Vital Factors for the Recovery of the Church Life
Message Two
The Factor of Closely Following the Completed Vision
of the Age through the Ministry of the Age
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Rev. 22:2 And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street. And on this side and on that side of the river was the tree of life…
2 Cor. 3:8-9 How shall the ministry of the Spirit not be more in glory? For if there is glory with the ministry of condemnation, much more the ministry of righteousness abounds with glory.
Word of Appetizer
In every age there is the vision of that age, we need to serve God according to the vision of that age, what is the completed vision of the age?
The vision that the Lord has given to us in His present recovery is the all-inclusive vision of God’s eternal economy with its ultimate consummation—the vision of the New Jerusalem.
The governing vision of the Bible is the heavenly vision of God’s eternal economy, which is God’s eternal intention with His heart’s desire to dispense Himself in His Divine Trinity as the Father in the Son by the Spirit into His chosen people to be their life and nature that they may be the same as He is as His duplication, to become an organism, the Body of Christ as the new man for God’s fullness, God’s expression, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem.
Spiritual Burden
The vision that the Lord has given to us in His present recovery is the all-inclusive vision of God’s eternal economy with its ultimate consummation—the vision of the New Jerusalem.
To live out and work out the New Jerusalem is to live out and work out God’s complete salvation according to the intrinsic essence and totality of the unique New Testament ministry, the ministry of the age, for the reality of the Body of Christ and a new revival.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
In every age there is the vision of that age, and since we have the completed vision of the age through the ministry of the age, we need to serve God according to this vision and closely follow it.
The vision that the Lord has given to us in His present recovery is the all-inclusive vision of God’s eternal economy with its ultimate consummation—the vision of the New Jerusalem.
The Lord’s recovery brings us back to the unique ministry of the New Testament; this ministry has the following characteristics: It ministers the healthy teaching of God’s economy and wars the good warfare; it produces the local churches as the golden lampstands to be the testimony of Jesus; it prepares the overcomers to be Christ’s bride; it dispenses Christ as grace, truth, life, and the Spirit into us; it sanctifies us through the word of the truth and the washing of the water in the word; it brings us into a new revival of living out the New Jerusalem and working out the New Jerusalem.
The Experience of Life
As we experience each section of God’s organic salvation, we go up level by level until we become beings in the New Jerusalem.
We are regenerated by participating in God’s life to become God’s children; we are sanctified by participating in God’s nature; we are renewed by participating in God’s mind; we are transformed by participating in God’s being; we are conformed to the image of the firstborn Son of God by participating in God’s image; we are glorified by participating in God’s glory.
Practice and Application
Our living out the New Jerusalem is for us to become the New Jerusalem, and our working out the New Jerusalem is for us to build the New Jerusalem by the flowing Triune God; to live out and work out the New Jerusalem is to live out and work out God’s complete salvation according to the intrinsic essence and totality of the unique New Testament ministry, the ministry of the age, for the reality of the Body of Christ and a new revival.
All of us functions to practice the God-ordained way and leads us to follow the Lamb wherever He may go for the preaching of the gospel of the kingdom to the whole inhabited earth.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1: Serving God according to this vision and closely follow it (Acts 26:19)
(Please illustrate what the governing vision of the Bible is.)
T2: Paul’s vision was profound (Eph. 1:17; Gal. 1:16)
(Please illustrate that the vision Saul saw on the way to Damascus was more advanced than the one Peter saw.)
Day 2
T1: The all-inclusive vision of God’s eternal economy with its ultimate consummation (Prov. 29:18a; Acts 26:18-19)
(Please illustrate that the New Jerusalem is the total composition of the entire revelation of the Bible.)
T2: Every believer should be “a little New Jerusalem” (Rev. 21:3, 22-23)
(Please illustrate that whatever is ascribed to the New Jerusalem should be both our corporate and personal experience.)
Day 3
T1: We should only do the work of the New Jerusalem (John 3:15; Rom. 8:30; Rev. 21:11)
(Please illustrate what is the meaning that “we should do only one work, which is to do the work of the New Jerusalem”.)
T2: Experiencing God’s organic salvation (John 3:15; Rom. 8:30; Rev. 21:11)
(Please illustrate the six sections of God’s organic salvation.)
Day 4
T1: The ministry of the new covenant is the ministry of the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:6)
(Please illustrate that the new covenant ministry does more than merely teach us; it inscribes us with the Spirit of the living God as an essence.)
T2: The ministry of righteousness is the ministry of Christ (2 Cor. 3:8-9; Rev. 19:8)
(What is “subjective righteousness”?)
Day 5
T1: The believers in Corinth had not been fully reconciled to God (2 Cor. 5:18-21)
(Please illustrate the reason that the believers in Corinth had already been reconciled to God partially. However, they had not been fully reconciled to Him.)
T2: There are two steps for people to be fully reconciled to God (2 Cor. 5:18-21)
(Please illustrate the two steps for people to be fully reconciled to God.)
Day 6
T1: Dear Lord Jesus is our unique Husband, and I am part of His virgin (2 Cor. 11:2)
(Please illustrate the genuine ministry stirs up our love for the Lord Jesus as our Bridegroom.)
T2: the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready (Rev. 19:7)
(Please illustrate that the bride of Christ is actually the group of overcomers.)
