Triune Salvation

John G. Lake was a missionary to South Africa and an instrument of divine healing there and in the United States. The following portion is taken from the thought-provoking message recorded in John G. Lake: The Complete Collection of His Life Teachings compiled by Roberts Liardon:

"The illumination of God, the consciousness of our position in the world, the consciousness of our responsibility as the representatives of Christ, places upon us as Christ-men and Christ-women the burden of Christ for a lost world. Of necessity, this lifts the heart and spirit into a new contact with God and the consciousness that if a son of God, if a Christ-man to the world, then one must be worthy of his Christ. The only way to be worthy is to be in the will of Jesus.

"Men have mystified the Gospel; they have philosophized the Gospel. The Gospel of Jesus is as simple as can be. As God lived in the body and operated through the man Jesus so the man on the throne, Jesus, operates through His body, the Church, in the world. Even as Jesus Himself was the representative of God the Father, so also the Church is the representative of Christ. As Jesus yielded Himself unto all righteousness, so the Church should yield herself to do the will of Christ.

". . . As Jesus took us and lifted us up to the Father, and as He takes the Church and lifts it to the Father and gave Himself to sanctify and cleanse it, so the Christian takes the world and lifts it up to the Christ, to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.

"The wonderful simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus is itself a marvel. The wonder is that men have not understood always the whole process of salvation. How was it that men mystified it? Why is it that we have not lived a better life? Because our eyes were dim and we did not see and we did not realize that God left us here in this world to demonstrate Him, even as the Father left Jesus in the world to demonstrate the Father.

". . . Jesus, knowing that all power had been given unto Him, took a basin and a towel and washed His disciples' feet. His power did not exalt Him. It made Him the humblest of all men. So the more a Christian possesses, the more of a servant he will be. God is the great servant of the world. The One who continually gives to men the necessity of the hour. Through His guidance and direction of the laws of the world, He provides for all the needs of mankind. He is the Great Servant of the world, the greatest of all servants.

"Yea, Jesus, knowing that all power had been committed to Him, and as God gave the power to Jesus, so Jesus commits through the Holy Ghost, by His own Spirit, all power to man.

"I tell you, beloved, it is not necessary for people to be dominated by evil, nor by evil spirits. Instead of being dominated, Christians should exercise dominion and control other forces. Even Satan has no power over them, only as they permit him to have. Jesus taught us to close the mind, to close the heart, to close the being against all that is evil; to live with an openness to God only, so that the sunlight of God shines in. The glory radiance of God shines in, but everything that is dark is shut out.

"Jesus said: 'Take heed therefore how ye hear' [Luke 8:18], not what you hear. One cannot help what he hears, but he can take heed how he hears. When it is something offensive to the Spirit and the knowledge of God, shut the doors of the nature against it and it will not touch you. The Christian lives in the world, dominating sin, evil, sickness, bless God. I would to God, He would help us so to present Jesus in the true light, that this church and the Church that is in the world, the Christian Body, would be lifted up until they would realize their privilege in Christ Jesus. Bless God, it is coming.

"By the God within we cast out or expel from the being that which is not God-like. If you find within your heart a thought of sin or selfishness, by the exercise of the Spirit of God within you, you cast that thing out as unworthy of a child of God and you put it away from you.

". . . Beloved, God wants us to come, to stay, and to live in that abiding place which is the Christian's estate. This is the heavenly place in Christ Jesus. This is the secret place of the most high. Bless God!

"The Word of God gives us this key. It says, 'That wicked one toucheth him not' [1 John 5:18]. When the Spirit of God radiated from the man, Jesus, I wonder how close it was possible for the evil spirit to come to Him? Do you suppose that the Spirit of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good? It was impossible for the evil one to come near Him, and I feel sure Satan talked to Jesus from a safe distance.

". . . The complaint of the devil concerning Job was, 'Hast not thou made an hedge about him?' [Job 1:10]. He was not able to get through that hedge to touch the man. Don't you know that the radiation of the Spirit of God around the Lord Jesus was His safeguard? The artists paint a halo around the head of Jesus. They might just as well put it around His hands, feet, body, because the radiation of the Spirit of God is from all the being.

"Now the Spirit of God radiates from the Christian's person because of the indwelling Holy Ghost and makes him impregnable to any touch or contact of evil forces. He is the subjective force himself. The Spirit of God radiates from him as long as his faith in God is active. 'Resist the devil, and he will flee from you' [James 4:7]. 'For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil' [1 John 3:8]. 'Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world . . . even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?' [1 John 5:4-5]."