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Message 7
God’s Building

I love to have the Lord’s table with so many of you. It is quite a testimony
and an enjoyment when we all come together to testify that there is one
Body in the universe. You can see it and you can sense it. I do not want to
underestimate that. But in a training, we have to come to the truth and allow
the truth and the ministry to test us and to affect us. In the training, we can
ask this question: how much reality of the one Body do we actually have?
I do not want to bring you out of the enjoyment of the Lord’s table, but I
do want to bring you back into the atmosphere of the training. The Lord is
recovering the genuine oneness and reality of the Body; He is recovering it,
but it is not complete yet. We have not reached the goal yet and that is what
we want to do.
Before we get into this outline, I would like to remind you that we
already had six very weighty messages. The sequence of these messages is
very important. Actually, we cannot talk about these last two messages until
we enter into the first six. I hope you can realize this. In the crystallization-
study of Deuteronomy, we saw that God wanted His people to be a theocracy
- living under His rule. Mankind in general had fallen away from God’s direct
rule. Even Israel, as God’s people, failed to live under His rule. But what
was the goal? The goal was not simply to have a people who live under
God’s rule. The goal was that God wanted His people to be built up as His
dwelling place. We must understand that there is a direct connection between
living under the government of God and becoming the building of God. In
this message, we will talk about God’s building. We talk about this subject
a lot and we have many books and messages talking about God’s building.
But have you ever connected these two things: living under the government
of God and God’s building? This is why the revelation of the building is at