Isa Msg 47

Truth:
1. God's economy is to dispense Himself into us as our life, our person, and our everything.
2. God's justification is according to the highest standard, the standard of His righteousness.
3. Christ is the righteousness of God to us.
4. The unique way in which Abraham could receive such a son that equaled God's righteousness was by faith.
5. It is through Christ's blood that we can receive and gain God's forgiveness, and God's forgiveness equals God's justification.
6. Christ died for our sins to solve all the problems related to god's righteousness. In His resurrection He became a life-giving Spirit that He might enter into us to enliven us, to germinate us, to animate us, to make us alive.
7. For us to be God's people means that we are God's inheritance, and for God to be our God means that He is our inheritance.
8. Christ as our covenant takes care of God's righteousness, and Christ as our light releases God's life into us.
9. The central line of the divine revelation is God's economy and God's dispensing. The totality of what the Bible reveals to us is the New Jerusalem.
10. The rainbow is a sign that reminds us of God's faithfulness in keeping His word. God's faithfulness is based on His righteousness.
11. Life is the consummation of righteousness and righteousness is the base, the foundation of life.
12. New Jerusalem is the embodiment of God's full salvation, and God's full salvation is a composition of God's righteousness as the base and God's life as the consummation.
13. Christ as the covenant and Christ as the light, added together, equal God's full salvation.
14. Justification brings us into life. When we receive God's justification according to Christ as God's righteousness, the issue in us of this justification is the divine life.
15. Christ served us by dying for us, and that was to serve us by being a covenant.
16. He serves God by ministering life to us through His death and resurrection.
17. Light issues in Christ as the divine life to us.
18. The life of this light grows in us all the time, issuing in our church life today and consummating in the New Jerusalem in eternity.
19. As long as our God reigns among us, we do not need to worry about anything. When God reigns, He also supports, supplies, and provides.
20. To redeem Jerusalem is to deliver Jerusalem out of any kind of trouble, any kind of oppression, and any kind of tyranny.
21. God's people still need to know Christ in the New Testament sense.
22. The more they are oppressed, the more Christians rise up. Christ acts wisely and prosperously.
23. On the one hand, Christ is now glorified, but on the other hand, He still bears the impress of His being disfigured for us. If He were not so, He could never save us; He could never be our Substitute on the cross.
24. The entire chapter 53 is a recounting, a telling, of the things concerning Christ according to the New Testament gospel.
25. Christ was exalted indicated that He was first humiliated. To be glorified by anyone is a shame.

Life experience/Application:
1. We need to receive Him first as our righteousness, then as our life, then as our person, then as our everything, and finally as our inheritance.
2. As children of God, we are also heirs of God to inherit God as our everything.
3. As sinners, we have condemnation over us from God and also death within us from Satan. The condemnation of God is dissolved by Christ as the covenant, and the death that comes from Satan is annulled by Christ as the light that issues in life.
4. In the experience of a sinner, the first thing that comes in is not life but light.
5. The way to receive and enjoy such a full salvation of God is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit.
6. The way to receive and enjoy Christ is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit, with which is the very Christ.
7. If we call "O Lord Jesus," for 10 minutes, we will be in the third heavens; that is, we will be in our spirit.
8. We surely need to do the right thing, the good thing, the excellent thing, but we must go further to check by what person we do things -- by our self as our person, or by our dear Savior, Jesus Christ, as our person.
9. We need to need to remain in the spirit continuously. First, we need to call on Him, to exercise our spirit; then we need to live according to our spirit, and then remain in our spirit.