The Corporate Bride, the New Jerusalem, Will Fulfil the Purpose of God for Eternity

God will obtain what He is after: the corporate bride – the New Jerusalem – will fully fulfil God’s purpose to express and represent God; today we need to love the Lord and experience His flowing, transforming, and building life to be prepared as the bride to bring Christ back!

Amen, Lord Jesus, we love You! It is truly amazing to see how Genesis 1 and 2 show us God’s architectural plan, His blueprint, for the fulfilment of His purpose, and how Revelation 21-22 show us a photograph of the fulfilled purpose of God!

Today we are between Genesis 1-2 and Revelation 21-22; we are in the process of becoming the bride of Christ to fulfil His eternal purpose.

God desires to gain a building, which is actually the bride of Christ. Throughout the centuries, God wanted to gain a counterpart for Himself.

We may think that He may do this or that to gain a counterpart, but what Genesis 2 shows us is, first, that it is not good for God to be alone, and second, that the woman was built out of man.

God doesn’t create the church; the church comes out of Christ and is built out of the element of Christ to come back to Christ and match Christ to be His counterpart.

This is what we see in the blueprint at the beginning of the Bible and this is what the Lord is also doing as He fulfils His purpose throughout the ages.

The Lord wants to gain a product out of Himself, the church as the Body of Christ. We, believers in Christ, have been regenerated by God with His life and nature to be the children of God and the members of the Body of Christ.

Now we are eating Christ, drinking Christ, and being constituted with Christ so that we may be transformed into His image and be built up together to be His Body, the bride of Christ.

May we learn to exercise our spirit day by day to reject our natural life, deny the self, and live byChrist, even to live Christ in our daily life.

Furthermore, we need to be built up together with the saints into the Body of Christ so that God would gain His building, the church today being prepared as the bride of Christ to be His counterpart for eternity.

May we open to the Lord day by day, be honest with Him, and allow Him to build Himself into us and build us into Himself so that we may become the same as Christ in life, nature, expression, and function for Him to gain us as His counterpart, the bride of Christ!

The Corporate Bride, the New Jerusalem, Will Fulfil the Purpose of God for Eternity

God desires to gain a counterpart for Himself, so He created man in His own image and according to His likeness, and then He Himself became a man to redeem man.

Furthermore, God was incarnated, lived a perfect human life, died an all-inclusive death on the cross, and resurrected to become a life-giving Spirit so that He may regenerate many believers to be part of the church, the bride of Christ.

Now the Holy Spirit is continually working in us and throughout the centuries so that He may gain the bride of Christ.

In Revelation chapters two and three in particular, we see how the Spirit is speaking to the churches to call the overcomers. By the continual working of the Holy Spirit through all the centuries, the goal of God will be attained at the end of this age.

At the end of this age, the age of the church, God will gain the bride, the overcoming believers; when the overcoming believers will be ready, the kingdom of God will come (Matt. 26:29; 13:43). Hallelujah!

There will be a great cry as seen in Revelation 19:7-9, declaring to the whole universe that it’s time to rejoice and result and give the glory to God, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His wife has made herself ready!

The wife here is not the totality of all the believers in Christ who have been redeemed and regenerated by God; the wife here is the bride of Christ, composed of all the overcoming believers.

God is working throughout the ages to gain a bride, the church, through Christ’s redemption and His divine life.

Today we are the church, the wife of Christ (Eph. 5:24-25, 31-32), but we aspire to be the bride of Christ, the overcoming believers who will join the Lord at the wedding feast at His coming. Amen!

After one thousand years of feasting with the Lord and reigning with Him, enjoying the freshness of the New Jerusalem, the age of eternity will come, and at that time, all believers in Christ will have become overcoming believers!

The New Jerusalem is a living composition and a building of God and man, the processed and consummated Triune God with the redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite man.

The corporate bride, the New Jerusalem, will fulfill the two aspects of the purpose of God in creating man, as seen in Genesis 1:26.

On the one hand, the New Jerusalem will be the full expression of God in God’s image for His glory (Rev. 21:11; cf. 4:3). The New Jerusalem bears the glory of God to express God in His glory.

We will become the corporate bride of Christ, the New Jerusalem, for God’s corporate and eternal expression! Today we are learning to turn to our spirit, exercise to touch the Lord, and let Him live in us for His expression.

But one day this expression will be in full, for together we will be the corporate bride, the New Jerusalem, for the full expression of God in God’s full image for His glory! Praise the Lord!

On the other hand, the New Jerusalem will subdue the enemy, conquer the earth, and exercise God’s authority with His dominion over the entire universe (Gen. 1:26; Rev. 22:5; cf. 20:10, 14-15).

Praise the Lord, God will gain His corporate expression and representation in the New Jerusalem!

He will have a way to rule and reign with His dominion through the corporate bride, the New Jerusalem, for eternity!

The New Jerusalem will be composed of the kings of God, the overcoming believers who will rule and reign with Christ for eternity.

Today, we as the church can have a foretaste of the New Jerusalem, and one day we will be consummated to become the New Jerusalem for God’s corporate expression and representation in this universe.

As we allow the Lord to rule and reign in us today, as grace reigns in us, we will reign in life, and one day we will reign with Him as co-kings over the whole universe.

How much we aspire to be the bride of Christ today, the overcoming believers who love the Lord, live in a love relationship with Him, and are one with Him in all the things of our daily living!

How much we want to be produced as the overcoming saints who are qualified and prepared to enter the wedding feast of the Lamb when the Lord returns so that we may feast with Him and rule with Him for one thousand years!

And how much we are looking forward to that New Jerusalem, which we are becoming, to express God in His glory and represent Him with His authority, being fully united, mingled, and incorporated with God as His corporate bride!

Lord Jesus, grow in us today for the building up of the church! Advance a little more in our being day by day. Transform us into Your image. Build us up with the saints. Amen, Lord, build Yourself into us and build us into the Triune God. We give ourselves to You today to cooperate with You for the building up of the church so that You may gain Your bride. Amen, Lord, we aspire to be Your overcoming believers in this age. We cannot overcome in ourselves or by ourselves, but we give ourselves to You and we allow You to overcome in us and through us. Make us the overcoming believers who will be part of the bride of Christ in the coming age. Amen, Lord, we want to enter the wedding feast in the next age so that we may rule and reign with You! Hallelujah, we are becoming the New Jerusalem, the corporate bride, to fulfil God’s purpose in creating man! Praise the Lord, we will express God in full in His glory and we will represent God with His authority in and as the New Jerusalem! Praise the Lord!

Experience the Flowing Life, the Transforming Life, and the Building Life to be Prepared and Built as the Bride of Christ

On the one hand, we believers in Christ have a deep aspiration and desire to be one with Christ and do everything in Him and with Him so that we may be the overcoming believers in this age who will bring Him back.

On the other hand, it is not our effort or work that will cause us to be overcoming saints; it is the Lord’s life in us that produces us as His overcoming believers.

What we see both in Genesis 1 and 2 and in Revelation 21 and 22 is the life of God; both at the beginning and at the end of the Bible, it is God’s life that accomplishes everything.

In Genesis 1 and 2, we see God as life being put before man as a choice: man can eat the tree of life and live because of this life. Furthermore, we see the flowing life of God, for there’s a river flowing.

This flowing life is also a transforming life, for in the flow of the river, we see precious materials. Eventually, this flowing life and transforming life is the building life, for this life’s flow will produce the building of God, the New Jerusalem.

We believers in Christ have been reached by the flowing life of God, and we have received this life in our spirit at the time of our regeneration; we are born of God, we are children of God, and we can see and be in the kingdom of God (John 1:12-13; 3:3, 6).

Now we need to allow the divine life to flow in us, even flow into our mind, emotion, and will, so that our entire inner being would be filled and swallowed up by the divine life.

We do this by setting our mind on the spirit (Rom. 8:6) and by doing all things in the spirit, even walking in the spirit (vv. 10-11). If we simply exercise our spirit and pay attention to our spirit, the divine life in us will flow and transform us.

Something wonderful happens in our being when we open to the Lord and enjoy Him: we enjoy the flowing divine life, and this life causes us to be transformed.

The flow of the divine life in us removes the negative, natural elements and causes the divine elements and all that God is to be dispensed and deposited into us.

This is a process of being metabolically changed; we are changed in our very nature and disposition.

Slowly and surely, throughout our Christian life, the Lord is working Himself into our being through the flow of His divine life to transform us and to build us up.

The divine life flows within us, transforms us, and eventually builds us up as the bride of Christ.

It is not our efforts or our struggles that will cause us to become the Lord’s overcomers. It is not our perfecting ourselves or being a little better that will produce us as God’s overcoming believers.

It is only the divine life within us flowing in us, transforming us, and building us up that will produce us as the bride of Christ, even the corporate bride, the New Jerusalem.

God’s purpose will be fully fulfilled in and through the New Jerusalem, for the New Jerusalem as the corporate bride will express God in His image and will represent Him with His authority.

If we only remain in the daily experience of the flowing life, transforming life (2 Cor. 3:18; Rom. 12:2), and building life of God, we will be produced as the overcoming believers who are the bride of Christ to bring the Lord back.

May we all be brought into the experience and enjoyment of this flowing, transforming, and building life to be prepared as the bride that will bring the Lord back!

May we remain in a love relationship with the Lord to receive His life, be transformed by His life, and be built up by His life, for us to become one with God and even become the same as He is!

Lord Jesus, we love You and we want to remain in a loving relationship with You so that we may receive Your life and be transformed! Amen, Lord, flow in us as life. Transform us by Your flowing. Change us metabolically into Your image so that we may become the same as You are. Flow in us, Lord, and build us up so that we may be part of the bride of Christ, the corporate bride that will bring the Lord back! Hallelujah, God’s life in us is flowing, transforming, and building! May we all be brought into the enjoyment and experience of this flowing, transforming, and building life to be prepared as the bride that will bring the Lord back! Amen, Lord, we give up our efforts, our struggling, and our striving, and we just open to Your flowing life! Flow in us! Transform us by Your life! Build us up by Your flowing life. Produce us as Your overcoming believers by Your flowing, transforming, and building life! We love You, Lord Jesus!

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 brother Ricky Acosta in this conference, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1969, vol. 2, “The Crucial Revelation of Life in the Scriptures,” ch. 2, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Preparation of the Bride (2025 Memorial Day Blending Conference), week 2, The Building of the Bride – day 2.
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