For us to receive the application of all the blessings of the new covenant and enjoy them in our experience, we need to be those who respond to Christ’s heavenly ministry by exercising our spirit, living in the spirit, and corresponding to and reflecting what He is doing to execute the new covenant.
When Christ came to the earth, He came as God becoming a man; He was God incarnated to be a man, and in Him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
Christ did not only do the work of redemption on the cross, but even more: through His death He enacted the new covenant, in His blood, in His resurrection He became the new covenant, and in His ascension He is executing the new covenant. Wow!
Many Christians appreciate and love the four Gospels, and they do their best to imitate Christ by admiring what He has done and asking themselves, What would Jesus do right now?
But who considers, appreciates, corresponds to, and reflects Christ’s ministry in the heavens, as He lives and ministers in His ascension? Is Christ now merely passively waiting for the kingdom to be given to Him? What is Christ doing – and what has He been doing – for all these two thousand years?
When He was on earth, He was very busy, and John said that, if they were to record all the things He did and said, all the books in the world could not contain it.
How about now, in His heavenly ministry? Well, as we read in the book of Hebrews in particular, we see that Christ is now in the heavens; He is living, divine, and capable.
Christ is able to execute the new covenant – which has become the new testament – in every detail, making every bequest in it available and real to us!
He is our divine High Priest interceding for us; He is praying that we would be brought into the reality of the new covenant.
Christ is also the Mediator and Executor of the new covenant; He is executing the new testament, and He is carrying out in each one of the believers all the bequests of the new covenant.
Christ is the surety of the new covenant; He is the pledge, the foretaste, that everything int he new covenant will be fulfilled, and He guarantees and ensures the effectiveness of the new testament.
Christ is the Minister of the true tabernacle; He serves us with all the bequests of the new testament, and He brings us into the enjoyment of the blessings of the new covenant, making the facts of the new covenant effective in our experience.
Hallelujah, what a wonderful God we have: He not only entered into a covenant with us, but He also went through a process to make sure all the bequests of the new covenant are being enjoyed by all His believers! Praise the Lord!
We Enjoy the Blessings of the New Covenant as we Respond to Christ’s Heavenly Ministry in Prayer today
Our Christ is much more busy today in the heavens than when He was on earth; He is more rich, more intensified, and more qualified and able to save us to the uttermost, and we need to respond to His heavenly ministry.
Our Christ is the divine High Priest interceding for us, the Mediator and Executor of the new covenant, the Surety of the new covenant, the Minister of the true tabernacle, and the great Shepherd of the sheep.
He executes the new covenant by praying for us, He carries out in us every item of the bequests of the new covenant, He Himself is the pledge that everything in the new covenant will be fulfilled, He is serving us with the blessings of the new covenant, and He is shepherding us into all these rich bequests.
For us to receive the application of the blessings in the new covenant, we need to be those who respond to Christ’s heavenly ministry (Heb. 12:1-2; Col. 3:1).
He is ministering in the heavens to execute the new covenant; we as His believers on earth, the members of His mystical universal Body, we need to respond to His heavenly ministry (Heb. 7:25; 4:16; 10:19, 22).
For centuries Christ has tried without success to gain a group of people to respond to His ministry in the heavens.
Who sees what He is doing today and who responds to His heavenly ministry? Who corresponds to what He is doing in the heavens, and who adequately enjoys and partakes of all the bequests of the new covenant, the new testament? Oh Lord!
By the Lord’s mercy and grace, may we be the group of people who, as those who live the proper church life in the Lord’s recovery, we respond to the heavenly ministry of Christ.
He is shepherding all the churches and all the saints, meeting us wherever we are to bring us into the full enjoyment and participation of the bequests of the new covenant.
Christ is the Head in the heavens interceding for us us and ministering to us; we as His Body on earth should respond to His heavenly ministry.
We should correspond to His heavenly ministry and reflect what He is doing to execute the new covenant (Eph. 1:22-23; 4:15-16; Acts 6:4).
Christ is the good Shepherd (John 10:11), the Great Shepherd (Heb. 10:20), the Shepherd of our souls (1 Pet. 2:25); He is shepherding our mind, emotion, and will. He is the Chief Shepherd (1 Pet. 5:4) and forever He will be the Lamb-Shepherd (Rev. 7:17), the Lamb in the midst of the throne who guides us and shepherds us.
May our eyes be opened to see the heavenly vision of the new testament, the new covenant; may we really see the will with all its bequests, and may we respond to Christ’s heavenly ministry (Eph. 1:17-18; Acts 26:18-19).
May we pray for a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him, and may we enter into the reality and enjoyment of the new covenant.
God the Father promised everything, the Lord Jesus came and accomplished everything, and now all the accomplished facts have been itemised in the will, the new covenant, to be our bequests (Luke 22:20; Heb. 9:16-17).
Everything that God wants to give us is recorded in the Bible; the reality, however, is not in the black-and-white words in the Bible but rather, as we pray these back to God and are open to Christ’s heavenly ministry, He will carry out the new covenant in us and He will bring us into the enjoyment of all these riches! Amen!
If we pray according to His will, He will answer us; His will is His testament, which is the new covenant, so if we pray the word of God back to Him, He will do it in us!
If we have the heavenly vision to see that all of God’s blessings are bequests in the will, we will pray not as “poor beggars” but as glorious inheritors, and we will receive the bequests by faith (Rom. 8:17; Eph. 3:6; Heb. 6:17; 1:14).
If we have the heavenly view of the new testament, the new covenant, our concept will be changed; if we pray over the new covenant to respond to Christ’s heavenly ministry, we will be radically revolutionised, and we will be beside ourselves with praise to the Lord (2 Cor. 5:13; Rev. 5:6-13).
Lord Jesus, we respond to Your heavenly ministry by saying Amen, Lord, do it in us! Amen, Lord, bring us into the enjoyment and experience of all the bequests and blessings of the new covenant, the new testament! May we be the group on earth who responds to Your heavenly ministry, corresponding to and reflecting what You are doing to execute the new covenant. Open our eyes, Lord, that we may see the heavenly vision of the new testament, the new covenant, with all the bequests. Amen Lord Jesus, we say Amen to all the bequests and promises and blessings in the Bible, and we open to receive these bequests by faith! Hallelujah, we are not poor beggars asking God to give us this or that in His mercy – we are glorious inheritors receiving the bequests of the new covenant by faith!
We should Exercise our spirit, Live in spirit, and be in spirit to Enjoy all that God in Christ is to us in our spirit
What a glorious, rich, active, and bountiful Christ we have in the heavens today – He in His heavenly ministry is working tirelessly to make sure that all the bequests and blessings of the new covenant are being enjoyed by and applied to all the believers in Christ, the members of His Body.
He is the heavenly Christ within the veil, within the Holy of Holies (Heb. 6:19-20); He is our High Priest (4:14; 7:26), the heavenly Minister (8:2), and the Mediator of the new covenant (8:6; 9:15; 12:24).
He has an excellent ministry for us; He intercedes for us, He ministers all the riches of God into us, and He is executing all the contents of the new covenant for our enjoyment.
We should respond to His heavenly ministry today in prayer by exercising our spirit. May we be encouraged to enter within the veil, looking away unto Jesus and considering Him (Heb. 10:19-20, 22; 12:2-3; 3:1) so that we may receive the transfusion and infusion of Him.
We simply need to look away unto Him, leaving aside anything that entangles us and distracts our view; as we look away unto Jesus by exercising our spirit, we are infused with Him!
Hallelujah, the Lord is not only in the heavens ministering to us and being so active – He is also in our spirit, for our spirit is joined to the heavens – in our spirit we have the real and practical Holy of Holies!
May we exercise our spirit and participate in the heavenly ministry of Christ so that we may be saturated and permeated with all the divine riches that make us the corporate reproduction of the firstborn Son of God for His corporate expression!
As Heb. 4:12 says, the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit.
The key to experience Christ is our spirit; our spirit is joined to the Holy of Holies! Hallelujah! Christ with our spirit (2 Tim. 4:22); grace is with our spirit (Gal. 6:18).
May we go to our spirit, exercise our spirit, and live in the spirit.
Everything related to God and to the fulfillment of His economy is related to our mingled spirit. So we need to respond to Christ’s heavenly ministry by exercising our spirit, being in the spirit, and living in the spirit.
May our whole being be in the spirit. As we are about to speak something, may we have an inward check with the Lord whether it is us speaking or it is Him speaking.
As we love the saints, we must be careful not to love them with our natural love but allow Christ as love to love them in us.
We have the self (the old person) and the Lord Jesus, the new person, living in us. We need to learn to turn from our old way of doing things (right vs wrong) and contact the Lord as a living person.
We may laugh, but we may laugh too much and get out of our spirit; then, we may go to our room and pray that the Lord would forgive us, for we got out of our spirit as we laughed.
We may love others, but we may love them in our natural life and with our natural love. We may do the right thing, but we may not be the right person with the right attitude; rather, we may do the right thing yet in the self and not in Christ.
It’s not about doing the right thing, loving others, or speaking the right words – it’s about who lives in us, who is expressed through us, and who is doing this and that in us.
May we be like John in Rev. 1:10, in the spirit, and may we remain in spirit, live in the mingled spirit, and do everything in the spirit.
Lord Jesus, we want to walk, live, and have our being according to the spirit. Hallelujah, the Lord Jesus is with our spirit, we are joined to the Lord as one spirit, and grace is with our spirit! Praise the Lord, our spirit is the practical and real Holy of Holies for us to contact God, receive God, and be filled with God! Amen Lord, we turn to our spirit, we return to our spirit, and we want to remain in the spirit continuously! We call on Your name, we turn our heart to You, and we want to do all things and speak all things not in ourselves but in the spirit, in Christ, and with Christ! Amen, Lord, bring us into the full enjoyment and participation of the riches and bequests of the new covenant!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Sources of inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by Ed Marks for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Hebrews, msgs. 57, 27 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization Study of Jeremiah and Lamentations, week 8, God’s Economy with His Dispensing in the Book of Jeremiah.
- Hymns on this topic:
– He’s living now to intercede, / Continuing forever; / He undertakes into the age, / His priesthood changes never; / He always lives to intercede, / Such a High Priest is what we need: / He’s higher than the heavens. (Hymns #1130)
– Our sins are all forgiv’n, / His life imparted too; / God is our God today, / And we’re His people true. / We know Him in an inward way: / These blessings four have come to stay. (Hymns #1187)
– The spirit we must seek to know, / Discerning spirit from the soul, / And live within this holiest place, / To worship God and reach His goal. / The soul we ever must forsake, / Press on, God’s rest to enter in, / That Christ we may possess in full / And all God’s plan fulfill therein. (Hymns #747)
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