Scripture Reading: Phil. 1:19-21a; 3:8-14; Eph. 3:1; 4:1, 11-12, 16; 6:18, 20; Rom. 8:2, 29

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«　WEEK 5　DAY 1　»

　　Gen. 2:22-23 "And Jehovah God built the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a woman and brought her to the man. And the man said, This time this is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman because out of Man this one was taken"

　　1 Cor. 12:12 "For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ."

　　The building of Eve with the rib taken from Adam's side typifies the building of the church with the resurrection life released from Christ through His death on the cross and imparted into His believers in His resurrection (John 12:24; 1 Pet. 1:3). The church as the real Eve is the totality of Christ in all His believers. Only that which comes out of Christ with His resurrection life can be His complement and counterpart, the Body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:12; Eph. 5:28-30). (Gen. 2:22, footnote 1)

　　The church is nothing more than a pure product out of Christ.…Eve was fully, completely, and purely produced out of Adam (Gen. 2:21-24).…Besides the adamic element, there was no other element in Eve.…[She] was a full reproduction of Adam. Adam and Eve are a type of Christ and the church (Eph. 5:30-32; Gen. 2:22-24). The church must also be one element—the element of Christ. Other than Christ's element there should be no other element in the church. Such a vision will cause us to mourn over today's situation. Within Christianity today there is very little of the element of Christ. Instead, innumerable elements other than Christ can be seen. In the Lord's recovery, however, the church must be the pure element of Christ. Anything that is other than Christ is not the church. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders' Training, Book 2: The Vision of the Lord's Recovery, “p. 115)

　　We must see the church in its essence, its function, and its practicality.…Any natural, fleshly, or ambitious element will be ruled out by this vision. Under this vision we do not have the boldness to exercise anything of our natural man. In this respect, such a vision paralyzes us. Most Christians realize that the church is a constitution, a composition, of all the believers in Christ. By the Lord's mercy, however, what we have seen…is a higher vision concerning the church.…Just as Eve was a pure product out of Adam, so the church must be a pure product out of Christ. Someone may ask how the church today could be such an Eve, a pure product out of Christ. This is why we all need to see the vision. When you see the vision, you are Eve.…All things other than the pure element of Christ are ruled out by this vision. This is why we should not remain under the influence of the traditional teachings. We need the vision. When we see the vision that the church is in resurrection, in Christ, and in the heavenlies, it will rule out everything other than Christ, resurrection, and the heavenlies. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders' Training, Book 2:The Vision of the Lord's Recovery, “p. 118)

　　Christ is not only the Head of the Body [Col.1:18] but also the Body of the Head (1 Cor. 12:12). Because He is the all-inclusive One, He is the Head and He is the Body. According to Colossians 3:10-11, in the new man Christ is all and in all. This means that He is all the members of the new man and in all the members.…How the church as the Body of Christ can be Christ and how Christ can be all the members of the new man…depend upon who lives. If we live alone by ourselves, we are not Christ. If we live Christ, letting Christ live in us, then we live in Him, and we are Christ.…If the church lives Christ, the church is Christ. If we all live Christ, we are Christ. The Christian life should be like this. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, “Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990, “pp. 568-569)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1988, vol. 3, “The Organism of the Triune God in the Organic Union of His Divine Trinity, “ch. 1; CWWL, 1984, vol. 2, “Elders' Training, Book 2:The Vision of the Lord's Recovery, “ch. 3; CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, “Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990, “ch. 18

«　WEEK 5　DAY 2　»

　　Eph. 3:1 "For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you, the Gentiles."

　　Eph. 4:1 "I beseech you therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called."

　　Although Paul was a steward, …the apostle…considered himself the prisoner of Christ [Eph. 3:1]. Apparently he was confined in a physical prison; actually he was imprisoned in Christ. On the basis of such a status, the status of his actual living as a prisoner in Christ, he besought the saints [4:1].

　　Paul considered himself the prisoner of Christ because he had been imprisoned by Christ.…Christ was Paul's prison. One day, the very Christ whom you love will become your prison. Sooner or later, every steward of God, every minister of God's riches, every faithful lover of Christ, will be imprisoned not only by Christ but also in Christ. The more you love Him, the more you will be in Him. Eventually, you will be in Him to such an extent that He will become your prison. Once you are placed in this prison, you will not want to get out, because you will love this prison very much. Here you enjoy Christ to the uttermost. (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 242-243)

　　Everyone who loves the Bible has a high regard for the Epistle to the Ephesians.…Ephesians contains the highest revelation in the Bible. This revelation was given to a man imprisoned in Christ, a man who enjoyed Christ as his prison. This indicates that in order to see something so heavenly and divine, we need to be a prisoner in the Lord. The more freedom we have, the more blind we are. But if Christ is our prison, our eyes will be opened to see the heavenly vision, and we shall receive the highest revelation.

　　Christ is unlimited, immeasurable, and unsearchable. He is the all-inclusive One that fills all in all (1:23). He is even the very dimensions of the universe: the breadth and length and height and depth (3:18). What a Christ He is! Ephesians 5:25 says that Christ “loved the church and gave Himself up for her.” This verse indicates that Christ is a church-loving Christ.…[He is also] the new-man-creating Christ, the all-things-heading-up Christ, the gift-making and gift-giving Christ, and the home-making Christ. What a Christ we have! (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 243, 662, 668)

　　God's hand led and directed Ezekiel as a person who spoke for God. His every action was under God's hand. Wherever he went, whatever he did, and how he acted and behaved were all due to God's leading and directing hand. Whether he was bound or free, whether he mourned or rejoiced, whether he went or came—everything was under the leading and directing of God's hand. Here we see that a man who speaks for God no longer has his own freedom and can no longer do things according to his own convenience. If God's hand leads him to go to a certain place, he must go there. If God's hand directs him to do a certain thing, he must do it. His actions are according to the leading of God's hand and are under the strict directing of God's hand. Where he goes and what he does are not according to his choice but are under and according to the leading and directing hand of God. This requires the one who speaks for God to pay a considerable price. (Life-study of Ezekiel, pp. 21-22)

　　Among so many who have been captured by Christ, Paul was one. He was one of the biggest opponents to Christ and to His gospel. One day on the road to Damascus, he was conquered, subdued, and captured (Acts 9:1-9). From that day he became a captive of Christ. We may think that Paul was going out to travel here and there as a wonderful preacher. But according to his feeling, he was in the triumphal procession of Christ.…Paul was a captive in the celebration of Christ's victory. (CWWL, 1967, vol. 2, “An Autobiography of a Person in the Spirit, “p. 151)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Ephesians, msgs. 28, 79; Life-study of Ezekiel, msg. 2; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “The God-man Living, “msg. 8; CWWL, 1967, vol. 2, “An Autobiography of a Person in the Spirit, “chs. 3, 6

«　WEEK 5　DAY 3　»

　　Rom. 8:2 "For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death."

　　Rom. 8:4-6 "That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who…walk…according to the spirit. For…those who are according to the spirit, [mind] the things of the Spirit. For…the mind set on the spirit is life and peace."

　　Due to the ignorance and blindness of the Christians throughout the centuries, Romans 8 has remained closed. For this reason there has been very little Body life.…Even up to this day there is little Body life because the secret of how to have the Body life has not been unveiled. It has been under the cover here in Romans 8. We must see how this law is just the processed all-inclusive God as the all-inclusive Spirit indwelling us. This is the law. We also must see how this law works scientifically through all the ingredients that are incorporated in this wonderful being. As long as this wonderful being exists in us, He Himself as a law works through all that He has and all that He is. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, “p. 332)

　　In our daily life we cannot say strongly that we live Christ.…The issue of our daily life is not much for the building up of the Body of Christ.…Although we may pray, we may pray-read, we may love the Lord, we may live outside of the world, we may not sin, we may be quite godly and pious, yet we have to check how much Christ is really there. You may attend meetings and have the church life, …but…how much of Christ is there in your daily life, and how much of the building of the Body has issued out of your daily life?

　　What we call the Body life may be just a kind of spiritual, communal, or social life. We may be Christian brothers standing on the proper ground, meeting together into the name of the Lord, and handling some spiritual things.…These are not the Body life. Actually, this is some kind of church life without that much of Christ and without that much of the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ is just the issue of the experience of Christ. It has to be altogether Christ. We need to pray, “Lord, as You have opened up Your Word to me and as You have opened up my eyes to see Your Word, I need Your mercy and I need Your grace to be brought into this reality. I need to live You for the issuing out of the Body. I need such a reality. Lord, would You give me the grace that I could forget everything else? I would forget every problem, and I would not care for anything else except for Christ and the issue of Christ, the Body.” We need such a prayer, a desperate prayer.

　　The very God who is triune and who has been processed and who has become the indwelling Spirit is first installed into our spirit. Then from our spirit He spreads into our mind, and from our mind He eventually saturates our body. The very God installed into us is the law of the Spirit of life. Today this God does everything for us not by activity but always by law.…[Today] we just need to walk according to the spirit. That means we set our mind on the spirit. When we walk according to the spirit, many wonderful doings are going on within us by the law. That is God working within us.

　　According to the traditional Christian concepts, when we pray to God for certain things, then God comes in to do something as an activity. But according to Romans 8, in God's New Testament economy He does not work that way. That was the Old Testament economy.…But in the New Testament…God as the Triune God has been processed to be the indwelling, all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit. And the Spirit today, according to Romans 8, is a law. This means that it is the spontaneous automatic principle of the processed Triune God working within us. In the New Testament economy, God works for His redeemed people not by activities but by the automatic principle. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, ” pp. 140-143, 354-355, 367-368)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, “chs. 12, 32-37; CWWN, vol. 9, pp. 253-262

«　WEEK 5　DAY 4　»

　　Rom. 8:4 "That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit."

　　Col. 4:2 "Persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving."

　　1 Thes. 5:17 "Unceasingly pray."

　　[That God] works within us not by activities but by law…is one of the biggest discoveries, even recoveries, in God's economy. We need…to cooperate with Him.…To cooperate with this law is to walk according to the spirit, and to walk according to the spirit is the way to cooperate with this working law. The law has been installed, but the law's function and the law's operation need your cooperation. And your cooperation is just to walk according to the spirit.

　　Doctrinally we know that [Christ] is the life-giving Spirit and that He is now in our spirit.…Your peculiarity is just to live yourself, so you would reject this. You would practice to live Christ, realizing that He is the life-giving Spirit right now in your spirit. But what shall you do practically?…You have to pray all day long.…At anytime and anywhere you must always pray from your spirit, saying, “Lord, live in me. Lord, live out of me.” This brings us to the very crucial point—you must practice to live Christ. This is not a doctrinal matter; this must be a daily, hourly, moment-by-moment practice. Do not say something without praying, “Lord, You say it. I am going to say something to this man. Lord, You say it. You be my life.” Pray every moment in anything, in everything, and everywhere. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, “pp. 360, 364, 150)

　　All the time you have to pray, “Lord, live through me. Lord, live through me.” At work, in your kitchen, doing your laundry, pray, “Lord, live through me.” We all need to practice this.…Some top pianists may practice as many as fifteen hours a day.…We need to practice…twenty-four hours a day to live Christ.…Paul says, “To me, to live is Christ…that I may gain Christ and be found in Him…to know Him.” This is his aspiration for his practice of living Christ. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, “p. 152)

　　[To unceasingly pray] is to have uninterrupted fellowship with God in our spirit. It requires perseverance (Rom. 12:12; Col. 4:2) with a strong spirit (Eph. 6:18). (1 Thes. 5:17, footnote 1)

　　According to the Lord's word in Matthew 26, we are all sleepy persons. If you do not sleep physically, you sleep spiritually. And many times you sleep psychologically. While I am speaking, some may be sleeping physically, and others are sleeping psychologically. This means that their mind and their attention and their hearing and their realization are absent. Sometimes you are sleeping spiritually. This means that your perception is dormant. To be a person who prays unceasingly, you must be a watchful person, a person fully awakened, fighting against your sleeping nature and your sleeping being. How do you fight? By petitioning. Prayer is a general thing; petition is a special, particular thing. You have to watch unto the general prayer by special petition.

　　First Thessalonians 5:17 says, “Unceasingly pray.” Now you understand how to pray without ceasing—just be watchful. To be watchful helps you to build up a habit of prayer. The ultimate and consummate conclusion of all the charges in the Bible is that we need to live Christ and walk in the spirit. It is not to love this or love that, nor is it to do this or to do that. The final word is to live Christ and to walk in spirit. We need to do this by the way of watching unto prayer in all petition. There is no other way that we can live Christ continually, and there is no other way that we can walk in spirit. Actually, here the word walk equals the word live. To walk in spirit actually means to live in spirit. So to live Christ is a matter of living in spirit. This can never be possible unless we have a prayer life with a continual watching in all petition. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, “pp. 160, 162)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, “chs. 13-14, 30-31, 36

«　WEEK 5　DAY 5　»

　　Eph. 6:17-18 "And receive…the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God, by means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit…"

　　Col. 3:16 "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God."

　　[To live Christ all the time] we must be plugged into the contact with these two wires, the Word and the Spirit.…If we are going to live Christ, we must have ourselves plugged into this current.…To pray unceasingly…is to keep ourselves plugged into that heavenly current. Once we are cut off from the heavenly current, we are through. It does not matter how many years of experience we have in Christ. Although this room may have received electricity for fifty years, once it is insulated, the current is cut off.

　　First Thessalonians 5:17 says, “Unceasingly pray.” Colossians 4:2 says, “Persevere in prayer.” …Ephesians 6:18 says, “Praying at every time.” This means praying at every second—not only praying at every hour or every minute but every second.…Praying in the Bible is spiritual breathing. Among all the matters that maintain our human life, our breathing never ceases. So the New Testament says to pray unceasingly, pray continually, pray at every time, and pray at every time in spirit. How could we pray all the time? By putting Ephesians 5:17-20 and Colossians 3:16-17 together, we can be clear. These two portions are parallel portions, sister portions. Ephesians says, “Be filled in spirit.” No doubt this surely refers to prayer. There is no other way for you to be filled in your spirit.…You have to pray. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, ” pp. 179-180)

　　Colossians 3:16 says, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.” How do you let the word of Christ dwell in you? It should be in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God. Then verse 17 says, “Whatever you do in word or in deed, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.” We have the Spirit as the antenna wire and the Word as the ground wire. The antenna wire is in us, in our spirit, and the ground wire is in our hand; we just need to remain here with these two wires.…It altogether depends upon our daily practice. We must practice continual prayer and continual praising and continual psalming and singing and thanking because we are breathing Him in, making Him our saturation and making ourselves practically one with Him. Spontaneously we will live Christ.

　　The Bible could be living to you only when you breathe it, when you pray it, when you praise it, when you sing-read it, when you psalm-read it. All the lines of the Holy Writings will become the living God, the living pneuma, to you. Then you will get the transmission, the transfusion, the permeation, making Him everything to you and making you one with Him. Then whatever you say and whatever you do will be Christ. This is to live Christ. You must put this into practice.

　　Nothing pleases the Lord so much as for us to realize that He does not want us to do anything. He only wants us to love Him, to open ourselves up to Him, and to let Him live from within us.… From the very beginning when God created man, God had no intention to ask man to do anything for Him. God's intention was to create a vessel to contain Him and to express Him, so God only wants an opening of the vessel. If the vessel is open, God can fulfill His purpose, but if the vessel is closed, God's purpose is frustrated. Paul's fourteen Epistles…[in] summary…may be expressed in just two words: open vessel. God wants an open vessel. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, “pp. 181-183, 239, 241)

　　Further Reading: CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, “chs. 15-17, 22

«　WEEK 5　DAY 6　»

　　Jer. 31:33 "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares Jehovah: I will put My law in their inward parts and write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be My people."

　　Ezek. 36:27 "And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and My ordinances you shall keep and do."

　　According to its life, the law of the new covenant is the Triune God, and according to its function, it is the almighty divine capacity. This divine capacity can do everything in us for the carrying out of God's economy. According to this capacity we can know God, live God, and be constituted with God in His life and nature that we may become His increase, His enlargement, to be His fullness for His eternal expression (Eph. 1:22-23; 3:19-21). Furthermore, the capacity of the inner law of life constitutes us the members of the Body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:27; Eph. 5:30) with all kinds of functions (Rom. 12:4-8; Eph. 4:11, 16). (Jer. 31:33, footnote 1)

　　In Romans 9:23 Paul tells us that God created us as vessels of mercy unto glory. Then in 2 Corinthians 4:7 he says that “we have this treasure in earthen vessels.” These two verses may be considered as a basic secret to our experience of Christ and the church. You may hear a lot of messages on Christ and the church, yet if you do not realize that you have to be an open vessel, Christ and the church still have no way. What is the meaning of an open vessel? An open vessel is doing nothing but keeping itself open to the filling up. The processed God—the Triune God, the all-inclusive Spirit, the compound Spirit—is here waiting for an opening to get into you. How much He would enter into you depends upon how much opening you would give Him.

　　The Lord wants you to be active-passive. This means that He wants you to love Him and keep yourself all the time open to Him but to stop doing. Then you would see that you are saved, you are empowered, you are sanctified. You will become one who really enjoys the Lord's doing. When you pray, you will all the time be full of thanks.…You do not need to pray that the Lord will help you to win the victory and to overcome sin and to be patient. When you pray in this way, asking the Lord to help you, eventually it is not the Lord who helps you. You simply help yourself. Eventually, you are not so grateful, because you realize that you did everything. You just need to love Him and to keep yourself open to Him, giving Him every opportunity to do everything He wants to do. You become the enjoyer, enjoying Him and enjoying His doing. So whenever you would pray, thanks would come out of your mouth because you are so grateful to the Lord. You would experience that the Lord is your victory, your sanctification, everything to you. You will be the enjoyer of what the Lord is and of what the Lord does.

　　It does not mean that you are lazy or indifferent or dumb or sleepy. No. You are on the alert, and you are so sober. You love the Lord, and you keep yourself open to Him all the time. Yet you would not do anything, but He would do everything. Not only is this possible, but this is also required by the Lord. The Lord requires you to stop your doing. But He does not want you to be sleepy or indifferent; He wants you to be very alert. Love Him and keep yourself open to Him. Tell Him every day, “Lord, I love You. Lord, I am here open to You. Lord, have mercy upon me, and by Your grace I do not like to have any part of my being closed to You. I like to keep myself entirely and thoroughly open to You.” If you try this, you will see what will happen. You will not need to worry about your victory; you will not need to care for the losing of your temper. (CWWL, 1980, vol. 1, “Perfecting Training, “pp. 241, 246)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Jeremiah, msg. 26; CWWN, vol. 37, ch. 22