Now is the Time for God to Accomplish His Purpose, for Him to Perfect the One New Man

When we realize that God’s purpose and Goal in this age is to bring forth the one new man, and this is the unique thing He is after and which will bring Him back, we will realize that now is the time for God to accomplish His purpose – to perfect the one new man.

The one new man has already been created on the cross in the body of Christ, for Christ has crossed out and annulled all the differences and ordinances, and in Himself He made the two – the Jews and the Gentiles – into one new man. W

hat is this one new man? Especially these days with the globalisation taking place, many think that simply by having saints of different races and ethnical backgrounds together, this is the one new man. But the one new man is much more than this.

The one new man is what is on God’s heart, and when He gains a full-grown perfected one new man, the bride will be prepared, and Christ will return. The goal of God in this age and the goal of the Lord’s recovery is to bring forth the one new man.

The one new man exists on earth, but the practical expression and manifestation of the one new man is not yet here.

There’s an infantile new man who does not express or represent God in full; therefore, we need to tell the Lord that now is the time for God to accomplish His purpose – to perfect the one new man.

First we need to see the vision of the one new man and realize that it is urgent – it is immediately urgent for God to gain this. He has been waiting to gain a man that would express Him and represent Him for more than four thousand years.

He created Adam in His image and according to His likeness, and He wanted that Adam and his descendants would be a corporate man that would express God with His image and represent Him with His authority.

But Adam failed God, and now Adam and all his descendants are sinners, part of the old man, unable to fulfill God’s purpose. However, God cannot be deterred; what He decided and purposed to do, He will do – He will accomplish.

All humanity is scattered by Satan all over the earth, and even though the internet and the modern means of communication are here to help us be joined together and be close to one another, yet mankind is more divided than ever.

Christ came, and He created in Himself the two into one new man – He made peace between us and God and between us and one another, and He created both the Jews and the Gentiles into one new man, so making peace.

Now we need to be renewed in the spirit of our mind so that we may become in practicality the one new man on earth. The Lord wants to show Satan that He can produce and bring forth the one new man out of every tongue and people from among the nations.

This, however, is not something outward as a movement or organization, but it is Christ Himself as our life, our person, and our constituent.

Now is the Time for God to Accomplish His Purpose – to Perfect the One New Man!

It is the one new man that will usher in the kingdom of God and will bring Christ, the king, back to earth (Rev. 11:15).

When we see this, when we realize that the built-up Body of Christ is the one new man which God desires to gain and then the Lord will return, we will clearly see that now is the time for God to accomplish His purpose, that is, to perfect the one new man, who will come into full existence on earth (Eph. 4:24).

We need to not have an evil heart of unbelief, and we need to put away all the doubts and opinions, and simply give ourselves to the Lord for Him to accomplish His purpose through us.

His purpose is to gain a corporate man to express Him with His image and represent Him with His authority, a built up and perfect man that would express God and exercise His dominion for Him on earth.

The old man failed God, but God has raised up a new man to replace the old man. But where is the one new man today? For two thousand years the believers have focused on man things apart from this unique goal of God, but God cannot be defeated.

Now is the time for God to accomplish His purpose – now is the time for Him to perfect the one new man that would express Him and represent Him. God needs a new man that would express Him with His image and exercise His dominion.

When this one new man is perfected, that will be the time of the Lord’s coming, and the perfected new man will be the bride. When we see this vision, we will be kept in the oneness of the Body of Christ, and we will also be delivered and rescued from all things other than Christ.

We will realize that there’s no such thing as a local church having its own jurisdiction and its own autonomy, but that all the churches in the different countries on earth are the one new man.

If we look at the human culture and the world situation today it may seem that it is impossible for God to gain a corporate new man that speaks the same thing, has the same heart, and is one with God for the accomplishment of His purpose.

But according to God’s revelation in His word, it is clear that the church is not just the assembly of God’s regenerated and called out ones, the household of God with many believers having an intimate relationship with God, but also the Body of Christ and the one new man.

The Lord desires to prepare His bride – He wants to gain His bride so that He as the Bridegroom would return soon.

The bride of Christ is the perfected one new man, the built up and perfected corporate new man; when the one new man comes into existence practically in an adequate measure on earth, the bride will be prepared, and the Lord can return.

We should all therefore drop our evil heart of unbelief, lay aside our doubts, give up our opinions, and join ourselves to the Lord in prayer to tell Him,

Lord Jesus, now is the time for God to accomplish His purpose. Now is the time for You to perfect the one new man. Lord, may this one new man be brought forth quickly! We want to cooperate with You by taking You as our life and person day by day. Lord, You desire to gain the one new man, and we agree with You: do it among us, do it with us, and do it today! Your desire must be fulfilled! Perfect the one new man among all the local churches on earth today. Gain the corporate one new man that accomplishes Your purpose of expressing God and representing Him!

Our View needs to be Broadened to see that Everything is Ready and Prepared for the One New Man to Come Forth

The world situation has been raised up for the goal of bringing forth the one new man; even though we do not agree with culture and we believe that culture is not of God, God is sovereign over all these things, and culture is used by God for His purpose.

Our view needs to be broadened to realize that everything is ripe, ready, and prepared for the one new man to come forth. Culture, world history, and the developments among men are used by God in a sovereign way to bring forth the one new man.

For example, today it is very easy to communicate with saints all around the world via the internet and our smart phone. When something is happening in one part of the earth, all can hear about it and even see it almost right away.

The means of travel and communication have been improved very much, and all the developments in technology, transportation, and communication are for the bringing forth of the one new man.

The whole earth, though wide in surface and great in space, is now a small sphere, where we all can know many things, we can communicate, and we can travel very quickly to any part of the earth.

The visas are easy to obtain, borders are open, and man is free to travel and communicate. It is easy to learn a new language or get translation. It seems that there’s almost no hindrance for the one new man to be perfected.

We need to see where we are, what age we live in, what the Lord desires to obtain today, and what should be our attitude and action today. We are at the end time, and this is the most golden time.

This is the right time for the Lord’s recovery; our view needs to be broadened to realize that all things and all people are prepared and ready for the one new man to come forth.

On the one hand God can use all these means of communication and travel to blend the Body together and gain the one new man, and on the other hand, Satan makes use of all these to disseminate his evil thoughts and thinking.

Our mind should not be corrupted by the tide of this age; we need to be renewed in the spirit of our mind and realize that the world situation is so mature that it cannot be more mature, and such a situation is altogether for the bringing forth of the one new man.

Now is the time for God to accomplish His purpose, for Him to perfect the one new man. When the one new man is full-grown and perfected, that will be the time for the Lord’s coming, and the full-grown, perfected one new man will be the bride of Christ (Rev. 19:7).

The Lord yearns to return, and for Him to come back, His bride must be ready. The bride of Christ is the holy city, the New Jerusalem, which is a person-city, a bride, the new man, and this new man is constituted with and brought forth by the organic Body of Christ.

Today the Lord is doing only one work on this earth – to bring forth the one new man. May we be enlightened within, and may we cooperate with the Lord’s transforming within us.

May we allow the mingled spirit to seep into our mind, emotion, and will, and gradually saturate our entire being. The renewing of our mind will cause us to become the one new man.

As those who pursue the Lord, love Him, and follow Him, we must be renewed in the spirit of our mind to become the one new man, taking Him as our person and living by Him. We must tell the Lord,

Lord Jesus, may our view be broadened to realize that everything is ripe, ready, and prepared for the one new man to come forth. We want to cooperate with You, Lord, for You to accomplish Your purpose, for You to perfect the one new man. May the mingled spirit seep through and saturate our mind, emotion, and will, even our entire being. Amen, Lord, we give ourselves to You to be renewed in the spirit of our mind to become the one new man, taking You as our person and living by You. It is time, Lord, gain the one new man on earth today, and gain it with us!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by James Lee for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1977, vol. 3, “The One New Man,” pp. 482-483), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Goal of the Lord’s Recovery – to Bring Forth the One New Man (2018 ICSC), week 1, Our Urgent Need to See the Vision of the Church as the One New Man.
• Hymns on this topic:
  # For this cause Your person, Lord, / We take and stand in one accord; / All the members self forsake, / And of the Body-Christ partake. / We in Christ as one new man / Now come forth to take this land. / For this cause Your person, Lord, / We take and stand in one accord. (Hymns #1230)
  # O hallelujah, one new man, / The building of God’s plan! / God’s plan throughout eternity – / Not man, but men built corporately. / This man cannot be beat, / All things beneath his feet, / Christ and the church one man complete (Hymns #1231)
  # Now we’re one His purpose to fulfill, / As the one new man of His plan. / Unto Him be glory in the church, / And in Jesus Christ forevermore – Amen! (Hymns #1232).