outline of the messages
for the International Chinese-speaking conference
February 18-20, 2011
general subject:
Speaking the word of God
Message One
The Speaking God Desiring That Man Speak for Him
Scripture Reading: Heb. 1:1-3; John 1:1, 14, 18; Gen. 1:26-28
Heb. 1:1 God, having spoken of old in many portions and in many ways to the fathers in the prophets,
Heb. 1:2 Has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son, whom He appointed Heir of all things, through whom also He made the universe;
Heb. 1:3 Who, being the effulgence of His glory and the impress of His substance and upholding and bearing all things by the word of His power, having made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.
John 1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
Gen. 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
Gen. 1:27 And God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Gen. 1:28 And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
Gen. 1:3 And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.
Heb. 1-2a See above.
Matt. 4:4 But He answered and said, It is written, ¡°Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out through the mouth of God.¡±
Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Gen. 1:3 And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Heb. 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not come into being out of things which appear.
2 Pet. 3:5 For this escapes them by their own choosing, that by the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth was compacted out of water and through water.
Psa. 33:6 By the word of Jehovah the heavens were made, / And all their host, by the breath of His mouth.
Psa. 33:9 For He spoke, and it was; / He commanded, and it stood.
Gen. 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
1 Pet. 1:23 Having been regenerated not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, through the living and abiding word of God.
1 Pet. 1:25 But the word of the Lord abides forever.¡± And this is the word which has been announced to you as the gospel.
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, He who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment but has passed out of death into life.
Heb. 1:1 God, having spoken of old in many portions and in many ways to the fathers in the prophets,
Heb. 1:2a Has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 5:39 You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these that testify concerning Me.
John 5:40 Yet you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.
2 Tim. 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
John 1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.
John 1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
John 1:1, 14 See point B above.
John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
John 7:16 Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.
John 8:28b I do nothing from Myself, but as My Father has taught Me, I speak these things.
John 12:49 For I have not spoken from Myself; but the Father who sent Me, He Himself has given Me commandment, what to say and what to speak.
John 12:50 And I know that His commandment is eternal life. The things therefore that I speak, even as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.
Heb. 1:1 God, having spoken of old in many portions and in many ways to the fathers in the prophets,
Heb. 1:2a Has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son.
Heb. 1:2a Has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.
John 1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
1 Cor. 15:45b The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.
2 Cor. 3:17a And the Lord is the Spirit.
Rev. 2:1 To the messenger of the church in Ephesus write: These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, He who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:
Rev. 2:7a He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
Rev. 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come! And let him who hears say, Come! And let him who is thirsty come; let him who wills take the water of life freely.
Heb. 1:3 Who, being the effulgence of His glory and the impress of His substance and upholding and bearing all things by the word of His power, having made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
1 Cor. 12:12 For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.
Eph. 5:30 Because we are members of His Body.
1 Cor. 12:12 See point D above.
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.
John 17:20 And I do not ask concerning these only, but concerning those also who believe into Me through their word.
1 Cor. 12:12 See point D above.
1 Cor. 12:27 Now you are the Body of Christ, and members individually.
2 Cor. 4:13 And having the same spirit of faith according to that which is written, ¡°I believed, therefore I spoke,¡± we also believe, therefore we also speak,
2 Cor. 5:20 On behalf of Christ then we are ambassadors, as God entreats you through us; we beseech you on behalf of Christ, Be reconciled to God.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Rom. 8:29 Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.
Heb. 2:10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in leading many sons into glory, to make the Author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Acts 8:4 Those therefore who were scattered went throughout the land announcing the word as the gospel.
John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 3:34 For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for He gives the Spirit not by measure.
John 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing.
Gen. 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
Gen. 2:19 Now Jehovah God had formed from the ground every animal of the field and every bird of heaven. And He brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called any living animal, that was its name.
Gen. 2:20 And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of heaven and to every animal of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper as his counterpart.
Gen. 2:7 Jehovah God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
Gen. 2:19-20 See point A above.
Gen. 1:26 See point IV above.
Gen. 1:27 And God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
1 Cor. 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things with spiritual words.
1 Thes. 2:2 But having suffered previously and having been outrageously treated, even as you know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in much struggle.
1 Thes. 2:4 But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who proves our hearts.
Gen. 1:26-27 See point 2 above.
2 Pet. 2:5 And did not spare the ancient world but guarded Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.
1 Cor. 12:3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed; and no one can say, Jesus is Lord! except in the Holy Spirit.
Gen. 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
Gen. 1:28 And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of heaven and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
2 Cor. 5:19 Namely, that God in Christ was reconciling the world to Himself, not accounting their offenses to them, and has put in us the word of reconciliation.
2 Cor. 5:20 On behalf of Christ then we are ambassadors, as God entreats you through us; we beseech you on behalf of Christ, Be reconciled to God.
John 7:16 Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.
John 7:17 If anyone resolves to do His will, he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself.
John 7:18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of Him who sent Him, this One is true, and unrighteousness is not in Him.
John 12:49 For I have not spoken from Myself; but the Father who sent Me, He Himself has given Me commandment, what to say and what to speak.
John 12:50 And I know that His commandment is eternal life. The things therefore that I speak, even as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.
Acts 4:29 And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings and grant Your slaves to speak Your word with all boldness.
Acts 4:31 And when they had so besought, the place in which they were gathered was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.
Acts 13:44 And on the following Sabbath almost all the city gathered together to hear the word of God.
Acts 13:48 And the Gentiles, hearing this, rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord; and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Acts 13:49 And the word of the Lord was carried through the whole region.
1 Thes. 2:13 And because of this we also thank God unceasingly that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but even as it truly is, the word of God, which also operates in you who believe.
1 Tim. 1:4 Nor to give heed to myths and unending genealogies, which produce questionings rather than God¡¯s economy, which is in faith.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
Eph. 6:18 By means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit and watching unto this in all perseverance and petition concerning all the saints.
Psa. 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet / And a light to my path.
Matt. 4:4 But He answered and said, It is written, ¡°Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out through the mouth of God.¡±
Matt. 13:3 And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went out to sow.
1 Pet. 1:23 Having been regenerated not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, through the living and abiding word of God.
Deut. 32:2 Let my teaching drop like the rain; / Let my speech distill like the dew, / Like raindrops upon tender grass, / And like abundant showers upon herbage.
Heb. 4:12 For the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Jer. 23:29 Is not My word thus¡ªlike fire, declares Jehovah, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?