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 Three The Highest Point of the Apostles' Living—-to Live Out the New Jerusalem (3)
IX. The apostles living out the reality of the throne of the New Jerusalem:
A. Honoring God on the throne as their unique source of supply and blessirg -Rom. 11:33-36.
B. Subjecting themsch ts to the headship of the redeeming God in everything that they may continually enjoy His divine dispensing in everything—Rev. 22:1.
C. Being under the ruling of the divine life to reign in life with grace over all things unto eternal life—Rom. 5:17, 21.
D. Continually coming forward to the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace for timely help—Heb. 4:16.
E. Living a daily life of the New Jerusalem by enthroning the Triune God in the center of their being to enjoy the Spirit as the river of water of life and Christ as the tree of life with the Father in His divine, golden nature for the divine fellows hip -—Rev. 22:1-2.
X. The apostles living out the reality of the temple of the New Jerusalem:
A. The inner temple being the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb—Rev. 21:22:
1. Taking the redeeming God as their dwelling place, their palace, in which they as the co-kings dwell with their Father-king as the divine, royal family—John 15:5; Rev. 22:5b; cf. Psa. 90:1.
2. Abiding in Christ, the redeeming God, to be one with His inward parts—Phil. 1:8.
B. The three dimensions of the city being equal indicating that the city as a whole will be the Holy of Holies, the inner temple—Rev. 21:16:
1. Living in their spirit as the reality of the Holy of Holies—Rom. 8:4; Heb. 10:22.
2. Eating Christ as the hidden manna in the Holy of Holies to be their hidden supply in their spirit for them to be incorporated into the New Jerusalem—-Rev. 2:17.
XI. The apostles living out the reality of the light of the New Jerusalem:
A. Walking in God as the divine light in Christ the Lamb as the lamp to be under His continual illumination—Rev. 21:23; 22:5; John 8:12; 1 John 1:5-7; cf. Psa. 119:130.
B. Being diffusers of the divine light, shining as luminaries in the world, to let the light of God shine before all men for His glory—Rev. 21:24a; Phil. 2:15; Matt. 5:15-16; Eph. 5:8-9, 14; Rev. 1:20.
XII. The apostles living out the reality of the processed and consummated Triune God as the supply of the New Jerusalem:
A. Drinking the one Spirit as the crystal-bright river of water of life for their satisfaction to purify them and make them transparent as crystal, having no dimness or opaqueness—Rev. 22:1; 1 Cor. 12:13.
B. Eating Christ as the tree of life for their nourishment to live as men of life who live in the principle of the tree of life—Rev. 22:2; John 6:57; Rom. 8:10, 6, 11.
C. Living continually in the presence of God, seeing the face of God, to be supplied with the riches of God—Rev. 22:5; 2Cor. 2:10; 4:6-7.
D. For the building up of the Body of Christ by the growth in life to consummate the New Jerusalem—Eph. 4:16.