Meeting God’s Need and Present Needs
in the Lord’s Recovery
Message Eight
Taking, Experiencing, and Enjoying Christ
as Our King, Our Lord, Our Head, and Our Husband
for the Building Up of the Body of Christ
to Consummate the New Jerusalem
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
2 Cor. 14-15 For the love of Christ constrains us because we have judged this, that One died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all that those who live may no longer live to themselves but to Him who died for them and has been raised.
Col. 2:19 And…holding the Head, out from whom all the Body, being richly supplied and knit together by means of the joints and sinews, grows with the growth of God.
Word of Appetizer
What’s the significance of our taking, experiencing, and enjoying Christ as our Lord?
We must be people who live to the Lord, not merely for the Lord; the love of Christ constrains us to live to the Lord; to live to the Lord means that we are absolutely under the Lord’s control, direction, and governing and that we want to fulfill His requirements, satisfy His desires, and complete what He intends.
Because we have been bought with the price of the precious blood of Christ, “we are the Lord’s” , and we should continually exalt Him as Lord, giving Him the first place in our life and in our work; we are those who labor in the Lord for the work of the Lord, which is the work of the ministry to build up the organic Body of Christ.
Spiritual Burden
Taking, experiencing, and enjoying Christ as our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband is for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem.
The believers participate in Christ’s heading up by being willing to be headed up in the church life, by growing in life, and by living under Christ’s light; we must build up the habit of continually exercising our spirit by praying in the Holy Spirit to keep ourselves in the love of God (the Father), awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Son at His second coming) unto eternal life (to become the totality of the eternal life—the New Jerusalem).
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
We must take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our King; the highest point in our spiritual experience is having a clear sky with the throne above it.
We must take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our Lord; we must be people who live to the Lord.
Taking, experiencing, and enjoying Christ as our King, our Lord, our Head, and our Husband is for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem.
The Experience of Life
Our being headed up in Christ rescues us from the heap of the universal collapse in death and darkness, which was caused by the rebellion of the angels and the rebellion of man; the divine power, which includes all that the Triune God has passed through, has been installed into us once for all and is being transmitted into us continually, causing us to enjoy Christ richly and to have the proper church life with the reality of the Body of Christ; God is able to do superabundantly above all that we ask or think concerning the church as the Body of Christ, according to this fourfold power that operates in us, so that God is glorified in the church.
Practice and Application
We must take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our King; in everything we are completely submissive to God’s authority and administration.
We must be people who live to the Lord, we are absolutely under the Lord’s control, direction, and governing and that we want to fulfill His requirements, satisfy His desires, and complete what He intends.
We must take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our Husband; we must contact the Lord and spend time with Him privately in a secret, definite, and prevailing way, opening our entire being to Him for His enlightening and infusing, so that we can glow with God and shine forth God.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1: As Christians, we need to have a conscience that is without offense (Ezek. 1:22; Acts 24:16).
(What should we do whenever there is condemnation on our conscience?)
T2: To take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our king (Ezek. 1:22, 26-28).
(Please explain that the highest point in our spiritual experience is having a clear sky with the throne above it.)
Day 2
T1: To take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our Lord (2 Cor. 5:14-15).
(Please explain that we must be people who live to the Lord, not merely for the Lord.)
T2: The apostle Paul was constrained by the love of Christ to live to Him (2 Cor. 5:9, 14-15).
(Please explain that Paul sought to please the Lord not by doing a work, but by living to Him in every aspect of his daily life.)
Day 3
T1: In the divine economy Christ occupies the first place, the place of preeminence, in both the old creation and the new creation (Col. 1:18).
(Please explain that He must have the preeminence in the universe, in the church, and in every aspect of our daily living.)
T2: To take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our Head (Col. 2:19).
(What does “to hold the Head” mean?)
Day 4
T1: God gave Christ to be the Head over all things to the church (Eph. 1:10, 22).
(Please explain that the word to implies transmission; it indicates that Christ’s headship is being transmitted to the church.)
T2: In union with Christ, we are participating all the time in all His success in His resurrection and ascension (Eph. 1:19-21).
(Please explain that in union with this transcending Christ, we have surpassed all the negative things.)
Day 5
T1: After we believe in Christ, we have to love Him (S. S. 1:2; Mark 12:30).
(Now that we have received Christ into us, what does God want us to do?)
T2: To take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our Husband (S. S. 1:2-4).
(Please explain that the romance in Song of Songs portrays that our relationship with the Lord must be personal and affectionate.)
Day 6
T1: To take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our Husband (S. S. 1:3-4).
(Please explain that the romance in Song of Songs portrays that our relationship with the Lord must be private.)
T2: To take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our Husband (S. S. 1:4b).
(Please explain that the romance in Song of Songs portrays that our relationship with the Lord must be spiritual.)
