Scripture Reading: John 16:13; 4:23-24; 2 John 1; Eph. 4:15, 20-21, 24; Rev. 21:2
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We are constituted with Christ as the reality of the offerings by experiencing Christ as the Spirit of reality, who guides us into all the reality—John 1:14, 17b; 14:16-18; 15:26; 16:13; 1 John 5:6:
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Christ is the fulfillment, the replacement, and the reality of all the offerings—Heb. 10:5-10:
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As the reality of the sin offering, Christ was made sin on our behalf and died on the cross to deal with the sinful nature of our fallen being—2 Cor. 5:21; Rom. 8:3; John 3:14.
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As the reality of the trespass offering, Christ bore up our sins in His own body and was judged by God on the cross to deal with our sinful deeds that we might be forgiven in our sinful conduct—1 Pet. 2:24; 3:18.
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As the reality of the burnt offering, Christ is absolutely for God's pleasure and satisfaction—John 7:16-18.
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As the reality of the meal offering, Christ in His perfect humanity is food for God and for those who have fellowship with God and serve Him—John 7:46; 18:38; 19:4, 6.
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As the reality of the peace offering, Christ is the Peacemaker, the One who became the peace between us and God by dying for us—Eph. 2:14-15.
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As the reality of the wave offering, Christ is the resurrected, living One—Rev. 1:18; Acts 2:24.
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As the reality of the heave offering, Christ is the powerful One in ascension and exaltation—Eph. 1:21.
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As the reality of the drink offering, Christ is the One who was poured out as wine before God for His satisfaction—Phil. 2:17.
B
The Spirit of reality, the life-giving Spirit, is the reality of all that Christ is—John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13; 1 John 5:6; 1 Cor. 15:45b:
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The Spirit of reality is Christ; hence, the Spirit of reality is the Spirit of Christ—John 14:6; Rom. 8:9.
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The Spirit of reality is the reality of Christ that Christ may be realized in those who believe into Him—1 John 5:6.
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The Spirit of reality is the reality of the fulfillment of the offerings.
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When we are in the Spirit, Christ is the reality of all the offerings to us in our experience—John 16:13.
Ⅱ
Truthfulness is the revealed divine reality becoming our genuineness and sincerity that we may worship God, as God seeks, according to what He is—John 4:23-24:
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When we experience Christ as the reality of the offerings, He becomes our genuineness and sincerity so that we may worship the Father in spirit and truthfulness—v. 24.
B
The divine reality is Christ as the reality of all the offerings constituted into the believers to be the reality within them, which becomes their genuineness and sincerity in which they worship God with the worship that He seeks—v. 23.
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For the building up of the Body of Christ, we need to live a life of truthfulness, a life that corresponds with the divine light—2 John 1; 3 John 1; John 3:19-21; 1 Tim. 3:15; Eph. 4:15, 21, 24-25:
A
Truthfulness is the genuineness, sincerity, honesty, and faithfulness of God as a divine virtue and of man as a human virtue and as an issue of the divine reality; this is the virtue of God becoming our virtue, by which we love the believers—Rom. 3:7; 15:8; 2 Cor. 11:10; 1 John 3:18; 2 John 1; 3 John 1.
B
The church is the supporting pillar and holding base of the truth—1 Tim. 3:15:
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Truth in 1 Timothy 3:15 refers to the real things revealed in the New Testament concerning Christ and the church according to God's New Testament economy.
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The church bears Christ as the reality, testifying to the whole universe that Christ, and Christ alone, is the reality—John 1:14, 17a; 14:6a.
C
In living the Body life, we should hold to truth in love that we may grow up into Christ in all things—Eph. 4:15.
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For the building up of the Body of Christ, we need to "learn Christ," being "taught in Him as the reality is in Jesus," putting off the lie and speaking truth—vv. 20-21, 24-25.
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Christ as the reality of all the offerings will eventually issue in the New Jerusalem, the City of Truth—Zech. 8:3; Rev. 21:2, 10-11, 18, 21b; 22:1, 15:
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By experiencing Christ as the reality of the burnt offering, we are reduced to ashes, and in resurrection the ashes become the New Jerusalem—21:2.
B
As the ultimate consummation of the mingling of the Triune God with the tripartite man, the New Jerusalem will be a great meal offering—22:17.
C
Our experience of Christ as the reality of the peace offering will consummate in the New Jerusalem as the ultimate peace offering—an entity of peace where we will enjoy the Triune God as our peace for eternity—21:2, 9-10; Isa. 66:12.