CHAPTER THREE

AN EXTRACT
OF THE BASIC DIVINE REVELATION
IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

OUTLINE

1. To know the processed and consummated Triune God—Matt. 28:19:
   1. Incarnated to be the flesh—the first God-man to express God in humanity—John 1:14.
   2. Anointed to be the Christ, the anointed One of God, to accomplish God's plan in His eternal economy—Luke 4:18.
   3. Consummated to be the life-giving Spirit to apply what Christ has accomplished—1 Cor. 15:45b.
2. To know the all-inclusive Christ:
   1. As the mystery of God to be the reality of the Triune God—Col. 2:2.
   2. As the Word of God to define God—John 1:1.
   3. As the embodiment of God to express God—Col. 2:9.
   4. As the centrality and universality of God's eternal economy—Col. 1:13-19.
   5. As the God-allotted portion to be the enjoyment of His believers—Col. 1:12.
   6. As the life to His believers for them to live Him—Col. 3:4.
   7. As the Head of His Body for His expression—Col. 1:18.
3. To know the consummated Spirit:
   1. As the transfiguration of Christ in resurrection—1 Cor. 15:45b.
   2. As the compound Spirit, compounded with Christ's divinity, humanity, death with its effectiveness, and resurrection with its power as the elements to be the holy anointing ointment—Exo. 30:23-25.
   3. As the Spirit of life—Rom. 8:2.
   4. As the Spirit of God—Rom. 8:9.
   5. As the Spirit of Jesus—Acts 16:7.
   6. As the Spirit of Christ—Rom. 8:9.
   7. As the Spirit of Jesus Christ—Phil. 1:19.
   8. As the indwelling Spirit—Rom. 8:11.
   9. As the pneumatic Christ—Rom. 8:10.
4. To know the church:
   1. As the universal house of God to be God's manifestation in humanity—1 Tim. 3:15-16.
   2. As the local churches to be the expression of the one church of God—Rev. 1:11; 1 Cor. 10:32.
   3. As the universal Body of Christ to be His fullness—Eph. 1:22-23.
5. To know the Body of Christ:
   1. The mystery of Christ—Eph. 3:4.
   2. The fullness of Him who fills all in all—Eph. 1:23.
   3. The organism of the Triune God, constituted with the Triune God and the believers—Eph. 4:4-6.
   4. The contents of the new man—Col. 3:10-11.
   5. To be built up by the perfected saints in all the local churches—Eph. 4:11-12.
   6. Not divided and not divisible—1 Cor. 1:10-13.
   7. To consummate the New Jerusalem.
6. To know the ultimate consummation—the New Jerusalem—Rev. 21:
   1. A mystical constitution constituted with the processed and consummated Triune God with His chosen, redeemed, regenerated, transformed, and glorified people.
   2. As the bride—the wife—of the Lamb—vv. 2, 9.
   3. As the tabernacle to be the eternal dwelling place of God—v. 3.
   4. As the temple to be the eternal dwelling place of the glorified saints—v. 22.
   5. As the eternal expansion and expression of the processed and consummated Triune God in the regenerated, transformed, and glorified humanity.
7. To know the self:
   1. As the old man, the natural man:
      1. Crucified with Christ on the cross—Gal. 2:20.
      2. Buried with Christ in baptism—Rom. 6:4.
   2. To be denied, condemned, and rejected all the time—Matt. 16:24.