The Triune God we’re in is not for our Understanding but for Enjoyment and Experience

The church is in the Triune God; we need to see who the Triune God is, realise that He is One yet three, distinct but not separate, coexisting and coinhering mutually, and we need to enjoy and experience the Divine Trinity of the Triune God in our daily living.

Amen, Lord, enlighten us to see the Triune God and bring us into the enjoyment of the Divine Trinity! Dispense Yourself into us more today! We open to Your divine dispensing in Your Divine Trinity! We love You, Lord, as the Triune God! Amen!

From Genesis to Revelation we see the fact that God is both one and three; this matter of the Triune God is not for our theological understanding or appreciation but for our enjoyment and experience in our daily life.

We believers in Christ are children of God. We were sinners, we were born in sin, and we were far away from God. But God predestinated us to be His sons. He chose us before the foundation of the world.

He sanctified us by His Spirit in time, and we came to our senses and returned to our Father.

Christ came to die for us, and His redemption was complete and perfect.

When the Lord shines on us, when the Spirit in His sanctification operates in us to lead us to salvation, we simply repent and believe into the Lord Jesus. There is a slight cooperation from our side.

On His side, He operates, sanctifies, and arranges many things to bring us to salvation. On our side, we simply open, and the Lord dispenses His life into us.

What a wonderful day it was when we believed into the Lord Jesus! And what a wonderful change in our living is brought when Jesus comes into our heart!

When we repent and believe into the Lord Jesus, we become children of God. We simply receive another life.

One moment, we are sinners, rebellious sinners who do not know God or love God; the next moment, we are sons of God, born of God.

Now, throughout our Christian life we are learning to enjoy, experience, and express Christ, who is the focus of our Christian life.

Our focus now is no longer ourselves or those around us whom we love; we focus mainly on Christ, for we have been captivated by His beauty, regenerated with His life, and we were joined to Him as one spirit.

We have an organic union with the Lord, for we are one with Him in spirit! Praise the Lord! Even more, together with the saints we are the church, and the church is in the Triune God!

The church is in a particular locality where we live and meet; at the same time, the church is in the Triune God. Praise the Lord for the church in the Triune God!

Know the Triune God in whom the Church is: He is One yet Three, Distinct yet not Separate, Coexisting and Coinhering in one Another Eternally

The Bible is a wonderful book showing us a clear revelation of the Triune God; if we carefully and prayerfully read the Bible, we will see a revelation of who the Triune God is and how we can enjoy and experience the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity.

However, throughout the ages, the revelation and teaching concerning the Triune God have been quite deformed, degraded, and twisted, for many Bible teachers study the Bible without having the governing and controlling vision of God’s eternal economy.

Many of the fundamental Bible teachers today are actually tritheistic, most likely in an unconscious way. They believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit as being three distinct persons who are also separate.

It is true that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are distinct, but they are not separate; if we separate them into three different persons, we actually believe in three Gods!

There is just one God in the Bible, who is Triune; the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are one God, a Triune God, a God who is three yet one.

We cannot separate the Father from the Son or the Son from the Spirit, for the three in the Triune God are one in an organic way.

The Lord Jesus, the Son of God, said in John 10:38 and 14:10-11 that the Son is in the Father and the Father is in the Son.

If the Son is in the Father and the Father is in the Son, how can the two be separated? The Son and the Father are one (10:30); though the Father and the Son are distinct, they cannot be separated.

The Triune God is one; the Three of the Godhead are distinct but not separate. We need to have divine revelation to see this.

We need to have the eyes of our heart enlightened, our spirit exercised, and a clear mind to see what the Bible speaks concerning the Triune God.

There’s a certain distinction in the function and work of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, but the three are one.

On the opposite side of tritheism, there is modalism, who say that there is one God who has three manifestations – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit – which do not exist at the same time but follow one another.

Modalists say that in the Old Testament there was the Father but not the Son, then when Jesus came, there was the Son but not the Father, and after the Lord’s resurrection there is the Spirit but not the Son or the Father.

If you think about it, it may make sense, but according to the Scriptures, this is inaccurate.

What the Bible shows us concerning the Triune God in whom the church is, is that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit not only exist at the same time but even more, They exist in one another!

The three of the Godhead coexist and coinhere mutually for eternity. We cannot fully understand this with our human limited mind, but the Father, the Son, and the Spirit coexist and coinhere.

When Christ was on the earth, He was not alone; the very essence of His being was the Spirit, the Father was in Him, and He did all things by the Spirit.

Now when the Spirit comes, He doesn’t exist by Himself; the Father sends the Spirit in the name of the Son, and the Spirit comes to show us the wonderful all-inclusive riches of Christ for us to enjoy.

May the Lord enlighten us to see that we as the church are in the Triune God, and the three in the Godhead are distinct but not separate, coexisting and coinhering mutually.

In His economy, God went through a process: Christ, the second of the Divine Trinity, became flesh, and then He became a life-giving Spirit.

God was incarnated in Christ, and Christ as the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit (John 1:1, 14; 1 Cor. 15:45).

This is truly mysterious yet so wonderful! This shows us the mystery of the Divine Trinity; the Divine Trinity is a mystery in the universe, and this mystery is not for us to have theological debates about but for us to enjoy and experience in our daily life.

May we be those who exercise our spirit today as we come to God’s word to see who the Triune God is, enjoy the Triune God, and be open to the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in our daily life.

The issue and result of the process the Triune God went through is that He is now the Spirit with our spirit for our enjoyment and experience today.

Lord Jesus, unveil us to see a clear vision of the Triune God! Hallelujah, our God is Triune! Praise the Lord, God is one yet three, three yet one! Amen, Lord, we praise You for being the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. May we see that the three in the Godhead are distinct but not separate, for They coexist and coinhere mutually. Amen, Lord, we say amen to Your divine revelation in Your word concerning the Triune God. We praise You for the incarnation of the Triune God to accomplish redemption! We praise You for Christ’s death on the cross and for the Lord becoming the Spirit! Hallelujah, the last Adam, Christ in the flesh, became a life-giving Spirit! Praise the Lord, today the Lord is the Spirit who gives life, and this Spirit is with our spirit! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to see, enjoy, and experience the Triune God! Hallelujah, we as the church are in the Triune God! Praise the Lord, we are the church in the Triune God today!

The Triune God is not for our Theological Understanding but for our Enjoyment and Experience in Spirit

Many Christians read the New Testament and realise that the Triune God seems to be so complicated; there’s the Father, then there’s the Son, and there’s also the Spirit.

Many Christians are quite confused regarding the relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, and unconsciously, many of them believe something that may not be accurate according to the divine revelation.

In the theological realm also, those who are theologians or Bible scholars hold views that are not fully supported by the Bible concerning the Triune God.

Why is God Triune? Why is God so complicated? How can we understand God, since there are portions of the Bible showing us seemingly contradictory things concerning the Triune God?

We need to see that, according to the divine revelation in God’s word, the Triune God in whom we are as the church is NOT for our theological understanding or debate but for our enjoyment and experience in our mingled spirit.

We can liken our attempt to understand the Triune God to a cat trying to understand us as human beings. If a cat would try to understand us, there is no way for this to happen, for a cat’s life is lower and much inferior to man’s life.

Our human life is the highest created life, but God’s life is much superior and higher. For us to fully understand the Triune God, we must be God, just as for a cat to fully understand man, that cat must be a man.

But what the Bible clearly shows us is that the Triune God is dispensing Himself in His Divine Trinity into us for our enjoyment and experience.

We can never fully understand or apprehend the Triune God, but we can exercise our spirit to enjoy and experience the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in our daily living.

In 1 Peter 1:2 we are told that we are chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, unto the obedience of the Son of God and by His redemption.

We don’t see the doctrine of the DIvine Trinity here; what we see is the Triune God working together as one, each of the Triune God doing their part in this work, to gain us and regenerate us to bring us into His kingdom! Praise the Lord!

Similarly, in Matthew 28:19, we are told to go and disciple all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

What is doctrinal about this? How can this be a doctrinal understanding of the Triune God? We are commissioned to go and disciple the heathen nations by immersing them into the Triune God! Hallelujah!

2 Corinthians 13:14 further tells us that the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit is with us all.

The Triune God is with us in specific aspects: the love of the Father is the source, the grace of the Son is the coming out and springing up of the Father’s love, and the fellowship of the Spirit is the flowing out and reaching out of the love of God with the grace of Christ.

All we have to do is say Amen and enjoy the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity!

How amazing it is to realise that the Triune God is not for our theological understanding, apprehension, or debate but for our enjoyment and experience! Hallelujah!

May we be the church in the Triune God by enjoying and experiencing the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in our daily life!

May we refuse to be drawn into theological debates about the Triune God and the Divine Trinity and simply enjoy all that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are, and may we remain under the divine dispensing in our daily living! Amen!

Lord Jesus, thank You for unveiling us to see that the Triune God is not for our theological understanding but for our enjoyment and experience. Hallelujah, God the Father is the source, Christ the Son is the spring, and God the Spirit is the flowing out for God to come into us for our enjoyment! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit today and we choose to remain under the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in our daily living! We love You and we open to You! We come to You in spirit, having an unveiled heart, to enjoy You and experience You. How we thank You, Lord, that we as the church are in the Triune God! May we see this. May we enter into this realisation in our daily living. May we be saved from merely mentally trying to understand the Triune God and be brought into the full enjoyment of the Triune God in Christ as the Spirit in our spirit! Hallelujah, God became a man in the person of Jesus Christ, and Christ became a life-giving Spirit to dispense the Triune God with all that He is and has into us for our enjoyment!

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, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1986, vol. 3, “The Revelation and Vision of God,” ch. 2, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (part 3 – 2025 Summer Training), week 30, The Church in the Triune God – day 5.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – How rich the source, the Father as the fountain, / And all this wealth He wants man to enjoy! / O blessed fact, this vast exhaustless portion / Is now for us forever to employ! / How wonderful, the Son is God’s expression / Come in the flesh to dwell with all mankind! / Redemption’s work, how perfectly effective, / That sinners we with God might oneness find. (Hymns #608 stanzas 2-3)
  – From my spirit within flows a fountain of life— / The Triune God flowing in me; / God the Father’s the source, Christ the Son is the course, / And the Spirit imparts life to me. / Lord, I treasure the sweet flow of life, / And my soul-life at last I lay down / O Lord, deepen the pure flow of life; / At Your coming may life be my crown. (Hymns #1191 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – In the spirit Christ is life and all to me, / Strengthening and blessing all-inclusively; / Living in the spirit, holiness I prove, / And the triune God within my heart doth move. (Hymns #593 stanza 7)