2018 ST Message Twelve – Prophesying Reference

Week 12

The Processed Triune God, His Work,

And The Result Of His Work

Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting

Reading the verses in each day.

Reading the main points in the outlines.

Pray-reading the verses:

You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you raise up for yourselves a graven image or a pillar, nor shall you place a stone figure in your land to bow down to it; for I am Jehovah your God. You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am Jehovah—Lev. 26:1-2

But if I delay, I write that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth—1 Tim. 3:15

Word of Appetizer

In Leviticus 26:1-20 we are given a basis for our obedience, and which three matters does this basis includes?

First, we should not have idols. This signifies that besides God we should have no other goals that we are seeking after, so that we may not lose the position to enjoy our divine possession. Second, we should keep God’s Sabbaths. This signifies that we should know that the work of God was done entirely by Himself that we might enjoy it, and that there is no need for us to do any work. Third, we need to reverence God’s sanctuary. This signifies that we should regard with reverence all that God is and has accomplished in Christ as God’s dwelling, embodiment, and expression, and in the church as the enlargement of Christ for God’s dwelling and eternal manifestation.

Spiritual Burden

We need to understand the intrinsic significance of the processed Triune God, the work that He has done entirely by Himself, and the result of His work—the church as the enlargement of Christ for God’s dwelling and eternal manifestation.

Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting

The Revelation of the Truth

Leviticus 26:1 and 2 speak of not making idols, keeping Jehovah’s Sabbaths, and reverencing His sanctuary; we need to understand the intrinsic significance of these three points—the processed Triune God, His work, and the result of His work.

We should not have idols; this signifies that besides God we should have no other goals that we are seeking after, so that we may not lose the position to enjoy our divine inheritance.

We should keep God’s Sabbaths; this signifies that we should know that the work of God was done entirely by Himself that we might enjoy it, and that there is no need for us to do any work.

We need to reverence God’s sanctuary; this signifies that we should regard with reverence all that God is and has accomplished in Christ as God’s dwelling, embodiment, and expression and in the church as the enlargement of Christ for God’s dwelling and eternal manifestation.

Seeing the vision of the processed Triune God with His work and the result of His work will constitute us into obedient ones who will receive God’s blessing.

The Experience of Life

The Spirit works in the believers by regenerating them. Regeneration is God’s dispensing of Himself in His life and nature into our being.

Second Corinthians 3:18 says, “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.” As we behold and reflect the glory of the Lord, He infuses us with the elements of what He is and what He has done. He dispenses these elements into us. The result is that we are being transformed metabolically to have His life shape by His life power with His life essence.

Practice and Application

We should not have idols; As genuine children of the genuine God, we should be on the alert to guard ourselves from heretical substitutes and from all vain replacements for our genuine and real God.

We should keep God’s Sabbaths; We need to learn to receive, regard, respect, and enjoy what God has done and not try to do something for ourselves.

Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View over the Whole Outline

Key Verses (1)

And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us—John 1:14

But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified—John7:39

We should not have idols;

The Processed Triune God;

I. Leviticus 26:1 and 2 speak of not making idols, keepingJehovah’s Sabbaths, and reverencing His sanctuary; we need to understand the intrinsic significance of these three points—the

processed Triune God, His work, and the result of His work.

II. We should not have idols; this signifies that besides God we should have no other goals that we are seeking after, so that we may not lose the position to enjoy our divine inheritance.

God Himself must be our unique goal; as God’s children, we should not seek anything other than Him.

Idols refers to the heretical substitutes for the true God.

The New Testament reveals that our God is the processed and consummated Triune God, the One who has passed through the processes of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection.

The Spirit is the consummation of the processed Triune God.

Key Verses (2)

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls—Matt. 11:29

Since therefore the children have shared in blood and flesh, He also Himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death He might destroy him who has the might of death, that is, the devil—Heb. 2:14

But 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—2 Cor. 3:18

We should keep God’s Sabbaths;

The work of God;

III. We should keep God’s Sabbaths; this signifies that we should know that the work of God was done entirely by Himself that we might enjoy it, and that there is no need for us to do any work.

We need to learn to receive, regard, respect, and enjoy what God has done and not try to do something for ourselves; We should deny our work but honor God’s work and rest in Him.

We need to know what the Triune God has done for us and highly regard the work of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.

Key Verses (3)

But if I delay, I write that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth; And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: He who was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.—1 Tim. 3:15-16

Eph. 2:19 So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.

Reverencing His sanctuary;

The Result Of His Work

IV. We need to reverence God’s sanctuary; this signifies that we should regard with reverence all that God is and has accomplished in Christ as God’s dwelling, embodiment, and expression and in the church as the enlargement of Christ for God’s dwelling and eternal manifestation.

First, we have the processed Triune God and His work for our rest, and then, as the result of His work, we have the church as the expression and the enlargement of Christ.

“Let them make a sanctuary for Me that I may dwell in their midst”.

The church is God’s house, the dwelling place of God.

V. Seeing the vision of the processed Triune God with His work and the result of His work will constitute us into obedient ones who will receive God’s blessing.

Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week

T1 Leviticus 26:1 and 2 speak of not making idols, keeping Jehovah’s Sabbaths, and reverencing His sanctuary.(Lev.26:1-2)

(Please explain that the intrinsic significance of these three points—the processed Triune God, His work, and the result of His work.)

T2 We should guard yourselves from idols.(1John5:21)

(Please explain that idols here also refer to anything that replaces the real God.)

T1 our God is the processed and consummated Triune God (John 1:14;2:22;7:39)

(Please explain that processed refers to the what steps through which the Triune God has passed in the divine economy.)

T2 The Spirit is the consummation of the processed Triune God.( John 7:39)

(Please explain that before the Lord Jesus was crucified and resurrected, the consummated Spirit was “not yet”.)

T1 keeping Jehovah’s Sabbaths(Lev.26:2a)

(Please explain that we should keep Jehovah’s Sabbaths.)

T2 We need to learn to receive, regard, respect, and enjoy what God has done

and not try to do something for ourselves(John 1:16;1Cor.4:7)

(Please explain that the reason why this is a hard lesson.)

T1 Triune God’s work as revealed in the New Testament.(Eph.1:4;Heb.2:10)

(Please explain and list down that the work of the Father includes)

T2 God’s work as revealed in the New Testament(John1:1;Rev.1:5)

(Please explain and list down that the work of the Christ includes)

T1 God’s work as revealed in the New Testament.(John16:8-11;Rev.2:7)

(Please explain and list down that the work of the Spirit includes)

T2 God’s salvation is to bring His redeemed people into His dwelling place on earth.

(Please explain the spiritual significance of reverencing His sanctuary.)

T1 The church is God’s house, the dwelling place of God(1 Tim. 3:15; Heb 3:6)

(Please explain that the dwelling place (the house) and the family (the household) are one entity—a group of called, regenerated ones indwelt by God Himself.)

T2 The church of God is the house of the living God(1 Tim. 3:15)

(Please explain that the house of God is the household of God.)