Crystallization-Study of 1 and 2 Samuel
Message Eight
The Seed of David Becoming the Son 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:
2 Sam. 7:12、14 When your days are fulfilled and you sleep with your fathers, I will raise up your seed after you, which will come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom…I will be his Father, and he will be My son…
Rom. 1:3-4 Concerning His Son, who came out of the seed of David according to the flesh, who was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness out of the resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Word of Appetizer
The Pharisees said that the Christ was David’s son, and the Lord asked them how David could call the Christ Lord when the Christ was his son?
Christ can be known by us only in our spirit through God’s revelation. Christ is God; in His divinity He is the Lord of David; Christ is also a man; in His humanity He is the son of David. How wonderful Christ is! He is both God and man, both the Son of God and the Son of David. We need to worship Him, take Him in, enjoy Him, and experience Him as the wonderful One.
Spiritual Burden
Through His incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection, Christ, who was already the Son of God, became the Son of God in a new way— the firstborn Son—designated as the Son of God with humanity; in Romans 1:3-4 Christ, the Son of God, is the prototype, whereas in 8:29 the many brothers are those who have been “mass-produced” from the prototype and, by being saved in life, will be conformed to the image of the firstborn Son.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
“I will raise up your seed after you…I will be his Father, and he will be My son”.
In Acts 13 Paul said that from David’s seed “God, according to promise, brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus” (v. 23), and that “God has fully fulfilled this promise…in raising up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘You are My Son; this day have I begotten You'”.
We need to know Christ in His resurrection designated as the Son of God in power with His human nature.
The Experience of Life
When Christ was resurrected from the dead, we, all the believers, were resurrected with Him (1 Pet. 1:3). Through His resurrection He was born to be God’s firstborn Son, and at the same time all His believers were born to be the many sons of God. As the firstborn Son of God, He has both divinity and humanity, and we His believers as God’s many sons also possess both the human nature and the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4). Now day by day we are being conformed to the image of God’s firstborn Son.
Practice and Application
We need to know Christ in His resurrection designated as the Son of God in power with His human nature.
To be saved from our self-likeness, from the expression of the self, we need conformation for glorification. In Romans 1:3-4 Christ, the Son of God, is the prototype, whereas in 8:29 the many brothers are those who have been “mass-produced” from the prototype and, by being saved in life, will be conformed to the image of the firstborn Son. As believers in the Lord Jesus, we also have the divine essence of holiness, which is the Spirit of holiness, the very Christ, in our spirit. Because this holy essence is still concealed within our humanity, we need to pass through a process under God’s sovereign arrangement that will enable this essence to saturate our entire being.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 David’s seed is actually Christ as God’s firstborn Son, who has both divinity and humanity (2 Sam. 7:12, 14; Heb. 1:5)
(Please illustrate that according to the scriptures, a son of man, can become the Son of God.)
T2 Christ is only known by us in our spirit through God’s revelation (Eph. 3:5; Matt. 22:41-42)
(Please illustrate that the Pharisees had only half the scriptural knowledge concerning Christ’s Person.)
Day 2
T1 Christ is the Root of David and the Offspring of David (Matt. 22:42-43, 45; Rev. 22:16)
(Please illustrate that according to the scriptures, Christ Himself acknowledged that He is man as well as God.)
T2 The Lord’s resurrection was His birth (Acts 13:33)
(Please illustrate that Christ’s resurrection was His birth as the firstborn Son of God.)
Day 3
T1 The date of our regeneration was the date of Christ’s resurrection (Heb. 1:6; 1 Pet. 1:3)
(Please illustrate that through His resurrection He was born to be God’s firstborn Son, and at the same time all His believers were born to be the many sons of God.)
T2 Christ is God’s only begotten Son and God’s firstborn Son (John 1:14; Heb. 1:6; Rom. 8:29)
(Please illustrate that why Christ is both God’s only begotten Son and God’s firstborn Son.)
Day 4
T1 As the designated Son of God, Christ has two natures, both that of divinity and that of humanity (Rom 1:3-4; Matt. 16:16)
(Please illustrate that without heavenly revelation, no one could know that Christ is the Son of the living God.)
T2 His resurrection was His designation as the Son of God (Rom. 1:4)
(Please illustrate the reason that Christ’s resurrection is different from the resurrection of Lazarus and others.)
Day 5
T1 When Christ became a man and thereby put on humanity, He did not give up His divinity (Rom 1:3-4)
(Please illustrate that according to His humanity, He was the flesh. According to His divinity, He was the Spirit.)
T2 Christ as the Son of God with both divinity and humanity (Rom 1:3-4)
(Please illustrate that like the Lord Jesus, we also have two natures, the human nature and the divine nature.)
Day 6
T1 In Romans 1:3-4 has the prototype, whereas in 8:29 has the “mass-produced” work (Rom 1:4; 8:29)
(Please illustrate that why we need to connect Romans 1:3-4 and 8:29.)
T2 David’s seed became the Son of God (2 Sam. 7:12, 14)
(Please illustrate that God’s intention is to make Himself us that we may become Him in life, in nature, and in constitution but not in the Godhead.)
