God’s New Testament Economy

CONTENTS

1. An Introductory Word
2. The Word’s Incarnation and the Son’s Living on the Earth
3. The Son’s Death in His Humanity with His Divinity through the Spirit
4. The Son’s Resurrection in His Divinity with His Humanity (1)
5. The Son’s Resurrection in His Divinity with His Humanity (2)
6. The Son’s Sending of the Spirit
7. The Son’s Ascension and the Baptism in the Spirit (1)
8. The Son’s Ascension and the Baptism in the Spirit (2)
9. The Son’s Ascension and the Baptism in the Spirit (3)
10. The Son’s Ascension and the Baptism in the Spirit (4)
11. The Spirit of Life
12. The Life-giving Spirit
13. The Transforming Spirit
14. The Spirit as the Blessing of the Gospel
15. The Spirit of the Body and the Bountiful Spirit of Jesus Christ
16. The Spirit of the Practical Christian Life
17. The Eternal Spirit of Grace and the Spirit of Envy
18. The Spirit of Christ
19. The Anointing Spirit
20. The Seven Spirits (1)
21. The Seven Spirits (2)
22. The Seven Spirits (3)
23. The Seven Spirits (4)
24. The Seven Spirits (5)
25. The Seven Spirits (6)
26. The New Jerusalem—The Ultimate Consummation
27. The New Jerusalem—Its Designations (1)
28. The New Jerusalem—Its Designations (2)
29. The New Jerusalem—The Basic Elements of Its Structure (1)
30. The New Jerusalem—The Basic Elements of Its Structure (2)
31. The New Jerusalem—The Basic Elements of Its Structure (3)
32. The New Jerusalem—The Basic Elements of Its Structure (4)
33. The New Jerusalem—The Basic Elements of Its Structure (5)
34. The New Jerusalem—The Basic Elements of Its Structure (6)
35. The New Jerusalem—Its Triune Entrance
36. The New Jerusalem—Its Wall, Its Foundation, and Its Street
37. The New Jerusalem—Its Dimensions, Its Temple, and Its Light
38. The New Jerusalem—Its Throne
39. The New Jerusalem’s Application to the Believers—The Triune Entry
40. The New Jerusalem’s Application to the Believers—The Triune Constitution
41. The New Jerusalem’s Application to the Believers—The Triune Existence
42. The New Jerusalem’s Application to the Believers—The Triune Living
43. The New Jerusalem’s Application to the Believers—The Triune Enjoyment
44. The New Jerusalem’s Application to the Believers—The Triune Expression

FOREWORD

Fifty-one messages given by Brother Witness Lee during 1984 in Stuttgart, Germany and several localities in the United States constitute the content of this book of forty-four chapters. Brother Lee has told us that what is presented in this volume is the consummation of what the Lord has shown us in His recovery and that the chart on pages 12 and 13 is the extract and final reaping of his fifty-nine years of studying the New Testament.

Through the ministry of our brother as he has opened the Word to us in the United States since 1962, we have been helped to realize that the one thing that should be focused on, stressed, and ministered in the Lord’s recovery is God’s New Testament economy. We have seen that God’s oikonomia, economy (1 Tim. 1:4), is God’s household administration, His household management, His plan to distribute or dispense Himself into His chosen, redeemed, and regenerated people as their life and everything to produce a unique thing in the universe, the Body of Christ, which is His corporate expression as the golden lampstands in this age and ultimately as the New Jerusalem for eternity. The Triune God dispenses Himself in His entirety into us, His Body, by the Father being embodied in the Son and the Son being realized and consummated as the Spirit, reaching us through seven major steps, for our experience, enjoyment, and building up. The content of this divine economy is a wonderful, all-inclusive Person. This Person is the processed and consummated Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The New Testament is a full record of the marvelous revelation of God’s New Testament economy.

May the Lord richly supply us with His grace that we might see, possess, and minister such a revelation. May the Lord also preserve us from any teachings or practices, however “scriptural,” that might distract us from this basic, crucial, and central matter—the New Testament economy of God.

February 1986
Benson Phillips
Irving, Texas