2016 MEMORIAL DAY
CONFERENCE
THE INCREASE OF CHRIST FOR
THE BUILDING UP OF THE CHURCH
Message One The Increase of
Christ in the Continuation of
the Book of Acts
I. The Acts of the Apostles is a book
without an ending because this book is still being continued for the
increase of Christ
III.The continuation of the book of Acts is the continuation of Christ
with the corporate living of the perfected God-men as the reality of the Body
of Christ; the apostle Paul, as a pattern to
all the believers, the members of the Body of Christ, lived Christ for
His magnification as His continuation
IV.Acts 26:18 reveals the work that we must do today for the increase
and building up of the Body of Christ; this verse unveils the all-inclusive
contents of our divine commission—“to open their eyes, to turn them from
darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive
forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by
faith in Me”
V. If we would be in the continuation of the book of Acts, we need to
continue to live in the divine history in the unique stream of the work of the
Lord by having an upper-room consecration
Message Two The Increase of
Christ as Portrayed in the Gospel of John
I. The increase and spread of the church is the increase and spread of
Christ
II. “He who has the bride is the bridegroom…He must increase”—John
3:29a, 30a
III. “Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it
abides alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit”—12:24
IV. “Go to My brothers and say to them, I ascend to My Father and your
Father, and My God and your God”— 20:17
V. “That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in
You, that they also may be in Us…And the glory which You have given Me I have
given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one; I in them, and You in
Me, that they may be perfected into one”—John 17:21-23a
Message Three The Increase of
Christ Being for the Increase of the Church by Ministering Life to Others
according to the Law of
Increase
I. First John 5:16a says, “If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin
not unto death, he shall ask and he will give life to him”
II. In order for us to minister life to others, we must do at least
four things
III. Everything in the church must be in the nature of life, with the
content of life, and in the imparting of life
IV. We need to follow the pattern of the Lord Jesus as the Son of Man
cherishing us and as the Son of God nourishing us, experiencing and presenting
Christ as the attracting factor to minister life to people and gain them in a
normal way
V. In order to minister life to others and recover the dormant saints
among us, we must have the loving and forgiving heart of our Father God and the
shepherding and seeking spirit of our Savior Christ
VI. The increase of the church is according to the law of increase
Message Four The Increase of
Christ for the Increase and Spread of the Church through the One Accord with
Prayer, the Spirit, the Word, and the Homes
I. In order to have the increase of Christ for the increase and spread
of the church, we must have the one accord; the Greek word for one accord is homothumadon
from homo, “same,” and thumos, “mind, will, purpose (soul, heart)”
II. The book of Acts shows that the God-ordained way to carry out
God’s move to fulfill His New Testament economy is entirely by three main
substances—prayer, the Spirit, and the Word
III. Meeting together in homes as the Christian way of meeting
together is fitting to God’s New Testament economy
Message Five The Increase of
Christ in the Believers Being Their Spiritual Progress and Growth in Life
I. Spiritual progress is the increase of the element of Christ within
the believers
II. The growth in life is the increase of Christ in the believers
Message Six The Increase of
Christ for God’s Building
I. The universe is for the human race, the human race is for the
church, and the church is the increase of Christ
II. The greatest prophecy in the Bible is in Matthew 16:18: “I will
build My church”
III. For the building up of the church as the house of God and the
Body of Christ, we need to “disciple all the nations, baptizing them into the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit” and to teach them to observe all that the Lord has
commanded
IV. Since the church is the Body of Christ, His embodiment, the growth
of the church is the growth of Christ
V. The building up of the church as the Body of Christ is the increase
of Christ in the believers, and this increase is their growth in life
VI. In His resurrection the Lord Jesus is building the temple, the
Father’s house, in a larger way, making it a corporate temple, the mystical
Body of Christ
