1. We have entered into the good land and we will need to labor on the All-inclusive Christ—1 Cor. 1:30; Col. 1:12:

As believers in Christ who have been led by Christ into Himself as the good land typified by the land of Canaan, we need to labor on Christ:

1. After the people of Israel entered into and possessed the land of Canaan and received their allotted portion, they labored on the land—Deut. 8:7-10; 12:6:
1. Whether or not they were willing to labor on the land was a serious matter; they had to labor on and cultivate the land.
2. This is a picture of how we need to labor diligently on Christ so that we may enjoy His all-inclusive riches—Eph. 3:8; 1 Cor. 15:58.
2. The life we live after entering into Christ as the good land is a life of laboring on Christ—Col. 1:12; Rom. 15:16; 1 Cor. 15:10:
1. As the Lord’s people who are living in the all-inclusive Christ, we need to labor on Christ, seeking Christ and enjoying Christ in every situation—Col. 1:12; 3:1, 4, 10-11.
2. We are in a very rich land, but if we do not labor on it, there is no produce for us to experience and enjoy.
3. Although we need to labor on Christ as the land to produce Christ, we need to realize that it is not we who produce Christ but Christ who produces Himself in us through our labor—Phil. 2:13; Eph. 3:17; Col. 3:15-16: (labor on Christ/spend time before the Lord)
1. We all need to labor on Christ and let Christ give us much produce; then we will have rich experiences of Christ—Eph. 3:8; Phil. 4:19.
2. The harvest of Christ is the Christ on whom we have labored and have reaped to be our harvest—Phil. 3:10.
4. Every morning we need to pray, asking the Lord for the day’s portion of grace and consecrating ourselves to the Lord for the purpose of experiencing and enjoying Him by laboring on Him—Rom. 12:1-2; 15:16. (have morning revival)
5. Throughout the day we need to maintain our fellowship with the Lord and thereby contact Him, labor on Him, apply Him, experience Him, and enjoy Him—John 15:4-5. (pray/fellowship with the Lord)
3. Exercising our spirit is the key to laboring on Christ, experiencing Christ, and producing Christ—1 Tim. 4:7: (exercise our spirit)
1. The way to labor on Christ is to exercise our spirit to contact the Spirit, the reality of the all-inclusive Christ as the good land—Gal. 3:14.
2. Throughout the day, in every situation and in all our circumstances, we should exercise our spirit to contact the Lord and experience Him—1 Tim. 4:7; Rom. 8:4; 1 Cor. 6:17; Phil. 4:11-13.
7. We need to develop the faith and love towards the Lord by exercising our heart and spirit—2 Cor. 3:16; 13:14; Gal. 3:14

(Exercise our heart and Spirit)

We labor on Christ as the good land by exercising our heart to have faith in the Lord and to love the Lord and by exercising our spirit to contact the Lord and to receive the dispensing of the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit, the reality of Christ as the good land.

Hymns: 864

Message 7: Our Need to Labor on the All-inclusive Christ to Have the Produce to Exhibit Christ in the

Church and to Have a Surplus of Christ to Bring to the Church Meetings

for the Corporate Worship of God Our Father

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The Spirit

Aletheia

Truth 🡪 reality 🡪 truthfulness

Message 7 (Cont.)

2. If we faithfully labor on the all-inclusive Christ, we will have the riches of Christ as the produce to exhibit Christ in the church—Eph. 3:8; 1 Cor. 14:26:
1. The proper life of Christians is to labor on Christ every day and thus have the rich surplus of Christ to bring to the meetings for a rich exhibition of Christ—1 Cor. 14:26:
1. Through our daily experiences of the riches of Christ, these riches will become an exhibition of the produce of Christ—Eph. 3:17-18.
2. Our meetings should always be an exhibition to show forth what Christ is, what Christ has, and what Christ does—Heb. 1:3; 2:14; 1 John 4:15; Acts 2:24, 32; Rev. 1:17b-18.
2. We meet to exhibit not only the Christ given to us by God but also the Christ we have produced, the Christ on whom we have labored and whom we have experienced; this is the Christ whom we come together to exhibit—Col. 1:12-13.
3. If we continually labor on Christ, we will have the rich surplus of Christ to bring to meetings for a rich exhibition of Christ. —1 Cor. 1:24, 30; 10:3-4
4. Whenever we come together, regardless of the kind of meeting we are having, we should come with the Christ experienced by us as the surplus to be offered to God and exhibited to the whole universe and to the enemy, putting him to shame—Eph. 3:10.
5. To have proper Christian meetings, we need to contact the Lord daily in our personal life and then come to the meetings with the realization and understanding that we are coming to exhibit Christ and share Christ with others—1 Cor. 14:26.
6. That is, whenever we meet, we offer the surplus of Christ’s plenitude unto God as food to exhibit Christ—Hymns, #864:

“Whene’er we meet with Christ endued, / The surplus of His plenitude / We offer unto God as food / And thus exhibit Christ. / Let us exhibit Christ, / Let us exhibit Christ; / We’ll bring His surplus to the church / And thus exhibit Christ”—Hymns, #864, stanza 1 and chorus.

3. We need to labor on the all-inclusive Christ in order to have a surplus of Christ to bring to the church meetings for the corporate worship of God our Father—John 4:23-24; Eph. 3:21:
1. The experience of the children of Israel is a picture of a proper Christian meeting—Deut. 12:6; 16:15-16:
1. God commanded them to not be empty-handed when they came together to worship Him; they had to come with their hands full of the produce of their labor—Exo. 23:15; Deut. 12:11.
2. When they came to worship in the place designated by God, they worshipped God by offering to Him the top surplus of their labor on the land.
2. For our worship of Him, the Father requires that we come to Him with a harvest of Christ; thus, we need to come to the church meetings with the riches of Christ—John 4:23-24.
3. Daily, we should labor on Christ to have a harvest of Christ’s riches to bring to the church meetings for the corporate worship of God the Father—1 Cor. 14:26; Deut. 16:16.
4. A life in Christ is a life of sharing Christ with others and offer Christ to God the Father—John 4:23-24; 1 Cor. 14:26:

A life in the all-inclusive Christ as the good land is a life of laboring on Christ, producing Christ, enjoying Christ, sharing Christ with others, and offering Christ to God the Father that He may enjoy Christ with us.

• This kind of enjoyment and sharing is an exhibiting of Christ to the entire universe—Rev. 19:7.
• This is a worship to God the Father and a shame to the enemy—John 4:23-24.
• It is crucial that we diligently labor on Christ to have our hands full of Christ and then come to the church meetings to enjoy this rich and glorious Christ with God’s children and with God the Father Himself—Cor. 10:31; Rom. 15:6.
• Whenever we come to the Lord’s table meeting to remember the Lord and worship the Father, we must come with the riches of Christ produced by our daily laboring on Christ—Deut. 16:15-17.

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The Son

The Father

1. We have entered into the good land and we will need to labor on the All-inclusive Christ

[Col. 1:12] Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light.

• After the people of Israel entered into and possessed the land of Canaan and received their allotted portion, they labored on the land; the life we live is a life of laboring on Christ; it is Christ who produces Himself in us through our labor.
• Every morning we need to consecrate ourselves to the Lord; throughout the day we need to maintain our fellowship with the Lord.

[Rom. 15:16] That I might be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, a laboring priest of the gospel of God, in order that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit.

[John 15:5] I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing.

• Exercising our spirit is the key to laboring on Christ; We need to develop the faith and love towards the Lord by exercising our heart and spirit.
• The way to labor on Christ is to exercise our spirit to contact the Spirit, the reality of the all-inclusive Christ as the good land.

[1 Tim. 4:7] But the profane and old-womanish myths refuse, and exercise yourself unto godliness.

[Rom. 8:4 ] That the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit.

2. If we faithfully labor on the all-inclusive Christ, we will have the riches of Christ as the produce to exhibit Christ in the church

[Eph. 3:8] To me, less than the least of all saints, was this grace given to announce to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel.

• The proper life of Christians is to labor on Christ every day for a rich exhibition of Christ; we meet to exhibit the Christ we have produced.

[Eph. 3:17] That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

[Eph. 3:18] May be full of strength to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth and length and height and depth are

• Whenever we come together, we should come with the Christ experienced by us as the surplus to be offered to God and exhibited to the whole universe and to the enemy, putting him to shame.
• To have proper Christian meetings, we need to contact the Lord daily in our personal life and then come to the meetings to exhibit Christ and share Christ with others; that is, whenever we meet, we offer the surplus of Christ’s plenitude unto God as food to exhibit Christ.
• Our meetings should always be an exhibition to show forth what Christ is, what Christ has, and what Christ does.

[1 Cor. 14:26] …Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up. [Eph. 4:15] But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ,

3. We need to labor on the all-inclusive Christ in order to have a surplus of Christ to bring to the church meetings for the corporate worship of God our Father

[John 4:23-24] …when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truthfulness, for the Father also seeks such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness.

• The experience of the children of Israel is a picture of a proper Christian meeting.
• For our worship of Him, the Father requires that we come to Him with a harvest of Christ; we should labor on Christ to have a harvest of Christ’s riches to bring to the church meetings for the corporate worship of God the Father; a life in Christ is a life of sharing Christ with others and offer Christ to God the Father.
• It is crucial that we diligently labor on Christ to have our hands full of Christ; whenever we come to the Lord’s table meeting to remember the Lord and worship the Father, we must come with the riches of Christ produced by our daily laboring on Christ.
• This kind of enjoyment and sharing is an exhibiting of Christ to the entire universe; this is a worship to God the Father and a shame to the enemy.

[1 Cor 10:31] Therefore whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

[Eph.3:21] To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all the generations forever and ever. Amen.

Bird’s-eye View for Prophesying, a Sample

Message 7: Our Need to Labor on the All-inclusive Christ to Have the Produce to Exhibit Christ in the

Church and to Have a Surplus of Christ to Bring to the Church Meetings

for the Corporate Worship of God Our Father

2021 ITERO-F 7e Musing Abstract

The Spirit

The Son

The Father

Message 7: Appendix

In John 4 the worship to the Father, the worship in the dispensing of God, is related to drinking the living water (vv. 10, 14). If we do not drink the living water, we do not drink of the Spirit (1 Cor. 12:13), we have no experience of God, and God is not dispensed into us.

Today our worship is subjective in the dispensing of God. Our worship is our experience of drinking the living water, the Spirit. This is the new worship revealed in the New Testament.

This kind of worship can be practiced mostly in the Lord's table meeting, because in the Lord's table meeting, after we partake of the bread and the cup, the Lord takes the lead to bring us to the Father. The Lord leads us back to the Father in the Spirit. Therefore, this coming back to the Father is in the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity. The Son and the Spirit are wrought into the returning son. This is the true worship in God's dispensing.

<Excerpts from “Basic Lessons on Service”, Lesson 6, “The Practice of the Lord’s Table Metting (3)”>

If we do not labor on Christ and live by Christ, we will have nothing of Christ in our hand. Even if we understand how to exercise our spirit, we may have the technique but not the material. When we come to the meeting, our spirit may be positive, active, living, on the alert, and ready to exercise, but we may be poor and empty-handed, not having anything of Christ to minister. If this is so, we are worshipping in spirit but not in reality; we are in Jerusalem, but we do not have a surplus in our hands. Therefore, the church life depends on our daily exercise of the spirit and also on our daily walk in Christ. We have to labor on Christ, walk in Christ, live by Christ, and have many experiences of Christ. Then we will be rich in Christ and with Christ. When we come to the meeting, we will know how to exercise our spirit, and we will have much surplus of Christ.

<Excerpts from “Serving in the Meetings and in the Gospel’’, Chapter 1, “Worshipping in Spirit and in Truthfulness”>

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To labor on Christ

for the propagation and the increase of the church 🡪 to practice:

Morning revival – to produce the vitality

Pray/fellowship – to produce the motivating power

Blending/meeting – to produce the capacity

And to practice God’s ordained new way, exercising PSRP/musing upon the Lord’s word – to be burning within body:

Full of vitality/motivating power/capacity!

John 6:57, 63; 15:4-7; Psa. 119:147-148; 39:3; Jer. 23:29; 1 John 2:27; Phil. 2:13

Lev. 6:13 Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.