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Loving the Lord to the Uttermost in the Church Life and Wasting Ourselves upon Him

January 25, 2018 by aGodMan 11 Comments

Phil. 3:8-9 But moreover I also count all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as 5refuse that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness which is out of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is out of God and based on faith.

In the church life we have many functions, such as serving the Lord practically with many outward things, testifying of His resurrection life with its power, and loving the Lord to the uttermost and pouring what we have most precious upon Him. In … [Continue reading]

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Church Life is a Life of Feasting: we Serve the Lord and Testify of Resurrection Life

January 24, 2018 by aGodMan 7 Comments

Martha’s service was good, but it did not attract people. It was the testimony of Lazarus that attracted them....It is not a kind of work; it is a kind of life. It is not by laboring; it is by enjoying the Lord. It gives people the feeling of resurrection power, the manifestation of resurrection life, and the enjoyment of the Lord as life. This is a strong testimony that the Lord can make dead persons so living and enable them to feast with Him....There must be not only the service of practical affairs but also the ministry of life. Martha’s service is necessary, but Lazarus’s ministry is even more necessary. Witness Lee, Life-study of John, p. 305

Outwardly the church may seem poor and afflicted, but inwardly the church life is a life of feasting in and with the presence of the Lord, full of saints who serve the Lord, testify of His resurrection life, and love Him. The story in John 12 is a … [Continue reading]

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The Issue of Life is the Church Life as a House of Feasting in Christ’s Resurrection

January 23, 2018 by aGodMan 8 Comments

The church is composed of cleansed sinners as represented by Simon the leper; he must have been healed by the Lord (Mark 14:3; Matt. 26:6). Being grateful to the Lord and loving Him, he spread a feast in his house for the Lord and His disciples in order to enjoy His presence; a saved sinner would always do this. The Lord has raised us from the dead and cleansed us from our sins; now where we are becomes the meeting place of the church. The Genuine Church (2017 Thanksgiving Conference), outline 3

The issue of life is the church life as a house of feasting; the issue of our experience of Christ as life who meets all our needs is that we become the church life, we open our home for Him and the saints, and we feast together with the Lord. In … [Continue reading]

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Life Meets the Need of Every Man’s Case to Build the House of God (Gospel of John)

January 22, 2018 by aGodMan 7 Comments

John 12:1-2 Then Jesus...came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead....They made Him a supper there; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of the ones reclining at table with Him.

The gospel of John is a book on life and building; God comes to is in Christ to be our life, and this life is for God's building - for Christ as life meets the need of every man's case to build up the house of God. This week in our deeper study of … [Continue reading]

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The more we Grow in Life, the more we are Headed up in Christ by His Life and Light

January 20, 2018 by aGodMan 5 Comments

In order to be delivered from the heap of collapse in a practical way, we need to grow in life; the more we grow in life, the more we will be headed up and the more we will be rescued from the universal collapse (Eph. 4:15; Col. 2:19). Witness Lee

The heading up in Christ in the church life is by life and light; first God comes into us as life to swallow any death, then the light of life shines in us to dispel the darkness, and we are headed up in Christ, being under the light as we grow in … [Continue reading]

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We are Headed up in Christ through the Divine Dispensing which is Sweet and Intimate

January 19, 2018 by aGodMan 5 Comments

Our Father has a great house with a vast store of the unsearchable riches of Christ. This great house needs some administration, some management, to dispense all these riches into God’s people for the producing of the church as the corporate expression of the Triune God. God’s economy, therefore, is His household administration to dispense Himself in Christ into His chosen people so that He may have a house, a household, to express Himself, which household is the church, the Body of Christ. Witness Lee, The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 258

In the church life we are being headed up through the divine dispensing in the divine economy, for God is working Himself into us through an administration that is a sweet dispensing, an intimate stewardship, and a comfortable household … [Continue reading]

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In the Church Life we Take the Lead to be Headed up in Christ by Growing in Life

January 18, 2018 by aGodMan 6 Comments

1 Cor. 11:3 But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.

God's eternal purpose is to head up all things in Christ through the church, and we as the church need to take the lead to be headed up in Christ, so that through the church God will be able to head up all things in Christ. In this universe there was … [Continue reading]

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