Scripture reading: Job 42:5-6; John 1:14; 14:20-21; 1 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 3:17-18; Eph. 3:16-17; 1 John 1:7<\/p>\n
I.I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You; Therefore I abhor myself, and I repent in dust and ashes\u2014Job 42:5-6:<\/strong><\/p>\n A.Job gained God in his personal experience (apart from his knowledge of God according to traditional, vain knowledge) and abhorred himself\u2014Job 42:5-6.<\/p>\n B.Although Job believed in God, feared God, and worshipped God, he was without God; “without God” means that he did not have God in him, that he did not have God’s element in his soul\u201442:5.<\/p>\n C.Spiritual things are gained once they are seen; for Job to see God was tantamount to gaining God; previously, God was merely a doctrine to Job, hence “the hearing of the ear”; now that he was enlightened by God, he saw God with his own eyes\u201442:5.<\/p>\n D.Once Job saw God, he did not confess any sin but abhorred himself and repented in dust and ashes; therefore, God was not dealing with his sin but with his self; the self is the soul\u201442:6.<\/p>\n II.Job’s problem was the lack of God’s element, not the problem of sin; God broke and enlightened him in order to work His element into him\u2014Job 42:5-6:<\/strong><\/p>\n A.Job was a perfect and upright man, but he was without God; this was the reason he was dealt with by God\u20141:1; 42:5.<\/p>\n B.When God’s light came, he knew how detestable he was; man’s words would not cause him to blame himself, but God’s light would cause him to be humbled\u201442:5-6.<\/p>\n C.Job’s opinion was the expression of his self; his opinion was his detestable self\u201442:3, 6.<\/p>\n D.God wanted Job to realize whether he was substituting his children for God or gaining God Himself\u201442:5.<\/p>\n III.To see God is to gain God; to gain God is to receive God in His element, life, and nature, so that we may be constituted with God\u2014Job 42:5:<\/strong><\/p>\n A.In Job 42:5 Job said, \u201cI had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You\u201d; we can interpret Job\u2019s seeing God as gaining God\u201442:5.<\/p>\n B.In the New Testament sense, to see God is to gain God; to gain God is to receive God in His element, life, and nature, so that we may be constituted with God\u201442:5.<\/p>\n C.God\u2019s giving man a double portion of blessing prefigures God\u2019s giving of Himself as The Spirit to man; the double portion of blessing must be God Himself\u201442:10.<\/p>\n D.God wants us to have more of God added into us\u201442:10.<\/p>\n IV.”I had heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You” is a turn from objective knowledge to subjective experience\u2014Job 42:5:<\/strong><\/p>\n A.We need to turn from merely having an objective knowledge of God to having a subjective experience of God\u201442:5.<\/p>\n B.Many Christians are still in Job\u2019s age, having only an objective knowledge of God and lacking a subjective experience of God\u201442:5.<\/p>\n C.The clear, complete, and perfect revelation is in Paul\u2019s writings, especially in the four books of Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians, which constitute the heart of the New Testament\u2014Eph. 3:16-19.<\/p>\n D.If we read these four books, we will see clearly the meaning of gaining God\u2014Eph. 3:16-19.<\/p>\n V.Today Christ as the life-giving Spirit dwells in our spirit to be our life, enabling us to subjectively experience Him\u20141 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 3:17-18:<\/strong><\/p>\n A.The Spirit is Christ Himself becoming the life-giving Spirit in resurrection\u20141 Cor. 15:45.<\/p>\n B.And the Lord is The Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom\u20142 Cor. 3:17.<\/p>\n C.But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit\u20142 Cor. 3:18.<\/p>\n D.We need to exercise our spirit to contact this Christ who is the Spirit\u20142 Tim. 4:22; Rom. 8:4.<\/p>\n VI.We need to allow Christ to make His home in our hearts that we may enjoy all His riches, resulting in our being filled unto all the fullness of God\u2014Eph. 3:16-19:<\/strong><\/p>\n A.That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man\u2014Eph. 3:16.<\/p>\n B.That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love\u2014Eph. 3:17.<\/p>\n C.May be full of strength to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth and length and height and depth are and to know the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ\u2014Eph. 3:18-19a.<\/p>\n D.That you may be filled unto all the fullness of God\u2014Eph. 3:19b.<\/p>\n VII.If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from every sin\u20141 John 1:7:<\/strong><\/p>\n A.The fellowship of life brings us into God\u2019s presence and into God Himself; God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all\u20141 John 1:5.<\/p>\n B.When we are brought into the presence of God as light, our sins, transgressions, failures, and mistakes are exposed, and our daily life is regulated by this enlightening\u20141 John 1:7.<\/p>\n C.If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness\u20141 John 1:9.<\/p>\n D.Light is the presence of God; when we are brought into the presence of God as light, we can see God with our own eyes\u20141 John 1:5, 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PERFECTING THE SAINTS SERIES ONE FELLOWSHIP FOR THE CHI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seq.qingmingshanghetu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seq.qingmingshanghetu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seq.qingmingshanghetu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seq.qingmingshanghetu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seq.qingmingshanghetu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seq.qingmingshanghetu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/seq.qingmingshanghetu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seq.qingmingshanghetu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seq.qingmingshanghetu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seq.qingmingshanghetu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}