THE THIRD PART: 24 CRUCIAL LINES IN THE BIBLE
Truth
Message Seven
The Highest Truth
Scripture Reading: 2 Samuel 7:12-14, Rom. 8:3; 1:3-4, John 1:12-13, Eph. 3:17a, Rev. 21:9-11; 22:17
I. “If we look at today’s outward situation, we can see the lack of the building up of the Body of Christ, which consummates the New Jerusalem; this is why the Lord has charged me to release the high peaks of His divine revelation; first, we need to release the truth that God became a man so that man may become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead; then we need to release the truth concerning the New Jerusalem; my burden is to release these two great truths”: (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “The Application of the Interpretation of the New Jerusalem to the Seeking Believers”, msg. 5)
A. The “diamond” in the “box” of the Bible is the revelation that in Christ God has become man in order that man might become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead—2 Sam. 7:12-14a; Rom. 1:3-4; Eph. 3:17a. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
B. The main contents of the New Testament are that the Triune God has an eternal economy according to His good pleasure to dispense Himself into His chosen and redeemed people in His life and in His nature, to make all of them His duplication that they may express Him; this corporate expression will consummate in the New Jerusalem—Eph. 3:9; 1:9-23. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
C. The New Jerusalem, the ultimate consummation of the Bible, involves God becoming man and man becoming God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead—Rev. 21:2; 3:12: (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
1. In Christ God has become man to make man God in His life and in His nature so that the redeeming God and the redeemed man can be mingled, constituted, together to be one entity—the New Jerusalem—21:3, 22. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
2. Eventually, the triune, eternal God becomes the New Jerusalem incorporated with all of us, and we also become the New Jerusalem through the process of God’s organic salvation—Rom. 5:10. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
II. The New Jerusalem is a composition of divinity and humanity mingled, blended, and built up together as one entity—John 14:20, 23; Rev. 21:2-3, 9-23: (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
A. God and man, man and God, are built up together by being blended and mingled together—John 14:20, 23; 15:4a; 1 Cor. 6:17. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
B. This is a matter of God becoming man and man becoming God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
III. The New Jerusalem is the enlarged God—Gen. 1:1; Rev. 4:2-3; 21:10-11: (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
A. The New Jerusalem is God’s enlargement and expansion, God’s expression in eternity, which is the corporate God—4:2-3; 21:10-11. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
B. All sixty-six books of the Bible explain the enlarged God, the New Jerusalem: (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
1. The New Jerusalem is the very God who was in the beginning—Gen. 1:1. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
2. In the beginning of the Bible, there is a single God; at the end there is a great corporate God—the New Jerusalem—Rev. 21:9-11. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
3. In the beginning He is a simple God, who is triune; at the end a city appears, and that city is the New Jerusalem—v. 10. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
C. Those who participate in the New Jerusalem are all God’s children, God’s species; hence, the New Jerusalem is the corporate God—John 1:12-13; 3:3-6. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
IV. The firstborn Son, the many sons of God, and the consummation of the processed and consummated Triune God issue in one thing—the New Jerusalem—Rom. 8:29; Heb. 2:10; John 7:39; Gal. 3:14; Rev. 21:2: (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
A. God the Father has a great family of many sons—Eph. 2:19b; 1 Tim. 3:15-16. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
B. The New Jerusalem is the aggregate, the totality, of the many God-men—Rev. 21:7. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
V. The New Jerusalem is a composition of God’s chosen, redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, renewed, transformed, conformed, and glorified people who have been deified—John 3:6; Heb. 2:11; Rom. 12:2; 8:29-30: (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
A. For us to be deified means that we are being constituted with the processed and consummated Triune God so that we may be made God in life and in nature to be His corporate expression for eternity—Rev. 21:11. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
B. The deification of the believers is a process that will consummate in the New Jerusalem; this is the highest truth and the highest gospel—3:12. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
VI. The New Jerusalem is the real and consummate Shulammite—a corporate Shulammite, including all of God’s chosen and redeemed people—S. S. 6:13; Rev. 21:2, 9-10; 22:17: (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
A. The wonderful Shulammite, the duplication of Solomon, is the greatest and ultimate figure of the New Jerusalem—S. S. 6:13; Rev. 21:2. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
B. As Solomon’s counterpart, the Shulammite became the same as Solomon in life, nature, and image, as Eve to Adam—Gen. 2:20-23: (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
1. This signifies that the lover of Christ becomes the same as He is in life, nature, and image to match Him for their marriage—2 Cor. 3:18; Rom. 8:29; Rev. 19:7; 21:2. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
2. The many lovers of Christ eventually will become duplications of God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead; this is the fulfillment of God becoming man so that man may become God, which is the high peak of the divine revelation. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
C. The wife of Christ and Christ will be joined together to be the New Jerusalem for God’s expression; this is the consummated Shulammite—22:17. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)
D. This is how the Bible ends, with a couple in a marriage life—the New Jerusalem—21:2, 9-10; 22:17. (2000 MDC, msg. 1)