The God of BethelThe Reality of the Bethel and the Bringing

Forth of Christ

I. The vision of the Bethel: As a reality

A. Come into the church life twice —Gen. 28:12 !

B. Jacob → Israel — Gen. 32:28

C. The experience of God and the God of Bethel — Eph. 3:17-18

1. El-Bethel, “God of the house of God”

2. Individual → Corporate Experience of God — Gen. 33:20; 35:7

D. All-sufficient God: Building of Bethel — Phil. 1:19

1. God’s building

2. Church life

3. Four-in-one — Eph. 3:17-29

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Father

Son Spirit

Church

E. A drink offering

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone; and he poured out a drink offering on it … (Gen. 35:14a)

What is a drink offering?Christ is the real wine for God’s satisfaction

And for the drink offering you shall present a third of a hin of wine, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah (Num. 15:7).

Christ is the heavenly wine to saturate us for God’s enjoyment, satisfaction, and building

But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and I rejoice together with you all (Phil. 2:17).

F. The function of BethelExpress Christ corporately

And He subjected all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church, which is His Body, the fullness of the One who fills all in all (Eph. 1:22-23).

Take a cost

our natural choice, desire, and life

After experiencing the reality of Bethel

Toward the end of his life

II. The birth of Benjamin Rachel began to give birth; and she had hard labor….And as her soul was departing (for she died), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin (Gen. 35:16,18).

Ben-oni The Son of affliction

To accomplish God’s redemption

Benjamin The son of the right hand

To carry out the application of God’s redemption

Let’s experience the God of Bethel for Christ and for God’s building!