2019 MDC Message Four – Prophesying Reference

Experience the Christ

Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting

Message Four　

Abiding in Christ as the Empowering One—the Secret of Experiencing Christ

Reading the verses in each day.

Reading the main points in the outlines.

Pray-reading the verses:

Phil. 4:12-13 I know also how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to hunger, both to abound and to lack.I am able to do all things in Him who empowers me.

John 15:7 If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

Word of Appetizer

In Philippians 4:12-13 Paul says, “I know also how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in everything and in all things I have learned the secret”; what is the secret that Paul learned?

The secret is in Philippians 4:13: “I am able to do all things in Him who empowers me”; The secret is not that Christ is in us; it is that we are in Him; Paul was a man in Christ (2 Cor. 12:2), and he desired to be found in Christ by others; now he declared that he was able to do all things in Him, the very Christ who empowered him.

Spiritual Burden

To learn the secret of being in Christ as the empowering One is to learn the secret of abiding in Christ; to abide in Christ is to dwell in Him, to remain in fellowship with Him, that we may experience and enjoy His abiding in us.

We need to abide in Christ as our King and as our royal abode so that He can abide in us to make us His queen and His royal palace, His glorious church.

Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting

The Revelation of the Truth

We need to learn the secret of being in Christ as the empowering One; the secret is in: “I am able to do all things in Him who empowers me”.

To abide in Christ, taking Him as our dwelling place, and to allow Him to abide in us, taking us as His dwelling place, is to live in the reality of the universal incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God with the redeemed and regenerated believers.

We abide in Christ so that He may abide in us by:

loving Him
caring for the inward teaching of the all-inclusive anointing
“switching on” the law of the Spirit of life in our spirit
dealing with the constant word in the Scriptures, which is outside of us, and the present word as the Spirit, which is within us

The Experience of Life

When we love the Lord Jesus, He manifests Himself to us, and the Father comes with Him to make an abode with us for our enjoyment.

When the Head wants a member of the Body to move, He intimates it through the inner anointing, and as we yield to the anointing, life flows freely from the Head to us; if we resist the anointing, our relationship with the Head is interfered with, and the flow of life within us is stopped.

Practice and Application

We abide in Christ so that He may abide in us by:

loving Him; the more we love the Lord, the more we will have His presence, and the more we are in His presence, the more we will enjoy all that He is to us.
caring for the inward teaching of the all-inclusive anointing.
“switching on” the law of the Spirit of life in our spirit is by rejoicing always, praying unceasingly, and giving thanks in everything.
dealing with the constant word in the Scriptures, which is outside of us, and the present word as the Spirit, which is within us.

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

Key Verses (1)

We need to learn the secret of being in Christ as the empowering One

The phrase learned the secret indicates that Paul had come into a new situation, a new environment; whenever we are put in a new environment, we need to learn the secret of living in that environment.
In everything means in each matter; in all things means in all matters; together, these two phrases encompass all the things in the course of human life.
The secret is in Philippians 4:13: “I am able to do all things in Him who empowers me”.
On the one hand, by the empowering of Christ, we can live a contented life (4:11-12); on the other hand, by the empowering of Christ, we can be true, dignified, righteous, pure, lovely, and well spoken of (v. 8).
Paul’s word about Christ as the empowering One specifically applies to Christ’s empowering us to live Him as our human virtues and thereby to magnify Him in His unlimited greatness; to live a life of these virtues is much more difficult than doing a Christian work.

Key Verses (2)

John 15:4-5 Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. … for apart from Me you can do nothing.

Psa. 90:1-2 O Lord, You have been our dwelling place In all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, And before You gave birth to the earth and the world, Indeed from eternity to eternity, You are God.

To learn the secret of being in Christ as the empowering One is to learn the secret of abiding in Christ

To live in the reality of the universal incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God with the redeemed and regenerated believers

To abide in Christ is to dwell in Him, to remain in fellowship with Him, that we may experience and enjoy His abiding in us.
We need to abide in Christ as our King and as our royal abode so that He can abide in us to make us His queen and His royal palace, His glorious church.
To abide in Christ, taking Him as our dwelling place, and to allow Him to abide in us, taking us as His dwelling place, is to live in the reality of the universal incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God with the redeemed and regenerated believers; the way to be incorporated into this universal, divine-human incorporation, the mutual abode of God and man, is to eat Christ as the hidden manna.

Key Verses (3)

1 John 2:20 And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know.

1 Thes. 5:16-18 Always rejoice, Unceasingly pray, In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

John 5:39-40 You search the Scriptures, … and it is these that testify concerning Me. Yet you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

15:7 If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

We abide in Christ so that He may abide in us by:

Loving Him; the more we love the Lord, the more we will have His presence, and the more we are in His presence, the more we will enjoy all that He is to us.
Caring for the inward teaching of the all-inclusive anointing.
“Switching on” the law of the Spirit of life in our spirit is by rejoicing always, praying unceasingly, and giving thanks in everything.
Dealing with the constant word in the Scriptures, which is outside of us, and the present word as the Spirit, which is within us.

Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week

T1 In everything and in all things I have learned the secret (Phil. 4:12)

(Please illustrate that what is the secret that Paul learned.)

T2 The phrase I have learned the secret is an interpretation of the Greek word which literally means “I have been initiated.” (Phil. 4:12)

(Please illustrate that after Paul was converted to Christ, he was initiated into Christ and the Body of Christ.)

T1 “I am able to do all things in Him who empowers me.”(2 Cor. 12:2)

(Please illustrate that Paul was a man in Christ , and he desired to be found in Christ by others. )

T2 To be empowered by Christ is to be made dynamic inwardly. (Phil. 4:8, 12)

(Please illustrate that by the empowering of Christ, we can live a contented life and live Him as our human virtues. )

T1 To abide in Christ is to dwell in Him, to remain in fellowship with Him. (John 15:4-5, 1 John 2:27)

(Please illustrate that to abide in Christ is to live in the Divine Trinity – Taking Christ as our dwelling place. )

T2 To have Christ abiding in us is to live with the Divine Trinity. (John 15:7-8, 14:17)

(Please illustrate that to have Christ abiding in us is to have the words of Christ abiding in us. )

T1 To dwell in God is to have our living in God. (Psa. 90:1)

(Please illustrate that to take God as our dwelling place is the highest and fullest experience of God. )

T2 We abide in Christ so that He may abide in us by loving Him. (John 14:21, 23)

(Please illustrate that the more we love the Lord, the more we will have His presence, and the more we will enjoy all that He is to us. )

T1 The function of the anointing is to maintain the link between the Head and the Body. (Psa. 133)

(Please illustrate as we yield to the anointing , life flows freely from the Head with experience.)

T2 The more we live in the fellowship of the Body, the more we enjoy the anointing of the Spirit.(Acts 16:6-7; 2 Cor. 2:13)

(Please illustrate that the teaching of the anointing of the Spirit as nothing to do with right or wrong, it is an inner feeling of life. )

T1 Christ is the life-giving Spirit in our spirit. (Rom. 8:2)

(Please illustrate that we abide in Christ so that He may abide in us by “switching on” the law of the Spirit of life in our spirit with experience.)

T2 Abiding in the Lord’s constant and written word (John 5:39-40; 6:63)

(Please illustrate that we abide in Christ so that He may abide in us by dealing with the constant word in the Scriptures, which is outside of us, and the present word as the Spirit, which is within us. )