Taking the Way of Enjoying Christ As the Tree of Life
Message Six
Becoming a Reproduction of Christ
as the Tree of Life for the Ministry of Life
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
1 John 5:16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask and he will give life to
him…
12 He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
2 Cor. 4:12 So then death operates in us, but life in you.
Word of Appetizer
How do we become a reproduction of Christ as the tree of life?
God’s intention is that all the believers in Christ become a reproduction of Christ, the God-man. Becoming a reproduction of Christ requires that we be reborn of the pneumatic Christ in our spirit and then be gradually transformed by the pneumatic Christ in our soul. We become Christ’s reproduction by a process that involves the riches of the divine life being dispensed into us and experienced by us. In order to become a reproduction of Christ as our model, we need to experience Christ as the One living in us, being formed in us, and making His home in our hearts. As we become a reproduction of Christ, spontaneously we will live Christ by the bountiful supply of His Spirit.
Spiritual Burden
In God’s economy we are not only eaters of the tree of life, but we are also branches of this tree, and we may eventually become a small tree of life, a reproduction of Christ as the tree of life.
As a reproduction of Christ as the tree of life, we have the ministry of life. To minister life is to have the outflow of life; our service is God’s flowing out to supply others with the divine life. As a reproduction of Christ as the tree of life, we need to experience eternal life and minister this life to others by being a channel through which eternal life can flow.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
In God’s economy we are not only eaters of the tree of life, but we are also branches of this tree, and we may eventually become a small tree of life, a reproduction of Christ as the tree of life.
As a reproduction of Christ as the tree of life, we have the ministry of life. To minister life is to have the outflow of life; our service is God’s flowing out to supply others with the divine life.
The Experience of Life
If we want the divine life to be released from within us, we must be subdued in our soul and let our spirit dominate and rule over every matter; then the Lord’s life will be able to flow out.
If we are one with the smitten Christ, we will experience the crucifixion of our natural life, and then as Christ’s divine life flowed out as living water through the smiting of His human life, we also will experience the flow of the water of life through the smiting of our natural life.
Practice and Application
In order to minister life to others, we need to be joined to Christ, abide in Christ, and give Him the ground in us to fill us so that His life, nature, likes, and inclination become our life, nature, likes, and inclination.
As a reproduction of Christ as the tree of life, we need to experience eternal life and minister this life to others by being a channel through which eternal life can flow.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 Each of us to be a small tree of life (Mark 4:3; 1 Cor. 3:6)
(Please illustrate that we need to be sowers and planters, sowing and planting Christ into many vacant sinners.)
T2 What we need is not imitation, but reproduction (1 Pet. 2:21; Gal. 4:19)
(Please illustrate that as we enjoy Christ day by day, we are undergoing the process of spiritual reproduction.)
Day 2
T1 To minister life to others (1 John 5:11-12, 16)
(Please illustrate that we do not need a rebuke but more of Him imparted into us.)
T2 This life which we need to minister to others is simply God Himself (1 John 5:11-12, 16)
(Please illustrate that to be of help, we must first check whether we have life.)
Day 3
T1 All service should be the supply of life (John 1:25; 2 Cor. 4:12)
(Please illustrate that although we are doing things, the focus is not on the success of things, but on ministering life.)
T2 The life of God is in the Holy Spirit, so the Holy Spirit becomes the Spirit of life (1 Cor. 6:17; Rom. 8:2, 4)
(Please illustrate that how can we minister life to others.)
Day 4
T1 Our service is God’s flowing out to supply others with the divine life (2 Cor. 4:16, 12)
(Please illustrate with experiences that the more we are broken, the more the life of God will flow out of us.)
T2 In order for life to be released from our spirit, man’s soul and body must be dealt with and broken (2 Cor. 4:16, 12)
(Please illustrate that What does it mean when a person’s soul is broken.)
Day 5
T1 Our work is to be put to death (2 Cor. 4:12)
(Please illustrate that how we can be used to minister life to the body.)
T2 If we would flow the water of life, we also need to be identified with the smitten Christ (Exo. 17:6, John 7:38)
(Please illustrate that when our natural life has been smitten will the divine life flow out from us.)
Day 6
T1 All of God is characterized by life, all of Satan by death (Matt. 16:18)
(Please illustrate that the attack upon the church come from “the gates of Hades”.)
T2 Eternal life overcomes death within us (1 John 5:14-17)
(Please illustrate that we who have eternal life can pass this life on to others.)
