OUR COMMITMENT FOR OVERSEA PROPAGATION

Message Eight
Producing the Testimony of One New Man on the Whole Earth

Scripture Reading:

Matt. 24:14    And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole inhabited earth for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Eph. 2:15       Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace,

Rom. 15:6      That with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom
to the Whole Inhabited Earth

Matthew 24:14 says, “This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole inhabited earth.” According to the Lord’s word in Matthew 24:14, the gospel of the kingdom must be preached wherever there are people. At the end of the Gospel of Matthew the Lord said, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (28:18-20).  After the Lord rose from the dead, all authority in heaven and on earth was given to Him. Therefore, He wants us to establish His kingdom by discipling all the nations. He does not merely want us to go out and gain believers, but even more, He wants us to go out and gain disciples.

Our commission is to go and preach the gospel of the kingdom to every part of the inhabited earth and to cause every believer to become a disciple of the kingdom. Our authority to announce the gospel of the kingdom depends on our knowledge of the truth. In this last age the Lord has given us the highest and the final truths. This is His sovereign arrangement. In the past missionaries from different countries traveled great distances across the oceans to preach the gospel in China. Now Chinese “missionaries” must go to the different countries to preach the truth. They will not go as pioneers; rather, they will go to fight the battle with the truth, to bring the gospel of the kingdom to the whole inhabited earth. (Three Crucial Matters for the Increase and Building Up of the Church, ch. 7)

Henceforth the Lord Definitely Making All the Churches
on the Earth into One New Man

The Lord wants to raise up the churches of His recovery in all the cities, towns, and localities on the earth and make them all into one new man. The Lord’s word is faithful. He has slain the enmity on the cross, creating the two in Himself into one new man. I believe that before the Lord returns this will be fulfilled.

Now, dear brothers and sisters, you and I have all seen that this is not just a matter of being united, nor is it merely to say that we all stand on the ground of one locality with one church, and therefore we are one. We all must see that we are one new man and that the churches in all the localities on earth are one new man. We are not simply one assembly, nor are we merely one household, nor are we even merely one Body; we are one new man. In the new man there is only one matter, the person. This is not our dream or imagination; this is what I have found out in reading God’s Word. He has created the two in Himself into one new man. The Bible tells us so, and we must believe what it says. Since the Bible says this is so, it will definitely be fulfilled. God has said it is so, so it will be fulfilled accordingly.

All the advances of civilization and technology, such as the train, the automobile, the airplane, the telegraph, and even the telephone are all for this new menthe things that happen in the churches in Ghana, Africa can be known immediately by the churches in every other locality. The new technological inventions have already shrunk the earth in the matter of distance. In the future the distances will be reduced even more. There is definitely the possibility that the saints in all the localities in all their environmental circumstances will become the one new man.

With One Heart and One Mouth Speaking the Same Thing

When that happens, even though we all are many, when we speak, it will be with one mouth because we will all speak the same thing. You will not have to teach me something first, and also I will not have to tell you anything; yet we will speak the same thing. The day will come when even the angels and the demons will be surprised that you in Africa are speaking exactly the same thing as those in Australia. Although we are many, our mouth is one.

The Lord’s word will not return to Him void and that His word will accomplish God’s heart’s desire on the earth. Wherever you will go, you will certainly live in this word. How will you live? By holding to truth, to reality, in love and by growing up into Christ the Head in all things, that is, by taking Him as your person. The result, regardless of whether it is in Australia, Africa, America, Asia, or Europe, will be that without any planning in advance we will all speak the same thing and have the same expression. How glorious! This is the one new man! (One Body, One Spirit, and One New Man, ch. 8)