Minister the Riches of Christ as Spiritual Food and Speak the Same Thing in One Accord

As good ministers of Christ Jesus, we need to minister the riches of Christ as spiritual food to others so that they may be nourished and grow in life, and we need to speak the same thing with one accord and with one mouth, speaking the economy of God which is in faith. Amen!

We believers in Christ are not only those who received the Lord into them and now live a life by faith; we are also those who minister something of the Lord to others.

On one hand, we have Christ in us as our life; on the other hand, Christ in us wants to speak, flow out, and be manifested.

Especially in these last days, in the age of the degradation of the church, as we see that truth is being trampled underfoot and no one speaks for the Lord, we need to all the more get into the word of God, be filled with the word, and speak the word.

The word of God is our food, our nourishment, and our supply; also, the word of God is becoming our inner constitution, for the truth in God’s word is living and operative, working in us and constituting us with what God is.

Paul encouraged Timothy to be a good minister of Christ Jesus who is nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which he closely followed, and to lay these things before the brothers.

We have “these things”, the contents of God’s eternal economy.

These things need to be our enjoyment and experience day by day.

When we daily experience and enjoy the Lord, fellowship with Him and abide in His word, we have something to lay before the saints.

Christ is our Savior, our life, our life supply, and the reality of all the positive things; we enjoy Him, partake of Him, experience Him, and digest and assimilate Him, and there’s an overflow to others also.

When we meet unbelievers, there’s a love toward them, and the Lord flows out as the gospel to them, according to the need.

When we meet fellow Christians. the Lord flows out of our inner being as living water and as spiritual food to nourish them.

May we be those who not only eat and drink the Lord but also flow Him out to others.

We are not called to outwardly teach by giving others doctrines and teachings from the Bible; we are called to minister Christ to others.

We are like servers in a restaurant or stewards on a plane; we have the food, the people are hungry, and we exercise to speak something of Christ to them.

On our side, we first are nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which we closely follow.

Then, as we are filled with the Lord in His word, there is an overflow, something that flows out of us toward them, so that they would also enjoy Christ and be nourished with His word.

Minister the Riches of Christ as Spiritual Food to Others for them to be Nourished and Grow in Life

There’s a portion in Ezekiel where God tells him to take the scroll and eat it, and then go and speak to the people (Ezek. 3:1-4).

This is our experience in our Christian life. God doesn’t send us to others empty-handed or hungry; He first wants to give us something to eat, and then we speak to others.

We need to minister the riches of Christ as spiritual food to others so that they may be nourished and grow in life (Heb. 5:12-14; 1 Cor. 2:2; 1 Pet. 2:2).

To do this, we first need to be nourished with the word of God, tasting the Lord in His word and taking in the word by means of all prayer, petition, and thanksgiving, so that the word of God becomes our constitution.

The Word of God is our spiritual milk and our solid food.

As we eat the Lord in His word and drink the milk of the word, we grow in life and are able to flow out something of Christ to others also.

We daily need to eat the words of the good teaching and the healthy word in the Bible so that we may grow, be edified, and be strengthened in our Christian life.

The good teaching that we closely follow is something that nourishes us and causes us to grow in life.

The words of the good teaching are the sweet words that contain and convey the riches of Christ, and as we take in the Lord’s words by means of all prayer, we are nourished, edified, and strengthened.

May we daily come to the Lord and “eat the scroll” by eating the Lord’s words, and may we “go and speak” to others by ministering Christ to them!

As we enjoy the riches of Christ, we will be able to minister the riches of Christ as spiritual food to others.

The word of God is likened to milk and solid food, which are for our nourishment.

Just as we physically need to drink milk and eat solid food, so we spiritually need to drink the guileless milk of the word so that by it we may grow unto salvation.

As we eat the healthy food in God’s word, we will be able to also minister the riches of Christ as spiritual food to others.

Just as we spiritually grow by eating the food in God’s word, so others will grow spiritually when we minister something of the riches of Christ as spiritual food into them.

The words of the faith are the words of the full gospel concerning God’s New Testament economy.

The New Testament reveals the eternal economy of God, and we as believers in Christ can read, study, and enjoy this divine revelation.

May we abide in the word of God and be filled with the word.

May we allow the Word to dwell in us richly and be nourished with God as we eat the Word.

May we have the experience of eating the Lord in His word to be nourished with the words of the faith, and may we minister the riches of Christ as spiritual food to others.

If we don’t know how to feed ourselves properly, we will not be able to feed others with the healthy food they need for them to grow in life.

Through our experience of eating the Lord in His word and partaking of His riches, we can also minister something of Christ to others for their enjoyment and growth in life.

Amen, may we give ourselves to enjoy the Lord, grow in life, and be richly supplied with the word of God so that we may be filled with something of Christ to minister to others for their growth in life!

Lord Jesus, we want to be nourished with the good teaching in the word of God so that we may grow in life and be inwardly strengthened. Keep us coming to You in Your word day by day to eat You and drink You. Your word is our food and drink. We want to taste that the Lord is good in the word, and we want to drink the guileless milk of the word so that by it we may grow unto salvation. Amen, Lord, feed us with the spiritual food in Your word. We want to partake of the word of righteousness so that we may grow unto maturity. May we daily enjoy Christ and partake of His riches so that we may be able to minister the riches of Christ to others for their edification and growth in life. Amen, Lord, may the words of the full gospel concerning God’s New Testament economy become our nourishment and constitution! May we be filled with the words of the good teaching, the sweet words that contain and convey the riches of Christ to nourish, edify, and strengthen us!

Good Ministers of Christ Speak the Same Thing with One Accord and with One Mouth

In Christianity there are so many kinds of speaking; there are many teachings, many doctrines being emphasized, and many things that are taught in a way to divide this group from that group.

We believers in Christ need to realize that we’re members of the one Body of Christ, and we should aspire to speak the same thing (1 Cor. 1:10) with one accord and with one mouth (Rom. 15:6).

This is what the good ministers of Christ do.

They do not bring in different teachings nor do they teach according to what they like and understand in God’s word; rather, they are nourished with God’s word and speak the same thing.

It is such a simple thing to just speak the same thing with one accord and with one mouth, but in today’s world where everyone tries to be different, it seems to be so hard to do this.

May we be of the same mind toward one another according to Christ Jesus so that with one accord we may glorify God in receiving the believers to live the church life (Rom. 15:5-7).

When we have the same mind toward one another, loving one another and not thinking more highly of ourselves than we ought to think, we will pay the price to be in one accord with the saints.

When we are in one accord, we will speak the same thing, and we will speak with one mouth.

Wow, we will speak the same thing with one mouth!

Today there are so many mouths that speak, both in the word and in the church; but when we have the same mind toward one another, we remain in the one accord and speak the same thing with one mouth.

The only way this can happen is if we all allow Christ to make His home in our heart and be everything in our mouth.

We need to let Him make His home deep down in our heart so that He may renew our mind, attune our will, and temper our emotions for Him to dwell in us richly.

When we let Christ be everything to us in our mouth and in our heart, we can speak the one thing with one mouth in one accord.

We today in the church life have the high peaks of God’s present revelation, and we are learning to speak these things.

Then, as we learn these truths, the high peaks of God’s present revelation, we go out to speak with God’s up-to-date vision to move with God on earth today for the fulfilment of His purpose.

In this way, we speak the same thing, which is God’s eternal economy, and this speaking will be something that builds up and does not tear down.

In the church life we can testify that, by the Lord’s grace and mercy, we have been raised up by the Lord’s up-to-date ministry and we have a taste for this ministry; we have a taste for the teaching that builds up the church as the Body of Christ.

The taste for the healthy teaching keeps us here and is the controlling factor among us.

We do not accept any differing teachings, even though they may sound good, ethical, moral, and scriptural. Amen!

There are many seekers of the Lord in Christianity today, and they hunger and thirst for the deeper truths in the word of God.

They are in the denominations in Christianity, but they seek something higher, deeper, and richer, for they are tired of the shallow things that their pastors and leaders speak of.

May we be those who enjoy and experience the high peak truths in God’s revelation and may we learn to speak these things to others.

On one hand, when we speak the high peaks of God’s present revelation to our fellow believers, we minister the riches of Christ as spiritual food to others so that they may be nourished and grow in life.

On the other hand, these healthy teachings will create in them a taste for the truth, a taste for God’s eternal economy, which builds up the church.

In the vast wilderness and widespread hunger for the truth in Christianity today, we in the church life have the high peaks of the divine revelation, and we can speak them to others.

May we pick up the high commission to not only read the Word of God to be personally nourished but even more, get into the deeper truths in God’s word, read and pray over the ministry that properly interprets the Word of God, and learn to speak the high peak truth in God’s word to others.

In the church life we speak this one thing, the economy of God, the healthy teaching that builds up the church.

And when we meet with our fellow Christians, we exercise to speak the high truth; though they may reject this at first, the truth will get into them, and they will hunger for the deeper truths in God’s word.

Lord Jesus, we aspire to be good ministers of Christ Jesus who speak the same thing with one accord and with one mouth. Grant us to be of the same mind toward one another according to Christ Jesus so that with one accord we may glorify God in receiving the believers to live the church life. Amen, Lord, we allow You the room to be everything in our heart and in our mouth so that God may be glorified. Thank You for giving us Your word, Your divine revelation, with the deeper truths and the high peaks of the divine revelation. We want to get into Your word, partake of Your riches, and be constituted with the truth so that we may minister the riches of Christ to others and impart the truth into them. Amen, Lord, may so many hungry and thirsty seeking believers come to the full knowledge of the truth so that they would be richly supplied and nourished with the words of the faith and grow in life unto maturity!

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, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 5, “The Experience of God’s Organic Salvation Equaling Reigning in Christ’s Life,” p. 509, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Living and Serving According to God’s Economy Concerning the Church (2023 fall ITERO), week 6, entitled, A Good Minister of Christ Jesus.
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