The Gospel of John reveals the subjective truth concerning the church, showing us the constituents of the church and the existence of the church in many pictures and types. Although the word church is not specifically used in the Gospel of John, the church is referred to in seven ways: the church is the many […]
Seeing the Subjective Truth concerning the Church unveiled in the Gospel of John
Living in the Mingled Spirit to have a Corporate and Mingling Living for the Reality of the Body
We need to be those living in the mingled spirit to have a corporate and mingling living for the reality of the Body of Christ. What God desires is that the reality in Jesus – the God-man living of Jesus as recorded in the four Gospels – would be duplicated in the many members of […]
Christ became the Essence of the Church through the Release and Impartation of His Life
The divine life, Christ Himself, is the essence of the church for its organic existence; Christ became the essence of the church through the release of the divine life, and we are the church as His increase, we are the many sons of God, and we are His multiplication. We need to look at the […]
The Divine History with Christ’s Death and Resurrection, the Church, and the New Jerusalem
The history of God in man began with the Lord’s incarnation and continued with His human living, His all-inclusive death, His life-imparting resurrection, His all-transcending ascension, His producing the church, the church as the one new man, the millennial kingdom, and consummates in the New Jerusalem. It is quite amazing to see and realize that […]
Let the Word of Christ dwell in us Richly for Christ as the Spirit to be our Life
Today God speaks in Christ, the Son of God, and Christ is embodied in His Word; we need to have the Lord’s speaking every day and let the word of Christ dwell in us richly, allowing Him to make His home and be rooted deeply in all the inward parts of our being. Amen! In […]
Find the Lord’s Words and Eat Them: the Words the Lord speaks to us are Spirit and Life
The Word of God, the Bible, is our divine supply to be our food; the Bible is God’s speaking, the word that proceeds out of is mouth, it is the embodiment of God in Christ as the Spirit, and the words spoken to us by the Lord are spirit and life. This week we come […]
Not Committing the Evils of Forsaking God as the Source and having Idols as His replacement
May we not commit the evils of forsaking God as our source and having idols as His replacement! Israel should have drunk of God as the fountain of living waters to be His increase as His expression, but instead they committed two evils: they forsook God as their fountain and they turned to another source, […]