ONE-MONTH PERFECTING TRAINING
GENERAL SUBJECT
THE LORD NEEDING THE OVERCOMERS

SERIES ONE
THE LORD NEEDING THE OVERCOMERS

Message Four
Consecration (4)—Being Transfused and Intensified
to Become the Shulammite

Scripture Reading: Phil. 3:8; Eph. 4:11-12; 1 Cor. 3:12; John 1:14; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Rev. 1:4; 3:1; 4:5; 5:6; 2:7, 17; 3:20; Zech. 3:9; 2 Cor. 2:10; 3:16-18; Rom. 12:2; Rev. 2:5; 3:2; Psa. 110:3

I. We need to experience and enjoy Christ according to the three stages of His full ministry, and we need to abound in the threefold work of the ministry to build up the Body of Christ—Phil. 3:8; Eph. 4:11-12; 1 Cor. 3:12; 15:58; 16:10; Phil. 1:22-25; 2:30; 2 Cor. 5:18-20:

A. The first stage is the stage of His incarnation—the stage of Christ as a man in the flesh; the work of the ministry in this stage produces redeemed people— Matt. 14:19, 23; John 1:14; 5:30; 7:18; 10:30; 14:30b; Psa. 109:4b; Rom. 3:24-25.

B. The second stage is the stage of His inclusion—the stage of Christ as the life-giving Spirit; the work of the ministry in this stage produced the church and produces the churches—1 Cor. 15:45b; John 20:22; Phil. 1:19; Acts 20:28.

C. The third stage is the stage of His intensification—the stage of Christ as the sevenfold intensified Spirit; the work of the ministry in this stage produces the overcomers as today’s Zion—Rev. 1:4; 4:5; 5:6; 3:1; 2:7, 17; 3:20; 19:7-9.

II. In the third stage, Christ as the sevenfold intensified Spirit is working to produce the overcomers as today’s Zion for the finalization of God’s New Testament economy — Rev. 1:4; 2:7, 17; 3:1, 20; 4:5; 5:6; Zech. 3:9:

A. The seven Spirits are the seven eyes of the redeeming Lamb and of the building stone—Rev. 4:5; 5:6; Zech. 3:9.

B. The seven eyes are for transfusing all that Christ is as the redeeming Lamb in His judicial redemption and as the building stone in His organic salvation into our being so that we may be saved in His life to become exactly the same as He is for His building, His expression—v. 9; 1 Pet. 2:4-5; Rom. 5:10:

1. A person’s eyes are the expression of his inner being; transfusing is to transmit a person’s inner being into the one whom he is looking at—2 Cor. 2:10.

2. The seven Spirits are the seven eyes by which Christ expresses Himself; as the Lord looks at us, His seven eyes transfuse Himself into us—Rev. 4:5; 5:6.

3. The church is the place where the Lord transfuses His inner being into us for our transformation; transformation is the transfusing of the Lord’s lovable person into us—Eph. 3:16-18; Rom. 12:2.

C. He is able to make us the same as He is in His life, in His nature, in His expression, and in His function to carry out His economy—Gen. 2:20-23.

D. Eventually, Christ’s lovers who are becoming His duplication need to share in His work by being equipped with all the attributes of the divine life to be expressed in their human virtues— S.S. 7:11; 2 Cor. 6:1a; Phil. 1:21a.

E. The romance in Song of Songs portrays the process through which the seeker of Christ passes in order to become the Shulammite a duplication of Solomon and a figure of the New Jerusalem—S.S. 6:4b, 10b, 13; Rev. 21.

III. “Become watchful and establish the things which remain, which were about to die; for I have found none of your works completed before My God”—Rev. 3:2:

A. In 3:1 the Lord says, “These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars.” The seven Spirits of God are for the church to be living intensely, and the seven stars are for her to be shining intensely.

B. The dead reformed church needs the speaking of the living Spirit. The knowledge of the dead letters can never replace the speaking of the intensified Spirit. The letter kills. It is the Spirit who gives life. All those in dead Protestantism must listen to the speaking of the Spirit—2 Cor. 3:6; John 6:63; Rev. 3:6.

C. “Remember therefore where you have fallen from and repent and do the first works; but if not, I am coming to you and will remove your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.”—Rev. 2:5.

IV. “Your people will offer themselves willingly in the day of Your warfare, in the splendor of their consecration; Your young men will be to You like the dew from the womb of the dawn”—Psa. 110:3:

A. Presenting our bodies to God is the practical side of consecration. Because our being exists in the body, we must present the body so that our whole being may be given over to God in a practical way—Rom. 12:1.

B. We must experience specific dealings with the Lord; we must pass this step in a specific way, this is a hurdle—Josh. 3:7-17:

1. There must be a time when we say to God, “From now on I offer You my time, my mind, my money, my family, and my all.”—Lev. 1:9, 13.

2. God touches everyone in a specific way. With some, God touches them on one point; with others, God touches them on another point. Many times God’s demand appears to be harsh and severe; God wants us to prove that we will obey Him. —Gen. 22:2.

3. It is not enough just to say verbally, “I offer Isaac as a sacrifice.” We must present Isaac as an offering in reality. If we do this, we will see the lamb God has prepared. God is not satisfied until we have fully obeyed—Gen. 22:9-14; Matt. 26:6-13.