God is about to do the greatest move in the history of the universe, and for this, He needs a dispensational instrument; we need to be those who have a dispensational value before God to end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom.
This week is our last week in the current morning revival on the matter of living our Christian life and church life at the consummation of the age, with the Lord’s return in view.
The title for this week is, Having Dispensational value to God in the Last Days to Turn the Age.
We should strongly realize that we are in the last days; these are the days toward the consummation of the age, and the Lord’s return is imminent. We need to be those who do not merely live a normal or common Christian life but rather, realize that God wants to do a special work, so He needs a special kind of Christians.
God needs some who have dispensational value in His eyes, those who are one with Him to turn the age.
We need to pray that we would have dispensational value in the Lord’s sight, that is, those who are intrinsically in God’s age-turning move.
He wants to change the age from the age of the church to the age of the manifestation of the kingdom of the heavens, where His overcoming believers will reign and feast with Him for our wedding day for one thousand years.
The wedding day will be a thousand years, for to the Lord one day is like one thousand years; we are in the Lord’s recovery so that we may be prepared to be His overcoming bride to be one with Him, turn the age to the age of the kingdom, and reign and feast with Him for a thousand years.
Watchman Nee wrote, The Glorious Church, and in the appendix to this book entitled, The Overcomers and God’s Dispensational Moves, he mentions many principles of God’s work, our cooperation with Him, and the need to become the overcomers who have dispensational value in His eyes.
May we not let this go but pray this before the Lord; even as we see that the world around us is becoming worse and worse, the decline of the church is more obvious, and the love of many grows cold toward the Lord, may we be those who have dispensational value to God.
May we respond to the Lord in prayer to give Him the cooperation He needs in order for Him to carry out His heart’s desire to bring the age of the church to a close and bring in the age of the manifestation of the kingdom of heavens.
May we be those on earth who cooperate with God, for He waits for our cooperation, and without the cooperation from His church, His overcoming ones, He would not do this greatest work all by Himself.
Having Dispensational Value to God by Coming Forward to the Holy of Holies to be one with God to End this Age
God’s desire is to end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom, but for Him to accomplish such a desire, he must have a dispensational instrument, the group of men who agree with Him, are one with Him, pray this into being, and cooperate on earth with His desire.
This age is the age of grace, the age of the church; His desire is to end this age and bring in the age of the kingdom.
However, this age cannot end until the bride has made herself ready; when His wife is made ready, He will come with His overcomers to end the age.
On one hand, He comes from within us by glorifying us, and on the other hand, he comes from without; however, He will not come until we’re not ready to be His bride.
We all need to look to the Lord and pray that we will have dispensational value to God.
We need to ask ourselves what are we doing to close this dispensation and bring in the next age, the kingdom age. We live in a special time, so there’s the need of special believers to do a special work.
Mere common Christian work, though very much needed, is no longer up-to-standard to God; we need to have dispensational value to God and do a work to end this age, being one with the Lord in His desire.
We need to pray this to the Lord, asking Him to make us such believers, the constituents of His bride who will bring Him back and end this age.
We shouldn’t merely point the way to others and tell them about this but rather, we should come to the Holy of Holies, come forward with boldness to the Holy of Holies to be one with God (Heb. 10:22).
We need blood and water – blood to save us from the guilt of sin, and flowing living water to save us from the power of sin; we can come forward to the Holy of Holies, to God Himself!
The writer of Hebrews didn’t tell the believers to “go forward” but to “come forward”; he himself, Paul, was in that particular place, the Holy of Holies, and he wants us, the readers, to come forward to this same place.
We need to come forward to three things: come forward to the Holy of Holies, come forward to the throne of grace, and come forward to God Himself; we shouldn’t shrink back but rather, come forward (Heb. 4:16; 10:22; 7:25; 11:6).
If we shrink back, God’s soul doesn’t delight in us, but if we come forward, He delights in us, He reveals His heart to us, He makes us one with Him, and we will have dispensational value to God.
God is on the throne of grace, and the throne of grace is in the Holy of Holies; we need to come forward to the Holy of Holies in our spirit, the place where God dwells.
The Holy of Holies is in the heavens, and practically it is in our spirit, for Christ as the heavenly ladder joins the heavens to our spirit; we need to come forward to the throne of grace in our spirit day by day!
There are many things happening around us, from the corruption and immorality in the world to the problems in the church, from the ugly and evil politics to the family problems and the decline of the church; we need to come forward day by day to the throne of grace in our spirit, in the practical Holy of Holies.
Here, in the Holy of Holies, we receive grace and find mercy for timely help; here we can touch God, see the desire of God’s heart, be infused with God, and become one with God.
When we are in our spirit, one with the Lord, we have dispensational value to God, for we stand one with Him on earth, and we pray one with Him for the fulfilling of His heart’s desire.
If we are not in our spirit, we are not one with the Lord, and we can’t see God’s heart’s desire; when we turn to our spirit, when we come forward to the throne of grace, grace and mercy flow, and we are joined to the Lord practically.
Lord Jesus, we come forward to the throne of grace in our spirit, the real and practical Holy of Holies. Amen, Lord, we do not shrink back but rather, we come forward to You to be one with You. We look to You, Lord, that You may make us those who have dispensational value to God. Save us from being common Christians doing a common Christian work; make us special Christians who do a special work to match Your special move at the end of this age. Amen, Lord, by Your mercy make us these special believers, the constituents of Your bride who brings You back, ends this age, and brings in the age of the manifestation of the kingdom of the heavens! Amen, Lord, we come forward to the Holy of Holies, to the throne of grace, and to God Himself, so that we may be one with God for His move on earth today!
God’s Gaining of the Man-child is His Greatest Dispensational Move because it Ends the Church age and Introduces the Kingdom Age
In Rev. 12:5-10 we see the rapture of the man-child to heaven, the casting of Satan to earth, and the declaration in heaven that the kingdom of God has come; all these signify that God’s gaining of the man-child is His greatest dispensational move.
When the man-child is gained and raptured, God can carry out His greatest dispensational move – He can end the age of the church and introduce the age of the kingdom.
In Rev. 12 there is a vision of the great, celestial, bright woman, full of light; she signifies all God’s redeemed throughout the ages.
Satan is there as the great dragon; he started out in Genesis as a small serpent, and he has been eating and devouring so much that he has become a great dragon.
Satan as the great dragon is there to eat not the woman but the man-child who is about to be born of her; the woman signifies the totality of God’s people throughout the ages, and she is about to deliver this man-child.
The one new man was created through Christ’s death and in Christ’s resurrection – that’s a fact; however, in experience and actuality, the Lord is still bringing forth the new man, and in Rev. 12 we see the birth of the man-child – this is the one new man, fully perfected, fully realized.
When the man-child is brought forth, he is raptured to the heavens; the man-child is the stronger part of the woman, and he is raptured to the throne of God.
We want to live in the principle of the man-child today; we don’t want only to see the doctrine of it and expect for it to happen in the future but live in the principle of the man-child.
The rapture of the man-child to the throne of God will be before the one thousand two hundred and sixty days, which is the time of the great tribulation of three and a half years (forty-two months), as see in Rev. 12:1-14, 13:5, and 11:2.
Today we live in the most privileged time, for today we can do the most for God; we can have dispensational value to God to cooperate with Him for His ultimate move on earth.
God as light will show us the way, but the indwelling Christ as our strength and power will enable us to walk the road (Rev. 3:18).
May the Lord grant us His mercy and grace to have dispensational value to Him so that we may pay the price to be used by Him to end this age.
A price needs to be paid today to be saved from the condition of being lukewarm, thinking we know, we see, and we are rich. In His mercy, the Lord assesses us that we’re blind, poor, and naked, and we are self-deceived, so He counsels us to buy from Him gold, white garments, and eyesalve.
We need to pay the price to gain the Father in His divine nature so that we can truly be rich in the Lord’s eyes; every day we need to partake of the Father’s divine nature and walk according to this nature.
We need to pay the price to buy white garments to be clothed; Christ, God the Son, needs to be our lived-out subjective righteousness for us to be clothed with Him, as we put Him on.
We need to pay the price to pay the price to buy eyesalve to anoint the inner eyes of our heart to really see; we need to gain the anointing Spirit.
Day by day we need to pay the price to buy the oil and be the prudent virgins spoken of in Matt. 25; we need to be filled in spirit, but we also need to gain a portion of the Spirit in our soul by being transformed and saturated with the Spirit in our mind, emotion, and will daily.
Thank the Lord, the Lord is the Shepherd and Overseer of our souls (1 Pet. 2:25), and He is concerned for the condition of our soul, and the elders also take the lead to watch over our souls (Heb. 13:17).
How we thank the Lord for His shepherding care, for He Himself will bring us onward with Him, He will enable us to have dispensational value to Him, and He in us can cause us to live in the principle of the man-child to be one with God for His greatest dispensational move!
Hallelujah, we live in the most privileged time in which we can do the most for God! Amen, Lord, we come to You so that God as light may show us the way and the indwelling Christ as our strength and power would enable us to walk the road! Strengthen us, Lord, to pay the price to have dispensational value to God. We want to pay the price to gain more of the Triune God every day. We want to gain God in Christ as the sevenfold intensified Spirit; we want to be filled, saturated, and soaked with the Triune God so that we may be prepared to be His bride to bring Him back! Amen, Lord, thank You for Your shepherding and overseeing of our souls; we open to You, dear Lord, so that You may shepherd us onward with You and be one with You for Your greatest dispensational move!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by Ed Marks for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Watchman Nee, vol. 34, “The Glorious Church,” pp. 153-157 (Appendix), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Christian Life, the Church Life, the Consummation of the Age, and the Coming of the Lord (2020 fall ITERO), week 8, Having Dispensational Value to God in the Last Days to Turn the Age.
- Hymns on this topic:
– God is seeking some today to turn the age, / Some who’ve dispensational value gained; / He is calling us to be His Nazarites. / Oh, will you be one who fully pays the price? / And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb / And by the word of their testimony; / They loved not their soul life unto death; / They did not love their soul life / Unto death. (Song on, And they overcame him)
– God’s service in this dispensation / Requires that man should work with Him; / Thus God and man in close relation / And joint dependence work therein. (Hymns #740)
– Eating gives the manchild birth, / Eating brings the Lord to earth; / Eat Him now midst all the dearth— / Overcome! / Be the manchild Christ requires, / Thus the church that He desires, / Then the Bride that He admires— / Overcome! (Hymns #1273)
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