Scripture Reading: Matt. 16:16, 1 John 1:1, 14, Heb. 1:10, Col.1:15, 1 Cor. 15:45b, Eph. 3:17a, Phil. 3:10

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«　WEEK 6　DAY 1　»

　　John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

　　14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father, full of grace and reality.

　　1 Pet. 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

　　Christ is the subject and center of the Bible and is the main content of the Bible from beginning to end. Even more He is the reality of our faith. We who have believed into Him and received grace must know Him in a thorough way.

　　Romans 9:5 clearly declares that Christ is God, who is over all, the complete God blessed forever. John 1:1 and 14 review that, In the beginning was the Word…and the Word was God…And the Word became flesh. 1 Timothy 3:16 also tells us, “And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness, who was manifested in the flesh. 2:5 tells even more clearly, “The Man, Christ Jesus”. All of these verses above clearly tell us that Jesus Christ, became flesh to be a perfect man with a human body and human nature. Therefore, He is God manifested in the flesh. He is God and He is man, a God-man, possessing both the divine and the human natures. As to His divine nature, He is completely God; as to His human nature, He is perfectly man. This is a great mystery.

　　

　　The first great thing Christ did was to create the heavens and the earth, all things, and man. Hebrews 1:10, “You in the beginning, Lord, have founded the earth, and the heavens are the works of Your hands”. And Col 1:16 reveals, “…in Him were all things created…; all things have been created through Him and unto Him”. Hence, He is the Creator of all things.

　　The second great thing accomplished by Christ…, was that He as God became flesh; that is, He came to be a man in the flesh to be the tabernacle of God among men, bringing God to men to be realized as reality and to be received as grace. Reality is God known and contacted by man, and grace is God received and enjoyed by man. In the fleshly tabernacle which He became, Christ lived with man for thirty-three and a half years, thus fully bringing God to man to be his reality and grace.

　　After thirty-three and a half years, He went to the cross to be crucified to accomplish the redemption in God's eternal plan. This is the third great thing He did, solving, once and for all, the problem of everything that God had condemned in the universe, such as Satan, sin, the world, the flesh, the old man, and the old creation. He did this for God and for those who are chosen by God, who will eternally inherit His salvation.

　　Christ gave up His own life, and He Himself took it back by rising from among the dead (John 10:17-18). This is the fourth great thing He did, which accomplished the following three matters pertaining to us: … The resurrection of Christ released God's life from within Him for us to receive, making us alive together with Christ and raising us up together (Eph. 2:5-6). Since Christ resurrected to release His life into us, He regenerated us that we may be a born-again, new man (1 Peter 1:3).

　　(Life Lessons, Vol. 1)

«　WEEK 6　DAY 2　»

　　Eph. 4:8 Therefore the Scripture says, “Having ascended to the height, He led captive those taken captive and give gifts to men.”

　　Heb. 8:1-2 ...We have such a High Priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, A minister of the holy places, even of the true tabernacle…

　　After Christ rose from among the dead, He ascended into the heavens. This is the fifth great thing done by Him as God's anointed One, accomplishing two matters for us. First, He captured us, who were captured before by Satan and death, from the hands of Satan and death, bring us to the new heavens to make us God's gift to Christ that Christ may give us as gifts to the church (Eph. 4:8). Second, He brought us, who have believed into Him and have been joined to Him to be one, to the heavenlies, that we may attain to a heavenly position and live in a heavenly atmosphere and state (Eph. 2:6).

　　Upon His ascension into heaven...He was anointed by God to do this sixth great thing, continually performing the following four matters on our behalf :

　　(1) Being the Mediator (Heb. 8:6). After Christ enacted the new covenant (Matt. 26:28) through His death on the earth, He ascended to the heavens to be the Mediator of this new covenant, executing it upon those who believe in Him.

　　(2). Being the Minister (Heb. 8:1-2). Christ is also the Minister of the true tabernacle in the heavens today, ministering to His believers the heavenly life and the divine, heavenly supply.

　　(3). Being the High Priest (Heb. 4:14). Today, Christ is also our great High Priest in the heavens, interceding before God on our behalf that we may be saved to the uttermost (Heb. 7:24-26).

　　(4). Being the Advocate (1 John 2:1-2). Christ in the heavens today is also our Advocate before the righteous God. If we sin after we are saved, based upon His being our propitiation, He pleads for us in order to recover the broken fellowship between God and us.

　　When Christ completes His heavenly ministry, He will come back to accomplish the seventh great thing as God's Anointed, which includes the following three matters:

　　(1). He will rapture all believers to the air, whether they are resurrected or living, to meet with Him, that they may always be together with Him (1 Thes.4:16-17).

　　(2). He will save all of Israel (Rom. 11:26).

　　(3). He will judge all the living unbelieving nations (Matt. 25:31-32)

　　After Christ cleans up the earth at His coming, He will set up the millennial kingdom. (He will reign with His overcoming believers in it for a thousand years). He was anointed by God to do this eighth great thing.

　　At the end of the millennial kingdom, the old heaven and the old earth will be abolished. Christ will be the center of eternity in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth to come. This is the last great thing to be done by Christ as God's Anointed in fulfilling God's eternal purpose. All those redeemed by God throughout the ages will then be with Him, enjoying the bountiful issue of God's work throughout the ages in God's eternal life forever and ever.

　　(Life Lessons Vol. 1)

«　WEEK 6　DAY 3　»

　　Phil. 3:8 …the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse that I may gain Christ.

　　 10 To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.

　　

　　We must know Christ. In Philippians 3:10 Paul spoke about knowing Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death. To know Christ is not a simple matter…; To know Christ is not to know Him in a common way but to know Him in a particular way. The riches of what Christ is, are unsearchable (Eph. 3:8), but among them, there are the four following items which we need to know in particular.

　　First, we must know particularly that Christ is both God and man...He was God and He became man, so He is both God and man. Thus, He is a God-man.

　　Second, we need to know that since Christ is a God-man, He possesses both divinity and humanity.

　　Third, we have to know that in His humanity Christ accomplished His judicial redemption through His death...Christ must be sacrificed, to fulfill the requirement of God's judicial redemption (Heb 9:22). Hence, Christ's redemption is the Judicial Redemption, accomplished in His humanity, through His death. This Redemption is accomplished according to God's judicial requirement, which is the requirement of God's righteousness.

　　Fourth, we also need to know that in His divinity Christ is carrying out His organic salvation in His resurrection...Romans 5:10a says that we "were reconciled to God through the death of His Son"; this refers to His redemption. Romans 5:10b says, "Much more we will be saved in His life"; this refers to His salvation. The organic salvation is being carried out in resurrection by Christ in His divinity...The judicial redemption has been accomplished, but the organic salvation is being carried out.

　　We need to know Christ first, then we need to experience and enjoy Christ in His full ministry in His three divine and mystical stages. First, we have the knowledge, and then we have the experience and enjoyment. To experience and enjoy Christ is to gain Christ. In Philippians 3:8 Paul said, "...Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse that I may gain Christ." To "have" is not sufficient; we need to "gain." To gain Christ requires paying a price. To gain Christ is to experience, enjoy, and take possession of all His unsearchable riches by paying a price. This is not so simple. Hence, Paul went on to say, "Not that I have already obtained or am already perfected, but I pursue....I do not account of myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do: Forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, I pursue toward the goal" (vv.12-14a). It is not easy to win a game, and it is also not easy to win the victory in a war. These require us to pursue by forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before. Likewise, we need to gain Christ by experiencing and enjoying Him in His full ministry.

　　(How to be a Co-worker and an Elder and How to Fulfill Their obligations)

«　WEEK 6　DAY 4　»

　　Rom. 4:25 Who was delivered for our offenses and was raised for our justification.

　　1 Cor. 15:45b … the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

　　The Bible shows us that the Lord Jesus, who was God, took two big steps for the accomplishment of God's purpose. The first big step was that He was incarnated to be a real man with flesh and blood that He might be our Redeemer for the redemption of our sins. Then He took the second big step in His resurrection to become the life-giving Spirit. Today... the Lord Jesus in whom we believe is the One who became flesh, who shed His blood for the redemption of sins, who died and was resurrected, and who dispenses life. When we believed into Him, first our sins were forgiven and we were redeemed, and second, He came into us. This is not only a doctrine; this is our experience. When you repent, confess your sins, pray, and believe in the Lord Jesus, you not only have peace within but have the forgiveness of sins so that the problems between you and God are resolved. After that you will feel that there is One who has come into you.

　　The Lord has surely come into you. However...Today there are some who say that the Lord is in heaven and not in us and that He is so great and man is too small to contain Him. Therefore, they say that the Lord is not in us, but rather that He has a representative, the Holy Spirit, who is representing Him within us. This is truly to twist the Bible.

　　On the one hand, Romans 8:34 clearly says that today the Lord Jesus is in heaven sitting at the right hand of God. On the other hand, verse 10 of the same chapter says that Christ is in us. These are two aspects of the Lord Jesus. We can use electricity as an illustration. There is electricity in this building, and there is also electricity in the electric power plant. They are not two electricities but one electricity. Our Lord, who is boundless, was resurrected from the dead and became the life-giving Spirit. Therefore, John 7:38-39 says that out of the innermost being of those who believe into Him will flow rivers of living water. This He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive, but the Spirit was not yet. At the time the Lord Jesus spoke this word, the life-giving Spirit was not yet, because the Lord had not yet been resurrected from the dead and had not yet been glorified. In other words, at the time He was resurrected from the dead and was thus glorified (Luke 24:26), He then was the life-giving Spirit. This is the biblical truth.

　　Now this Redeemer has become the life-giving Spirit. When we believed into Him, God forgave us of our sins, and this life-giving Spirit entered into our spirit to regenerate our spirit. Therefore, John 3:6 says, “That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” To be regenerated in our spirit means that we have another life; the divine life entered into us in addition to the life which we have in our flesh. Thus, we were born twice and have two lives. The first time, we were born of the flesh of our parents, so we have the life of the flesh. The second time, we were born of the Spirit of God in our spirit, so we have the life of the Spirit. Our Lord, who is the life-giving Spirit, dwells in our spirit. Therefore, 2 Timothy 4:22 says, “The Lord be with your spirit”...1 Corinthians 6:17 says, “But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit”...Now we surely know...as the Spirit, the Lord Jesus has entered into our spirit to dwell in our spirit. Thus, the two spirits became one spirit. (The Living of Mutual Abiding With The Lord In Spirit)

«　WEEK 6　DAY 5　»

　　Eph. 3: 8 To me, less than the least of all saints, was this grace given to announce to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel.

　　17 That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith….

　　1 Cor. 3:16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

　　In Eph. 3:8, Paul says that he will preach to us the unsearchable riches of Christ. Literally, this word seems to be very simple. But it is not that easy to understand what is the unsearchable riches of Christ. This phrase means that the riches of Christ are immeasurable. Because it is too mysterious and too inexhaustible to be described in human words, Paul could only use the four dimensions – breadth, length, height, and depth – to describe what Christ is. Christ is the breadth; He is the length, the height, and the depth. The breadth, length, height, and depth of the universe are all unlimited. These are the dimensions of Christ.

　　In verse 17 Paul said, “That Christ…makes His home in your hearts.” When Christ makes His home in our hearts and fills and saturates our whole being, we will be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth of Christ. The word “make home” here is a compound word in Greek. It is the verbal form of the noun oikos, which means house, with the prefix kata added to it. Kata has the sense of establishing in a firm way.

　　For this Paul prayed to the Father. He said that he bowed his knees unto the Father, that He would, according to the riches of His glory and through His Spirit, have Christ make home in our hearts. The meaning of this prayer is very deep. First, it mentions the Father. Second, it mentions the Spirit. Third, it mentions Christ. Lastly, it mentions our heart.

　　Our heart is composed of four parts: the mind, the emotion, the will, and the conscience. For Christ to make home in our heart is for Him to make home in these four parts…we have received Christ into our heart. But is He in our mind, emotion, will and conscience? …The brothers like to exercise their minds. They often remain in their minds. Also they are usually strong in their will. If they say yes, they mean yes. Whether they are right or wrong, they would insist to the end. The sisters are more apt to exercise their emotions. They are often swayed by their joy, their anger, their sorrow, and their elation. All these means that Christ has no place and is not making home in our mind, emotion, and will. We really should have given to Him every room of our heart. All the other tenants in the rooms of our heart have to be chased away. First Corinthians 3:16 says that we are the temple of God. But this temple is occupied by many illegal tenants. We need the Lord Jesus to chase them away with a whip that this temple may be cleansed; just as He cleansed the temple twice while He was on earth (John 2:14-15; Matt.21:12), chasing away all the oxen, sheep, doves, buyers and sellers, and money changers. Only then can Christ make His home in our hearts.

　　(Christ Revealed in the New Testament)

«　WEEK 6　DAY 6　»

　　1 Thes. 5:23 And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

　　2 Cor. 3:18 But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.

　　How does the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—work Himself into the tripartite man of spirit, soul, and body? First, Christ enters into our spirit and makes our spirit alive…Then if we set our mind on the spirit continually, the Spirit will enter into our mind, so that our mind will be filled with the Spirit and will become the divine life. In this way, not only our spirit will have life; our mind also will have life. Finally, He who raised Christ from among the dead will give life to our mortal body through the Spirit of resurrection, who dwells in us, so that we will have life also in our body…This is how the Triune God dispenses Himself into the tripartite man. This is also the greatest and the most profound mystery in the universe.

　　This work of putting the Triune God Himself into us…is very refined and tender. As long as you confess that you are a sinner and believe in the Lord Jesus, this Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—will enter into you to be your life and everything…Moreover, He is your law, the law of the Spirit of life. This law is a tremendous thing. When you see an electric fan turning, you know that there is a law of electricity operating within the electric fan. Electricity is transmitted from the power plant to the house and is then connected to the electric fan. There is also a switch. When you want the fan to turn, you do not need to turn it with a bamboo pole. You only need to turn on the switch; the fan will immediately turn and the cool wind will come.

　　As a Christian today, do you live the Christian life by “turning the fan with a bamboo pole,” or are you “turning on the switch” to allow the fan to turn by itself? Some have prayed much for the Lord to help them and to strengthen them so that they can honor their parents and control their temper. Actually, this kind of prayer is like turning the fan with a bamboo pole…you no longer need to turn the fan with the pole, you need to see…that the electricity from the power plant has been installed into this house. The electric fan is here. The switch is installed. There is no need for you to do anything else. You only need to turn on the switch, and the fan will turn.

　　(A Deeper Study of the Divine Dispensing)

　　The Lord starts His salvation from the center by regenerating us in our spirit (John 3:6). At the very moment we receive Christ as our Savior, the Spirit of the Lord comes into our spirit to regenerate us by imparting Christ into our spirit as life. By this divine act our deadened spirit is not only made alive, but the life of God with its divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4) is put into it. Thus, a change of life is begun from the very center of our being.

　　From the moment we are regenerated in our spirit, it is the Lord's desire that this change of life continue by spreading into our soul, that our mind, our emotion, and our will may all be transformed...We need Christ to continually expand from our spirit into our soul till every part of our soul is transformed into His image (2 Cor. 3:18). Then...we will have the likeness of the Lord in our practical life, because our soul is thoroughly saturated with His divine elements.

　　In the way of His salvation, the Lord firstly regenerates us in our spirit that we may have Him within us as our life. Then He begins to transform us in our soul that He may saturate, fill, and possess our whole being. Thus, we may be transformed into His image to be His very expression even now while living on this earth...at His coming back, He will transfigure us in our body.

　　(The Parts of Man)