«　WEEK 24　DAY 5　»

　　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.

　　1 Tim. 3:15 But if I delay, I write that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.

　　The Spirit always convicts the world concerning the three matters of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Sin entered through Adam (Rom. 5:12), righteousness is the resurrected Christ (1 Cor. 1:30), and judgment is for Satan, who is the author and source of sin (John 8:44). We were born of sin in Adam.

　　The Spirit works in the believers by regenerating them (John 3:5-6).

　　Regeneration is God's dispensing of Himself in His life and nature into our being.

　　Therefore, regeneration is the reality of the divine dispensing.

　　The Spirit also works in the believers to supply them with His bountiful supply. In Philippians 1:19 Paul says, "I know that for me this shall turn out to salvation through your petition and the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ." (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 931, 933, 942)

　　Second Corinthians 3:18 says, "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." As we behold and reflect the glory of the Lord, He infuses us with the elements of what He is and what He has done. He dispenses these elements into us. The result is that we are being transformed metabolically to have His life shape by His life power with His life essence.

　　The New Testament reveals that the Spirit anoints the believers....The Spirit moves in us, anointing God Himself into us that the element of God may become our constituent and that we may know God and desire His will in everything.

　　In the book of Revelation we see that the Spirit speaks to the churches (2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22; 14:13). (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 953-954, 1005, 1059)

　　[In Leviticus 26] the people were also warned to reverence God's sanctuary (v. 2b). The Sabbath stands for a lot, and the sanctuary stands for even more. Reverencing God's sanctuary signifies that we should regard with reverence all that God is and has accomplished in Christ as His dwelling, embodiment, and expression (John 1:14; Col. 2:9) and in the church as the enlargement of Christ for God's dwelling and eternal manifestation (Eph. 2:22; Rev. 21:10).

　　Three matters—God, God's work, and the result of God's work—are covered fully in the sixty-six books of the Bible. In the Old Testament we see the types, and in the New Testament we see the fulfillment. The entire Bible is thus an unveiling of these three things. First we have the processed Triune God and His work for our rest, and then, as the result of His work, we have the church as the expression and the enlargement of the consummated Christ. We need to see this. Seeing these three things will give us a strong basis for obeying, going along with, God. (Life-study of Leviticus, pp. 529, 537)

　　Many Christians have read through the book of Exodus without being deeply impressed with the fact that the goal of God's salvation is to bring His redeemed people into His dwelling place on earth. God's aim in His salvation is to make us His dwelling place. (Life-study of Exodus, p. 935)

　　The church, the dwelling place of God on earth, is the place in which God can have His rest and put His trust. In this dwelling place God lives and moves to accomplish His will and satisfy the desire of His heart. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 2229)

　　Further Reading: The Conclusion of the New Testament, msgs. 87-98; Life-study of Leviticus, msg. 59