If we carefully read the Bible – especially the New Testament – we will realize that, in God’s eternal economy and in the Lord’s recovery, leadership depends upon spiritual capacity, and the leadership is not official, permanent, organizational, or hierarchical. This week in our crystallization study of 1&2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther we […]
Beware the Destroyers of God’s Building and Build the Wall to Protect the Church
If the wall is built up in the church, we will be protected from those who are used by the enemy to destroy God’s building work; there are the destroyers of the divine building, and the wall needs to be built up to protect the church against such ones. We should not think that […]
We need to be Constituted with the Truth by being Trained in the Divine Revelation
In order for us to be priestly teachers like Ezra, we need to be constituted with the truth, that is, have the truth wrought into us to become our organic constitution; we need to be trained in the divine revelation and learn to speak the truth for the perfecting of the saints and the […]
We need Teaching and Reconstitution with God’s Word to have a Culture that Expresses God
In order for us to be the people of God as His testimony on the earth, we need teaching and reconstitution to be brought into a culture according to God; we need to be re-educated and reconstituted with the heavenly truths, the word that comes out of the mouth of God. In the Old […]
Our need to be Reconstituted with the Word of God to be God’s Testimony on the Earth
Ezra was used by God to reconstitute the people of Israel by educating them with the heavenly truths so that Israel could become God’s testimony; we need to be a divinely constituted people to be God’s testimony by being reconstituted with the word of God. Amen! Ezra was not a prophet who spoke the […]
Being the Priestly Scribes who Contact God Continually and are Skilled in God’s Word
What we need today in the Lord’s recovery of the church life for the building up of the Body of Christ is priestly scribes, those who are both priests and teachers (scribes), those filled with Christ mingled with Christ, trusting in God, and skilled in the word of God. We need the Ezra’s of […]
Loving one another and Bearing Fruit Corporately in the Church Life of Brotherly Love
Loving one another is a sign that we belong to Christ; may we abide in the Lord and love one another, bear fruit in the Body, learn to fellowship in oneness and one accord, and live in the church life of brotherly love by having “one another” meetings for the building up of the […]