SPECIAL FELLOWSHIP CONCERNING THE WORLD SITUATION AND THE LORD'S MOVE
Message Three
Spreading the Divine Truths and Seeing a Vision of the World's Ultimate Situation, God's Ultimate Move, and the Lord's Ultimate Recovery
Scripture Reading: Matt. 24:14; 28:19-20; Col. 2:2; Eph. 3:4; 4:16; Rev. 19:7-9
I. The Lord needs the truths of His recovery to spread to the whole earth— Matt. 28:19; 1 Tim. 2:4:
A. The spreading of the divine truths of the Lord's recovery will be a preparation for the Lord's coming back to bring the recovery and restoration not only to Israel but also to the entire creation—Matt. 24:14; Mark 16:15.
B. There is the need of the spreading of the translated, interpreted, and understood divine truths for the Lord's recovery and restoration; the spreading of the divine truths will bring in the Lord's restoration—Isa. 11:9.
C. The Lord's recovery is full of the divine truths but is inadequate in the application of the truths and slow in the spreading of the truths.
D. The Lord's charge to us is to go and teach the nations so that the present age may be consummated—Matt. 28:19-20; 24:14.
II. It is a historical fact that the world situation has always been the indicator of God's move on earth—Dan. 4:26, 35; 7:2-14:
A. The history of the church also shows us that the world situation is the indicator of God's move on earth—Rev. 2—3.
B. There is the need of an appropriate direction for God's move today to match the recent changes in the world situation.
C. When we see many changes in the world situation, we must wake up and consider what the Lord wants to do and how these changes concern us.
III. We need to see a vision of the world's ultimate situation, God's ultimate move, and the Lord's ultimate recovery—Prov. 29:18a:
A. The world's ultimate situation involves the supremacy of the United States:
1. The United States has been kept for the spreading of the central vision of Paul's completing ministry—Acts 26:18; Col. 2:2; Eph. 3:4; 5:32.
2. The United States is the last power God will use for His final move.
B. God's ultimate move is to carry out His economy concerning Christ as the mystery of God and the church as the mystery of Christ—Col. 2:2; Eph. 3:4-6:
1. God's ultimate move to fulfill His eternal intention is to have Christ as life in us, flowing in us, saturating and permeating us, and making us fit to be built up into His Body for His expression—Col. 3:4; Eph. 3:16; 4:16.
2. Three items have been recovered—the preaching of the gospel, the teaching of the Bible truths, and the scriptural way of meeting; now this final matter of God's ultimate move must be our concern—3:8-11.
3. Gospel preaching, teaching the Bible, and meeting according to the Bible are not God's ultimate move; God's ultimate move is to gain a people who have Christ as their life and live Him—Col. 3:4; Phil. 1:21a:
a. It must be our real experience that Christ is the flowing life within us— John 4:14; 7:37-39.
b. As Christ saturates and permeates us, He supplies us with all His elements and terminates the negative things within us—Eph. 3:16.
c. We need to be transformed, grow into maturity, and be built up in order that Christ may have His Body—Rom. 12:2, 5; Eph. 4:15-16.
d. God wants Christ as the embodiment of God to become our life, and He wants us, as sons of God, to be members of the Body of Christ so that Christ will have His Body; in our locality this Body will be expressed as a golden lampstand; this is the preparation of the bride—Col. 2:9; 3:4; Rom. 8:14; 12:4-5; Rev. 2:1; 19:7.
4. Even if our gospel preaching is adequate, our Bible teaching is accurate, and our meetings are scriptural, we need to ask ourselves this question: Do we have the ultimate move of God among us?
5. God's ultimate move is the fourth step of His move to accomplish His eternal purpose—Eph. 3:11; 2 Tim. 1:9; Rom. 8:28:
a. The first three steps are preaching the gospel, teaching the Bible, and meeting according to the Bible.
b. The fourth step is His gaining a good number of believers who know how wonderful Christ is, who have Him as their life and live Him, who are filled, permeated, and saturated with Him, who grow in life and are transformed by His flowing life within them, and who are built up with fellow believers to be the golden lampstand in their locality; this is what the Lord is after today—Eph. 4:12, 15-16; Rev. 1:11-12.
c. For the first step, the spread of the gospel, God prepared the Roman Empire; for the second step, the return to the Bible, God prepared Germany; for the third step, the recovery of the gospel, the teaching of the Bible, and the proper meetings, God used Great Britain; and for the fourth step, God's ultimate move, God has prepared the United States.
d. As this ultimate move goes forward, there is the need for a powerful country, the United States, to keep the peace and to keep the way open.
6. The direction of God's ultimate move must be toward Europe; before the crushing of the great human image in Daniel 2 takes place, the Lord's recovery must spread to Europe and be rooted there.
C. The Lord's ultimate recovery is the same as His ultimate move—Col. 2:2; Eph. 3:4-6, 11; 5:32; Rev. 2:1; 19:7-9:
1. The ultimate move of God has been lost sight of, but now the Lord will recover it and thus complete what He desires to do—Matt. 16:18; Eph. 4:16.
2. The Lord wants to recover Christ, the mystery of God, becoming the indwelling Spirit to dispense the Triune God into the believers, thus making us members of His Body for His corporate expression; this Body is expressed locally as the lampstand, which becomes His testimony, the testimony of Jesus—Col. 2:2; 1 Cor. 15:45b; Rom. 8:11; 12:4-5; Rev. 1:11-12.
3. This is the Lord's ultimate recovery, and He has the United States to maintain the world's situation so that His ultimate recovery may spread for the completion of God's ultimate move—Matt. 28:18-20; 24:14.