1998春季长老
总题:主恢复中神圣启示的构成与推广
Message Four Living a God-man Life according to the Divine Revelation in the Lord's Recovery
I. The model of a God-man living according to the divine revelation:
A. The living and pattern of the Lord Jesus, the first God-man in the universe:
1. Not doing anything from Himself—John 5:19.
2. Not doing His own work—4:34; 17:4.
3. Not speaking His own word—14:10, 24.
4. Not seeking His own will—5:30.
5. Not seeking His own glory—7:18.
6. Coinhering with the Father—14:10-11.
7. One with the Father—10:30.
8. Living because of the Father—6:57.
9. Working with the Father—14:10b; 5:17, 19.
10. Working in the name of the Father—10:25.
11. Doing the Father's will—5:30; 6:38.
12. Speaking the Father's word—14:24; 7:16-17; 12:49-50.
13. Seeking the Father's glory—7:18.
14. Expressing the Father—14:9.
B. The Lord Jesus can live such a divine and mysterious God-man life because he is a man of prayer:
1. Being one with God—John 10:30.
2. Living in the presence of God without ceasing—Acts 10:38c; John 8:29; 16:32.
3. Trusting in God and not in Himself, under any kind of suffering and persecution—1 Pet. 2:23b; Luke 23:46.
4. Satan, the ruler of the world, having nothing (no ground, no chance, no hope, no possibility in anything) in Him—John 14:30b.
II. The living which a God-man as a seeker of Christ should have:
A. Pursuing to know Christ—Phil. 3:10a.
B. Pursuing to know the power of Christ's resurrection—Phil. 3:10b.
C. Pursuing to live a life of dying with Christ by His resurrection power and thereby to be conformed to His death —Phil. 3:10c.
D. Living Christ to magnify Him by he bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ—Phil. 1:19-21a.
E. Living and walking in Christ as the empowering One—Phil. 4:13.
F. Living and walking in the mingled spirit and according to the mingled spirit—Rom. 8:4:
1. Establishing a life of unceasing prayer—1 Thes. 5:16-18; Matt. 26:41.
2. Such a life of prayer has two aspects:
a. Personal and intimate fellowship with the Lord—S. S. 1:1-4.
b. Corporate prayer of the church for warfare to carry out the prayer ministry of the church—Matt. 18:18.
G. Taking Christ as the secret in all things—Phil. 4:12:
I. This is to:
1. Live out the processed and consummated Triune God.
2. Live out the pneumatic Christ as the embodiment of the Triune God.
3. Live out the consummated Spirit as the consummation of the processed Triune God.
4. This equals to living in the consummated Spirit as the resurrection (referring to the person).
I. This is also to:
1. Live out the reality of the Body of Christ.
2. Bring in an unprecedented revival among all the God-men who are seekers of Christ today.
3. Be the means for the Lord to consummate the age and bring in the age of His kingdom.