The new creation is the unique accomplishment in God's Economy (Gal 6:15). God's economy consummates with the new creation. This new creation eventually becomes the New Jerusalem, as the ultimate consummation of God's divine work (Rev 21:2) carried out through four ages of humanity by God Himself in Christ and through the Spirit as the Triune God. By God in Christ through the Spirit in our spirit, this new creation is consummated to be the New Jerusalem. This will show God's wisdom, as a shame to God's enemy Satan in his cosmos (Eph 3:10)

What is the Old Creation ?

The old creation includes all the created beings in the universe, created by God, but without the inward intrinsic essence of God's life within.

What is the New Creation ?

The new creation is the crucified, resurrected and uplifted old-creation with the element of God wrought into it, possessing God's life and nature, to express God Himself corporately.

What is the Church ?

The church is the Body of Christ, with Christ Himself as the unique Head, having the first place in all things. A corporate organic entity, composed of all the sons of God outwardly, filled, saturated, and permeated with the richness of Christ's life inwardly, to become the Fullness of God, the one who fills all in all, express Him for eternity.

The church is the Bride of Christ, to be united with Him in the Love of God. This love surpasses all man's understanding, making us overjoyed, captured, captivated, attracted, charmed, and drawn by this precious one. Such a bride, matches the bridegroom in life and nature, clothed with the pure white linen of His Holiness and Righteousness, and adorned as a beautiful counterpart with the preciousness of His countenance.

The church is the corporate warrior, united, joined, incorporated by and with the divine Life of the processed and consummated Triune God, to deal with God's enemy Satan, by applying the blood of Christ as our redemption and reconciliation. Through prayer, petition, and the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, we can experience and enjoy the victorious reality of salvation, the destruction of Satan's Kingdom, and the presence of God's Kingdom.

The church is the enlargement of Christ. From Genesis to Revelation, God's desire has been to have an enlargement of His expression, Hence His creating man in His image that they may have dominion. This dominion is realised in, by , and through the exercise of our human spirit, where we may reign in life. As we turn to our spirit, we are joined to Him as one spirit, and we may experience and enjoy the divine dispensing of the Triune God, to make us His living enlargement and expression. The church thus, being joined to Christ as branches in the vine, drinking of the living water, receiving Christ as the grain of wheat, becomes in reality the enlargement of Christ as the Tree of Life, The river of Life, the Corporate Loaf, for the ultimate consummation of God's economy the New Jerusalem.

As the New Jerusalem, the church becomes the eternal, mutal dwelling place of God and man. Here we find peace, joy, rest and satisfaction in our wonderous, unsearchably rich Christ for eternity.

-- Oliver Fischer (spicenut@excite.com), May 17, 2004

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-- Oliver Fischer (spicenut@excite.com), May 17, 2004.