Offer Christ to God for our Worship of God in Spirit in the Meetings of the Church

As believers in Christ, we need to offer Christ to God for our worship of God in spirit in the meetings of the church.

In these last days, the Lord will recover and is recovering the genuine experience of Christ for a surplus of His riches to be offered in the meetings for the building up of the church; He is recovering our daily experience of Christ, labouring on Christ, and handling of Christ so that we may offer Christ to God the Father for His satisfaction in our worship to Him. Amen!

This is the genuine ministry of the new covenant, the ministry that gives life.

Many times Christians come to the meetings just to listen to a sermon or to hear someone who is gifted share something, sing something, or perform something.

But the meetings that we Christians should have need to be according to the principle in 1 Cor. 14:26, where each one has something.

How can each brother and sister have something when they come to the meeting?

It is merely by sharing a verse that we enjoyed in our Bible reading, or sharing an experience of how God delivered us from this or protected us from that?

What builds up the church is Christ and not only Christ as revealed in the New Testament but even more, the Christ that has been enjoyed and experienced by us, the believers in Christ.

How can everyone have something and share something in the meetings of the church?

It is only by each one of us meaning business with the Lord in our personal life.

In our daily living, we all need to contact the Lord and live in a living touch with Him.

We need to enjoy the Lord daily, call on His name, and share with Him all our joys and sorrows.

The more we open to the Lord, calling on His name even from the lowest pit, the more He has a way to infuse us with what He is, and we will have some experience and enjoyment of Christ.

As we do this day by day, there will be a surplus of Christ, an overflow of Christ, and when we come to the meetings, we will have something of Christ we will share.

For example, we may be quite troubled within concerning a particular situation or our relationship with a certain person, and we come to the Lord in His word with an exercised spirit and a turned heart.

The Lord has something to speak to us then, and He impresses us with a particular matter in His word, such as Phil. 4:7, The peace of God, which surpasses every man’s understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

We may have read that verse and even memorized it, but when we open to the Lord in the midst of our situations and His light shines on us, we enjoy that verse afresh, for it shines with new light and infuses a new portion of Christ into us.

Then, when we come together with the saints, we will have a portion of Christ that we can share, something of Christ to offer to God for His satisfaction in our worship of Him and to the saints for their enjoyment.

May the Lord recover such meetings among us today!

Come to the Meetings with the Riches of Christ Produced by our Daily Labouring on Christ

According to Deut. 16:15-17, we need to keep the feast of God and appear before God not empty-handed but bringing the surplus, according to the blessing of God which He has given to us.

This is how we should meet with the saints, by bringing a surplus of Christ to the meetings of the church.

For example, when we come to the Lord’s Table meeting to remember the Lord and worship the Father, we must come with the riches of Christ produced by our daily labouring on Christ.

The Lord’s Table meeting is a meeting for us to come and enjoy Christ together, exhibit Christ, and worship God with the worship that He desires.

We worship God by offering the Christ we have produced and enjoyed in our daily labouring on Christ.

We may have the custom of singing some hymns in the Lord’s Table meeting, and hymns are very good, but what we all need to practice is exercising our spirit to bring forth the riches of Christ to offer Christ to God for our worship of God.

We worship God with Christ, the Christ that we have enjoyed and experienced.

John 4:23 says that an hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truthfulness, for the Father also seeks such to worship Him.

We worship God in spirit, that is, by exercising our spirit, and in truthfulness, that is, with Christ as the reality of all the offerings and with the Christ we have enjoyed and experienced to become our reality, genuineness, and truthfulness.

Christ is the reality of all the offerings in the Old Testament, and we can apply Him daily as the reality of the offerings; then, when we come to the Lord’s Table Meeting, we offer this Christ to the Father.

On one hand, we stand on the genuine ground of oneness in the Body of Christ; on the other hand, we offer Christ to God for our worship of God by exercising our spirit to bring forth the riches of Christ produced by our daily labouring on Christ.

If there is no labouring on Christ, however, there are no riches of Christ to bring forth and offer to God.

How can we have a surplus of Christ if we do not contact the Lord and we do not drink Him in our daily life?

We need to come to the Lord again and again and ask Him to give us to drink of the living water so that this water of life may become in us a fountain of water springing up into eternal life (John 4:14).

When we truly drink Christ as the living water, we will flow Him out.

We need to drink deeply of the Lord by exercising our spirit to call on His name and pray-read His word.

This is to labour on Christ; it is to contact the Lord by exercising our spirit so that we may enjoy something of His riches and gain something of His being.

We may be lying in bed sick, being tended to by others, and even there, we can be labouring on Christ, for we inwardly call on the name of the Lord and drink Him.

We may be at the office, doing our job and being diligent to take care of the things assigned to us, and inwardly we may be calling on the name of the Lord to drink Him and be filled with Him.

Wherever we are, whatever circumstances we are in, we can call on the name of the Lord to drink Him, and we will have some experiences of Christ that are our portion of Christ.

To worship God with Christ is to worship Him collectively with all the children of God by enjoying Christ with one another and with God (1 Cor. 14:26).

If we enjoy Christ day by day and come to the meetings of the church with the riches of Christ produced by our daily labouring of Christ, we will worship God with Christ collectively.

Amen, may we be those who labour on Christ in our daily life so that we may obtain His riches and have our hands full of Christ, and may we come to the meetings of the church with the riches of Christ to offer to God and to bring before the saints!

Lord Jesus, we come to You to drink You as the living water. Hallelujah, Christ is now flowing as the Spirit to be the living water to quench our thirst! We open wide to You, Lord, to drink You as the living water. May the living water become in us a fountain of water springing up into eternal life! Yes, Lord, spring up in us with living water to flow out to others also! Amen, keep us contacting You throughout the day and in all situations. We want to labour on Christ by exercising our spirit to gain Christ, enjoy Christ, and experience Christ throughout the day. We want to obtain a surplus of Christ to bring to the meetings of the church for our worship of God. Amen, Lord, we want to come to the meetings with the riches of Christ produced by our daily labouring on Christ. May our hands be full of Christ as we come together with the saints and may we worship God with Christ collectively with all the saints in the church meetings for the Father to be satisfied!

Offer Christ to God for our Worship of God in Spirit in the Meetings of the Church

We worship God in spirit and in truthfulness not only in the meetings of the church but even more, in our daily life with all its activities and things.

Worshipping God in truthfulness has very much to do with our daily living.

For us to worship God in spirit in the meetings of the church, we need to offer Christ to God.

This means that in our daily living we need to handle Christ and apply Him in all our situations.

Christ made Himself so available and real to us, for again and again He said that He is the bread of life and the living bread (John 6:35, 51) and that we should eat Him and live because of Him (v. 57).

When we eat our meal, we can simply apply Christ as our real food for us to eat and live by.

Christ said He can give us to drink the living water if we just come to Him (John 4:14; 7:37-39), and this living water will spring up into eternal life from our innermost being.

When we drink something or are thirsty, we can simply contact the Lord and take Him as the reality of our drink, being reminded that He is the real drink.

He is also the living air, even our very breath, for He breathed Himself as the Spirit into His disciples (John 20:22).

As we breathe, we can just call on the name of the Lord, maybe not audibly but inwardly, breathe the Lord in.

In all things in our daily life, even as we comb our hair, brush our teeth, get dressed, and take care of so many things, we can do all these things with Christ.

As we keep turning to the Lord and contacting Him, God will send the living Spirit as the heavenly rain to water us and cause something of Christ to grow in us.

Christ will be so real to us, and we will remain in the organic union with Him.

When we come to the meetings, we will not merely listen to a message or receive some teachings or encouragement; we will have something of Christ to offer Christ to God for our worship of God in spirit in the meetings of the church.

We will come to the meetings for the Lord, bringing the Christ we have enjoyed and experienced to preset Him as our offering to the Father and for our enjoyment with the saints.

This means that, long before we get to the meeting, we enjoy the Lord and contact Him.

We may prepare to go to the meeting and call on His name, sing, and exercise our spirit.

The meeting starts from our own home, and on the way to the meeting, we continue to contact the Lord to be filled with Him.

We simply have the inner realization that we come to the meeting to bring a surplus of Christ to offer Christ to God for our worship of God in spirit and truthfulness in the meetings of the church.

We will present Christ to God as our offering, and we will share this wonderful One with the saints for their enjoyment.

If we have such a realization, our daily life will be revolutionized, for we will do our best to produce enough of Christ so that there would be a surplus to share with others and to offer the best of the produce to God the Father for His joy, delight, and satisfaction (Deut. 15:11; 18:3-4; 12:11). Amen!

If we all have such a realization, our church life will be full of life and our meetings will be revolutionized, for all the saints will bring forth the riches of Christ, their surplus of the Christ whom they have experienced and enjoyed.

Each one of the saints will have something to present to God for His satisfaction and to share with all the saints before Him.

This is what the Lord is recovering among us these days.

In these last days, the Lord will recover the genuine experience of Christ for a surplus of His riches in the meetings for the building of the church as the Body of Christ and for the bride to make herself ready for the Bridegroom’s coming. Amen!

We as the bride are making ourselves ready (Rev. 19:7-8) by daily labouring on Christ to experience Him and live Him out, thus having the righteousnesses of the saints as our wedding garment.

Then, when we come to the meetings of the church, we offer Christ to God for our worship of God corporately.

For this to take place, we need to labour on Christ, even as a farmer is labouring on the land to gain a rich produce.

We need to contact the Lord by exercising our spirit in every aspect of our daily living.

As we do this, there will be a portion of Christ that is preserved, untouched, and set aside for the worship of God in the meetings.

As we come together, we will offer Christ to God for His worship and satisfaction, and also for the saints’ enjoyment.

May we look to the Lord and cooperate with Him, praying that the church meetings will be recovered to this extent.

Lord Jesus, we love You and we want to experience and enjoy You in all the aspects of our daily life. Even as we brush our teeth, wash our face, and do things in our daily living, we want to contact You, enjoy You, and gain You. Amen, Lord, we want to do all things with Christ and in Christ so that we may enjoy the living Spirit as the heavenly rain to water us and for Christ to grow in us. Oh Lord, fill us with Yourself. Give us the experiences of Christ that we need today. We want to enjoy You and gain a surplus of Christ to bring to the church. We come to the meetings only for You, for we want to offer Christ to God for our worship of God with the saints in the meetings. We would like to present Christ to God as our offering to the Father and our enjoyment with the saints. Father, we want to bring the surplus of Your dear Son to the meeting as worship to You. We want to present the dear Christ we have enjoyed and experienced in our daily life to You as our offering and share Him with our dear brothers and sisters. Amen, Lord, gain such an experience among us in the church life today!

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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 brother Ron Kangas in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1970, vol. 2, pp. 451-469, 518-523, and 547-555, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good land for the Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ, for the Reality and the Manifestation of the Kingdom, and for the Bride to make Herself Ready for the Lord’s Coming (2023 Winter Training), week 11, entitled, The Surplus of the Produce of the Good Land and the Corporate Worship of God the Father in Truthfulness.
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  – In truth we serve and worship too, / In shadows nevermore, / In Christ, the one reality, / The Father we adore. / To God we offer Christ the Lord / Whom we experience; / With God we too delight in Him. / His light and sweetness sense. (Hymns #865 stanzas 6-7)