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God’s Eternal Intention is to Head up All Things in Christ, the Head over All Things

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It is God’s eternal purpose that in the economy of the fullness of the times, He might head up all things in Christ (Eph. 1:10). Through the dispensations of God in all the ages, all things will be headed up in Christ in the new heaven and new earth; this will be God’s eternal administration and economy (Rev. 21:1-2). Witness Lee

In our seeking before the Lord concerning what is the genuine church life, we need to be realize that the church life is a life of being headed up in Christ, for God wants to head up all things in Christ. The church is the Body of Christ - this is … [Continue reading]

The Church will Match Christ as Bone of His Bones for their Eternal Married Life

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The entire revelation of the Bible shows us the love story of a universal couple. That is, the sovereign Lord, who created the universe and all things, the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—who went through the processes of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, and who ultimately became the life-giving Spirit, is joined in marriage to the created, redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite man—composed of spirit, soul, and body—who ultimately constitutes the church, the expression of God. In the eternity that is without end, by the divine, eternal, and surpassingly glorious life, they will live a life that is the mingling of God and man as one spirit, a life that is superexcellent and that overflows with blessings and joy. Rev. 22:17, footnote 1, RcV Bible

Only those who are regenerated by Christ and who live by Christ as the church can match Christ and complement Him; when Christ sees this, He will surely say that this time this is bone of His bones and flesh of His flesh. Adam and Eve are a rich … [Continue reading]

The Church is Built with Resurrection Life and Washed by the Word to be the Bride

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John 19:34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.

As seen in the type of Adam and Eve in Genesis 2 and shown throughout the New Testament, the church comes out of Christ, is built in His resurrection life, and is composed of all the believers in Christ who are being transformed to be the counterpart … [Continue reading]

Christ’s Death and Resurrection Produced and Built up the Church as His Counterpart

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The rib taken from Adam’s opened side typifies the unbreakable, indestructible eternal life of Christ (Heb. 7:16; John 19:32-33, 36; Exo. 12:46; Psa. 34:20), which flowed out of His pierced side (John 19:34) to impart life to His believers for the producing and building up of the church as His counterpart. The Recovery of the Church (2017 fall ITERO), outline 9

Through Christ's death and resurrection, God produced and built the church as the counterpart of Christ. Adam and Eve are a picture, a type, of Christ and the church; when Adam was created, he was a type of Christ, and his need for a wife shows the … [Continue reading]

Only what Comes out of Christ can be the Church to Match Christ as His Counterpart

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Gen. 2:19-21 Now Jehovah God had formed from the ground every animal of the field and every bird of heaven. And He brought them to the man to see what he would call them....But for Adam there was not found a helper as his counterpart. And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.

Only what comes out of Christ can return to Christ to match Christ as His counterpart, just as only what came out of Adam and was built by God to become a woman could return to him to be his wife. It is important for us to see what did God do to … [Continue reading]

God Desires to have Christ and the Church for His Expression and Dominion on Earth

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The third step of God’s procedure in fulfilling His purpose was to work Himself into man to make man His complement. Adam here [in Genesis 2:18] typifies God in Christ as the real, universal Husband, who is seeking a wife for Himself (Rom. 5:14; cf. Isa. 54:5; John 3:29; 2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 5:31-32; Rev. 19:7; 21:9). Adam’s need for a wife typifies and portrays God’s need, in His economy, to have a wife as His complement. Gen. 2:18, footnote 1, RcV Bible

In Genesis 2 we see a picture of Christ and the church in the types of Adam and Eve; God wants not only Christ (as typified by Adam) but also the church - God wants Christ and the church. Christ is the mystery of God, He is the explanation and … [Continue reading]

Loving the Lord and being Washed by His Living Word to be the Counterpart of Christ

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Eph. 5:25-27 v. 25 Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her v. 26 That He might sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing of the water in the word, v. 27 That He might present the church to Himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that she would be holy and without blemish.

This week we are enjoying one of the most wonderful statuses of the church - the church as the counterpart of Christ, the bride of Christ; the work in the Lord's recovery is His genuine work to prepare His bride. A counterpart is one that closely … [Continue reading]