Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified
by the Good Land for the Building Up of the Church
as the Body of Christ, for the Reality and
the Manifestation of the Kingdom, and for the Bride
to Make Herself Ready for the Lord’s Coming
Message Eleven
The Surplus of the Produce of the Good Land and
the Corporate Worship of God the Father in Truthfulness
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Three times a year all your males shall appear before Jehovah your God in the place which He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles. And they shall not appear before Jehovah empty-handed; each man shall give as he is able to give, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God, which He has given you. Deut.16:16-17.
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness.—John 4:24.
Word of Appetizer
How do we come to the Lord’s table meeting to remember the Lord and worship the Father?
Whenever we come to the Lord’s table meeting to remember the Lord and worship the Father, we must come with the produce of Christ, which we produce daily by the operation of Christ.
We need to operate the all-inclusive Christ to have the surplus of Christ to bring to the church meetings, and collectively worship our Father God; We should operate Christ daily to have the rich produce of Christ to bring to the church meetings, and collectively worship the Father God; Christ will be magnified and glorified, and the Father will be pleased and satisfied.
Spiritual Burden
The people of Israel put aside a certain portion of their produce from the labor on the good land for the purpose of worshipping God; if we faithfully labor on the all-inclusive Christ, we will have the riches of Christ as the produce to exhibit in the church and have a surplus of Christ to bring to the church meetings for the corporate worship of God in spirit and in truthfulness.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Revelation of the Truth
We use the term “surplus” because the Israelites stored up the produce of their operation in the good land for the purpose of worshipping God.
If we are faithful to operate the all-inclusive Christ, we will have the riches of Christ as the produce to display Christ in the church meetings.
We need to operate the all-inclusive Christ to have the surplus of Christ to bring to the church meetings, and collectively worship our Father God.
According to John 4:23-24, we must worship our Father God in spirit and in truthfulness.
The Experience of Life
The enjoyment of the produce of the good land typifies the enjoyment of the corporate Christ as our worship to God. To worship God with Christ is to worship Him corporately with all the children of God, sharing with one another and enjoying Christ with God.
Reality is the unveiled divine reality—the Triune God dispensed into man in the Son, Jesus Christ—becoming our reality and truthfulness, causing us to live a life according to the divine light (1 John 1:5) and to worship God according to what He is and what He seeks.
Practice and Application
To have proper Christian meetings, we need to contact the Lord daily in our personal life, and then come to the meetings to realize and appreciate that we are there to display Christ and share Christ with others.
We should operate Christ daily to have the rich produce of Christ to bring to the church meetings, and collectively worship the Father God; Christ will be magnified and glorified, and the Father will be pleased and satisfied.
We need to have a sufficient produce of Christ so that we have a surplus to share with others and offer the best part of the produce to the Father God for His enjoyment, pleasure, and satisfaction.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 You shall not appear before Jehovah empty-handed (Deut. 16:16-17)
(Please illustrate that whenever God’s people came to worship God, they were instructed not to come empty-handed; they had to come with their hands full of the abundance of the land’s produce.）
T2 After being brought into Christ, we need to labor in Christ and live by Christ (Deut. 16:16-17)
(Please illustrate that the sunshine, the air, the early rain, and the latter rain are also a grace. However, we still have to till the ground.)
Day 2
T1 All our meetings should be an exhibition, in which we display the various products of Christ (Eph. 3:8)
(Please illustrate that we come together to exhibit Christ, not just the Christ that God has given us, but the Christ that we have experienced.）
T2 In that land, everything is Christ (Eph. 3:8, 10)
(Please illustrate that what kind of life is the life after obtaining the good land.)
Day 3
T1 Laboring on Christ (Deut. 12:11)
(Please illustrate that how we can have something of Christ to offer in all our meetings.)
T2 The best of the surplus must be reserved for the Lord (Deut. 12:11; Eph. 3:18)
(Please illustrate that we cannot just have a little bit of Christ to meet our own needs; we must produce enough of Him so that there is an abundance left for those who are lacking.)
Day 4
T1 Coming to the meetings with the abundance of our experience of Christ (Col. 1:12; 1 Cor. 14:26)
(Please illustrate with experiences that in the meetings, we offer to God the Christ we have experienced, and also share this Christ with each other.）
T2 The church is formed and constituted by the abundance of the genuine experience of Christ (Col. 1:12; 1 Cor. 14:26)
(Please illustrate that we need to become rich by experiencing Christ and enjoying Christ.)
Day 5
T1 To have real worship in reality, we must present Christ to God (John 4:14; 14:6)
(Please illustrate that Christ is the reality of all the offerings in the Old Testament for the worship of God.）
T2 Worshipping God in reality is not only a matter of our meeting life, but also of our daily life (John 4:14, 23)
(Please illustrate that to worship God in reality, we need to practice Christ in every aspect of our daily life.)
Day 6
T1 The Christian life is to experience the Christ we have received every day (John 4:24; 14:6)
(Please illustrate that experiencing Christ in this way produces the offering we use to worship God.）
T2 Worshipping God in reality is the result of our enjoying God as the reality (John 4:24; 14:6)
(Please illustrate with experiences that if we experience Christ every day, we will enjoy the Triune God as our reality.)
