Although we are unfaithful, God is faithful in His purpose; we need to see God’s faithfulness in fulfilling His economy and realize that He is faithful to remove our idols and bring us back to Himself as the fountain of living waters. The books of Jeremiah and Lamentations show us both how we are unfaithful […]
Being Exposed of having Idols in our Heart and Returning to God to Drink and Enjoy Him
September 10, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The evil condition of a wicked person is that they don’t come to the Lord to eat and enjoy Him; rather, they may do many things, but they don’t drink Him, and they have idols in their heart, seeking after God yet still having other things and matters that they worship. As believers in Christ, […]
Not Committing the Evils of Forsaking God as the Source and having Idols as His replacement
September 9, 2020 by Leave a Comment
May we not commit the evils of forsaking God as our source and having idols as His replacement! Israel should have drunk of God as the fountain of living waters to be His increase as His expression, but instead they committed two evils: they forsook God as their fountain and they turned to another source, […]
Drink the Water of Life in Resurrection to Build up the Body and Prepare the Bride
September 8, 2020 by Leave a Comment
When we come to the Lord to drink the water of life in resurrection, we receive and enjoy all that He is and has accomplished, and we are made the members of the Body and are prepared to be the bride of Christ. Hallelujah, it is all accomplished by our drinking the living water! We […]
Come to the Lord as the Smitten Rock to Drink the Spirit as the Living Water Flowing
September 7, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Even though Jeremiah speaks so much concerning Israel’s sin and God’s wrath, chastisement, and punishment, in this book we also see that God’s intention in His economy is to be the fountain, the source, of living waters to dispense Himself into His chosen people for their satisfaction and enjoyment to produce the church as God’s […]
The Inner Law of Life Imparts the Divine Life into us and makes us Functioning Members
September 5, 2020 by 1 Comment
Christ Himself is the new covenant, the new testament, of life given to us by God; according to this covenant, God writes His laws on our heart, He gives us Christ as the reality of all His riches, and the inner law of life works out in us all that God has promised and has […]
God made Christ our Righteousness: we can Receive Christ as our Life and Everything
September 4, 2020 by Leave a Comment
The third matter in the kernel of the book of Jeremiah is what Christ is to us; He is the righteous Shoot, the Shoot of David, and He is Jehovah our righteousness – He became a man, died for us, became our righteousness, and came into us as the law of the Spirit of life. […]
