1997感恩节
总题:基督七倍加强的天上职事
Message Two To Intensify the Organic Salvation of Christ
I. In Revelation 1:4-5 the Spirit becomes the second, the center of the Divine Trinity, revealing the importance of the intensified function of the sevenfold Spirit of God:
A. The seven Spirits are burning before the throne to carry out God's administration, to execute God's economy in the universe, by directing the world situation.
B. The sevenfold intensified Spirit is the seven lamps of fire to burn, enlighten, expose, judge, purify, and refine us to produce the golden lampstands for the fulfillment of God's New Testament economy
C. The sevenfold intensified Spirit is the eyes of Christ as the redeeming Lamb and the building stone to observe and search us and to infuse and transfuse us with Christ's essence, riches, and burden for God's building—Zech. 3:9; 4:7; Rev. 1:14; 5:6.
D. The golden lampstands, as the multiplied embodiment of the Triune God, are filled with God the Spirit as the seven shining Spirits—the full expression of the Triune God—Rev. 1:12, 20; Eph. 5:18; Rom. 8:4; Gal. 5:16, 22-23.
II. In the stage of His intensification, Christ intensifies His organic salvation sevenfold for the building up of the Body of Christ to consummate the New Jerusalem:
A. Christ's redemption is accomplished judicially as the procedure of God's salvation, and His salvation is carried out organically as the purpose of God's salvation—Rom. 5:10.
B. Because the degradation of the church frustrates the accomplishment of God's eternal economy, Christ intensifies His organic salvation sevenfold:
1. Today the Spirit who is filling and saturating us to save us organically is the sevenfold intensified life-giving Spirit.
2. Since the life-giving Spirit has been intensified sevenfold, all the elements of the Spirit have been intensified sevenfold:
a. The Spirit is the Spirit of life; the life in the intensified Spirit is an intensified life—Rom. 8:2.
b. The Spirit is the Spirit of grace; the grace in the intensified Spirit is an intensified grace—Heb. 10:29.
III. In Christ's sevenfold intensified organic salvation, the Triune God is wrought into His redeemed to make them the golden lampstands, which are the reproduction of Christ and the reprint of the Spirit—Exo. 25:37; Zech. 4:2, 6; Rev. 1:11-12:
A. By regeneration to participate in God's life—1 John 3:9; John 3:15; Col. 3:4.
B. By dispositional sanctification to participate in God's nature—Eph. 1:4; 2 Pet. 1:4.
C. By renewing to participate in God's mind—Titus 3:5; Eph. 4:23; Phil. 2:5.
D. By transformation to participate in God's being—2 Cor. 3:18b; Eph. 3:8.
E. By conformation to participate in God's image—2 Cor. 3:18a; Rom. 8:29.
F. By glorification to participate in God's glory, in God's full sonship, in God's manifestation, and in God's likeness—Heb. 2:10; Rom. 8:23; Rom. 8:19; 1 John 3:2.
G. Consummating in the New Jerusalem, the one unique lampstand as the consummation of the lampstands—Rev. 21:18, 23; 22:5.