ANNOUNCEMENTS
- 2021 International Memorial Day Weekend Conference (May 28-31)
Conference Schedule
Message 1 7:00 PM Friday, May 28
Message 2 4:00 PM Saturday, May 29
Message 3 7:00 PM Saturday, May 29
Lord’s Table 10:00 AM Lord’s Day, May 30
Message 4 11:00 AM Lord’s Day, May 30
Message 5 7:00 PM Lord’s Day, May 30
Message 6 10:00 AM Monday, May 31
Conference Zoom Links: https://zoom.us/j/92001843320?pwd=bEVsbmZ6SVBldDNXVFV6RzdnNjFUdz09
Meeting ID: 920 0184 3320
Passcode: 2021
One tap mobile: +19294362866,,92001843320# US (New York)
Dial by your location: +1 929 436 2866 US (New York).
- The 2021 Summer School of Truth Teachers’ Training on June 5th, 2021
Parents and all the saints who serve the young people, including the current sixth graders, are encouraged to attend this day of fellowship. Even if you may not be able to participate in this year’s Summer School of Truth, we hope you will attend the Teachers’ Training to join our burden of this year’s Summer School of Truth. We believe this fellowship will help our shepherding of the young people all year round.
Date: Saturday, June 5, 2021
Time: 9:30am – 2:00pm
Location: https://pursuewiththose.org/
Topic: Lesson Book, Level 2: The Triune God—The Triune God and the Person and Work of Christ
Schedule:
Session 1 9:30am – 10:30am
Break 10:30am – 10:45am
Session 2 10:45am – 11:45am
Lunch Break 11:45am – 1:00pm
Session 3/Parents 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Fellowship
Register: Please use this link: https://tinyurl.com/4bf8znd2 to register for Teachers’ Training.
- Service Office Hours
Service Office hours are available for saints to call in to fellowship or to pray with some serving ones.
Day & Time: Monday through Saturday (except Wednesday), 11AM-12PM.
Join via Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/3785123114?pwd=dEpzN2ZGZ21aaGV5dTFob3AwQlBodz09
Dial-in by Phone: +1 929 205 6099
Meeting ID: 378 512 3114 (Password: 3131)
The burden for holding these office hours is that the hearts of the saints can be comforted and that their souls would be restored.
PRAYER BURDENS
- The salvation of the children in grade 5; a gospel meeting will be held this Lord’s Day, May 23, for all the children in grade 5
- The small group meetings, the church meetings and all the services in all nine halls of the church this week
- All the upcoming summer events:
- The semiannual training in July
- The Summer College Training
- The Chinese-speaking perfecting training
- The Summer School of Truth
- The Family Bible Camp
- That the Lord as the Ruler of the kings of the earth (Rev. 1:5) and as the Leader and Savior (Acts 5:31) would exercise His sovereignty over the world situation for the salvation of many and for the accomplishment of His purpose:
- In the United States
- In Europe and the Middle East, particularly in Israel
- In the Far East
- The Memorial Day weekend conference (https://www.churchinnyc.org/announcements/2021-memorial-day-conference/)
- The various needs of the saints both locally and in other localities (e.g. physical and emotional, health-related, job-related, family-related, etc.)
MORNING WATCH
HWMR: 2020 December Semiannual Training
Crystallization – Study of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
Week 12: Vanity of Vanities, the Reality in Jesus, and the Revelation of the Sons of God
Portion from Days 3 & 6:
When the Lord Jesus lived on earth as a man, in Him there was always the reality. In Jesus, that is, in His human living and His daily walk—whether He worked as a carpenter or carried out His ministry—there was the reality at all times. In order to understand the reality expressed in the living of Jesus as a man on earth, we need to read verse 17, where Paul exhorts the believers to “no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk in the vanity of their mind.” Here we see a contrast between the reality in Jesus and the vanity of the Gentiles’ mind. In the human living of Jesus there was no vanity but only the reality; however, in our godless society there is nothing but vanity of vanities.
Although we are the sons of God, we are veiled, not yet revealed. When the Lord Jesus was on earth, He was the Son of God, but He was veiled by His human flesh. One day on the mountain He was unveiled and revealed (Matt. 17:1-2). It is the same with us. Although we are sons of God, yet we are under a veil. One day this veil will be removed—that will be our glorification…. Then the whole universe will behold the sons of God.
Creation’s only hope is to be freed from this slavery of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God when the sons of God are revealed…. At the time of the revelation of this kingdom the whole creation will be liberated. The creation is eagerly expecting and anxiously watching for this kingdom to come. The universe is groaning and travailing in birth awaiting the revelation of the sons of God. Furthermore, we ourselves, “who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,” also groan as we expect sonship, the redemption of our body.
Corporate Reading: “The Basic Revelation in the Holy Scriptures” Chapter 11: The New Jerusalem – The Ultimate Consummation (4)
MINISTRY PORTIONS
The Compound Spirit
By all these we can realize that this compound ointment should be an all-inclusive type of the compound Spirit referred to in John 7:39. This means that the Spirit of God, as the basic element, has been compounded with Christ’s deity, humanity, death, and resurrection as the spices. In this compound Spirit are the unique God, the Trinity, man, the creature, Christ’s death, the sweetness and effectiveness of His death, Christ’s resurrection, and the power of His resurrection.
The Spirit was first the Spirit of God, possessing only the divine essence. But after God in the Son became a man and died on the cross, passing through death and resurrection and entering into ascension, the Spirit became the Spirit of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:19), compounded with God’s essence and Jesus’ humanity and His death and resurrection. The Spirit no longer has just the divine essence, but now has, in addition, Jesus’ humanity with the death of Christ, the effectiveness of His death, the resurrection, and the power of His resurrection.
Christ is Christ, and you are you; and His death is not yours unless you are joined to Him organically by the Spirit. In the compound Spirit there are the elements of Christ’s death and its effectiveness, typified by myrrh and cinnamon. When we are in the Spirit, the compound Spirit, we do not need to reckon ourselves dead, because in the Spirit there is the element of Christ’s death.
– Excerpts from “The Basic Revelation in the Holy Scriptures”, Chapter 3: The Spirit’s Application (Section 3)