![In My Father's house are many abodes; if [it were] not [so,] I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. John 14:2](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/In-My-Fathers-house-are-many-abodes-if-it-were-not-so-I-would-have-told-you.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1)
The central thought of John 14 is that we must believe into God and thereby enter into God; in this chapter we see that Father’s house, the dwelling place of God on the earth, for the Father’s house is a type of the enlarged Body of Christ, the church as the house of God. Amen! […]
Pilgrims on Earth Live the Life of the Altar and the Tent waiting for New Jerusalem
December 4, 2024 by 12 Comments
As believers in Christ who walk in the steps of our father Abraham’s faith, we must live the life of the altar and the tent, taking Christ as our life and the church as our living, realizing that we don’t belong to this world but our home is the New Jerusalem, the city which has […]
Christ Speaks for God by being the Ladder joining God and Man for God’s Building
November 23, 2024 by 10 Comments
Christ speaks for God by being the ladder joining God and man for God’s building; He is the heavenly ladder installed in our spirit to make us one with God for God’s building today. Christ as the Word of God speaks for God through His becoming the ladder that brings heaven (God) to earth (man) […]
Experience Transfiguration in the Church Life by Losing our Soul-Life for the Lord
November 8, 2024 by 12 Comments
We can experience transfiguration in the church life today by losing our soul-life for the Lord’s sake and for the sake of the church. The church as the kingdom of God cannot exist in the natural life but only in the realm of transfiguration; if we today are willing to lose our soul-life for the […]
The Kingdom of God is the Power to Subdue Rebellion and the Growth of Christ in Us
November 6, 2024 by 11 Comments
The Lord Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God, but there’s much opposition to God’s kingdom; in Mark 4:35-44 we see a picture of rebellion and the kingdom of God as the power to subdue rebellion, and this can be experienced by us today. The Lord Jesus came as the kingdom of God to […]
We Drink Christ as our New Wine in the Church Life as the Fresh Wineskins Today
October 19, 2024 by 9 Comments
Christ is our new wine to be put into fresh wineskins; the church life today is the new wineskin into which Christ as the new and fresh wine can be contained, and together we are the Body of Christ, for we all have Christ in us as the new and fresh wine. Praise the Lord! […]
In the New Jerusalem we will See God’s Face, Enjoy His Shining and Shine Him Forth
October 12, 2024 by 8 Comments
In the New Jerusalem, God’s redeemed people will see God’s face continually, His name will be on their foreheads, and the unlimited glory of God will shine forth as light with Christ as the lamp through the New Jerusalem to the whole universe. Hallelujah, our eternal destiny as believers in Christ is to be under […]
![Who being reviled did not revile in return; suffering, He did not threaten but kept committing [all] to Him who judges righteously. 1 Pet. 2:23](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Who-being-reviled-did-not-revile-in-return-suffering-He-did-not-threaten-but-kept-committing-all-to-Him-who-judges-righteously.jpg?fit=178%2C100&ssl=1)
![Beloved, do not think that the fiery ordeal among you, coming to you for a trial, is strange, as if [it were] a strange thing happening to you. 1 Pet. 4:12](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Beloved-do-not-think-that-the-fiery-ordeal-among-you-coming-to-you-for-a-trial-is-strange-as-if-it-were-a-strange-thing-happening-to-you.jpg?fit=178%2C100&ssl=1)
![But according to the Holy One who called you, you yourselves also be holy in all [your] manner of life. 1 Pet. 1:15](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/But-according-to-the-Holy-One-who-called-you-you-yourselves-also-be-holy-in-all-your-manner-of-life.jpg?fit=178%2C100&ssl=1)
![But the hidden man of the heart in the incorruptible [adornment] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is very costly in the sight of God. 1 Pet. 3:4](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/But-the-hidden-man-of-the-heart-in-the-incorruptible-adornment-of-a-meek-and-quiet-spirit-which-is-very-costly-in-the-sight-of-God.jpg?fit=178%2C100&ssl=1)
