WEEK 1 — DAY 6

Morning Nourishment

1 Pet. 1:2 Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father in the sanctification of the Spirit unto the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

1 Thes. 5:23 And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  The divine sanctification is the holding line in the carrying out of the divine economy....Sanctification is a great point in God's economy. It is the holding line in the carrying out of the divine economy. We need to see what the term holding line means. When a person goes fishing, he needs a line.

  That is the holding line for his fishing. The line holds his fish. In other words,the line directs his fishing. We say that sanctification is the holding line because every step of God's economy in His work with us is to make us holy.(The Spirit with Our Spirit, p. 119)

Today's Reading

  The divine sanctification holds all of our spiritual experiences from our repentance to our glorification....Such a sanctification is to "sonize" us divinely,making us sons of God that we may become the same as God in His life and in His nature (but not in His Godhead), so that we can be God's expression.

  After God created man, man became fallen. Then God the Spirit came to sanctify man (1 Pet. 1:2). We were lost in Adam, in sin, and in death....But the Spirit came to seek us out....He stirred up our spirit to repent. This was our initial sanctification unto repentance (Luke 15:8-10). This seeking sanctification resulted in our repentance to bring us back to God (vv. 17-21).

  The redeeming sanctification, the positional sanctification, is by the blood of Christ (Heb. 13:12) to transfer us from Adam to Christ. This changed the place where we were.

  Regeneration is the beginning of the dispositional sanctification to renew us from our spirit (2 Cor. 5:17). God renewed us from the very center of our being, which is our spirit....He first touches our spirit to regenerate it, that is,to renew it. This makes us, the sinners who were the enemies of God, sons of God (John 1:12-13).

  The renewing sanctification continues our dispositional sanctification by renewing our soul from our mind through all the parts of our soul (Rom.12:2b; Eph. 4:23). Romans 12:2 says that we are to be transformed by the renewing of our mind, and the mind is the leading part of our soul....Our spirit has become a part of God's new creation, but not our soul. Through the renewing, our soul will be made a part of God's new creation [Gal. 6:15].

  The transforming sanctification is the daily sanctification, which reconstitutes us
with the element of Christ metabolically to make us a new constitution as a part of the organic Body of Christ (1 Cor. 3:12). This is a kind of reconstitution, to discharge the old and to add in the new replacement of the element of Christ. In order for us to be the living members of Christ, we need to be constituted with Christ's element to make us a new constitution for the building up of the Body of Christ.

  The conforming sanctification is the shaping sanctification to shape us in the image of the glorious Christ (2 Cor. 3:18).... This is why we can manifest Christ.
We express Christ because we have been shaped by the sanctifying Spirit.

  The glorifying sanctification is the consummating sanctification, the completing sanctification to redeem our body by transfiguring it (Phil. 3:21).Our vile and fallen body will be redeemed from sickness, from weakness,from death, and from lust and sinfulness to make us Christ's expression in full and in glory (Rom. 8:23). At this point God's salvation and God's sanctification to carry out God's economy have reached the highest level.This is the revelation of the divine sanctification in seven steps. (The Spirit with Our Spirit, pp. 122-125)

Further Reading: The Issue of the Dispensing of the Processed Trinity and the Transmitting of the Transcending Christ, chs. 2-3; The Spirit with Our Spirit, chs. 9-10, 12-14