The three kinds of precious materials
for the building of the holy city
signify that the Triune God
is the triune constitution
of the New Jerusalem :
Gold signifies
God the Father in His holy nature
as the base of God’s organic building :
We need to partake of and be constituted with
the holy and divine nature of God,
the divine element of the New Jerusalem.
We need to do everything
according to the divine nature of God,
taking the divine nature as our pathway,
to be under the ruling of God’s golden administration :
The divine life flowing in the divine nature
is the unique way
for our daily life
and for our move in the Lord’s move.
We need to practice the divine fellowship
based upon the golden nature within us.
Pearls signify
the issue of Christ’s secretion in two aspects
—His redeeming and life-releasing death
and His life-dispensing resurrection :
We need to preach regeneration
through the death
-overcoming and life-secreting Christ
as the entrance into the holy city.
We need to remain
under the killing of the Lord’s death
so that His resurrection life
may be imparted through us into others.
Precious stones
signify the Spirit’s work
to transform the redeemed and regenerated saints
for the building of God’s eternal habitation
that they may express God corporately
in His all-permeating glory :
Transformation is
not an outward change or correction
but a spiritual metabolism;
it is the metabolic function
of the life of God
in the believers.
For the church life
there is
the need of the transformed human virtues,
which have been strengthened and enriched
by the divine attributes.
We must learn to minister the Triune God to others
for their transformation
by perfecting them
with the attributes of the Triune God.
The river of water of life
proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb
signifies that the Triune God
is the triune existence of the New Jerusalem :
The application of the New Jerusalem
in its triune existence
is described in Ephesians 4:4-6
—one Body, one Spirit, one Lord, and one God and Father.
These verses show us
how the Body of Christ exists
with the Father, the Lord, and the Spirit
as a foretaste of the existence of the New Jerusalem in eternity:
We are existing with God the Father
as the source of the Body,
allowing Him to be over us, through us, and in us.
We are existing with the Lord Christ
as the element of the Body,
living Him, existing by Him,
through the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ
for His magnification in our existence.
We are existing with the Spirit
as the essence of the Body
—walking by the Spirit, serving by the Spirit,
drinking the Spirit, being transformed by the Spirit,
and being strengthened and enriched
by the sevenfold intensified Spirit
for the Body life,
which will consummate in the New Jerusalem.
The Triune God
—the Father as the light of life,
the Son as the tree of life,
and the Spirit as the river of life—
is the triune enjoyment
of the New Jerusalem :
God as the light
shines from within the Lamb as the lamp
through the New Jerusalem as the diffuser :
We need to keep our heart pure and single for God
so that our whole inner being
will be illuminated,
full of light
without any dark part.
For the building up of the Body of Christ,
we need to walk and live
under the divine, redeeming, shining light
through the word of God.
We need to shine
as luminaries in the world,
letting our light shine before men
in all goodness, righteousness, and truth
for His glory.
We need to be one with Christ
as the light of the Gentiles
so that His salvation may reach to the end of the earth
for Him to come again
as the Desire of all the nations.
The enjoyment of Christ
as the tree of life
will be the eternal portion
of all God’s redeemed :
The tree of life
signifies God as life to man
and declares
that God offers Himself to man
in an edible form.
We are not only the eaters of this tree,
enjoying the continually fresh fruit,
but also the branches of this tree,
abiding in Him
to enjoy the life-juice.
The river of water of life
is the flowing out of the Triune God
—the Spirit
as the ultimate consummation
of the processed Triune God
reaching His redeemed people
for their enjoyment :
To contact God the Spirit with our spirit
is to drink of the living water,
which is
to render real worship to God.
By drinking the living water,
we become the New Jerusalem,
the totality of the eternal life,
the destination of the flowing Triune God.
The Triune God
—the Father as the source of life,
the Son as the tree of life,
and the Spirit as the flow of life—
is the triune living
of the New Jerusalem :
We need to live out the Father
as the source of life
on the throne :
We need to take God the Father
as our source
with His redeeming element
and with the element of His divine authority
so that we may enjoy
the flow of life
for our organic salvation.
We need to live out the Father
as love and as light
by keeping ourselves
in the fellowship of the divine life,
the inner flow of the divine life.
We need to live out the Son
as the life
and life supply, the tree of life :
We need to learn to take Christ as everything
for His magnification.
We need to call upon His name
to enjoy His riches
as our supply.
We need to live out the Spirit
as the bountiful supply
of the processed and consummated Triune God,
the flow of life :
The flow of the river of water of life in the New Jerusalem
illustrates the fellowship of life,
which is the flow of the eternal life
within the believers.
The flow of the river of water of life
is the one stream of the Lord’s work
for His one move
through His one ministry
to produce and build up His one Body
for His one testimony.
The Triune God
—the Father as the source of the divine riches,
the Son as the embodiment of the divine riches,
and the Spirit as the realization of the divine riches—
is the triune expression of the New Jerusalem :
The expression of God the Father
as the source of the divine riches
is His communicable glory
in His rich life :
The first layer of the wall’s foundation
and the entire wall
is built of jasper,
signifying that the whole city
bears the appearance of God
for God’s glory, His corporate expression.
The work of the apostles,
who are signified by the twelve foundations,
is “layer upon layer”
and leads to
the unique appearance of jasper,
the appearance of God in Christ.
The expression of God the Son
as the embodiment of the divine riches
is in His person and with His work:
The Lamb as the redeeming One
is the lamp for the expression of God as the light
through the city as the light-bearer
to express Him as the glory.
The work of Christ’s death and resurrection,
signified by the pearls,
is a “double cure”
that saves us
from the guilt of sin through His blood
and from the power of sin in His life.
The expression of God the Spirit
as the realization of the divine riches
is in His all-inclusiveness
as the consummation of the processed Triune God:
The all-inclusive Spirit
as the river of water of life
flows with God,
with the Lamb,
with the throne,
with the divine nature as the divine way,
and with all the unsearchable riches of Christ
to saturate our entire being.
The Christian life
must be a life
in the Spirit, by the Spirit, and with the Spirit,
issuing in the fruit of the Spirit,
with all the divine attributes
expressed in human virtues.
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Prophecy note, 10 August 2014
We all need to learn
how to perfect others
with the attributes of the Triune God.
We should not look
merely at a person’s mistakes.
Instead, we should realize
that they are short
of God’s golden nature and life.
They are short
of Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension.
They are short
of the Holy Spirit’s work.
We have to add
all these things to them.
We should not condemn others;
instead, we should minister
the life-supply to them.
We need to impress them
that in the proper church life
we pay our attention fully to the Triune God.
This is
to minister the Triune God to them.
Such transformation and perfecting
can take place
only in the proper church life.
The Lord directs us
to the proper church life
for the purpose of producing
the essence of the church
to constitute the Body of Christ
for the upcoming consummation
of the New Jerusalem.
All the apostles were created as clay,
but they were regenerated
and transformed into precious stones
for God’s eternal building.
This regeneration and transformation
is required of every believer
who will be
a part of the New Jerusalem
Although the entire wall is jasper,
the twelve foundations
are different stones with various colors.
Each layer is different from the others.
The reason for this
is that the apostles had different ministries.
However, these twelve foundations
are not laid side by side;
rather, they are laid
one on top of another.
All twelve layers
lead to and support
the unique testimony
in the unique expression.
The work of the apostles
was layer upon layer
and led to
the unique appearance of jasper,
the appearance of God in Christ.
Paul’s work was upon Peter’s,
and John’s work was upon Paul’s.
As a result,
they produced one building,
not three distinct houses.
In the entire universe
there will only be
the unique New Jerusalem,
built upon the foundation
of many ministries
laid one on top of the other.
Our work must be a layer
laid upon the present layer,
and it must produce the same appearance.
All the ministries
must lead to one appearance
—the appearance of today’s church
and of the coming New Jerusalem.
Day 6
Revelation 21:19-20
lists the names of twelve precious stones,
which are the twelve apostles of the Lamb,
each of whom is signified by a precious stone.
When Peter, the first of the twelve apostles,
was brought to the Lord,
the Lord changed his name to Cephas,
which means “a stone”.
Later, the Lord called him by this name
when He spoke concerning the building of His church (Matt. 16:18).
Precious stones are not created
but are transformed from something
that has been created.
All the apostles were created as clay,
but they were regenerated
and transformed into precious stones
for God’s eternal building.
This regeneration and transformation
is required of every believer
who will be a part of the New Jerusalem.
The foundations of the wall of the city
are of twelve layers.
The first layer of the wall’s foundation,
as well as the entire wall of New Jerusalem,
is built with jasper.
This indicates
that the main material in the building of the holy city
is jasper.
Since jasper signifies God
expressed in His communicable glory,
the main function of the holy city
is to express God
in bearing His glory.
Although the entire wall is jasper,
the twelve foundations
are different stones with various colors.
Each layer is different from the others.
The reason for this
is that the apostles had different ministries.
Paul’s ministry was different from Peter’s,
and Peter’s was different from John’s.
However, these twelve foundations
are not laid side by side;
rather, they are laid
one on top of another.
The top layer, the layer that met the bottom of the wall,
was jasper,
the same color as the wall.
Thus, all the work of the apostles
issued in the same appearance, jasper.
All twelve layers
lead to and support
the unique testimony in the unique expression.
The work of the apostles
was layer upon layer
and led to
the unique appearance of jasper,
the appearance of God in Christ.
If you examine
the ministries of the apostles in the New Testament,
you will see
that each ministry was
upon the top of another,
not side by side.
Peter, a fisherman,
brought in the fish, the material.
Paul, a tent maker,
built up the tent
with the materials brought in by Peter.
Eventually, after the tent had been torn,
the apostle John came in
to mend it.
Thus, Peter’s ministry was a fishing ministry,
Paul’s was a building ministry,
and John’s was a mending ministry.
These three apostles worked
one on top of the other.
Paul’s work was upon Peter’s,
and John’s work was upon Paul’s.
As a result,
they produced one building,
not three distinct houses.
Unlike Peter, Paul, and John,
today’s so-called Christian workers
all build up their own houses,
each with its own design, shape, color, and expression.
But in the entire universe
there will only be
the unique New Jerusalem,
built upon the foundation of many ministries
laid one on top of the other.
By the Lord’s mercy,
I can testify
that I worked with Brother Nee for many years,
but I do not bear an appearance
different from his.
My ministry is the same in appearance
as Brother Nee’s ministry.
In our ministries
there was no division or differing opinion.
But this does not mean
that my ministry is exactly the same as Brother Nee’s ministry.
If the Lord delays His coming back,
I hope that some of the young brothers among us
will be the continuation of the Lord’s recovery.
However, we must realize
that it is absolutely wrong
to have another, side-by-side work.
Your work must be a layer
laid upon the present layer,
and it must produce the same appearance.
All the ministries
must lead to one appearance
—the appearance of today’s church
and of the coming New Jerusalem.
Day 5
God as life to man
first flows out in His Son, our Lord Jesus.
Thus, the Lord can give us the living water,
and the water that He gives
will become in us a fountain of water,
springing up into eternal life.
God is the fountain of the divine water of life,
and the Lord Jesus is the springing up of the fountain.
He is the Rock smitten for us
that out of Him
may flow the living water of the divine life
to be taken by us.
God flows out as the living water
in His Spirit and through His Spirit.
The Lord tells us
that he who believes into Him
will have rivers of living water
flowing from within him.
He spoke this of the Spirit.
By this we know
that the Holy Spirit is the second channel
by which God Himself flows out as the living water to us.
The book of Revelation
tells us
that this stream of living water
flows out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Within this stream
is the life of God.
In the river of living water
is growing the tree of life,
yielding its fruit each month.
This shows
that the life that supplies all our need
is something
growing in the river of living water.
Thus, it proves to us
that the river of living water
is the supply of the divine life.
This is a stream
that will both heal and produce,
both swallow up death and supply us with life.
This is the stream of life.
We should be those
living with the Father
as the source of life on the throne.
The first striking point of the New Jerusalem
is that God is sitting on the throne.
This God is
the Lamb-God, the redeeming God, God the Redeemer.
He is the source
from which flows the river of water of life.
We also live with the Father
as love, the nature of God’s essence,
and as light, the nature of God’s expression.
In the very divine life
which flows from the divine source
is love and light.
We also need to be those
living with the Son
as the embodiment of God.
When you have the Father,
you have the Son,
and when you have the Son,
you have the Father.
The Son as the embodiment of God
is life.
We live with the Father as the source of life,
but we live with the Son as life.
The New Testament does not tell us
that the Father is life,
but it always says
that the Son is life.
The life comes out of the source, of course,
just as the flow comes out of the fountain.
We live with the Father as the fountain,
and we live with the Son
as life
and as the life supply, the tree of life.
Even today in the church life,
as indicated by Revelation 2:7,
we can eat the tree of life.
The Lord Jesus
is our daily life supply,
and every day
we must call upon His name
to enjoy this supply,
learning to take our Lord individually and extensively
as our enjoyment for His magnification.
The Lord is realized as the Spirit.
The more you call on the Lord,
the more you have the Spirit within you
as the realization of Christ, the Spirit of reality.
The Spirit of life
simply means the current of life.
When life moves,
it is the Spirit of life.
The fellowship of the Spirit
is the flow of the Spirit.
The Spirit of life
is also the water of life,
and we live with the Spirit
as the water of life
for the bountiful supply of the Triune God.
Day 4
We partake of, enjoy, and express
the light, the lamp, the light-bearer,
and the glory of the New Jerusalem.
The light is God,
the lamp is the Lamb,
the light-bearer is the city,
and the glory is God expressed.
God as light
shines from within the Lamb as the lamp
through the city as the light-bearer
to express Himself as the glory.
Light refers to God the Father.
First John 1:5 tells us
that God is light,
and according to the context of this verse,
God mainly refers to God the Father.
While love is the nature of God’s intrinsic essence,
light is the nature of God’s outward expression.
In the New Jerusalem
light refers to God Himself
to illuminate the entire city for His expression.
Revelation 21:23 tells us
that the city has no need of the sun or of the moon.
This indicates
that in the new heaven and the new earth
the sun and moon will still be there.
The fact that the tree of life in the New Jerusalem
yields its fruit each month
also indicates that in the new heaven and new earth
the moon will still be there
to divide the twelve months.
In the New Jerusalem, however,
there will be no need of the sun or of the moon.
The light in the city
will be God Himself
as the light of life.
God as the divine light, the light of life,
is contained in the Lamb as the lamp.
An electrical light
always needs a bulb or a lamp
to contain it;
otherwise,
there is the possibility
of a person being electrocuted.
In the New Jerusalem,
the redeeming Lamb is the lamp,
and God is within Him as the light.
This indicates
that without the redeeming Christ
to contain the divine light,
the divine light would “kill” us.
With the redeeming Christ as the lamp, however,
the divine light does not kill us;
it illumines us.
The killing becomes
a kind of enlightening
through the redemption of Christ.
First Timothy 6:16 tells us
that God dwells in unapproachable light.
In Christ, though,
God becomes approachable.
Outside of Christ,
God’s shining is a kind of killing,
but inside of Christ,
God’s shining is a kind of illumination.
Since the day we were saved,
we began to enjoy God
as the divine light
in the redeeming Christ
illumining us all the time.
Even today
we should enjoy God
in this way.
According to the principle of the new creation,
we have God in us as light.
In Him
there is no darkness at all.
When you are fellowshipping with God,
you do not need any other light.
As long as you have Him,
He is the very light to you
and you do not need any teaching or doctrine.
As long as you have the very God
who is light to you
in your fellowship with Him,
there is no need of anything else.
Glory is God expressed.
In the New Jerusalem
God is light,
and His shining is His glory.
The shining is
the coming out of the light,
so when God shines in the city,
God is expressed in glory,
first in Christ and through Christ
and then in the city and through the saints.
God is the light,
Christ is the containing lamp,
and the city’s wall
bears the divine light
to express God.
A certain saint
may be a very good person,
but he may still be opaque and not transparent
because he remains in the old creation so much.
When you are with another saint, though,
you may sense
that with him everything is transparent
since he has experienced much transformation in life.
We all need to be transformed to such an extent
that we are full of light and transparent.
When we open our entire being to Him,
we are in the light,
and the light is God Himself
enjoyed by us in our daily life.
Day 3
Eph. 4:4-6
One Body and one Spirit,
even as also you were called
in one hope of your calling;
one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
one God and Father of all,
who is over all and through all and in all.
The application of the New Jerusalem
in its triune existence
is described in Ephesians 4:4-6.
These verses show us
how the church can exist with the Triune God,
with the Father, with the Lord, and with the Spirit.
We need a vision
to see how we have to exist
with God the Father over us, through us, and in us;
with the Son living in us
that we may take Him as our life
to live by Him, to live Him, and to magnify Him;
and we also have to see
that the very consummation of the Triune God
is the reaching Spirit
who is right now within us.
He has regenerated us,
we have been baptized in Him,
we are drinking Him,
and He is transforming us.
He is the very substance and the very essence
of our church life.
The Spirit, the Lord, and God the Father
are the substance of our daily existence.
It is truly marvelous
that today we can enjoy a foretaste
of the existence of the New Jerusalem in eternity.
In the triune existence
we are existing with God the Father,
who is over all, through all, and in all.
God is the originator of all things
and the originator of His eternal purpose, His eternal economy.
As the Father,
God is the source of life for the Body.
As the originator, He created us in the old creation,
and as the source, He regenerated us in the new creation
to be the church.
Concerning the old creation,
we were created by God.
Concerning the new creation,
we were regenerated by the Father.
On the one hand,
we are still the old creation,
and on the other hand,
we are the new creation.
Ephesians 2:15 tells us
that through the death of Christ in the flesh,
one new man has been created,
and this new man is the Body.
This Body is
of God the originator
and of the Father the source.
The very originator and the source
are over all of us, through all of us, and in all of us.
We also need to be those
existing with the Lord Christ.
Our existence today
must be one with Christ
in the way He lives in us.
Christ living in us
is a continuation
of the Father being over us, and eventually in us.
The Son’s living in us
is a continuation of the Father’s being in us.
When God is over us, through us, and in us,
that is Christ living in us.
When Christ lives in us,
we live by Him,
which means we exist by Him.
Furthermore, we even live Christ.
To live by Christ
is not as high as to live Christ.
We need to live Christ.
The very Christ
whom we live
is the very substance
with which we exist.
We exist with Christ
as the living substance.
Finally, we should be those
existing with the Spirit.
Ephesians 4:4 refers to
the one Body and the one Spirit.
This verse indicates
that the very Spirit
is the essence and the substance
of the Body, the church.
The church today must be
substantially and essentially the Spirit Himself.
If there is no Spirit,
there is no Body, no church.
Without the Spirit,
all we have
is a kind of human congregation.
The Spirit is
the substance or the essence of the church.
We were regenerated by the Spirit.
We have been baptized in the Spirit.
Now we are those drinking the Spirit.
Day after day
the Spirit is our drink,
and whatever we drink
becomes our intrinsic essence.
Therefore, the Spirit must be
the intrinsic essence of the church life.
Furthermore, we are now being transformed by the Spirit.
He is now transforming us with the divine element,
which is being added to us
to replace and discharge the old element of our old nature.
You and I have to exist with the Spirit
as our spiritual essence.
Finally, we are being strengthened and enriched
by the sevenfold intensified Spirit
for the Body life,
which will consummate in the New Jerusalem.
Day 2
The second aspect of the triune constitution
is the pearls
which are produced
through the secretion of Christ’s resurrection life.
The divine nature
was given to us by God,
but pearls
are produced
through the secretion of Christ’s resurrection life
from the time
that we entered into Christ.
When we stay in the death of Christ,
Christ’s resurrection life
secretes itself over us,
making all of us pearls.
When you declare,
“I have been crucified with Christ,”
this means
that you are staying in His death,
that you would not go away from His death,
and that His death is your dwelling place.
When you stay, remain, and abide in Christ’s death,
then it is no longer you that live
but Christ that lives in you.
His living and moving in you
is the secretion of His resurrection life over you
to make you a pearl.
This secreting
is a constituting.
The seeker’s transformation in Song of Songs
can be seen in the description of her in 1:10-11:
“Your cheeks are lovely
with plaits of ornaments,
/ Your neck with strings of jewels.
/ We will make you plaits of gold
/ With studs of silver.”
The perfected ones
coordinate with the transforming Spirit
to perfect the lover of Christ
by adding God’s divine nature (plaits of gold) into her.
Then silver studs
are added to bind the gold plaits together.
Silver refers to
Christ with His all-inclusive redemption
in His death, His resurrection, and His ascension.
His death is
the redeeming, all-terminating, and life-releasing death;
His resurrection is
the all-germinating and life-dispensing resurrection;
and His ascension is
the all-transcending and all-attaining ascension.
His ascension
transcends everything
that would frustrate us from going to God.
We have to receive
the reality of Christ in all these aspects.
The strings of jewels
are a sign of the transforming Spirit.
Thus, the seeker is perfected
with the Triune God.
Gold signifies
God the Father in His golden nature;
silver signifies
Christ the Son in His all-inclusive redemption;
and strings of jewels signify
God the Spirit in His transformation.
The perfected ones
help the seeker
to know God in His nature
and to experience Christ in His death, resurrection, and ascension.
This is
to beautify the seeker
in her submission to God
through the transformation of the Spirit
with the divine nature of God (plaits of gold)
as ornaments
in her expression (cheeks).
The perfected ones
also coordinate with the Spirit
to beautify the seeker
through the dispensing
of the transforming Spirit
with the divine life
expressed as jewels in strings.
Transformation is
the working of the Triune God’s attributes
into the seeking believers
to become their virtues.
The perfected ones
who have experienced this kind of transformation
know how to perfect others.
We all need to learn
how to perfect others
with the attributes of the Triune God.
We should not look
merely at a person’s mistakes.
Instead, we should realize
that they are short
of God’s golden nature and life.
They are short
of Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension.
They are short
of the Holy Spirit’s work.
We have to add
all these things to them.
We should not condemn others;
instead, we should minister the life-supply to them.
We need to impress them
that in the proper church life
we pay our attention fully to the Triune God:
God the Father
as the divine nature and life,
God the Son
as the divine element,
and God the Spirit
as the transforming One in His divine essence.
This is
to minister the Triune God to them.
Such transformation and perfecting
can take place
only in the proper church life.
The Lord directs us
to the proper church life
for the purpose of producing the essence of the church
to constitute the Body of Christ
for the upcoming consummation of the New Jerusalem.
Day 1
The first intrinsic element
of the triune constitution of the New Jerusalem
is gold,
given by the Father
as the basic element.
Gold in typology
always refers to God’s divine nature,
and Peter told us
that we are partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4).
When we were born of God,
as the begetting Father
He imparted His own nature into our being,
which is the gold
of the “golden mountain,” the New Jerusalem.
The city proper
is like a mountain
with the height of twelve thousand stadia,
and Revelation 21:18 tells us
that the city
was pure gold.
Also, Revelation 21:21 tells us
that the street of the city
was pure gold.
All of this
denotes that the divine nature
is the basic element
of our spiritual constitution.
Before you were saved,
who was your ruler?
What was your administration?
You yourself tried to be your own ruler
and you were a mess.
Actually, you had no ruler or administration.
One day you heard the gospel,
which said,
“Repent,
for the kingdom of the heavens
has drawn near” (Matt. 3:2).
You repented to the divine Ruler
and came under His administration.
Through the gospel
God came to be your kingdom.
He is the King on the throne.
Connected to His throne
is a street
on which you should walk,
and that street is His administration.
From the day you repented,
you have felt
that there is
a throne and a golden street, a golden administration, within you.
Then you began to do things
according to the gold, according to the nature of God.
This is because
both the throne and the street
are built on the gold
as the nature of God.
The high peak of the gospel
brings us back
to God as our throne,
to God as our administration.
We have to live a life
in which we do everything
according to God’s nature.
Ephesians 4 says
that we should let
no corrupt word proceed
out of our mouth.
This is because
we are children of God.
When we speak anything,
we need to remember
that we are God’s children;
we are golden.
To speak corrupt things
does not match our golden nature.
If we take this word,
it will change our life.
We will be adjusted and regulated
by the golden nature of God
in all that we do
according to the golden throne, the golden administration.
All of our fellowship
should be according to God’s golden nature.
The river is in the middle of the street,
and the street is the golden nature.
In this fellowship
is the river, the Holy Spirit,
as our beverage and our supply
to quench our thirst.
Then we also have Christ
as the tree of life
for our life supply
to nourish us.
In order to experience all of this,
we must be on the golden street, the base of gold.
We may feel
that it is enough to say
that our fellowship with God
is our contacting God,
and our fellowship with the saints
is our contacting the saints.
But this is not the deciding factor
concerning whether or not
our fellowship is the fellowship of God.
The fellowship of God
must be based upon God’s divine nature.
I may go to visit a certain brother every day,
but is that the real fellowship?
Whether that is the real fellowship or not
is determined by
whether or not
it is based upon the golden nature within me.
If my contact with a brother
is not based upon the golden nature,
then I am making a natural friendship with him.
I am not practicing the spiritual fellowship of life
based upon God’s divine nature.
As we enter into
the experience and application
of the divine nature of God,
we make ourselves
genuine parts of the New Jerusalem.
Eventually, we become golden in everything.
The inward being of our Christian life
must be God’s golden nature.
We should live, walk, and do everything
based upon the golden nature within us.