2022 LORD’S MOVE TO ASIA (LMA) CO-WORKERS’ MEETING

Message Four
Coordination and Blending to Usher Us All into
the Reality of the Body of Christ

Scripture Reading: John 14:6; Ezek. 1:5-14, 20; Rom. 16:1-23; Eph. 4:16; Rev. 14:1; 21:2.

I. The reality of the Body of Christ is “the reality…in Jesus”, the actual condition of the life of Jesus, as recorded in the four Gospels, duplicated in His many members as the corporate living of the perfected God-men—John 14:6a; Eph. 4:20-24; Gal. 2:20; Phil. 1:8, 19-21a; 2:19-30: (2006 FTTA-Fall, msg. 2)

A. Jesus lived a life in which He did everything in God, with God, and for God; God was in His living, and He was one with God—this is the reality in Jesus—Eph. 4:20-24. (2006 FTTA-Fall, msg. 2)

B. The only life that is a delight to God is the life that is a repetition of the life Christ lived on earth; we are being perfected by the Lord to be God-men, living the divine life by denying our natural life according to the model of Christ as the first God-man—Gal. 2:20. (2006 FTTA-Fall, msg. 2)

C. We need to become a corporate model, the reality of the Body, a people who live the life of a God-man; such a model will be the greatest revival in the history of the church to bring the Lord back—Matt. 16:18; Rev. 19:7-8. (2006 FTTA-Fall, msg. 2)

II. The reality of the Body of Christ is signified in Ezekiel 1 by the four living creatures, who are a corporate expression of Christ, living out the life of Christ in a corporate way and coordinating together as one corporate entity, the corporate Christ, for His expression, move, and administration—vv. 5-14, 20, 26: (2006 MDC, msg. 2)

A. The living creatures move as one entity in coordination; each of the living creatures faces one direction (facing north, south, east, and west respectively), and two of their wings spread out and touch the adjacent creatures’ wings, forming a square—vv. 5-9, 17. (2006 MDC, msg. 2)

B. No matter which direction the living creatures are moving in, there is no need for any of them to turn; one simply goes straight forward; one returns, moving backward; and the other sides move sideways—vv. 9, 12, 17. (2006 MDC, msg. 2)

C. This is a beautiful picture of the coordination in the church as the Body of Christ, in which each member has his particular position and function, or ministry—Rom. 12:4-8; 1 Cor. 12:14-30; Eph. 4:7-16. (2006 MDC, msg. 2)

D. When one member functions, he moves “straight forward” to fulfill his function, and the other members accommodate him by moving in the same direction, with some moving “backward” and others moving “sideways” —Rom. 12:4-8; Eph. 4:16. (2006 MDC, msg. 2)

E. The coordination of the four living creatures is in the grace of Christ as the divine power, the divine strength, and the divine supply, because the eagles’ wings are the means by which they are coordinated and move as one—Ezek. 1:9, 11; Exo. 19:4; Isa. 40:31. (2006 MDC, msg. 2)

F. The result of the coordination of the living creatures is that they become burning coals and burning torches; the more we coordinate together, the more we burn one another; the fire is not static but always moving to and fro among the living creatures, because in their fellowship they allow God to move freely among them, causing them to run with the divine power and impact due to their one accord—Ezek. 1:13-14; Acts 1:14. (2006 MDC, msg. 2)

III. The purpose of the blending is to usher us all into the reality of the Body of Christ, and there is the need of the blending for the building up of the Body of Christ—Rom. 16:1-16, 21-24, 20; Rev. 1—3; Col. 4:16: (2005 MDC, msg. 5)

A. To know the purpose of the blending, we need to look into God’s eternal economy; in this economy as a plan, an arrangement, God decided to produce an organic Body to be His organism in life for His increase and expression—vv. 9-10; 3:9-11. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” msg. 1)

B. To carry this out, God Himself had to become a man that man might become God; He accomplished this by the way of union and mingling; eventually, God and man did unite together and mingle together—John 1:14; Matt. 1:20. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” msg. 1)

C. The local churches are not the goal, but the procedure God takes to reach the goal of His economy; Thus, we need to be in the local churches so that we can be ushered, or brought, into the reality of the Body of Christ—Matt. 16:18; 18:17. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” msg. 1)

D. This type of the blending was strongly referred to by the apostle Paul; In 1 Corinthians 10:17 Paul said, “Seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one Body; for we all partake of the one bread.” (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” msg. 2)

E. The blending is for the building up of the universal Body of Christ (Eph. 1:23) to consummate the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:2) as the final goal of God’s economy according to His good pleasure (Eph. 3:8-10; 1:9-10). (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “The Divine and Mystical Realm,” ch. 6)

IV. We must realize that there is a great lack, a shortage, that is, the reality of the Body of Christ; it is for this reason that there is a need for the blending; Today in the recovery, we need to go on and on to reach the high peak of God’s economy, that is, Mount Zion—Rev. 14:1; Eph. 4:16; Rev. 212: (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” msg. 2)

A. Jerusalem is built on the top of a mountain; although Jerusalem is good, it is not the peak; in Jerusalem there is a peak, that is, Mount Zion, on which the temple was built—Gen. 22:2; 2 Chron. 3:1. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” msg. 2)

B. The good situation in the recovery today is just like Jerusalem; however, there is no Zion; in the New Testament the overcomers are likened to Zion; in Revelation 14:1 the 144,000 overcomers are not just in Jerusalem; they are on the peak of Zion. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” msg. 2)

C. The overcomers, the vital groups, are today’s Zion; Although we may have a good church life, among us there is almost no realization, no practicality, no actuality, and no reality of the Body life; this is the need in the recovery today—Psa. 48:2, 11-12; 50:2; 20:2; 53:6a; 87:2. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” msg. 2)

D. A great part of the believers in the local churches are still in the natural man, but to be in the reality of the Body of Christ, we need to be absolutely in the resurrection life of Christ—Phil. 3:10; John 11:25. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” msg. 2)

V. We need to endeavor to reach in the church life the highest peak, today’s Zion, of the reality of the Body of Christ until we consummate in the New Jerusalem, including Zion; this is our need; to have the blending is to meet this need—Rev. 14:1-5; 21:1-3, 16. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” msg. 2)