I.　We need to carry out the great commission of Christ in resurrection—Matt. 28:16-20:

A.　The great commission of Christ is in resurrection:

1.　The Christ who gave the great commission is the One in resurrection.

2.　Through His death Christ entered into His resurrection to carry out His ministry in the stage of His inclusion.

3.　Christ carries out His ministry in the stage of His inclusion through all the believers in Him as His Body to accomplish God's eternal economy.

4.　The great commission was given by Christ as the One who has been given all authority in heaven and on earth—Matt. 28:18.

B.　As disciples we are qualified to receive Christ's great commission in resurrection—Matt. 28:16:

1.　The great commission the Lord gave us is to disciple the nations and teach them the teachings of Christ—Matt. 28:19-20.

2.　In Mark 16:15 the Lord charged us to proclaim the gospel to all the creation.

3.　Christ commissioned us to proclaim repentance for forgiveness of sins—Luke 24:47.

4.　The Lord has charged us to witness a resurrected Christ appointed by God to be the Lord and Christ, the anointed One of God, and to be the Ruler and Savior—Acts 2:32-36; 5:30-32.

5.　We have been appointed to be witnesses of Christ, those who live Christ, magnify Christ, and display Christ—Acts 1:8; Phil. 1:20-21a.

6.　The Lord has commissioned us to save and gather in all God's chosen people from Jerusalem through Judea and Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth—all the earth, all the nations—Acts 1:8; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:47.

II.　The subject of the books of Acts is the propagation of the resurrected (pneumatic) Christ in His ascension, by the Spirit, through the disciples, for the producing of the churches—the kingdom of God—Acts 1:1-8:

A.　The Gospels from Matthew through John unveil the completion of Christ:

1.　From incarnation to ascension was a long process through which the Son of God, God's anointed One, was completed, fully qualified and equipped, and through this process he has been fully qualified and fully equipped.

2.　Now he is in the heavens with all His qualifications to be God's Christ, God's anointed One, to carry out God's eternal commission.

B.　Acts unveils the propagation of the pneumatic Christ—the propagation of the completed Christ as the gospel:

1.　After the Gospels, the completed Christ was preached as the gospel.

2.　God's completed Christ is the essence of God's gospel.

3.　The gospel of the highest standard is God's completed Christ in God's eternal economy.

4.　Acts shows us that through the preaching of the completed Christ, there was a great propagation.

III.　Psalm 68 portrays Christ as the center of God's move on earth for His New Testament economy:

A.　In the entire universe, God has only one move, which is portrayed in the Old Testament in typology and carried out in the New Testament in reality.

B.　God's economy is mainly to work Himself into His chosen and redeemed people in order to make Himself one with them and to make them one with Him, even mingling Himself with them to be one entity with them.

C.　God's move in the tabernacle with the ark from Mount Sinai to Mount Zion was a type of His move in Christ from the incarnation to the ascension:

1.　In typology the move of God for His New Testament economy is pictured in Psalm 68 as the journey of God with Israel from Sinai to Zion.

2.　The journey of God in reality, the actual move of God on earth, was the journey of God in Christ as the real tabernacle starting from incarnation and ending with the ascension to the heavenly Zion.

D.　With types and signs, Psalm 68 portrays the nine steps in God's move on the earth in Christ, the all-inclusive embodiment of the Triune God:

1.　God's move within the tabernacle (typifying Christ) as His dwelling place with the ark (typifying Christ) as the center—v. 1.

2.　God's victory in Christ as the center, typified by the ark—vv. 11-14.

3.　Christ's ascension—v. 18a.

4.　Christ receiving the gifts—v. 18b.

5.　The building up of the dwelling place of God—v. 18c.

6.　The enjoyment of God in His house—vv. 19-23.

7.　The praising rendered to God by His elect—vv. 24-28.

8.　The spreading from the temple into the city of God—vv. 28b-29a.

9.　The gaining of the earth for God—vv. 29b-35.

E.　Psalm 68 has two main sections, and each section has a center:

1.　The center of the frist section (vv. 1-18) is the dove wings gilded with silver and the dove pinions gilded with greenish yellow, glittering gold—v. 13:

a.　The dove wings signify the moving power of the Spirit.

b.　Silver signifies Christ in His redemption for our justification.

c.　Pinions signify the soaring power of the Spirit.

d.　Greenish yellow, glittering gold signifies God's nature glittering in the divine life and glory.

e.　The contents of these four items are the Triune God with all the items of His complete, full, and all-inclusive salvation.

2.　The center of the second section (vv. 19-35) is the four tribes of Benjamin, Judah, Zebulun, and Naphtali—v. 27:

a.　The first two—Benjamin and Judah—are a group concerning the accomplishment and application of redemption.

b.　The other two—Zebulun and Naphtali—are a group concerning the preaching, spreading, and application of the gospel.

3.　The centers of the two sections of Psalm 68 indicate that the Triune God has become our enjoyment and that Christ's redemption has been accomplished for God's salvation, that this accomplished redemption has been applied to us, and the word concerning God's salvation is now spreading everywhere.