OUR COMMITMENT FOR OVERSEA PROPAGATION

Message Seven
Coordinating in One Accord to Raise Up the Golden Lampstands

Scripture Reading:

Acts 9:31a      So then the church throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being built up.

Rev. 1:20        The mystery of the seven stars which you saw upon My right hand and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

The One Accord Being the Master Key to Every Blessing in the New Testament

  The word in Greek for one accord [is] homothumadon. Homo means the same and thumos means mind, will, purpose (soul, heart). In the book of Acts the one hundred twenty prayed together in one mind, in the same mind, in the same will with the same purpose around and within the soul and the heart. The one accord revealed in the New Testament is a great matter.

  If you really want to practice the proper way to preach the gospel, you need the one accord. Without this key, no door can be opened. The one accord is the master key to every blessing in the New Testament. Without the one accord you are altogether not qualified to do anything in the Lord’s new start of His new move. Today we are in the Lord’s recovery and especially we are in His new move, His up-to-date move. We must see that the crucial need today is the recovery of this one accord. Those of you who migrated to another place must ask yourselves if you have the one accord. If not, you have destroyed your migration. You will waste your time in being there. To have the home gatherings without the one accord means nothing. To go out to visit others to distribute the booklets needs the one accord. Without the one accord, all our doings will be in vain. If this is not among us, we are through. The one accord is the need. Do not think about others concerning this matter of the one accord. Think about yourself, your share, your portion in this matter.

  If we mean business to go along with the Lord’s present day move, we need this one accord. Who is right does not mean anything; we need this one accord. We need to have the same mind and the same will for the same purpose with the same soul and the same heart. Philippians tells us that this matter starts from our spirit (1:27), yet we must realize we are not persons of spirit only. We are persons also of the mind, will, purpose, soul, and heart. For us to be in the same one spirit with the same one soul, one mind, and one will is to have the one accord, which is the key to all the New Testament blessings and bequests. Otherwise, we will repeat the pitiful history of Christianity by being another group of Christians repeating the same kind of disaccord. (Elders’ Training, Book 07: One Accord for the Lord’s Move, ch. 1)

Today the Lord Needs the Testimony of the Lampstand;
He Needs the Churches as the Lampstands in Every Locality

Now we can see what the church is. It is the church, not Christianity, that must go to bear the testimony in every place. You need to go out and preach the gospel. “Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”. Today the Lord needs the testimony of the lampstand; He needs the churches as the lampstands in every locality. It does not matter whether our number is big or small; what matters are the brightness of the lamps and the shining of the gold. Therefore, today I hope that your eyes will be opened to see that in the Bible what the Lord desires to have ultimately is the lampstand with Christ, full of the Spirit, with the shining of the lamps and the gold, bearing the testimony for the Lord. (The Ultimate Significance of the Golden Lampstand, ch. 2)

What is His desire? It is for us to live Christ, to have Christ as our living, to have Christ as the reality, the real contents of the church life, making every local church a golden lampstand. The Body life will reach the reality of Romans 12 and this will be the spontaneous preparation of the bride for His coming back. From the very beginning, even from eternity, this is what the Lord has desired. This is the goal of the Lord’s recovery. (The World Situation and God’s Move, ch. 3)