The Governing and Controlling Vision in the Bible


	The Governing and Controlling Vision in the Bible What is the Bible? What is the Bible? How will you speak to others about the Bible? You need to learn to say that the Bible has two sections. The first section is the types and prophecies, and the second section is the fulfillment and accomplishment. All the things referred to in the Bible are for the fulfillment and accomplishment of the economy of God. The economy of God is that God became flesh, passed through human living, died, resurrected, and became the Spirit to enter into us as life and dispense God into us that we may be transformed for the producing of the church, which is the Body of Christ, the house of God, the kingdom of God, and the counterpart of Christ, the ultimate aggregate of which is the New Jerusalem. This is the Bible, and this is the vision that governs and controls us (p. 17). Two "Becomings" There were two "becomings" in the processes that God passed through. The first "becoming" was His becoming flesh (John 1:14) that He might come among men to be with them. However, He still could not enter into them. He needed to pass through another "becoming," that is, His becoming the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b). In John 14:3 the Lord said, "If I go…I am coming again." (p. 22). Objective and Subjective Aspects of the Cross The objective cross on Golgotha cannot enter into us. The cross that enters into our heart is the cross that has become our subjective experience for us to live by the Lord practically. . . .The cross that we experience today is not only the objective, vicarious death but even more the subjective co-death with the Lord. Such experience makes us nothing and makes God everything to us (pp. 61-62). All quotes taken from The Governing and Controlling Vision in the Bible. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1998.