1997感恩节
总题:基督七倍加强的天上职事
总题:基督七倍加强的天上职事
Message Six To Consummate the New Jerusalem
I. The sevenfold intensified heavenly ministry of Christ is for:
A. The producing of the overcomers—Rev. 2:7; 3:12, 21.
B. The complete preparation of the bride for Christ—Rev. 19:7-9.
C. The formation of the bridal army—Rev. 19:11-12; 17:14.
D. The binding of Satan—Rev. 20:1-3.
E. The bringing in of the kingdom of Christ and of God—Rev. 20:4-6
F. The consummation of the New Jerusalem—Rev. 21:2.
II. The New Jerusalem is the ultimate consummation of God's eternal economy:
A. God has only one goal—the New Jerusalem.
B. The Bible begins with single God—Gen. 1:1.
C. The Bible ends with a great corporate God—the New Jerusalem as God's enlargement, expansion, and expression—Rev. 21:9-10.
III. The degradation of the church is mainly due to the fact that nearly all Christian workers take something other than the New Jerusalem as their goal:
A. Today the majority of Christianity disregard the New Jerusalem, the tree of life, and the river of water of life and take many other good things as replacements of the New Jerusalem.
B. To be overcomers answering the Lord's call under the degradation of the church, we need to overcome all things which replace the New Jerusalem as the goal and take the goal of God's eternal economy—the New Jerusalem—as our unique and ultimate goal—Rev. 3:12.
C. We need to drink the flowing God, the Spirit, as our river of water of life; we need to eat the overcoming Lion-Lamb as the tree of life to be our fresh and rich supply; and we need to take the Triune God as the essence, the element, and the way to build and consummate the New Jerusalem—Rev. 22:1-2, 14; 5:5-6; 7:17.
IV. The sevenfold intensified life-giving Spirit is for overcoming the degradation of the church and the producing of the overcomers so that the Body of Christ can be built up in a practical way to consummate the New Jerusalem, which is the unique and eternal goal of God's heart desire—Rev. 1:4; 3:12; 21:2; Eph. 1:5, 9-11:
A. Christ's ministry in the stage of His intensification produces the overcomers to build up the Body of Christ, which consummates in the New Jerusalem—Rev. 3:12.
B. Under the sevenfold intensified heavenly ministry of Christ, there will be a maturing and a ripening in the divine and mystical realm, and the Body will be built up to consummate the New Jerusalem.
C. If we are carrying out a threefold work—a work in the stage of incarnation, inclusion, and intensification—we will work not only to produce the redeemed ones and to establish churches but also to build up the Body consummating in the New Jerusalem.
V. Ultimately, Christ's sevenfold intensified heavenly ministry is for the initial consummation of the New Jerusalem in the millennium and its full consummation in the new heaven and new earth—Rev. 2:7; 21:2.
VI. The final outcome of Christ's sevenfold intensified heavenly ministry is that the ultimately consummated Spirit as the consummation of the processed Triune God becomes the Bridegroom and the aggregate of the overcoming saints becomes the bride of the universal romance between the redeeming God and His redeemed man as the conclusion of the entire Scripture—Rev. 22:17.