Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2)
Message Six
The Grace of God and the All-inclusive Spirit
OPENING WORD OF THE PROPHESYING MEETING
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
2 Cor. 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
2 Cor. 1:21-22 But the One who firmly attaches us with you unto Christ and has anointed us is God, He who has also sealed us and given the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.
Word of Appetizer
There is no reference in 1 Corinthians to the good land of Canaan which the children of Israel eventually entered into and possessed. Please explain that the record of entering into the good land is in 2 Corinthians.
Although the term of the good land is not used in this book, spiritually speaking we can see the good land in 2 Corinthians. In 2 Corinthians Christ as the grace of God is the good land for us to enter into, experience, enjoy, partake of, and possess. In 2 Corinthians 13:14 the grace of the Lord is mentioned first because this book is on the grace of Christ. The Holy Spirit as the circulation, the transmission, of the grace of Christ with the love of the Father is the supply in our Christian life and church life.
Spiritual Burden
In order to be constituted as the ministers of the new covenant for the building up of the Body of Christ, we need to experience all the aspects of Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit in 2 Corinthians. We need the anointing Spirit, the sealing Spirit, the pledging Spirit, the writing Spirit, the life-giving Spirit, the ministering Spirit, the liberating Spirit, the transforming Spirit, and the transmitting, flowing Spirit.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
In 2 Corinthians Christ as the grace of God is the good land for us to enter into, experience, enjoy, partake of, and possess.
In order to be constituted as the ministers of the new covenant for the building up of the Body of Christ, we need to experience all the aspects of Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit in 2 Corinthians. We need the anointing Spirit, the sealing Spirit, the pledging Spirit, the writing Spirit, the life-giving Spirit, the ministering Spirit, the liberating Spirit, the transforming Spirit, and the transmitting, flowing Spirit.
The Experience of Life
We have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. When Christ in us is daily received, experienced, and enjoyed by us, that is grace being added to us, grace upon grace.
The life-giving Spirit, the vivifying Spirit, imparts the divine life into our being to make us men of life with the ministry of life. When we study and read the Bible prayerfully with the exercise of our spirit, we are vivified.
When we turn our heart to the Lord to behold and reflect the glory of the Lord with an unveiled face, He infuses us with the elements of what He is and what He has done.
Practice and Application
We need to enjoy the word of His grace. We need to experience the Spirit of grace and of supplications to bring us into the enjoyment of the Triune God. We need the grace of God in Christ applied to us as the strength and power for our move and our protection.
In order to be constituted as the ministers of the new covenant for the building up of the Body of Christ, we need to experience all the aspects of Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit in 2 Corinthians. To be one who can give life to others, we must abide in the divine life and must walk, live, and have our being in the divine life.
PROPHESYING TOPICS—TWELVE TOPICS PER WEEK
Day 1
T1 The grace of the Lord is the central thought, the subject, of 2 Corinthians (2 Cor. 13:14; 12:9)
(Please illustrate that Christ as the grace of God is the very good land for us to enter into, to enjoy, to experience, to partake of, and to possess.)
T2 The current of the Divine Trinity within us is our spiritual pulse (2 Cor. 13:14)
(Please illustrate that what two circulations are within us.)
Day 2
T1 The Triune God is our real blessing and portion (2 Cor. 13:14; Num. 6:24-26)
(Please illustrate that the blessing in 2 Corinthians 13:14 is actually the same as that in Numbers 6:23-26.)
T2 Whereas the law was given through Moses, grace came through Jesus Christ (John 1:16-17)
(Please illustrate that this grace is actually a person, Christ Himself.)
Day 3
T1 The everyday experience of the believers must be grace (2 Tim. 4:22)
(Please illustrate that the New Testament believers’ living under the grace in God’s economy is a total living of experiencing the processed Triune God as grace.)
T2 In the New Testament age the Spirit of grace dispenses the Triune God into the believers as grace (Zech. 12:10)
(Please illustrate that our Christian life is essentially a life of having God as our grace.)
Day 4
T1 The Spirit is the anointing Spirit and the sealing Spirit (2 Cor. 1:21-22)
(Please illustrate that the more we are anointed by God, the more of the element of God’s divine nature we receive.)
T2 The Spirit is the sealing Spirit (2 Cor. 1:21-22)
(Please illustrate that the sealing forms the divine elements into an impression to express God’s image.)
Day 5
T1 The Spirit is the writing Spirit, and we are the letters of Christ (2 Cor. 3:3)
(Please illustrate that Christ is being written into us with the spiritual ink, the Spirit of the living God. This makes us a letter of Christ.)
T2 The letter kills but the Spirit gives life (2 Cor. 3:6)
(Please illustrate that we need to always return to our spirit because it is in our spirit that we sense and experience the imparting of life.)
Day 6
T1 The life-giving Spirit is also the ministering Spirit (2 Cor. 3:8)
(Please illustrate that the ministry is produced through years of the Lord’s working, dealing, and building up bit by bit.)
T2 We need an unveiled face to see the glorious Christ (2 Cor. 3:17-18)
(Please illustrate that what we need today is not more knowing but more seeing.)
