In this series of messages we want to see the God-man living. This God-man living is the eight major items of Christ's organic saving: regeneration, shepherding, dispositional sanctification, renewing, transformation, building, conformation, and glorification. To touch the God-man living means to touch these eight major items. The commencement of the God-man living is our being born of God through regeneration. We need a particular beginning to have a certain kind of living. The living must have the birth as its beginning.

I. GOD LOVING THE WORLD THAT THEY MAY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE
God so loved the world that He gave them His only begotten Son, that they may receive Him by believing into Him to have the eternal life—the divine life (John 3:16). John 3:16 says that God so loved. God loved the world so much, to such an extent, that He gave His only begotten Son to us. This was for the purpose that we may believe in Him and receive Him that we may have the eternal life. The eternal life is the goal of God's loving of us. Then we can be His children forming the church, issuing the Body of Christ and consummating in the New Jerusalem. This conjoins God's love with the New Jerusalem. God's love is linked with the New Jerusalem, which is the ultimate consummation of God's love.

II. HIS GOOD PLEASURE

God's good pleasure is to be one with man and make man the same as He is in life and in nature but not in His Godhead (Eph. 1:5, 9). Ephesians 1:5 says that God predestinated us unto sonship according to the good pleasure of His will. Unto sonship means to make us sons. God predestinated us, marked us out, before the foundation of the world that we could be made His sons according to His good pleasure. If we would ask, "Father God, what is Your good pleasure?" He would say, " My good pleasure is to make Myself one with you and to make you My sons."

Ephesians 1:9 also speaks of God's good pleasure, which He purposed in Himself. God has some plan to fulfill, and this plan is to have the church as the Body of Christ which consummates in the New Jerusalem. We need the entire Bible to understand this one verse of the Bible in Ephesians. The good pleasure of God is to have us as His sons, and eventually, all these sons ultimately consummate the New Jerusalem. We should not forget these items—first, God loves us and second, He has a good pleasure. According to the revelation of the Bible, God's good pleasure is to have many sons and have all these many sons consummated as the New Jerusalem.