As the Corporate Seed of Abraham, we must Walk in the Steps of that Faith as our father

Christ is the seed of Abraham, the son of Abraham, and because we’re in Christ and Christ is in us, we believers in Christ are the corporate seed of Abraham enjoying the all-inclusive Christ as the life-giving Spirit as our portion and walking in the steps of our father Abraham! Amen!

This week we come to the last week on the HWMR on, God’s Economy in Faith, and the title for this week is, Walking in the Steps of that Faith of Our Father Abraham. Amen!

It is easy to read and mentally understand that God’s economy is in faith, but this includes and implies so much that it demands our prayerful consideration.

If we are not in the sphere, the element of faith, if we don’t live by faith or walk by faith, we can’t really have the reality of God’s economy, which is in faith.

We want to be those who have the reality of God’s economy in our living for the building up of the Body and the preparation of the bride of Christ to bring Him back.

We want to see what it means for us to walk in the steps of that faith of our Father Abraham.

First, we want to see a vision of what it means for Christ to be the seed of Abraham and how we as believers in Christ are the corporate seed of Abraham.

It needs to become the truth in our being, the vision that Abraham is our father and we are his spiritual descendants.

The divine light has to shine on us and cause the facts in the Bible to become real to us, even to be a vision in our being, so that a vision of these divine facts would be televised into our being.

May we look to the Lord that He would enlighten the eyes of our heart to see and bring us into the experience of being the spiritual descendants of Abraham and walking the same steps of that faith as our spiritual father Abraham.

Christ in Resurrection became the Transfigured Seed of Abraham to be the Spirit Dispensing Himself into us as the Blessing of Abraham

Christ is the Triune God-man (Col. 2:9) to be the seed of Abraham, the son or descendant of Abraham (Gen. 12:7; Matt. 1:1; Gal. 3:16).

As believers in Christ, we are in Christ and Christ is in us, and we are one with Christ and even of Christ to be the corporate seed of Abraham, the descendants of Abraham.

On one hand, Christ is the seed of Abraham as Gal. 3:16 says, for it clearly says that the seed is only one, Christ.

But on the other hand, because of being joined to Christ and even being in Christ, the believers in Christ become the corporate seed of Abraham.

In resurrection, Christ as the last Adam in the flesh became the life-giving Spirit; He was transfigured, pneumatized, to become the spirit of life to dispense Himself into us (1 Cor. 15:45; Rom. 8:2) for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ.

The resurrected Christ as the life-giving Spirit is the transfigured seed of Abraham; He is the transfigured descendant, son of Abraham, and He dispenses Himself as the Spirit into us to make us the sons of Abraham, the corporate seed of Abraham.

Now we as believers in Christ are those who can receive and inherit the consummated Spirit as the blessing of Abraham (Gal. 3:6-7, 14, 16, 29).

This is amazing! The Triune God has now become our all by being processed and consummated to become the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit, the transfigured descendent of Abraham!

The Spirit is the Son’s transfiguration coming to us to be our life, the full supply.

Amen, amazing fact, our spirit with the Spirit mingles and in oneness joins thereby.

The life-giving Spirit as the transfigured seed of Abraham, is dispensing Himself into us to make us sons of Abraham, the corporate seed of Abraham.

Now we are those who can receive and inherit the consummated Spirit as the blessing of Abraham.

This is wonderfully mysterious and so real to us in our experience, for Christ as the life-giving Spirit has come into us to make us the sons of Abraham according to the Spirit.

We are the heavenly sons of Abraham according to faith, and we have the right to receive and inherit the blessing of Abraham.

And together we constitute the corporate seed of Abraham, the unique seed of Abraham, who inherits the good land as the promised blessing.

The physical aspect of the blessing that God promised to Abraham was the good land (Gen. 12:7; 13:15; 17:8), which is a type of the all-inclusive Christ as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit. Amen!

Christ as the life-giving Spirit is the blessing of Abraham (Gal. 3:14), the reality of both the seed of Abraham and the good land promised to Abraham.

Our blessing today as believers in Christ and sons of Abraham, the corporate seed of Abraham, is God Himself, who is embodied in Christ and realized as the Spirit to be dispensed into us for our enjoyment.

As the seed of Abraham, the son of Abraham, Christ is qualified to inherit the blessing of Abraham, which is the good land, a type of the all-inclusive Christ.

Christ is everything – He is the promise to Abraham, the son of Abraham, and the good land and the blessing.

This requires a revelation; we need to be unveiled and shined on to see a revelation of God being embodied in Christ, and He as the last Adam is the seed of Abraham.

As such a One, Christ went through death and resurrection to become the life-giving Spirit, the transfigured Son of Abraham, to dispense Himself into our spirit and make us the sons of Abraham, the descendants of Abraham! Amen!

When we heard the gospel and received it, we received the greatest blessing, which is the Triune God – the Father, the Son, and the Spirit – as the processed, all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit dwelling in us in a most subjective way for our enjoyment.

Hallelujah, what a blessing it is for us to be able to enjoy such an all-inclusive One as our daily portion!

Thank You, dear Lord Jesus, for coming as the Triune God-man, the seed of Abraham, and being resurrected to become the life-giving Spirit, the transfigured seed of Abraham, to dispense Yourself into us! Hallelujah, Christ as the life-giving Spirit is dispensing Himself into us to make us the many sons of Abraham, the corporate seed of Abraham! Oh, what a blessing that we can enjoy such an all-inclusive One as our daily portion! Hallelujah, Christ as the life-giving spirit dispenses Himself into us to make us the corporate seed of Abraham, and He is the blessing of Abraham for us to enjoy and partake of! Praise the Lord for such a glorious gospel and a marvellous fact!

As the Corporate Seed of Abraham, we must Walk in the Steps of That faith of our Father Abraham

As believers in Christ, we are the corporate seed of Abraham, for the transfigured seed of Abraham dispensed Himself into us to make us the descendants of Abraham.

As the corporate seed of Abraham, we are repeating the history of Abraham, that is, we are learning to walk in the steps of our father Abraham (Rom. 4:12).

Abraham is the father of circumcision, which is the earthly descendants of Abraham; but he is the father of faith before he was circumcised, so he is also the father of those among the gentiles who believe.

When Abraham believed in God, his faith in God was accounted to him as righteousness; this was before he was circumcised.

Circumcision was evidence, a manifestation that he had believed in God for his justification, which was accounted to him as righteousness.

Abraham became the father of faith (Rom. 4:16; Gal. 3:7-9, 29), and he is also the father of us all who believe.

Genesis tells us that Abraham had two kinds of descendants – those likened to the dust of the earth (13:16) referring to the people of Israel, and the stars of the heavens (15:5) referring to the believers in Christ.

The earthly, physical descendants of Abraham are as the dust of the earth, and we, the New Testament believers in Christ, are as the stars of the heavens (22:17-18).

We are like stars of heaven – we are the real stars, not the “Hollywood stars” on which you can walk, but stars in the heavens, heavenly bodies, filled with Christ as the divine light.

And we are learning to live in ascension to be intensely living and intensely shining in this dark age.

As the father of all those called by God, Abraham was the first of a new race chosen by God. We are now part of a new race, a chosen race.

We were born into the fallen Adamic race, but we have been reborn into the called-out Abrahamic race.

Whoever is of faith, as Abraham was, is a member of this new race and a son of Abraham. This is remarkable.

We need to pray over this and ask the Lord to give us a real spirit of wisdom and revelation to see this.

Abraham’s living by faith is presently being repeated among us today; the Christian life and the church life today are the harvest of the life and history of Abraham (Heb. 11:8-19).

In Heb. 11 we see the faith people, the people who are part of the new race, the descendants of Abraham.

The world is not worthy of these faith people who are the constituents of the holy city, New Jerusalem.

And we are part of such a people, the descendants of Abraham, the faith people.

Like Abraham, we dwell as foreigners in this land, for our home is not here – we are looking for a city which has foundations, and we live and walk by faith.

And when we come together, we are faith people who are encouraged by the fellowship of the faith in one another.

We are learning to live by the divine life, which is the life-giving Spirit in our spirit, for Christ is the Spirit in us and with us.

When we are in trouble and when we feel low, He is the Man in the glory whose life is for us; He’s strong and in vigour, how buoyant is He!

Because of this buoyant One in us, we can boast that we are kept from falling. He is our top blessing.

He is in us with both His divinity and humanity, and He is constantly supplying us with all that He is.

Hallelujah, we can now walk in the same steps of that faith of our father Abraham because the consummated Spirit lives in us and supplies us with Himself as the unique blessing. Hallelujah!

Just like Abraham, we had the Lord’s appearing; He appeared to us, called us, and made us men of faith; now we can live and walk by faith, living in the same steps of our father Abraham.

Hallelujah, we believers in Christ are the corporate seed of Abraham repeating the history of Abraham as we live in faith and by faith! Amen, Lord, thank You for coming in us as the consummated Spirit to be the blessing, the all-inclusive supply for us to live the Christian life. We give ourselves to You, Lord, to walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham. May our Christian life and church life be the harvest of the life and history of Abraham. We want to repeat the same living by faith as Abraham did. Appear to us. Infuse us with Yourself as life and everything so that we may live and walk by faith!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991-1992, vol. 1, “The Central Line of the Divine Revelation,” chs. 8-9, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, God’s Economy in Faith (2022 spring ITERO), week 8, entitled, Walking in the Steps of that Faith of Our Father Abraham.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – The Spirit is the Son’s transfiguration / Come into us as life the full supply. / Amazing fact, our spirit with the Spirit / Now mingles and in oneness joins thereby! (Hymns #608)
  – There’s a Man in the glory / Whose Life is for me. / In Him is no sickness; / No weakness has He. / He’s strong and in vigor, / How buoyant is He! / His Life in the glory / My life may be; / His Life in the glory / My life may be. (Hymns #505)
  – ”Seed of Abraham,” Thou art, Lord, / By God’s promise Thou hast come, / That the blessing He hath promised / On all people thus might come. / Abraham Thou hast preceded, / For Thou art the great “I AM,” / Yet Thou cam’st to be his offspring / And become God’s promised “Lamb.” (Hymns #191)