The Church as Revealed in Hebrews

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GENERAL SUBJECT: STEWARDS OF THE MYSTERIES OF GOD

Message Twenty-Two
The Church as Revealed in Hebrews

Scripture Reading: Heb. 2:10-12; 3:14; 1:9; 3:6; 4:9; 12:22-24, 28; 13:20

I. The church is a living composition of the many sons of God, who are the
   many brothers of Christ brought forth in His resurrection-Heb. 2:10-12;
   Rom. 8:29; John 20:17; Heb. 1:5; 5:5; Acts 13:33; 1 Pet. 1:3:

A. God is our divine Father, and we are His divine sons born of His divine life
   with His divine nature-John 1:12-13; 20:17; Eph. 1:5; Gal. 3:26; 2 Pet. 1:4

B. As the many brothers of Christ, we are the same as the firstborn Son; He is
   divine and human, and we are human and divine-Heb. 2:11; 1:6; Rom. 8:29.

C. The church is an organism with two lives and two natures combined and
   mingled together-Lev. 2:1-16:

   1. The church is altogether a matter of life-the divine life and the
      uplifted,resurrected human life-Rom. 1:3-4.

   2. The church has two natures-the human nature and the divine nature;
       therefore, the church is both human and divine-Heb. 2:14, 11.

II. The church is a corporate partnership with Christ-3:14; 1:9:

A. In His exaltation the Lord Jesus was inaugurated as Lord and Christ to
   administrate God's operation, and He was also designated as the legal Heir
   to inherit all things in God's economy-Acts 2:36; Heb. 1:2.

B. The firstborn Son is God's appointed Heir, and we, the many sons, have been
   saved to be His joint heirs, inheriting not only salvation but all things
   with Him-3:14; Rom. 8:17; Gal. 4:7; Eph. 3:6; Titus 3:7.

C. Since Christ as the firstborn Son of God is God's appointed Heir and we as
   the many sons of God are His joint heirs, we are Christ's partners; as
   Christ's partners, we share in His anointing and cooperate with Him in His
   operation to reach the goal of God's economy-the glorious expression of
   the Divine Being-Heb. 3:14; 1:9; 2 Cor. 1:21; Rev. 21:10-11.

III. The church is the house of God-Heb. 3:4-6; 1 Tim. 3:15-16:

A. The house of God is the family of God, a living composition of the children
   of God in the Father's life and reality-John 1:12-13; 1 John 3:1; Rom. 8:16.

B. The Father's house is a divine and human incorporation of the processed and
   consummated Triune God with His redeemed, regenerated, and transformed
   elect-John 14:2, 20.

C. The indwelling Christ is building Himself into us and building us into Him
   to produce a mutual abode-Eph. 3:17; John 14:2-3, 23; 2 Sam. 7:12-14a.

IV. The church, the enlargement of Christ, is the Sabbath rest-John 2:19, 21;
    3:29a, 30; 1 Cor. 12:12; Heb. 3:6; 4:9:

A. The individual Christ is God's Sabbath (Matt. 11:28-29), and the church is
   the enlargement of Christ; therefore, the church also is God's Sabbath rest.

B. The church is God's satisfaction and rest because in the church God has His
   habitation for His expression and representation-Eph. 2:22.

C. There is only one situation that can satisfy God-a situation in which God
   has gained a group of people to be His expression and representation-
   Heb. 2:12;3:6, 14.

V. To come to the church is to come to the new covenant and to the heav-
   enly New Jerusalem-12:22-24; 8:7-13; 11:10, 16; Gal. 4:24-26:

A. The new covenant, the heavenly Jerusalem, and the church are one.

B. To receive the new covenant is to enter the New Jerusalem and come to the
   church:

   1. Hebrews 8 indicates that the old covenant of law has been replaced by
      the new covenant.

   2. Hebrews 12 says that we have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the
      living God, to the Mediator of a new covenant, and to the church-vv.
      22-24.

VI. The church is the unshakable kingdom of God-v. 28:

A. The unshakable kingdom, which we are receiving, is Christ with His
   enlargement:

    1. The kingdom is actually the Lord Himself as the kingdom within us-
       Luke 17:20-21; Mark 4:3, 26.

    2. Whereas the church is Christ's increase in life, the kingdom is
       Christ's increase in administration.

    3. In the coming age the corporate Christ, Christ with His overcomers,
       will become a great mountain to fill the earth, making the whole
       earth God's kingdom-Dan. 2:35, 44-45.

B. In the church we are living in the kingdom of God today-John 3:3, 5; Rom.
   14:17; Rev. 1:9.

C. The kingdom of God as the church life in this age is for our exercise
   and equipping in the divine authority through the endurance of sufferings
   and for our learning how to reign in life-v. 9; Acts 14:22; Matt. 18:18;
   Rom. 5:17.

VII. The church is God's flock under the all-inclusive, tender care of Christ
     as the great Shepherd of the sheep-Heb. 13:20-21; 1 Pet. 2:25; 5:2:

A. God raised up the Lord Jesus from the dead to be the great Shepherd to
   consummate the New Jerusalem according to God's eternal covenant-Heb. 13:20

B. Christ's heavenly ministry is mainly to shepherd the church of God as His
   flock, which issues in His Body, and the apostolic ministry cooperates with
   Christ's heavenly ministry to shepherd God's flock-John 21:15-17.


2010 Living Stream Ministry


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