The ambassadors of Christ are those who don’t live by their human life but by the divine immortal life in their spirit, and they have the ambition to please God by living to Him and no longer to themselves. Another qualification of an ambassador of Christ is that he no longer knows people according to […]
As Ambassadors of Christ We Desire to Be Well Pleasing to God by Living to Him
December 4, 2012 by 1 Comment
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In 2 Cor. 5:9 we see that Paul had an ambition, a strong determination, to gain the honor of being well-pleasing to God. As ambassadors of Christ, we need to seek to be well-pleasing to God by living to Him. On the one hand, we shouldn’t be ambitious persons, especially ambitious for position or glory. […]
Being the Ambassadors of Christ Who Live by the Immortal Life in our Spirit
December 3, 2012 by 4 Comments
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In 2 Corinthians we see a particular aspect of the ones who work for God – they are ambassadors of Christ with the ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:20). To be an ambassador is not a small thing – it is the greatest honor to be the ambassador of the King of Kings, to represent […]
Being in the Divine Stream of Fellowship and Praying for the Ultimate Revival
December 1, 2012 by 4 Comments
Our work for the Lord needs to be in ascension, by the Spirit, and in the divine stream. This divine stream is the one flow of the Triune God from eternity into time and into eternity – and He flowed Himself into us! In this divine stream, we need to have fellowship – the stream […]
Seeing the Divine Stream, the Unique Flow of Life, in the Whole Bible
November 30, 2012 by 6 Comments
In the Scriptures, we see the concept of the divine stream, the flow of life, from Genesis all the way to Revelation. Everything that God does is in this living stream, which appears in the garden of Eden and also in Revelation in the New Jerusalem. In the book of Acts we also see that […]
In His Earthly Ministry the Lord Jesus Did the Work the Father Gave Him to Do
November 21, 2012 by 1 Comment
As those who aspire to work for God and with God in His economy for the building up of His Body, we need to consider the pattern of the Lord Jesus as He was working for God when He was on the earth. Even though we don’t see much in the Bible concerning His life […]
In His Human Living Christ Did the Work of Declaring God and Expressing Him
November 20, 2012 by 4 Comments
When He was on the earth, the Lord Jesus declared God in His human living. His work was to declare God, express God, and explain God to man. No one has ever seen God except the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father – and He has declared the Father to […]
