Knowing, Experiencing, and Living the All-inclusive Christ for the Genuine Church Life
Message Two
Enjoying Christ as the Reality of the Meal Offering to Have a Meal-offering Christian Life and a Meal-offering Church Life,
Consummating in the New Jerusalem as a Great Meal Offering—
the Ultimate Consummation of the Mingling of the Triune God with the Tripartite Man
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Lev. 2:1, 11 And when anyone presents an offering of a meal offering to Jehovah, his offering shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it. No meal offering that you present to Jehovah shall be made with leaven, for you shall not burn any leaven or any honey as an offering by fire to Jehovah.
John 6:57 As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.
Word of Appetizer
How should we have a meal-offering christian life and a meal-offering church life?
Enjoying Christ as the reality of the meal offering to have a meal-offering christian life and a meal-offering church life; The life Christ lived on earth was a life without leaven and without honey, and we should live the same kind of life today. We need to have the four positive elements — fine flour, oil, frankincense, and salt — but not the two negative elements — leaven and honey. If this is our situation, we will be a proper meal offering, an offering composed of humanity oiled with divinity in resurrection through Christ’s death and without leaven and honey. This kind of life is food to satisfy God and also to nourish us as God’s serving ones.
Spiritual Burden
We need to enjoy Christ as our meal offering day by day for our priestly diet so that He can live again on the earth through us in His divinely enriched humanity; if we eat Christ as the meal offering, we will become what we eat and live by what we eat.
God desires that every local church be a meal offering to satisfy Him and fully supply the saints day by day; this means that we will eat our church life, for the church life will be our daily supply.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The meal offering typifies Christ in His God-man living.
The meal offering typifies our Christian life as a duplication of Christ’s God-man living.
Christ’s life and our individual Christian life issue in a totality—the church life as a corporate meal offering.
As the mingling of the Triune God with the tripartite man, the New Jerusalem will be a great meal offering, the ultimate consummation of the mingling of the Triune God with the tripartite man.
The Experience of Life
By exercising our spirit to touch the Spirit consolidated in the Word, we eat the human life and living of Jesus, we are constituted with Jesus, and the human living of Jesus becomes our human living.
Such a life is a life of humanity mingled with the Holy Spirit and that has the Holy Spirit poured upon it, a life with salt and frankincense, but with no leaven or honey; both forms of the meal offering—the individual Christ and the corporate Christ, the church life—are food for God’s satisfaction and our nourishment.
Practice and Application
We need to enjoy Christ as our meal offering day by day for our priestly diet so that He can live again on the earth through us in His divinely enriched humanity; if we eat Christ as the meal offering, we will become what we eat and live by what we eat.
In order to be blended in the Body life, the meal-offering church life, we have to go through the cross and do everything by the Spirit, dispensing Christ to one another for the building up of the Body of Christ.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 Fine flour, the main element of the meal offering (Lev. 2:1; John 18:38)
(Please illustrate that fine flour signifies Christ’s humanity, which is fine, perfect, tender, balanced, and right in every way, with no excess and no deficiency.)
T2 The mingling of fine flour with the oil in the meal offering signifies that Christ’s humanity is mingled with the Holy Spirit (Lev. 2:4-5; Luke 4:1)
(Please illustrate that Christ is both the complete God and the perfect man, possessing the divine nature and the human nature distinctly, without a third nature being produced.)
Day 2
T1 The frankincense in the meal offering signifies the fragrance of Christ in His resurrection (Matt. 11:20-30; Luke 1:21)
(Please illustrate the frankincense signifies that Christ’s humanity bears the aroma of His resurrection manifested out from His sufferings.)
T2 The meal offering is to have neither leaven nor honey (Lev. 2:11; Luke 12:1)
(Please illustrate which four elements are included in the meal offering and which two other elements are specifically excludes.)
Day 3
T1 Living the same kind of life Christ lived (John 6:57; Phil. 1:21)
(Please illustrate that our Christian life should be a duplication, a xerox copy, of Christ’s life.)
T2 The meal offering is mainly for us (Lev. 2:3)
(Please illustrate the meal offering has only a handful as a memorial is for God; all the remainder, the major part, is for the priests)
Day 4
T1 The meal offering may be in the form of flour mingled with oil, or it may be in the form of a cake (1 Cor. 12:12; 1:17)
(Please illustrate what the flour meal offering and the cake meal offering signify.)
T2 For the church life we need to be very human (1 Cor. 12:12; 1:17)
(Please illustrate this humanity should not be separate from the Holy Spirit; rather, it should be a humanity which is mingled with the Holy Spirit and which has the Holy Spirit poured upon it.)
Day 5
T1 1 Corinthians presents the meal-offering church life (1) (1 (1 Cor. 16:13; 2:4)
(Please illustrate that in the book of 1 Corinthians, we can see the genuine fine flour.)
T2 The book of 1 Corinthians presents the meal-offering church life (2) (1 Cor. 15:58; 2:2)
(Please illustrate in 1 Corinthians we also have the frankincense and the salt, that is, Christ in resurrection and the crucified Christ.)
Day 6
T1 The New Jerusalem is the ultimate consummation of the mingling of the Triune God with man (Lev. 2:4; 2 Cor. 13:14)
(Please illustrate that the entire New Jerusalem will be the fine flour mingled with the oil.)
T2 Twelve is the number of absolute perfection and eternal completion in God’s administration (Rev. 21:12, 14)
(Why twelve is the number of the New Jerusalem?)
