![And not only [so,] but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting sonship, the redemption of our body. Rom. 8:23](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/And-not-only-so-but-we-ourselves-also-who-have-the-firstfruits-of-the-Spirit-even-we-ourselves-groan-in-ourselves-eagerly-awaiting-sonship-the-redemption-of-our-body-1.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1)
We believers in Christ need to experience Christ as our redemption to be transfigured in our body with His divine life. To those who believe Christ became the wisdom of God as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, Christ is our redemption, for He brings us back to God, He terminates us, and He replaces us, and […]
Apply the Crucified Christ as God’s Power and God’s Wisdom to our Daily Experience
April 15, 2025 by 12 Comments
As believers in Christ, we need to know, enjoy, experience, and apply the crucified Christ as God’s power and God’s wisdom to our daily life, even to the experiences that we have in our daily living. Paul preached a crucified Christ, who to the Jews is a stumbling block and to the Greeks is foolishness. […]
The Crucified Christ is the Power of God and the Wisdom of God to Us who Believe
April 14, 2025 by 12 Comments
In 1 Cor. 1:23-24, Paul says that the crucified Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God; this One is to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, but to us who believe, the power of God and the wisdom of God. Wow! This week we come to the topic, God’s […]
Activate the Law of Life: being Led by the Spirit, Cry to the Father and Groaning
April 10, 2025 by 14 Comments
For us to enjoy the operation of the law of the Spirit of life, we need to activate this law by walking according to the spirit, setting our mind on the spirit, putting to death the practices of the body, being led by the Spirit as sons of God, crying to the Father, and groaning […]
Christ was Designated the Son of God in Resurrection according to the Spirit of Holiness
April 4, 2025 by 9 Comments
Through designation in resurrection the Christ who was already the Son of God before His incarnation became the Son of God in a new way, in His humanity; the designation of Christ as the Son of God with humanity was according to the Spirit of holiness, which operated in Christ to designate Him the Son […]
We’re God’s Spiritual House and the Holy Priesthood Offering up Spiritual Sacrifices
March 12, 2025 by 12 Comments
As believers in Christ, we are a holy priesthood, the coordinated body of priests, to be the built-up spiritual house, and our corporate priestly service is to tell out as the gospel the virtues of the One who has called us so that we may offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. […]
God uses Fiery Ordeals to Purify us: live the Christian Life under God’s Government
March 5, 2025 by 15 Comments
![Beloved, do not think that the fiery ordeal among you, coming to you for a trial, is strange, as if [it were] a strange thing happening to you. 1 Pet. 4:12](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Beloved-do-not-think-that-the-fiery-ordeal-among-you-coming-to-you-for-a-trial-is-strange-as-if-it-were-a-strange-thing-happening-to-you.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1)
As believers in Christ, we need to realize that God uses fiery ordeals to deal with us in the judgment of His governmental administration, which begins from His house, so we need to live the Christian life under the government of God, allowing the Lord to purify us and remove any dross from our being. […]
![And similarly the cup after they had dined, saying, This cup is the new covenant [established] in My blood, which is being poured out for you. Luke 22:20](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/And-similarly-the-cup-after-they-had-dined-saying-This-cup-is-the-new-covenant-established-in-My-blood-which-is-being-poured-out-for-you.jpg?fit=178%2C100&ssl=1)
![And not only [so,] but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting sonship, the redemption of our body. Rom. 8:23](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/And-not-only-so-but-we-ourselves-also-who-have-the-firstfruits-of-the-Spirit-even-we-ourselves-groan-in-ourselves-eagerly-awaiting-sonship-the-redemption-of-our-body-1.jpg?fit=178%2C100&ssl=1)
