Church in Dipolog City

Church in Dipolog City The Church in Dipolog City, a local church, meeting together in oneness as the church for all believers. As such, it’s an inclusive title, not an exclusive one.

The church in Dipolog City is not our name—it’s our description. We gather together simply as believers of the Lord in this city, and we receive as our brothers and sisters all who believe in Jesus Christ. Likewise, we warmly welcome guests and visitors who are not Christians. We warmly welcome you. We are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who have personally received Him as our Savior. He is the

most excellent and enjoyable Person. We love Him and endeavor to give Him the first place in all things. We rejoice to be cleansed by the blood of Jesus, God’s Son, born again of the Father’s divine life, and filled with the Holy Spirit. We highly treasure the Holy Bible as God’s revelation of Himself and of His eternal purpose. We hold the common faith which is revealed in the Bible and is common to all genuine believers. As is true of all believers in Christ, we are members of His one Body, the church. In order to practice the oneness of the Body with all the Christians in Dipolog, we meet as the church in Dipolog, in which we live. We are in fellowship with over 2,000 local churches worldwide to express the one Body of Christ.

13/02/2023

“Sometimes when we consider our situation, we may be disappointed and feel that we do not have anything. It may seem to us that everything under the sun and even everything in the spiritual field is vanity of vanities. We may feel that nothing is real, not even in the church life. What should we do when we feel this way? We should turn to the Triune God. He is our real blessing and portion. What a blessing it is to have Him as the blessing! What a blessing it is to have His face, His presence, and to enjoy Him daily as grace! The more we suffer, the more we enjoy Him as grace. What a blessing it is to have His countenance smiling upon us, assuring us, and confirming us! And what a blessing it is to have peace in Him, by Him, and with Him! This is the Triune God as our blessing. Oh, may the grace of Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all!”—

‹‹ HOLY WORD FOR MORNING REVIVAL WEEK 1 — DAY 1 ››Morning NourishmentEph. 1:10Unto the economy of the fullness of the ti...
13/02/2023

‹‹ HOLY WORD FOR MORNING REVIVAL WEEK 1 — DAY 1 ››

Morning Nourishment

Eph. 1:10
Unto the economy of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in Him.

John 4:14
But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.

According to the entire revelation of the sixty-six books of the Bible, the Divine Trinity—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—is for God’s dispensing, that is, for
the distribution of God into His chosen people. God’s desire with His strong intention is to dispense Himselfinto His chosen people as their life, as their life supply, and as their everything. To carry out this dispensing, He needs to be triune.

The Father as the origin is the fountain, the Son as the expression is the spring, and the Spirit as the transmission is the flow. The Spirit as the flow is the reaching, the application, of the Triune God for the distribution of Himself into His chosen people...In Jeremiah 2:13 God refers to Himself as the fountain of
living waters; in John 4:14 Christ is the spring of water that gushes up in the believers into eternal life; and in Revelation 22:1 the Spirit is the flow, the river of water of life...This course, this spring, issues in a flow, which is the Spirit as the reaching, the application, of the Triune God. This shows that God is triune to dispense, or distribute, Himself into His chosen people. (CWWL,1993, vol. 2, “The Crucial Points of the Major Items of
the Lord’s Recovery Today,” p. 53)

Hence, we must see that God’s only goal in time is to dispense His element into us day by day. [Although] we have too much of our self-element within us,...God is using time to mingle Himself into us. (CWWN, vol. 37, p.182)

Today’s Reading

The unique blessing in the whole universe is God Himself. Anything besides God is vanity...The existence of the universe is a great miracle, but without God the miraculous existence of the universe is vanity. Apart from God,
everything is “vanity of vanities” (Eccl. 1:2). Only God Himself is real. Only He is the blessing to us. If we gained the entire universe yet missed God, we would be the most pitiful persons...God Himself is our blessing, and this blessing comes to us through the dispensing of the Divine
Being into us in His Divine Trinity—in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 1 gives us a record of how the Triune God blesses His chosen, redeemed, and transformed people in
His Divine Trinity. This chapter is mainly on the three steps of God’s blessing us in His Divine Trinity, that is, on how He blesses us in the Father (vv. 3-6), in the Son (vv. 7-12), and.in the Spirit (vv. 13-14). Eventually, because of such a flow.of the Divine Trinity as the blessing to God’s chosen people, there is an issue, and the issue of this blessed flow is the
church as the Body of Christ, the fullness of the One who fills all in all (vv. 22-23). The church as the Body of Christ is
the total issue of the Divine Trinity as a flow to dispense all that God is into His chosen people.

The New Jerusalem has twelve gates with the names of the twelve tribes (Rev. 21:12), and twelve foundations with
the names of the twelve apostles (v. 14). Furthermore, the tree of life bears twelve kinds of fruit (22:2). Among these twelves the Triune God is hidden, and even mingled, as His people’s blessing.

As the consummation of the entire record of the Bible, the New Jerusalem is just the very God in His Divine Trinity—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—wrapped up in the number twelve with His chosen, redeemed, and transformed people as their blessing. This blessing will last eternally. Such a blessing is the ultimate fulfillment of God’s blessing to Israel
in Numbers 6. Only when the New Jerusalem comes will this blessing be completely fulfilled. (Life-study of Numbers, pp.78-79)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1993, vol. 2, “The Crucial Points of the Major Items of the Lord’s Recovery Today,” pp. 51-60; CWWN, vol. 37, pp. 181-185

07/01/2023

Loving the Lord and Loving One Another
for the Organic Building Up of the Church
as the Body of Christ

HOLY WORD FOR MORNING REVIVAL WEEK 4 Outline

The Organic Body of Christ Building Itself Up in Love

I. The intrinsic building up of the organic Body of Christ is bythe giving of the gifted persons (such as apostles, ķjjjispensing of the Divine Trinity, by Christ as the Head in His ascension (including His resurrection), to His Body—Eph. 4:8-12; Acts 2:24, 27; 1:9:

II. The intrinsic building up of the organic Body of Christ is bythe gifted per-sons' perfecting of the saints in the divine
dispensing so that all the saints may be able to do the work of the New Testament ministry, that is, to build up the Body of Christ—vv. 11-12:

III. The intrinsic building up of the organic Body of Christ is by the direct building by all the members—into the Head and out from the Head:

01/01/2023

Loving the Lord and Loving One Another
for the Organic Building Up of the Church
as the Body of Christ

HOLY WORD FOR MORNING REVIVAL WEEK 3 OUTLINE

Loving the Lord Jesus Christ in Incorruptibility

I. “Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ inincorruptibility”—Eph. 6:24:

II. Paul's blessing at the end of his Epistle to the Ephesians foreshadows a problem that would arise: the love in the church in Ephesus would fade, as indicated by the Lord's.rebuke in Revelation 2:2-5:

III. The revelation of the church in the Epistle to the Ephesianshas two main aspects: the first aspect is the work of the ministry to build up the Body of Christ, and the second aspect is our spiritual life, which comprises many spiritual experiences that enable us to live a life that matches the church life:

24/12/2022

Loving the Lord and Loving One Another
for the Organic Building Up of the Church
as the Body of Christ

HOLY WORD FOR MORNING REVIVAL WEEK 2 OUTLINE

Song of Songs—the Progressive Experience of an Individual Believer's Loving Fellowship with Christ for the Preparation of the Bride of Christ

I. The subject of Song of Songs, a poem, is the history of love in an excellent marriage, revealing the progressive experience of an individual believer's loving fellowship with Christ for the preparation of His bride in six major stages:

A. In the first stage of Song of Songs, the lover of Christ is drawn to pursue Him for satisfaction (1:2—2:7); the Lord wants His seeker to have a personal, affectionate, private, and spiritual relationship with Him:

B. In the second stage of Song of Songs, the lover of Christ is called to be delivered from the self through her oneness with the cross of Christ—2:8--3:5:

C. In the third stage of Song of Songs, the lover of Christ is called to live in ascension as the new creation in resurrection—3:6--5:1:

D. In the fourth stage of Song of Songs, the lover of Christ is called more strongly to live within the veil through the cross after resurrection—5:2--6:13:

E. In the fifth stage of Song of Songs, the lover of Christ shares in the work of the Lord—7:1-13:

F. In the sixth stage of Song of Songs, the lover of Christ is hoping to be raptured (8:1-14); she is coming up from the wilderness (the earthly realm) by “leaning on her beloved” (v. 5):

II. As the concluding word of this poetic book, the lover of Christ prays that her Beloved would make haste to come back in the power of His resurrection (gazelle and young hart) to set up His sweet and beautiful kingdom (mountains of spices), which will fill the whole earth—S. S. 8:14; Rev. 11:15; Dan. 2:35:

A. Such a prayer portrays the union and communion between Christ as the Bridegroom and His lovers as the bride in their bridal love, in the way that the prayer of John, a lover of Christ,as the concluding word of the Holy Scriptures, reveals God's eternal economy concerning Christ and the church in His divine love—Rev. 22:20.

B. “Come, Lord Jesus!” is the last prayer in the Bible (v. 20); the entire Bible concludes with the desire for the Lord's coming expressed as a prayer

C. “When He comes, faith will be turned to facts, and praise will replace prayer. Love will consummate in a shadowless perfection, and we will serve Him in the sinless domain. What a day that will be! Lord Jesus, come quickly!” (Watchman Nee, The Collected Works of Watchman Nee, vol. 23, “The Song of Songs,” p. 126).

18/12/2022

Loving the Lord and Loving One Another
for the Organic Building Up of the Church
as the Body of Christ

HOLY WORD FOR MORNING REVIVAL WEEK 1 OUTLINE

Loving the Lord and Loving One Another—the Most Excellent Way for Us to Be Anything and Do Anything for the Organic Building Up of the Church as the Body of Christ

I. Paul commended the Thessalonians by telling them that “your faith grows exceedingly and the love of each one of you all to one another is increasing”—2 Thes. 1:3:

II. The Lord's recovery is a recovery of loving the Lord Jesus with the first love, the best love, and of loving one another for the building up of the organic Body of Christ, which is the building up of the New Jerusalem as the goal of God's eternal economy—Eph. 4:15-16; Rev. 2:4-5:

III. Among the co-workers, the elders, the responsible ones, and everyone in the vital groups, love must prevail—1 Cor. 12:31b; 13:4-8, 13:

IV. Love is the most excellent way for us to be anything or do anything for the building up of the church as the organic Body of Christ—12:31b--13:8a:

V. John 21, a chapter on shepherding, is the completion and consummation of the Gospel of John; after His resurrection the Lord shepherded Peter and commissioned him to feed His lambs and shepherd His sheep; this is to incorporate the apostolic ministry with Christ's heavenly ministry to take care of God's flock, the church, which issues in the Body of Christ—vv. 15-17:

VI. Psalms 22—24 are a group of psalms revealing Christ from His crucifixion to His kingship in the coming age; in Psalm 22 we see Christ's death, His resurrection, and His many brothers produced in His resurrection to form His church; in Psalm 23 we see Christ as the Shepherd in His resurrection; and in Psalm 24 we see Christ as the coming King in His kingdom:

VII. In taking care of the churches and in shepherding the saints, what is needed is the intimate concern of a ministering
life—2 Cor. 7:2-7; 12:15; Philem. 7, 12:

Crystallization-Study of 1 & 2 KingsHOLY WORD FOR MORNING REVIVAL WEEK 12 OUTLINE Living an Overcoming Life by Reigning ...
10/12/2022

Crystallization-Study of 1 & 2 Kings

HOLY WORD FOR MORNING REVIVAL WEEK 12 OUTLINE

Living an Overcoming Life by Reigning in Life to Become the New Jerusalem as the City of Life

I. The genuine Christian life is the life of an overcomer, and all the overcomers in the New Testament should be kings who have received the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness to reign in life—Rom. 5:17:

II. Revelation, the last book of the Bible, is a book concerning the overcomers; in chapters 2 and 3, the Lord gives a sevenfold call to us, His believers, the
spiritual descendants of our great father Abraham to be His overcomers (2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21), those who conquer all the satanic chaos (cf. Col. 1:17b, 18b,
10) and triumph in the divine economy (Rom. 8:37; 2 Cor. 2:14):

III. In order for us to reign in life to be the Lord’s overcomers, we need to see that we have been regenerated with a divine,
spiritual, heavenly, kingly, and royal life; the Lord said, “So is the kingdom of God: as if a man cast seed on the earth”-- Mark 4:26; 1 John 3:9:

IV. In experience, to reign in life means to be under the ruling of the divine life:

V. Deuteronomy reveals that a proper king first had to be instructed, governed, ruled, and controlled by the word of God (17:14-15, 18-20); this principle should be the same with the elders in the churches and with all of us who aspire to reign in life (2 Tim. 3:14-17):

VI. In order to reign in life, we also need to be under the rulership of the Spirit; the record of Joseph’s life is a revelation of the rulership of the Spirit, for the rulership of the Spirit is the reigning aspect of a mature saint; it is a life of reigning in life, being under the restriction and limitation of the divine life in the reality of God’s kingdom, and it is higher than any other aspect of the Spirit—Rom. 5:17, 21; 14:17-18; 1 Cor. 2:15-16; 2 Cor. 2:13-14; 3:17-18; 2 Tim. 4:22; Rev. 4:1-3

VII. We need to see and arrive at the goal of reigning in life; when we are reigning in life, living under the ruling of the divine life, the issue is the real and practical Body life expressed in the church life—Rom.12:1-4, 9-12, 15-18; 14:1-9; 15:1-13:

VIII. When we are reigning in life, we are allowing the indwelling Christ as grace to reign within us “unto eternal life”; this is the consummation of reigning in life—Heb. 4:16; Rom. 5:17, 21:

03/12/2022

Crystallization-Study of 1 & 2 Kings

HOLY WORD FOR MORNING REVIVAL WEEK 11 OUTLINE

Apostasy, the High Places, and the Recovery of the Genuine Ground of Oneness

I. The apostasy of Jeroboam can be considered a type of today’s Christianity—1 Kings 12:25-33; 13:33-34:

II. For the recovery and preservation of the genuine, allinclusive oneness, we must destroy the high places—1Kings 11:7-8; 12:26-33; 13:33-34; 14:22-23; 15:14;22:43; 2 Kings 12:2-3; 14:3-4; 15:3-4, 34-35:

III. Because of the apostasy, the high places, and the divisions throughout Christendom, there is the need for the recovery of the genuine ground of oneness—Eph. 4:2-6, 13; John 17:11, 14-23; 1 Cor. 10:16-17:

13/11/2022

Crystallization-Study of 1 & 2 King

HOLY WORD FOR MORNING REVIVAL WEEK 8 OUTLINE

Growing into a Holy Temple in the Lord

I. Our being saved by grace, being raised up together with Christ and seated together with Him in the heavenlies, and having access to the Father are for the building up of the church, His Body, through growing into a holy temple in the Lord—Eph. 2:5-6, 8, 18, 21-22:

II. As believers in Christ and as members of the Body of Christ, we are “being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the
cornerstone”—v. 20:

III. In Christ, who is the cornerstone, “all the building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord”—2:21:

IV. Referring to the local saints in Ephesus, Paul says, In whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit”—v. 22:

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