Crystallization-Study of First and Second Kings
Message Twelve
Living an Overcoming Life by Reigning in Life
to Become the New Jerusalem as the City 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:
Rom. 5:17 For if, by the offense of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
Rev. 19:7 Let us rejoice and exult, and let us give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.
Word of Appetizer
How can we reign in life to be the Lord’s overcomers?
In order for us to reign in life to be the Lord’s overcomers, we need：
- to see that we have been regenerated with a divine, spiritual, heavenly, kingly, and royal life.
- In experience, to reign in life means to be under the ruling of the divine life.
- Deuteronomy reveals that a proper king first had to be instructed, governed, ruled, and controlled by the word of God.
- To be under the rulership of the Spirit; the record of Joseph’s life is a revelation of the rulership of the Spirit, for the rulership of the Spirit is the reigning aspect of a mature saint; it is a life of reigning in life, being under the restriction and limitation of the divine life in the reality of God’s kingdom.
Spiritual Burden
The overcomers in the New Testament should be kings who have received the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness to reign in life; in order to reign in life, we need to be under the rulership of the Spirit, and we need to enjoy the presence of the Lord, which includes the Lord’s authority, prosperity, and blessing.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The genuine Christian life is the life of an overcomer, and all the overcomers in the New Testament should be kings who have received the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness to reign in life.
Revelation, the last book of the Bible, is a book concerning the overcomers; those who conquer all the satanic chaos (cf. Col. 1:17b, 18b, 10) and triumph in the divine economy.
In order for us to reign in life to be the Lord’s overcomers, we need to see that we have been regenerated with a divine, spiritual, heavenly, kingly, and royal life.
Deuteronomy reveals that a proper king first had to be instructed, governed, ruled, and controlled by the word of God.
In order to reign in life, we also need to be under the rulership of the Spirit.
When we are reigning in life, we are allowing the indwelling Christ as grace to reign within us “unto eternal life”.
The Experience of Life
In experience, to reign in life means to be under the ruling of the divine life; there is the need for all the believers who have received the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness to practice the restriction and limitation in the divine life; a life under the kingdom’s rule is a life of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit; to live in this way is to serve Christ as a slave, and such a life is well pleasing to God and approved by men.
When we are reigning in life, we are allowing the indwelling Christ as grace to reign within us “unto eternal life”; By enjoying the flowing Triune God—the Father as the fountain of life, the Son as the spring of life, and the Spirit as the river of life—we are receiving the abundance of grace to become the New Jerusalem as the totality of the life of God, the city of life.
Practice and Application
In order to reign in life, we also need to be under the rulership of the Spirit. The rulership of the Spirit is the reigning aspect of a mature saint; it is a life of reigning in life, being under the restriction and limitation of the divine life in the reality of God’s kingdom.
A proper king first had to be instructed, governed, ruled, and controlled by the word of God. through our daily reading of the divine Word, the word of God works within us, and the Spirit, through the word, spontaneously dispenses God’s nature with God’s element into our being, causing us to be constituted with God.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 All the New Testament believers were saved by God to be kings [and priests] (Rev. 5:10; 2 Tim. 2:12)
(Please illustrate that the priests not only the speaking part of His deputy authority but also the ruling part.)
T2 In the New Testament all the believers were saved to be kings, priests, and prophets (Rev. 1:6; Rom. 5:17)
(Please illustrate that all the genuine prophets were overcomers.)
Day 2
T1 Satan always makes trouble, and all the trouble is the chaos (Rev. 2:7)
(Why the Lord needs to call another group of people, the overcomers, who will be one with Him?)
T2 The overcomers are the very way for Christ to come back (Rev. 19:7; John 14:6a)
(Please illustrate that without Christ we do not have a way, without the overcomers Christ has no way.)
Day 3
T1 The kingdom of God is actually God Himself sown into human beings and developing in them into a kingdom (Mark 4:26-29)
(Please illustrate that the kingdom of God is not a matter of teaching, activity, or organization, the kingdom of God is a matter of life.)
T2 The intrinsic element of the entire teaching of the New Testament (Mark 4:26; Acts 2:41; 1 Cor. 3:6)
(Please illustrate that the Triune God has been incarnated in order to be sown into His chosen people and then develop within them into a kingdom.)
Day 4
T1 We must reign in life to live the church life (Rom. 5:17)
(Take the Lord Jesus as an example to illustrate that to reign in life is to be under the ruling of the divine life.)
T2 Paul set up a pattern of living the church life for the living of the Body life (Rom. 15:16, 26; 16:1, 16)
(Please illustrate that how Paul has set up a pattern of living the church life for the living of the Body life.)
Day 5
T1 The record of Joseph’s life is a revelation of the rulership of the Spirit (Gen. 45:5; 50:20)
(Take Joseph as an example, please illustrate that the rulership of the Spirit is the reigning aspect of a matured saint.)
T2 Joseph’s restriction under God’s sovereign hand, was the key to the practice of the kingdom life (Matt. 8:34; Phil. 3:10)
(Please illustrate that Joseph is a living illustration of what is revealed in the New Testament.)
Day 6
T1 The Body of Christ builds itself up in love (Eph. 4:16)
(Please illustrate that when we are all living under the ruling of the divine life, the issue is the real and practical Body life.)
T2 The Father is the fountain as the source, the Son is the spring, the Spirit is the flowing river (John 4:14; Rev. 21:2)
(Please illustrate that this flowing issues in the eternal life, which is the New Jerusalem.)
