God’s Complete Salvation: refs. include Watchman Nee and Witness Lee

The two aspects of God’s complete salvation

The eight items of God’s organic salvation

Transformation

Key verse: 2 Corinthians 3:18
“Bu we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.”

Transformation is not an outward change or correction, but an inward metabolic function of the life of God in the believers. Transformation is not behavioral adjustment; rather, it is the function of the divine metabolism within which in time is manifested without. As the believers grow in the divine life, the element of the divine life increases in them, eventually producing a genuine, metabolic change. Thus, not only will their inward disposition be transformed, but even their outward expression will be transformed into the very image of Christ (2 Cor. 3:18).

This metabolic transformation can be illustrated by the process that produces a healthy complexion. The way to achieve a genuinely healthy complexion is not to apply cosmetics, but to eat nourishing food and then digest and assimilate it adequately. If we eat properly, the food we digest and assimilate will supply us with a healthy new element which will eventually produce an outward, visible change in our skin tone.

If we desire to have this kind of divine transformation, we must first remove the multiple “veils” of our old concepts by first turning our heart to the Lord (2 Cor. 3:16) and then by continually beholding Him with an unveiled face and reflecting His glory like a mirror (2 Cor. 3:18). It is from the Lord Spirit that the believers are all being transformed into the same image, the image of Christ. We must therefore faithfully enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ and allow Him to work in us. When we receive the Spirit’s bountiful supply, it begins this inward process of metabolism that issues in an outward manifestation. This is transformation.