THE ELDERSHIP IN GOD’S NEW TESTAMENT ECONOMY
SERIES TWO
KNOWING THE THREE ASPECTS OF THE LORD’S RECOVERY
The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Building of the Body of Christ For the Building of the Body of Christ
Message Three
The Divine Dispensing of the Divine Trinity for the Believers’ Gospel Preaching and Work
Scripture Reading: John 1:14, 16-17; 6:57; 7:37-39; 10:10; 15:4-5, 16; 20:22; 21:15
I. Through incarnation Christ as the Word of God came to be a man with God as grace and reality for the dispensing of the Divine Trinity so that men may receive the fullness of the processed Triune God—John 1:14, 16-17; 10:10: (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
A. The Divine Trinity is for His divine dispensing; God came through incarnation full of grace and reality for the purpose of dispensing—John 1:14, 16. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, “Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990,”msg. 5)
B. Furthermore, we have received of His fullness, that is, grace upon grace—1 Cor. 15:10. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, “Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990,”msg. 5)
C. Grace in 1 Corinthians 15 is the very resurrected Christ becoming the life-giving Spirit to bring the processed God in resurrection into us to be our life and life supply so that we may live in resurrection—vv. 10, 45. (CWWL, 1990, vol. 2, “Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990,”msg. 5)
II. After His incarnation Christ passed through human living and then was crucified on the cross to die an all-inclusive death for His divine dispensing—1:29; 3:14; 12:24: (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
A. Christ as the Lamb of God took away our sin—1:29, 36. (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
B. Christ as the bronze serpent destroyed Satan, the ruler of this world, and in Christ the ruler of this world has nothing (no ground, no chance, no hope, and no possibility in anything)—3:14; 12:31; 14:30; Heb. 2:14. (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
C. Christ as the grain of wheat released the divine life for the producing of many believers by imparting (dispensing) the divine life into them—John 12:24; cf. 1 Cor. 15:36b. (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
III. In resurrection Christ as the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit and entered into His believers as the Holy Spirit—John 20:19-22; 1 Cor. 15:45b; cf. John 11:25, 40-44, 48-53: (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
A. After dying on the cross, the last Adam, our Redeemer, became in His resurrection the life-giving Spirit to impart Himself into us as life—John 1:29; 10:10b; 11:25; 14:6; 1 Cor. 15:45b; 2 Cor. 3:17. (2012 FTTA, msg. 7)
B. When we believed in the Lord Jesus and received Him as our Redeemer, it was the life-giving Spirit who came into us—John 3:15; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Gal. 3:1-2. (2012 FTTA, msg. 7)
C. Through the process of resurrection, Christ, who terminated the old creation, became the life-giving Spirit, the germinating element of the new creation; thus, we have become a new creation germinated by the resurrected Christ as the life-giving Spirit—2 Cor. 3:17; 5:17. (2012 FTTA, msg. 7)
D. The life-giving Spirit is the totality of all that Christ is to us as the all-inclusive One; as the all-inclusive Christ revealed in 1 Corinthians, the resurrected Christ is now the life-giving Spirit, the totality of all that He is for our experience and enjoyment—1:2, 9, 24, 30; 2:7-8, 10; 3:11; 5:7-8; 10:3-4; 11:3; 12:12; 15:20, 23, 47. (2012 FTTA, msg. 7)
E. As believers, we have all been “given to drink one Spirit,” taking the Spirit into us and having our being saturated with Him; this requires us to call on the Lord continually and draw water with joy from Him as the fountain of living water—12:13; Isa. 12:3-4; John 4:10, 14. (2012 FTTA, msg. 7)
IV. Christ as the compound Spirit became the anointing ointment and as the consummation of the processed Triune God became the bountiful supply of the Divine Trinity for His dispensing—1 John 2:20, 27; Exo. 30:22-25; Phil. 1:19: (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
A. The Triune God, after passing through the processes of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, has become the all-inclusive, life-giving compound Spirit—John 1:14; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Phil. 1:19. (2015 WT, msg. 11)
B. He is within our spirit to anoint us, to “paint” us, with the elements of the Triune God; the more this anointing, this painting, goes on, the more the Triune God with His person and processes is transfused into our being. (2015 WT, msg. 11)
C. We need to be painted persons, those who are saturated with the anointing; we should be those on whom the paint is wet, always having a fresh application of the all-inclusive Spirit as the divine paint so that we may paint others with the all-inclusive Spirit—Psa. 92:10; Zech. 4:14; 2 Cor. 3:3, 6, 8. (2015 WT, msg. 11)
V. In regeneration Christ dispensed Himself as the Spirit of the divine life into our spirit as the initiation of the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, making us the branches of Him as the true vine—John 3:5; Rom. 11:17; John 15:5: (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
A. As the branches of the true vine, we are the multiplication of Christ, the duplication of Christ, the spreading of Christ, and the enlargement of Christ—John 15:4-5, 16: (2014 ICSC, msg. 2)
1. When we believed into the Lord Jesus, He branched into us, and we became branches in Him. (2014 ICSC, msg. 2)
2. The vine is everything to the branches; from the vine and through the vine, we receive everything that we need to live as branches; Christ as the vine does everything through the branches—vv. 4-5. (2014 ICSC, msg. 2)
B. As branches of the Son’s vine, we need to abide in the vine—vv. 4-5: (2014 ICSC, msg. 2)
1. Our abiding in Christ as the vine depends on seeing a clear vision that we are branches in the vine; once we see that we are branches in the vine, we need to maintain the fellowship between us and the Lord—v. 2. (2014 ICSC, msg. 2)
2. To abide in the Lord is to be one spirit with Him, that is, to live in the mingled spirit—1 Cor. 6:17. (2014 ICSC, msg. 2)
VI. In the Christian life, Christ as the living water waters the believers, as the living bread feeds the believers, and as the consummation of the processed Triune God flows out from the inward parts of the believers—John 4:10, 14; 6:49-51, 63; 7:38-39: (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
A. As believers, we may drink of the pneumatic Christ as the living water to quench our thirst—4:10, 14; 7:37-39. (2007 FTTA, msg. 5)
B. As believers, we need to eat Jesus as the bread of life, the living bread, the true bread, the bread of God—6:32-33, 35, 41, 48, 51, 57b. (2007 FTTA, msg. 5)
C. As we experience, enjoy, and apply the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, out of us will flow rivers of living water—7:37-39. (2007 FTTA, msg. 5)
VII. In our gospel preaching and our work in the Lord, the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity is our rich and bountiful supply—Phil. 1:19-25; 1 Cor. 15:58: (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
A. This divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity becomes the supply to the believers in fruit-bearing; to bear fruit is to preach the gospel by dispensing the riches of Christ into others—John 15:4-5, 16. (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
B. In feeding the lambs, we dispense further the riches of the divine life to the new believers for their growth in life—21:15; 1 Pet. 2:2. (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
VIII. As the living branches of Christ, the true vine, we should bear remaining fruit once a year; we need bear fruit and feed lamb issue in the growth and multiplication of the church—John 15:5, 16; 21:15: (CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “1993 Blending Conference Messages Concerning the Lord’s Recovery and Our Present Need,”msg. 7; CWWL, 1984, vol. 5, “Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel—the Four Great Pillars in the Lord’s Recovery,”msg. 7)
A. We have been chosen by the Lord and set by Him to go forth and bear remaining fruit; fruit-bearing is our destiny, and to bear remaining fruit every year must be our definite goal with a strong determination—15:5, 16. (CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “1993 Blending Conference Messages Concerning the Lord’s Recovery and Our Present Need,”msg. 7)
B. Every saint in the church has to go forth and bear fruit; once a fruit is produced, it becomes a lamb; we should not be lambs; we should be little shepherds feeding the lambs; every one of us should not only preach the gospel to save sinners, but also should have two or three lambs in our hands—vv. 4-5, 16; 21:15; 1 Thes. 2:7. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 5, “Truth, Life, the Church, and the Gospel—the Four Great Pillars in the Lord’s Recovery,”msg. 7; CWWL, 1990, vol. 3, “The Up-to-Date Presentation of the God-Ordained Way and the Signs Concerning the Coming of Christ,”msg. 4)
C. To set up a meeting in a baptized one’s home is to set up a shelter; then under the shelter you go back to them regularly to feed them; surely they will be protected, they will be fed, and they will remain—John 15:16; 21:15. (CWWL, 1987, vol. 1, “Being Desperate and Living Uniquely for the Gospel,”ch. 3)
D. Christ is the universal vine spreading over the whole earth; we must uphold the torchlight of the gospel and must light everyone around us; the testimony of the gospel needs to go out from us until the Lord’s return—Matt. 24:14; 28:19. (CWWL, 1982, vol. 2, “The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in the Writings of John,”msg. 46; CWWN, vol. 49, “Messages for Building Up New Believers (2),”msg. 18)
IX. We need to see the way to receive the fullness of the processed Triune God as grace and reality to the believers—John 15:4-5, 7; 4:10, 14; 6:57-58: (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
A. We must abide in Christ so that Christ may abide in us to carry out the divine dispensing in us—15:5. (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
B. We must abide in Christ so that His words may abide in us to dispense all His riches embodied in His words—v. 7; Col. 3:16. (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
C. We must drink of Christ as the living water; we must eat Christ as the living bread—John 4:10, 14; 6:27, 51, 57-58, 63. (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)
D. We must flow out Christ in all the aspects of His riches as rivers of living water from within every inward part of our being—7:37-39. (2009 ITERO-Fall, msg. 5)