THE TRIUNE GOD’S REVELATION AND HIS MOVE

MESSAGE THREE

THE SEQUENCE OF THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE BIBLE

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OUTLINE

2. The New Testament-the practical fulfillment of God’s eternal economy:
   1. Matthew to John unveil that the Triune God has been processed and consummated to be the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit:
      1. Through His incarnation to become the God-man.
      2. Through His human living to live the God-man’s life.
      3. Through His all-inclusive death to redeem His lost creation and to release His divine life.
      4. Through His resurrection to dispense Himself into His redeemed chosen people as their life and everything.
   2. Acts unveils the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit spreading Himself as the reality of Christ, who is the embodiment of God, for the producing of the churches of God.
   3. Romans to Revelation unveil the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit building up the churches into the organism of the consummated Triune God as the Body of Christ, by transforming them into the image of Christ as the firstborn Son of God, which will consummate in the New Jerusalem as the eternal enlargement and expression of the consummated Triune God.

In this message we want to see the second part concerning the sequence of the arrangement of the Bible. The first part covered the Old Testament. The second part covers the New Testament.

II. THE NEW TESTAMENT-THE PRACTICAL FULFILLMENT OF GOD’S ETERNAL ECONOMY

We have seen that the Old Testament is a figurative portrait of God’s eternal economy. The New Testament is the practical fulfillment of God’s eternal economy. The Old Testament is a portrait, and the New Testament is a fulfillment. A portrait is a picture, a photo. People may say that they have seen someone on a videotape, but actually they have not seen that person. They have seen his photo, his portrait. Later they may be glad to see the real person whom they saw on the video. The Old Testament is like a video. The New Testament is the real thing. It is not a portrait, but a fulfillment. The person in the fulfillment is exactly the same as his photo. There are twenty-seven books in the New Testament in three sections: the Gospels, the Acts, and the Epistles. The Gospels are of four books; the Acts is one book; and the Epistles are of twenty-two books.
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