The church is the house of God, the household of God, and as such the church is the Father’s house. The Lord Jesus was zealous for the Father’s house (see John 2:16-21) and He spoke at length in John 14 concerning the many abodes in the Father’s house. Contrary to the traditional and religious understanding […]
A High View of the Church as the Father’s House, the Divine-Human Incorporation
Experiencing the Bountiful Supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the Compound Spirit
How wonderful it is to realize that we are joined to the Lord as one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17)! A Christian is one who has God in Christ as the Spirit dwelling in him, and he is one spirit with the Lord. The Spirit today is with our spirit, witnessing that we are children of […]
Seeing the Progressive Revelation concerning the Spirit in the Word of God
God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow (Heb. 13:8), and He never changes; He is perfect in Himself, self-existing, and ever-existing without needing to have any improvement, change, or perfecting. However, in His relationship with man, we see that God went through certain processes. In the beginning of the Bible we see the Spirit […]
Practicing Being One Spirit with the Lord to Stay in the Process of God’s Salvation
The desire of God’s heart is not only to be worshipped by man but to be one with man and make man one with Him. The only way He can do this is by getting into man as life and being man’s life and person. God created man in His image and with His likeness, […]
Allowing the Indwelling Christ to Make His Home in Our Heart and Feel at Home in us
The highest point and the most profound aspect of Christ dwelling in us is found in Eph. 3:16 – Christ making His home in our heart. Why does God want to dwell in man? The desire of God’s heart is to have a house, a habitation, a dwelling place, and for this He comes to […]
Seeing the Church as the Mystery of Christ in Paul’s Completing Ministry
In the Old Testament most of what God did in relation to His people was outwardly and even supernaturally, and the people of Israel knew they had God’s presence with them as He was protecting them, guiding them, speaking to them, and doing all kinds of things for them. But today in the New Testament […]
Christ is Everything to the Church for Us to be God’s Living Testimony on Earth
The central vision of the completing ministry of Paul is man being a vessel to contain God and be filled with God, Christ as the mystery of God, and the church as the mystery of Christ. Seeing that Christ is the mystery of God is not such a simple matter – we need the entire […]