THE THIRD PART: 24 CRUCIAL LINES IN THE BIBLE
The God-man Living
Message Three—The God-man Living—a Man of Prayer
Scripture Reading: John 10:30; 8:29; 16:32b; 14:30; 17:1; Matt. 14:23
I. 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. Eventually, the God-men will be the overcomers, the Zion within Jerusalem; this will bring in a new revival—a revival that has never occurred in history—and this will end this age—Rev. 14:1; 11:15. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
II. The first God-man, the Lord Jesus, lived as a man of prayer—Luke 5:16: (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
A. In describing the first God-man as a man of prayer, we may use the words divine and mystical; divine is on God’s side, and mystical is on man’s side—1 Tim. 3:16: (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
1. In His living as the first God-man, all that the Lord Jesus did was divine and mystical; God was manifested in a mystical human way—1 Tim. 3:16. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
2. The Lord’s mystical human life was a divine realm, and this realm is the kingdom of God—John 3:13, 3. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
B. A critical part of the history of the first God-man was His prayer—John 17: (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
1. The prayers of the first God-man were in the divine and mystical realm. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
2. The Lord Jesus was a man in the flesh, yet He prayed to the mysterious God in a divine and mystical way and realm—Matt. 14:23. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
3. His prayers were divine, yet they were in a human life, making that human life mystical—Mark 1:35; Luke 5:16; 6:12. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
4. Christ’s prayers were divine facts in His mystical human life—John 17: (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
a. Whatever God does is a divine fact, and in the Lord Jesus the divine facts were lived out in a human life, making His human life mystical. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
b. The Lord Jesus was a God-man, and all that He said and did were divine facts accomplished in His human life mystically. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
C. With the Lord Jesus, we see the pure pattern of the man of prayer revealed in the Gospels—John 10:30; Acts 10:38c; John 8:29; 16:32; 1 Pet. 2:23b; Luke 23:46; John 14:30: (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
1. As a man of prayer, the Lord Jesus was a man who was always one with God—John 10:30. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
2. As a man of prayer, the Lord Jesus was a man who lived in the presence of God without ceasing—Acts 10:38c; John 8:29; 16:32b. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
3. As a man of prayer, the Lord Jesus trusted in God and not in Himself under any kind of suffering or persecution—1 Pet. 2:23b; Luke 23:46. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
4. As a man of prayer, the Lord Jesus was a man in whom Satan, the ruler of the world, had nothing—no ground, no chance, no hope, and no possibility in anything; Satan had no ground in Him because His submission to the Father cut off Satan—John 14:30. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
III. Prayer is man cooperating and co-working with God, allowing God to express Himself through man and thus accomplish His purpose—Rom. 8:26-27; James 5:17: (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
A. Prayer is man breathing God, obtaining God, and being obtained by God; real prayer is an exhaling and inhaling before God, causing us and God to contact each other and to gain each other—1 Thes. 5:17. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
B. A praying person cooperates with God, works together with God, and allows God to express Himself and His desire from within him and through him—Rom. 8:26-27; James 5:17; Eph. 1:17-23; 3:14-21. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
C. Genuine prayers cause our being to be wholly mingled with God, causing us to pray as a man mingled with God, a God-man—Jude 20; Eph. 6:18. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
IV. The Bible teaches us, the believers in Christ, the God-men, to live as divine and mystical persons—Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 4:1-6: (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
A. We have been separated from being common; we have been sanctified and separated unto God, who is holy, and now we are in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit—John 17:17, 19; Heb. 2:11; 1 Thes. 5:23. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
B. Our life should be divine yet human—not merely human but mystically human; everything in our living should be divine and mystical—John 14:16-20. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
C. Every believer should be a divine and mystical person, one who is human yet lives divinely—Gal. 2:20; 2 Cor. 10:1. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
D. The New Testament teaches us, the members of the Body of Christ, to do everything with God, in God, by God, and through God; this is what it means to be divine—1 Cor. 10:31; Col. 3:17. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
E. A genuine and proper prayer is not merely spiritual but also divine; this means that the Triune God prays with us and that we pray by living in the Triune God—Rom. 8:26-27; Jude 20. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)
F. All genuine prayers, prayers that can be counted by God, are divine facts, something divine performed in the mystical human life—John 14:13-14; 16:23-24. (2001 MDC, msg. 1)