It’s Not Good for God to be Alone: Victorious Christ is Matched by Victorious Church

God has a heart’s desire to obtain both Christ and the church, the reality of Adam and Eve; it is not good for God to be alone – He needs a counterpart, the church, for He desires to have the victorious Christ plus a victorious church, and nothing but what comes out of Christ can be part of the church to make the church His counterpart.

In Genesis 1-2 we see the blueprint of God’s architectural plan, and in Revelation 21-22 we see a photograph of the fulfilment of God’s plan. In between, we see how God carries out His plan.

God desires to gain a people who love Him and are His counterpart. He didn’t create man merely to fellowship with man; He wants to enter into man as life and obtain a corporate man built up and prepared to be His counterpart, His bride.

This is what we see both at the beginning and at the end of the Bible. The Bible begins and ends with a couple; in the beginning, we see Adam and Eve and at the end we see the Spirit and the bride.

Even though man fell, God came to redeem man and court man, bringing man back to Himself.

We are those who have seen something of the wonderful Christ who expresses God, and we have been captured by Him. We now love Him, we open to Him, and we want to be one with Him.

We take the most excellent way today, the way of love, to do anything and be anything in the church. We love to come to the Lord in His word to open to Him, enjoy Him, and be infused with Him.

Actually, we love God because He first loved us. He loved us, He gave Himself up for us, and we simply opened to Him to have the love of God poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

Now we as believers in Christ simply love the Lord, open to Him, and allow Him to love us; we enjoy His love, and we are even filled with His love. We allow His love to flow in us and flow out of us.

The life we received from the Lord in our spirit at the time of our regeneration is a life of love; we learn to live by this life so that we may love the Lord and also love the brothers.

Just as God is love, so we are becoming love to become the same as He is in life, nature, expression, and function.

We put aside our natural love, allowing it to go through the cross, and we enjoy God as love, even allowing God as love to flow in us and be expressed through us.

Even as the Lord lived in this world, so we live today; we allow Him to flow in us and through us as love, loving the Lord and loving the brothers with Him as our love.

It is Not Good for God to be Alone: God is Perfect yet He Needs the Church as His Counterpart

We need to see what God did do in order to produce a counterpart for Himself.

If we want to know who the bride of Christ and how we can be the bride of Christ, we need to read Genesis 1 and 2 with the exercise of our spirit and with our heart turned to the Lord so that we may see what God did to produce a counterpart for Himself.

Genesis 2 reveals a picture of Christ and His bride in the types of Adam and Eve. We need to see what the blueprint is for the church as the bride of Christ.

Adam typifies God in Christ as the real, universal Husband, who is seeking a wife for Himself (Rom. 5:14; cf. John 3:29; 2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 5:31-32; Rev. 19:7-9; 21:9-11).

Jehovah God created man and all the things on the earth and in heaven, but then He looked at man and said, It is not good for man to be alone; I will make him a helper as his counterpart (Gen. 2:18).

Man was perfect, but he was not complete. He was created in the image of God, so he represents God; this shows us that God is perfect, but He needs a counterpart.

When God said, It is not good for man to be alone, He was implying that it was not good for God to be alone. Adam’s need for a wife typifies and portrays God’s need, in His economy to have a wife as His counterpart.

God needs the church as His counterpart, His parallel. Although God in Christ is absolutely perfect, He is not complete without the church as His wife. Wow!

This is not a blasphemy; this is what the Bible really tells us. Adam is a type of Christ; when God said that it was not good for Adam to be alone, He said something about Himself, that it was not good for God to be alone.

We see this in Matthew 16 where the Lord Jesus took His disciples aside and asked them, Who do men say that I am? Then He asked them, What about you, who do you say that I am?

After Peter said that He is the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Lord Jesus said, But I also say to you that I will build My church (Matt. 16:18).

Where the revelation of Christ is, there is the revelation of the church. It is good to see Christ but we also need to see the church as the counterpart of Christ.

Christ adds to the revelation of Himself – He wants us to see the church, His counterpart, His bride.

Do we have a revelation of Christ? Do we see that He is both the Son of God and the Son of Man? This is wonderful! Now we also need to see the church, the counterpart of Christ.

What God desires is not only Christ but also the church. If we see this, we will rejoice before the Lord, for we are the church, the counterpart of Christ, and the Lord is working on us to make us the same as Christ in every possible way to match Him! Hallelujah!

It is not good for man to be alone; a young man may be perfect, but he is not complete until he marries his wife, who is his counterpart.

It is not good for God to be alone; God is perfect, but He needs the church as His counterpart to match Him and be one with Him.

God is absolutely and eternally perfect; however, in the Bible, we see that God is not complete. To say that God is not perfect is to speak a blasphemy, for He is eternally perfect.

But without the church, God is incomplete. Without the church, God is like a husband without a wife or the head without the body.

May the Lord shine on us and enlighten us in this matter so that we have a proper appreciation of who we are and what the church is in God’s economy!

May we realise that we are part of the church, the counterpart of Christ, and God desires for the church to match Christ as His wife, His bride!

Lord Jesus, shine on us to see what You are doing to carry out the blueprint of Your architectural plan as revealed in the Bible. May we see that God desires to gain a wife for Christ, a counterpart for Christ. Hallelujah, man was created in the image of God to be part of the counterpart of Christ! Amen, Lord, may we see that, just as it was not good for Adam to be alone, so it is not good for God to be alone! Hallelujah, our God is eternally and absolutely perfect, but He is not complete without the church! Wow, Lord, may we realise that God’s desire and heart’s intent is to obtain the church as the counterpart of Christ to match Christ. Amen, Lord, may we see a vision not only of Christ as the Son of the living God but also of the church as the counterpart of Christ! What a privilege it is to be part of the church today, being produced and built up to be the counterpart of Christ, the bride of Christ! Amen, Lord, we give ourselves to You today for Your building work. Make us Your counterpart!

God Desires to have both Adam and Eve – a Victorious Christ plus a Victorious Church

According to Genesis 2:18, God desires to have not just Adam but both Adam and Eve, as types of Christ and the church. God’s purpose is to have both Adam, typifying Christ, and Eve, typifying the church.

This was His heart’s desire from before the creation of man, for in Genesis 1:26 He didn’t say, Let him have dominion, but, Let them have dominion.

God desires them, both Adam and Eve, both Christ and the church; this is what satisfies God’s heart. Them, this is such a wonderful word, for this is what God desires.

God is almighty and powerful, and He created both Satan and later man; He could deal with Satan by Himself, but He wants “them” to deal with Satan, that is, Adam and Eve (and all men included in them) as a type of a victorious Christ and a victorious church.

What God wants is a Christ who has overcome the work of the devil plus a church which has overthrown the work of the devil (Rom. 5:17; 16:20; Eph. 1:22-23).

On the one hand, Christ came to destroy the devil and his works; on the other hand, the church continues Christ’s victorious work and applies it to the enemy to be a victorious church.

This is why in Romans 16:20 we are told that the God of peace will crush Satan under our feet shortly. God’s purpose is to have a ruling Christ and a ruling church; this is what satisfies God.

He planned this for His own pleasure and He is gaining this for His own satisfaction. God desires to have Christ, and He is fully delighted in His Beloved Son; however, He also wants to gain the church as the counterpart of Christ.

The church God desires needs to be just like Christ, matching Him in every possible way; the church comes out of Christ, comes to Christ, matches Christ, and is the same as Christ but in a feminine form. Hallelujah!

God still allows the devil on the earth because He knows that a victorious Christ and a victorious church are here to deal with him.

Christ and the church have dominion over Satan and his kingdom, for the purpose of God is Christ and the church, His counterpart, would deal with Satan. Hallelujah!

Today we are the church, and we need to become the same as Christ in life, nature, expression, and function, in order to match Him in every possible way, and we will deal with the enemy with Christ’s authority.

Genesis 2:19-20 further tells us that from the ground God formed every animal of the field and every bird of heaven and brought them to Adam.

The man then gave names to all cattle and to the birds of heaven and to every animal of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper as his counterpart. God wants to gain a counterpart for Adam, but nothing created by Him can match him.

We may think that this story is so interesting, for man is so smart to name all the animals as they come to him.

But what God was doing is showing Adam that no animal can match him; no helper was found for man as his counterpart among the created animals and birds.

Even the dog, which today may be called man’s best friend, is not a counterpart for man. Why? Because the wife must be the same as the husband in life, nature, and expression! Amen!

This is why, among the cattle, the birds, and the animals, Adam did not find a complement for himself, one that could match him.

The church that Christ needs to match Him is nothing of the natural life or the created life; it is something that matches Christ, something that is just like Christ in life and nature, even in His image.

If there’s something in us that is not of Christ, if we say something or do something that does not match Him, Christ may say, That is like a horse or a peacock, but it does not match Me.

We may speak something for the Lord, but at the end of it we have the Lord’s feeling within, That was you expressing your knowledge of God; that was a peacock, not something of Christ. Oh Lord!

Sometimes we may say something in a strong way, and the Lord within us says, That was like a horse or an elephant, very strong; that was not something of Christ.

We believers in Christ need to live one spirit with the Lord and allow Him to infuse us with Himself so that we may become the same as He is.

Only what comes out of Christ and what is Christ in us can match Him as His counterpart. Only what Christ has wrought into our being and has constituted of Himself into us can match Him as His counterpart.

May we allow the Lord to operate in us and reconstitute us with Himself to make us a victorious church matching a victorious Christ!

Lord Jesus, thank You for regenerating us with the life of God to make us part of the church as the counterpart of Christ! Hallelujah, God desires both Adam and Eve to fulfil His purpose; He desires both a victorious Christ and a victorious church that matches Him! Amen, Lord, we praise You for being a Christ who has overcome the work of the devil; make us one with You to overthrow the work of the devil and therefore match You! Work Yourself into us. Reconstitute us with Yourself. Save us from living in ourselves and for ourselves. Save us from expressing ourselves. May we live by the divine life and may we allow the divine life to be expressed through us so that we may be the church as the counterpart of Christ! Amen, Lord, we want to match You as Your counterpart. Bring our whole being into You and infuse us with all that You are to make us the same as You are in every possible way! Hallelujah, the God of peace will crush the devil under the feet of the built-up church shortly! Praise the Lord for Christ and the church fulfilling God’s desire!

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 Watchman Nee, vol. 34, “The Glorious Church,” chs. 2-3, 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 4.
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