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.
