Propagating the Resurrected, Ascended, And All-Inclusive Christ As the Development of The Kingdom of God
Message Seven
The Spirit of Jesus
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore also the holy thing which is born will be called the Son of God.-Luke1:35.
And they passed through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. And when they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, yet the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.-Acts16:6~7.
Word of Appetizer
We need to pay careful attention to two divine titles in Acts 16:6 and 7— the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus: What is the difference between these two divine titles？
The Holy Spirit is a general title of the Spirit of God in the New Testament; The title the Holy Spirit is used for the first time at the conception of the Lord Jesus; In the New Testament the title the Holy Spirit indicates that God is now mingling Himself with man.
The Spirit of Jesus is a particular expression concerning the Spirit of God and refers to the Spirit of the incarnated Savior who, as Jesus in His humanity, passed through human living and death on the cross; The Spirit of Jesus therefore implies the Lord’s humanity, human living, death, resurrection, and ascension.
Spiritual Burden
The move of the apostle Paul and his co-workers for the spread of the gospel was not according to their decision and preference or according to any schedule made by a human council but by the Spirit of Jesus.
We may experience and enjoy the resurrected and ascended Christ as the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit; We need to experience and enjoy the Spirit of the humanity of Jesus for gospel preaching, for the church service, for our daily walk, and for the Lord’s recovery。
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
We need to pay careful attention to two divine titles in Acts 16:6 and 7—the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus.
The Spirit, who was not yet because Jesus had not yet been glorified in resurrection, is the Spirit with the humanity of Jesus; the Spirit today has been constituted with the glorified humanity of Jesus.
The Spirit of Jesus is clearly portrayed in the first two chapters of Philippians; in order to preach the gospel, we need the Spirit of Jesus; Fellowship unto the gospel requires that we be in one spirit with one soul; By the Spirit of Jesus we can take Christ as our pattern.
The Experience of Life
This Spirit, who is the living water that we drink and who is flowing out from
within us, is constituted with the humanity of Jesus; “There is now the Spirit of the glorified Jesus: we have received Him to stream into us, to stream through us, and to stream forth from us in rivers of blessing”.
The Spirit of Jesus is not only the Spirit of God with divinity in Him so that we may live the divine life but also the Spirit of the man Jesus with humanity in Him so that we may live a proper human life and endure its sufferings.
Practice and Application
We may experience and enjoy the resurrected and ascended Christ as the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit; We need to experience and enjoy the Spirit of the humanity of Jesus for gospel preaching, for the church service, for our daily walk, and for the Lord’s recovery.
To experience Christ we need to be in the fellowship unto the gospel by the Spirit of Jesus without envy, strife, or rivalry.
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View over the Whole Outline
Key Verses (1)
And they passed through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. And when they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, yet the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.-Acts16:6~7.
And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore also the holy thing which is born will be called the Son of God.-Luke1:35.
We need to pay careful attention to two divine titles in Acts 16:6 and 7—
the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus
.The interchangeable use of these two titles reveals that the Spirit of Jesus is the Holy Spirit; We may experience and enjoy the resurrected and ascended Christ as the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit.
.The Holy Spirit is a general title of the Spirit of God in the New Testament：The title the Holy Spirit is used for the first time at the conception of the Lord Jesus; the Holy Spirit indicates that God is now mingling Himself with man.
. The Spirit of Jesus is a particular expression concerning the Spirit of God and refers to the Spirit of the incarnated Savior who, as Jesus in His humanity, passed through human living and death on the cross.
. In Acts 16:7 Luke turns from the Holy Spirit to the Spirit of Jesus; The Spirit of Jesus therefore implies the Lord’s humanity, human living, death, resurrection, and ascension.
. Just as the Spirit of Christ is the reality of Christ, so the Spirit of Jesus is the reality of Jesus.
Key Verses (2)
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.-John.7:39.
……many came to him at his lodging, to whom he expounded these matters, solemnly testifying of the kingdom of God and persuading them concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets, from morning until evening.-Acts.28:23.
Proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, unhindered. -31.
The Spirit is the spirit with the humanity of Jesus, The move of the spread of the gospel，is by the Spirit of Jesus
III. The Spirit, who was not yet because Jesus had not yet been glorified in resurrection, is the Spirit with the humanity of Jesus; the Spirit today has been constituted with the glorified humanity of Jesus:
. This Spirit, who is the living water that we drink and who is flowing out from within us, is constituted with the humanity of Jesus; without the humanity of Jesus, there could never be such a Spirit.
. We need to experience and enjoy the Spirit of the humanity of Jesus for gospel preaching, for the church service, for our daily walk, and for the Lord’s recovery.
- The move of the apostle Paul and his co-workers for the spread of the gospel was not according to their decision and preference or according to any schedule made by a human council but by the Spirit of Jesus.
. The kind of work we do for the Lord depends on the kind of Spirit by whom we are guided, directed, instructed, and constituted.
Key Verses (3)
For your fellowship unto the furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now.- Phil. 1:5
Only, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether coming and seeing you or being absent, I may hear of the things concerning you, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together along with the faith of the gospel.-. Phil. 1:27
Make my joy full, that you think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking the one thing.-2:2.
- The Spirit of Jesus is clearly portrayed in the first two chapters of Philippians
. In Philippians 1 we have the preaching of the gospel ; in order to preach the gospel, we need the Spirit of Jesus；The life of Jesus as presented in the Gospels was a life without envy, strife, or rivalry; thus, the Spirit of Jesus does not have envy, strife, or rivalry.
. Fellowship unto the gospel requires that we be in one spirit with one soul; If we are not in the Spirit of Jesus, we are not in the fellowship unto the gospel.
. By the Spirit of Jesus we can take Christ as our pattern; By the Spirit of Jesus we can be as humble as Jesus was; we can think the one thing and have the same love.
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
D1
T1 Christ is not only the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of God but also the life-giving Spirit（1Cor15:45）
（Illustrate Christ is the life-giving Spirit, including many wonderful elements.）
T2 experience and enjoy the resurrected and ascended Christ as the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit（Act16:6-7）
（Explain what is the difference between the Spirit of Jesus and the Holy Spirit.）
D2
T1 In his suffering Paul needed the Spirit of Jesus（Act9:15~16）
（Illustrate In the Spirit of Jesus there is not only the divine element of God but also the human element of Jesus and the elements of His human living and His suffering of death as well.）
T2 In Acts 16:7 Luke turns from the Holy Spirit to the Spirit of Jesus（Act16:6~7）
（Illustrate The Spirit of Jesus involves more than the Holy Spirit does.）
D3
T1 in His resurrection Christ has become the pneumatic Christ. (1Cor15:45;2Cor3:17）
（Explain what element does the pneumatic Christ be constituted.）
T2 Just as the Spirit of Christ is the reality of Christ, so the Spirit of Jesus is the reality of Jesus（Rom8:9，Act16:7）
（Illustrate Jesus is real to us because we have the Spirit of Jesus as the reality, the realization, of Jesus.）
D4
T1 the Spirit was constituted with the glorified humanity of Jesus. (John7:39）
（Illustrate The Spirit mentioned here is different from the Spirit of God.）
T2 Without the human essence the Spirit of God could not be the flowing water of life（John7:38~39）
（Illustrate if God would be a flowing river of life, He must be constituted with the human nature of Jesus.）
D5
T1 taking Him as our humanity. (Act16:7）
（Illustrate we must be proper human beings, not by our humanity but by the Lord’s humanity.）
T2 The move of the apostle Paul for the spread of the gospel by the Spirit of Jesus（Act16:6~7）
（The kind of work we do for the Lord depends on the kind of Spirit by whom we are guided, directed, instructed, and constituted.）
D6
T1 The first two chapters of Philippians are related to the Spirit of Jesus（Phil. 1:27）
（Illustrate the Spirit of Jesus is clearly portrayed in the first two chapters of Philippians with example.）
T2 the Spirit of Jesus is in us（Phil.2:1~9）
（Illustrate by the Spirit of Jesus we can take Christ as our pattern.）
