The Ministry of the Word, Vol. 22, No. 12
This issue of The Ministry of the Word contains the last eight messages given during the fall 2002 term of the full-time training in Anaheim, California. The general subject of this series of messages is "Christ and the Church in the Psalms." The messages in this issue cover Psalms 118 through 150. In Psalm 118 we see Christ as the stone for God's building. God's building is God's expression. God's eternal intention is to have a corporate, glorious, living, organic, eternal divine-human expression of Himself, which is His building. Christ, the stone which the builders rejected, became the head of the corner in resurrection. Christ, the stone, is constituting Himself into us through transformation to make us living stones for God's building. Then He, as the foundation stone, cornerstone, and topstone, and we, as the many living stones, will become the glorious dwelling place of God, which is typified by the temple. In Psalm 119 we see that Christ is the reality of the law as the testimony of God and the word of God. Christ is the reality of the law as the testimony of God, signifying Christ as the living portrait of all that God is. Christ is the reality of the law as the word of God, signifying Christ as the living word of God breathed out by Him. There are two aspects of the law--the letter and the Spirit. There are two aspects of the function of the law--positive and negative. Furthermore, there are two kinds of people in relation to the law--the letter-keepers and the God-seekers. This psalm expresses the attitude of the God-seekers and God-lovers toward God's law as God's testimony and God's word, which is Christ Himself. Christ, who is the expression of the Triune God, is now the Spirit in us imparting to us all His being as the processed and consummated Triune God so that He may live again in us. He will work in us to make us the same as He is for His corporate expression. We live Christ so that God may be expressed in and through the Christ whom we live. We live Christ through the function of the law of God as the living word of God. The law is the living word that supplies us with all that God is and that infuses God's element into us so that we may live Him. In Psalms 120 through 134, also known as the Songs of Ascents, are the praises of the saints in their going up to Zion. God's people were required to go up to Jerusalem and to worship the Lord at Mount Zion. These psalms also express the longing of those in Babylon for Zion and Jerusalem. Hence, the focal point of these fifteen psalms is Zion and Jerusalem, which correspond to God's heart's desire. God's heart is set on Zion in Jerusalem. Jerusalem typifies the church, and Mount Zion typifies the overcomers in the church. Zion is the high peak, the center, the uplifting, the strengthening, the enriching, and the reality of the church. Zion is the reality of the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem. The Lord's recovery is to build up Zion, to gain a group of overcomers who live in the reality of the Body of Christ. In the Lord's recovery we need to go on and on until we reach Mount Zion. Psalms 135 through 145, written by persons who were intimate with God, reveal our intimacy with God. Psalms 140 through 145 convey the intimacy in David's final prayers to Jehovah. David's prayers issue in the extolling and praising of God for His reigning in Christ and His kingdom. Psalms 146 through 150, the Hallelujah psalms, speak of consummate praise. At the conclusion of the Psalms, we are in the "Hallelujah house." The highest expression of a saint's spiritual life is his praise to God. The last message of this series considers the extract of the Psalms and eight crucial turns, or developments. The extract of the Psalms is the all-inclusive Christ as the unique center in God's economy. The spirit, the reality, the characteristic, of the divine revelation in the book of Psalms is Christ as the centrality and universality of the eternal economy of God. The more we touch the extract, the spirit, of the Bible and of the Psalms, the more our being is affected, and the more turns we will make inwardly. When this extract touches our mind, our heart, our emotion, our will, and our spirit, it causes one radical turn after another. By these turns we progress and mature, carry out God's economy, and experience the all-inclusive Christ. By these turns the house of God becomes the city of God, and we are brought to the height of Zion, the place that God has chosen for His dwelling place. The Announcements section at the end of this issue contains a list of upcoming conferences and trainings hosted by Living Stream Ministry and a website link for information related to similar events in Europe.
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The Ministry of the Word, Vol. 22, No. 12
This issue of The Ministry of the Word contains the last eight messages given during the fall 2002 term of the full-time training in Anaheim, California. The general subject of this series of messages is "Christ and the Church in the Psalms." The messages in this issue cover Psalms 118 through 150. In Psalm 118 we see Christ as the stone for God's building. God's building is God's expression. God's eternal intention is to have a corporate, glorious, living, organic, eternal divine-human expression of Himself, which is His building. Christ, the stone which the builders rejected, became the head of the corner in resurrection. Christ, the stone, is constituting Himself into us through transformation to make us living stones for God's building. Then He, as the foundation stone, cornerstone, and topstone, and we, as the many living stones, will become the glorious dwelling place of God, which is typified by the temple. In Psalm 119 we see that Christ is the reality of the law as the testimony of God and the word of God. Christ is the reality of the law as the testimony of God, signifying Christ as the living portrait of all that God is. Christ is the reality of the law as the word of God, signifying Christ as the living word of God breathed out by Him. There are two aspects of the law--the letter and the Spirit. There are two aspects of the function of the law--positive and negative. Furthermore, there are two kinds of people in relation to the law--the letter-keepers and the God-seekers. This psalm expresses the attitude of the God-seekers and God-lovers toward God's law as God's testimony and God's word, which is Christ Himself. Christ, who is the expression of the Triune God, is now the Spirit in us imparting to us all His being as the processed and consummated Triune God so that He may live again in us. He will work in us to make us the same as He is for His corporate expression. We live Christ so that God may be expressed in and through the Christ whom we live. We live Christ through the function of the law of God as the living word of God. The law is the living word that supplies us with all that God is and that infuses God's element into us so that we may live Him. In Psalms 120 through 134, also known as the Songs of Ascents, are the praises of the saints in their going up to Zion. God's people were required to go up to Jerusalem and to worship the Lord at Mount Zion. These psalms also express the longing of those in Babylon for Zion and Jerusalem. Hence, the focal point of these fifteen psalms is Zion and Jerusalem, which correspond to God's heart's desire. God's heart is set on Zion in Jerusalem. Jerusalem typifies the church, and Mount Zion typifies the overcomers in the church. Zion is the high peak, the center, the uplifting, the strengthening, the enriching, and the reality of the church. Zion is the reality of the Body of Christ consummating in the New Jerusalem. The Lord's recovery is to build up Zion, to gain a group of overcomers who live in the reality of the Body of Christ. In the Lord's recovery we need to go on and on until we reach Mount Zion. Psalms 135 through 145, written by persons who were intimate with God, reveal our intimacy with God. Psalms 140 through 145 convey the intimacy in David's final prayers to Jehovah. David's prayers issue in the extolling and praising of God for His reigning in Christ and His kingdom. Psalms 146 through 150, the Hallelujah psalms, speak of consummate praise. At the conclusion of the Psalms, we are in the "Hallelujah house." The highest expression of a saint's spiritual life is his praise to God. The last message of this series considers the extract of the Psalms and eight crucial turns, or developments. The extract of the Psalms is the all-inclusive Christ as the unique center in God's economy. The spirit, the reality, the characteristic, of the divine revelation in the book of Psalms is Christ as the centrality and universality of the eternal economy of God. The more we touch the extract, the spirit, of the Bible and of the Psalms, the more our being is affected, and the more turns we will make inwardly. When this extract touches our mind, our heart, our emotion, our will, and our spirit, it causes one radical turn after another. By these turns we progress and mature, carry out God's economy, and experience the all-inclusive Christ. By these turns the house of God becomes the city of God, and we are brought to the height of Zion, the place that God has chosen for His dwelling place. The Announcements section at the end of this issue contains a list of upcoming conferences and trainings hosted by Living Stream Ministry and a website link for information related to similar events in Europe.
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| BN ID: | 2940161367070 |
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| Publisher: | Living Stream Ministry |
| Publication date: | 12/26/2018 |
| Series: | The Ministry of the Word , #22 |
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