Scripture Reading: Psa. 110:3-4
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We need to experience Christ as our kingly High Priest according to the order of Melchisedec—Psa. 110:4; Heb. 5:5-6; 7:26-28:
A
As our kingly High Priest, Christ is praying for us and taking care of our case before God—4:14-16; 7:25.
B
As our kingly High Priest, Christ is ministering God into us as our supply to fulfill God's eternal purpose by saving us to the uttermost—v. 1, 25; 8:2; Gen. 14:18; Rom. 5:10.
Ⅱ
We need to cooperate with Christ's heavenly ministry in the day of His warfare by presenting ourselves as freewill offerings to the Lord in the splendor of consecration and by being His young men who are like the dew to Him from the womb of the dawn—Psa. 110:3:
A
We need to have an absolute and thorough consecration of our whole being with everything we have to the Lord for the accomplishment of His eternal economy—Matt. 26:6-13.
B
We need to rise up early in the morning to contact the Lord so that we may enter into the womb of the dawn to be conceived as the dew for Christ's watering—6:6; Mark 1:35; Matt. 14:22-23.
C
We need to live a life of the altar and the tent, keeping ourselves empty, open, fresh, living, and young with the Lord for His new move—Gen. 12:7-8:
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We need to be emptied and unloaded in our spirit, in the depth of our being, that we may receive Christ as the reality of the kingdom of the heavens—Matt. 5:3; Luke 1:53.
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We need to be open vessels; the one who experiences the greatest amount of transformation is the one who is the most open to the Lord—18:17; Prov. 20:27; Rev. 4:5.
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We need to receive the Spirit as the fresh oil—Zech. 4:12-14; Matt. 25:8-9; Rev. 3:18.
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We need to walk in newness of life and serve in newness of spirit—Rom. 6:4; 7:6; cf. Ezek. 36:26-27; 2 Cor. 3:16; Matt. 5:8; 26:29.
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We need to be vitalized by the Lord to be the living and functioning members of His Body—1 Cor. 14:4b, 31; cf. Rev. 3.1; 14:4.
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We need to be renewed day by day with the fresh supply of the resurrection life to stay young in the Lord—2 Cor. 4:16; Eph. 5:26.
D
We need to fight for the brothers in oneness with Christ in His heavenly ministry to cherish the churches in His humanity and nourish the churches in His divinity to produce the overcomers through His organic shepherding—Rev. 1:13, 2:7; 1 Pet. 5:4; Heb. 13:20; 1 John 5:16; cf. Acts 6:4; Rev. 1:20:
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The Son of Man is in His humanity, the golden girdle signifies His divinity, and the breasts are a sign of love:
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Christ was girded at the loins, strengthened for the divine work (Exo. 28:4; Dan. 10:5) to produce the churches, but now He is girded about at the breasts, caring for the churches which He has produced by His love.
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The golden girdle signifies Christ's divinity as His divine energy, and the breasts signify that this golden energy is exercised and motivated by and with His love to nourish the churches.
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Christ takes care of the churches in His humanity as the Son of Man to cherish them—Rev. 1:13a:
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He dresses the lamps of the lampstands to make them proper, cherishing us that we may be happy, pleasant, and comfortable—Exo. 30:7; cf. Psa. 42:5, 11:
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The Lord's presence provides an atmosphere of tenderness and warmth to cherish our being, giving us rest, comfort, healing, cleansing, and encouragement.
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We can enjoy the cherishing atmosphere of the Lord's presence in the church to receive the nourishing supply of life—Eph. 5:29; cf. 1 Tim. 4:6; Eph. 4:11.
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He trims the wicks of the lamps of the lampstand, cutting off all the negative things which frustrate our shining—Exo. 25:38:
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The charred part of the wick, the snuff, signifies things that are not according to God's purpose which need to be cut off, such as our flesh, our natural man, our self, and our old creation.
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He trims away all the differences among the churches (the wrongdoings, shortages, failures, and defects) so that they may be the same in essence, appearance, and expression—cf. 1 Cor. 1:10; 2 Cor. 12:18; Phil. 2:2.
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Christ takes care of the churches in His divinity with His divine love, signified by the golden girdle on His breasts, to nourish the churches—Rev. 1:13b:
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He nourishes us with Himself as the all-inclusive Christ in His full ministry of three stages so that we may grow and mature in the divine life to be His overcomers to accomplish His eternal economy.
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As the walking Christ, He gets to know the condition of each church, and as the speaking Spirit, He trims and fills the lampstands with fresh oil, the supply of the Spirit—2:1, 7.
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To participate in His move and enjoy His care we must be in the churches.