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Reigning in Life by Receiving the Abundance of Grace to Receive the Crown of Life

November 26, 2016 by aGodMan 9 Comments

Phil. 3:10-11 To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if perhaps I may attain to the out-resurrection from the dead.

The Lord's promise to the overcomers in the suffering church in Smyrna is that He would give them the crown of life (Rev. 2:10). In the Lord's speaking to the church in Smyrna, a church under persecution, in suffering, and facing death, we can see … [Continue reading]

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Christ has the Keys of Death and of Hades: He Nullified Death and Overcame Hades!

November 25, 2016 by aGodMan 14 Comments

Jesus Christ is the One who became dead and lived again - He is the resurrected One, the One who not only defeated death but also has the keys of death and of Hades, and death and Hades are under His control. Praise the Lord! God became a man - … [Continue reading]

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Since the Resurrected Christ lives in us, the Churches are Living, Overcoming Death

November 24, 2016 by aGodMan 8 Comments

The suffering church should not be frightened by persecution or terrified at the prospect of being killed; rather, she must welcome death and be happy, for once she has passed into death, she also will be on the threshold of resurrection. Whenever we are undergoing persecution, we must rise up and declare, “Hallelujah, I am about to enter into the gateway of resurrection.” W. Lee, The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 4154

In speaking to the church in Smyrna, the Lord said of Himself that He is the First and the Last, who became dead and lived again; as the resurrected Christ, He is living in us and among us, and we as the church are living as He is, full of life and … [Continue reading]

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We need to Know that Jesus is the First and the Last, and He died and Lived again

November 23, 2016 by aGodMan 6 Comments

Acts 2:24 Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, since it was not possible for Him to be held by it.

To the church in Smyrna, the suffering church, the Lord introduces Himself as the First and the Last, who became dead and lived again (Rev. 2:8); the key to victory over persecution, suffering, and death is realizing who the Lord is, being under His … [Continue reading]

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The Lord Knows our Tribulation, and He Knows Religion Opposes Christ and the Church

November 22, 2016 by aGodMan 8 Comments

The more we as the branches of the vine bear fruit as the expression of Christ, the more we will be hated by the religious world of today. In the Lord’s time, the religious world was Judaism; in our time the religious world is the religious system of Christianity. Witness Lee

The Lord told the church in Smyrna not to fear the things which she was about to suffer (prison, persecution, tribulation, and even death), because He knows their tribulation and poverty, and to those who are faithful, He will give the crown of life … [Continue reading]

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Entering the Fellowship of the Lord’s Sufferings for the Church to be His Testimony

November 21, 2016 by aGodMan 4 Comments

Col. 1:24 I now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His Body, which is the church.

This week in our deeper study and prayerful consideration of the seven epistles to the seven churches in Rev. 2 we come to the Lord's speaking to Smyrna, the suffering church. In Matt. 16:18 the Lord uttered the greatest prophecy in the Bible, On … [Continue reading]

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Enjoying Christ as our Love, Life, and Light to keep the Testimony of Jesus

November 19, 2016 by aGodMan 6 Comments

If today we take Christ as the first in everything, we will have love, we will enjoy Him as life, we will shine forth with Him as light, and we will become the shining lampstand as the testimony of Jesus. This eventually will become our reward not only in this age but even more in the coming age. In the thousand-year kingdom we will enjoy Christ as our reward in the Paradise of God. Witness Lee, The Overcomers, ch. 3

In the Lord's epistle to the church in Ephesus there are four main points - love (loving the Lord with the first love), life (enjoying Christ as the tree of life), light (shining as the Lord's testimony), and the lampstand (bearing the Lord's … [Continue reading]

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