Christ’s life and our individual Christian life issues in a totality, which is the church life as the corporate meal offering; the meal offering is a type of blending to bring us into the reality of the Body of Christ.
On one hand, Christ is the meal offering, and the humanity of Christ mingled with the Holy Spirit is what satisfies God and man.
On the other hand, when we eat Christ as the meal offering, we become a corporate meal offering for the feeding and satisfaction of God and man.
How can we become a meal offering? We need to eat Christ as the meal offering and live because of Him.
We need to eat His humanity in His word, and we will be constituted with Him to become the same as He is, even in our living.
The human living of Jesus can be duplicated in us as we eat the Lord’s humanity and human living by pray-reading the word of God.
All that God is and has is embodied and expressed in Christ, and all that Christ is and has is realized in the Spirit.
The Spirit today is not only joined to our spirit in a mysterious way but is also embodied in the word of God.
When we come to the word of God with the exercise of our spirit, the Spirit consolidated in the Word of God is infused into us, and the human life of Jesus becomes our constituted into our being.
We are what we eat, and what we eat constitutes us.
What we eat becomes part of our being and motivates us to live a certain way.
The human life and living of Jesus is our food to constitute us and become our experience.
He fulfilled all righteousness and was lowly in heart; when we eat Jesus in His word, we will also fulfil all righteousness and be lowly in heart.
He loved the weak ones and served others; when eat the humanity of Jesus, we will love the weak ones and we will serve others also.
The humanity of Jesus is orderly and unique; when we eat Jesus in His word, we will also be orderly and unique, not because we try to but because He in us lives in this way.
The humanity of Jesus is humble and knows when to eat; when we eat the Lord in His word, we will be humble by nature and we will know how to weep.
Our Christian life becomes a duplication and continuation of Christ’s God-man living when we eat Him, digest Him, assimilate Him, and live because of Him.
Even as Christ took the Father as His source and life supply, and thereby lived because of the Father, so we need to take Christ into us and eat Him, partake of Him, and be constituted with Him so that we may live because of Him, even live Him out.
Christ’s Life and our Christian Life issue in the Church Life as a Corporate Meal Offering
Christ’s life and our individual Christian life issue in a totality – the church life as a corporate meal offering (Lev. 2:1-2, 4-5; 1 Cor. 10:17; 12:12, 24-25).
The church life is a corporate meal offering.
Such a life is a life of humanity mingled with the Holy Spirit and that has the Holy Spirit poured upon it, a life with salt and frankincense but with no leaven and honey.
In Lev. 2 we see that the meal offering is not just in one form but in different forms – it can be in the form of flour mingled with oil or in the form of a cake.
The flour meal offering signifies the individual Christ, and it also signifies the individual Christian.
As individual Christians, we need to eat Christ as the meal offering, and we ourselves will become a meal offering to God and man.
The cake meal offering signifies the corporate Christ, that is, Christ with His Body, the church.
The individual Christ is our meal offering; when we eat Him, we live because of Him, and we become His reproduction and expression to be a meal offering.
The individual Christ has become the corporate Christ (1 Cor. 12:12). We who are many are one Body, for we all partake of the one bread (10:17).
This one bread is the “cake” meal offering, and it is for man’s supply and God’s satisfaction.
When we all live because of Christ and our daily living is the living of Christ, we express Christ and we become a corporate meal offering for God to partake of and be satisfied and for man to be supplied.
Today Christ lives in us, in each one of us; He doesn’t live in us in an individual way but in a corporate way as the Body of Christ.
To have a cake meal offering, the church life as a corporate meal offering, we need fine flour mingled with oil to produce the dough.
Then this dough is baked in an oven and becomes a cake; this cake is a symbol of the church life.
This means that we need to be oiled with the Spirit, mingled with the Holy Spirit, and we need to experience the crucified Christ so that His resurrection life may be manifested in us.
Furthermore, there cannot be any natural or evil things in us – we need to be with salt and with no leaven or honey.
As we live in such a way, as we live a life mingled with the Spirit, being crucified with Christ, and in resurrection, with no natural affection or goodness, we together become the church life, a corporate meal offering.
For the church life today we need to be “oiled persons”, those who are mingled with the Holy Spirit.
Furthermore, for the church life we should have no leaven or honey, but we should have salt and frankincense.
This means that we cannot have any natural affection or goodness, and all evil things need to be removed.
Also, we need to have the cross applied to us and we need to have the fragrance of Christ’s resurrection.
All this will cause us to be very normal – just normal human beings, God-men living a normal God-man life.
We are not called to live a peculiar life, a life that lacks in humanity; rather, the church life needs to be full of humanity, but a humanity that is of Jesus and is mingled with the Spirit.
May we daily be dependent on the Spirit, being mingled with the Spirit and having Him poured upon us outwardly.
Also, may we live a life through the cross and in resurrection, and may we put away any natural life and affection.
When the Lord obtains such a corporate living, He is satisfied, and a portion of this is for man to also enjoy and be satisfied. This is the church life.
The corporate meal offering is our daily supply; this life is not merely Christ but Christ with the church life.
We feed not only on Christ but also on the church life, for the saints living Christ are our food, supply, and encouragement.
Amen, may the Lord gain in all the local churches a meal-offering church life, a life that satisfies God and feeds us!
May the Lord be satisfied first with our living of Christ, through the cross and in resurrection, being mingled with the Spirit, and may others eat and be supplied when they see our living of Christ!
Lord Jesus, may our individual Christian life and Christ’s life in us issue in a totality – the church life as a corporate meal offering! Amen, Lord, may our daily life be one of humanity mingled with the Holy Spirit. May our living be that of humanity having the Holy Spirit poured upon it. Give us the experiences we need, Lord, for us to live a crucified life filled with the aroma of resurrection. May there be no natural affection or evil thing in us; may the cross deal with all the negative matters and may our living be through the cross and by the Spirit! Amen, Lord Jesus, gain the corporate meal offering today in the church life so that God may be satisfied and man may be supplied! May You gain your satisfaction and nourishment, and man may be supplied by the meal offering church life!
The Meal Offering is a Type of Blending to Bring us into the Reality of the Body of Christ
The meal offering is a type of blending to bring us into the reality of the Body of Christ for the fulfilment of God’s economy.
In 1 Cor. 10:17 Paul said, Seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one Body, for we all partake of the one bread.
The one bread is Christ, and we partake of this bread to become one bread, one loaf, for the satisfaction of God and man.
Paul’s thought of the church being one bread was taken from the Old Testament – from Lev. 2:4.
In this portion the meal offering consists of cakes made of fine flour mingled with oil.
Fine flour, a type of the humanity of Christ, was mingled with the oil, a type of the Holy Spirit. This is blending.
When the flour is mixed with the oil, the flour is mingled and blended with the oil and it becomes one lump, which is baked to be the one bread.
The reality of the Body of Christ realized through our being blended together, as typified by the meal offering, is the corporate living by the perfected God-men.
The God-men are those who are genuinely men but they don’t live by their life; they live by the life of the processed God.
His attributes are being expressed through their human virtues (Gal. 2:20; Phil. 3:10; 1:19-21).
They exercise their spirit and are perfected and matured, for they reject the self and live by the life of Christ.
We are the God-men, the believers in Christ who do not live by ourselves or in ourselves but are being perfected to live in spirit.
To be perfected is to be matured by continually exercising our spirit to reject the self and live by another life; this another life is Christ as the life of God.
When we live by the life of God through the exercise of our spirit, we are in the reality of the Body of Christ, and this is the meal offering.
It is God who has blended the Body together (1 Cor. 12:24).
In Greek the word for blending implies the losing of distinctions.
Just as the fine flour is blended with the oil to become a lump for the meal offering, we also need to be blended together to lose our distinctions and be harmonized, adjusted, mingled, and tempered.
How can we be blended? The way for us to be blended in the Body life, we need to go through the cross and do everything by the Spirit, dispensing Christ to one another for the building up of the Body of Christ.
In order for us to be blended in the meal-offering church life, we have to do everything by the Spirit and through the cross, and we need to minister Christ to one another for the building up of the Body.
This means that we need to fellowship, for when we fellowship, we are blended, harmonized, tempered, and mingled.
When we fellowship with the Lord and with the saints in a proper way, we lose our distinctions and are saved from leaving the impress of our personality upon the church life and work (Col. 3:10-11).
As we are blended together through much and thorough fellowship, Christ can truly be all and in all.
May we all learn to fellowship. May we learn to not do anything without first fellowshipping with the other saints who are coordinating with us.
To fellowship doesn’t mean only to check with them what is their feeling, but to stop ourselves when we’re about to do something and check with another member of the Body.
As we are learning to coordinate in the church life and in the Lord’s work, we all have to do all things in fellowship and do nothing without fellowship.
The meal offering church life can come into being when we all are being blended together, that is, when we always stop to fellowship with others.
Lord Jesus, we want to experience the blending so that we may be brought into the reality of the Body of Christ for the fulfilment of God’s economy. Hallelujah, seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one Body, for we all partake of the one bread! Mingle Yourself with us and mingle us with Yourself. Blend us with God and blend us with one another. May You gain the reality of the Body of Christ through our being blended together! Gain the corporate living by the perfected God-men, those who are genuine men but are not living by their life but by the life of God in their spirit! Amen, Lord Jesus, we want to be perfected by continually exercising our spirit to reject the self and live by the divine life! Amen, Lord, gain this among us today!
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 the brothers in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Leviticus, pp. 140-142, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Knowing, Experiencing, and Living the All-inclusive Christ for the Genuine Church Life (2023 spring ITERO), week 2, entitled, Enjoying Christ as the Reality of the Meal Offering to Have a Meal-offering Christian Life and a Meal-offering Church Life, Consummating in the New Jerusalem as a Great Meal Offering—the Ultimate Consummation of the Mingling of the Triune God with the Tripartite Man.
- Similar reading on this topic:
– Eating Christ as the Meal Offering to Become the Reproduction of Christ for the Fulfillment of God’s Purpose, a portion via, Church in Kobe.
– The need of the blending for the building up of the Body of Christ, a portion from, Practical Points Concerning Blending, Chapter 2, by Witness Lee.
– The Reality of the Body of Christ – Blending for the Reality of the Body of Christ, outline via, Church in Regina.
– Paul’s heavenly vision, article by Ed Marks in, Affirmation and Critique.
– Christ Becomes a Rich Supply to us for Our Growth unto New Jerusalem (2), article at, New Jerusalem blog.
– Shepherding materials – the blending of the Body of Christ. - Hymns on this topic:
– We must eat Jesus till God can / Have the fulfillment of His plan— / One man expressed for all to see, / One church in each locality. / We’ll masticate Jesus! / We’ll masticate Jesus! / Then to the tent of meeting bring / Jesus, our real meal offering. (Hymns #1146 stanza 3)
– God with man completely blended, / Mystery of godliness. / God in glory, full, resplendent, / Man, His dwelling, doth express. / ’Tis a vessel universal / All God’s fulness to express; / All His beauty manifesting, / Mingled with His holiness. (Hymns #976, stanza 2)
– As from out the buried kernel / Many grains are formed, / As the grains together blended / To a loaf are formed; / So the Church, of many Christians, / Christ doth multiply, / Him expressing as one Body, / God to glorify. (Hymns #819 stanzas 3-4)
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We should be fully dependent on the Holy Spirit, being oiled with Him inwardly and having Him poured upon us outwardly. If we are such persons, we will be full of the Spirit. We will be centered on the Spirit and possessed by the Spirit. We will also live a life that is through salt and in frankincense, that is, a life that is through the death of Christ and in His recovery. The salt will deal with the leaven, with the germs of sin; the salt will also deal with the honey, putting the natural life to death. This is the way to have a meal-offering church life. The meal-offering church life can be burned to produce a satisfying fragrance for God, and the remainder of this offering will be our food. This means that we will eat our church life, for the church life will be our daily supply. Thus, the meal offering which is our daily supply is not merely Christ but Christ with the church life. Now we are feeding on Christ, and we are also feeding on the church life. We eat the meal offering not only in the first form as flour— the individual Christ; we also eat the meal offering in the second form as a cake—the corporate Christ, the church. I believe that in the coming days in all the churches we will see a meal-offering church life, a life that first satisfies God and then feeds us. Life-study of Leviticus, pp. 140-142, by Witness Lee
Christ’s life and our individual Christian life issue in a totality – the church life as a corporate meal offering.
Such a life is a life fully mingled with the Holy Spirit and has the Holy Spirit poured upon it, a life with salt and frankincense, but with no leaven and honey.
When we have such a life, the church life becomes a corporate meal offering for our satisfaction and God’s satisfaction.
Ameen!!!
Life has a totality in the church life today and consumately in the New Jerusalem in eternity!!!
Ameeen!!! Not only that we enjoy the individual Christ as the meal offering but we also can enjoy and eat our church life as the enlarged corporate meal offering.
Hallelujah we all can partake of the One Bread!!!
Amen Lord! Gain the meal-offering church life with us in Your recovery church today!
Dear brother isn’t it wonderful that as we eat Christ as the individual meal offering, we become a cake meal offering!
The corporate Christ. Hallelujah this is the church life.
Now we not only enjoy Christ alone but we are enjoying the corporate Christ as a cake. We enjoy the church life.
The meal offering in Leviticus 2 can take two forms – the flour meal offering which typifies the individual Christ and the individual believer – and the corporate meal offering a “cake” – Christ and the Church, His Body.
This is the “one bread” spoken of by the apostle Paul.
Both the individual Christ, and the individual Christian life, through the mingling of divinity and humanity – through the cross and by the Spirit, issue in a totality – the church life – the reality of which is the blended Body of Christ, the corporate meal offering.
Amen, yes, Lord, we agree.may we have such a church life one that is mingled with the Holy Spirit, and a life that’s through the cross and in resurrection.
A life that is through salt and frankincense dealing with the leaven,with the germs of sin and putting the natural life to death.
Amen Lord do this amongst us in this age 🙏🏽
Amen! Our humanity must never be separated from the Holy Spirit, brother.
We need to live like humans and not angels — but not with a humanity that’s independent of the Holy Spirit.
We should be fully centred on and possessed by the Spirit, being “oiled” with Him inwardly and having Him poured upon us outwardly.
In this way, our church life will have much salt (the death of Christ) and be full of resurrection with no leaven & honey.
This is the way to have a meal-offering church life that satisfies God and feeds us.
1 Cor. 12:12
For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.
1 Cor. 10:17
Seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one Body; for we all partake of the one bread.
Praise the Lord! 😃 🙋🏽
The two forms of the meal offerings are:
1) flour mingled with oil which is humanity mingled with divinity is the same as feeding on the individual Christ by which the meal- offering Christian life.
2) the Cake meal offering is the corporate Christ who is Christ with His body – the church.
Here we are many but one because of the bread we share. This is Christ’s life and our individual Christian life become a totality, and this totality is the the church life.
Praise the lord.