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Life-Study of Ephesians

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An Introductory Word to the Book of Ephesians _{msg. 1}

I. The subject — the church
A. The Body
B. The new man
C. The kingdom
D. The household of God
E. The dwelling place of God
F. The bride, the wife, of Christ
G. The warrior
II. The content
A. The blessings received by the church in Christ
B. The apostle’s prayer for revelation to the church
C. The producing, nature, position, building, and function of the church
D. The revelation of the mystery and the ministry of the stewardship concerning the church
E. The apostle’s prayer for the church to experience Christ
F. The walk and responsibility of the church in the Spirit
III. The characteristic
IV. The position
A. After the revelation concerning Christ versus religion
B. Followed by the practical experience of Christ
C. Leading to the Head
V. The writer
VI. The receivers
A. The saints in Ephesus
B. The faithful in Christ Jesus
C. Grace and peace
1. Grace being God as our enjoyment
2. Peace being a condition issuing from grace
3. God being the Creator to us, His creatures, and our Father being the Father to us, His sons
4. The Lord Jesus Christ being the Redeemer to us, God’s redeemed ones

Three Aspects of Well-Speaking _{msg. 2}

I. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
II. Who has blessed us
III. With every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ
A. Every
B. Spiritual
C. In the heavenlies
D. In Christ

Chosen to be Holy _{msg. 3}
Predestinated Unto Sonship _{msg. 4}

I. The second item of God’s blessing
II. Marking out a destiny for His chosen ones in eternity past
III. Marking His chosen ones out beforehand
IV. According to His foresight
V. Through Jesus Christ
VI. According to the good pleasure of His will
VII. Unto sonship
A. By the Spirit of the Son of God
B. In the life of the Son of God
C. In the position of the Son of God
VIII. To Himself
IX. To be conformed to the image of His Son
X. To be completed in sonship
XI. Consummately, to inherit all that God is

The Praise of the Glory of God's Grace _{msg. 5}

I. God’s grace being what He is to us for our enjoyment
II. The glory of God’s grace being God expressed in His grace
III. The praise of the glory of God’s grace being the high praise of God expressed in His grace
IV. God’s predestination of us to sonship being for the praise of God’s expression in His grace
V. For God to grace us being to put us into the position of grace and make us the object of His favor
VI. Graced in the Beloved

Redemption in the Son _{msg. 6}

I. The third item of God’s blessing
II. Redemption in God’s beloved to fulfill God’s righteous requirement and to please God
III. Through His blood shed on the cross for our sins
IV. Redemption through His blood being the forgiveness of our offenses
V. According to the riches of His grace
A. God’s abundant grace having accomplished redemption for us and applied forgiveness to us
B. Redemption and forgiveness being according to God’s righteousness, but accomplished and applied by God’s rich grace
VI. God’s grace being made to abound to us
VII. In all wisdom and prudence

The Mystery of God's Will _{msg. 7}

I. The mystery having been hidden through the ages
II. God’s will being God’s intention to accomplish what He desires for Himself
III. The mystery of God’s will having been made known to us by revelation
IV. According to God’s good pleasure
V. God’s good pleasure having been purposed by God
A. In Himself
B. For an administration

To Head Up All Things in Christ (1) _{msg. 8}

God’s abounding grace working to head up all things
The issue of many items
The consummate goal
The church sharing the headship of Christ
The heap of collapse
God’s eternal intention
The church taking the lead to be headed up
The restoration of all things
The so-called church being a heap
A matter of growing in life
By light

To Head Up All Things in Christ (2) _{msg. 9}

God’s eternal plan
Satan bringing death to God’s creation
Man being a battlefield
Rising up and becoming attached
A stewardship and a household arrangement
The dispensing of God as grace

To Head Up All Things in Christ (3) _{msg. 10}

The four ages
The meaning of dispensation
The dispensing of life
The ultimate dispensation
The miniature in the church life
The light of life keeping everything in order

The New Testament Believers to the Praise of God's Glory _{msg. 11}

I. Having been placed into the heading-up Christ
II. Having been made an inheritance to God
A. Having been predestinated
B. According to the purpose of God
III. Having first hoped in Christ in this age
IV. Having hoped in Christ before His coming back to set up His kingdom in the next age
V. To the praise of God’s glory

Sealed with the Holy Spirit _{msg. 12}

The seal and the pledge
The seal signifying ownership
The seal bearing the image of God
Sealed unto the day of redemption
A continuing process
Saturating, sanctifying, transforming
The spreading of the sealing

The Pledge of Our Inheritance _{msg. 13}

I. Another aspect of the fourth item of God’s blessing
II. Our inheritance
III. The Holy Spirit being the pledge of our inheritance
IV. To the praise of His glory

A Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation and the Eyes of Our Heart _{msg. 14}

I. The apostle’s first prayer
A. For the saints who have faith in the Lord and love toward all the saints
B. Giving thanks for them
C. Praying to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory
D. For revelation
II. A spirit of wisdom and revelation
A. Our regenerated spirit indwelt by the Spirit of God
B. Wisdom being the ability to understand in our spirit that we may know the mystery of God
C. Revelation being the opening of the veil by God’s Spirit to show us the vision of the mystery of God
D. In the full knowledge of Him
III. The fact — the mystery of God’s will
IV. The revelation — the opening of the veil
V. The eyes of our heart — the spiritual faculty to see
A. An open spirit with a purified conscience
B. A pure heart
1. A sober mind
2. A loving emotion
3. A submissive will
VI. The light — the enlightening by God
VII. The vision — the seeing

The Hope of God's Calling and the Riches of the Glory of God's Inheritance in the Saints _{msg. 15}

I. No longer aliens having no hope
II. God’s called people full of hope
A. Christ Himself
B. The rapture, the transfiguration of our body, and glorification
C. The coming salvation of our soul
D. The kingly enjoyment with Christ in the millennium
E. The consummate enjoyment with Christ in the New Jerusalem with the universal and eternal blessings in the new heaven and new earth
III. God’s calling being the sum total of all God’s blessings
IV. God’s glory being God expressed
V. The riches of God’s glory being the many different items of God’s attributes expressed in different degrees
VI. God’s inheritance in and among the saints
VII. God’s inheritance to be His eternal expression

The Surpassing Greatness of God's Power _{msg. 16}

I. Toward the believers
II. According to the operation of the might of His strength
III. Wrought in Christ
A. In raising Him from among the dead
B. In seating Him at His right hand in the heavenlies
C. In subjecting all things under His feet
D. In giving Him to be head over all things

Christ to be the Head Over All Things to the Church _{msg. 17}

Becoming God’s inheritance
The New Jerusalem
The all-inclusive power toward us who believe
The need to know this power
Speaking and the experience of the transmission

The Church Being the Body of Christ _{msg. 18}

A continual transmission
Being the Body in the new creation
Two creations
The transmission from the ascended Christ producing the Body
Experiencing the transmission
The fullness of Christ
Enjoying the riches of Christ and having the proper church life

The Triune God Dispensed Into Us and Wrought Into Our Being _{msg. 19}

I. In God’s selection
II. In God’s predestination
III. In the sealing of the Holy Spirit
IV. In the hope of God’s calling
V. In the glory of God’s inheritance in the saints
VI. In the power that enables us to participate in Christ’s attainment
VII. In the Body, the fullness of the all-filling Christ

Dead in Offenses and Sins _{msg. 20}

I. A continuation of chapter one
II. Dead in offenses and sins
A. Dead spiritually
B. Having lost the function that enables us to contact God
C. In offenses and sins
III. Walking according to the age of this world
IV. Walking according to the ruler of the authority of the air
V. Behaving in the lusts of our flesh
VI. By nature children of wrath
VII. Saved to be the Body of Christ

Saved by Grace to be the Masterpiece of God _{msg. 21}

I. God being rich in mercy
II. God’s great love with which He loved us
III. Even when we were dead in offenses
IV. Making us alive together with Christ
V. Having raised us up together and seated us together
A. In the heavenlies
B. In Christ Jesus
VI. The surpassing riches of God’s grace
VII. By grace
VIII. Through faith
IX. God’s workmanship
X. Created
A. In Christ Jesus
B. By the mingling of God with man
C. For good works

Once Far Off, But Now Near _{msg. 22}

I. The nations in the flesh
II. Uncircumcision
III. Apart from Christ
IV. Alienated from the commonwealth of Israel
V. Strangers from the covenants of the promise
VI. Having no hope
VII. Without God
VIII. In the world
IX. Once far off
X. But now near

The Breaking Down of the Middle Wall of Partition _{msg. 23}

I. Christ being our peace
II. Christ having broken down the middle wall of partition
A. The middle wall of partition being the law of the commandments in ordinances
B. The breaking down of the middle wall of partition
1. By abolishing the law of the commandments in ordinances
2. In the flesh

The Two Created Into One New Man _{msg. 24}

The abolishing of the ordinances
The highest aspect of the church
God’s intention to have a corporate man
Christ’s death involving all of creation
The new man created in Christ
Christ as the essence of the new man
The battle for the truth concerning the creation of the new man
Putting on the new man
Our spirit
The spirit directing our being
A gradual process
Christ is all
Created according to God

Putting On the New Man _{msg. 25}

Created and renewed
An inward, subjective renewing
Putting off the former manner of life
No distinctions
Putting off our heritage from Babel
Putting on the new man by the spirit of the mind
Renewed unto full knowledge
Righteousness and holiness of the truth
The life and living of the new man

Both Reconciled to God in One Body and Fellow-Citizens of the Saints and Members of the Household of God _{msg. 26}

I. Both needing to be reconciled to God
II. In one Body
III. To God
IV. Through the cross
V. The preaching of the gospel of peace
VI. Access in one Spirit
A. Christ’s cross and His blood being the access
B. Through Christ
C. In one Spirit
D. Unto the Father
VII. No longer strangers and sojourners
VIII. Fellow-citizens of the saints
IX. Members of the household of God
X. The saints, the house of God, and the kingdom of God

Growing Into a Holy Temple and Being Built Into a Dwelling Place of God _{msg. 27}

I. Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets
II. Christ Himself being the cornerstone
III. Growing into a holy temple
A. In Christ
B. Growing
C. Into a holy temple
IV. Built into a dwelling place of God

The Stewardship of the Grace _{msg. 28}

I. The steward — a prisoner
A. Of Christ Jesus
B. On behalf of the saints
II. The stewardship of the grace
A. The stewardship
1. According to God’s economy
2. For God’s dispensation
B. The grace
III. The ministry of a minister
A. According to the gift of the grace of God
B. To preach the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel
C. For producing the church
D. By revelation of the mystery in spirit

The Revelation of the Mystery _{msg. 29}

I. The revelation to the apostles and prophets
A. In spirit
B. Concerning Christ and the church
II. The mystery of Christ
A. Hidden in other generations but revealed in the new testament age
B. The church, the Body of Christ
1. With the nations as joint-heirs and joint-partakers of the promise
2. Brought forth out of the unsearchable riches of Christ
3. For expressing the multifarious wisdom of God to the rulers and authorities in the heavenlies
4. According to the eternal purpose which God made in Christ
5. For the dispensation of God

The Riches of Christ Producing the Church _{msg. 30}

I. The riches of Christ
A. In types
B. In shadows
C. In figures
D. In prophecies
E. In fulfillment
F. As plants
G. As animals
H. As minerals
I. As persons
J. As all the positive things in the universe
K. As human virtues and divine attributes
II. The riches of Christ for producing the church
A. Through the divine dispensation of Christ into the believers
B. By the believers’ experience and enjoyment of Christ
III. To express God’s multifarious wisdom
IV. Resulting in the fullness of Christ

The Church for God's Wisdom According to His Eternal Purpose _{msg. 31}

I. God’s wisdom
II. God’s eternal purpose
III. Our boldness, access, confidence, and glory

To Be Strengthened Into the Inner Man that Christ May Make His Home in Our Hearts _{msg. 32}

I. The apostle’s prayer for our experience of Christ
A. “For this cause”
B. Unto the Father
II. To be strengthened
A. By the Father according to the riches of His glory
B. With power
C. Through His Spirit
D. Into our inner man
III. Christ making His home in our heart

To Apprehend the Dimensions of Christ and to Know the Love of Christ _{msg. 33}

The steps to apprehending Christ’s dimensions and to knowing His love
The fullness of God
The universal dimensions of Christ
Experiencing the breadth and length
Experiencing the height and the depth
Rooted and grounded in love
Knowing the love of Christ in experience

To Be Filled Unto All the Fullness of God _{msg. 34}

The church metabolically constituted
The highest definition of the church
The riches and the fullness
Metabolically assimilating the riches of Christ
The need for a vision
The effect of the vision
Filled unto the expression of the Triune God
The church as the corporate fullness of God

God Glorified in the Church and in Christ _{msg. 35}

The fulfillment of God’s word concerning the church
The way God is glorified in the church
Above all we ask or think concerning the church
God glorified in Christ
The church taking the lead to glorify God

Keeping the Oneness of the Spirit _{msg. 36}

Walking worthily of God’s calling
Keeping the oneness of the Spirit
Lowliness, meekness, and long-suffering
A transformed humanity
A picture of genuine oneness
Transformation and oneness
The uniting bond of peace

The Base of Our Oneness _{msg. 37}

I. The first group, related to the Spirit
A. One Body
B. One Spirit
C. One hope
II. The second group, related to the Lord
A. One Lord
B. One faith
C. One baptism
III. The one God and Father of all

The Gifts Perfecting the Saints _{msg. 38}

Grace according to the gift
Christ giving gifts to men
Christ filling all things
For the perfecting of the saints
Arriving at three things
Christ’s universal traffic
Captured by Christ
Gifts to the Body and to men
No clergy or laity

The Believer's Standard _{msg. 39}

The goal of God’s calling
The same as Paul
All disciples being apostles, prophets, evangelists, and shepherds and teachers
The stewardship of the grace
The revelation of the mystery
All serving ones
The operation of God’s power
The dispensation of the mystery

The Way to Reach the Standard _{msg. 40}

The universal stewardship
Receiving grace
Receiving revelation
Asking proper questions
Ministers of the gospel
Strengthened into the inner man

The Way to Be Perfected _{msg. 41}

Grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ
The work of ministry
The concept of hierarchy
No rank among the believers
The apostolic age
Perfecting the saints
In the church and under the ministry
Life and function
The need for thorough training
The Lord’s way

All Building Members Without Rank _{msg. 42}

An order of function, not of rank
The perfecting of the saints unto the work of ministry
Until we all arrive
Growth and training
Our potential realized by growth
The operation in the measure of each part
The need for training
Making a definite decision
Christ, the unique Leader
Helps and governments
Stewards of the grace of God
Not lording it over the church, but setting an example
Mutual submission
A question about authority

Arriving at Three Things _{msg. 43}

I. Arriving at the oneness
A. Of the faith
B. The full knowledge of the Son of God
II. Arriving at a full-grown man
III. Arriving at the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ

Babyishness and the Winds of Teaching _{msg. 44}

I. Babes in Christ
A. Those lacking maturity in life
B. Tossed by waves and carried about by winds
II. Winds of teaching
A. A teaching that differs from God’s economy
B. In the sleight of men
C. In craftiness
D. With a view to a system of error

The Growth of the Members for the Building Up of the Body _{msg. 45}

I. Holding to truth in love
A. Truth
B. Love
II. Growing up
A. Into the Head, Christ
B. In all things
III. Out from the Head
A. Every joint of the supply
B. Causing the growth of the Body

Learning Christ as the Truth is in Jesus _{msg. 46}

I. The third item of a walk worthy of God’s calling
II. No longer walking as the nations
A. Walking in the vanity of their mind
B. Darkened in their understanding
C. Estranged from the life of God
1. Because of the ignorance which is in them
2. Because of the hardness of their heart
D. Having ceased from feeling
E. Having given themselves over to lewdness
III. Learning Christ

Having Put Off the Old Man and Having Put On the New Man _{msg. 47}

I. A condition of learning Christ
II. Having put off the old man
A. As regards our former manner of life
B. The old man
III. Being renewed
IV. Having put on the new man
A. Corporate
B. Created according to God
C. In righteousness and holiness of the truth

A Living that Does Not Grieve the Holy Spirit of God _{msg. 48}

I. A living of learning Christ
II. Having put off the falsehood
III. Speaking truth each one with his neighbor
IV. Being angry and not sinning
A. Not letting the sun go down on our indignation
B. Neither giving place to the Devil
V. Letting him who steals steal no more
VI. Letting no corrupt word proceed out of the mouth
VII. Not grieving the Holy Spirit of God
VIII. Letting various evils be removed from us
IX. Being kind one to another

A Summary of Learning Christ _{msg. 49}

I. Basic elements
A. Truth
B. Grace
II. Basic factors
A. On the positive side
1. The life of God
2. The Spirit of God
B. On the negative side

Living in Love and Light _{msg. 50}

I. As beloved children, becoming imitators of God
II. Walking in love
III. Things not fitting for saints
IV. No inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God
V. The wrath of God coming upon the sons of disobedience
VI. Walking as children of light
VII. Proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord
VIII. Not participating in the unfruitful works of darkness
IX. Exposing the works of darkness
X. Awake and arise

Living by Being Filled in Spirit _{msg. 51}

I. The fifth item of the walk worthy of God’s calling
II. Walking not as unwise, but as wise
III. Redeeming the time
IV. Not being foolish, but understanding the will of the Lord
V. Not drunken with wine, but filled in spirit
A. Speaking, singing, and psalming
B. Giving thanks
C. Subject to one another in the fear of Christ

Living in the Relationship Between Wife and Husband _{msg. 52}

I. An aspect of the living filled in spirit unto all the fullness of God
II. Wives
A. Subject to their own husbands
B. As to the Lord
C. Taking the husband as the head
D. In everything
E. Fearing the husband
III. Husbands
A. Loving their wives
B. As Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
C. As their own bodies
1. Nourishing
2. Cherishing
D. Leaving father and mother and being joined to the wife as one flesh
E. Loving their own wives as themselves

A Mysterious Type of Christ and the Church _{msg. 53}

A complete picture of Christ and the church
A complete unit
Christ nourishing the church
Christ cherishing the church
Christ’s increase
The married life and the church life

Christ Sanctifying the Church by Cleansing Her _{msg. 54}

I. Christ loving the church and giving Himself up for her
II. Christ sanctifying the church
A. Separated and saturated
B. The washing of the water in the Word
C. Dealing with spots and wrinkles
III. Christ presenting the church to Himself
A. A glorious church
B. Holy and without blemish

Christ in Three Stages _{msg. 55}

The God-man
A proper human life
The speaking Spirit
Metabolic cleansing and transformation
Not outward correction, but Christ as our life and person
A glorious church

Sanctifying, Cleansing, Nourishing, and Cherishing (1) _{msg. 56}

Not religion but a wonderful Person
Recovered to the subjective Christ
Becoming holy dispositionally
Christ’s intention in His speaking
Cleansed by the subjective Christ
Nourished by taking Christ as our person
Our burden
“Wrecked” by Christ
Warmed and softened

How Christ Glorifies the Church _{msg. 57}

How Christ presents the church to Himself
The shining of the inner glory
Swallowed up by Christ as glory
Christ coming from within us
The contrast between religion and God’s economy
Not only victorious, but also glorious
Back to the indwelling Christ
The process of glorification
A mutual eating

Sanctifying, Cleansing, Nourishing, and Cherishing (2) _{msg. 58}

The addition of the element of Christ
Not deliberate behavior, but a spontaneous expression
Taking Christ as our life and our person
A heavy burden
Washing away the natural disposition
The work of the living Christ
Nourishment and satisfaction
Cleansing and nourishing
Cherished by the Lord’s tender warmth
Placing our trust in the living Christ

God's Desire for a Glorious Church _{msg. 59}

God’s goal
Not victorious but glorious
The deceptiveness of religion
God expressed through man
A corporate man
Christ coming from within us
The gospel of the glory of Christ
Concentrating on the Lord’s inward shining
The face of Jesus
Transformed from glory to glory

Experiencing Christ in God's Economy _{msg. 60}

Saturated with Christ
Coming to Christ in the Word
An unveiled face
Veiled by ordinances
God’s economy
No systematizing
Experiencing the indwelling Christ
God’s concern in His economy

A Summary of the Exhortation in Chapter Five _{msg. 61}

Basic elements and basic factors
The key to chapter four
Love and light in chapter five
Living in the realm of light
Two cases
A spontaneous living
The warrior
The Body of Christ
God’s dwelling place
The fullness of God
The church life according to God’s desire

The Believers' Living in the Relationship Between Children and Fathers and Between Slaves and Masters _{msg. 62}

I. The relationship between children and fathers
A. Children
B. Fathers
II. Between slaves and masters
A. Slaves
B. Masters

Warfare to Deal with the Spiritual Enemy _{msg. 63}

I. The negative side of the church’s responsibility
II. Empowered
III. Putting on the whole armor of God
IV. Able to stand against the stratagems of the Devil
V. Our wrestling
A. Not against blood and flesh
B. Against the rulers, the authorities, the world-rulers, and spiritual forces of evil
VI. Able to stand in the evil day
VII. Having done all, to stand

The Whole Armor of God (1) _{msg. 64}

I. The girdle of truth
II. The breastplate of righteousness
III. The firm foundation of the gospel of peace

The Whole Armor of God (2) _{msg. 65}

I. The shield of faith
II. The helmet of salvation
III. The sword of the Spirit

The Application by Prayer _{msg. 66}

I. Prayer as the application of the items of God’s armor
II. Praying
A. At every time
B. In spirit
III. Watching
A. For this prayer
B. In all perseverance
C. In all petition
1. Concerning the saints
2. Concerning the apostle
a. That utterance may be given to him
b. That he may speak boldly

Conclusion _{msg. 67}

I. Recommending Tychicus
II. Blessing
A. Peace and love
B. Grace with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption

The Church as a Hybrid Life _{msg. 68}

God’s purpose in the beginning
A definition of the church
Christians for the church
One in the Triune God
A miniature of the Bible
God’s creation
The human spirit
Revealing the Triune God
Christ making His home in our hearts
The body and the new man

The Mingled Spirit for the Church Life _{msg. 69}

The fullness of God and the riches of Christ
Access unto the Father
Responding to the Spirit
A spirit of wisdom and revelation
God’s dwelling place in our spirit
The mystery of Christ revealed in Spirit
The inner man
The spirit of our mind
Filled in spirit
Praying in spirit
Near, present, and available
The seal and the pledge
Not grieving the Spirit
Oneness in the Triune God

Ordinances and Doctrine _{msg. 70}

Abolishing the ordinances to create one new man
Dropping the ordinances for the proper church life
The contrast between ordinances and the Spirit
Caring for the building up of the Body
Doctrine as a damage to the church life
Taking the Word as nourishment
Caring for the reality of Christ
A charge to the young people

The Old Man and the New Man _{msg. 71}

The whole gospel
Putting off the old man
Flexibility for the church life
Putting on the new man
Not grieving the Spirit
The overflow of the inner filling
The washing of water in the word
The living Christ with the living Word

God's Accomplished Work Concerning the Church _{msg. 72}
Three Items that Damage the Church _{msg. 73}

God’s ultimate goal
The dwelling place of God
Not individual spirituality, but the church
Growing for the Body
Filled and washed for the church
Putting on the armor to be God’s warrior
Seeing the vision of the church
Judaism as a cause of degradation
Knowledge as a source of corruption
The disputes concerning the person of Christ
Not disputation but enjoyment
Keeping the oneness
Organization as a cause of damage
The sevenfold Spirit
Unloaded and released
The church life in the all-inclusive Spirit

Seven Aspects of the Church _{msg. 74}

The building of the church today
The Lord’s promise to build His church
Standing against degradation
The Body
The new man
The Bride
The family
The kingdom
The dwelling place
The warrior
Why we are here
Expressing Christ as life
Taking Christ as our person
A matter of love
Our real family
Under God’s rule
God’s dwelling place in our spirit
Defeating the enemy and preparing the way for the Lord to come back

God's Economy — Christ with the Church _{msg. 75}

Some important terms
Economy
Will
Good pleasure
Purpose
Counsel
Mystery
A secret
How God fulfills His economy
Selection
Predestination
Redemption
Salvation
Sanctification
Growth
Building up
The vine with the branches

God's Economy — to Work Christ Into Us _{msg. 76}

What God is seeking today
Our need for Christ to live in us
God’s concern
God’s workmanship
The difference between natural goodness and Christ
The unsearchable riches of Christ
Christ making His home in our hearts
Arriving at a full-grown man
Parts of Christ

Christ in God's Economy _{msg. 77}

Far above all and filling all
Raised from among the dead
A different Christ
The immeasurable Christ making His home in our hearts
The descending and ascending Christ
Constituted gifts
Our Christ

Taking Christ as Our Person for the Church Life _{msg. 78}

Abolishing the ordinances for the creation of the new man
The need for practical experience
Receiving Christ
Allowing Christ to make His home in our hearts
The unique factor in the Lord’s recovery

Five Aspects of Christ _{msg. 79}

The content of the church
Seeing Christ in a full way
The church-loving Christ
Sanctifying the church
A full recovery of the church life
Back to Jerusalem
The new-man-creating Christ
The all-things-heading-up Christ
The gift-making and gift-giving Christ
The home-making Christ

Putting on the New Man by Growing Up Into Christ _{msg. 80}

Christ becoming the person in our hearts
Christ expressed in the church
Constituted into gifts
Perfecting the saints through the ministry of Christ
Growing in particular matters
The proper community life
A stable church life

The Church — the Expression of Christ _{msg. 81}

Individualism and divisiveness
Filled in spirit unto all the fullness of God
The riches of Christ and the fullness of Christ
The unlimited expression of the unlimited Christ
Back to Christ
Calling on the name of the Lord
Pray-reading
Expressing Christ in the meetings

The Church — the Overflow of Christ _{msg. 82}

The fullness of the vast Christ
The difference between the church and a social organization
The focal point of God’s economy
Transformed to become Christ’s overflow
Experiencing Christ for the church life
No foreign element in the Body
The measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ
Receiving of His fullness

Experiencing the Riches of Christ _{msg. 83}

Gifts, grace, and transformation
The sufferings of Christ
Calling on the name of the Lord
Living in the person of Christ
The meekness and gentleness of Christ
The truth of Christ
The grace of Christ
Paul’s blessing

Overflowing to Speak _{msg. 84}

A speaking God and a speaking people
The biblical understanding of prophecy
The way to be spiritual
Our spirit subject to us
Bubbling over with the Lord
Testimonies of Christ

Ordinances and the Church Life _{msg. 85}

Four categories of negative things
Babel, ordinances, and division
The main cause of division
A new creation in Christ
Christ our only source
Returning to the genuine oneness

Slaying the Ordinances _{msg. 86}

Near in the blood of Christ
The gospel of peace
Brought back
Our peace
Creating one new man
Fellow-citizens and members
All differences removed by the cross
Ministering life in all kinds of meetings
The church life without ordinances

The Ordinances Versus Christ _{msg. 87}

The cross dealing with the ordinances
Redemption in relation to God’s purpose
In Christ
Built on Christ as the foundation
Things we must oppose
The cornerstone
The universal church and the local church
Putting our trust in Christ

Universal Building and Local Building _{msg. 88}

Forsaking all ordinances
Caring only for Christ
No organization
No isolation
Built up in Christ
Universal building accomplished only through local building
The spread of the Lord’s recovery

Growth by Feeding for the Building _{msg. 89}

The cause of division
Ordinances and doctrine
The need for human cooperation
Not mere teaching, but growth
Feeding, eating, and drinking
A book of life
Proper nourishment and genuine growth

Dropping Doctrines by the Growth of Life _{msg. 90}

Damaged by doctrine and philosophy
God’s concern
The subjective hold of doctrine
Perfected through growth
The oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God
Faith and doctrine
Laying aside doctrinal toys
The process of growth

Faith but Not Doctrine _{msg. 91}

Liberal with others regarding doctrine
Four negative things
Practicing Romans 14
Escaping from the snare of doctrine
God’s intention
The Lord’s recovery and the Lord’s coming

The Perfecting of the New Man _{msg. 92}

Perfect organically and functionally
Growth through feeding
Gifts for the perfecting of the saints
The ascended Christ producing gifts
How Christ constitutes us into gifts
Every member functioning

The Corporate Life of the New Man _{msg. 93}

Growing and functioning through the experience of Christ
Putting on the community life of the new man
The vanity of the mind
A matter of the living Christ
The truth in Jesus
Not grieving the Holy Spirit

The Spirit and the Church _{msg. 94}

Walking according to the spirit of the mind
A spirit of wisdom and revelation
Our spirit being God’s dwelling place
Revelation in spirit
The inner man
The renewing spirit
Filled in spirit
Praying in spirit
A clear sky
A new element wrought into us
The expression of God
The divine character expressed through human virtue

The Beauty of the Bride _{msg. 95}

Spots and wrinkles
Imparting the rich element of Christ
Experiencing the sanctifying element of Christ
The preparation of the Bride
Beauty for presentation
The way to be prepared
The reflection of Christ
Beautified by the indwelling Christ
Clothed in fine linen
The Lord’s work in His recovery

Head Over All to the Church _{msg. 96}

God’s eternal administration
Christ’s need for the Body
The inheritance, the seal, and the pledge
Saturated with the Spirit for the heading up of all things
The transmission from the Head to the Body
Christ making His home in our hearts
Oneness in the heavenly transmission

The Church as God's Warrior _{msg. 97}

Various aspects of the church
The Bride and the warrior
Spiritual warfare — a matter of the Body
Empowered in the Lord
Putting on Christ as the armor
Applying the armor by prayer
Pray-reading the word
Praying at every time in spirit
Not fighting but enjoying
The killing power of the word
The enemy and the adversary
Slaying the adversary by pray-reading the word
A practical way to kill the negative elements
The blessing of being in the Lord’s recovery

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