Being Delivered from the World by the Power of our Saving God and by Eating Christ

God’s deliverance of His people Israel from Egypt was through the Passover, the exodus, and the crossing the Red Sea. The Passover is foundational, basic, and critical for the sake of our exiting the world (typified by the exodus from Egypt) and going through baptism (typified by crossing the Red Sea), making it clear that […]

Based on God’s Redemption, the Excluding Flame has Become the Indwelling Spirit!

When God created man He had a specific purpose in mind: He wanted man to be in His image and according to His likeness to express Him and represent Him on earth by taking God in as his life and living by Him. After creating man, God put him in front of the tree of […]

The Purpose of God’s Calling to Bring out Satan’s hand into the All-Inclusive Christ

Do you know what is the purpose of God’s calling? Did God call you? Did God appear to you and call You for His purpose? In Exodus 3 we see how God came and called Moses, and the purpose of His calling was, on the negative side, to deliver God’s people from the usurpation and […]

God’s Image and Dominion are Fulfilled in Christ and are the Issue of the Gospel

Genesis is a book of seeds, and throughout this book there are many seeds that are sown and later developed in the rest of the Bible, consummating in the book of Revelation where we see the harvest. The matters of image and dominion, the heart of Genesis, are sown as seeds in Genesis and then […]

We were Created for the Purpose of Expressing God and Exercising His Dominion

In concluding our crystallization-study of Genesis we need to see what this book is about in its entirety. The book of Genesis begins and ends with image and dominion: in the beginning, we see God creating man in His image and giving him dominion over all things, and at the end we see Jacob who […]

We’re Ships Sailing out with the Gospel through Prayer, the Spirit, and the Word

Jacob’s twelve sons became the twelve tribes of Israel, and Israel is a type of the church composed of all the believers in Christ; therefore, Jacob’s prophesying with blessing concerning his sons applies not only physically to the twelve tribes of Israel but also spiritually to the church, the real Israel of God. In Jacob’s […]

Presenting Every Man Mature in Christ by Ministering Christ to them for the New Man

We need to grow unto maturity to become a part of the corporate full-grown man that fulfills God’s eternal purpose (Gen. 1:26). The goal of Paul’s ministry was to present every man full-grown in Christ for the one new man (see Col. 1:28-29). For this, he struggled, strived, and even travailed so that Christ would […]