Download or read book The Incorporation of the Triune God in Himself and with His Believers written by Kerry S. Robichaux and published by A&C Press. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Incorporation" refers to the joint concept of the mutual indwelling of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit and Their mutual working together as one. These two concepts are not new in Christian thought, but they are overlooked by many Christian teachers and writers today and, consequently, by many Christians in general. The effect of this omission is that many common believers (if not their teachers!) fall easily into the mistaken view that the three of the Divine Trinity exist separably, act separably, and therefore are separably three Gods, even though most know better than to say so. This book is at one level a reaction to that mistaken view, because the writers of the New Testament were very far from it in their concept and utterance. But at stake is not just the Trinity as the capital teaching of the Christian faith (if that were not enough to be concerned about). The essence of true Christian experience is also greatly affected by our understanding of how the Triune God is in Himself and how He acts in Himself, for according to the New Testament the essence of the believers' life and living is the extension of the Triune God's mutual indwelling and mutual working together as one within them. Thus, at another level this book is a reaction to a merely moral and ethical view of the Christian life, because, again, the writers of the New Testament present the Christian life more profoundly as the believers' incorporation of the Triune God, who lives and operates within them. The content of this book is a careful consideration of the incorporation of the Triune God in Himself and with His believers as evidenced textually in the New Testament, particularly the Gospel of John through the Epistle of Jude.

Download or read book Knowing the Triune God written by James Joseph Buckley and published by Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book shows that a true and complete understanding of God's triune nature is inseparable from participation in the practices of the Christian community. Written by a diverse group of respected Catholic and evangelical scholars, these engaging chapters explore such Christian practices as the use of the Bible, the sacraments, prayer, and hospitality, showing how participation in these communal activities gives rise to knowledge of God. A perceptive work intended for readers from every Christian tradition, Knowing the Triune God has important implications for contemporary church unity.

Download or read book The Ministry of the Word Vol 28 No 07 Experiencing Enjoying and Expressing Christ 1 written by Various Authors and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 2024-08-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of The Ministry of the Word contains a complete record of the twelve messages given during the July 2024 semiannual training, held in Anaheim, California. The subject of the training was “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1),” indicating that this subject will likely be continued in one or more future trainings. The Key Statements on the following page embody and summarize the crucial truths and main burdens covered in these twelve messages.

Download or read book The Ministry Vol 10 No 02 written by Various Authors and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of The Ministry contains a complete record of the nine messages given during the 2005 International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones in Moscow, Russia, in October 2005. The general subject of the training was the vision of the Lord's recovery and its application. The burden for these messages can be summarized in the following four statements: 1) the true vine--Christ the Son with the believers in the Son as the branches--is the organism of the Triune God in the Son for His multiplication, spreading, and glorification in the divine life; 2) we must stay on the way of life, the line of life, in the maintenance of life by enjoying Christ as the tree of life in the flow of life for God's building in life by our growth in life; 3) the kingdom of God is constituted with God's life as the realm of the divine life for His ruling, in which He reigns by His life and expresses Himself as the Divine Trinity in the divine life; and 4) the intrinsic significance of the golden lampstand is the highest peak of the divine revelation, the subjective experience of the golden lampstand is the God-man living, and the organic maintenance of the golden lampstand is Christ's shepherding in His heavenly ministry. We also include a report concerning the Lord's move in Ghana and Nigeria, West Africa.

Download or read book The Holy Word for Morning Revival Experiencing Enjoying and Expressing Christ 1 Vol 2 written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 2024-10-02 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended as an aid to believers in developing a daily time of morning revival with the Lord in His word. At the same time, it provides a limited review of the semiannual training held July 1-6, 2024, in Anaheim, California, on “Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (1).” Through intimate contact with the Lord in His word, the believers can be constituted with life and truth and thereby equipped to prophesy in the meetings of the church unto the building up of the Body of Christ.

Download or read book The Holy Word for Morning Revival The Mending Ministry of John written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended as an aid to believers in developing a daily time of morning revival with the Lord in His word. At the same time, it provides a limited review of the Thanksgiving weekend conference held in Schaumburg, Illinois, November 28—December 1, 2013. The general subject of the conference was “The Mending Ministry of John.” Through intimate contact with the Lord in His word, the believers can be constituted with life and truth and thereby equipped to prophesy in the meetings of the church unto the building up of the Body of Christ.

Download or read book The Ministry of the Word Vol 27 No 07 An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth of the Lord s Recovery before His Appearing written by Various Authors and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of The Ministry of the Word contains a complete record of the twelve messages given during the July 2023 semiannual training, held in Anaheim, California. The Key Statements on the following page embody and summarize the crucial truths and main burdens covered in these twelve messages. The Reports and Announcements section contains "An Update concerning Europe," a "Summer 2023 Mass Distribution Update," and important information concerning upcoming conferences and trainings hosted by Living Stream Ministry plus a website link to information on similar events in Europe and Israel.

Download or read book Ministry Digest Vol 02 No 11 written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue we will continue four lines of ministry. The first line--The History of the Lord's Recovery--contains chapters 16 and 17, completing the messages from The Vital Groups, which are in volume 5 of The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994–1997. These chapters speak of how to contact people. The section then continues with chapters 1 and 2 of a new book, Guidelines for the Propagation of the Lord's Recovery, which are in volume 5 of The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1984. These chapters speak of our need to pursue the truth to be equipped and of our need to grow in life to live Christ in order to further the history of the Lord's recovery. The second line--Words for New Believers--continues with chapters 7 through 10 of Basic Principles of the Experience of Life, which are in volume 3 of The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1963. The chapters in this section speak of basic aspects of the experiences of life, including the fellowship of life, the discernment of soul and spirit, the spirit with the faculties of the soul, and dealing with the flesh. The third line--Maturing in Life--continues with chapters 2 through 5 of The Subjective Experience of the Indwelling Christ, which are in volume 1 of The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1983. These chapters speak of the experience of Christ as life, the reality of the indwelling Christ, how Christ indwells us, and how to experience Christ's indwelling. The fourth line--The High Peak of the Divine Revelation--contains chapters 1 through 4 of a new book, The Issue of Christ Being Glorified by the Father with the Divine Glory, which are in volume 5 of The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994–1997. The chapters in this section speak of the concealed glory of Christ's divinity and the release of the glory of Christ's divinity, which issued in the incorporation of the consummated God with the regenerated believers. The final chapter in this section begins to present the three aspects of the incorporation of the consummated God with the regenerated believers.

Download or read book The Ministry Vol 02 No 05 written by Various Authors and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ministry Vol 01 No 02 written by Various Authors and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ministry Vol 02 No 03 written by Various Authors and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of The Ministry, we continue the series of messages on the present practice in God’s economy. These messages, given at a crucial time in the Lord’s recovery, unveil the practice of the new way which the Lord gave to the churches through Brother Lee’s ministry and practical leading. In the message which we include here, Brother Lee emphasizes our need to carry out the begetting, nourishing, and teaching in the meetings in the believers’ homes. To carry out the new way, we must no longer build up the big meetings of the church, which have the clergy-laity system as their root. This truly involves a spiritual warfare, so we must struggle every step of the way, especially in prayer, to participate in the fighting service in God’s economy. The subsequent six messages are from the second half of the Living Stream Ministry’s Summer Training of 1997, entitled The Crucial Contents of God’s New Testament Ministry. This training, which followed immediately after our brother’s departure, was a thorough review of the contents of the New Testament ministry, which he brought to us over many years. On the occasion of Brother Lee’s departure, we can consider all that the Lord has unveiled to us, all the truths which were recovered for us through our brother’s faithful ministry, to bring us into the Lord’s recovery and into the experience of Christ and the reality of the Body of Christ for God’s eternal economy to consummate the New Jerusalem. The local churches raised up under this ministry will speak these things, teach these things, write these things, and live these things until we meet the Lord. Last, we include an encouraging report on the spread of the ministry through the marketing of our publications in Christian bookstores. We also report on the work to produce the Recovery Version of the New Testament in the Russian language, which is now in its fifth and final year. A letter from the co-workers in the former Soviet Union brings us up to date on the Lord’s move there in the first training for the responsible brothers and the recent winter training held in Moscow, and letters from Berlin, Germany report on the progress in publishing and distributing books by Watchman Nee in the German language.

Download or read book The Ministry of the Word Vol 21 No 10 written by Various Authors and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of The Ministry of the Word contains the final nine messages given during the spring 2017 term of the full-time training in Anaheim, California. The general subject of this series of messages is "The Mending Ministry of John." The overall subject of John's writings, which include his Gospel, his Epistles, and Revelation, is that the Triune God wants to dispense Himself into His chosen people as their life and life supply to make them divine so that they may express Him in full and for eternity. In Revelation John presents the consummate vision in the Bible and the ultimate fulfillment of God's eternal economy--the New Jerusalem. The mending ministry of John, carried out in the divine and mystical realm of the consummated Spirit, is for the living out and the working out of the New Jerusalem. The New Jerusalem is lived out by the believers becoming the New Jerusalem, and the New Jerusalem is worked out by the believers building the New Jerusalem. The New Jerusalem is the ultimate answer to the Lord's prayer in John 17 for the glorification of the Triune God through the oneness of the believers built into the Triune God. This city is the City of Jehovah, the city of life, the holy city, and the city of glory. Even in the Old Testament the prophets describe this city as a person that is one with Jehovah. Isaiah says, "They will call you the City of Jehovah" (60:14), and Ezekiel concludes his prophecy by declaring that "the name of the city from that day shall be, Jehovah Is There" (48:35). The City of Jehovah means that Jehovah is in His redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite people and that they are in Him. Jehovah Is There refers to the presence of Jehovah Himself who will be united, mingled, and incorporated with His people to be one entity--the great, corporate God-man. The New Jerusalem is also the city of life. The Christ ministered by John is for the dispensing of the Triune God as life into man's tripartite being. Out of such a ministered Christ, the children of God are brought forth by receiving the eternal life. They then partake of the fellowship of the eternal life by abiding in the Lord and walking in the light. They are taught by the anointing to enjoy the virtues of the divine birth with the divine seed. As a result, they become the testimony of Jesus--the lampstands as the expression of the Triune God--to be the firstfruits and the harvest as the expression of life and the bride of the Lamb as His increase and satisfaction. Moreover, the New Jerusalem is the holy city. God's living word--His breathing out as the divine breath into the believers--works within them to separate them from the world and to saturate them with the divine nature to make them a holy city, the corporate and ultimate Holy of Holies as the reality of Zion. To live out and work out the New Jerusalem, the believers partake of the divine nature of the Father by exercising their spirit to enjoy God as Spirit (the nature of God's person) and by remaining in the divine fellowship to enjoy God as love (the nature of God's essence) and as light (the nature of God's expression). Furthermore, the New Jerusalem is the city of glory. The Lord wants to occupy every room in our being, and He desires that we would be filled with His riches unto the fullness of God so that there would be glory to God in the church. The Father will be glorified when His many sons are thus filled with the Triune God. To be filled with the Triune God of glory for His corporate expression, the believers must cooperate with the Spirit, who is daily operating in them, by their allowing the Spirit to infuse and transmit all the riches of the Triune God into them. All believers need to be open to this Spirit to allow the Triune God to fill them, to flow through them, and to overflow out of them so that there would be the full expression of the Triune God in the church as the reality of the Body of Christ. This Body will in turn consummate in the New Jerusalem as the ultimate expression of the consummated Triune God in and through man. The New Jerusalem is the church as the reality of the Body of Christ in its ultimate state and consummation. To live out the New Jerusalem is to grow up into Christ, the Head, by the mingling of God with man, and to work out the New Jerusalem is to function out from the Head for the building up of the Body of Christ. Only the Body of Christ will remain forever as the unique mutual abode of God and man so that God as the Spirit and man as the bride, becoming a married couple, are mingled and incorporated together to be one entity--a great, corporate God-man. Thus, the issue of John's mending ministry is the accomplishing of the goal of God's economy, which is to obtain the enlarged, universal, divine-human incorporation of the consummated Triune God with the regenerated believers--the New Jerusalem in eternity.

Download or read book The Ministry of the Word Vol 21 No 05 written by Various Authors and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Collected Works of Witness Lee 1994 1997 volume 5 written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, volume 5, contains messages given by Brother Witness Lee from August 19, 1996, until a few days before his death on June 9, 1997. During the entire period of 1994 until his death in 1997, Brother Lee ministered in Anaheim, California. The contents of this volume are divided into fifteen sections, as follows: 1. Four messages given on August 19 through September 16, 1996. These messages were previously published in a book entitled A Word of Love to the Co-workers, Elders, Lovers, and Seekers of the Lord and are included in this volume under the same title. 2. Eighteen messages given on August 21, 1996, through March 17, 1997. The first seventeen messages were previously published in a sixteen-chapter book entitled The Vital Groups and are included in this volume under the same title. Two of the messages were combined into one chapter. The final chapter of this section was added after the book was published. 3. Eleven messages given on August 21 through November 6, 1996. These messages are included in this volume under the title Fellowship before the Meetings of the Full-time Training in the Fall of 1996. Three of the messages were combined with other messages to form a section of eight chapters. 4. Six messages given on October 1 through 3, 1996. These messages were previously published in a book entitled How to Be a Co-worker and an Elder and How to Fulfill Their Obligations and are included in this volume under the same title. 5. Three messages given on October 2 and 3, 1996. These messages are included in this volume under the title Pre-meeting Fellowship on How to Be a Co-worker and an Elder and How to Fulfill Their Obligations. 6. A message given on November 11, 1996. This message is included in this volume under the title Paying the Price to Eat the Hidden Manna in Order to Gain the Triune God as Gold. 7. Six messages given on November 28 through December 1, 1996. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Issue of Christ Being Glorified by the Father with the Divine Glory and are included in this volume under the same title. 8. Four messages given on November 29 and 30, 1996. These messages are included in this volume under the title Pre-meeting Fellowship during the 1996 Thanksgiving Conference. 9. Six messages given on December 24 through 26, 1996. These messages were previously published in a book entitled Crystallization-study of the Humanity of Christ and are included in this volume under the same title. 10. Six messages given on December 28 through 30, 1996. These messages were previously published in a book entitled Crystallization-study of the Complete Salvation of God in Romans and are included in this volume under the same title. 11. Six messages given on February 14 through 17, 1997. These messages were Brother Lee's last public speaking. They were previously published in a book entitled The Experience of God's Organic Salvation Equaling Reigning in Christ's Life and are included in this volume under the same title. 12. A brief speaking to a group of co-workers on March 24, 1997. This speaking is included in this volume under the title A Dream Fulfilled. 13. A letter written to all the churches in the Lord's recovery on March 24, 1997. This letter is included in this volume under the title A Letter of Fellowship with Thanks. 14. A brief word of fellowship given on April 6, 1997. This brief word is included in this volume under the title The Highest Point: Doing the Work of the New Jerusalem. 15. The final prayers and speakings by Brother Lee from April 15 until a few days before his death on June 9, 1997. These are included in this volume under the title Final Prayers and Speakings by Brother Witness Lee.

Download or read book The Holy Word for Morning Revival An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth of the Lord s Recovery before His Appearing Vol 2 written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended as an aid to believers in developing a daily time of morning revival with the Lord in His word. At the same time, it provides a limited review of the semiannual training held July 3-8, 2023, in Anaheim, California, on “An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth of the Lord’s Recovery before His Appearing.” Through intimate contact with the Lord in His word, the believers can be constituted with life and truth and thereby equipped to prophesy in the meetings of the church unto the building up of the Body of Christ.

Download or read book The Ministry Vol 02 No 02 written by Various Authors and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of The Ministry, we continue the line of fellowship on the present practice and practical outworking of the building up of the church. We include a message spoken by Brother Lee to the serving ones in the church in Taipei in 1960 on the building up and the need for consecration for the building. All the work in the New Testament is for the building up of the church as God’s habitation, and the practical building requires that we offer ourselves up in consecration to God. This consecration is twofold: According to Romans 6, it is the presenting of our specific members to live a life of sanctification and righteousness in Christ, and according to Romans 12, it is the presenting of our whole being to be the material for God’s building. The following six messages are from the first half of the Living Stream Ministry’s Summer Training of 1997, entitled The Crucial Contents of God’s New Testament Ministry. On June 9, 1997 our Brother Lee rested from his labors and went to be with the Lord. This training, which followed immediately after our brother’s departure, was a thorough review of the contents of the New Testament ministry, which he brought to us over many years. In 2 Timothy 3:14 Paul says, “But you, continue in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from which ones you have learned them.” The messages in this series are a tribute to and a reminder of the ones through whom we learned the things of God’s New Testament ministry. In this training the local churches raised up under this ministry resolved anew to continue in these things. Lastly, we report on the Lord’s move in His ministry on the earth. Letters from Berlin, Germany and Warsaw, Poland testify of the opened door in Europe through the blending of the churches and the publications of the ministry.

Download or read book The Issue of Christ Being Glorified by the Father with the Divine Glory written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1996 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: