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
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
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
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
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. […]
When we see God, we are Enlightened and Exposed, we Apply the Blood, and we Gain God
When we truly see a vision of the Lord in His glory, we are enlightened and exposed regarding our uncleanness and we can apply the blood of Christ; the more we see the Lord, the more we abhor ourselves and the more we gain God! The book of Jeremiah exposes what our condition is in […]
Our Heart is Deceitful and our Nature is Evil but God can write His Law of Life on us
In Jeremiah God exposes what we are in our fallen condition: our heart is deceitful above all things, even incurable, and our fallen nature is unchangeable. Just as the Cushite cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots, so we who are accustomed to doing evil cannot simply change ourselves to do good. The […]