Scripture Reading: Exo. 29:40-41; Lev. 23:10-13; Num. 15:1-10; 28:7-10; Gen. 35:14; Phil. 2:17; 2 Tim. 4:6; Rom. 16:3-5
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The drink offering typifies Christ as the One poured out as the real wine before God for His satisfaction—Exo. 29:40-41:
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The drink offering was in addition to the basic offerings, and it was poured out on one of the basic offerings—Num. 15:1-10; 28:7-10.
B
The wine of the drink offering was poured out for God's satisfaction; it was poured out for God to drink—Exo. 29:40-41:
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Christ poured out His being unto God—Isa. 53:12.
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Christ is the heavenly, spiritual wine poured out to God for His pleasure; He poured Himself out as wine to make God happy.
C
The vine depicts the sacrificing Christ, the Christ who sacrificed everything of Himself, and out of His sacrifice He produced new wine to cheer God and man—Judg. 9:13:
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Christ is the wine-producer, sacrificing Himself to produce wine to cheer God and others.
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If we contact this Christ and experience His sacrificing life, He will energize us to live a life of sacrifice, producing wine to make others and the Lord happy—2 Cor. 1:24a.
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The drink offering typifies not only Christ Himself but also the Christ who saturates us with Himself as heavenly wine until He and we become one to be poured out for God's enjoyment and satisfaction and for God's building—Matt. 9:17; Phil. 2:17; 2 Tim. 4:6:
A
The drink offering is a type of Christ as the heavenly wine who is enjoyed by the offerer, filling him and causing him to become wine to God—Phil. 2:17:
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By experiencing Christ as the offerings, we become persons who are filled and saturated with Christ—Eph. 3:17; Gal. 4:19.
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The Christ whom we experience subjectively as the offerings becomes wine in us, causing us to be ecstatically happy and joyful—Matt. 9:17; 2 Cor. 5:13a.
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Eventually, we are saturated with Christ as the heavenly wine and are one with the wine and even become wine; in this way we are qualified to be a drink offering—Matt. 9:17; 2 Cor. 5:13a; Eph. 5:2; Phil. 2:17:
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The drink offering is our subjective experience of being made one with the Lord to such an extent that He becomes us.
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The more we experience Christ as the offerings, the more of a drink offering we become—Num. 15:1-10.
B
Jacob poured out a drink offering on the pillar at Bethel, indicating that the drink offering is for God's building—Gen. 35:14:
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After Jacob had been touched by the Lord and somewhat transformed, he had wine to pour out on the pillar as a drink offering to the Lord.
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The wine poured out at Bethel is not the direct wine from the winepress; it is the indirect wine from those who enjoy Christ as wine and who are saturated with Christ as wine.
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In Bethel, in God's house, the church, we need to be poured out as a drink offering—2 Cor. 12:15a:
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The pillar indicates that the house of God is a matter of building.
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In order to have the drink offering poured out on the pillar, we must have the genuine building—Eph. 2:22.
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Wherever there is the drink offering, there is also the pillar set up as the house of God.
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The Christ whom we experience in a subjective way is the wine we pour out to satisfy God for His building.
C
The apostle Paul became a drink offering that was poured out upon the sacrifice and service of the saints' faith—Phil. 2:17; 2 Tim. 4:6:
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The wine of the drink offering in 2 Timothy 4:6 is the Christ (wine) of Matthew 9:17 who had saturated Paul and had made him wine.
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Paul became a drink offering for the church; this indicates that the drink offering is not only for the worship of God but especially for God's building.
D
Aquila and Priscilla, who risked their necks for Paul and for the churches, were a drink offering, ready to be poured out, martyred, for the church—Rom. 16:3-5.
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"It touches us very deeply to see a person who is so saturated with Christ that his only interest is Christ and the church" (Life-study of Genesis, p. 1150).
F
"We need to have a good number of saints who are ready to be poured out upon God's building. This is genuine martyrdom. Martyrdom is the pouring out of a drink offering full of the experience of Christ. When you are filled to the brim with the experience of Christ, then you will be ready to be poured out, to be martyred, for the building of God. We need this in the Lord's recovery today" (p. 1152).