1997春季长老
总题:新耶路撒冷—使徒们生活与工作的最高点
总题:新耶路撒冷—使徒们生活与工作的最高点
Message One The Highest Point of the Apostles' Living—-to Live Out the New Jerusalem (1)
I. The unique goal of the apostles' living being the New Jerusalem—the ultimate goal of God's eternal economy:
A. Being overcomers who take the goal of God's economy, the New Jerusalem, as the unique and ultimate goal of their living.
B. The triune living of the New Jerusalem being their daily living:
1. Living out the Father as the source of life on the throne—Rev. 22:1; John 5:26.
2. Living out the Son as the life and life supply, the tree of life—Rev. 22:2; John 14:6.
3. Living out the Spirit as the bountiful supply of the processed and consummated Triune God, the water of life—Rev. 22:1; Phil. 1:19.
4. For their growth in the divine life by the growth of God to build up the Body of Christ and consummate the city of life for the ultimate expansion, enlargement, and expression of the Triune God—Col. 2:19; Eph. 4:16.
II. Seeing the New Jerusalem as the greatest and ultimate sign in the Scriptures, signifying the organic constitution and universal, enlarged, divine-human incorporation of the processed Triune God with His regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite elect—Rev. 21:2, 9-10:
A. Living a life of incorporation with the Triune God by their abiding in Him as their temple and by His abiding in them as His tabernacle—Rev. 21:3, 22; Gal. 2:20; 2 Cor. 12:2; John 15:5.
B. Loving the Lord in the closest and most intimate fellowship with Him as constituents of the wife of the Lamb— 1 Pet. 1:8; 1 Cor. 2:9; 2 Cor. 5:14-15; 1 John 4:19.
III. The apostles being deified to become the New Jerusalem, which is the embodiment of God's complete salvation, for them to become God in life, nature, and appearance but not in the Godhead:
A. Through God's judicial redemption—Rev. 22:14a.
B. Through God's organic salvation—Rom. 5:10:
1. Regeneration to become God's species, God's children—John 1:12-13; Rev. 21:7; 22:14b.
2. Sanctification to be as holy as the holy city—1 Thes. 5:23; Eph. 5:26.
3. Renewing to be as new as the New Jerusalem—2 Cor. 4:16; Eph. 4:23.
4. Transformation to be constituted with the Triune God as gold, silver (pearl), and precious stones—1 Cor. 3:12; 2 Cor. 3:18; Rom. 12:2.
5. Conformation to the image of the firstborn Son of God to have the appearance of the New Jerusalem— Rom. 8:28-29.
6. Glorification to be completely permeated with the glory of the New Jerusalem—Rom. 8:30; Phil. 3:21.
C. Through God's sevenfold intensified organic salvation for them to be intensified sevenfold to overcome the degradation of the church that the Body may be built up to consummate the New Jerusalem—Rev. 1:4; 3:1; 4:5; 5:6.
IV. The apostles living in the blending of the universal Body of Christ to be ushered into the reality of the Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem—1 Cor. 12:24; 10:17; Lev. 2:4-5.