Crystallization-Study of Deuteronomy
Message Six
Life in the Land and the Issue of the Land—the Church as the Temple, the Dwelling Place of God,
and as the City, the Kingdom of God
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Deut. 16:16 Three times a year all your males shall appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He will choose:…And they shall not appear before Jehovah empty-handed.
1 Cor. 14:26 What then, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
Word of Appetizer
How to live a life in the eyes of God that will enable us to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ typified by the good land?
God’s will is for us to enjoy Christ. We must seek to enjoy Christ and experience Him in every situation. We need to live a life of laboring upon Christ, a life of enjoying Christ personally so that we may enjoy Him together collectively for the building up of the Body of Christ as the temple, the house, of the living God.
Spiritual Burden
Day by day and hour by hour we need to enjoy the marvelous, wonderful, immeasurable, unlimited, and all-inclusive riches of Christ as the good land. In order to experience the riches of Christ as the good land, we must live in the person, the presence, the face, of Christ. We need to live a life of laboring upon Christ, a life of enjoying Christ personally so that we may enjoy Him together collectively for the building up of the Body of Christ as the temple, the house, of the living God.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
We need to live a life of laboring upon Christ, a life of enjoying Christ personally so that we may enjoy Him together collectively for the building up of the Body of Christ as the temple, the house, of the living God.
If we want to be overcomers, we need to labor on Christ as our good land, to gain Christ as our enjoyment.
We meet together to have an exhibition of the Christ upon whom we have labored, the Christ whom we have enjoyed and experienced.
Day by day and hour by hour we need to enjoy the marvelous, wonderful, immeasurable, unlimited, and all-inclusive riches of Christ as the good land.
The issue of our enjoyment of the all-inclusive riches of Christ as the good land is the church as the temple, the dwelling place of God, and as the city, the kingdom of God.
The Experience of Life
the good land flowing with milk and honey is Christ Himself as the embodiment of the processed Triune God, given to us as the divine grace for our enjoyment.
In order to possess Christ as the all-inclusive land, we must be governed by His person, His presence. We receive Christ as grace, the reality of the good land, through the breaking and constituting work of the Holy Spirit, whereby our inner being is rebuilt with the Divine Trinity.
Practice and Application
If we want to be overcomers, we need to labor on Christ as our good land, to gain Christ as our enjoyment:
Every morning we must consecrate ourselves sincerely to the Lord for the simple purpose of enjoying and experiencing Him.
Every day we need to spend time to be with the Lord privately and secretly to have intimate fellowship with Him.
We need to enjoy the Lord in the Word every day early in the morning to have a new start of each day.
We need to deal with sins thoroughly so that there is nothing between us and the Lord.
We need to maintain our fellowship with the Lord moment by moment, living a life of prayer.
We need to redeem our time and spend our energy to be saturated and soaked with God’s holy Word.
We should redeem the time to be filled in spirit by rejoicing always, praying unceasingly, and giving thanks in everything.
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View over the Whole Outline
Key Verses (1)
Deut. 16:16 Three times a year all your males shall appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He will choose:…And they shall not appear before Jehovah empty-handed.
1 Cor. 14:26 What then, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
Psa. 119:147-148 I anticipated the dawn and cried out; I hoped in Your words. My eyes anticipated the night watches, that I might muse upon Your word.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
to live a life of laboring upon Christ
I. We need to see how to live a life in the eyes of God that will enable us to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ typified by the good land.
II. We need to live a life of laboring upon Christ, a life of enjoying Christ personally so that we may enjoy Him together collectively for the building up of the Body of Christ as the temple, the house, of the living God; whenever we come to the meetings to worship the Lord, we should not come with our hands empty; we must come with our hands full of the produce of Christ.
III. If we want to be overcomers, we need to labor on Christ as our good land, to gain Christ as our enjoyment:
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- Every morning we must consecrate ourselves sincerely to the Lord.
- Every day we need to spend time to be with the Lord privately and secretly to have intimate fellowship with Him.
- We need to enjoy the Lord in the Word every day early in the morning.
- We need to deal with sins thoroughly, to live a life of prayer, to be saturated and soaked with God’s holy Word and to be filled in spirit.
Key Verses (2)
Deut. 14:22-23 You must give a tenth of all the produce of your seed, which the field brings forth, year by year. And you shall eat before Jehovah your God, in the place where He will choose to cause His name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your fresh oil and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God always.
Exo. 3:8 And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey…
Eph. 3:18 May be full of strength to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth and length and height and depth are.
Having an exhibition of the Christ upon whom we have labored
Day by day and hour by hour enjoying the marvelous, wonderful, immeasurable, unlimited, and all-inclusive riches of Christ as the good land
IV. We meet together to have an exhibition of the Christ upon whom we have labored, the Christ whom we have enjoyed and experienced:
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- The true worship of God by His people is when everyone is full of Christ, radiant with Christ, and exhibiting the Christ upon whom they have labored.
- We should always have something to speak in all the meetings as a freewill offering to God and to the attendants.
V. Day by day and hour by hour we need to enjoy the marvelous, wonderful, immeasurable, unlimited, and all-inclusive riches of Christ as the good land:
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- the good land flowing with milk and honey is Christ Himself as the embodiment of the processed Triune God, given to us as the divine grace for our enjoyment.
- In order to experience the riches of Christ as the good land, we must live in the person, the presence, the face, of Christ.
Key Verses (3)
Eph. 2:21-22 In whom all the building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit.
Psa. 27:4 One thing I have asked from Jehovah; that do I seek: to dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to inquire in His temple.
46:4-5 There is a river whose streams gladden the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she will not be moved; God helps her at the dawn of the morning.
VI. The issue of our enjoyment of the all-inclusive riches of Christ as the good land is the church as the temple, the dwelling place of God, and as the city, the kingdom of God
- The land with its temple and city is the center of God’s plan; the land is Christ Himself, and the temple and the city are the fullness of Christ, the church, which is His Body; the temple is for the expression of God, and the city is for the dominion of God; this fulfills God’s eternal purpose.
- When we enjoy Christ personally in our daily life for our collective enjoyment of Him in our meeting life, God is among us, and we are His dwelling place and His kingdom.
- The main aspects of God’s house, His dwelling place for His expression, speak of God’s presence.
- The main aspects of God’s city, His kingdom for His dominion, speak of God’s authority.
- The ultimate issue of our enjoyment of Christ as the land is the divine-human incorporation of the processed Triune God with His regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite people as the eternal dwelling place and kingdom of God.
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
D1
T1 To live a life of laboring upon Christ (Col. 1:12; 2:6-7)
(Please illustrate what kind of life we should live in the good land.)
T2 Whenever we come to the meetings to worship the Lord, we should not come with our hands empty (Deut. 16:15-17)
(Please illustrate with experiences that whenever we come to the meetings, we must come with our hands full of the produce of Christ.)
D2
T1 To gain Christ as our enjoyment (Phil. 3:13-14)
(Please illustrate how should we gain Christ as our enjoyment.)
T2 To have a new start is not hard. It is so easy (Psa. 119:147-148)
(Please illustrate with experiences that we need to enjoy the Lord in the Word every day early in the morning to have a new start of each day.)
D3
T1 We meet together to have an exhibition of the Christ upon whom we have labored, the Christ whom we have enjoyed and experienced (Deut. 14:22-23)
(Please illustrate the purpose that we meet together.)
T2 Day by day enjoying the unlimited, and all-inclusive riches of Christ as the good land (Eph. 3:8)
(Please illustrate with experiences that how can we enjoying the unlimited, and all-inclusive riches of Christ as the good land day by day.)
D4
T1 Christ is a good and spacious land, whose dimensions are the breadth, the length, the height, and the depth (Exo. 3:8; Eph. 3:18)
(Please illustrate that our experience of Christ must become three-dimensional, like a cube.)
T2 In order to experience Christ in His universal dimensions, we need the church life (Col. 1:16-17)
(Please illustrate that in order to experience Christ in His universal dimensions, we need to experience Christ with all the members of the Body.)
D5
T1 The land with its temple and city is the center of God’s plan (Eph. 2:21-22)
(Please illustrate the issue of our enjoyment of the all-inclusive riches of Christ as the good land.)
T2 We not only need Christ as our enjoyment but also Christ as the authority of God (Eph. 5:18, 21; 1 Pet. 5:5)
(Please illustrate that by the authority of Christ the church is not only God’s home but also His kingdom.)
D6
T1 The house is for the expression of God, and the city is for the dominion of God (Psa. 27:4; 46:4-5; Gen. 1:26)
(Please illustrate that the house and the city of God fulfill the purpose of God in the creation of man as expressed in Genesis 1:26.)
T2 The main aspects of the house speak of God’s presence, whereas the principal aspects of the city bespeak God’s authority (Psa. 27:4; 46:4-5)
(Please illustrate that the ultimate issue of our enjoyment of Christ as the land.)
