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Wash others’ Feet: We Humble ourselves and Minister the Spirit, the Word, and Life to them

January 25, 2023 by aGodMan 10 Comments

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. John 13:14

As believers in Christ, we need to experience the Lord's washing by spending time with Him and with the saints who are full of the Spirit, the word, and the divine life; we also need to cooperate with the Lord to wash others' feet by humbling … [Continue reading]

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We need the Washing by the Holy Spirit, the Living Word, and the Inner Law of Life

January 24, 2023 by aGodMan 10 Comments

You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. John 15:3

In our experience, the defilement of the feet that need to be washed by the Lord signifies our separation from God and from one another through contact with the world; through foot-washing, we recover our spiritual freshness and vitality and we … [Continue reading]

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The need for Spiritual Foot-Washing in the Church Life to Maintain the Fellowship

January 23, 2023 by aGodMan 12 Comments

Without the spiritual foot-washing, the church life cannot be realized, and the reality of the church life would be gone. Witness Lee

The Lord Jesus loved us to the uttermost, so He washed our feet; foot-washing in John 13 shouldn't be taken merely in a physical sense, but even more, in a spiritual sense, for we need the Lord's spiritual foot-washing day by day as we live in … [Continue reading]

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The Body Builds itself up in Love as the Joints are Supplying and Each Part is Functioning

January 21, 2023 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

...the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Rom. 5:5

The Body builds itself up in love as the joints are supplying and each part is functioning in their measure. The joints supplying and the parts functioning in their measure cause the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love; when … [Continue reading]

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Hold to Truth to Grow into Christ, the Head, and Function out of the Head for the Body

January 20, 2023 by aGodMan 7 Comments

Unto the economy of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in Him. Eph. 1:10

The intrinsic building up of the organic Body of Christ is by the direct building by all the members - into the Head and out of the Head; we need to hold to truth in love and grow up into Him, and out of the Head we will be richly supplied to … [Continue reading]

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As Building Members, we need Shepherding and Teaching to be Perfected in our Function

January 19, 2023 by aGodMan 8 Comments

Shepherd the flock of God among you, overseeing not under compulsion but willingly, according to God... 1 Pet. 5:2

Thank the Lord for His giving of some gifts for the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry for the building up of the Body of Christ by means of shepherding and teaching so that all saints may be perfected! How much we appreciate … [Continue reading]

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Gifted Persons Perfect the Saints to Function for the Building up of the Body of Christ

January 18, 2023 by aGodMan 11 Comments

And He Himself gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as shepherds and teachers. Eph. 4:11

Christ gave gifts to the Body, and the gifted persons perfect the saints, nourishing them according to the tree of life and perfecting them in their function, so that the perfected saints may do the work of the ministry unto the building up of the … [Continue reading]

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