An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth
of the Lord’s Recovery before His Appearing
Message Ten
The God-men’s Divine Right to Participate in God’s Divinity
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
John 3:15 That everyone who believes into Him may have eternal life.
2 Cor. 3:18 But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.
Eph. 1:5 Predestinating us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.
Word of Appetizer
What are the different various aspects of God’s divinity we as God-men, can participate in?
We can participate in God’s life (John 3:15), nature (Eph. 1:4; 2 Pet. 1:4 ), mind (Eph. 4:23, Phil. 2:5), being (2 Cor. 3:18b, Eph. 3:8), image (2 Cor. 3:18, Rom. 8:29), glory (30, Heb. 2:10), sonship (Eph. 1:5; Rom. 8:23), manifestation (19), likeness (1 John 3:2), to be God-man kind, God’s species (John 1:12-13; Rom. 8:14, 16).
Spiritual Burden
We need to realize that, as God-men, we have the divine right to participate in God’s divinity, that is, to participate in God. As God-men, those who have been born of God to be children of God, we have the right to participate in what God is and even to become God in life, nature, and expression but not in the Godhead.
Wherever we may be, we need to remember that we are Godmen with the divine right to participate in God’s divinity.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
We need to realize that, as God-men, we have the divine right to participate in God’s divinity, that is, to participate in God.
We can participate in God’s life (John 3:15), nature (Eph. 1:4; 2 Pet. 1:4 ), mind (Eph. 4:23, Phil. 2:5), being (2 Cor. 3:18b, Eph. 3:8), image (2 Cor. 3:18, Rom. 8:29), glory (30, Heb. 2:10), sonship (Eph. 1:5; Rom. 8:23), manifestation (19), likeness (1 John 3:2), to be God-man kind, God’s species (John 1:12-13; Rom. 8:14, 16).
The Experience of Life
Having chosen us to be holy, God makes us holy by imparting Himself, the Holy One, into our being so that our whole being will be saturated and permeated with His holy nature; Day by day we should partake of God’s nature and enjoy the constituents of His being.
Because we have become God-men through regeneration, we have the right to participate in God’s mind. When the anointing is moving within us, it anoints God into us and reveals God’s mind to us. Christ must saturate our mind from our spirit, making our mind one with His.
Practice and Application
We will be brought into God’s glory to participate in His. As we behold and reflect the glory of the Lord, we are being transformed into the Lord’s image from glory to glory.
Wherever we may be, we need to remember that we are Godmen with the divine right to participate in God’s divinity.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 As God-men, we have the divine right to participate in God’s divinity (John 3:6)
(Please illustrate that we can participate in God’s divinity, that is, participate in God.）
T2 The God-men are those who have been born of God (John 1:12-13; Heb. 2:10)
(Please illustrate that the first qualification of the God-men is that they are born of God to be His many sons.)
Day 2
T1 As the God-men, we have the divine right to participate in God’s life (John 3:15; Col. 3:4)
(Please illustrate that through regeneration we have been graced by God with His divine life.）
T2 As God-men, we also have the divine right to participate in God’s nature (Eph. 1:4; 2 Pet. 1:4)
(Please illustrate that for us, God’s chosen ones, to be holy is to partake of God’s divine nature.)
Day 3
T1 As God-men, we also have the right to participate in God’s mind (Phil. 2:5, 7-8)
(Please illustrate that we, who are human, can have a divine mind.）
T2 The God-men have the divine right to participate in God’s being (2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 3:8)
(Please illustrate that for the unsearchable riches of Christ to be dispensed into us means that we participate in His being.)
Day 4
T1 As God-men, we also have the divine right to participate in God’s image (2 Cor. 3:18)
(Please illustrate that the Lord Spirit is in the process of carrying out a metabolic change in our being,
transforming us into the image of Christ. ）
T2 We will be brought into God’s glory to participate in His glory (Gen. 12:1, 4; Heb. 2:10)
(Please illustrate that God’s glory was a great attraction to Abraham, separating him from the world unto God. God’s glory was also a great encouragement and strength, enabling Abraham to follow God.)
Day 5
T1 Another aspect of the God-men’s divine right is the right to participate in God’s sonship (Rom. 8:23, 19, 21)
(According to Romans 8, what blessings of sonship can be enjoyed by the sons of God.）
T2 Children by regeneration, sons by transformation, and heirs by transfiguration or glorification (Rom. 8:14, 16-17)
(Please illustrate regeneration, transformation, and transfiguration. These together give us full sonship.)
Day 6
T1 The God-men’s divine right to participate in God’s divinity includes the right to bear God’s likeness (1 John 3:2)
(Please illustrate that we will bear God’s likeness.）
T2 The God-men have the divine right to be Godkind—God’s species (John 1:12; Rom. 8:14, 16)
(Please illustrate that we have been regenerated to be Godkind, we are God’s kind, God’s species.)
