You can all prophesy one by one… —1 Cor. 12:31

2024 JST Message Eight

Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1)

Message Eight

Christ as the Feast of Tabernacles and as the Spirit
Flowing out of the Believers as Rivers of Living Water

OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING

Reading the verses in each day.

Reading the main points in the outlines.

Pray-reading the verses:

Lev. 23:43 So that your descendants may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt…

John 7:37-39 …Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Word of Appetizer

How do we enjoy Christ as the Feast of Tabernacles?

God ordained the Feast of Tabernacles so that the children of Israel would remember how their forefathers had lived in tents (tabernacles) in their wandering in the wilderness; the word Tabernacles in the title of the Feast of Tabernacles implies the thought of remembrance; their coming together for this feast to worship God and enjoy their produce from the good land is a real picture of blending.

The reality of the Feast of Tabernacles is a time of enjoyment, a remembrance of how we experience God and of how God lived with us; Our enjoyment of Christ today as the Feast of Tabernacles, in our corporate coming together for blending to enjoy the riches of Christ as the produce of the good land, reminds us that we are still in the wilderness and need to enter into the rest of the New Jerusalem, which is the eternal tabernacle.

Spiritual Burden

Our enjoyment of Christ today as the Feast of Tabernacles, in our corporate coming together for blending to enjoy the riches of Christ as the produce of the good land, reminds us that we are still in the wilderness and need to enter into the rest of the New Jerusalem, which is the eternal tabernacle.

Through and in His resurrection, Christ as the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit to impart life and to enter into His believers to flow out as rivers of living water; The normal Christian life depends upon our knowing and experiencing the Spirit; without Christ being the life-giving Spirit, we cannot experience anything of God in His economy.

Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting

The Revelation of the Truth

We can enjoy Christ as the Feast of Tabernacles; the reality of the Feast of Tabernacles is a time of enjoyment in remembrance of how we experienced God and of how God lived with us.

Through and in His resurrection, Christ as the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit to impart life and to enter into His believers to flow out as rivers of living water.

The Experience of Life

Our enjoyment of Christ today as the Feast of Tabernacles, in our corporate coming together for blending to enjoy the riches of Christ as the produce of the good land, reminds us that we are still in the wilderness and need to enter into the rest of the New Jerusalem, which is the eternal tabernacle; as we are living in the “tent” of the church life, we are waiting for its ultimate consummation—the ultimate “Tent of Meeting,” the New Jerusalem.

The Christ who breathed Himself into the disciples is the life-giving Spirit; it is as the Spirit that He was breathed into His disciples; it is as the Spirit that He can live in the disciples and enable them to live by Him and with Him and that He can abide in them and enable them to abide in Him.

Practice and Application

If we would walk in the steps of Abraham’s faith, we must live the life of the altar and the tent, taking Christ as our life and the church as our living; building an altar means that our life is for God, that God is our life, and that the meaning of our life is God; erecting a tent is an expression, a declaration, that we do not belong to this world, that we belong to another country.

The Spirit is a living seal that saturates us with the divine element. We have to pray, “Lord, don’t just seal me once, but saturate me all the time. I need Your sealing; I need Your saturating.”

PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK

Day 1

T1 The whole life of a Christian should be a feast (Lev. 23:39, 43)

(Please illustrate that God ordained seven feasts for His chosen people every year; the first feast is Passover, and the last feast is the Feast of Tabernacles, the spiritual meaning of which is explained.)

T2  The Israelites coming together was a real picture of blending (Lev. 23:39, 43)

(Please illustrate that the inner spiritual meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles.)

Day 2

T1 The reality of the Feast of Tabernacles (Heb. 11:9-10, Rev. 21:2-3)

(Please illustrate that this Feast [of Tabernacles] is a reminder that today people are still in the wilderness and need to enter into the rest of the New Jerusalem, which is the eternal tabernacle.)

T2 The “Tabernacle” in the name of the Feast of Tabernacles suggests the thought of remembrance (Heb. 11:9-10, Rev. 21:3)

(Please illustrate that how the Feast of Tabernacles is only a type of Christ, Christ is the reality.)

Day 3

T1 An altar means that we do not keep anything for ourselves (Gen. 12:7-8)

(Please illustrate that the meaning of our life is God. So we put everything on the altar.)

T2 We are sojourning by faith as in a strange country (Gen. 12:7-8, Heb. 11:9-10)

(Please illustrate that how erecting a tent is an expression, a declarationn, that we do not belong to this world.)

Day 4

T1 Before Christ was glorified, the Spirit was not yet (John 7:37-39)

(Why before Christ’s death and resurrection God had no way to enter into man to be man’s life? )

T2 The Spirit today is the consummation of the Triune God (John 1:14, 1 Cor. 15:45)

(Please illustrate that what the two major events are in human history and divine history. )

Day 5

T1 The Word passed through a long processand eventually became the breath, the pneuma, that He might get into the believers (John 20:22, 1 Cor. 15:45)

(Please illustrate that what two steps the Lord took to accomplish God’s eternal purpose.)

T2 The death and resurrection of the Lord transfigured Him from the flesh into the Spirit (John 20:22, 1 Cor. 15:45)

(Please illustrate that how Christ is the embodiment of the Father, and the Spirit is similarly the realization and reality of Him.)

Day 6

T1 We can only experience the death of Christ in the Spirit (Rom. 8:13)

(Please illustrate that how the normal Christian life lies in our knowing and experiencing the Spirit.)

T2 The compound anointing Spirit (Exo. 30:23-24, 1 John 2:20)

(Please illustrate that what components are included in the compound anointing Spirit, which compounded with the divine Trinity and the humanity of Christ. )