An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth
of the Lord’s Recovery before His Appearing
Message Four
Blending and the Reality of the Body of Christ
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
1 Cor. 12:24 …But God has blended the body together, giving more abundant honor to the member that lacked.
1 Cor. 10:17 Seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one Body; for we all partake of the one bread.
John 12:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Word of Appetizer
Please explain what blending is and what is the purpose of the blending?
“God has blended the body together”; the word blended means “adjusted,” “harmonized,” “tempered,” and “mingled,” implying the losing of distinctions. To be blended means that we are touched by others and that we are touching others by going through the cross, doing things by the Spirit, and doing everything to dispense Christ for His Body’s sake.
The purpose of the blending is to usher us all into the reality of the Body of Christ. The significance of our blending is the reality of the Body of Christ. The reality of the Body of Christ is the mingling living in the eternal union of the regenerated, transformed, conformed, and glorified tripartite God-men with the Triune God in the resurrection of Christ.
Spiritual Burden
The highest peak of the Lord’s recovery that can really, practically, and actually carry out God’s economy is for God to produce not many local churches in a physical way but an organic Body to be His organism. The purpose of the blending is to usher us all into the reality of the Body of Christ. The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the perfected God-men, who are genuine men but are not living by their life but by the life of the processed and consummated Triune God, whose attributes have been expressed through their virtues.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
“God has blended the body together”; the word blended means “adjusted,” “harmonized,” “tempered,” and “mingled,” implying the losing of distinctions.
John 12:24 and 1 Corinthians 10:17a portray and reveal the necessity and the significance of blending.
The purpose of the blending is to usher us all into the reality of the Body of Christ.
The highest peak in God’s economy is the reality of the Body of Christ.
The Experience of Life
The reality of the Body of Christ is the mingling living in the eternal union of the regenerated, transformed, conformed, and glorified tripartite God-men with the Triune God in the resurrection of Christ. . This mingling is a corporate living of the conformity to the death of Christ in the power of the resurrection of Christ. Such a mingling living is in the resurrection of Christ, and the reality of the resurrection is the Spirit; this resurrection imparts the consummated Triune God and releases the death-overcoming life into the believers.
Practice and Application
Blending means that we should always stop in order to have fellowship with others. We should not do anything without fellowshipping with the other saints who are coordinating with us, because fellowship adjusts us, harmonizes us, tempers us, and mingles us.
We should not remain as whole grains; we have to be broken and ground into fine flour so that we can be blended with others for making a loaf; this loaf is the Body of Christ.
Perfected God-men are those who have been matured by continually exercising to reject the self and live by another life—the resurrection life of Christ.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 The Greek word for blended implies the losing of distinctions (Matt. 16:24; Gal. 3:5; 1 Cor. 12:24)
(Please illustrate that in order to be harmonized, blended, adjusted, mingled, and tempered in the Body life, we have to go through the cross and be by the Spirit, dispensing Christ to others for the sake of the Body of Christ.）
T2 Fellowship tempers us, fellowship adjusts us, fellowship harmonizes us, and fellowship mingles us (1 John 1:7)
(Please illustrate with experiences that fellowship requires us to stop when we are about to do something.)
Day 2
T1 A type of the blending (Lev. 2:4)
(Please illustrate that the meal offering in Leviticus 2 consisted of cakes made of fine flour mingled with oil.）
T2 The meal offering could be in the form of fine flour mingled with oil or in the form of a cake (Lev. 2:1-2, 4)
(Please illustrate that Leviticus 2 reveals that we may enjoy the church life as a corporate meal offering.)
Day 3
T1 The purpose of the blending (1 Cor. 1:2; Eph. 1:23)
(Please illustrate that the purpose of the blending is to usher us all into the reality of the Body of Christ.）
T2 The regular procedures of the church work consist of four steps: begetting, nourishing, teaching (perfecting), and building (Eph. 4:12b, 16)
(Please illustrate that the steps of begetting, nourishing, and perfecting are all for another higher step, that is, for the building up of the Body of Christ.)
Day 4
T1 The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the perfected God-men (2 Cor. 13:9; Eph. 4:12)
(Please illustrate that they are not living by their life but by the life of the processed God.）
T2 Jesus was a genuine man, but He lived not by man’s life but by God’s life (Matt. 16:24; Phil. 3:10)
(Please illustrate that His dying to His natural life is the cross, and His living by the divine life is in resurrection.)
Day 5
T1 The God-man living is a living of being conformed to the death of Christ through the cross (Phil. 3:10; John 11:25)
(Please illustrate that only such a living can live out the reality of the Body of Christ.）
T2 The reality of the Body of Christ (Eph. 1:23; Eph. 4:16)
(Please illustrate that the reality of the Body of Christ…is the mingling living in the eternal union of the regenerated, transformed, glorified tripartite God-men with the Triune God in the resurrection of Christ.)
Day 6
T1 The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the perfected God-men (Rev. 21:10-11)
(Please illustrate that the God-men who were perfected and matured are Zion, the overcomers, the vital groups within the churches.）
T2 God’s intention is to make Himself man that man may become Him (Rev. 21:10-11)
(Please illustrate that the holy city, Jerusalem, is the aggregate of all the visions and revelations. It is a constitution of the Triune God with the tripartite man.)
