2008夏季训练
总题:路加福音结晶读经
总题:路加福音结晶读经
Message Four The Reproduction of the God-man
Scripture Reading: Luke 1:31-32, 35; 6:35; John 3:6b; 2 Cor. 3:18; Phil. 1:19b, 20b-21a; 2:5-8; 3:9-10; 4:8, 13; Eph. 1:22-23; 4:24; John 14:20; Rev. 21:2, 7
I. The Man-Savior's God-man living constituted a prototype; this prototype is for the reproduction, the mass production, of the God-man in the believers—Luke 1:31-32, 35, 6:35; Rom. 8:29.
II. Christ, the unique prototype, has become the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit as an extract of Himself— 1 Cor. 15:45b; Phil. 1:19b:
A. The all-inclusive life-giving Spirit is actually an extract of the all-inclusive Christ; thus, the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit includes all that Christ is, all that He passed through, and all that He accomplished, attained, and obtained—Acts 16:7; Rom. 8:9; Phil. 1:19b.
B. Christ's becoming the life-giving Spirit is related to the reproduction of the God-man; the God-man is reproduced by the all-inclusive Spirit—2 Cor. 3:18.
III. The reproduction of the God-man requires that we be reborn of the pneumatic Christ in our spirit and that we be transformed by the pneumatic Christ in our soul—John 3:6b; 2 Cor. 3:18; Phil. 1:21a:
A. The first step in the reproduction of the God-man is that we must be reborn of the pneumatic Christ in our spirit with His divine life and nature—John 3:6b:
1. The regenerating Spirit is the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit—the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the extract of the all-inclusive, crucified and resurrected Christ— 1 Cor. 15:45b; Phil. 1:19b:
a. The essence, elements, nature, and substance of Christ are all in the all-inclusive Spirit; it is by this Spirit that Christ, the God-man, is reproduced— 1 John 2:20, 27; cf. Exo. 30:22-30.
b. This Spirit includes the element of the Lord's life of expressing God, the element of the restored, recovered, strengthened, empowered, and uplifted human virtues, and the element of the Man-Savior's enriched and uplifted human virtues— Luke 7:11-17, 36-50.
c. The Spirit as the extract of Christ contains the element of the highest standard of morality— 1:35, 75-79.
2. All the elements in the all-inclusive Spirit have been born into us through the Spirit—Acts 16:7; Rom. 8:9; Phil. 1:19b; John 3:6b; 1 Cor. 15:45b; 6:17.
B. For the reproduction of the God-man we need to be transformed by the pneumatic Christ in our soul with His divine attributes to uplift, strengthen, enrich, and f ill our human virtues for His expression in our humanity— 2 Cor. 3:17-18; Rom. 12:2:
1. Regeneration is with the divine life and nature, but transformation is with the divine attributes to uplift, strengthen, enrich, and f ill our human virtues for the Lord's expression in our humanity—Eph. 4:2, 20-21, 23.
2. Transformation involves a metabolic change, an inward change in life—Rom. 12:2:
a. Such a metabolic change requires the working within us of the element of the divine life—8:2, 6, 10-11.
b. This produces a change not only in appearance and behavior but also a change in life, nature, and intrinsic essence—2 Cor. 3:18.
IV. Those who are the reproduction of the God-man should live Christ as the God-man—Phil. 1:20b-21a:
A. The Gospel of Luke records the history of the God-man living of the first God-man; now this history needs to be written into our being—6:35; 2 Cor. 3:3.
B. The Christ who lives in us is still the One who possesses the human virtues strengthened and enriched by the divine attributes—Gal. 2:20:
1. The Christ who is being dispensed into us is a composition of the divine nature with its divine attributes and the human nature with its human virtues— 4:19.
2. Christ is now seeking to live in the believers the kind of life that He lived on earth; within us He is still living a life that is a composition of the divine attributes and the human virtues—John 14:19b; 2 Cor. 10:1; 11:10.
3. Whoever lives Christ, the God-man, is His reproduction— a duplicate of the unique God-man, a reproduction of the prototype—Rom. 8:29.
C. In Luke we see how Christ was incarnated and lived the life of a God-man; in Philippians we see how Christ is lived out from us in order to have many duplicates of Himself—Luke 1:31-32; 6:35; Phil. 1:21a; 2:5-8; 3:9-10; 4:8, 13:
1. Paul and Christ had one life and one living, living together as one person—1:21a.
2. From the description in 2:5-8 we can see that the Christ in 1:21a is the God-man in 2:5-8; hence, to live Christ is to live the God-man.
3. We live Christ as the God-man by the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ—1:19b.
4. In order to live Christ as the God-man, we need to take His mind; to have His mind requires us to be one with Christ in His inward parts—2:5; 1:8.
5. As we live Christ as the God-man, we will "shine as luminaries in the world, holding forth the word of life"—2:15b-16a.
6. If we would live Christ as the God-man, we must be found in Christ, know the power of His resurrection, and be conformed to His death—3:9-10.
7. When we are found in Christ, living Him as the God-man, He will be expressed in our human virtues through His empowering—4:8, 13.
V. The ultimate issue of the reproduction of the God-man is the church as the reproduction of God—a corporate God-man and the universal incorporation, consummating in the New Jerusalem—Eph. 4:24; John 14:20; Rev. 21:2, 7:
A. The church, the Body of Christ, is the reproduction of God—Eph. 1:22-23:
1. The God-man, through His death and resurrection, has made a mass reproduction of Himself—John 1:1, 14; 12:24.
2. The church is God's expression, God's fullness, God's continuation, God's life-increase, God's spread, God's full growth, and God's rich surplus—Hymns, #203.
B. The one new man is the corporate God-man—Eph. 2:15; 4:24; Col. 3:10-11:
1. The first God-man, the firstborn Son of God, is the Head of this corporate God-man, and the many Godmen, the many sons of God, are the Body of this corporate God-man—Rom. 8:29; Col. 1:18; 2:19.
2. In Christ God became man to produce a corporate God-man for the manifestation of God—1 Tim. 3:16; Col. 3:10-11.
C. Christ's unlimited and infinite divine being with His divine life and glory was released through His death; the issue of this release was the producing of a universal incorporation of the consummated God and the regenerated believers—Luke 12:50; John 12:23-24; 14:10-11, 20.
D. The New Jerusalem, as the consummation of the corporate God-man, is the aggregate, the totality, of the many God-men, who are the reproduction of the first Godman— the Man-Savior revealed in the Gospel of Luke— Rev. 21:2, 7.