Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the second and third blessing

Series 8

Episode 7

Prologue

Brothers and sisters, today’s topic of Treasures for the Soul’s is “Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the second and third blessing” The second blessing of the new covenant is “God will be our God and we shall be His people.” The Lord Jesus personally made it known to us that the love with which the Father has loved Him may be in us. God is our true Abba. We are given to the Lord by the Father. The Lord mentioned this seven times in His prayer in John 17. The third blessing of the new covenant is “all of us shall know God.” John chapters 14 to 16 tell us the Holy Spirit comes so that we will have a deeper understanding of God. The Spirit of truth will tell us everything and bear witness about the Lord. The Spirit of truth will also guide us into all the truth. In the Lord’s prayer, He said He would make known to us the Father’s name. It’s so good that we can enjoy all the blessings of the new covenant.

Message

The second blessing is “God is our God.” The Lord explained how God is on the night before His crucifixion. He declared the Father’s name to His brothers. He ascended to His Father who is also our Father. On that night, He also told us the love with which the Father has loved Him would be in us. How great is this love of the Father? It’s the highest love. It’s the Lord’s and Abba’s desire that this love be in us. We are the ones He loves the most. We are the true children of Abba Father, and such a God is He!
God said this to the Israelites: He will be our God and we shall be His people. We have the privilege to enjoy this blessing first. The Lord established this new covenant by His blood, which was shed for many. The church was a mystery at that time. Jeremiah had no knowledge about it. The blessing we received is more precious than the blessing of the new covenant mentioned in Jeremiah. Not only are we His people, we are also His children.
The Lord mentioned seven times in His prayer that we’re whom the Father has given Him. Can you think of any presents greater than what the Father has given the Lord? Abba has infinite love toward the Lord and the Lord is the infinite one. Father has given the Lord a present of love that the Lord would receive by His death. I wrote a song called “An Expression That Stuns The Universe.” Both the giver and receiver would have to sacrifice for this present. So what kind of present is it? We are whom the Father has given the Lord. How precious and glorious! We’ll need eternity to better understand how glorious man is. I can’t even describe how joyous the Lord is over us. I just know that nothing is more precious in this universe, because the Lord mentioned this seven times. Through His death, He gained this gift. When the Lord suffered on the cross, the Father also endured great pain. The Father forsook His Son in order to present this gift to Him. This is our God, and we are more than God’s people.
There’s no deeper union than the Lord in us. This is the second blessing of the new covenant. It’s so precious that the Lord explained this to us. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have known about it; we might only know that we are His people. It’s truly precious that the Lord explained the essence of the new covenant so clearly before He established it by His blood. He established this by His blood and He’s the one to explain. He found it worthwhile to shed His blood to set up this covenant. We have been His love desire and love dream since eternity past. He wants to be the closest to us. That’s why He declared His love dream —“I in them.” Therefore, we ought to enjoy “He in me.” We need to abide in Him always to enjoy “He in me” and His work of love in me. We enjoy Him so that we can overcome all things on earth. This is the second blessing and it’s extremely precious that He declared it to us. He said it in His prayer and even explained it by the parable of the true vine. It truly needs to be explained by the Son of God. He didn’t ask the angels or prophets to explain this. He Himself came to explain. He even washed the disciples’ feet to demonstrate the fourth blessing—we are clean.
He sent the Holy Spirit to bring us to the remembrance of His words. This is the third blessing. The Holy Spirit will glorify Him and cause us to see the Lord’s preciousness and glory. You can read about the work of the Holy Spirit in John chapters 14 to 16, which is the third blessing. “And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.” (Jer. 31:34) The Holy Spirit teaches us in our heart. Though I can teach you, without the Lord speaking to you, it’s still useless. We can’t merely count on a great teacher. We need Him to teach us so that from the least of us to the greatest, we will all know Him.
John 14:26 reads, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things…”
In John 15, it talks about the Holy Spirit bearing witness about the Lord. The Holy Spirit came to glorify the Lord. In John 16, the Lord says, “When the Spirit of truth came.” Though the Lord has spoken all these things, the disciples didn’t understand until the Holy Spirit came.
John 16:13 “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth…”
John 16:14 “He will glorify me…”
John 15 says that the Holy Spirit will bear witness about the Lord. It’s to our advantage that the Lord went away. He accomplished all things and returned to the Father, then the Holy Spirit was sent to us. John 14:20 says, “In that day”–the day when the Holy Spirit came and the new covenant was fulfilled. The Holy Spirit came to guide us into the truth. John 17:26 says, “I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known.” The Lord will make it known to us. We are in Him, and His words are in us. This is the third blessing. It’s so precious that the Lord, who established this new covenant by His blood, clearly explained the goodness of these four blessings. They are all so beautiful, deep, and personal to us. It’s so precious that these are also our personal experiences with Him.

Series 8

During the last supper, the Lord spoke about the essence of the blessings of the new covenant.

Message Date: 2020-02-02

During the last supper, the Lord spoke about the eternal covenant of love that He set with us by His blood. Moreover, he set up the break-bread meeting for us to remember Him. The Lord values both the new covenant and the break-bread meeting so much; He especially revealed about that evening to Paul. Prior to His crucifixion, the Lord explained in depth the content of the new covenant during the last supper. We can clearly compare from what the Lord said in John chapters 13 to 17, to the four blessings of the new covenant.
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The Lord established with us the eternal love covenant by His blood

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The Lord Treasures the New Covenant and Break-Bread Meeting the Most

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Love Encounters

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Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the fourth blessing

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Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the first blessing (1)

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Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the first blessing (2)

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Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the second and third blessing

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Introduction

01 Introduction of Treasures for the Soul

Series 1: Being Heart to Heart with the Lord

1.1 The Most Blessed Generation
1.2 Message from John the Baptist
1.3 Abide in the Lord Always
1.4 Abide in the Lord’s Love at All Times
1.5 The Lord Speaks to Us and Helps Us in Our Hearts

Series 2: Being Heart to Heart with the Lord Throughout this Year

2.1 God’s Greatest Work Starts in Our Hearts
2.2 To Be Heart to Heart with the Lord Throughout the Year
2.3 Our Spirits can Feel God and Have Fellowship with Him
2.4 The Importance of Peace
2.5 Our Spirits Need the Words of God
2.6 Give the Lord Time and Space to Speak in Our Hearts

Series 3: Let Our Hearts be Influenced

3.1 The World Needs People Who Deeply Experience God
3.2 Just as His Anointing 
Has Taught You, 
Abide in the Lord
3.3 Be Influenced 
by the Lord Throughout 
this Year

Series 4: The Importance of Peace

4.1 Enjoying God’s Peace in Your heart
4.2 Let Not Your Hearts be Troubled, Neither Let Them be Afraid.
4.3 How Should Our Spirit Respond to the Lord?

Series 5: Our Spirit Being Able to Enjoy the Lord

5.1 Our Spirit is Satisfied Only When We Worship God and Deeply Experience Him
5.2 How to Worship God with Our Spirit
5.3 Looking at the Lord with our Inner Eyes
5.4 Our Spirit Needs to Enjoy the Lord Himself
5.5 The Song of Solomon Often Mentions About “Eyes”
5.6 Realize Being Heart to Heart with the Lord in Singing and Worship

Series 6: Live out the Life of being Heart to Heart with the Lord

6.1 Living a life of union with the Lord in a stable pattern every day
6.2 Enjoying the Lord and not being disturbed
6.3 The Importance of Seeing Him with Our Spiritual Eyes

Series 7

7.1 Learn to Protect Our Spirits From Virus Prevention
7.2 Our Spirit Can Hear, Think, and See
7.3 How to Live a Life of Faith
7.4 The Importance of the Mind
7.5 David’s Eyes Beheld the Lord Always

Series 8: During the last supper, the Lord spoke about the essence of the blessings of the new covenant.

8.1 The Lord established with us the eternal love covenant by His blood
8.2 The Lord Treasures the New Covenant and Break-Bread Meeting the Most
8.3 Love Encounters
8.4 Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the fourth blessing
8.5 Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the first blessing (1)
8.6 Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the first blessing (2)

Series 16: We Have Come to Mount Zion and the Heavenly Jerusalem

16.1 See that the Lord is at the right hand of the Father
16.2 Coming to Mount Zion (1): the meaning of Mount Sinai
16.3 Coming to Mount Zion (2): the difficulty in forgiveness of sins
16.4 Coming to Mount Zion (3): to Live in Grace
16.5 Having Come to the Heavenly Jerusalem
16.6 What is in the heavenly Jerusalem (1)?

Series 9: Being Heart to Heart with the Father

9.1 Being Heart to Heart with Abba (Part 1)
9.2 Being Heart to Heart with Abba (Part 2)

Series 10

10.1 The Love Desire in the Depths of Abba and the Lord’s hearts
10.2 Fruit of the Lord’s Crucifixion: Eternal Life
10.3 The Lord Came to Manifest the Father’s Name
10.4 The Father Sent His Only Begotten Son
10.5 Reminders on enjoying heart to heart with the Father
10.6 The Father’s Desire for Me is Forever Steadfast

Series 11

11.1 The preciousness of the Letter to Philemon
11.2 The most profitable; the most accepted.
11.3 Charge That to My Account
11.4 The Father made the Lord our eternal High Priest by an oath (1)
11.5 The Father made the Lord our eternal High Priest by an oath (2)
11.6 We are the Lord’s darling love

Series 12

12.1 The Lord’s Words at the Last Supper
12.2 Apart from the Lord, we can do nothing.
12.3 What is true faith?
12.4 Look upon the Lord in glory
11.5 Trust and Peace (1)
12.6 Trust and Peace (2)

Series 13: The Lord’s Gentleness and Humility

13.3 The Lord’s Gentleness and Humility (Part 2)

Series 14: Manifold evidence

14.1 How does the infinite Lord see us?
14.2 We are the ultimate and final love of the Lord
14.3 The Lord is forever a Man; He once died for us
14.4 The Lord’s manifold love evidence (Part 1)
14.5 The Lord’s manifold love evidence Part 2

Series 15: Understand How Our Spirit Works And Be Heart To Heart With The Lord Continuously

15.1 We Can Only Enjoy God By Faith
15.2 His Words Abide In Us
15.3 Live With The Lord
15.4 Seek The Things That Are Above
15.5 Understand How Our Spirit Works: Will, Mind And Feelings
15.6 Guard And Uplift Our Mind

Series 17: Know that the Church is the Firstborn

17.1 Know that the church is the firstborn
17.2 The Blessing of the Firstborn (Part 1)
17.3 The Blessing of the Firstborn (Part 2)
17.4 The Lord redeemed us to be the firstborn (Part 1)
17.5 The Lord redeemed us to be the firstborn (Part 2)

Series 18: The Blessings to be the First Born

18.1 Israel is God’s Firstborn Son (Part 1)
18.2 Israel is God’s Firstborn Son (Part 2)
18.3 To be united with the Lord and become the Firstborn
18.4 The Lord is the Firstborn
18.5 The Blessing of the Firstborn: Kingship
18.6 The Blessing of the Firstborn: a Double Portion of the Blessings

Series 19: Coming to Mount Zion to Appear Before God

19.1 The Lord is the way, and the truth, and the life
19.2 Live in Grace. Enjoy the Father and the Lord
19.3 Mind the things that are above (1)
19.4 Mind the things that are above (2)
19.5 Appear before God in Mount Zion

Series 20: The final destination of our spirit and eternity is the heavenly Jerusalem

20.1 The Lord Desires Most for Us to Draw Near to Him (1)
20.2 The Lord Desires Most for Us to Draw Near to Him (2)
20.3 The Lord Becomes the Way so that We can Come Before God with Confidence
20.4 The Heavenly Jerusalem, Destination of Our Spirits and Eternity (1)
20.5 The Heavenly Jerusalem, Destination of Our Spirits and Eternity (2)

Series 21: Live Out the Life of the Firstborn: Be A Priest

21.1 The Father made the Lord the High Priest
21.2 Priesthood: One of the Blessings of the Firstborn
21.4 The Precedents of Priests in the Bible (2)

Series 22: When Believers Die, They Will Go to the Heavenly Jerusalem

22.1 The Heavenly Jerusalem is paradise (1)
The Heavenly Jerusalem is paradise (2)
The Spirits of the Righteous Made Perfect

Series 23: New Jerusalem is a real city

God has prepared a heavenly home for us
Is the heavenly new Jerusalem a real city?
Satan causes man not to be clear and assured about the things in heaven
Are physical substances not spiritual?
New Jerusalem is a real city (1)
New Jerusalem is a real city (2)

Series 24: God prepares for us

Genesis 22: Father and Son went together
Genesis 22: For us, the Father gave His only Son
Genesis 22: The Lord will provide
24.4 God’s preparation for us

Series 25: The Father and Son Affection

25.1 The Lord Came to Make Known the Father
25.2 The Father and Son Affection (Part 1)
25.3 The Father and Son Affection (Part 2)

Series 26: We are a royal priesthood

26.1 God who alone does wondrous things
26.2 The Lord is the High Priest
26.3 We are a royal priesthood (1)
26.4 We are a royal priesthood (2)