We can See the Revelation of the Mystery of Christ and the Church in our Spirit

We need to see the revelation of the mystery of Christ and the church in our spirit, and we need to live our daily life and Christian life in the light of this revelation.

May the Lord grant us a spirit of wisdom and revelation so that we may see and apprehend the mystery of Christ and the church; we need to see Christ as the mystery of the church and enter into the enjoyment of all the riches of Christ as our inheritance and blessing. Amen!

The Bible is a wonderful book and at the same time, it is a mysterious book, for it speaks of something hidden in God’s heart from the beginning to the end.

Many of the seekers of the Lord in the Old Testament wanted to know what is hidden in God, the mystery hidden in God, but they could not see it.

The mystery in God, the mystery that is hidden in God and which is the eternal economy of God, has been revealed to the Lord’s holy apostles and prophets in spirit, and today we can see this mystery in our spirit also.

We live in the age of mystery; we live in the age of faith. We partake of God by faith, through the exercise of our spirit, and everything related to God and the experience and enjoyment of God is a mystery.

May we pray that the Lord would enlighten the eyes of our heart for us to see the mystery of Christ and the church.

May we come to the Lord in His word again and again, turning our heart to Him and exercising our mingled spirit, so that we may see what is hidden deep inside of God.

God didn’t just create all things and then man, and He doesn’t just randomly or accidentally do things; rather, God has an economy.

The mystery hidden deep in God is God’s New Testament economy, His divine dispensing. He wants to dispense Himself with all that He is into man so that He may obtain a corporate group of people built up in His life and nature to express Him collectively.

God wants to obtain a corporate expression by means of His divine dispensing.

We believers in Christ are those who have opened to the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity, and day by day we keep our being open to Him so that He may grow in us, transform us, renew us, conform us to the image of Christ, and glorify us for His corporate expression.

We need to see a vision of God’s eternal economy and allow this vision to govern, direct, and control our heart so that we may live a life in God’s economy for the fulfilment of His purpose.

May we remain under the Lord’s dispensing, perfecting, training, and working so that He may grow in us, develop in us, and bring us on to maturity, even to build us up together with the saints so that we may become His expression on the earth.

Receive the Revelation concerning Christ and the Church, the Economy of God, the Hidden Mystery

We may read Ephesians 3 and we may be amazed that the apostle Paul received such a great revelation from God, for he testifies that the mystery hidden in God was revealed to the holy apostles and prophets in spirit. However, this mystery needs to be revealed to us also.

We need to receive the same revelation that was given to Paul and the leading apostles and prophets by exercising our human spirit! The revelation of the mystery is in the Bible, but we need to come to God’s word with the exercise of our spirit to touch the Lord, be open to Him, be enlighened, and see the mystery.

Each one of us needs to receive the revelation of the mystery personally and subjectively. For this, we need to be strengthened into our inner man (Eph. 3:17).

We need to ask the Lord to strengthen us with power through His Spirit into the inner man so that we may apprehend with all the saints the mystery of God, the revelation concerning Christ and the church, which is the economy of God.

If we don’t have this revelation, we can’t be apostles and prophets; if we receive the revelation concerning Christ and the church, we will be followers of the apostles and prophets in God’s New Testament ministry.

In Eph. 3:6 speaks of the mystery of the church, saying that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the Body and fellow partakers of the promise through the gospel.

We Gentiles have no share in the physical or outward blessing God promised to Abraham, but by faith in Christ, we have become fellow heirs, fellow members of the Body, and fellow partakers of the promise. Praise the Lord!

In God’s New Testament economy we, the chosen, redeemed, and regenerated Gentiles, and the believing Jews are fellow heirs of God. We now inherit God! Wow, God is our inheritance, and we can enjoy all that He is by exercising our spirit!

We are fellow members of the Body of Christ, which means that we as saved Gentiles, together with the saved Jews are fellow members of the one Body of Christ as His unique expression. Praise the Lord, we are one Body in Christ, we are the one Body of Christ, and we are the corporate expression of the Triune God on the earth!

Furthermore, we are fellow partakers; this indicates that we Gentile believers together with the Jewish believers, are fellow partakers of God’s promise given in the Old Testament. The promise God gave in the Old Testament was concerning all the blessings of God’s New Testament economy.

We are inheritors, partakers, and heirs, enjoying all that God is.

As fellow heirs, we enjoy the blessing of the household of God. As fellow members of the Body, we enjoy the blessing of the Body of Christ. As fellow partakers of the promise, we enjoy the blessing of the promise of God. Praise the Lord!

This is what we enter into as we see the revelation concerning Christ and the church, which is a revelation of God’s economy, the hidden mystery.

This mystery has been hidden in God throughout the ages, but it was revealed to the apostles and prophets in spirit, and we today can exercise our spirit as we come to God’s word to see a revelation of the mystery (Eph. 3:3-5)!

We see this revelation in our spirit, for our spirit is mingled with the divine Spirit to be the organ to which the mystery of Christ is revealed.

May we ask the Lord to strengthen us into our inner man, our regenerated spirit, and may we allow Christ to make His home in our heart so that we may see the revelation of the hidden mystery.

May we enter into the blessings and inheritance of the New Testament economy of God so that we may be part of the corporate expression of Christ on the earth!

Lord Jesus, unveil us to see the revelation concerning Christ and the church, the economy of God! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ can exercise our mingled spirit today to see the hidden mystery in God, the eternal economy of God! Amen, Lord, grant us to have this revelation! May we see that, in Christ Jesus, we saved Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the Body and fellow partakers of the promise through the gospel! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ are heirs of God, inheriting God and enjoying all that God is to us! Praise the Lord, we are fellow members of the Body, enjoying the Body of Christ and being in the Body for God to gain a corporate expression! Thank You, Lord, for making us fellow partakers of God’s promise concerning all the blessings of God’s New Testament economy. We exercise our spirit today. Strengthen us into our inner man, our regenerated spirit, so that we may see the revelation of the hidden mystery!

Having a Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation to See the Revelation of the Mystery of Christ and the Church

Merely reading the Bible and understanding it does not impart a revelation of the mystery of Christ and the church into our being. Merely agreeing with what the New Testament says, being amazed at God’s promises in His New Testament economy, does not give us a vision of God’s economy.

We need to pray that the Lord would grant us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him (Eph. 1:17).

We need to pray that He would strengthen us into our inner man and grant us to see the revelation of the mystery of Christ and the church.

Our human mentality is not enough for us to see this mystery, and our human understanding is altogether inadequate.

When Paul preached the gospel, he didn’t just preach a doctrine or even just repentance for forgiveness of hisns; he announced the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel (Eph. 3:8).

When we see the revelation of the mystery concerning Christ and the church and are infused with all the riches of Christ, we will announce these riches to others as the gospel.

What are the riches of Christ? The riches of Christ for our enjoyment are what Christ is to us; He is light, life, righteousness, and holiness. The riches of Christ are also what He has for us, what He has accomplished, attained, and obtained for us.

The riches of Christ are unsearchable and untraceable, and we can enjoy all these riches in our spirit.

May the Lord grant us a spirit of wisdom and revelation so that we may understand the church, which is the mystery of Christ. The revelation of the mystery is a crucial matter in our Christian life.

Romans 16:25-26 speaks of this mystery which was kept in silence in the times of the ages but has now been revealed in the New Testament age. Praise the Lord, the hidden mystery was revealed to us today in the New Testament age!

This mystery is mainly of two aspects: the mystery of God, which is Christ, and the mystery of Christ, which is the church.

The mystery of God is Christ, who is in us as believers in Christ to be our life and our everything for us to become the members of the Body of Christ as His corporate expression.

The mystery of Christ is the church as His Body to express Christ in His fullness (Eph. 1:22-23). Together, Christ and the church, are the great mystery (Eph. 5:32). May we see a revelation of the mystery concerning Christ and the church in our spirit.

We believers in Christ have been baptized into Christ (Rom. 6:3), Christ has been wrought into us (8:10), and we have put on Christ (13:14). Furthermore, we are being built up together in one Body (12:4-5) to express Christ corporately in the local churches all over the earth.

In the local churches, we love the Lord, enjoy Him, are filled with the revelation of the mystery, and we love one another, fellowship with one another, and fellowship with all the churches to be blended together as the Body of Christ.

Praise the Lord, the Body of Christ is the fulfilment of God’s mystery!

May we exercise our spirit day by day, coming to the Lord in His word, and may we allow the Lord to remove any veils so that we may see the revelation of the mystery concerning Christ and the church.

May we allow the Lord to reveal Himself to us. He will never force us; He is such a gentleman. He is waiting at the door of our heart, knocking at the door, and we need to open the door and let Him in.

Day by day, the world encroaches on us, usurps us, and draws us with so many things.

Furthermore, by means of the self and the flesh, Satan has his agents in us to disturb our enjoyment of Christ and living of Christ.

As we live our daily life under the divine dispensing, may we be those who exercise our spirit habitually so that we may receive and remain in the revelation of the mystery of Christ and the church.

May we allow the Lord to reveal Himself more to us. May we allow Him to make His home in our hearts, as He strengthens us with power through His Spirit into the inner man.

And no matter what happens, may we learn to turn to our spirit, exercise our spirit, and remain in our spirit so that we may live a life governed and directed by the heavenly vision of God’s eternal economy.

This is the only life worth living, a life in the mystery of Christ and the church for God to obtain His corporate expression on the earth.

Lord Jesus, we open to You and we allow You to make Your home in our heart through faith! We exercise our spirit, Lord Jesus, to see a revelation of the mystery concerning Christ and the church! Oh, what a privilege for us to know the hidden mystery which has been kept in silence in the times of the age but has now been revealed in the New Testament age! Hallelujah, Christ is the embodiment of God who became a life-giving Spirit coming into our spirit to be our life and everything so that we may be members of the Body of Christ! Praise the Lord, are the Body of Christ, the church, to express Christ in His fullness! Amen, Lord, keep us turning to our spirit today. May our daily life and living be governed and directed by the vision of God’s eternal economy concerning Christ and the church! Amen, Lord, may this mystery be revealed to us in spirit and may we live according to the revelation of this mystery! Praise the Lord for Christ and the church!

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 Ron Kangas in the message for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3377-3378, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2) (2024 December Training), week 21 (msg. 9), The Mystery of the Church.
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  – God has called us for His purpose, / His economy so glorious, / For which He was fully processed; / Consummated now is He! / As the Spirit, He indwells us; / As our God allotted portion, / Working out His full salvation, / Making us the same as He is. / Oh, may a clear, controlling vision of / The Lord’s economy direct my heart, / And burn in me until my spirit’s wholly set afire! / With spirit strong and active we’ll press on / To consummate God’s goal— / New Jerusalem, Hallelujah! (Song on, God has called us for His purpose, stanza 1 and chorus).