Knowing, Experiencing, and Living the All-inclusive Christ for the Genuine Church Life
Message Three
Taking Christ as Our Person for the Church as the One New Man
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
John 14:10 …The words that I say to you I do not speak from Myself, but the Father who abides in Me does His works.
Gal. 2:20 I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me…
Eph. 4:24 And put on the new man, which was created according to God in righteousness and holiness of the reality.
Word of Appetizer
For the church as the one new man, how should we take Christ as our person?
If we would take Christ as our person, we must see that our regenerated spirit is no longer merely an organ for us to contact God but is our person; we need to deny our former person, our soul, and take Christ in our spirit as our new person. We take Christ as our person by allowing Him to make His home in our heart; When Christ makes His home in our heart, we will take Him as our person in an adequate way; His mind will become our mind, His emotion will become our emotion, and His will will become our will.
Spiritual Burden
We need to take Christ as our person for the church as the one new man; the church, the Body of Christ, is the one new man to accomplish God’s eternal purpose; in the one new man the natural man has no place; we all have no place in the new man, for here Christ is all and in all.
For the practical existence of the one new man, the total person of the old man must be put away, and we must live by our new person, Christ; when we live our daily life by taking Christ as our person, especially in making decisions, our living will be the living of the new man.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
We need to take Christ as our person; this is the highest and richest experience of Christ. God’s intention in His economy is to work Himself into us not only as our life but also as our person.
We need to take Christ as our person for the church as the one new man; for the practical existence of the one new man, the total person of the old man must be put away, and we must live by our new person, Christ.
The Experience of Life
We take Christ as our person by allowing Him to make His home in our heart; when Christ makes His home in our heart, we will take Him as our person in an adequate way; His mind will become our mind, His emotion will become our emotion, and His will will become our will.
Practice and Application
We need to deny our former person, our soul, and take Christ in our spirit as our new person.
We take Christ as our person by allowing Him to make His home in our heart; in order for us to be strengthened into our inner man, we need to call on the name of the Lord, confess our sins, and ask Him to forgive us of our failures and cleanse us with His precious blood.
When we live our daily life by taking Christ as our person, especially in making decisions, our living will be the living of the new man.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 Just as the Lord lived because of the Father by taking the Father as His person, so also we should live because of the Lord by taking Him as our person (John 5:13, 19)
(Please illustrate with Scriptures that when the Lord was on the earth, He did not live by His own person but always took the Father as His person.)
T2 Genuine spirituality is Christ, a living person (John 6:57; 14:10)
(Please illustrate in order for us to be spiritual, we should take Christ as our person.)
Day 2
T1 Man in his created state has two organs: a body and a spirit (Gen. 2:7; Rom. 8:4)
(Please illustrate that man in his created state has a body as his outward organ, a spirit as his inward organ, and a soul as his person.)
T2 We should no longer live by our soul, but by our spirit (2 Cor. 4:16; 1 Pet. 3:4)
(Please illustrate with experiences that which two men living in us after being saved.)
Day 3
T1 Christ desires to make His home in our heart (Eph. 3:17; Phil. 2:5)
(Please illustrate why although Christ is in our spirit, He will not be able to make His home in our heart.)
T2 In order to let Christ settle down in us, we need to be strengthened into our inner man (Eph. 3:17; 1 John 1:7)
(Please illustrate that in order for us to be strengthened into our inner man, we need to call on the name of the Lord, confess our sins, and ask Him to forgive us of our failures and cleanse us with His precious blood.)
Day 4
T1 In all the things in our daily walk, whether great or small, we should check with Christ (Col. 3:4)
(Please illustrate with experiences that how we can practice taking Christ as our person in our daily life.)
T2 The church is not only the Body of Christ but also the new man (Col. 3:10-11)
(Please illustrate that the church as the new man needs Christ not only as its life but also as its person.)
Day 5
T1 The Body is a matter of life, and the new man is a matter of person (Eph. 4:24)
(Please illustrate that the Body is for moving; the new man is for living.)
T2 In our moving we take Christ as our life, and in our living we take Christ as our person (Eph. 4:24)
(Please illustrate the living of the new man has two characteristics: one is righteousness and the other is holiness.)
Day 6
T1 God’s purpose is to have a man to express Him and to exercise His dominion (Eph. 4:24, 13)
(Please illustrate that the old man failed God, but God has raised up a new man to replace the old man.)
T2 Today the Lord wants to gain the one new man on earth (Eph. 4:23-24)
(Please illustrate how the Lord can have the one new man on the earth today. )
