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God is processed, this I know,
For the Bible tells me so.
Incarnated as a man,
Lived and died and raised again.
For the Bible tells me so.
Incarnated as a man,
Lived and died and raised again.
Yes, God is processed,
Now He’s the Spirit
To constitute us
With the processed Triune God.
Now He’s the Spirit
To constitute us
With the processed Triune God.
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Incarnation: mingled makes,
Crucifixion: terminates,
Resurrection: germinates,
Life divine now animates.
Crucifixion: terminates,
Resurrection: germinates,
Life divine now animates.
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Incarnated so He can
Have the living of a man.
Crucified and raised that He
Could impart His life to me.
Have the living of a man.
Crucified and raised that He
Could impart His life to me.
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Belton, TX, United States
Praise the Lord. Our Lord was and is and is to come. He is also the processed Spirit. Wow! Thank you for the comments, saints! So rich!
Dipolog City, Zamboanga Del Norte, Philippines
Rishie, we need to embrace the twofoldness of the Divine revelation concerning the essential and economic Trinity. We need to understand both of His essential being and the processes that He went through.
"The Bible reveals both that God is immutable in His essence and that God has been processed in His economy. Processed refers to the crucial and interdependent steps through which the Triune God has passed in the divine economy in order to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity into His chosen and redeemed people. We wish to make it emphatically clear that God's process in His economy does not compromise His essential immutability, and God's immutability in His essence does not preclude His process in His economy. In Himself, in His eternal Godhead, God is unchanging, for His essence is immutable and His nature is unalterable
From eternity to eternity, He can never become either more or less than what He is. Nevertheless, this eternal, immutable, unchanging, unalterable God has, in Christ the Son and for the carrying out of His economy, passed through a process involving incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. This process surely involves a sequence of steps in time, but it absolutely does not entail any change in the immutable essence of God.
God is immutable in His essence and in His attributes. The God who has revealed Himself as I Am—the self-existing, ever-existing One (Exo. 3:14)—speaks of Himself as the One who is, who was, and who is coming (Rev. 1:4). “There never was a time when He was not; there never will come a time when He shall cease to be. God has neither evolved, grown, nor improved. All that He is today, He has ever been, and ever will be” (Pink 37). To say that God is immutable in His attributes is to testify that He is perfect and unchanging in His life, light, love, holiness, righteousness, glory, wisdom, knowledge power, grace, mercy, and all other attributes. His attributes are subject neither to development nor to deterioration. “Whatever the attributes of God were before the universe was called into existence, they are precisely the same now, and will remain so forever”
In keeping with the principle of the twofoldness of divine truth, we believe both in the immutability of God and in the process of God, both in His unchanging essence, nature, and attributes and in the steps He has taken and stages through which He has passed in His economy in order to enter into, dwell in, and be one with His people. Whereas God's immutability is related to His being, God's process is related to His becoming (John 1:14; 1 Cor. 15:45). In particular, this process is related to the two becomings of Christ—His becoming flesh through incarnation (John 1:14) and His becoming the life-giving Spirit through resurrection (1 Cor. 15:45). These two becomings, as stages of Christ's process, are an economical, not essential, matter, that is, changes that involve God's economy but not God's essence.— Ron Kangas
Dipolog City, Zamboanga Del Norte, Philippines
Sister Victoria is right in pointing that God is being processed. Christ as God went many processes. But when we use any illustrations of the Trinity. We need to realize that no illustration could accurately teach all the way we want to say about the Trinity, like the watermelon itself, but it is used that Christ can be enjoyed as the consummated Spirit.
"God in His eternal Godhead is immutable, but God in His economy has been processed and consummated. In keeping with the principle of the twofoldness of divine truth, we should believe in and testify to both the immutability of the Triune God in His eternal Godhead and the process of the Triune God in the outworking in time of the divine economy. God's immutability is related to His being eternally, and God's process is related to His becoming temporally, that is, to a series of experiences within the limits of time which, to the human mind, involve a time sequence. 5 For God to be immutable means that He is not capable of change or susceptible of change; He is not subject to change, for He is unchanging, invariable (James 1:17; Heb. 6:17). He is immutable in His essence (Exo. 3:14; Rev. 1:4), in His attributes (Psa. 89:14; Eph. 2:4), in His promises (Heb. 6:18), and in His purpose (Psa. 33:11; Isa. 46:9-10; Eph. 3:11). Although God is immutable, in Christ He has passed through a process, a series of progressive and interdependent steps, to become the Spirit (John 1:1, 14; 7:37-39; 20:22) so that He might dispense Himself into us. The fact that God has passed through a process for the carrying out of His economy is indicated by certain terms used in the New Testament to describe the eternal Spirit (Heb. 9:14): “the Spirit of Jesus” (Acts 16:7), “the Spirit of Christ” (Rom. 8:9), “the Spirit of Jesus Christ” (Phil. 1:19), “the Spirit of life” (Rom. 8:2), “the Spirit” (John 7:39; Gal. 3:14; Rev. 22:17), and “the seven Spirits” (1:4). Now, as the Spirit, the Triune God can reach us, enter into us, dwell in us, fill us, and overflow from within us. Nevertheless, in His eternal Godhead He remains immutable, even as He continues to flow for eternity in the New Jerusalem (22:1-2). Thus, in Himself God is unchanging, for His essence is immutable, His nature is unalterable, and He can never become either more or less than what He is and always will be. The complementary aspect of the twofold truth is that this eternal, immutable, unchanging Triune God has, in Christ, passed through a process in time in order to dispense Himself into His chosen and redeemed people for the accomplishment of His eternal purpose." — Ron Kangas
"When Christ became a man in time. He entered the physical realm of “becoming,” or of change. He entered into a different state, that of humanity (while retaining His divinity). God became a man, the immortal put on mortality, and the immutable put on changeable human nature. In the stage of incarnation the divine life and nature became mingled with the human life and nature and gained a human expression. God had a new existence in humanity. As a man He went through the changes common to human experience, including death. In the stage of resurrection when He became the life-giving Spirit, Christ in His humanity entered a change of state to become spiritual humanity. He also attained to a number of new statuses, such as High Priest, and as the life-giving Spirit, He could impart Himself into His believers and produce the church in order to consummate the New Jerusalem as His ultimate expansion and expression in humanity. There are two critical “becomings” in this process which indicate a change in state: one when Christ as the Word became flesh (which took place in incarnation), and the second when Christ in the flesh became the life-giving Spirit (which took place in resurrection). These two “becomings” correspond to the two “begettings” of Christ: one in which He was begotten of a virgin, Mary, and the second when He was begotten as the Son of God in resurrection...." — Roger Good
Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
Praise the Lord our God is no longer raw. He has been processed that we can eat Him. Hallelujah He's our processed spiritual food.
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Rishie, Christ is spiritual food. He is the reality of the riches in the good land in Deuteronomy. In the New Testament Christ is referred to as a lot of edible characters: Bread of Life (John), Fatted Calf (Luke), & Living Water (John). Christ went through a process quite similar to the process a watermelon goes through in order to get into us. The watermelon seed had to be put down into the earth. Christ as the Spirit descended from Heaven into Mary's womb. He was born a man. He lived as a human for 33.5 years. The watermelon seed grew and ripened. The watermelon was sliced open. Christ was crucified (cut like the watermelon) on the cross. He resurrected and ascended, leaving the Spirit to be multiplied among man. The watermelon is cut into pieces so that man can consume it. Now that Christ has gone through a process we can consume Him.
Gllen Innes, Nsw, Australia
I didn't really like this one so much although the words are powerful, but "God is processed" made me think of processed food and it didn't really make a lot of sense to me. We are the ones who are changed, not Him. Anyway I'm sure the song will bless other people.