Christ Builds the Church as the Temple of God by Building Himself into us daily

We need to let God work Christ as the Spirit into every part of our being so that we will be constituted with Christ. Witness Lee

The Lord today wants to advance: He wants to gain the reality of the Body of Christ in the local churches so that He may have not only a "tabernacle church life" but a "temple church life", a more solid, permanent, and even eternal expression of … [Continue reading]

God’s Economy is to have the Temple of God Filled with the Glory of God for Eternity

The economy of God to have the temple of God filled with the glory of God involves the high peak of the divine revelation—God becoming man so that man may become God in life, in nature, and in expression. Witness Lee

From the beginning to the end of the Bible the divine revelation is progressive, and in the last book of the Bible, we see the consummation of the divine revelation and of God's economy, the New Jerusalem. What does God want to obtain, how does He … [Continue reading]

In His Resurrection Christ Enlarged God’s Temple to be the mystical Body of Christ

In His resurrection the Lord Jesus rebuilt God’s temple in a larger way, making it a corporate one—the mystical Body of Christ. The body of Jesus, the temple, that was destroyed on the cross was small and weak, but the Body of Christ in resurrection is vast and powerful. Since the day of His resurrection the Lord Jesus has been enlarging His Body, the temple, in His resurrection life; He is still working for the building of His Body under the process of resurrection (John 2:19-22). Witness Lee

God's desire throughout the Bible is to gain a building, a mutual dwelling place of God and man; for this, He created Adam, He called Abraham, He chose Moses, He brought His people into the good land, and He did everything for His people. Throughout … [Continue reading]

God’s Intention is to make His People the Reproduction of Christ for the Temple of God

In Revelation the living person of Christ is the expression and testimony of God, and the church is the testimony of Jesus, the corporate expression of Christ; as such, the church, the enlarged Christ, is the reproduction and expression of God. 2015 Thanksgiving Conference, msg. 4

It is the Lord's mercy that today we can see the high peak of the divine revelation, which is that God became man to make man God for the building up of the Body of Christ as the organism of the Triune God for His corporate expression. This is God's … [Continue reading]

God became Man to make Man God for us to have a God-man Living as the Body of Christ

God builds Himself into man and builds man into Himself. He Himself becomes this constitution with Himself as the intrinsic element—the source, element, and essence within—and with His redeemed people built together in the intrinsic element—the source, element, and essence—to become the framework. This is the one new man in the universe. Witness Lee

God has an economy, a plan, a household arrangement, in which He intends to dispense all that He is in His Divine Trinity into His people who are chosen and redeemed, so that He can be their life and nature and they would be the same as He is for His … [Continue reading]

God’s Economy is God becoming Man and Man Becoming God to Build up the Body of Christ

Rom. 8:29 Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.

In the divine revelation in the Bible there is a progression, from Genesis to Revelation. Our God is not a static God: He is always on the move, always doing something and moving. In Psa. 68 we see a good picture of the journey of the tabernacle, … [Continue reading]

The Stones in the Temple signify Christ and His Transformed Believers as Living Stones

1 Pet. 2:4-5 Coming to Him, a living stone, rejected by men but with God chosen and precious, you yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house...

The Lord within us is yearning that He would obtain a solid testimony of the Body of Christ, and for this we need to cooperate with Him to have an enlarged experience of Christ in all His riches so that He may be testified and exhibited through … [Continue reading]