2022-5丨General Subject：Loving the Lord and Loving One Another for the Organic Building Up of the Church as the Body of Christ

General Subject：Loving the Lord and Loving One Another for the Organic Building Up of the Church as the Body of Christ

Message Eight Taking the God-ordained Pathway for the Church— the Way of Philadelphia—according to the Lord’s Up-to-date and Ultimate Recovery to Bring Us into a New Revival to Turn the Age

D. The Lord's using the key of David to open the door for the spread of His recovery is objective to us, but Christ is also using the key of David to subjectively open the door in our inner being for us to be transformed and built into the house of God as a pillar with the name of God, the name of the New Jerusalem, and the new name of the Lord—Rev. 2:17; 3:12; cf. 21:22:

Rev. 2:17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and to him I will give a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knows except he who receives it.

Rev. 3:12 He who overcomes, him I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall by no means go out anymore, and I will write upon him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which descends out of heaven from My God, and My new name.

Rev. 21:22 And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

1. The name of My God indicates that the pillar is God; the name of the city of My God indicates that the pillar is the New Jerusalem; and My new name indicates that the pillar is Christ in a new significance; the overcomer as a pillar becomes God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead, he becomes a constituent of the New Jerusalem, and he becomes Christ in a new experiential sense—3:12.

2. The New Jerusalem is the new Christ; as God's enlargement and expansion, we are Christ in a new sense as the New Jerusalem; the new Christ is not the same as He was in the four Gospels; the bride, who is the increase of the Bridegroom, is the New Jerusalem, including all of God's regenerated ones—John 3:29-30; Rev. 21:9-10.

John 3:29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. This joy of mine therefore is made full.

John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

Rev. 21:9 And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, Come here; I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

Rev. 21:10 And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

3. For us to be built into God, become a constituent of the New Jerusalem, and become a part of the new Christ is humanly impossible, but the law of the Spirit of life within us contains an element that deals with impossibility—Rom. 8:2; Luke 18:27; cf. Gen. 28:12-19; John 1:51.

Rom. 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death.

Luke 18:27 But He said, The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.

Gen. 28:12 And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

Gen. 28:13 And there was Jehovah, standing above it; and He said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, I will give to you and to your seed.

Gen. 28:14 And your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

Gen. 28:15 And, behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will cause you to return to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.

Gen. 28:16 And Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I did not know it.

Gen. 28:17 And he was afraid and said, How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

Gen. 28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put under his head, and he set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.

Gen. 28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz previously.

John 1:51 And He said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, You shall see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.

Morning Nourishment

Rev. 3:12 He who overcomes, him I will make a pillar in the temple of My God,...and I will write upon him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which descends out of heaven from My God, and My new name.

In [Revelation 3:7], the introductory word in the epistle to the church in Philadelphia, the most difficult term for the teachers of the Bible to understand is the key of David. This key is used by the Lord to open the door for His recovered church. Today it is also used by the Lord for us, the seekers and lovers of the Lord in His recovery, to have an opened door not only for the spread of the recovery in an objective way but also for us to become a white stone (2:17) and pillars that are built into the temple of God and bear three names—the name of God, the name of the city of God, and the Lord’s new name (3:12). The temple, the house of God, refers first to the church in the present age (1 Cor. 3:16-17; 1 Tim. 3:15)...Eventually, in eternity the temple will become the New Jerusalem. The house of God is the church for God’s dwelling today, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem as both the tabernacle and temple of God for His dwelling in eternity (Rev. 21:3, 22). (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, p. 73)

What is the way for us to become a white stone and a pillar that is built into the house of God?...The name of My God indicates that the pillar is God; the name of the city of My God indicates that the pillar is the New Jerusalem; and My new name indicates that the pillar is Christ in a new significance. The overcomer as a pillar becomes God (in life and in nature but not in the Godhead), the New Jerusalem, and Christ in a new experiential sense. In ourselves we have no way to carry this out. However, the Lord Jesus has the way; that is, He has the key...He is the key for us to be transformed into white stones and to be built into the house of God, which is the church today and the New Jerusalem in eternity.

A loving seeker of the Lord can become one who bears the name of God, the name of the New Jerusalem, and the new name of Christ. This means that he becomes God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead, and he also becomes the New Jerusalem and Christ in a new sense. By ourselves this is impossible, but the One who has the key of David has the way.

God created man in His own image and according to His own likeness in order that man may express God, and He gave man the authority to rule over all things (Gen. 1:26). Through the fall man lost the way to fulfill God’s purpose...However, David found the way to fulfill God’s purpose in figure. He defeated all the enemies and gained the ground to build the temple, the house of God. Because God gave the key of authority to David, it is called “the key of David.” Then David had a descendant, Christ, who inherited this key. Today Christ is the real David (Matt. 12:3-4), to whom God has given the key of authority (28:18). He and only He has the unique key to open the door for His recovery that no one can shut.

The Lord has the key to subjectively make us not only white stones but also pillars built into the house of God as those who are parts of God, of the New Jerusalem, and of Christ in a new sense.

If we read the outlines of [the high peak] truths, we can see that they give us a key that opens the way to make us a part of God, of the New Jerusalem, and of the new Christ. We need to pray-read these outlines, study and investigate them, memorize and recite them, and prophesy with them. As a result, there will be an open door for us to enter into the reality, that is, to become a part of God, of the New Jerusalem, and of Christ.

The New Jerusalem is the consummated God and the new Christ...This Christ is the One in the four Gospels who has been increased, enlarged, and multiplied to be a corporate Body, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, pp. 73-75)