Living in the Reality of the Body of Christ by Keeping the Principles of the Body
Message One
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:
But when He, the Spirit of reality, comes, He will guide you into all the reality…—John 16:13.
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—Rom. 8:4.
To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death—Phil. 3:10.
Word of Appetizer
Why does it say that the reality of the Body of Christ is the Spirit of reality wrought into us and constituted into our being?
The Body of Christ is the church today, and all of its reality is the Spirit of the reality of the consummated Triune God.
This Spirit of reality makes everything of the processed Triune God a reality in the Body of Christ. It is this same Spirit of reality who makes all the riches of the Triune God, which are just His reality, possible and real in the Body of Christ. All that the processed Triune God is, including righteousness, holiness, life, light, power, grace, and all the divine attributes, are realized by this Spirit of reality to be the real attributes of the Body of Christ.
Spiritual Burden
The reality of the Body of Christ is the union and mingling of God with man to live out a corporate God-man.
The reality of the Body of Christ is a corporate living of the conformity to the death of Christ.
To be in the reality of the Body of Christ is to live in the mingled spirit.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The highest peak of God’s economy is the reality of the Body of Christ.
The reality of the Body of Christ is the Spirit of reality wrought into us and constituted into our being.
The reality of the Body of Christ is “the reality…in Jesus”, the actual condition of the life of Jesus, as recorded in the four Gospels, duplicated in His many members.
The reality of the Body of Christ is the union and mingling of God with man to live out a corporate God-man.
The reality of the Body of Christ is a corporate living of the conformity to the death of Christ.
To be in the reality of the Body of Christ is to live in the mingled spirit.
The Experience of Life
We are being perfected by the Lord to be God-men, living the divine life by denying our natural life according to the model of Christ as the first God-man.
After regenerating us, the life-giving Spirit dwells in us and is mingled with our spirit to live a God-man life with us.
The cross must become our experience; a living under the cross touches the deepest parts of our being and every detail in our daily life.
Practice and Application
The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the perfected God-men, who are not living by their life but by the life of the processed God.
We should be those who live a crucified life by taking Christ’s death as the mold of our life; it is only by this kind of corporate living that we can have the reality of the Body of Christ.
We may be saved to the extent that we and God are completely mingled as one, having one life and one living; we live in the reality of the Body of Christ by walking according to the mingled spirit.
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View over the Whole Outline
Key Verses (1)
But when He, the Spirit of reality, comes, He will guide you into all the reality; ….—John 16:13
One Body and one Spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling;—Eph. 4:4
If indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him as the reality is in Jesus,—Eph. 4:21
The highest peak of God’s economy; the Spirit of reality; “the reality…in Jesus”
I. The highest peak of God’s economy is the reality of the Body of Christ.
II. The reality of the Body of Christ is the Spirit of reality wrought into us and constituted into our being.
III. The reality of the Body of Christ is “the reality…in Jesus” (v.21), the actual condition of the life of Jesus, as recorded in the four Gospels, duplicated in His many members as the corporate living of the perfected God-men
- The only life that is a delight to God is the life that is are petition of the life Christ lived on earth;
- A living in the reality of the Body of Christ is the same as the living of Jesus; it is Jesus living again in the members of His Body.
Key Verses (2)
Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers—Rom. 8:29
Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me…Gal. 2:20
IV. The reality of the Body of Christ is the union and mingling of God with man to live out a corporate God-man
- The reality of the Body of Christ is the living of a God-man life by a group of God-redeemed people together with the God-man Christ.—
- The reality of the Body of Christ is a living by the God-men, who are united, joined, and constituted together with God by the mingling of humanity with divinity and divinity with humanity
- The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the perfected God-men, who are not living by their life but by the life of the processed God, whose attributes are expressed through their virtues.
Key Verses (3)
To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death—Phil. 3:10
I protest by the boasting in you, brothers, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily—1Cor. 15:31
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—Rom. 8:4
But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit—1Cor. 6:17
V. The reality of the Body of Christ is a corporate living of the conformity to the death of Christ
VI. To be in the reality of the Body of Christ is to live in the mingled spirit
- The life of a Christ-pursuing God-man is a life of pursuing to die with Christ through the experience of the cross.
- It is by the power of Christ’s resurrection that we are conformed to the death of Christ; The reality of the Body of Christ is a living of being conformed to the death of Christ through the cross; We should be those who live a crucified life by taking Christ’s death as the mold of our life.
- The focus of God’s economy is the mingled spirit, the divine Spirit mingled with the human spirit.
We live in the reality of the Body of Christ by walking according to the mingled spirit.
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
D1
T1. The highest peak of God’s economy is the reality of the Body of Christ (Rom. 12:4-5; John 14:17)
(Please explain that the Body of Christ is the Spirit of the reality of the consummated Triune God.)
T2. This Spirit now dwells in our regenerated spirit and is joined to our spirit as one spirit (Rom. 8:9-11a; 1 Cor. 6:17).
(Please use your experience to illustrate how we live and walk according to this joined spirit.)
D2
T1. The Body of Christ is not merely a term but a reality.(Gal 2:20)
(Although we have seen the vision concerning the Body of Christ and can speak clearly about it, what we have as the reality of the Body of Christ is very little, why?)
T2 The reality of the Body of Christ is the living of a God-man life by a group of God-redeemed people together with the God-man Christ.(Phil. 1:19-21)
(Please explain with scriptures that the Lord spoke and did things not by Himself but by the One who sent Him.)
D3
T1. The reality of the Body of Christ is a living by the God-men.(John5:19; 4:34; 17:4; 14:10, 24; 5:30)
((Please explain with scriptures above that the Lord never did anything by Himself, but He did everything by the Father.)
T2. We should not live by ourselves. (Gal. 2:20)
(Please explain that Paul was a person living not by himself but by the pneumatic Christ.)
D4
T1. Christ took up His cross daily by dying to Himself.(Matt. 16:24; 2Cor. 4:10)
(Please explain that to bear the cross means to stay at the death of Christ. )
T2. Hence, to have merely the teaching of the cross is not enough; the cross must become our experience.(Gla.6:14)
(Please use your experience to illustrate Such a living in the shadow of the cross touches the deepest part of our being and every detail in our life. )
D5
T1. The reality of the Body of Christ is a corporate living of the conformity to the death of Christ.(Phil. 3:10)
(Please explain that the God-man living is a living of being conformed to the death of Christ.)
T2. When we die on the cross, the Lord is brought forth in the Spirit.(1Cor.15:31)
(Please use examples to explain that our living today must be the life of the cross and the Spirit. )
D6
T1. The focus of God’s economy is the mingled spirit.(1Cor.6:17)
(Please explain that the God-man living is the living of the two spirits, the Spirit of God and the spirit of man, joined and mingled together as one.)
T2. To be in the reality of the Body of Christ is to live in the mingled spirit.(Rom.8:4)
(Please explain that those who live and walk according to the mingled spirit are on the highest level.)
