We need to receive the Lord’s mercy to be saved from Satan’s schemes to frustrate the spreading of the church and the building up of the church, and we need to learn the lessons in the book of Acts to cooperate with the Lord for His spreading on earth. On one hand when we read […]
Being Saved from Satan’s Schemes to Frustrate the Spreading and Building of the Church
December 20, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Lord’s Way and Means of Spreading the Church Shatters our Natural Concepts
December 19, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The book of Acts shows us the spreading of the church for the enlargement of Christ on earth, and at the same time it shatters our natural concepts, it shows God’s sovereignty, and the blending of all races and kinds of people in the church, the Lord’s testimony. The basic principle of the church is […]
The Church is Spreading on earth by the Growth and Flowing out of the Lord’s Life
December 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The basic principle of the church is that the church is universal and eternal, so the church must spread constantly on earth; the book of Acts in particular speaks of the spreading of the church. When we speak of the spreading of the church we need to realise that this is not something of organisation […]
Keeping Ourselves in the one Divine Stream by Loving the Lord with the First Love
December 17, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In propagating Christ as the development of the kingdom of God on earth, we need to be those keeping ourselves in the one flow of the Lord’s work for the spreading of the church, and receiving the Lord’s mercy to be saved from Satan’s schemes. The Lord is spreading on earth today, both in number […]
We are Being Transformed and Built up as Living Stones in God’s Spiritual House
December 15, 2018 by Leave a Comment
As believers in Christ, we are becoming living stones for the building up of the church, God’s spiritual house on earth today. Christ as the stone-Savior produces living stones for God’s building. We are men of clay; we are born of our parents in the flesh, and we are of dust, men of clay. How […]
The Resurrected Christ is the Propagating Stone and the Building Stone to the Believers
December 13, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Christ as the Stone-Savior is producing many living stones for God’s building, God’s spiritual house, and for us as believers the resurrected Christ is the propagating stone and the building stone. We may have never thought of Christ being the Stone-Savior, but this is what Peter is speaking of in his second gospel message in […]
Praising Christ as the Cornerstone – He’s our Savior and the Builder of God’s House
December 11, 2018 by Leave a Comment
As the all-inclusive stone, Christ is the centrality of God’s move for the building up of His eternal habitation; Christ as the cornerstone is both our Savior and the Builder of God’s house. When the Lord Jesus was speaking concerning Himself and His authority, He said that He is the stone which the builders rejected […]
