The Recovery of the Church (2017 fall ITERO)

Based on the 2017 fall International Training for Elders and Responsible Ones in Leipzig, Germany, the Holy Word for Morning Revival on “The Recovery of the Church” is a rich exposition and diving into this much-needed topic.

What is in God’s heart is just the church – He planned it in eternity past, He gained it in time, He is building it throughout the ages, and He will obtain the built-up corporate expression, His bride.

We need to see, however, what was the original condition of the church, how the church was degraded, how the Lord recovers the church, what is the recovery of the church life, and what are the statuses of the church.

May we have the Lord’s heart’s desire infused into us that we may cooperate with Him for the building up of the church!

The portions below are the sharing of enjoyment based on the HWMR book, the word of God, the speaking of the brothers, and the ministry of the age. You can purchase the morning revival book via Living Stream Ministry (and epub here), amazon, google, and itunes, and you can purchase and download the messages via LSM webcast.

Enjoyment from the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Recovery of the Church

Week 1 – Seeing God’s Eternal Purpose concerning the Church and Enlightening All concerning the Economy of the Mystery Hidden in God

1. To Participate in the Recovery of the Church we need to See God’s Eternal Purpose
2. The Existence of the Church is according to the Eternal Purpose God made in Christ
3. God, Man, and the Existence of the Universe are for God’s Purpose to have the Church
4. We need to Enlighten all that they may See the Church as the Mystery Hidden in God
5. Seeing the Economy of the Mystery Hidden in God and daily Receiving God’s Dispensing
6. Preaching the Gospel concerning the Economy of the Mystery Hidden in God – the Church

Week 2 – The Original Condition of the Church, the Degradation of the Church, and the Recovery of the Church

1. The Recovery of the Church in Relation to God’s Intention and Satan’s Destruction
2. The Original Condition of the Church and the need for the Recovery of the Church
3. Seeing the Degradation of the Church from God’s Original Intention for the Church
4. The Lord’s Recovery of the Church has been Gradual and Progressive throughout History
5. Seeing the Crucial Points of the Lord’s Recovery of the Church in the Present Age
6. We need to See that the Lord’s Recovery is Different from Today’s Christianity

Week 3 – The Degradation of the Church— the Principle of Babylon and the Way to Overcome It

1. Seeing the Principle of Babylon and being Saved from Human Endeavor and Hypocrisy
2. Not Living Luxuriously but Considering ourselves as a Widow, the Wife of Christ
3. Not Denying the Lord’s Name but being Saved from Confusion, Scattering, and Mixture
4. God Calls His People to Come out of Babylon and Return to the Orthodoxy of the Church
5. Overcoming the Principle of Babylon by Taking Christ as our Burnt Offering Daily
6. Being a Continual Burnt Offering to be Reduced to Ashes and become the New Jerusalem!

Week 4 – The Recovery of the Church as God’s House and God’s City as Portrayed in Ezra and Nehemiah

1. Being Recovered to the Unique Ground of Oneness and the Enjoyment of Christ’s Riches
2. In the Recovery of the Church we Build the Church as the House of God and the Kingdom of God
3. We need to be Priestly Teachers Saturated with God and Skillful in the Word of God
4. Being Reconstituted by being Educated with the Heavenly Truths to be God’s Testimony
5. God’s Recovery of His Kingdom goes Together with His Recovery of His House
6. Being Properly Aggressive in the Lord’s Recovery for His Interests on Earth Today

Week 5 – The Recovery of the Church Life

1. Before the Lord Jesus Comes Back, He will Fully Recover the Proper Church Life
2. We all need to Take Christ as our Life and Person to Live the Church Life Today
3. Having a Genuine Experience of Christ and Being Transformed for the Church Life
4. The Church Life is a life of being Headed up in Christ, the Unique Head of the Body
5. The Church Life is Fellowship, and it is the Continuation of the Divine Glorification
6. Living the Church Life by the spirit of the mind to be the Corporate Expression of Christ

Week 6 – Jehovah’s Commanded Blessing of Life on Brothers Who Dwell Together in Oneness

1. Standing on the Unique Ground of God’s Choice to be the Testimony of God in Oneness
2. Saints’ Dwelling in Oneness is like Inestimable Goodness and Incalculable Pleasantness
3. Our Oneness is the Anointing of the Spirit which Mingles us with the Triune God
4. Receiving the Supply of the Spirit by Being in the Body in Fellowship with the Saints
5. In the Church Life our Christian Living is the Living of Grace, the Experience of Grace
6. Reaching the Highest Peak to be the Overcomers of Today who Bless Everyone from Zion

Week 7 – The Status of the Church—the Body of Christ

1. The Church is the Body of Christ, the Fulness of Christ the Head to be His Expression
2. The Reality of the Body of Christ is the Spirit of the Reality of the Triune God
3. The Church as the Body of Christ is the Corporate Christ, the Body-Christ
4. Practicing the Scriptural Way to Meet and Serve to Build up the Church Practically
5. Rejecting any Traditional Way and taking the Scriptural Way to Meet by Living in Spirit
6. The Lord Desires to Recover the Organic Building up of the Body of Christ

Week 8 – The Status of the Church—the New Man

1. The Church, the Body of Christ, is the One New Man to Accomplish God’s Eternal Purpose
2. The One New Man was Created in Christ to Bear His Image, and the New Man is Christ!
3. God’s Economy is to Work Christ into us; the New Man is Christ Spreading and being Enlarged
4. Taking Christ as our Life and Person so that Christ is All and in All in the New Man
5. Today is the day to have a New Man Constituted of All the Local Churches on earth
6. The Goal of the Lord’s Recovery is to Bring Forth the One New Man to End this Age

Week 9 – The Status of the Church—the Counterpart of Christ

1. Loving the Lord and being Washed by His Living Word to be the Counterpart of Christ
2. God Desires to have Christ and the Church for His Expression and Dominion on Earth
3. Only what Comes out of Christ can be the Church to Match Christ as His Counterpart
4. Christ’s Death and Resurrection Produced and Built up the Church as His Counterpart
5. The Church is Built with Resurrection Life and Washed by the Word to be the Bride
6. The Church will Match Christ as Bone of His Bones for their Eternal Married Life

To prepare for our prophesy for the building up of the Body of Christ, we need to contact the Lord and get into His word. A helpful website with prophesying reference and the main points for each of the weeks is ChurchInfo – Prophesying Reference, and in particular for this week you can check out the articles for week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5, week 6, week 7, week 8, and week 9.