Outline
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Christ is the Holy One and the true One (Rev. 3:7); to the church of brotherly love, the Lord is the Holy One, the true One, by whom and with whom the recovered church can be holy, separated from the world, and true, faithful, to God.
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Christ is the Amen and the faithful and true Witness—v. 14a:
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The confusion at Babel destroyed the universal language, but two words were not destroyed, Hallelujah and Amen; Amen simply means “that’s it.”
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Amen is a kind of eternal yes; “That’s it” is just Christ Himself; Christ has a name, and His name is called Amen—That’s it!—this is for life dispensing.
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Because Christ is the Amen (meaning “firm,” “steadfast,” or “trustworthy”), He is faithful and true as God’s Witness.
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Out of such a Christ ministered, the children of God have been brought forth to have eternal life (John 3:16), to partake of the fellowship of the eternal life by abiding in the Lord and walking in the light (1 John 1:3-7; 2:6), to be taught by the anointing (vv. 20, 27), to enjoy the virtues of the divine birth with the divine seed (3:9; 2:29; 4:7; 5:1,4, 16-21), to be the testimony of Jesus—the lampstands as the expression of the Triune God (Rev. 1:9-12, 20), to be the harvest with the firstfruits as the expression of life (14:1-5, 15-16), and to be the bride of the Lamb as His increase and satisfaction (John 3:29-30; Rev. 19:7-9).
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Eventually, the Triune God united, mingled, and incorporated with His redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite people will become the New Jerusalem as the ultimate consummation of the dispensing of the Triune God into man—21:2-3, 9-10, 22-23; 22:1-2.
Morning Nourishment
Rev. 3:7 …These things says the Holy One, the true One… 14…These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness…1 John 1:3 That which we have seen and heard we report also to you that you also may have fellowship with us, and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
In Revelation 3:7 Christ is revealed as the Holy One and the true One. In order to dispense life to others, He must be holy, and He must be true.
Christ is the faithful and true Witness (v. 14b)…He never tells a lie in His testimony. This also is for dispensing. A liar, a false witness, can never give life to others. If you are going to give life to others, you must be faithful, and you must be true. You must have no falsehood. Then you will be qualified to give life to others. Because He is living and holy and faithful and true, He is qualified to impart life into us. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 241-242)
Today’s Reading
Revelation 3:14a says that Christ is the Amen. What does Amen mean? This is the unique, heavenly, and divine language…When you say Amen, you mean “that’s it.” Oh, the divine dispensation is so wonderful! That’s it! Oh, the Triune God dispenses Himself into me! That’s it! I am so happy that I am in the church life. Amen! That’s it! The glorious church life! That’s it! It is real; it is yes forever. Amen is a kind of eternal yes. “That’s it” is just Christ Himself. Christ has a name, and His name is called Amen—That’s it! This is also for life dispensing.Out of Christ being ministered, the children of God have been brought forth. The issue of Christ being ministered is that many have been born of God. These children first of all have the eternal life (John 3:15-16, 36; 1 John 1:2; 5:12-13, 20). To have the eternal life simply means to have some living dispensing. Because you have the eternal life, it flows within you. This flowing within you is the dispensing of life.
We are partakers of the fellowship of the eternal life by abiding in the Lord and walking in the light (1:3-7; 2:6). The fellowship is the flowing. There is a life that flows between God and us. Even between the members of His Body there is such a flow. This flow reaches all of us and even God Himself. So this is a kind of fellowship. Electricity is a good illustration. Within the lamps in a house and within the power plant itself there is the flow of electricity. That flow is the fellowship between all the lamps. The current brings every lamp into the fellowship with the plant.
Within us there is a flow. That flow is the eternal life, and that is the fellowship. We all are partaking of such a fellowship. To partake of such a fellowship may not be so substantial as partaking of the divine nature, which Peter mentions (2 Pet. 1:4). But this fellowship is more enjoyable. For example, there are two ways to eat chicken: one is to eat the solid chicken, and the other is to eat soup made of chicken. When you are weak or sick, chicken soup is better than chicken. We may use the chicken to illustrate the divine nature, and chicken soup to illustrate the fellowship of the divine life. Which do you prefer? If you are a strong person, you may like solid chicken. This is good, but it is more tasteful to eat the chicken soup…Without a solid chicken, you could not have chicken soup. Likewise, without the divine nature you could not have the fellowship of the eternal life. The divine nature is the solid thing, the substance, and the fellowship of the divine life is the fellowship of this substance. This is for the life dispensing. The way to partake of the fellowship of the eternal life is to abide in the Lord and walk in the light. (CWWL, 1983, vol. 2, “The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity,” pp. 242-243)
Further Reading: CWWL, 1990, vol. 3, “A Deeper Study of the Divine Dispensing,” ch. 2