presence of God, which is grace with our spirit.
Daily, we need to find grace. We shouldn’t try to deal with the flesh, improve the flesh, cover the flesh, or excuse the flesh; we should simply leave the flesh and turn to our spirit to find grace and receive mercy for timely help.
We may even ask the Lord to remove the flesh, but the Lord will tell us as He told Paul, that His grace is sufficient for us, for His power is perfected in our weakness.
We may be quite strong in the flesh, but we realise we’re so weak when it comes to our spirit; the Lord wants us to depend on Him as grace, even find grace for timely help daily, so that grace may do everything in us as we depend on the Lord.
The only way we can face the presence of Satan is to have the presence of God.
There’s nothing we can do with the flesh but there’s a place we can go – the throne of grace. As the flesh frustrates us and causes us to fail, we can find grace in the eyes of the Lord by turning to our spirit.
Even while we are praying, the flesh is present with us, hindering us and bothering us. The frustration of the flesh forces us to come to the throne of grace.
Oh, may we turn again and again! May we turn from our flesh to our spirit! May we give up all hope in the flesh and not try to deal with the flesh but rather find grace in the eyes of the Lord by turning to our spirit!
Satan is in our flesh, but God is in our spirit; instead of trying to deal with Satan in our flesh, may we turn to our spirit so that God may deal with Satan and therefore deal with the flesh!
God is greater than Satan, and Satan is greater and stronger than us; we are not to deal with Satan in ourselves but we need to turn to our spirit and find grace in the eyes of the Lord!
When God stands with us, when we come to the Lord in our spirit and stand with Him, we have grace, and the enemy is defeated.
The issue of grace is righteousness; if we enjoy God in Christ as grace, we have righteousness. By the power of grace, the strength of grace, and the life of grace, we can be right with God, with one another, and even with ourselves (Rom. 5:17, 21; 2 Pet. 2:5).
When we are in the flesh, we are not right with God and we are not right with one another; we are not even right with ourselves, for we’re in the flesh, and we lack righteousness.
But when we find grace in the eyes of the Lord by turning to our spirit to touch the throne of grace, we enjoy Christ, and we spontaneously live out righteousness. We simply become right with respect to God and with respect to man.
Lord Jesus, we want to be those who find grace in the eyes of the Lord today! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit and come to You in our spirit. We come forward with boldness to the throne of grace. We turn, dear Lord, from our flesh and come to You in our spirit. Oh Lord Jesus, our flesh is so strong, for Satan is in our flesh. So we turn from our flesh to our spirit. We want to have the presence of God with us by exercising our spirit, for the Lord as grace is with our spirit! Hallelujah, even though Satan is in our flesh, God is in our spirit, and God is greater than Satan! Amen, Lord, we come forward with boldness today to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace for timely help. We need Your timely help! We need Your mercy and Your grace! Oh Lord, may we find grace in the eyes of the Lord today! Keep us turning to our spirit to come to the throne of grace! May we enjoy You as grace and live You out as our righteousness! May we have the life of grace to be right with God, with one another, and even with ourselves!
God’s Building is a God-man – Walk with God and Let God Mingle Himself with us for God’s Building
On the one hand, Noah found grace in the sight of Jehovah; on the other hand, he walked with God and he built the ark (Gen. 6:8-22).
Noah walked with God, and God revealed to him what was on His heart; therefore, Noah built the ark for the carrying out of the divine economy (Heb. 11:7; 1 Pet. 3:20-21; Matt. 16:18).
The ark was the first building in the Old Testament. The first building of God in the Scriptures is Noah’s ark, signifying Christ as the building of God and man.
Noah’s ark was a type of God’s building, for God’s building, according to the entire revelation in the Bible is a God-man (John 1:14; 2:19; 1 Cor. 3:9, 16-17; Rev. 21:2, 22; Eph. 2:22; Psa. 27:4).
When God created all things, He did a work with His hands, but no element of God was in the creation or the work He did in the old creation. However, in His building, God mingles Himself with His creation.
As human beings, by birth, we are only part of God’s creation, but we are not part of God’s building.
However, through regeneration, we receive God’s life and we become part of God’s building. The more God is mingling Himself with us, the more we are part of God’s building. God’s building is not something outward, for He does not dwell in temples made by human hands.
He dwells in man, and He desires to gain a building with something of divinity mingled with something of humanity.
Jacob saw the vision of God’s building when he was on his way to Laban; he had a dream of the angels of God ascending and descending on the heavenly ladder, and when he woke up, he took the stone-pillow and turned into a pillar, poured oil on it, and called that place Bethel, the house of God.
God’s Spirit (signified by the oil) is poured on the stone (signifying transformed humanity) to become God’s building. The first such person to be God’s building is Jesus Christ.
When He came, He was God mingled with man. God was in man, man was in God, and God was upon Jesus as the Spirit.
Christ was God mingled with man, divinity mingled with humanity, to be God’s building. The first building of God in the Scriptures was Noah’s ark (Gen. 6:14-16); this ark is a type of Christ the Redeemer to be the Saviour to us.
Christ came as the Redeemer and also as our Saviour. When we believe into Christ, we are put in Him, and He redeems us, delivers us from God’s judgment, saves us, and is our safety and refuge from the judgment, even as the ark was all these things to Noah and his family.
We need to see the spiritual reality of the ark, which is Christ as the God-man to be our Redeemer and our Saviour. He is the Word incarnated to be flesh, tabernacling among us (John 1:1, 14).
He is our Redeemer, and by faith in Him we are saved and even more, we are mingled with Him, being built up in Him and with Him! Wow!
The building of the ark typifies the building of the corporate Christ, the church as the Body of Christ, with the element of Christ’s riches as the building material (Matt. 16:18; 1 Cor. 3:9-12a; Eph. 3:8-10; 4:12).
When we are in Christ, not only are we delivered and rescued from God’s judgment, but we are also built together to be the corporate Christ.
By faith in Christ, we are redeemed, delivered, and rescued from judgment, and we are joined to Him to be mingled with Him for God’s building.
We are now part of the mingling of God and man, the building of God with man and in man.
We live in this organic union with the Lord to be part of the corporate Christ, the church as the Body of Christ.
We build up the church, the Body of Christ, and we remain in Christ in all things. Thank the Lord that He has mingled His divine nature with our human nature to make us a divine building, a corporate God-man!
Lord Jesus, we want to walk with God today and build the ark for the carrying out of the divine economy! Amen, Lord, we believe into You as our Redeemer and our Saviour! Praise the Lord, by faith in Christ we are redeemed, delivered from God’s judgment, and saved! Hallelujah, we are now safe in Christ, for He is our refuge, and God’s judgment has not touched us! Amen, Lord, we praise You for being our Redeemer and our Saviour! Thank You for not only redeeming and saving us but even more, mingling Yourself with us! Wow, we human beings are mingled with God to be part of the building of God and man! Amen, the building of God is a God-man! Thank You, Lord Jesus, for mingling Your divine nature with our human nature to make us a divine building! We want to walk with God today and be in our spirit so that we may build up the church as the Body of Christ, the corporate Christ! May we build the ark today in the church life by being more mingled with God for God’s building! 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 the brothers on this topic, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1963, vol. 3, “The Building of God,” ch. 1, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Noah, Daniel, and Job – Patterns of Living an Overcoming Life on the Line of Life to Fulfill the Economy of God (2026 International Chinese-Speaking Conference), week 1, Living and Working according to the Vision of the Age to Change the Age – day 3.
- Hymns on this topic:
– I come before Thy throne of grace / With hungry heart on Thee to feed, / Thy grace and mercy to receive / To help me in this hour of need. / Here I behold Thy radiant face, / Its light upon my heart doth shine / With healing rays consuming all / The weaknesses and faults of mine. (Hymns #813 stanzas 1-2)
– ’Tis by Thy blood we boldly come / Unto the throne of grace, / Unto our God, the cov’nant new, / And to the Holiest Place. / Lord, by Thy blood, God is obliged / His very Self to give; / He must receive us to Himself, / And He in us must live. (Hymns #1090 stanzas 5-6)
– The ark was just God’s testimony on the earth that time. / For God had found a corporate man through whom His light could shine. / He needed something built through which He’d fully be expressed, / And now it is the local church where God is manifest. / Now Jesus’ testimony, we in the churches see / The ark of testimony built in each locality. (Hymns #1268 stanza 5 and chorus)
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