Daily Portions

Message 11: Transformation, Conformation, Glorification and Building Up

V. Building up
Ephesians 4:15–16 But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ, 16 Out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.
Ephesians 4:3 Being diligent to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace.

A. Building up is the God-men’s being joined and knit together with other God-men in the divine life by their growth in the divine life

B. Brought forth through the joining and knitting by the transforming Spirit—Eph. 4:3, 15–16

C. The building up of the Body of Christ in the New Testament is this kind of building up by being joined and knit together in the divine life, and its purpose is to consummate the building of the holy city, New Jerusalem

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.

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Message 11: Transformation, Conformation, Glorification and Building Up

IV. Glorification–Rom. 8:30
Romans 8:30 And those whom He predestinated, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He also justified; and those whom He justified, these He also glorified.
Hebrews 2:10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in leading many sons into glory, to make the Author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, He who has called you into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself perfect, establish, strengthen, and ground you.
1 Thessalonians 2:12 So that you might walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
Romans 8:23 And not only so, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting sonship, the redemption of our body.
Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed unto the day of redemption.

A. Glorification is the spreading forth of Christ’s glory from the believers by their growing to maturity in Christ’s life

B. It is also the believers’ entering into the glory of God—Heb. 2:10; 1 Pet. 5:10; 1 Thes. 2:12

C. It is also the believers’ enjoyment of the redemption of their body—Rom. 8:23; Eph. 4:30

D. It is also the ultimate consummation of God’s complete salvation in the believers

E. The ultimate consummation of God’s complete salvation being the New Jerusalem—the crystallization of the union and mingling of God with man, the processed and consummated Triune God with His regenerated, transformed, conformed, and glorified tripartite elect

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.

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Message 11: Transformation, Conformation, Glorification and Building Up

III. Conformation—Rom. 8:29
Romans 8:29 Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.
Philippians 3:10 To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.
Philippians 1:19–21a For I know that for me this will turn out to salvation through your petition and the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. 20 According to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be put to shame, but with all boldness, as always, even now Christ will be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death. 21 For to me, to live is Christ….
1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we will be. We know that if He is manifested, we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is.

A. Conformation is the consummation of the believer’s transformation in life

B. Conformation is to be conformed to the image of God’s firstborn Son
1. God’s firstborn Son being Christ as the God-man
2. To be conformed to the image of God’s firstborn Son being that the believers become full-grown in life as God-men
a. To be conformed to Christ’s death in all things through the power of His resurrection—Phil. 3:10
b. To live Christ for magnifying Him through the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ (who is the God-man)—Phil. 1:19–21a
c. To be the reprints of the God-man, Christ, that the believers may be exactly like Him, the firstborn Son of God—1 John 3:2

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.

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Message 11: Transformation, Conformation, Glorification and Building Up

II. Transformation—Rom. 12:2
2 Corinthians 3:16–18 But whenever their heart turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 And the Lord is the Spirit….18 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.

C. Even more, by the believers, with an unveiled face, beholding the Lord and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord—2 Cor. 3:18

D. Thus they are being transformed into the same image as the Lord from one level of glory to another level of glory for the Lord’s expression

E. Even as from the Lord Spirit, that is, Christ as the life-giving Spirit

F. This requiring the believers’ outer man to be decaying (to be consumed) that their inner man may be renewed day by day—2 Cor. 4:16

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.

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Here is this week’s outline & verses in a downloadable PDF format.

2020 Summer Truth Pursuit Week 11

Message 11: Transformation, Conformation, Glorification and Building Up

Scripture Reading: 2 Cor. 3:16, 18; 4:16; Matt. 16:13–18; John 1:51; 2:16–22; 14:2, 23; Rom. 12:3–5; 1 Cor. 1:10–13; 3:9–15; 2 Cor. 3:16, 18; 4:16; Gal. 6:14–15; Rom. 8:23, 29–30; Eph. 4:30; Phil. 1:19–21a; 3:10; 1 Thes. 2:12; Heb. 2:10; 1 Pet. 5:10; 1 John 3:2; Eph. 3:17; 4:4–6, 11–16; Rev. 3:12–13; 4:3a; 21:2, 10–23; 22:1–5

I. In the metabolism in the divine life and in the joining and knitting in the building up

II. Transformation—Rom. 12:2
Romans 12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.
2 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart; but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.

A. Transformation being not an outward change or correction, but the metabolic function of the life of God in the believers

B. By the believers turning to the Lord and thereby removing the various kinds of veils of their old concepts—2 Cor. 3:16

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.

Later, watch the following short video podcast sometime during the day.

Here is this week’s outline & verses in a downloadable PDF format.

2020 Summer Truth Pursuit Week 10

Spend some time this morning to open up to the Lord in prayer regarding what He touched you with during the previous six days. Review your notes and the outline points and verses. Ask the Lord what He would have you share with all the saints. Prepare a prophecy (1-2 minutes long) to share with the saints what you enjoyed this week.

Message 10: Dispositional Sanctification and Renewing

Scripture Reading: Rom. 15:16; 8:2; 6:19, 22; Eph. 1:4; Rev. 21:2, 10; 22:19; Rom. 12:2a

I. In the dispositional sanctification in the divine nature and in the Spirit’s renewing of the believers’ mind

II. Dispositional sanctification

A. Dispositional sanctification being for the believers to be sanctified in their disposition that they may partake of the holy nature of God and be one with Him in this attribute of His—Rom. 15:16
Romans 15:16 That I might be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, a laboring priest of the gospel of God, in order that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, having been sanctified in the Holy Spirit.

B. This aspect of sanctification implying transformation—Rom. 6:19, 22
Romans 6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness and lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness unto sanctification.
Romans 6:22 But now, having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

C. This being the fulfillment of God’s purpose in choosing the believers—Eph. 1:4
Ephesians 1:4 Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish before Him in love.

D. Both the positional sanctification in the judicial aspect and the dispositional sanctification in the organic aspect of God’s salvation being ultimately manifested in the New Jerusalem for it to become the holy city—Rev. 21:2, 10; 22:19
Revelation 21:2 And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:10 And he carried me away in spirit onto a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
Revelation 22:19 And if anyone takes away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and out of the holy city, which are written in this scroll.

III. Renewing

A. The believers are spontaneously renewed in their spiritual life when they are sanctified dispositionally by the Holy Spirit

B. Requiring the believers not to be fashioned according to this age, but to be transformed by the renewing of their mind—Rom. 12:2a
Romans 12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.

C. To be renewed in the mind is to get rid of all the old concepts concerning the things of the human life and be made new again by the teaching of the Holy Scriptures and the enlightening of the Holy Spirit.

D. Such a renewing of the mind issuing in the transformation of the believers in their spiritual life.

Further reading
God’s Full Salvation, Lesson 16.

Message 10: Dispositional Sanctification and Renewing

III. Renewing

D. Such a renewing of the mind issuing in the transformation of the believers in their spiritual life.

Romans 12:2 And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.

Romans 6:22 But now, having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.

Later, watch the following short video podcasts sometime during the day.