THE FORTH PART: THE PATHWAY OF THE LORD’S RECOVERY
God-Ordained Way
Message One—Being a Model of the Corporate God-man Living
to Bring In a New Revival
Scripture Reading: Hab. 3:2a; Hosea 6:1-3; Gal. 2:20; Phil. 3:10, 1:19-21a; Rev. 3:7-13, 11:15
I. The Lord’s move today is for His people to enter into a new revival; Habakkuk 3:2a speaks of revival—”O Jehovah, revive Your work / In the midst of the years”: (2012 MDC, msg. 5)
A. Among God’s elect there has always been an aspiration to be revived; although we may not realize it, such an aspiration has been within us through all the years of our Christian life—Hab. 3:2b; Hosea 6:2; Rom. 8:20-22. (2012 MDC, msg. 5, 2012 ST, msg. 12)
B. In the eyes of God, one person among His elect represents the whole; this means that Habakkuk and we are one in the unit of God’s elect; thus, when Habakkuk prayed for revival, we also prayed; such a prayer is an everlasting prayer—Hab. 3:2. (2012 ST, msg. 12)
C. A revival is the practice, the practicality, of the vision we have seen.; we also pray that God would give us a new revival—a revival which has never been recorded in history”—Hab. 3:2a. (2000 TGC, msg. 1, 2012 ST, msg. 12)
II. We must receive the Lord’s mercy to be His overcomers who bring in a new revival to turn the age in the Lord’s present recovery by arriving at the highest peak of the divine revelation, by living the life of a God-man, and by shepherding people according to God in the vital groups for the building up of the Body of Christ, the preparation of the bride of Christ—Hab. 3:2a. (2007 MDC, msg. 6)
III. Although in the Lord’s recovery we have so much vision, every brother and sister still needs to ask the Lord for a new revival; this revival is the God-man life—Hab. 3:2a; Hosea 6:2: (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
A. When we think of ourselves as God-men, this thinking, this realization, revolutionizes us in our daily experience—Gal. 2:20. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
B. The living of a God-man is the living of a man who lives God and expresses God—John 6:57a; 14:9-10. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
C. The Lord Jesus is the first God-man, and we are the many God-men—Rom. 8:29: (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
1. Christ lived a human life not by His human life but by the divine life to express the divine attributes in the human virtues—Luke 1:35; 10:25-37. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
2. Because Christ is our life and our person, we should live a human life by the divine life for the expression of divinity in humanity—Col. 3:4. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
3. To live the life of a God-man is to deny the self, take up the cross, and live Christ for the expression of God—Matt. 16:24; Gal. 2:20; Phil. 1:21a. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
D. The divine Spirit and the human spirit are mingled within us so that we can live the life of a God-man, a life that is God yet man and man yet God—1 Cor. 6:17. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
E. Every brother and sister needs to ask the Lord for a new revival; this revival is the God-man life. “I hope that the elders and the co-workers in every locality will create an environment in the church to nurture the saints to be God-men to live an overcoming life” (The Issue of the Union of the Consummated Spirit of the Triune God and the Regenerated Spirit of the Believers, p. 88). (2004 ICSC, msg. 4)
IV. If we practice living the life of a God-man, which is the reality of the Body of Christ, a corporate model will be built up, a model living in the economy of God; this model will be the greatest revival in the history of the church to bring the Lord back—Gal. 2:20; Phil. 1:21; John 14:19: (2007 MDC, msg. 6)
A. The reality of the Body of Christ is a corporate living, a mingling living, in the eternal union of the regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite God-men with the Triune God in the resurrection of Christ—cf. Lev. 2:4-5. (2007 MDC, msg. 6)
B. The reality of the Body of Christ is the corporate living by the perfected God-men, who are genuine men but do not live by their life, but by the life of the processed God, whose attributes are expressed through their virtues—Gal. 2:20; Phil. 3:10; 1:19-21a; Rom. 8:4. (2002 MDC, msg. 1)
C. “If among us there is, if not in full at least in part, such a living, the reality of the Body of Christ is among us. This is the high peak of the recovery in the local churches like Mount Zion in the city of Jerusalem. Such a mingling living as the reality of the Body of Christ will consummate ultimately in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth as God’s increase and expression for eternity” (The Practical Points concerning Blending, p. 37). (2007 MDC, msg. 6)
D. We need to become a corporate model, the reality of the Body, a people who live the life of a God-man; such a model will be the greatest revival in the history of the church to bring the Lord back—Matt. 16:18; Rev. 19:7-8. (2006 FTTA, msg. 2)
1. We need a model; I do not mean that only some individuals should become a model. I mean that we need a corporate model, a Body, a people who live the life of a God-man—Rom. 12:4-5; 14:7. (The Living a Life According to the High Peak of God’s Revelation, msg. 5)
2. Since we have seen such a high peak of the divine revelation, we need to put into practice what we have seen; our practice will have a success, and that success will be a new revival—the highest revival, and probably the last revival before the Lord’s coming back. (The Living a Life According to the High Peak of God’s Revelation, msg. 5)
V. The new revival will be the means for the Lord to end this age and to bring in the kingdom age—Hab. 3:2a; Hosea 6:2; Rom. 8:20-22: (2002 MDC, msg. 1)
A. The reason that the Lord has not closed this age is that He is still waiting for a group of overcomers to live in His Body in resurrection to be the means for Him to usher in His kingdom age—Rev. 2:7b, 11b, 17b, 26-27; 3:5, 12, 21. (2002 MDC, msg. 1)
B. The corporate living of the God-men—a living that is the reality of the Body of Christ—will end this age and will bring Christ back to the take, possess, and rule over the earth with these God-men in the kingdom age—11:15; 20:6. (2002 MDC, msg. 1)
C. We can enter into a new revival by living the life of a God-man: “We should all declare that we want to live the life of a God-man. Eventually, the God-men will be the victors, the overcomers, the Zion within Jerusalem. This will bring in a new revival which has never been seen in history, and this will end this age” (Life-study of First and Second Chronicles, p. 28). (2012 ST, msg. 12)