Living in the Reality of the Body of Christ by Keeping the Principles of the Body
Message Five
Living Christ for the Reality of the Body of Christ
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you, the Gentiles—Eph. 3:1.
For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death—Rom. 8:2.
And receive…the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God, by means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit…—Eph. 6:17-18.
Word of Appetizer
What is the secret of how to live Christ for the reality of the Body of Christ?
The secret is in Romans 8, which is a definition, description, explanation, and presentation of the law of the Spirit of life; Romans 8 uses this term—the law of the Spirit of life—to describe how the Triune God, after having been processed and consummated to become the life-giving Spirit, has been installed into our spirit as a law, a spontaneous, automatic principle and power within us; we can live Christ for the reality of the Body of Christ according to the law of the Spirit of life by being empty and open vessels.
Spiritual Burden
The Body of Christ is the issue of the experience of Christ, so we need to pray desperately that we would live Christ for the Body of Christ to be a reality.
We need to cooperate with the installed and operating law of the Spirit of life by “switching on” the spontaneous and automatic power of the installed and automatic God, the indwelling Spirit as the “current” of the Triune God; to “switch on” this law is to remain in touch with the Lord, to stay in constant contact with Him, to have habitual fellowship with Him, and to be under His constant infusion by walking according to the spirit.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The church as the Body of Christ is a pure product out of Christ; only that which comes out of Christ with His resurrection life can be His complement and counterpart, the Body of Christ.
To live Christ for the reality of the Body of Christ is to be imprisoned in our spirit as a “prisoner of Christ Jesus,” a “prisoner in the Lord,” and an “ambassador in a chain”.
The Body of Christ is the issue of the experience of Christ, so we need to pray desperately that we would live Christ for the Body of Christ to be a reality; the secret of how to live Christ for the reality of the Body of Christ is in Romans 8—the law of the Spirit of life.
The Experience of Life
When we are imprisoned in Christ, we receive a revelation of Him to experience Him in His unlimited dimensions as the church-loving Christ, the new-man-creating Christ, the all-things-heading-up Christ, the gift-making and gift-giving Christ, and the home-making Christ for the building up of the Body of Christ.
In our spirit we have the presence of God, the speaking of God, the meeting with God, and the dispensing of God through His operation as the law of the Spirit of life to impart Himself into all our inward parts. The operating of the law of the Spirit of life as the divine capacity within us spontaneously causes us to live God and become God in life and in nature.
Practice and Application
We need to pray desperately that we would live Christ for the Body of Christ to be a reality:
- We need to cooperate with the installed and operating law of the Spirit of life by “switching on” the spontaneous and automatic power of the installed and automatic God, the indwelling Spirit as the “current” of the Triune God; to “switch on” this law is to remain in touch with the Lord, to stay in constant contact with Him, to have habitual fellowship with Him, and to be under His constant infusion by walking according to the spirit.
- We can live Christ for the reality of the Body of Christ according to the law of the Spirit of life by being empty and open vessels.
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View over the Whole Outline
Key Verses (1)
And Jehovah God built the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a woman and brought her to the man. And the man said, This time this is bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called Woman Because out of Man this one was taken. -Gen.2:22-23.
For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ. -1Cor.12:12.
- The church as the Body of Christ is a pure product out of Christ
.only that which comes out of Christ with His resurrection life can be His complement and counterpart, the Body of Christ.
.The Head of the Body is Christ, and the Body of the Head is Christ, so the Body of Christ with Christ as the Head is “the Christ,” the corporate Christ
.Anything other than Christ is not the Body of Christ, thus, we must be desperate as Paul was to live Christ for the reality of the Body
.All things other than the pure element of Christ are ruled out by this vision; this vision “paralyzes” us from exercising anything of our natural man
Key Verses (2)
For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you, the Gentiles. -Eph.3:1
I beseech you therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called. -4:1
- To live Christ for the reality of the Body of Christ is to be imprisoned in our spirit as a “prisoner of Christ Jesus,”
1.When we are imprisoned in Christ, we receive a revelation of Him to experience Him in His unlimited dimensions as the church-loving Christ, the new-man-creating Christ, the all-things-heading-up Christ, the gift-making and gift-giving Christ, and the home-making Christ for the building up of the Body of Christ.
2.A person who lives Christ as an ambassador of Christ no longer has his own freedom and can no longer do things according to his own convenience
3.To live Christ for the reality of the Body of Christ is to be a captive of Christ in His triumphal procession, doing everything in the person of Christ in our spirit
Key Verses (3)
For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death. -Rom8:2
That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit. -4.
And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God, by means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit…………Eph.6:17-18.
III. the secret of how to live Christ for the reality of the Body of Christ is in Romans 8-the law of the Spirit of life
.The Body of Christ is the issue of the experience of Christ, so we need to pray desperately that we would live Christ for the Body of Christ to be a reality
.Romans 8 uses this term—the law of the Spirit of life—to describe how the Triune God, after having been processed and consummated to become the life-giving Spirit, has been installed into our spirit as a law, a spontaneous, automatic principle and power within us
.We need to cooperate with the installed and operating law of the Spirit of life by “switching on” the spontaneous and automatic power of the installed and automatic God, the indwelling Spirit as the “current” of the Triune God; to “switch on” this law is to remain in touch with the Lord, to stay in constant contact with Him, to have habitual fellowship with Him, and to be under His constant infusion by walking according to the spirit.
.We can live Christ for the reality of the Body of Christ according to the law of the Spirit of life by being empty and open vessels.
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
D1
T1 Adam and Eve are a type of Christ and the church (Eph. 5:30-32; Gen. 2:22-24).
（Illustrate The church is nothing more than a pure product out of Christ）
T2 Other than Christ’s element there should be no other element in the church（Col3:10~11）
（Illustrate we do not have the boldness to exercise anything of our natural man. In this respect, such a vision paralyzes us）
D2
T1 Paul considered himself the prisoner of Christ（Eph3:1，4:1）
（Illustrate Apparently he was confined in a physical prison, actually he was imprisoned in Christ.）
T2 To live Christ for the reality of the Body of Christ is to be imprisoned in our spirit (Ezek. 1:1-3; John 7:6, 8）
（Illustrate A person who lives Christ as an ambassador of Christ no longer do things according to his own convenience, but according to the leading and directing hand of God ）
D3
T1 Triune God has been processed to be the indwelling, all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit. (Rom8:2）
（Illustrate the Spirit today, is a law. This means that it is the spontaneous automatic principle of the processed Triune God working within us.）
T2 The very God installed into us is the law of the Spirit of life. (Rom8:2）
（Illustrate When we walk according to the spirit, many wonderful doings are going on within us by the law with experience.）
D4
T1 the law’s function and the law’s operation need our i. (Rom8:4）
（Illustrate To cooperate with this law is to walk according to the spirit with experience.）
T2 we need to live Christ and walk in the spirit（Phil. 2:13）
（Illustrate How to practice…twenty-four hours a day to live Christ with experience.）
D5
T1 To live Christ all the time we must be contact the Word and the Spirit. （Eph6:18，Col3:16）
(Illustrate How can we practice of the Spontaneously to live Christ with experience.)
T2 God wants an open vessel. (Rom9:23，2Cor4:7）
（Illustrate God’s intention was to create a vessel to contain Him and to express Him）
D6
T1 n open vessel is doing nothing but keeping itself open to the filling up（Psal81:10b）
（Illustrate How much He would enter into us depends upon how much opening us would give Him with experience.）
T2 He wants you to love Him and keep yourself all the time open to Him but to stop doing. (Rom9:23，2Cor4:7）
（Illustrate We need to love Him and to keep myself open to Him, giving Him every opportunity to do everything He wants to do.）
