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Crystallization-study of the Epistle to the Romans

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
This book is composed of messages given by Brother Witness Lee in Anaheim, California, on August 24 through December 17, 1994, and on February 15 through April 19, 1995. These two series of messages were first published in two volumes under the titles The Crystallization of the Epistle to the Romans, Messages 1-17 and Messages 18-26, respectively.
The center of the gospel of God — Jesus Christ the God-man (1)    ch.1
The essence of the person of Jesus Christ the God-man
Outline
Introduction
The book of Romans being on the gospel of God
Crystallization, in our usage, being based upon the essence
The center of the gospel of God — Jesus Christ the God-man
The person of Jesus Christ the God-man
The seed of David
In His humanity
This seed of David in His humanity being sonized
The fulfillment of 2 Samuel 7:12-14
The Son of God
The person of Jesus Christ the God-man implying the intention of God in His gospel
The center of the gospel of God — Jesus Christ the God-man (2)    ch.2
The essence of the work of Jesus Christ the God-man
Outline
The work of Jesus Christ the God-man
The preliminary steps
His incarnation, implied in His becoming the seed of David
His human living, implied in His being a man living on the earth for thirty-three and a half years
In His earthly ministry
Consummating the all-inclusive death
Carrying out the life-imparting and the new-creation-germinating resurrection
In His heavenly ministry
Indwelling us in the heavenlies to give life to our mortal bodies
Interceding for us in our weakness with groanings within us in the heavenlies that we may grow in Him unto maturity
Interceding at the right hand of God in the heavens for us that we could overcome the oppositions and any kind of circumstances and be kept in union with him in His unconditional love
The accomplishments of Christ’s earthly and heavenly ministries
The center of the gospel of God — Jesus Christ the God-man (3)    ch.3
An additional word concerning the essence of the person and work of Jesus Christ the God-man
The seed of David in His humanity
The only begotten Son of God and the firstborn Son of God
The content of the gospel of God — the dynamic salvation of God in its fullness    ch.4
The essence of the particular items of God’s dynamic salvation
Outline
The gospel of God being dynamic (powerful) to save all the sinners who would believe in it
To redeem them
To save them
The way to partake of the dynamic salvation of God
Believing in your heart that God has raised Jesus the Lord from the dead
Confessing with your mouth Jesus as Lord and calling upon the name of the Lord
To be baptized into Christ Jesus
The structure of the gospel of God — the righteousness of God, the life of Christ, and the faith of the believers (1)    ch.5
The essence of the righteousness of God
Outline
The righteousness of God
The key word concerning the gospel of God in the book of Romans
The salvation of God in John, Ephesians, and Romans
God’s righteousness being the way of His acts
The lawkeepers attempting to keep the law for the building up of their own righteousness
Christ being the end of the law
Two aspects of Christ being righteousness from God to the believers
The two aspects of Christ as righteousness typified by the best robe and the fattened calf
The two aspects of Christ as righteousness typified by the two garments of the queen
The structure of the gospel of God — the righteousness of God, the life of Christ, and the faith of the believers (2)    ch.6
The essence of the life of Christ
Outline
The life of Christ
A key word of the book of Romans concerning God’s dynamic salvation
The section of foundation
The section of consummation
The accomplishments by the life of Christ in God’s dynamic salvation
Giving the believing sinners life
Making the God-justified believers the many sons of God
Imparting life to the dying believers
Moving in us by the Spirit of life
Sanctifying us
Renewing us
Transforming us
Conforming us
Glorifying us
Making us reign as kings
The above ten items being for the producing and building up of the organic Body of Christ
The structure of the gospel of God — the righteousness of God, the life of Christ, and the faith of the believers (3)    ch.7
The essence of the faith of the believers (1)
Outline
The faith of the believers
Faith
The faith of the believers being Christ entering into them to be their faith
Eventually, all three, the righteousness of God, the life of Christ, and the faith of the believers, becoming the all-inclusive Christ
The importance of faith
Without faith it being impossible to please God
He who comes forward to God must believe that God is
The structure of the gospel of God — the righteousness of God, the life of Christ, and the faith of the believers (4)    ch.8
The essence of the faith of the believers (2)
Outline
The definition of faith
The source of faith
Faith comes out of the hearing of the word
All three refer to God Himself embodied in Christ and realized as the Spirit
The effect of faith — nothing being impossible to faith
The household of the faith
The believers’ faith in Christ bringing them into a life union with Christ
The structure of the gospel of God — the righteousness of God, the life of Christ, and the faith of the believers (5)    ch.9
The essence of the faith of the believers (3)
Outline
The believers living Christ by this faith
The believers walking and suffering persecution by this faith
The believers needing to look away unto Jesus, the author and perfecter of their faith
The eternal economy of God being in such a faith
The righteousness of God being revealed out of such a faith and to such a faith in the gospel of God
Such a faith being the initial righteousness of the believers before God, and God rewarding those who seek him in such a faith
The believers speak for the Lord, speak the Lord forth, and speak the Lord into people by such a faith
The way to receive such a faith
The structure of the gospel of God — the righteousness of God, the life of Christ, and the faith of the believers (6)    ch.10
The essence of the faith of the believers (4)
Outline
The linking faith
Having life and living by faith
Living in faith, the faith of the Son of God
Living because He lives in us
The God-allotted faith
“Equally precious” (in quality, not in quantity) to all the believers
“In the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ”
God apportioning to each a measure of faith
Both salvation and faith being the gift of God
Being encouraged through the faith which is in one another
Faith, hope, and love
The structure of the gospel of God — the righteousness of God, the life of Christ, and the faith of the believers (7)    ch.11
The essence of the faith of the believers (5)
Outline
Faith being the first issue of the Lord’s superabounding grace
The superabounding grace of the Lord being the processed and consummated Triune God to be within us our enjoyment of the divine unsearchable riches in Christ
The enjoyment of the Lord’s superabounding grace issuing in all the matters related to the divine life
The first issue being faith
Faith being the indicator of the believers’ life in the enjoyment of the Divine Trinity
The linking faith being the divine requirement for the overcomers to meet Christ in His triumphant return
A concluding word
The divine transfer of the believers from Adam to Christ    ch.12
Outline
The believers of Christ being born in Adam
In Adam
The divine transfer in regeneration
In Christ
Chosen to be holy and predestinated unto sonship
Judicially redeemed, forgiven, justified, and reconciled to God
Organically regenerated
Sanctified by the Spirit of life
Delivered out of the evil kingdom of Satan
Made a royal priesthood and a holy nation
The Spirit of life (1)    ch.13
Outline
The Spirit of God, the Spirit of Jehovah, and the Holy Spirit
Before the resurrection of Christ the Spirit of God having only divinity, without humanity
“The Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified”
A very strange aspect concerning the Spirit of God
The Spirit of Jesus Christ
The Spirit of divinity and the Spirit of humanity
The type of the holy anointing ointment
The Spirit of life (2)    ch.14
Outline
The compound Spirit carrying out the dynamic salvation of God
The seven Spirits of God
The processed Spirit
The processed all-inclusive Spirit marrying the redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite man
The Nicene Creed being fundamental but not complete
“The Spirit was not yet”
“The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit”
“The Lord is the Spirit,” the transforming Spirit
The compound Spirit
The sevenfold intensified Spirit
The human spirit of the believers (1)    ch.15
Outline
Man being created by God in three parts
A body made of dust as man’s outward shell, the framework of man
A spirit produced of the breath of the life of God breathed into the nostrils of man
A soul, the issue of the combination of the breath of God with the body of dust
The functions of the three parts of man
The spirit of man being the innermost part of man as the reality of man
The soul of man being the inner part of man as the person of man
The spirit of the Old Testament saints in relation to their experience of God
Elihu
David
Mary
The spirit of the New Testament believers in relation to the accomplishment of God’s eternal economy
In their experience of Christ as life in the dynamic salvation of God
In our work to minister Christ for the producing and building up of His Body to carry out God’s eternal economy
The human spirit of the believers (2)    ch.16
Outline
The spirit of John the apostle in seeing the four great visions, as the contents of the last book of the Bible
The discernment of the spirit from the soul
The spirit and the soul of man not being synonyms of the same one thing
The New Testament believers needing to discern their spirit from their soul for experiencing Christ
The believers needing to discern their spirit from their soul by the living, operative, and sharp word of God
The concluding word
The divine Spirit of life
The human spirit of the believers
The most marvelous, excellent, mysterious, and all-inclusive transformations of the eternal and Triune God in His becoming a man    ch.17
Outline
In His becoming the flesh
IN His human living
In His all-problems-solving death
Becoming the flesh of sin (only in its likeness)
Becoming a serpent (only in its likeness as the bronze serpent)
Becoming the end of the old man
Becoming the peacemaker
Becoming the grain of wheat
In His all-conquering resurrection
In His all-transcending ascension
The designation of Christ’s humanity    ch.18
Outline
Romans 1:4, footnote 4, Recovery Version
1 Peter 3:18, footnote 3, Recovery Version
Christ’s two natures, divine and human
Christ’s human nature — His humanity
According to the flesh, Christ being out of the seed of David to be the Son of Man
Typified by the bronze serpent
Bearing the likeness of the serpent (the likeness of the flesh of sin), without the poison of the serpent
Related to sin, Satan, and the world
Christ’s divine nature — His divinity
According to the Spirit of holiness, Christ being designated the Son of God
In power
Out of resurrection
Christ’s death
For sins, the righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring His believers to God
On the one hand, crucified in the flesh
On the other hand, made alive in the Spirit
The designation of Christ’s humanity
Christ’s humanity — the flesh — being not divine but human
In His resurrection His humanity being designated
By the Spirit of holiness
In the divine power
Out of resurrection
To be the Son of God
Born of God in His resurrection
His redeemed believers born (regenerated) with Him in the same resurrection
The two statuses of Christ’s sonship
The only begotten Son of God
The firstborn Son of God
The grace of God (1)    ch.19
Outline
The unveiling of the grace of God in the New Testament
In John’s writings
In the unveiling of God the Father being life in the Son as the Spirit to the believers
Grace being the Triune God in His incarnation to be dispensed to the believers by the Father as the source, by the Son as the element, and by the Spirit as the application
In Peter’s writings
The grace that multiplies
The grace of life
The varied grace of God
The all grace
The true grace of God
In Paul’s writings
The grace for the enablement of the apostles
The grace for the believers’ living
The grace by which we are justified
The grace versus wages
The grace for the believers to inherit the promise of God
The grace into which the believers have entered and in which they stand
The abounding grace of God
The grace that enables the believers to reign (as a King) in life
The grace that reigns
The grace that constitutes the dispensation of the New Testament
The grace by which God selected His people and which is versus works
The grace by which the apostles carried out their ministry
The grace according to which the gifts are distributed to the believers
The grace that is the enjoyment of God by the believers, under whose feet God will crush Satan
The grace of God (2)    ch.20
Outline
The grace that was given to the Corinthian believers
The grace that God gave to Paul, which made him a wise master builder
The grace that made Paul an apostle who labored more abundantly than all the other apostles
The grace that is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself and which is always with all the believers
The grace by which the apostles conducted themselves in the world
The apostle Paul’s visitation to the Corinthian believers being considered as grace, which is God Himself
The grace that abounded through the greater number, causing the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God
The grace that the believers should not receive in vain
The surpassing grace of God given to the Macedonian churches
The grace that became the fellowship of the Macedonian churches to minister to the need of the saints
The grace that is a business in which all the believers should participate for its accomplishment
The grace that is the Lord Jesus Christ’s becoming poor that the believers may become rich
The all grace that God causes to abound unto the believers
The sufficient grace of Christ to the apostle Paul
The grace of the Lord Jesus, of which the love of God is the source and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit is the application
The grace of God (3)    ch.21
Outline
The grace of Christ by which God called the Galatian believers to the gospel according to God’s economy
The grace through which God called the apostle Paul
The grace that was given to the apostle Paul and realized by James, Cephas, and John
The grace through which Paul was justified
The grace from which the Galatian believers had fallen
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ that was in the spirit of the Galatian believers for their remaining in God’s New Testament economy
The rich grace of God with which he graced the believers
The grace by which the believers have been saved through the death and resurrection of Christ and of which the surpassing riches might be displayed in the ages to come
The grace of which the apostle Paul was given the stewardship by God to carry out His New Testament economy in Christ
The grace that is given to the believers according to what kind of gifts (gifted persons) they are in the Body of Christ
The grace concerning the entire salvation of Christ, which is ministered to others out of the believers’ mouth in their common talk
The grace that is with those who love the Lord in incorruptibility
The grace of which the Philippian believers were partakers with the apostle Paul both in his bonds and in his defense and confirmation of the gospel
The grace that was with the spirit of the Philippian believers
The Grace That the Colossian believers heard and knew in truth
The grace that the apostle Paul exhorted the believers in Colossae to sing with in their hearts
The grace with which the believers’ speech should always be, seasoned with salt, that they may know how they ought to answer each one
The grace that kept the Thessalonian saints sanctified wholly and preserved complete in their spirit, soul, and body
The grace according to which the name of the Lord Jesus was glorified in the Thessalonian saints and they were glorified in him
The grace in which the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father loved the Thessalonian saints and gave them eternal comfort and good hope and would comfort their hearts and establish them in every good work and word
The grace of God (4)    ch.22
Outline
The grace of the Lord that superabounded with faith and love in Christ
The grace with Timothy that enabled him to guard the deposit and turn away from profane, vain babblings and oppositions from what was falsely called knowledge, not misaiming concerning the faith
The grace according to which God had saved the apostles and called them with a holy calling and which was given to them in Christ Jesus before the times of the ages
The grace which is in Christ Jesus and in which Timothy, one of the younger co-workers of the apostle Paul, was empowered in the degradation of the church
The grace that was with Timothy through the Lord in his spirit
The grace of God that has appeared to bring salvation to all men
The grace of God by which we have been justified that we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life
The grace that was with the believers who loved the apostles in faith
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ that was in Philemon’s spirit enabling him to receive Onesimus, who was his escaped slave, as a brother
The grace of God by which Christ tasted death on behalf of everything (every man)
The grace that is found for timely help by the believers who come forward to the throne of grace
The grace of which the spirit is and with which the spirit worked within the staggering hebrew believers, who were insulting the spirit by shrinking back to Judaism from God’s New Testament salvation
The grace of God from which the believers fall away because of their not looking carefully
The grace that was received by those who had received an unshakable kingdom and through which they might serve God well-pleasingly with piety and fear
The grace by which the heart of those who would not be carried away by various strange teachings was confirmed
The grace that was with the hebrew believers to keep them from shrinking back to their old religion from God’s New Testament economy
The grace of God (5)    ch.23
Outline
Gleanings in the vast field of God’s grace
The grace that was the initiation of God’s grace in the New Testament by the Holy Spirit’s visit to Mary for the conceiving of Christ
The grace in which the Lord Jesus grew in His humanity as the preparation for Him to minister the grace of God in His ministry as the savior of man
The grace in which Jesus as a young boy advanced with God and men while He was also advancing in wisdom and stature
The grace that proceeded out of the mouth of the Lord Jesus as the God-sent prophet to men to meet their need
The grace that is the expression of God’s attributes in human virtues in the living of the early believers in Jerusalem
The grace that was upon the multitude of believers when the apostles gave them testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus
The grace of which Stephen was full, and the power of which he was full, when he did great wonders and signs among the people
The grace enjoyed by the believers in Antioch, which Barnabas saw
The grace in which the new believers were urged to continue by the apostles Paul and Barnabas
The grace of which the word of God is, ministered to the new believers by Paul and Barnabas
The grace of God to which Paul and Barnabas had been commended for the work which they fulfilled
The grace of the Lord Jesus through which Peter and the Jewish believers were saved in the same way as the Gentile believers were
The grace of the Lord to which Paul and Silas were commended by the brothers
The grace through which Apollos helped the believers in the region of Achaia
The grace of which is the gospel solemnly testified by the apostle Paul in his ministry
The grace of which the word is, to which the apostle Paul committed the Ephesian elders
The grace that is greater, given by God to the humble as it was prophesied in the Old Testament that God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble
The grace with mercy and peace, which is with the believers from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love
The grace that was perverted into licentiousness by ungodly men, who denied the only master and Lord, Jesus Christ
The grace of God (6)    ch.24
Outline
The grace that was to come unto the believers
The grace on which the believers set their hope perfectly and which will be brought to the believers at the revelation of Jesus Christ
The grace with God that is the believers’ bearing sorrows by suffering unjustly and the believers’ enduring while doing good and suffering
The grace that God gives to the humble while he resists the proud
The grace in which, together with the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the believers should grow unto His glory both now and unto the day of eternity
The grace that we the believers have received in the New Testament being rich unto its fullness
The grace that is given to the local churches in the dark age of the church’s degradation
The grace of the Lord Jesus dispensed to His believers throughout the New Testament age consummating in the New Jerusalem
A concluding word
The announcing of the gospel (1)    ch.25
Outline
The apostle Paul’s perfect example and high standard in announcing the gospel
Chosen to be a vessel
Appointed to be a minister and a witness of Christ
Given to be a steward of the grace of God
Separated unto the gospel of God
Commissioned as a herald
Sent by God, the highest authority, as His ambassador
Laboring as a priest of the gospel
To announce
Christ as the objective Savior and the subjective indwelling Life-imparter
The unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel
The mystery of Christ
The mystery of the gospel
To beget the believers through the gospel
For the building up of the Body of Christ
Burdened
To bear fruit among all the Gentiles
To pay his debt of the gospel as a debtor to all kinds of people
To announce the gospel to the Romans
To stress the beauty of the one who announces the gospel as the news of good things
To enslave himself to all that he might gain the more and to become all things to all men that he might by all means save some
To charge his young co-worker Timothy to proclaim the word in season and out of season while he was ready to receive his martyrdom
To have the saints as his partners in the gospel, striving for the gospel
To fully preach the gospel of Christ from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum
The announcing of the gospel (2)    ch.26
Outline
The commission of the Lord as the Christ of God
In the gospel of Matthew
In the gospel of Mark
In the gospel of Luke
In the gospel of John
In the book of Acts
Peter’s reminding of the believers concerning the telling out of the virtues of God
Corporately by a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people acquired for a possession of God
To proclaim abroad as the gospel the virtues of God
The calling of the Spirit and the bride, who represent the New Jerusalem
To the thirsty ones
To come and take the water of life freely

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