Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1)
Message Six
Christ as the Word of God
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
51 And He said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, You shall see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.
John 1:32 And John testified, saying, I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and He abode upon Him.
Word of Appetizer
John 1 refers to Christ, with the two sections of eternity and the bridge of time, in the history of the universe. What are the five greatest events in the history of the universe?
In these five universal, historical events, Christ, the Word of God—as: (1) the Creator in creation, (2) the man who tabernacled among us in incarnation, (3) the Lamb in redemption, (4) the anointing Spirit in transformation, and (5) the ladder in joining earth to heaven for God’s building—defines, explains, and expresses the invisible God.
Spiritual Burden
John 1 shows us in a crystallized way the eternal Word in His creating work and in His journeying across the bridge of time to become flesh for the accomplishing of His judicial redemption; to become the anointing, life-giving, and transforming Spirit for carrying out His organic salvation; and ultimately to become fully united, mingled, and incorporated with His regenerated, transformed, and glorified bride to be the New Jerusalem, the ultimate Bethel, the mutual abode of God and man.
Christ as the Word of God speaks for God through His becoming the ladder that brings heaven (God) to earth (man) and joins earth (man) to heaven (God) as one for God’s building.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
John 1 is the introduction to the whole Gospel of John, and the main stress of this introduction is that Christ is the Word of God—the definition, explanation, and expression of the mysterious and invisible God.
Christ as the Word of God speaks for God through His creation.
Christ as the Word of God speaks for God through His incarnation as the tabernacle of God.
Christ as the Word of God speaks for God through His becoming the Lamb of God for redemption.
Christ as the Word of God speaks for God through His becoming the anointing Spirit for the transformation of God’s redeemed people into stones for the building of God’s house organically for the New Testamen.
Christ as the Word of God speaks for God through His becoming the ladder that brings heaven (God) to earth (man) and joins earth (man) to heaven (God) as one for God’s building.
The Experience of Life
Christ as the Word of God speaks for God through His incarnation as the tabernacle of God. The incarnation of God’s only begotten Son is also for declaring (explaining) God to man in the Word, in life, in light, in grace, and in reality.
Christ as the Word of God speaks for God through His becoming the Lamb of God for redemption; In His becoming the Lambfor the redemption of the lost world, Christ speaks to us how God accomplished His redemption judicially through His death as the procedure according to His righteousness.
Practice and Application
We need to be watchful to not allow anything in our daily living to replace Christ as the anointing Spirit in our spirit; we need to repent for having a daily living in the principle of antichrist, allowing culture, religion, ethics, and natural concepts to replace Christ as the inner anointing; this is to be against the anointing, anti the moving, working, and saturating of the Triune God within us.
We should pray, “Lord, we want to live and walk in, with, through, and by the anointing—the moving, working, and saturating of the Triune God within us.”
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 In eternity future Christ will not only be God but also man (John 1, 51)
(Please illustrate that How can God, who had no humanity in eternity past, have humanity in eternity future as His dwelling place?)
T2 The five greatest events Christ has done in history (John 1, 51)
(Please illustrate that which five words can be used to remember these five great events in history.)
Day 2
T1 People can know the invisible things of God through observing the visible things God has created (John 1:3, Rom. 1:20)
(Please illustrate that how Christ, as the Word of God, speaks for God through creation.)
T2 “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God’” (Psm. 14:1, Rom. 1:20)
(Please illustrate that a “machine” as large as the universe can operate according to laws and run on schedule only because there is a God who rules over it. )
Day 3
T1 By becoming flesh, He became solid, real, visible, and touchable (John 1:14, 16)
(Please illustrate that how Christ as the Word of God speaks for God through His incarnation as the tabernacle of God.)
T2 Grace is God enjoyed by us in the Son; reality is God realized by us in the Son (John 1:16-17)
(Please illustrate that whenever we enjoy God, we not only have grace but also reality. )
Day 4
T1 When Christ died on the cross, God considered Him as the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29, Heb. 9:26)
(Please illustrate that how Christ, as the Word of God, speaks for God by becoming the Lamb of God and accomplishing redemption.)
T2 Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world to accomplish God’s redemption (2 Cor. 5:21, 1 Cor. 15:3)
(Please illustrate that Christ died on the cross to deal with sin and also with sins.)
Day 5
T1 We need to be regenerated to begin our transformation into stones for God’s spiritual building, His house (John 1:32, 42)
(Please illustrate that how Christ as the Word of God speaks for God by becoming the Spirit to transform those who are redeemed by God into stones for the building of God’s house organically for the New Testament.)
T2 To be an antichrist is, on the one hand, to be against Christ; on the other hand, it is also to have something instead of Christ (Col. 1:9, 2:8-9)
(Using the modernists as an illustration of denying Christ and replacing Christ. )
Day 6
T1 The dove (the Spirit) regenerates, transforms, and unitese (Gen. 28:12, John 1:51)
(Please illustrate that how Christ as the Word of God speaks for God by becoming the ladder for the building of God.)
T2 God has destined us to be transformed for His building (Gen. 28:12, John 1:51)
(Please illustrate that this building is the mutual abode for both God and man. It will be the mingling of divinity with humanity and of humanity with divinity forever.)
