We need the Lord’s mercy in order to see the vision of the self so that we may deny it, abhor it, and repudiate it, identifying ourselves with Christ and with the Body of Christ and rejecting our self. Toward God, the self is independent. Toward ourselves, the self is our soul life being expressed, […]
The Self is the Soul Declaring its Independence from God and from the Body of Christ
By the Lord’s mercy we need to have the vision of the self, the greatest hindrance to seeing and entering into the reality of the heavenly vision. In relation to ourselves, the self is the soul life expressing its thoughts and opinions. In relation to Satan, the self is the embodiment of Satan, the thought […]
We Need to See a Vision of the Self: the Soul-Life with its Thoughts and Opinions
The heart of the heavenly vision is the vision of Christ and the church. However, in order for us to clearly see this vision and have it wrought into us, we need to see the vision of the self, the greatest hindrance to the building up of the Body of Christ. We have seen something […]
Walk in a Manner Worthy of God and Let Your Light Shine so that God may be Glorified
The believers in Christ have been called by God to enter into His kingdom and glory (1 Thes. 2:12). God actualized His choice and predestination by calling His believers in time through His appearing to them as the God of glory. We all can testify that we were living our life in the vanity of […]
Being Conformed to Christ’s Death by the Power of His Resurrection for the New Jerusalem
Through regeneration, we enter the kingdom of God and have access to enter into the New Jerusalem, and by remaining in the death of Christ (as the grain of sand remains in the wound of the oyster) we have a further entering into the New Jerusalem and a further becoming of the New Jerusalem. The […]
Letting Christ Live in us (our Wedding Garment) and Shining out Christ (our Beauty)
The many characteristics and aspects of the New Jerusalem need to be our enjoyment and experience today, and in the church life we need to have a foretaste of the New Jerusalem. Every genuine believer in Christ is a miniature of the New Jerusalem, and every local church is a “little New Jerusalem”. In Revelation […]
The Father Commissioned the Spirit to Reach us and Bring us to Christ as His Bride
God is a “bachelor”, seeking someone to love, match, and marry. He is Almighty, all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-inclusive, and yet He has a need – God needs to “get married”! The first two chapters of the Bible correspond to the last two in that they tell us about a couple: in the beginning we have […]