Isa Msg 30

Truth:
1. To keep the Sabbath is to be "fired" and replaced by Christ so that we may get into Him and rest in Him for eternity.
2. The real meaning of fasting according to the Bible is to cease from the taste of anything other than Christ.
3. On the negative side, Christ is saving us from our sins and iniquities; on the positive side, He is our light and glory.
4. Our mouth is for three things: breathing, eating, and speaking. Among these three, the most crucial is speaking.
5. Speaking is a problem to us all. Our speaking may minister life to others, or it may minister death to others. If the saints in the church life could be corrected in their speaking, every church would be revived.
6. The Triune God is embodied in Christ, Christ is embodied in the word, the word is realized as the Spirit, and the Spirit is the consummation of the Triune God.
7. He is the Spirit for our breathing and the word for our feeding.
8. In the restoration Israel will be glorified and beautified and thus become God's beautification. God will be beautified by the restored and beautified Israel.
9. By putting Himself into us as the Spirit and the word, He becomes our beauty, brightness, and splendor. By means of the life-giving Spirit and the word, which is the embodiment of Christ, we received the divine dispensing. The more He dispenses Himself into us as life and everything to us, the more we become bright, beautiful, and glorious. The is Christ becoming our light and glory. Eventually, we will become God's glory and beauty. He becomes our beauty so that we may become His beauty. In this way God and His chosen people are glorified and beautified in mutuality.

Life experience/Application:
1. Christ as the embodiment of the Triune God has accomplished God's full redemption, and now He is applying His complete salvation to His believers.
2. By fasting and resting, we pan partake of all that the processed Christ has accomplished for us.
3. God has put His Spirit and His word into our mouth. His Spirit is for us to breathe and His word is for our nourishment and for our speaking.
4. Both breathing and speaking are for dispensing. The more we breath and eat, the more the elements of life are dispensed into us. Since we have God's Spirit and God's word, all day long we can be under God's dispensing if we breathe the Spirit and are nourished with the word.
5. Instead of being limited in our breathing, we need to exercise spiritual DEEP breathing. The more deeply we breathe the Spirit, the HEALTHIER we will be in our spiritual life.