Central Line of the Divine Revelation, The

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

This book is composed of messages given by Brother Witness Lee in Anaheim, California, on August 27 through December 17, 1991.

God (1) _ch.1

The entire Scripture being the revelation of God as the unique deity, mainly in His divine titles and divine person
The divine titles of God
Among the many titles for God in the Old Testament, only three being primarily used — Elohim, Jehovah, and Adonai
Elohim
Jehovah
Adonai
The primary Divine Titles Used in the New Testament Being and
God
Father
Lord
Jesus
Christ
Holy Spirit

God (2) _ch.2

The person of God
God, denoting that God is a living person who is divine from eternity to eternity, thus, the eternal God
The divine persons of the Divine Trinity
The Father being the source of the Trinity
The Son being the course of the Trinity, the embodiment of the Father for His expression
The Spirit being the flow of the Trinity
The Spirit
The divine revelation in the Scriptures concerning the unique and triune God

The divine economy _ch.3

An issue of God’s will, purpose, good pleasure, and counsel
God’s will being God’s wish, God’s desire
God’s purpose being God’s intent set beforehand
God’s good pleasure being what God likes, what pleases God
God’s counsel being God’s resolution consummated in the council by the Divine Trinity
God’s economy being God’s household administration, God’s plan and arrangement
The intention of God’s economy
God’s economy and the apostle’s stewardship

The divine dispensing _ch.4

The divine dispensing being the consummation of the divine economy
The divine economy being the issue of God’s will, purpose, good pleasure, and counsel
The divine dispensing of the divine economy being consummated through the Divine Trinity
The divine nature being dispensed into the believers in Christ through God the Father’s choosing, and the divine life being dispensed through God the Father’s predestination
The divine element, of which the believers in Christ are made God’s excellent inheritance, being dispensed into the believers through God the Son’s redemption unto God’s economy of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ
The divine essence, of which the believers in Christ enjoy the processed Triune God, being dispensed into the believers through God the Spirit’s sealing and pledging
The divine dispensing of the divine economy constituting the organic Body of Christ

God’s creation of man in the view of the divine dispensing according to the divine economy (1) _ch.5

In eternity the Triune God holding a council and making a counsel concerning the creation of man
Man being created
By the Triune God — the Father, the Son, and the Spirit
In Their (inward) image
According to Their (outward) likeness
As the highest of the created life
According to God’s kind
Man being tripartite
A body, formed with the dust of the ground, to be man’s outward organ
A spirit, formed with the breath of God, to be man’s inward organ as God’s recipient
A soul being produced by the combination of the human spirit and the human body
The creation of man being God’s preliminary preparation for the dispensing of Himself as the Triune God into the tripartite man according to His economy

God’s creation of man in the view of the divine dispensing according to the divine economy (2) _ch.6

Christ being the image of the invisible God in the essence of His attributes
Christ having the form of God’s being
God’s creation of man in His image and according to His likeness as a tripartite vessel
The image of God’s attributes and the likeness of God’s being
Man’s soul comprising His mind, emotion, and free will
The inner man of Romans 7 and the inner man of second Corinthians 4
The creation of man being God’s preliminary preparation for the dispensing of Himself according to His economy
After being created, man being placed in the garden of Eden
In front of two trees
With a river, signifying the flow of God as life to bring forth three precious materials
To bring forth a counterpart for God
The completion of God’s creation of man in the view of His dispensing according to His economy needing the entire Bible to fully define

God’s creation of man in the view of the divine dispensing according to the divine economy (3) _ch.7

The way to receive the divine dispensing
Being built up together to become a counterpart for the processed Triune God

In the promises and types of God’s anticipated redemption and salvation (1) _ch.8

The four ages between the two eternities
The age before the law
The creation of man
The fall of man
God’s anticipated redemption and salvation
The age of the law
Christ as the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, and the seed of David
In the promises
In the promise of the seed of the woman — the son born of a virgin
Referring to the incarnated Christ
Implying the complete God becoming a perfect man through the dispensing of Himself into humanity
To destroy Satan and to save the believers in Christ from sin and death
In the promise of the seed of Abraham
For the blessing to all the families of the earth
Referring to the promised Spirit
As the consummation of the Triune God for the dispensing of Himself into the believers of Christ
For the believers in Christ, who are Abraham’s seed, to inherit the consummated Spirit as their divine inheritance
In the promise of the seed of David
Referring to the resurrected Christ
As God’s sure mercies
For the believers in Christ to share His kingship

A complementing word on Christ being the threefold seed in humanity for God’s dispensing of Himself into the believers of Christ _ch.9

Incarnation being the dispensing of God Himself into humanity
Christ as the threefold dispensing
The positive intention of God’s economy
To have man in His image and according to His likeness for man to be one with Him that He may express Himself in humanity
To give man His dominion over the earth that man may represent Him in His administration
To be received by man as man’s life for man’s inward constitution that man may become the counterpart of the Triune God
The negative need caused by man’s fall through the temptation of God’s adversary Satan
To destroy Satan in Christ’s humanity through death
To take away sin through Christ’s death in His flesh
To nullify death through Christ’s resurrection in His humanity
To terminate the old man corrupted by Satan with sin unto death
Christ as the seed of the woman having destroyed Satan, taken away sin, nullified death, and crucified the old man in His humanity
Christ as the seed of Abraham, the last Adam, the God-man, becoming the life-giving Spirit to impart Himself as God’s embodiment and life into His believers
Christ as the seed of David being begotten through His resurrection to be the Prince (the King) that we may share His kingship
Overcoming Satan, sin, and death, terminating the old man, and participating in the all-embracing blessing of the Spirit of Christ and in the kingship of Christ
To be identified with the all-inclusive Christ as the threefold seed in His humanity
To live in Christ’s resurrection through His cross
To live Him as the pneumatic Christ by the bountiful supply of His Spirit
To be filled with the Spirit within and without and to walk according to the Spirit in our spirit
To overcome individualism, sectarianism, and Christianity and to live the life of the Body of Christ
To receive God’s constant and instant dispensing continuously through unceasing prayer, not quenching the Spirit

The aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God in Christ for the divine dispensing according to the divine economy (1) _ch.10

The all-inclusive Spirit being the aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God in Christ for the divine dispensing according to the divine economy
The processed and resurrected Christ coming back to His disciples and breathing Himself as such a life-giving Spirit into His disciples
As the realization of God the Son, who is the embodiment of God the Father, coming to be the reality of the Triune God, not only with God the Son’s believers but also in them
As the Spirit of reality, declaring, transmitting, the Triune God into the Son’s believers for the glorification of God the Son
As the revealing Spirit, showing us the deep things of God concerning Christ as our portion for our enjoyment
As the Spirit of the divine fellowship, the divine flow, imparting, dispensing, the love of God in the transfusion of the grace of Christ for our enjoyment
As the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of life, indwelling us to dispense the divine life into our spirit, soul, and body
As the Comforter, convicting the sinners and regenerating them that they may become the children of God
Becoming the Spirit of sonship for us to call God “Abba, Father”
As the writing ink, sealing and saturating us
Being the pledge of God as our inheritance

The aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God in Christ for the divine dispensing according to the divine economy (2) _ch.11

The all-inclusive Spirit being the aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God in Christ, for the divine dispensing according to the divine economy
Being the firstfruits of our enjoyment of God as our inheritance
As the Spirit of our sonship, leading us, the sons of God, by the Father’s life and nature
As the compound Spirit, compounded with the divine nature and the human nature of Christ and with Christ’s death and resurrection, to be the anointing ointment
As the reality of God, of Christ, and of the divine life
As the reality of Christ’s resurrection with His death
As the Spirit of Jesus Christ, supplying us with His bountiful supply
As the indwelling Spirit, strengthening us (through the divine dispensing) into the inner man
As the Spirit of the oneness of the Body of Christ, being the essence of the Body
As the consummation of the processed God, sanctifying us with the divine and holy nature of God
As the regenerating Spirit, renewing us with the newness of Christ’s resurrection life and with the freshness of the ever-existing God

The aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God in Christ for the divine dispensing according to the divine economy (3) _ch.12

Understanding the divine truth
Progressing in understanding the Bible
Apprehending the spiritual significance in studying the Bible
Building the church with life, the Spirit, and the truth
The all-inclusive Spirit being the aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God in Christ for the divine dispensing according to the divine economy
As the Spirit of life, filling us inwardly with Himself as the life-giving Spirit
As the Spirit of power, filling us outwardly with Himself as the outpoured Spirit
As the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus, directing the move of the ministers of Christ through the inward guidance by the divine dispensing
As the renewing Spirit, transforming us with all the attributes of Christ into the glorious image of the resurrected and glorified Christ
As the transforming Spirit, conforming us, His many transformed brothers, to His image
As the conforming Spirit, glorifying us with the divine glory of God and of Christ
As the seven Spirits of God, as the seven lamps of fire, and as the seven eyes of the Lamb
As the seven Spirits, the sevenfold intensified Spirit, speaking to the churches as Christ Himself
As the consummation of the processed Triune God, marrying the transformed, tripartite, redeemed saints, that He and we may be a universal couple
As the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God in Christ, consummating in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth
This total blessing being the mingling, the blending, of the processed and consummated Triune God with His chosen and glorified tripartite saints as the conclusion of the divine revelation for eternity

The aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God in Christ for the divine dispensing according to the divine economy (4) _ch.13

The way to receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit — the aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God
The way in the book of Galatians
By God’s revealing of Christ in us
By our receiving of Christ as the Spirit out of the hearing of faith
By being born according to the Spirit and being given the Spirit of God’s Son into our hearts
By putting on Christ through the baptism that puts us into Christ
By being identified with Him in His death so that it may be no longer we who live but He who lives in us

The aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God in Christ for the divine dispensing according to the divine economy (5) _ch.14

By living and walking by the Spirit
By having Christ formed in us through travail
By sowing unto the Spirit with the desire and aim of the Spirit in view, to accomplish what the Spirit desires
By boasting in the cross of Christ and living a new creation
By the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ with our spirit

The aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God in Christ for the divine dispensing according to the divine economy (6) _ch.15

The way to receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit — the aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God
The way in the Gospel of John
By receiving Christ as the Son of God through believing into Him, to be born of God
By taking Christ as the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world
By following Christ as the Messiah (God’s anointed one)
By being born anew of the Spirit
By receiving the Spirit from Christ not by measure
By drinking the living water that Christ gives and that becomes in us a spring of water gushing up into eternal life, through worshipping God as the Spirit in our spirit
By hearing Christ’s word and believing the Father who sent Him, that we may live in our spirit and have eternal life
By eating Christ (taking Him as food into our spirit) and living because of Him
By eating the word spoken by Christ as spirit and as life
By drinking the spirit through believing into Christ to flow rivers of living water out of our innermost being
By following Christ to have the light of life and by no means walk in darkness
By leaving the sheepfold of religion and following Christ according to His voice to enjoy the freedom of His salvation and partake of the riches of His feeding pasture
By taking Christ as the resurrection and the life through believing into Him to live the eternal life

The aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God in Christ for the divine dispensing according to the divine economy (7) _ch.16

The way to receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit — the aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God
The way in the Gospel of John
By hating our soul-life that we may keep it unto eternal life
By following Him in His death to release the divine life and to receive the Father’s honor
By keeping His new commandment to love one another for the expression of His love
By taking Him as the way, the reality, and the life to come to the Father
By loving Him and keeping His word
By abiding in Him as a branch abiding in the vine to enjoy all the riches of what He is
By going forth to bear remaining fruit
By being convicted by the Comforter, the Spirit of reality
By receiving the riches of the Triune God through the transmission of the Divine Trinity
By being one with the believers to partake of the oneness of the Divine Trinity
By receiving His breathing to enjoy Him as the pneumatic Christ
By loving Him in feeding His lambs and shepherding His sheep for His flock — the church

The aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God in Christ for the divine dispensing according to the divine economy (8) _ch.17

The way to receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit — the aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God
The way in the rest of the books of the New Testament
By walking according to the Spirit
By setting our mind on the spirit
By the renewing of our mind for the transformation of our soul that we may know the will of God concerning the Body life
By participating in the fellowship of Christ as our portion
By partaking of Christ as power and wisdom to us from God
By partaking of Christ as the Lamb of the passover and the unleavened bread that we may become a new lump
By being joined to the Lord as one spirit
By eating the spiritual food and drinking the spiritual drink
By drinking the Spirit
By partaking of Christ as the life-giving Spirit
By the anointing, sealing, and pledging of the Spirit
By the life-giving Spirit as the writing ink in our ministry
By beholding the glory of the Lord for our transformation from the Lord Spirit with the element of the Lord
By being renewed in our inner man day by day
By being renewed as the new creation in Christ
By the fellowship of the Spirit in the enjoyment of the Divine Trinity

The aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God in Christ for the divine dispensing according to the divine economy (9) _ch.18

The way to receive, experience, and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit — the aggregate of the all-embracing blessing of the full gospel of God
The way in the rest of the books of the New Testament
By the dispensing of the riches of Christ through the ministers’ stewardship
By the strengthening of the Spirit, that Christ may make His home in our hearts, that we may be filled unto all the fullness of God
By holding the Head that we may grow into Him in everything for the building up of His Body
By being renewed in the Spirit of the mind for the putting on of the new man
By being nourished and cherished as a member of the Body of Christ by Christ as the Head
By being empowered in the Lord to put on the whole armor of God
By enjoying the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ to magnify Christ by living Him
By pursuing Christ that we may gain Him as the excellent Christ
By being empowered in Christ that we may be able to do all things
By partaking of Christ as the God-allotted portion of the saints
By receiving Christ and walking in Him as those living in the God-given good land
By partaking of Christ as the Body of all the shadows of our necessities
By taking Christ as our life and living by Him that we may be glorified at His manifestation
By rejoicing always, praying unceasingly, giving thanks to God in everything, not quenching the Spirit, and not despising prophecies
By calling on the Lord out of a pure heart for the pursuing of His virtues
By the renewing of the Spirit, whom God pours out upon us richly
By eating the word of righteousness as the solid food
By taking the milk of the word as newborn babes for the growth in life unto salvation
By abiding in the Lord according to the teaching of the divine anointing
By overcoming the things that the Lord hates through the hearing of the speaking of the Spirit and the enjoyment of Christ as the tree of life and the hidden manna
By drinking the Spirit as the flowing living water and eating Christ as the supplying tree of life

In the promises and types of God’s anticipated redemption and salvation (2) _ch.19

The passover being a complete picture of God’s full salvation
Ten aspects of God’s full salvation experienced by the children of Israel
In the types
In the enjoyment of the items of the passover
The flesh of the lamb to be eaten by God’s redeemed, signifying the redeeming Christ to be dispensed into His believers as the life supply
The unleavened bread to be eaten by God’s redeemed, signifying the sinless Christ to be dispensed into His believers as the unleavened element
To cause God’s redeemed people to live an unleavened life
To make the course of life of God’s redeemed people a feasting one
In the enjoyment of the heavenly and spiritual supply
Manna to be eaten by God’s elect, signifying Christ as the heavenly food to be dispensed into us for our nourishment to constitute us a heavenly people
To change the diet of God’s redeemed people from the earthly to the heavenly
To replace God’s redeemed people’s earthly constitution with the heavenly one
The water out of the cleft rock to be drunk by God’s elect, signifying the Spirit of Christ as the spiritual drink to be dispensed into us for our watering to make us spiritual persons

In the promises and types of God’s anticipated redemption and salvation (3) _ch.20

In the types
In the enjoyment of the continual offerings
The meal offering to be eaten by the priests
The sin offering and trespass offering to be eaten by the offering priests
The peace offering to be eaten by the clean persons
The wave offering of the breast of the peace offering and the heave offering of the right thigh of the peace offering to be eaten by the offering priests
In the enjoyment of the offerings at the annual feasts
Seven annual feasts being appointed by God to the children of Israel
The feast of the passover
The feast of unleavened bread
The feast of firstfruits
The Feast of Pentecost
The Feast of the Blowing of Trumpets
The Feast of expiation
The Feast of Tabernacles
The firstfruits of the Feast of Firstfruits, after being offered to God for His enjoyment, to be eaten by the people of Israel

In the accomplishment of God’s full redemption and salvation in Christ (1) _ch.21

In the incarnation of Christ
The incarnation of Christ being through the conception by the Holy Spirit in a human virgin, dispensing the holy nature of God into humanity
What was born of this conception being a holy thing bearing the holy nature of divinity
The holy thing being called the Son of God, who was born of God, possessing God’s life and nature through the dispensing of the Holy Spirit
What was conceived in that virgin being God begotten in her of the Holy Spirit
First, God being begotten into mary in Her conception through the dispensing of His nature by His Spirit
After the conception was completed, God with the human nature being born to be a God-man
Christ coming through incarnation
With God as reality and grace for His dispensing into His believers
Of His fullness His believers having all received, and grace upon grace
In the resurrection of Christ
Christ as the grain of wheat producing, in His resurrection, many grains for the dispensing of His divine life into His many believers that they may be His many members
God the Father regenerating us, the believers, through Christ’s resurrection for the dispensing of His divine life into us that we may be His many sons
In His resurrection Christ as the last Adam becoming the life-giving Spirit for the dispensing of the divine life to germinate the New Testament believers

In the accomplishment of God’s full redemption and salvation in Christ (2) _ch.22

The biography of the Divine Trinity
In the breathing of the essential Spirit into the believers
In the outpouring of the economical Spirit upon the believers
In the regeneration of the believers
In the subjective sanctification of the saints

In the accomplishment of God’s full redemption and salvation in Christ (3) _ch.23

Five great revelations in the New Testament
God’s economy
Christ in His all-inclusiveness
The Spirit
The transformation of the believers
The Body of Christ
Renewing in the New Testament
The newness of life and the newness of Spirit
The new creation
Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision but a new creation
The New Jerusalem being the consummation of newness
Renewing by the dispensing of the processed Triune God
Experiencing the renewing
Transformation by renewing

In the accomplishment of God’s full redemption and salvation in Christ (4) _ch.24

In the renewing of the believers by the Holy Spirit
The Spirit of God
The Spirit of Christ
The Spirit of life
The indwelling Spirit
The Spirit who gives life
To the believers’ spirit
To the believers’ mind
To the believers’ body
In the believers’ mind
In the Spirit of the believers’ mind
The Spirit’s dispensing of the newness of Christ’s resurrection life into the believers’ inward being
Through the consuming of the believers’ environment
Making the believers practically God’s new creation
Consummating in the New Jerusalem

In the accomplishment of God’s full redemption and salvation in Christ (5) _ch.25

In the transformation of the renewed believers
Through the renewing of the mind (in the soul)
By the transfusing of the Lord Spirit in glory into the believers’ inward being
To dispense the Lord’s divine element in His resurrection life into His believers’ inward element

In the accomplishment of God’s full redemption and salvation in Christ (6) _ch.26

In the conformation of the transformed believers
Conforming the transformed believers into the image of the firstborn Son of God in resurrection
Into the image of the firstborn Son of God in His divinity to express the attributes of the processed God in the resurrected Christ
Into the image of the firstborn Son of God in His resurrected humanity to express the virtues of the uplifted man in the resurrection of Christ
By dispensing the element of the resurrected Christ as the firstborn Son of God into the transformed believers for their conformation
Through the believers taking the resurrected Christ both in His divinity and in His humanity as the model of a God-man
Being conformed to His death in the power of His resurrection
Aiming at the out-resurrection — the outstanding resurrection, the extra-resurrection — as a prize

In the accomplishment of God’s full redemption and salvation in Christ (7) _ch.27

In the glorification of the conformed believers
The destiny of God’s predestinated sonship being glorification
The goal of the calling of the God of all grace being His eternal glory
God’s intent in His salvation being to lead many sons into glory
The glorification of God’s conformed sons being the redemption of their body
By transfiguring the believers’ body of humiliation into the body of Christ’s glory
Initiated by the Spirit’s sealing unto the day of the redemption of the believers’ body
The sealing of the Spirit being also for the redemption of the believers’ body
The redemption of the believers’ body being their full sonship
Through the Spirit as the firstfruits dispensing the divine essence into the believers’ entire being
The glorification, the transfiguration, the redemption, of the believers’ body being the maturity of the divine dispensing in the believers
The glorification of the believers being the consummation of the accomplishment of God’s full redemption and salvation in Christ

In the consummation of the full accomplishment of God’s redemption and salvation in Christ as fully shown in the New Jerusalem _ch.28

The New Jerusalem, as God’s holy city, being:
God’s universal building for His new creation out of His old creation
God’s tabernacle, God’s temple, and the bride, the wife of Christ
The mingling of the processed and consummated Triune God with His redeemed, regenerated, transformed, conformed, and glorified tripartite people
The composition of God’s Old Testament saints and Christ’s New Testament believers
A constitution with God the Father as the substance, God the Son as the initiation (entrance), and God the Spirit as the building (the wall with its foundations)
The contents of the New Jerusalem
God’s glory as the uncreated light and the Lamb as the lamp
The throne of God and of the Lamb
A street from the throne of God and of the Lamb
A river of water of life
The tree of life
The uncreated light, the river of water of life, and the tree of life being all for the divine dispensing

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