* The producing and mission of the overcomers

1. The overcomers are produced by the overcoming Christ as the sevenfold intensified Spirit, and they are burdened for the building up of the Body of Christ as the preparation of the bride of Christ—Eph. 4:16; Rev. 19:7-9:
1. The overcomers are for the building up of the Body of Christ, preparing the bride of Christ, and bringing in the kingdom to consummate the New Jerusalem—Eph. 4:12; Rev. 2:7, 3:12, 21:
1. Without the overcomers the Body of Christ cannot be built up, and unless the Body of Christ is built up, Christ cannot come back for His bride—Rev. 19:7-9.
2. The overcomers build up the Body in this age for the initial consummation of the New Jerusalem in the kingdom age and eventually for the full consummation of the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth—Rev. 21:2.
2. The Lord is calling the overcomers and promises them to enjoy Christ in the present age of the church life, so that they may gain the kingdom as the reward in the coming age—Rev. 2:7b, 11b, 17b, 26-28, 3:5, 12, 21:

The Lord’s promises at the end of each of the seven epistles in Revelation 2 and 3 refer both to the present enjoyment of the overcomers and to the reward given to them in the coming millennial kingdom:

• In order to enter into the Lord’s joy and receive the Lord as our exceedingly great reward in the next age, we need to gain Him and faithfully enjoy Him today in this age—Matt. 25:21b, 23b; Phil. 3:8-9; Gen. 15:1.
• If we do not faithfully enjoy and experience Christ as the reality of His promises today, we will not participate in their fulfillment in the kingdom age; the principle is that what we are will become our reward—1 Cor. 9:24-27.

* The character of the overcoming living in the recovered church

2. As a sign, the church in Philadelphia prefigures the recovered church—Rev. 3:7:
1. The church in Philadelphia prophetically depicts the church of brotherly love, that is, the condition of the proper church life—Rev. 3:7.
2. One outstanding feature of the church in Philadelphia is that she keeps the Lord’s word—Rev. 3:7-8.
3. In Revelation 3:8 the Lord says that the church in Philadelphia has not denied His name; the Lord’s word is His expression, and the Lord’s name is the Lord Himself (His person)—Rev. 3:8; Matt. 18:20.
4. The return to the pure word from all heresies and traditions and to the exaltation of the Lord’s name by abandoning every other name is the most inspiring testimony in the recovered church—Rev. 3:8.
5. To the recovered church, the Lord is the One who has the key of David, the key of the kingdom, with authority to open and to shut—Rev. 3:7; Isa. 22:22:
1. The key of David is for the keeping of all the treasures of the house of God, which are all the riches of Christ for our enjoyment—Eph. 3:8.
2. As the real David, the greater David, Christ has built up the house of God, the real temple, and He has set up the kingdom of God, the dominion in which He exercises full authority to represent God; therefore, He holds the key of David.
3. The fact that Christ has the key of David signifies that He is the center of God’s economy; He is the One who expresses God and represents Him, the One who holds the key to open everything in God’s dominion—Col. 1:15-18.

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Message 8: The Factor of Living an Overcoming Life in the Recovered Church

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Message 8 (Cont.)

* The overcomer as the pillars in the temple of God (in the church age & the kingdom age)

3. The Lord Jesus will make the overcomer in the recovered church a pillar built into the temple of God—Rev. 3:11-12a:
1. The Lord makes us pillars by transforming us, that is, by carrying away our natural element and replacing it with His divine essence—Rom. 12:12; 2 Cor. 3:18:
1. The meaning of make in Revelation 3:12 is to constitute us into something, to construct us in a creative way—Rev. 3:12.
2. In Revelation 21:22 we see that in the New Jerusalem the Triune God Himself will be the temple—Rev. 21:22:
1. For the overcomers to be pillars in the temple means that they will be pillars in the Triune God; this involves being mingled with the Triune God and constituted with Him—Rev. 3:12a; Eph. 3:16-17a.
3. Even in today’s church life, the overcoming saints are pillars in the Triune God—Rev. 3:12a; Gal. 2:9:
1. These saints sometimes have the consciousness that the church is actually nothing other than the Triune God, as indicated by the golden lampstands as a symbol of the church—Rev. 1:12, 20.
2. The pillars in the church today are pillars in the Triune God; in the coming age these overcoming believers will be pillars in the temple of God, which is God Himself—Rev. 3:12a; 21:22.
3. From this we see that being made pillars involves the Triune God being mingled with and constituted into the faithful believers—2 Cor. 13:14.
4. To overcome in the church in Philadelphia is to keep what we have received in the Lord’s recovery to the end; if we do this, the Lord will make us a pillar in the temple of God—Rev. 3:11-12a.

* Eventually, the overcomer becomes the New Jerusalem (in the eternity future)

4. The overcomer in the recovered church is constituted with the processed and consummated Triune God and eventually they becomes the New Jerusalem, “the bride, the wife of the Lamb”—Rev. 3:12b, 21:2, 9-11:
1. The governing vision of the Bible is the Triune God working Himself into His chosen and redeemed people in order to saturate their entire being with the Divine Trinity for the producing and building up of the church as the Body of Christ, consummating in the New Jerusalem—Eph. 4:4-6; Rev. 21:2, 9-10.
2. The New Jerusalem is a composition of divinity and humanity mingled, blended, and built up together as one entity; all the components have the same life, nature, and constitution and thus are a corporate person—John 14:20, 23; Rev. 21:2-3, 9-23:
1. The New Jerusalem is a composition of God’s chosen, redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, renewed, transformed, conformed, and glorified people who have been deified—John 3:6; Heb. 2:11; Rom. 12:2, 8:29-30.
2. For us to be deified means that we are being constituted with the processed and consummated Triune God so that we may be made God in life and nature to be His corporate expression for eternity;
3. The deification of the believers is a process that will consummate in the New Jerusalem; this is the highest truth and the highest gospel.
3. “I will write upon him [the overcomer] the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which descends out of heaven from My God, and My new name”—Rev. 3:12b:
1. That the name of God, the name of the New Jerusalem, and the name of the Lord are written on the overcomer indicates that what God is, the nature of the New Jerusalem, and the person of the Lord have all been wrought into the overcomer—John 14:19-20; Eph. 3:16-17.

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* The producing and mission of the overcomers

1. The overcomers are produced by the overcoming Christ as the sevenfold intensified Spirit, and they are burdened for the building up of the Body of Christ as the preparation of the bride of Christ
1. The overcomers are for the building up of the Body of Christ, preparing the bride of Christ, and bringing in the kingdom to consummate the New Jerusalem. [Eph. 4:12] For the perfecting of the saints …unto the building up of the Body of Christ.
2. The Lord is calling the overcomers and promises them to enjoy Christ in the present age of the church life, so that they may gain the kingdom as the reward in the coming age. [Phil. 3:8] …I also count all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse that I may gain Christ.

* The character of the overcoming living in the recovered church

2. As a sign, the church in Philadelphia prefigures the recovered church
1. The church in Philadelphia prophetically depicts the church of brotherly love, that is, the condition of the proper church life; One outstanding feature of the church in Philadelphia is that she keeps the Lord’s word.
2. In Revelation 3:8 the Lord says that the church in Philadelphia has not denied His name; the Lord’s word is His expression, and the Lord’s name is the Lord Himself (His person).

[Rev. 3:8] … because you have a little power and have kept My word and have not denied My name.

• The return to the pure word from all heresies and traditions and to the exaltation of the Lord’s name by abandoning every other name is the most inspiring testimony in the recovered church.
• To the recovered church, the Lord is the One who has the key of David, the key of the kingdom, with authority to open and to shut.

[Isa. 22:22] And I will set the key of the house of David upon his shoulder-When he opens, no one will shut; When he shuts, no one will open.

* The overcomer as the pillars in the temple of God (in the church age & the kingdom age)

3. The Lord Jesus will make the overcomer in the recovered church a pillar built into the temple of God
1. The Lord makes us pillars by transforming us, that is, by carrying away our natural element and replacing it with His divine essence; In Revelation 21:22 we see that in the New Jerusalem the Triune God Himself will be the temple.

[Eph. 3:16-17] That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith,…

• Even in today’s church life, the overcoming saints are pillars in the Triune God; to overcome in the church in Philadelphia is to keep what we have received in the Lord’s recovery to the end; if we do this, the Lord will make us a pillar in the temple of God.

[Rev. 3:11-12] …hold fast what you have that no one take your crown. He who overcomes, him I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall by no means go out anymore… [Rev. 21:22] And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

* Eventually, the overcomer becomes the New Jerusalem (in the eternity future)

4. The overcomer in the recovered church is constituted with the processed and consummated Triune God and eventually they becomes the New Jerusalem, “the bride, the wife of the Lamb”
1. The governing vision of the Bible is the Triune God working Himself into His chosen and redeemed people in order to saturate their entire being with the Divine Trinity for the producing and building up of the church as the Body of Christ, consummating in the New Jerusalem.

[Rev. 21:9-10] … the bride, the wife of the Lamb … the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

• That the name of God, the name of the New Jerusalem, and the name of the Lord are written on the overcomer indicates that what God is, the nature of the New Jerusalem, and the person of the Lord have all been wrought into the overcomer.

[Rev. 3:12] He who overcomes…I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which descends out of heaven from My God, and My new name.

Daily Musing for Prophesying, a Sample

Message 8: The Factor of Living an Overcoming Life in the Recovered Church

to Consummate the Divine Economy and Become the New Jerusalem

The house of God

The city of God

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Message 8: Appendix

Philadelphia means “brotherly love.” In the local churches we need the Philadelphia; we need the love for one another. We love one another because we love the Lord. We need the brotherly love, for in this love we have the open door. In a prevailing local church the door is always wide open, because the brothers love one another.

As long as the brothers and sisters love one another, the door can never be shut. The more we love one another, the more the door will be open. If we invite others to come to the church meetings, we simply need to let them see the love with oneness and harmony that we have. This alone will convince them.

The way to open the door is to love one another. The open door is set before Philadelphia. If we would have an open door, we must love one another. This will convince the world.

Since the recovery of the proper church life began in the early part of the nineteenth century, a door has always been opened wide to the Lord’s recovery. From the beginning of the recovery of the proper church life, Satan, the enemy of God, tried his best to shut the door.

The key is in the hand of the Head of the church; it is not in the hand of the opposers. No matter how much opposition there is to His recovery, the doors are increasingly open to the recovery, and the key is in His hand. As long as we are in His recovery, the door will always be open to us.

Although many opposers rose up against His recovery and tried their best to shut the door, Christ nevertheless is the One who has the key of David. What He opens no one will shut, and what He shuts no one will open. Today we should praise the Lord for the door open worldwide.

<Excerpts from “The Conclusion of the New Testament Experiencing and Enjoying Christ (6) (Msgs. 404-436),

Message 412 Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ in Revelation (9)”>

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