A normal believer in Christ, loving Him and enjoying Him
This week in our prayerful study of how to return to the orthodoxy of the church we come to the Lord's word to the church in Thyatira, which is a sign prefiguring the Roman Catholic Church which was formed as the apostate church. Even though we … [Continue reading]
It is so encouraging to see the Lord's promise to the overcomers in the church in Pergamos, who are enjoying Christ as the hidden manna to be transformed into a white stone, approved by God, suitable for God's building, having a name written on it … [Continue reading]
To each of the seven churches He writes to in Rev. 2-3 the Lord promises a particular kind of reward for the overcomers; to those in Pergamos, who overcome the degradation in the worldly church holding the teaching of Balaam and of the Nicolaitans, … [Continue reading]
The church in Pergamos, the church in union with the world, held the teaching of Balaam and the teaching of the Nicolaitans; what started as the practice of the Nicolaitans in Ephesus now became a teaching in Pergamos. The Lord's speaking to this … [Continue reading]
When the church goes the way of the world and accepts worldly things, practices, and situations as normal, we need to be like Antipas, the faithful witnesses for the Lord with the spirit of a martyr, standing against anything the world has to offer … [Continue reading]
![In the Lord Jesus, Satan as the ruler of the world had no ground, no chance, no hope, no possibility in anything....Here is a man of prayer who said that Satan, the ruler of the world, had nothing in Him [John 14:30]....Christ was a man of prayer, a man who is one with God, lives in the presence of God continuously, trusts in God in His suffering and persecution, and in whom Satan has nothing. W. Lee, The God-man Living, p. 90](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/In-the-Lord-Jesus-Satan-as-the-ruler-of-the-world-had-no-ground-no-chance-no-hope-no-possibility-in-anything.jpg?resize=270%2C100&ssl=1)
Because the church in Pergamos entered into a union with the world, she dwelled where the throne of Satan is; we should not be in the place where Satan is and reigns but be those dwelling in our spirit and in Christ, the One in whom Satan has … [Continue reading]
This week we come to the Lord's speaking to the church in Pergamos; as a sign, this church prefigures the church that entered into a marriage union with the world and became a fortified tower, having its nature changed and being full of … [Continue reading]
Serve the Lord Faithfully under the Lord’s Restriction for the Building of the Body
Open to the God of Measure as He Deals with us by Raising us up and Lowering us Down
Our God is a God of Measure: Learn to be under God’s Restriction in our Work for God
The Consciousness of the Body of Christ and the Sense of the Body being Universal
Know the Body in Practice and do the one Work of Building up the Body of Christ
Three Proofs that we Know the Body as we Grow in Life and Experience Christ as Life
