Taking the Way of Enjoying Christ As the Tree of Life
Message One
Taking the Way of Enjoying Christ
As the Tree of Life For the Accomplishing
of God’s Eternal Economy
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Gen. 2:8-9 And Jehovah God planted a garden…and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground Jehovah God caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, as well as the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Rom. 8:6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.
Word of Appetizer
What does the tree of life signify? What is the unique way for us to be overcomers?
The tree of life signifies Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God, as life to man in the form of food for man to enjoy Him and be constituted with Him for His glory, His corporate expression, thus accomplishing God’s original intention according to His eternal economy.
The unique way for us to be overcomers is by eating and enjoying Christ as the tree of life so that we can be transformed in life to become the man-child for the display of Christ’s victory and for us to become the bride for Christ’s satisfaction.
Spiritual Burden
We must stay on the way of life, the line of life, in the maintenance of life by enjoying Christ as the tree of life for God’s building in life by our growth in life.
We stay on the way of life by living and serving according to the principle of life, not according to the principle of right and wrong; the standard for Christian living is the presence of the indwelling Christ within us; it is not a question of what is right or wrong but of whether or not the divine life within us agrees with something.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
In Genesis 2 we see two choices before man—the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
We must stay on the way of life, the line of life, in the maintenance of life by enjoying Christ as the tree of life for God’s building in life by our growth in life.
The unique way for us to be overcomers is by eating and enjoying Christ as the tree of life so that we can be transformed in life to become the man-child for the display of Christ’s victory and for us to become the bride for Christ’s satisfaction.
The Experience of Life
God wanted man to receive Him as life by the way of eating. Eating is the unique way to receive nourishment organically. Eating is the unique way, and God is the unique food to man. To receive God by eating Him is to have God assimilated into our being metabolically. His new element replaces what we are, and our old element is discharged.
Eating indicates dependence; that God is our food, signified by the tree of life, means that we must depend on God continually. We must come to Him in order to feed on Him again and again.
Practice and Application
We stay on the way of life by living and serving according to the principle of life, not according to the principle of right and wrong.
We stay on the way of life by eating Jesus through pray-reading the Word, musing on the word, and ministering the word as the Spirit into others by the exercise of our spirit of faith. We must enjoy Him in the Word early in the morning to have a new start of each day, and we must receive His word with much and careful consideration.
We must “switch on” the law of the Spirit of life by walking according to the spirit and setting our mind on the spirit for the dispensing of the Triune God as life into our tripartite being.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 He presented Himself to people, but always respected their freedom of choice (Gen. 2:8-9)
(Please illustrate that why although God wanted man to eat of the tree of life, He did not force him to do it.)
T2 In Genesis 2 we find two sources signified by two trees (Gen. 2:9)
(Please illustrate that the tree of life denoting God as the source of life, and the tree of knowledge signifying Satan as the source of death.)
Day 2
T1 The tree of the knowledge of good and evil signifies Satan as the
source of death to man (Gen. 2:16-17; Heb. 2:14)
(Please illustrate that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil firstly signifies everything apart from God and then it signifies Satan indirectly.)
T2 The things apart from God fall into three categories: knowledge, good, and evil (Gen. 2:16-17; Heb. 2:14)
(Please illustrate with examples that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil signifies all things apart from God.)
Day 3
T1 At the beginning of the Bible we find death and life, and at the end of the Bible we again see death and life (Rev. 20:10; 22:2)
(Please illustrate that death begins with the tree of knowledge of good and evil and ends with the lake of fire. Life begins with the tree of life and ends at the New Jerusalem.)
T2 The tree of life issues in a dependent life; the tree of knowledge issues in a kind of independent life (John 15:5)
(Please illustrate that the divine life makes us dependent, and the satanic life makes us independent.)
Day 4
T1 The principle of the tree of life and the principle of the tree of knowledge of good and evil(Gen. 2:9)
(Please illustrate with examples that in the Old Testament we can see the two lines of the tree of life and the tree of knowledge.)
T2 In the New Testament we see the same two lines of the tree of life and the tree of knowledge (John 10:10; Rev. 22:1-2)
(Please illustrate with examples that in the New Testament we can see the two lines of the tree of life and the tree of knowledge. )
Day 5
T1 We stay on the way of life by loving the Lord to the uttermost (Mark 12:30; S. S. 1:4a)
(Please illustrate with experiences that to enjoy Christ as the tree of life, we must tell Him all the time, “Lord Jesus, I love You”.)
T2 To enjoy the Lord in the Word early in the morning to have a new
start of each day (John 6:63; Psa. 119:147-148)
(Please illustrate that we stay on the way of life by eating Jesus through pray-reading the Word, musing on the word.)
Day 6
T1 Every genuine Christian is a miniature garden of Eden (Rom. 8:2, 6)
(Please illustrate that in Genesis 2 the two trees were objective; in Romans 8 they are subjective.)
T2 We stay on the way of life by living in resurrection (Eph. 1:22-23; Rev. 1:11-12)
(Please illustrate that resurrection is life that overcomes death without being damaged or injured by death.)
