Never forget: as a believer in Christ, you are a God-man! We always need to remember this and be in the light of this revelation all the time – we are not only men, but we are men with the divine life, God-men, those who have God in them continually mingling Himself with them! When […]
Taking Christ as our Person to Speak the Same Thing with One Mouth for the New Man
The most striking and evident part of a person is his speaking – through his speaking he expresses himself and he releases what is inside of him. For the church as the one new man, we all believers in Christ need to take Christ as our person especially in the matter of speaking. Out of […]
Taking Christ as our Person in our Decisions and our Daily Living for the New Man
What does it mean that we take Christ as our person for the new man? What does it mean in our personal daily life to take Christ as our person? The Body of Christ is mainly a matter of life – taking Christ as our life for the Body – and the new man is […]
We Need to Take Christ as our Person for the One New Man who Fulfills God’s Plan
After seeing so many aspects and ways to grow in life unto maturity, now we need to see some of the implications and applications of what the full-grown man is. What is the full-grown man that God desires to obtain, and what does he look like? First of all, for God to obtain a full-grown […]
Seeing how a Lover of the Lord Becomes Full of the Stature of Christ in Song of Songs
The book of Song of Songs shows us how a believer is growing in life unto maturity to fully match Christ, even becoming the Shulammite, the feminine form of Solomon – the same as Christ in every possible way. The loving seeker of Christ is progressively experiencing Christ until he reaches full maturity, becoming the […]
We are Called to Live with Christ in His Ascension, as Seen in Song of Songs
A practical application and a sweet illustration of the progress made by the seeking lover of the Lord, the book of Song of Songs shows us how we can progressively experience Christ in our loving fellowship with Him until we become just like Him, matching Him as our Bridegroom. Hudson Taylor called this book, A […]
One who is Full of the Stature of Christ Reigns with Christ and Deals with the Enemy
Being full of the stature of Christ is a Body matter – it cannot be accomplished individually. We need to remain in the Body and experience Christ for the Body so that we may attain to maturity in the spiritual life. Also, as we let the life of Christ grow in us and saturate all […]