The central thought of the book of Numbers is that Christ is the meaning of life, the testimony, the center of God’s people, and the Leader, the way, and the goal of their journey and fighting. Hallelujah, Christ is the meaning of life for God’s people! Before we go on to see the need for […]
Numbers is a Book of Victory and Glory: God is Forming an Army to Fight for His Interest
This week we come to the first part of the Crystallisation-Study of Numbers, and the title is simply, Being Formed into an Army to Fight with God for His Interest on Earth. Today we want to see that the book of Numbers doesn’t speak merely of the wanderings and repeated failures of the children of Israel, […]
Experiencing Christ to become the Pearls and the Jasper Wall in the New Jerusalem
For us to live out and work out the New Jerusalem to build up Zion as the reality of the Body of Christ, we must experience Christ in His death and resurrection (to become the pearls – the gates), the Spirit in His transforming work (the jasper wall with its foundations), and be involved in […]
Four Principles to Live out and Work out the New Jerusalem as the Reality of the Body
In order for us to live out and work out the New Jerusalem to build up Zion as the reality of the Body of Christ, we need to keep certain principles and have particular experiences as seen and typified in the New Jerusalem. Whatever is ascribed to the New Jerusalem should be both our personal […]
The Lord’s Recovery is to Build up Zion as the Reality of the Body of Christ Today
The Lord’s recovery is to build up Zion as the reality of the Body of Christ by living out and working out the New Jerusalem. Wow! This last week on the matter of, The Reality of the Body of Christ, we want to see how we can be those, Living Out and Working Out the […]
Live in the Inward Parts of Christ to Cultivate the Consciousness of the Body of Christ
If we as members of the Body of Christ have the consciousness of the Body of Christ and see others suffer or being blessed, we will identify with them and feel the same hardship or blessing (see 1 Cor. 12:26-27). When we were regenerated by God with the divine life, we received not only the […]
Taking Christ’s Feeling as our Feeling and having the Consciousness of the Body
As believers in Christ and members of the Body of Christ, we need to live in the reality of the Body of Christ by taking Christ’s feeling for the Body as our own feeling for the Body, having the consciousness of the Body and a strong feeling for the Body. We need to learn from […]