I.　The direction of the Lord's move today is:

A.　To build up the Body of Christ as the organism of the processed and dispensing God in His Divine Trinity for His full expression—Eph. 1:22-23.

B.　To prepare the bride as the counterpart of the Bridegroom for the eternal marriage of the redeeming God with His redeemed—John 3:29; Rev. 22:17.

C.　To bring in the kingdom of God as the spreading of the divine life for God's eternal administration in the fulfillment of His economy—Mark 4:26-29.

II.　God's economy is God becoming man that man may become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead to produce the Body of Christ, which will consummate the New Jerusalem—Rom. 12:4-5; Rev. 21:2:

A.　God's intention in His economy is to make Himself man that man may become God; then God and man will be united and mingled together to live a corporate life—1 Cor. 12:12.

B.　The economy of God is the Triune God working Himself into the tripartite men that they may become the members of Christ to be constituted the Body of Christ—Eph. 3:16-19; 4:4-6.

C.　God's economy is His arrangement to gain a Body for Christ, built up with human beings mingled with the divinity of God—v. 16.

III.　In His human living, Christ set up a model of what a God-man is—1 Pet. 2:21:

A.　Christ always rejected Himself and died to Himself but lived to the Father—John 5:30; 6:38, 57a; 8:28.

B.　Christ never did anything by Himself but did everything by the Father—4:34; 5:19; 6:38; 12:49-50; 14:10, 24.

C.　In His human living, the Lord Jesus expressed the divine attributes in His human virtues; this was the life of the first God-man as a prototype—v. 9.

IV.　The Lord's God-man living constituted a prototype to His believers; this prototype is for the reproduction of the God-man in the believers—Rom. 8:29; 1 Pet. 2:21:

A.　Originally, such a life was in an individual man, Jesus Christ; now this life is being repeated in many men who have been redeemed and regenerated and who possess the divine life—1 Pet. 1:18, 23; 1 John 5:11-12.

B.　The only life that is pleasing to God is the life that is a repetition of the life Christ lived on earth—2 Cor. 5:9; Heb. 13:21; 1 John 3:22.

C.　To follow Jesus is to be a Xerox copy of the first God-man—1 Pet. 2:21.

D.　As God-men, we should live as divine and mystical persons; everything in our living should be divine and mystical—1 John 2:6; 3:1; 4:6a, 15, 17b.

E.　Our practice in the recovery is not to live the life of a natural man but to live the life of a God-man—Phil. 1:20b-21a:

1.　A God-man is a man who is regenerated and transformed to be one with God, taking God as his life, his person, and his everything and eventually becoming God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead—2 Cor. 3:18.

2.　The God-man living—a life in which we and Christ live together in the way of mingling—is the life of the church and the life of the Body of Christ; such a life is the reality of the Body of Christ—John 14:19b.

V.　The Body of Christ is the issue of the God-man life lived out by all those who believe in and belong to the Lord—Rom. 12:4-5; 8:4, 14:

A.　The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the perfected God-men, who are genuine men but do not live by their life, but by the life of the processed God, whose attributes are expressed through their virtues.

B.　A person who touches God's heart and who is an overcomer in the eyes of God is one who is living in the Body and practicing the Body life—Eph. 1:5; 4:1-6.

C.　The highest peak of the Lord's recovery that can really, practically, and actually carry out God's economy is for God to produce not many local churches in a physical way but an organic Body to be His organism—Eph. 1:22-23:

1.　We must pay more attention to the Body of Christ than to the local churches—4:16; 1 Cor. 12:12, 27.

2.　Christ's Body is an organic unity, and no part of His Body can be autonomous—Eph. 4:4.

D.　The strongest proof that we have seen the Body is that we can no longer be individualistic—Rom. 12:4-5; 1 Cor. 12:20.

E.　As members of the Body, we should have a feeling for the Body—v. 26:

1.　We must take the feeling of the Head as our feeling—Phil. 1:8.

2.　As we take the feeling of the Head as our feeling, we should do so in the principle of caring for the Body of Christ—1 Cor. 12:25; Rom. 12:15.

3.　If, as members of the Body, we have the feeling of the Head in everything and if we care for the Body, we will take the Body as the rule in our mind, thoughts, words, and actions; then the life we live will fully be the Body life—vv. 2-3; 1 Cor. 14:26b.

F.　In the Lord's recovery there is only one work—the work of the one Body; we should not have the thought that we can do a particular work according to our way—Eph. 4:12.

VI.　The new revival will be the means for the Lord to end this age and to bring in the kingdom age—Hab. 3:2a; Hosea 6:2; Rom. 8:20-22:

A.　The reason that the Lord has not closed this age is that He is still waiting for a group of overcomers to live in His Body in resurrection to be the means for Him to usher in His kingdom age—Rev. 2:7b, 11b, 17b, 26-27; 3:5, 12, 21.

B.　The corporate living of the God-men—a living that is the reality of the Body of Christ—will end this age and will bring Christ back to the take, possess, and rule over the earth with these God-men in the kingdom age—11:15; 20:6.