We need to enjoy and experience Christ as the offerings day by day until the Christ we experience subjectively becomes new wine in us, causing us to be ecstatically happy and joyful; then, when Christ as the new wine saturates and fills us with Himself, we can be poured out as a drink offering for God’s satisfaction and on God’s building. Amen!
The good land is a land of vines; Christ is the vine and we’re the branches (John 15:4-5), and we abide in Him to be one with Him.
As the vine, Christ expands, grows, and increases in man and through man to reach everyone around the world.
Also, as the vine Christ bears fruit through the branches abiding in the vine.
When we as believers in Christ abide in Christ as the vine, He abides in us, and the flow of His life causes us to grow in life with the growth of God and bear fruit for the glorification of the Father.
Apart from the Lord Jesus, we can do nothing, for we’re just a branch in the vine.
Just as the branch cannot do anything apart from the vine, so we can do nothing apart from Christ, to whom we are joined organically in spirit (1 Cor. 6:17).
When we abide in the Lord and He abides in us, we receive the rich divine dispensing, and we are filled with Him to overflowing.
The Lord doesn’t want to give us just a little bit of Him; He wants to flow freely into us and out of us.
It all depends on our opening to Him. We all need to learn to open to the Lord a little more every day.
We need to let Him make His home in our hearts a little more each day.
When we open to Him and enjoy Him, when we experience Him as the reality of all the offerings, He fills us to the brim, and there’s an overflow of the divine life from the depths of our being.
We will not try to do this or that for the Lord; life will simply flow from us to others.
When we’re filled with the Lord Jesus as the new wine, we will simply overflow with Him to others.
Christ is the reality of the drink offering, for only He can satisfy God. He is the One filled with new wine, and He is the new wine itself.
And He has come into us to fill us. May we open to Him day by day and spend time with Him to be filled with Him.
May we open to Him without reservation in our time with Him so that He may fill us to the brim.
May we allow Him to fill us to overflowing, and may we not limit Him in our daily living.
When we experience Christ and are filled and saturated with Him, we become one with Him to be the wine that is poured out before God and upon the sacrifice and service of the saints.
God will be satisfied with this drink offering, for we are one with Christ as the drink offering for God’s satisfaction.
Advancing in our Experience and Enjoyment of Christ until We’re Filled and Saturated with Christ as the New Wine
The first mention of the drink offering is in Gen. 35:14, where we see Jacob coming to Bethel the second time and, after setting up a pillar in the place God spoke with him, he poured out a drink offering and poured oil on it.
In Gen. 28 Jacob came to Bethel the first time, on his way to his family as he was running from his brother Esau, and there God gave him a marvellous dream of the heavenly ladder.
After that dream, Jacob set up the pillow he slept on as a pillar and poured oil on it, for he saw that was the house of God.
But he did not have that much experience and transformation at that point, so he could not pour a drink offering on this pillar.
He was a young supplanter running from his brother whom he had wronged.
But when he returned twenty years later, he had some experience of transformation, and he could pour a drink offering to the Lord.
We need to advance in our experience and enjoyment of Christ as all the offerings in our daily living until we’re qualified to pour a drink offering to God.
As we experience Christ as the reality of the offerings, we will eventually become a person who is filled and saturated with Christ.
Day by day in our time with the Lord and throughout the day we need to enjoy and experience Christ.
We need to take Him as the reality of our sin offering for the sin in our being, and we need to apply Him as the trespass offering for all the sins we have committed.
We need to take Christ as the burnt offering, laying our hands on Him to be one with Him as the only One who is absolute for God.
We need to take Christ as our meal offering, partaking of His humanity and being anointed with the Spirit to become a corporate meal offering for God’s satisfaction and man’s supply.
As we enjoy and experience Christ day by day, we will be filled with Him.
The Christ we experience becomes in us the new wine that fills us and saturates us.
We need to enjoy and experience Christ daily until we’re filled and saturated with Christ as the new wine.
For us to offer the drink offering, we need to become the drink offering; only one who is filled and saturated with Christ as the new wine can pour out the drink offering for God’s satisfaction, for he has become one with Christ as the drink offering.
We cannot be a drink offering according to our natural constitution; rather, we must enjoy Christ to such an extent that Christ fills us, saturates us, and permeates us.
May we drink Christ daily until He as the heavenly wine fills us to the brim.
May we enjoy Him by taking Him into us so that we may be filled with Him and thoroughly saturated with Him.
Then, we will become the wine to be poured out as a drink offering upon the offerings we present to God.
Day by day, may we come to the Lord in prayer and ask the Father to strengthen us into our inner man through His Spirit according to the riches of His glory so that Christ may make His home in our hearts through faith (Eph. 3:16-17).
As we do this, Christ fills us to the brim and is even formed in us (Gal. 4:19).
The more we enjoy and experience Christ day by day, the more we are filled and saturated with Christ as the new wine, and we will be qualified to be one with Christ as the drink offering.
The Christ whom we experience subjectively as the offerings become wine in us, causing us to be ecstatically happy and joyful (Matt. 9:17; 2 Cor. 5:13).
In our personal time with the Lord, as we enjoy Him in our intimate time with Him, we will be filled with Him and we will even be beside ourselves with joy.
![For whether we were beside ourselves, [it was] to God; or whether we are sober-minded, [it is] for you. 2 Cor. 5:13 And walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor. Eph. 5:2 But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and I rejoice together with you all. Phil. 2:17](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/For-whether-we-were-beside-ourselves-it-was-to-God-or-whether-we-are-sober-minded-it-is-for-you-683x1024.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "For whether we were beside ourselves, [it was] to God; or whether we are sober-minded, [it is] for you. 2 Cor. 5:13 And walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor. Eph. 5:2 But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and I rejoice together with you all. Phil. 2:17")
We will be “crazy” for the Lord, for He fills us and saturates us with Himself as the new wine.
The Christ we enjoy and experience becomes the new wine in us causing us to be happy and joyful, even to be beside ourselves with joy!
Our experience of Christ becomes the element within us stirring us up to be ecstatically happy!
As we continue to enjoy the Lord in this way day by day, we will become one with the wine!
Just as a drunkard is one with the wine he drinks, for is saturated with wine and even smells like wine, so we need to drink Christ as the new wine until we’re filled and saturated with Christ as the new wine and are “drunk with Christ” to become wine to satisfy God. Amen!
In this way we become one with Christ to be a drink offering to God, pouring ourselves out before Him and on the church as the building of God for God’s satisfaction.
This being “drunk with Christ” is not something outward that causes us to do things in a crazy way besides ourselves, things that make no sense, but it is inward, filled with Christ inwardly and crazy loving the Lord to waste ourselves on Him and on the church for the Father to be satisfied.
When we are filled and saturated with Christ as the new wine, we will become wine to satisfy God, and we’re qualified and ready to be a drink offering.
May we bring this matter to the Lord and tell Him,
Lord Jesus, we want to advance in our enjoyment and experience of Christ in our daily life. Keep us in our spirit contacting You, enjoying You, and experiencing You. We take You as the reality of all the offerings. Teach us how to take You as the offerings in our daily experience. Amen, Lord, make Your home in our hearts through faith. Fill us and saturate us with Yourself as the new wine. May the Christ we experience and enjoy become wine in us to fill us to the brim. Amen, Lord, fill us with Yourself as the new wine! May we be those who spend much time with the Lord and are beside ourselves with joy before Him, for we’re filled with Christ as the heavenly wine! Hallelujah, our Christ is the wine that fills us and saturates us to make us beside ourselves with the Lord! Oh Lord, we want to be filled and saturated with Christ as the new wine so that we may be wine to satisfy God and be qualified and ready to be a drink offering!
Being Filled with Christ as the New Wine to be a Drink Offering for God’s Satisfaction and upon God’s Building
On one hand, Christ is the drink offering, for only Christ can satisfy God, and He poured out His life before God for His satisfaction and delight.
On the other hand, He came as the new wine for us to drink (Matt. 9:17).
As we drink Christ as the new wine, we are filled and saturated with Christ as the new wine, and we become one with Him to be poured out as a drink offering.
We need to come to a point in our experience where we have been constituted as a drink offering, as Paul was in 2 Tim. 4:6.
He testified that he is already poured out as a drink offering.
He drank Christ as the new wine and was filled with Christ as the new wine to the extent that he could be poured out as a drink offering.
We need to drink Christ as the new wine day by day. We need to enjoy the Lord day by day, even moment by moment.
We should not have as our aim anything else besides enjoying Christ and being filled with Him.
We should not worry about our failures or mistakes but simply confess them, apply the Lord’s precious blood, and come forward to the Lord to enjoy Him again and again.
As believers in Christ, we believe into the Lord, we do not look at our condition, and we come to Him to be filled and saturated with Christ as the new wine!
We turn our hearts to Him again and again, and we pray short prayers to open to Him and experience Him.
We simply tell the Lord,
Lord Jesus, we want to become a drink offering. Saturate us with Yourself as the new wine. Fill us with the heavenly wine. Empty us of ourselves and fill us with Your new wine. Oh Lord, we want to be filled with You to the brim! You are so enjoyable! No matter what happens, Lord, we open to You for You to fill us with the new wine! Whatever is going on around us, keep our being open to Your filling! Fill us, Lord Jesus! Fill us to the extent that we are one with You as wine to be poured out for God’s satisfaction! Amen!
As we open to the Lord and pray short prayers to keep our contact with Him fresh and living, we are inwardly filled with Him, and we will be beside ourselves for the Lord and with the Lord.
And this filling is for God’s building. Jacob poured out a drink offering on the pillar at Bethel, indicating that the drink offering is not only for God’s satisfaction but also for God’s building (Gen. 35:14).
The wine poured out at Bethel is not the direct wine from the winepress; it is the indirect wine from those who enjoy Christ as wine and who are saturated with Christ as wine.
![And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, even as the Spirit gave to them to speak forth...But others jeered and said, They are full of new wine!...For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is the third hour of the day; But this is what is spoken through the prophet Joel: "And it shall be in the last days, says God, [that] I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream [things] in dreams; And indeed upon My slaves, both men and women, I will pour out of My Spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy." Acts 2:4, 13, 15-18](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/And-they-were-all-filled-with-the-Holy-Spirit-and-began-to-speak-in-different-tongues-even-as-the-Spirit-gave-to-them-to-speak-forth-683x1024.jpg?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, even as the Spirit gave to them to speak forth...But others jeered and said, They are full of new wine!...For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is the third hour of the day; But this is what is spoken through the prophet Joel: \"And it shall be in the last days, says God, [that] I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream [things] in dreams; And indeed upon My slaves, both men and women, I will pour out of My Spirit in those days, and they shall prophesy.\" Acts 2:4, 13, 15-18")
If we were to be pressed and crushed, not much wine may come out, for we need more of Christ.
But when we drink Christ as the new wine and are filled and saturated with Christ as the new wine, we will be able to pour out some wine for God’s building.
In Bethel, the house of God, the church as the Body of Christ, we eventually need to be poured out as a drink offering (2 Cor. 12:15).
After the Lord Jesus died, the disciples were not scattered; rather, they remained in Jerusalem and gathered themselves together, even to pray for ten days, until they were filled with the Holy Spirit as the new wine.
On the day of Pentecost, they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, filled with the new wine of Christ, and they overflowed with Christ to those around them (Acts 2:13-14).
The Lord prophesied in Joel 2:28 that in the last days, He will pour out His Spirit and young men will see visions and old men will dream dreams.
The more we enjoy and experience Christ, the more we’re filled and saturated with Him as new wine, and we are beside ourselves with this One, for He fills us with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory.
We will then be one with Christ to be a drink offering poured out for God’s satisfaction and for God’s building, the church.
How wonderful! May the Lord gain this in us and among us today.
Lord Jesus, we give ourselves to You to be filled with You as the new wine today! We forget about our situation, our failures, and our condition, and we just want to be filled with You! Hallelujah, the Christ we enjoy and experience is the new wine filling us and saturating us to make us wine to be poured out as a drink offering for God’s satisfaction and for God’s building! Amen, Lord, fill us with Yourself as the heavenly wine. Saturate our being with Yourself as the new wine. May our whole being be saturated and filled with the heavenly wine of Christ until we become a drink offering poured out upon the church as the building of God and for God’s satisfaction. Gain this among us, dear Lord. Gain many saints who are filled and saturated with Christ as the new wine to such an extent that their being is filled with wine and even becomes wine for the satisfaction of God and for the building of God!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ray Mulligan in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Genesis, msg. 89 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good land for the Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ, for the Reality and the Manifestation of the Kingdom, and for the Bride to make Herself Ready for the Lord’s Coming (2023 Winter Training), week 5, entitled, A Land of Vines.
- Similar articles on this topic:
– Christ, the new wineskin, a portion from, Christ versus Religion, Chapter 2, by Witness Lee.
– Let us contemplate the grape vine, an excellent hymn by Watchman Nee.
– Have you been drunk with wine? Read more via, Living to Him.
– The new wine, a portion from, Christ versus Religion, Chapter 2, by Witness Lee.
– Singing with Our Hearts to the Lord, via, Bibles for America blog.
– The Kind of Person the Lord Can Use to Turn the Age, via, Shepherding Words.
– Do not put some artificial coloring on your face, but simply drink the heavenly wine and you will have a colorful complexion. Do not pretend to be joyful when inwardly you are filled with sorrow. If you realize that the Triune God has been dispensed into you, you will be happy and your joy will be full. This is life. Read more via, Life-study of John msg. 1.
– The new wineskin and the old wineskin, a portion from, Collected Works of Watchman Nee, The (Set 2) Vol. 21: The Christian (1934-1940), Chapter 11, by Watchman Nee.
– Christ Our Physician, Bridegroom, New Wine, and Shepherd, via, Holding to Truth in Love.
– The Street of New Jerusalem for Eternal Fellowship, via New Jerusalem. - Hymns on this topic:
– Jesus, Bread and Wine art Thou, / Wine and Bread forever. / Never canst Thou cease to feed / Or refresh us, never. / Feed us still on bread divine, / Drink we still of heavenly wine. (Hymns #512 stanza 2)
– Fill me with Thy gracious Spirit, / Fill my longing spirit now; / Fill me with Thy hallowed presence, / Come, dear Lord, and fill me now! / Fill me now! Fill me now! / Fill me with Thy Spirit now! / Strip me wholly, empty throughly, / Fill me with Thy Spirit now! (Hymns #267 stanza 1 and chorus)
– Into His disciples the risen Lord breathed, / The Spirit of life thus to them He bequeathed; / Th’ ascended Lord poured at the Pentecost hour / Upon His disciples the Spirit of pow’r. / The Spirit of life is within as the life, / The Spirit of power is giv’n for this life; / As blowing of wind brings the fresh air to breathe, / The Spirit of power to life doth bequeath. (Hymns #278 stanzas 4-5)
