THE THIRD PART: 24 CRUCIAL LINES IN THE BIBLE
The Consummated Spirit
Message One—A Bird’s Eye View of the Spirit in the Entire Bible
Scripture Reading: John 7:37-39; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Rom. 8:16; 1 Cor. 6:17; Rev. 1:4; 4:5; 5:6; 22:17a
I. The Spirit of God moved in God’s creation of the universe—Gen. 1:2. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
II. The Spirit of Jehovah acted in God’s reaching of men and in His care for men—Judg. 3:10; 6:34; Gen. 6:3a. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
III. The Spirit of holiness was for God’s making His chosen people holy unto Himself—Psa. 51:11; Isa. 63:10-11. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
IV. The Spirit was the Holy Spirit in the conception of John the Baptist to introduce God’s becoming a man in His incarnation (Luke 1:13-17) and in the conception of Jesus in God’s incarnation to be a man in the flesh (vv. 30-36; Matt. 1:18-20). (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
V. The Spirit was the Spirit with whom Jesus was anointed and who was in the move of the man Jesus in His ministry to God on the earth—Mark 1:10, 12; Matt. 4:1; Luke 4:1, 18; John 1:32-33. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
VI. The Spirit was there to anoint and to move with Christ, but at that time the Spirit had not yet entered into the believers to flow out as rivers of living water; in this sense, the Spirit was not yet, because by that time Jesus had not yet been glorified in His resurrection—7:37-39; Luke 24:26. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
VII. Through and in His resurrection Christ as the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit to enter into His believers to flow out as rivers of living water—1 Cor. 15:45b; Rev. 21:6; 22:17c: (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
A. In the Spirit there are not only the divine element of God but also the human element of Jesus and the elements of His human living and of His suffering of death as well—Acts 16:7. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
B. The life-giving Spirit as the Spirit of Christ is concerning Christ in His divinity, who conquered death and became the life in resurrection with the resurrection power—Rom. 8:9b. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
C. The life-giving Spirit as the Spirit of Jesus Christ comprises all the elements of Jesus’ humanity with His death and Christ’s divinity with His resurrection, which become the bountiful supply of the unsearchable Christ for the support of His believers—Phil.1:19b. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
D. The life-giving Spirit as the Lord Spirit, the pneumatic Christ, is for the metabolic transformation of the believers into the Lord’s image from glory to glory by the renewing of the mind and is for the growth and the building up of the Body of Christ—Eph. 4:16; 2 Cor. 3:17-18. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
E. When the man Jesus became the life-giving Spirit, the Triune God was fully completed, consummated—Matt. 28:19b. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
F. The life-giving Spirit as the consummation of the processed Triune God is the Paraclete, the Comforter, to the believers—John 14:16. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
G. The life-giving Spirit is the reality of the processed Triune God—v. 17a; 15:26b; 16:13; 1 John 5:6b. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
H. The life-giving Spirit is the reaching of the processed Triune God to the believers. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
I. The life-giving Spirit is the believers’ access unto the Father, the source of the Divine Trinity—Eph. 2:18. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
J. The life-giving Spirit is the fellowship of the processed Triune God with the believers for their enjoyment of the riches of the Divine Trinity—2 Cor. 13:14. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
VIII. The Spirit is the compound anointing Spirit—Exo. 30:22-30: (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
A. The Spirit is compounded with the unique God as the base, as the divinity of Christ, typified by the one hin of olive oil—v. 24b. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
B. The Spirit is compounded with God’s Divine Trinity, typified by the three units of five hundred shekels of the spices—vv. 23-24a. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
C. The Spirit is compounded with Christ’s humanity, typified by the four kinds of spices. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
D. The Spirit is compounded with Christ’s death and its killing effectiveness, typified by myrrh and cinnamon—v. 23a. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
E. The Spirit is compounded with Christ’s resurrection and its repelling power, typified by calamus and cassia—vv. 23b-24a. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
F. All the above elements compounded together create an ointment for the anointing of all the things and persons related to the worship of God—vv. 25-30; 2 Cor. 1:21; 1 John 2:20, 27. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
G. The compound anointing Spirit operates as the Holy Spirit to seal the believers of Christ—Eph. 1:13; 4:30b; 2 Cor. 1:22a. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
H. The sealing Spirit becomes a pledge to the believers, guaranteeing God as the inheritance of the believers and giving them a foretaste of God as their heritage—Eph. 1:14; 2 Cor. 1:22b. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
IX. The Spirit is the blessing of the gospel—Gal. 3:8, 14: (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
A. The Spirit regenerates the believers, begetting them as the many sons of God—John 3:5-6. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
B. The Spirit is the Spirit of the Son to cry, “Abba, Father!” in the believers’ hearts and to lead the believers to walk as the sons of God—Gal. 4:6; Rom. 8:14-16. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
C. The Spirit is for the priesthood of the gospel to sanctify the believers—15:16. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
D. The Spirit intercedes for the believers—8:26. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
E. The Spirit renews the believers, making them the new creation of God—Titus 3:5b; 2 Cor. 5:17. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
X. The seven Spirits are the sevenfold intensified Spirit for the church’s degradation in the dark age; in Revelation 1 the sevenfold Spirit is ranked as the second in the Divine Trinity instead of the third, indicating the intensification of the Spirit—vv. 4-5a: (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
A. The seven Spirits are the seven lamps of fire burning before the throne of God to carry out the divine administration for the consummation of the divine economy—4:5. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
B. The seven Spirits are the seven eyes of the Lamb, the observing parts of our Redeemer, to observe all the churches in all the nations and to transfuse all His riches into us for the building up of His Body to consummate the building up of the New Jerusalem, thus accomplishing the eternal economy of God—5:6; 21:1-3. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
C. The sevenfold intensified Spirit is the speaking Spirit to all the churches—2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
XI. The Spirit is the essential Spirit and the economical Spirit of the processed Triune God—John 20:22; Acts 1:8: (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
A. The essential Spirit of God, the Spirit of life, was breathed into the believers as the divine essence of the divine life—John 20:22. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
B. The economical Spirit of God, the Spirit of power, was poured out upon the believers as the divine essence of the divine power—Acts 1:8; 2:2, 4, 17. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
XII. The Spirit is the consummation of the processed Triune God: (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
A. The Spirit and the bride speak together as a universal couple—Rev. 22:17a. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)
B. The processed and consummated Triune God marries the redeemed, regenerated, and transformed tripartite people for His final manifestation and ultimate expression in glory for eternity—21:1—22:5. (2011 MDC, msg. 4)