Economy and Dispensing of God, The

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

This book is composed of messages given by Brother Witness Lee in San Francisco, San Jose, and Berkeley, California, on August 24 through September 2, 1990. Chapters 1 through 4 and 6 were spoken in Chinese.

The economy of God _ch.1

Three layers in the divine revelation of the Bible
The first layer — the gospel and salvation of God
The second layer — the blessing and prosperity of God
The third layer — the economy and dispensing of God
The economy (arrangement) of God
The economy (arrangement) of God in the Old Testament
The economy (arrangement) of God in the New Testament

The dispensing of God _ch.2

Three layers in the divine revelation
Not a matter of right or wrong but a matter of God’s economy and dispensing
God’s dispensing being for God’s economy
To dispense God Himself to men
The first step — becoming flesh
The second step — becoming the life-giving Spirit
Regenerating, transforming, and glorifying the believers
The believers’ experience of God’s dispensing
The dispensing of the Divine Trinity becoming the law of the Spirit of life in the believers
The believers’ experience of the dispensing of the Divine Trinity

God’s dispensing as the supply to the believers in their growth in life _ch.3

The divine dispensing in Ephesians 1
The Father’s choosing and predestination
The Son’s redemption
The Spirit’s sealing and pledging
The sealing of the Holy Spirit being the divine dispensing
The believers’ growth in life being the increase of the element of God in the believers
Growing in life through eating, drinking, and enjoying God
The believers’ receiving and enjoying of Christ
Christ as daily food to the believers

God’s dispensing as the supply to the believers in their living _ch.4

The believers’ living being to live Christ and to magnify Christ
The bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ
The way to receive and to enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ

God’s dispensing as the supply to the believers in their gospel preaching and work for the Lord _ch.5

Through incarnation Christ as the word of God coming to be a man with God as grace and reality for the dispensing of the Divine Trinity that men may receive the fullness of the processed Triune God
Through crucifixion
Christ as the Lamb of God taking away men’s sin
Christ as the bronze serpent destroying Satan, the ruler of this world
Christ as the grain of wheat releasing the divine life for the producing of many believers by imparting (dispensing) the divine life into them
The blood that came out of Christ at His crucifixion symbolizing the redeeming aspect of Christ’s all-inclusive death, and the water that came out of Christ symbolizing the life-imparting aspect of Christ’s all-inclusive death
In resurrection Christ as the last Adam becoming the life-giving Spirit and entering into His believers as the Holy Spirit
Christ as the compound Spirit becoming the anointing ointment and as the consummation of the processed Triune God becoming the bountiful supply of the Divine Trinity for His dispensing
In regeneration Christ dispensing Himself as the spirit of the divine life into our spirit as the initiation of the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, making us the branches of Him as the true vine
In the Christian life Christ as the living water watering the believers, as the living bread feeding the believers, and as the consummation of the processed Triune God flowing from the inward parts of the believers
In their gospel preaching and work for the Lord the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity being the supply to the believers
In fruit-bearing
In Lamb-feeding
The way to receive the fullness of the processed Triune God as grace and reality to the believers
Abiding in Christ that Christ may abide in us to carry out the divine dispensing in us
Abiding in Christ that His words may abide in us to dispense all His riches embodied in His words
Drinking of Christ as the living water
Eating Christ as the living bread
Flowing Christ in all the aspects of His riches as rivers of living water from within our every inward part

God’s dispensing as the supply to the believers in their meetings and service _ch.6

The all-inclusive Christ as the believers’ portion
The believers having been called by the faithful God into the participation of Christ
The all-inclusive Christ being the power and wisdom dispensed by God to the believers
Christ becoming the Passover lamb and the unleavened bread of the feast of unleavened bread to the believers
Christ also becoming the spiritual rock smitten by God and riven
Christ being the head to all the members of the Body and also being the whole Body
All the believers being baptized into one Body in the pneumatic Christ
Christ becoming the life-giving Spirit in resurrection
The dispensing of God as the supply to the believers in their meetings and service
The way to supply and apply this life dispensing of Christ in the believers’ meetings and service
Perfecting the saints
Prophesying to build up the church

The divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in relation to the organic building of the church of God as the organic Body of Christ (1) _ch.7

The divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in producing the materials for the divine building
God the Father so loving the world (fallen mankind) that He gave the Son to mankind
God the Son redeeming fallen men that everyone who believes into Him may have eternal life
God the Spirit regenerating the believing sinners
Making men of dust stones for the divine building
The divine dispensing of the Divine trinity in God’s entering into the materials for His divine building
God the Father being expressed in the Son
God the Son being realized as the Spirit
God the Spirit entering into the believers that they may be mingled with the Triune God for their transformation
The divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in transforming the believers into precious materials for the divine building
Through the growth in life of the believers as the materials for the divine building
In God the Father’s life and nature as gold, in God the Son’s redemption as silver, and in God the Spirit’s transformation as precious stones
Having Christ, the embodiment of the processed Triune God, as the foundation to hold and support the divine building, with all His riches dispensed into its every part
The divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in constituting the church as the organic Body of Christ
God the Father’s choosing and predestinating the believers to participate in His holy nature and sonship through His dispensing
God the Son’s redeeming, making us the inheritance of God through His dispensing of the divine life and element into our tripartite being, that He may Head up all things in Himself at the fullness of the times, the completion of God’s eternal economy (dispensation)
God the Spirit’s sealing and pledging of the Triune God as our inheritance for our enjoyment through His all-inclusive dispensing of the processed Triune God into us until we are redeemed in our body, which will be transfigured into a glorious body, saturated with the glory of the Triune God through His ultimate dispensing
The divine transmission in the surpassing greatness of the divine power toward the believers, which the Father caused to operate in Christ the Son in raising Him from the dead, seating Him at the Father’s right hand in the heavenlies, subjecting all things under His feet, and giving Him to be Head over all things to the church through His excelling dispensing, making the church the organic Body of Christ, the fullness of the one who fills all in all, for His corporate expression in the universe

The divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in relation to the organic building of the church of God as the organic Body of Christ (2) _ch.8

The divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in producing the church as God’s masterpiece (poem) and in building up the church, which is the new man and the body, as God’s dwelling place in our spirit
In producing the church
By enlivening us, the sinners who were dead in sins, and raising us up through Christ’s life-imparting resurrection, dispensing His life and element into our being
By seating us in the heavenlies through Christ’s ascension, in our organic union with Him in the dispensing of His divine life
Making us the living members of Christ, the organic constituents of the church, as the masterpiece, a poem, of God, through the dispensing of the divine grace, which is the Triune God as a gift given to us
In building up the church, which is the new man and the Body, as God’s dwelling place in our spirit
By creating, through Christ’s redemption on the cross, the Jewish and Gentile believers into one new man in Himself as the creating life and element dispensed into His redeemed out from His divine riches
By reconciling both the Jewish and Gentile believers to God through the cross in one Body, which is constituted with the divine life and element released through the death of Christ and dispensed into the believers in the resurrection of Christ, through whom (the Son) we both (the Jewish and Gentile believers) have access in one Spirit unto the Father in the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity all the way
By being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ as the cornerstone dispensing His divine life and element for the joining and holding of the different parts of the divine building, in whom all the believers are being built together in the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity into a dwelling place of God in their Spirit
The divine dispensing in the apostle’s stewardship of grace for the existence of the church
The apostle’s stewardship of grace being to minister the grace of God to the believers, who are the constituents of the church, that is, the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to men in other generations
Such a ministry being to dispense the unsearchable riches of Christ as the divine grace for the existence of the church
This being the divine economy of God’s mystery to show through the church the multifarious wisdom of God to His enemies, according to the purpose of the ages, which God made in Christ
The divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in Christ’s making His home in the believers’ hearts that they may be filled unto all the fullness of God
The dispensing of the Father as the source of every family in the heavens and on earth, to grant the believers to be strengthened according to the riches of His glory
The Spirit as the means strengthening the believers with power into their inner man in the dispensing of the Divine Trinity
Christ making His home in the believers’ hearts to carry out the dispensing of the Divine Trinity, that the believers may be strong to apprehend with all the saints the dimensions of Christ and to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ, that they may be filled unto all the fullness of God to be the corporate expression of God in the universe

The divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in building up the church of God as the organic Body of Christ _ch.9

The mingling of the Triune God with the Body of Christ
The Spirit’s mingling with the Body of Christ in the dispensing of the Divine Trinity
The Spirit being the essence of the Body of Christ
The Spirit bringing in the hope of glory, which is Christ in the believers as the hope of God’s calling
The Son’s (the Lord’s) mingling with His Body in the dispensing of the Divine Trinity
Christ being the element of His Body
Through the one faith of the believers, which unites them with the Son organically
Through the one baptism of the Lord, which separates the believers from Adam and the Adamic world
God the Father’s mingling with the Body of Christ in the dispensing of the Divine Trinity
The Father being over all the believers to overshadow them as the Father, the source of the divine dispensing
The Father being through all the believers to take care of them as the Son, the course of the divine dispensing
The Father being in all the believers to indwell them as the Spirit, the reaching of the divine dispensing
For the building up of the organic Body of Christ
By the giving, the dispensing, of the divine grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ
The gift of Christ being a person constituted with Christ’s life and element, dispensed into Him by the Divine Trinity
Each gifted person having a measure, and the divine grace being given, dispensed, to Him according to that measure
By the giving of the gifted persons, such as apostles, prophets, evangelists, and shepherds and teachers, who are constituted in the dispensing of the Divine Trinity, by Christ as the Head in His ascension (including His resurrection), to the Body of Christ
By the gifted persons’ perfecting of the saints in the divine dispensing, that all the saints may be able to do the work of the New Testament ministry, that is, to build up the organic Body of Christ
Until all the members of the Body of Christ arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a full-grown man, and at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ
That they may be no longer little children tossed by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching in the sleight of men, in craftiness with a view to a system of error
By the members’ direct building of the organic Body of Christ
Holding to truth in love, growing up into the Head, Christ, in all things
Out from the Head, in the divine dispensing, all the Body joined closely together through every joint of the rich supply, and knit together, interwoven, through the operation in the measure of each one part, in the divine dispensing
Causing the growth of the Body, in the dispensing of the Divine Trinity, unto the building up of the Body itself in the divine love

The divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity in the believers’ living for the building up of the organic Body of Christ _ch.10

The divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity
The life of God for supplying His children with His divine riches in His divine dispensing
The reality in Jesus for infusing His believers with His godly living in His humanity, in His divine dispensing
The sealing of the Holy Spirit for saturating the members of Christ with the divine element in the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity
The believers’ living for the building up of the organic Body of Christ
The basic principles
Not walking as the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind
Not being alienated from the life of God, which is for the divine dispensing
Not ceasing from caring for the feeling of their conscience
Learning Christ in the divine dispensing as the reality (versus vanity) is in Jesus
Putting off, as regards the former manner of life, the old man, which is being corrupted according to the lusts of the deceit (the personification of Satan), and being renewed in the Spirit of the mind, putting on, in the divine dispensing, the new man, which was created according to God in righteousness and holiness of the reality (the personification of God)
The details
As members of the Body, speaking truth one with another
Being angry but not sinning; not letting the sun go down on our indignation, neither giving place to the devil
Not stealing but laboring, working with our own hands
Letting no corrupt word proceed out of our mouth, but only that which is good for needful building up, that it may give grace, in the dispensing of the divine life, to the hearers
Not grieving the Holy Spirit, in whom we were sealed, for the dispensing of the Divine Trinity, unto (or, for) the day of the redemption of our body
Abstaining, in the divine dispensing, from all bitterness, anger, wrath, clamor, and evil speaking, with all malice
Being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave us

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