We need to pray and endeavour to reach the high peak of the reality of the Body of Christ in this age to be the Lord’s overcomers and close this age to bring the Lord back.
The corporate living of the perfected God-men as the reality of the Body of Christ will close this age and bring Christ back to rule over the earth with these God-men in the kingdom age; we need to pay the price to arrive at the highest peak of the reality of the Body of Christ to be the Lord’s overcomers today. Amen!
God has blended the Body together; He is blending us with the saints that He put us with so that we may be adjusted, harmonised, tempered, and mingled.
Through the Lord’s blending work and our cooperation, all our distinctions are lost, and we become one with the Lord and one with the saints – one not only in spirit but also in soul.
There is a need for us to be blended, for the Lord wants to obtain a meal offering church life, that is, a church life that is the mingling and blending of God with man.
We the Body of Christ are one bread, one Body (1 Cor. 10:17); this means that we cannot remain whole but have to be grounded, mingled with the Spirit, under the cross and by the power of resurrection.
Christ was such a One; He was a meal offering to God and to man, and we now are His duplication and reproduction on the earth.
We are being blended together so that we may be ushered into the reality of the Body of Christ.
The more we’re blended with God and with the saints, the more the reality of the Body of Christ is coming into being.
The highest peak of the Lord’s recovery is the reality of the Body of Christ. It is not just the local churches but the Body of Christ in reality being expressed and lived out among us and through us.
As we live the church life in the local churches, we need to be in the reality of the Body of Christ.
When the Lord gains a substantial expression of the reality of the Body, the Lord Jesus will return, for the bride will be prepared.
May we all advance with the Lord and arrive at the highest peak in God’s economy – the reality of the Body of Christ.
May we allow the Lord to work Himself into us and blend us with the saints so that we may enter into and become the reality of the Body of Christ.
The reality of the Body of Christ is not something individual; no individual Christian can live in such a reality without the other saints.
It is a corporate living by the saints who have been perfected in their Christian life to no longer live by their natural life but by the divine life in their spirit.
The Lord Jesus originally lived such a life; He denied Himself to the uttermost and took the Father as His life, source, and everything, doing only what the Father said and speaking what He heard from the Father.
Now this One lives in us to reproduce such a living in our daily life for the Lord to obtain the reality of the Body of Christ among us today.
The Corporate Living of the Perfected God-men as the Reality of the Body of Christ will Close this Age and Bring in the Lord with the Kingdom
What will bring the Lord back is a group of people – the perfected God-men – who have a corporate living as the reality of the Body of Christ.
When there’s a group of people on earth who no longer live in and by themselves but one with Christ to express the divine life in their spirit, the Lord can return.
When there’s an aggregate, a totality, of a living by a group of God-men who live Christ and express Him, the Lord can come back.
The corporate living of the perfected God-men as the reality of the Body of Christ will close this age, which is the age of the church, and will bring Christ back to possess the earth (Psa. 24:1-2, 7-10; 72:1-8, 11; Rev. 1:7; 14:14; 20:4). Amen!
The Lord will return when there’s the corporate living of the perfected God-men as the reality of the Body of Christ.
He will come back to take, possess, and rule over the earth with these God-men in the kingdom age. Amen!
These are the overcomers, those who were perfected, completed, and consummated in the church age.
So when the Lord comes, they will reign with Him in the coming age for a thousand years (Rev. 20:4-6).
However, there are many believers who are not cooperating with the Lord in this age; they are not perfected and matured in the church age.
These will be perfected and matured by the Lord in the kingdom age, under the Lord’s disciplinary dealing.
In the thousand years of the kingdom age, the next age, the overcomers will rule and reign with Christ, while the Lord will deal with the defeated and immature believers in many ways until they reach maturity.
God wants that all His children, His regenerated and redeemed believers, to rule and reign with Him; however, not all believers will be perfected and matured at the end of this age.
So the Lord will take them through one thousand years of dealings until they are ready to join the ones who were matured earlier in participating in the New Jerusalem.
As we live the Christian life and church life in this age, we want to be the God-men who are perfected to be Zion, the overcomers, the vital groups within the churches.
![Behold, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the land will mourn over Him. Yes, amen. Rev. 1:7 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them. And [I saw] the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and [of] [those] who had not worshipped the beast nor his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. Rev. 20:4](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Behold-He-comes-with-the-clouds-and-every-eye-will-see-Him-even-those-who-pierced-Him-683x1024.webp?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "Behold, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the land will mourn over Him. Yes, amen. Rev. 1:7 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them. And [I saw] the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and [of] [those] who had not worshipped the beast nor his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. Rev. 20:4")
We want to reach the high peak of the divine revelation and be in the reality of the Body of Christ so that, when the Lord returns, we will rule and reign with Him for one thousand years.
If we do this, if we are shown mercy by the Lord and cooperate with Him, we can be produced to be the perfected God-men who have a corporate God-man living to be the reality of the Body of Christ today.
We will then rule and reign with the Lord in the next age.
The New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth will be the consummation of Zion, the very spot where God is.
The Holy of Holies in both the tabernacle and the temple were a cube, having the same height, length, and width (Exo. 26:2-8; 1 Kings 6:20); similarly, the New Jerusalem has the same dimensions in width, length, and height.
This indicates that the New Jerusalem will be an eternal Holy of Holies, the enlarged Holy of Holies, where God lives and dwells (Rev. 21:16). Amen!
By then, all of God’s redeemed people will be transformed to be the same as God in life, nature, and appearance.
The wall of the New Jerusalem is jasper, which is the appearance of the One on the throne (Rev. 4:3; 21:11).
We are becoming the same as God in life and nature, and also in appearance, to the extent that we look like God to express Him for eternity. Hallelujah!
Lord Jesus, we give ourselves to You to have the corporate living of the perfected God-men, the reality of the Body of Christ! We want to be the overcomers of today who live by the life of God to express God and be built up with the saints into the Body of Christ. Grant us to be those who end this age and bring Christ back to take, possess, and rule over the earth in the kingdom age. Lord, grow in us unto maturity day by day. Advance in our being. Make us the same as You are in every possible way so that we may be Your corporate expression on the earth. Oh Lord, gain the reality of the Body of Christ on earth today! Perfect us and make us mature in this age so that we may hasten Your return and be those who rule and reign with You in the kingdom age! Amen, Lord, our aspiration is to bring You back soon! Come, dear Lord Jesus!
Pray, Pay the Cost, and Endeavor to Reach the High Peak of the Reality of the Body of Christ in this age
![And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance, and [there was] a rainbow around the throne like an emerald in appearance. Rev. 4:3 Having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, as clear as crystal. Rev. 21:11](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/And-He-who-was-sitting-was-like-a-jasper-stone-and-a-sardius-in-appearance-and-there-was-a-rainbow-around-the-throne-683x1024.webp?resize=400%2C600&ssl=1 "And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance, and [there was] a rainbow around the throne like an emerald in appearance. Rev. 4:3 Having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, as clear as crystal. Rev. 21:11")
How we thank and praise the Lord that He has revealed to us the highest peak of the divine revelation, the highest peak in His economy.
Now we all endeavor to reach this high peak.
We may think that this peak, the reality of the Body of Christ as the corporate living of the perfected God-men is too high and too hard to reach, and we may think the price we need to pay is too high.
But we need to be prepared and warned because the price in this age is not too high – the price we need to pay in the next age is even higher!
What the Lord is after is the reality of the Body of Christ, that is, that He would gain a group of God-men who are perfected and mature to live by the life of God and become the same as Christ in every possible way.
Eventually, all of God’s redeemed people will become the same as God in life, nature, and appearance, but not in the Godhead; He will gain this, for the New Jerusalem will be consummated.
The New Jerusalem is the God-men who have been regenerated, transformed, glorified, and mingled with the processed Triune God.
This holy city will be a mingling to be God’s increase and expression for eternity, and we will all enjoy and participate in this divine mingling for eternity. Hallelujah!
Today we need to be desperate to pray at any cost and to pay the price even as the apostle Paul did.
We need to count all things loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, our Lord.
We may think that we are safe when the Lord comes back, for we have sacrificed our future and we don’t love the world.
However, this is not enough; this is not adequate. We need to see and know the intrinsic scene of all the spiritual things.
We need to realize that God’s intention is to make Himself man so that man may become the same as He is, even Him, so that God may be mingled with man and man may be mingled with God.
Then God and man will be united and mingled together to live a corporate life, the reality of the Body of Christ in this age.
May we be desperate to pray and pay the price so that we may reach the high peak of the reality of the Body of Christ in this age.
May we endeavour before the Lord and with the saints that we reach the reality of the Body of Christ in this age so that we may hasten the Lord’s return and rule and reign with Him in the kingdom.
We want to be fully joined, mingled, and blended with God so that we and God, God and us, would have one life and one living, the reality of the Body of Christ.
This mutual constitution of God and man will consummate in the New Jerusalem, a loving pair in eternity. God will gain what He is after: He will gain the New Jerusalem, a pair of lovers in eternity.
In the New Jerusalem, we see both God and man, but they are not separated: they are fully one, even united, mingled, and incorporated together for eternity.
The New Jerusalem is the mutual dwelling place of God and man, the mutual abode of divinity and humanity.
God lives in man and man lives in God.
God is expressed through man and man expresses God by being one with God.
The glory of God will be expressed and manifested to the uttermost in the redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified humanity, and God will obtain a glorious, splendid, bright expression for eternity!
We want to enter into the reality of this consummation today.
We endeavour to reach this high peak, and we are desperate to pray at any cost and pay the cost to arrive at the reality of the Body of Christ in this age.
Lord Jesus, we want to endeavour to reach the high peak of the reality of the Body of Christ. Strengthen us into our inner man and grant us a clear revelation of the intrinsic scene of all the spiritual things. Grant us to see that God’s intention is to make Himself man so that man may become the same as God in life, nature, expression, and appearance. Amen, Lord, may we realize that God intends to unite and mingle Himself with man so that God and man, man and God, would have the same living and expression. Make us desperate to pray at any cost and even pay the price to arrive at the high peak of the reality of the Body of Christ. Mingle Yourself more with us today. Take us on to maturity so that You may gain the reality of the Body among us in the church life. Amen, Lord, gain a mutual constitution of God and man so that You may be expressed in humanity!
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 James Lee in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” pp. 138-140, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, An Overview of the Central Burden and Present Truth of the Lord’s Recovery Before His Appearing (2023 July Semiannual Training), week 4, entitled, Blending and the Reality of the Body of Christ.
- Similar articles on this topic:
– The high peak of the vision and the reality of the Body of Christ, article in, Affirmation and Critique.
– The reality of the Body of Christ, a portion from, The High Peak of the Vision and the Reality of the Body of Christ, Chapter 3, by Witness Lee.
– The New Jerusalem – the consummation of the divine economy according to the high peak of the divine revelation, article by Ron Kangas in, Affirmation and Critique.
– The need of the blending for the building of the Body of Christ, a portion from, Practical Points Concerning Blending, Chapter 2, by Witness Lee. - Hymns on this topic:
– Through the years, Thy saints have sought Thee, / Longing for reality; / Gazing upward, searching inward, / Thirsting for the sight of Thee. / Now reveal that Christ in heaven, / Is the Body manifest; / And the Christ who dwells within us / As the Body is expressed. / Prone to be misled, I know it, / By my lofty thoughts of Thee, / Easy ’tis for self to seek Thee, / Yet not touch reality, / Oh, how much I need to find Thee, / In Thy members here below. / God eternal dwells among us, / Manifest in flesh to know. (Hymns #1225 stanzas 2-3)
– There is no other way to reach the high peak / of God’s eternal economy, / the reality of the Body of Christ, / except by praying; / our becoming the overcomers / as the reality of the Body of Christ / to be the bride of Christ / will close this age, the age of the church, / and will bring Christ as the King of glory / back to take, possess, and rule over this earth / with His overcomers in the kingdom age, / the kingdom age. (Song on, There Is No Other Way to Reach the High Peak)
– When we see the ripened harvest / Of the golden countryside, / We may know that many seeds have / Fallen to the earth and died. / Ere the fruit of life may blossom, / We must surely suffer death; / If with Christ we’ve not been buried, / We’ll not feel the Spirit’s breath. / Since it must be thus, I pray, Lord, / Help me go the narrow way; / Deal with pride and make me willing / Thus to suffer, Thee t’obey. / I for greater power pray not, / Deeper death is what I need; / All the meaning of the Cross, Lord, / Work in me—for this I plead. (Hymns #279 stanzas 5-6)
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All the God-redeemed people will [by then] be transformed, not only to be the same as God in life and nature but also to be the same in God’s appearance [i.e., jasper (Rev. 4:3; 21:11)]…God’s redeemed people have become absolutely the very God in life, in nature, and in appearance but not in His Godhead. We all have to endeavor to reach this high peak. If you think it is too hard to reach this high peak and that the price to pay is too high, be prepared. In the next age the price will be higher…All of God’s redeemed people will eventually become gods as the very God in life, in nature, and in appearance but not in the Godhead. The New Jerusalem is the God-men who have been transformed, glorified, and mingled with the processed and consummated Triune God. The holy city will be a mingling to be God’s increase and expression for eternity. We will enjoy and participate in this divine mingling for eternity.
Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “The Practical Points concerning Blending,” pp. 138-140
Dear brother, may we be desperate to pay any cost to see and enter into what God is intrinsically doing today so that we may cooperate with Him to build up the church consummating in the New Jerusalem.
Oh, may we reach the high peak of the reality of the Body of Christ so that the Lord may gain His overcomers to end this age and bring in His kingdom.
The totality of the corporate living of a group of God-men, in the church, will close this age, to be those who bring Christ back, with both God (“jasper stone”) and these God-men (“her light”) mingled and reigning together in the New Jerusalem in the Kingdom age.
If we have such a living in the church today, which is the reality of the Body of Christ, then this will ultimately issu in the consummation of this age so the Lord Jesus will return and establish His Kingdom.
We all have to endeavor to reach this high peak brother
If we think it is too hard to reach this high peak and that the price to pay is too high, be prepared. In the next age the price will be much, much, much higher.
Eventually all of God’s redeemed people will become gods as the very God in life, in nature, and in appearance but not in the Godhead.
This is is truly marvelous and I thank and praise Him that we were chose to for this.
Hallelujah.
Beloved,
Hallelujah! 😃🙋🏽🙏 Amen!
We must beware the sin of unbelief.
To the natural mind, it seems too high to believe that man can become God in life, nature and even in appearance.
We must believe that Christ will complete the transformation work He has started in us, and He is fully able to bring us to this high peak.
We need to be desperate to pay the cost and to pray for this to become our reality.
Knowing the high truths and not loving the world does not suffice.
God’s intention is to make Himself man so that man become Him.
We and God are destined to be eternal lovers. If not us, then who?
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The lyrics of this song are quoted from Key Statement #2 from Crystallization-study of 1 and 2 Samuel, published by Living Stream Ministry. The song will be available on Spotify and other streaming sites on January 4, 2022.
The Lord admonished me recently, that…He is not a job. I was indeed chastened, as He is, or should be my highest joy. He should be the highlight of my day, as Lord’s Day meeting is the highlight of my week.
What price is there to pay? He has paid it all. Is there really a price to love Him above all else? Is my love so limited that loving Him redirects love intended for others? Hardly. Loving Him in fact supplies me with super abundant amounts of love for everything and everyone else.
Do pray, my dear brothers and sisters, that the Lord will gain what He needs, from you, and from all those in your locality who aspire to the high peaks of this glorious, eternal romance. The cost is barely noticeable in view of that.
In His love..
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