Ephesians 3:9-12 says, "And to enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which throughout the ages has been hidden in God, who created all things, in order that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies the multifarious wisdom of God might be made known through the church, according to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through faith in Him."
God's intention is to make man like Him in His divine life, in His divine nature, and in His image as His expression, but not in His Godhead.
Second Peter 1:4 says that we partake of the divine nature. To partake of something is to participate in that thing. We partake of God's nature and thus we participate in God's divinity. The divine One has imparted Himself into us to become our being. He dispenses Himself into us to be our life, our nature, our mind, and everything to us..... We are more blessed than the angels, for they are merely God's servants, but we are God's sons, possessing God's divinity. (The Secret of God's Organic Salvation -- "the Spirit Himself with Our Spirit," pp. 65 - 66)
Ephesians 1:9-11: Making known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Himself, unto the economy of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in Him; in whom also we were designated as an inheritance, having been pre-destinated according to the purpose of the One who works all things according to the counsel of His will.
According to His economy, the Proverbs are not for us to build up on our old man, to cultivate our self and our natural man. Rather, they are for us to build up our new man. (Life-study of Proverbs, pp. 54,58-59)
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