Hymn: What mystery, the Father, Son, and Spirit

What mystery, the Father, Son, and Spirit,
In person three, in substance all are one.
How glorious, this God our being enters
To be our all, thru Spirit in the Son!

The Triune God has now become our all!
How wonderful! How glorious!
This Gift divine we never can exhaust!
How excellent! How marvelous!

How rich the source, the Father as the fountain,
And all this wealth He wants man to enjoy!
O blessed fact, this vast exhaustless portion
Is now for us forever to employ!

How wonderful, the Son is God’s expression
Come in the flesh to dwell with all mankind!
Redemption’s work, how perfectly effective,
That sinners we with God might oneness find.

The Spirit is the Son’s transfiguration
Come into us as life the full supply.
Amazing fact, our spirit with the Spirit
Now mingles and in oneness joins thereby!

How real it is that God is now the Spirit
For us to touch, experience day by day!
Astounding fact, with God we are one spirit,
And differ not in life in any way!

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Jun 14 2026

Rebecca Suzanne Wilging

San Bernardino, CA, United States

How REAL it is that God is NOW the Spirit

For us to TOUCH, experience day by day!

ASTOUNDING fact, with God we are ONE spirit,

And DIFFER NOT in life in any way! 🥰

Mar 1 2026

Riverside, CA, United States

The Triune God has now become our all!

How wonderful! How glorious!

This Gift divine we never can exhaust!

How excellent! How marvelous!

Feb 8 2026

Djchow

Centennial, CO, United States

"The Triune God has now become our all!

How wonderful! How glorious!"

Dec 1 2025

Stephen Bellingham

Irvine, CA, United States

Nov 30 2025

Ezra

Islington, United Kingdom

Catherine

Chichester, United Kingdom

Amen amen - our life supply our everything...

The Spirit is the Son’s transfiguration

Come into us as life the full supply.

Amazing fact, our spirit with the Spirit

Now mingles and in oneness joins thereby!

Amen amen

Lord Jesus Lord Jesus

Nov 20 2025

Maria L

Fremont, California, United States

It is amazing to realize that God is not just our Creator but also our Father, and we are organically joined to Him! Hallelujah 😀

Aug 31 2025

Boris Zorrilla

Houston, Texas, United States

This song is so powerful. How glorious, how wonderful is the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of our Lord forever and ever.

Apr 20 2025

Tamlyn

Durban, KZN, South Africa

Blessed fact, amazing fact and astounding fact! There are three wonderful facts in this song! Praise the Lord!

Mar 22 2024

Maurice Ward

Irving, Texas, United States

If He has become my all then my all must truly belong to Him. Wow! What a thought

The second great accomplishment of Christ in resurrection is His becoming a life-giving Spirit. First Corinthians 15:45 says, "The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit." Christ; who is eternally God, became flesh to be the last Adam. Then this last Adam went to the cross to die, resurrected after three days, and became a life-giving Spirit. According to the teaching of traditional theology, the three persons in the Godhead should not be confounded: The Father is the Father, the Son is the Son, and the Spirit is the Spirit. Moreover, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are three-in-one; there should be no confounding of the three, and the "body (substance)" is one and cannot be divided. However, the Bible clearly says that Christ as the last Adam, that is, as the Son, became the Spirit. Therefore, we do not want to be restricted by traditional theology's doctrine concerning the Trinity. Instead, we declare that God is three yet one: the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are distinct but not separate, and They coexist in coinherence. This is according to the Bible. This is described in Hymns, #608: "The Father, Son, and Spirit, / In person three, in substance all are one." We are not denying the Bible and taking theology as our authority; we take the Bible as our unique standard. In resurrection Christ as the last Adam in the flesh became a life-giving Spirit. Not only did His divine Spirit cause His body to be resurrected, but even more, in His body He became the life-giving Spirit so that He can impart life to man. This life-giving Spirit is the Holy Spirit; He is not another Spirit, a Spirit apart from the Spirit of God.

CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 2, The Intrinsic Revelation of the Bible, ch. 1 (LSM)

The Spirit is the transfiguration of Christ. In resurrection Christ was transfigured from the flesh into the Spirit. Hence, the Spirit is Christ in another form. We can use the example of raw rice being boiled and becoming cooked rice. The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are three persons, and although the three are distinct, They are not separate but are one intrinsically. This mysterious God is described in a hymn: "In person three, in substance all are one" (Hymns, #608). Christ is God, and Christ is the Spirit. God is embodied in Christ, and Christ was transfigured in order to enter into us as the Spirit. We should be clear that the Spirit is the transfiguration of Christ.

How God Becomes Man's Enjoyment, ch. 7 (LSM)

To know the hymns we have to know some of the crucial points of the contents of the hymns. First, we must know some of the hymns on the blessing and experience of the Triune God. The word blessing is used here not to refer to the good things the Triune God has given us but to the praise, the blessing, we offer to Him. An example of a good hymn on the blessing of the Triune God is #7—"Glory, glory, to the Father!"—and an example of a good hymn on the experience of the Triune God is #608—"What mystery, the Father, Son, and Spirit." We also need to know hymns in the categories of the praise of the Father and the praise of the Lord.

Speaking Christ for the Building Up of the Body of Christ, chapter 7 (LSM)

Our God today is not merely the Creator revealed in Genesis 1:1. He is the processed God, as revealed in Matthew 28:19. Matthew 28:19 is more complicated than Genesis 1:1. Genesis 1:1 simply says that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. But Matthew 28:19 tells us to baptize people "into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." This verse speaks of the one name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. The name of God here is Father-Son-Spirit. Due to the poverty of our language, we may be forced to use the term "person" in speaking of the Father, Son, and Spirit, referring to Them as the three Persons of the Trinity. We have done this in the opening lines of one of our hymns (Hymns #608):

What mystery, the Father, Son, and Spirit, In person three, in substance all are one.

However, we should not press this term too far, lest we unintentionally endorse the doctrine of tritheism, the belief that the Father, Son, and Spirit are three Gods. We definitely do not believe in tritheism; we believe in the one true God, whose name, according to Matthew 29:19, is Father-Son-Spirit. This is the processed God into whose name we are to baptize people.

Life-study of Colossians, chapter 43 (LSM)

"All that the Father has" is truly rich and exceedingly vast! Consider for example His economy, His good pleasure, and His plan. Hymns, #608 has five stanzas: the first stanza concerns the Father, the Son, and the Spirit generally; stanzas 2, 3, and 4 are on the Father, the Son, and the Spirit respectively; and stanza 5 tells of our experience. Stanza 2 says that the Father as the source is rich, that His wealth is inexhaustible, and that He is indeed a treasure-store. All these riches and wealth are actually the "all," which has been given to the Son.

The Economy of God and the Mystery of the Transmission of the Divine Trinity, chapter 6 (LSM)

The chorus of Hymns, #608 says, "The Triune God has now become our all!" This hymn clearly explains how the Triune God has become our blessed portion and how He is dispensing Himself into us. In Ephesians 3:8 the apostle Paul said, "To me…was this grace given to announce to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel." Here to announce means not only "to preach" but also "to transmit." This means that Paul received a commission from God to transfuse the unsearchable riches of Christ into the Gentiles so that they all would have the Triune God in them. In this way they could become the members of Christ and, aggregately, the Body of Christ (v. 6). The revelation in Ephesians concerning the Body of Christ and the members of Christ is very complete and thorough.

The Economy of God and the Mystery of the Transmission of the Divine Trinity, chapter 2 (LSM)

Instead of saying, "In person three, in substance all are one," it would be better to say, "In substance three, in essence all are one." We may say that God has three substances, but only one essence. In the three substances of the divine Trinity, the Holy Spirit, or the Spirit of God, is the third one. He is the consummated One, and this consummated One is the consummation of the Triune God. When the Triune God was consummated, He was revealed in the way that we who believe into Christ can be baptized into Him. This indicates that we, the believers of Christ, can have an organic union with the consummated Triune God.

The Spirit, chapter 1 (LSM)

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