New Jerusalem will be an Intensification of our Present Christian Experience
The New Jerusalem will be the consummation of all that we have experienced for so many years. It will be an intensification and a consummation of our present experience. The New Jerusalem will not be something new to us in eternity future if we are now experiencing it.*
New Jerusalem will be new in the sense of fresh, vibrant, energizing, and without any defect. Yet, we are already experiencing something of this wonderful city. In Christ our position is already “a new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17).
We are mingled with Christ. We are in Him and He is in us to be our life for our daily living (Gal. 2:20). Galatians 6:15 tells us that “a new creation is what matters.” What matters is “Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith.” This is to live in the new creation, to take Christ as the reality of the new creation, to experience an energizing foretaste of New Jerusalem.
* From chapter 37, Witness Lee, God’s New Testament Economy, published by Living Stream Ministry, © Witness Lee, 1986.
Posted by Don on May 19, 2023
New Jerusalem will be an Intensification of our Present Christian Experience
