The Triune God is Dispensing Himself into His People to gain His Corporate Expression

John 4:14 But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.

When the glory of God filled the tabernacle and the cloud descended upon the tent of meeting in Exo. 40, God has finally obtained a dwelling place on earth among His people for His corporate expression; the Triune God is dispensing Himself into His … [Continue reading]

The Spirit Anoints us for God’s Building and as the Cloud He Leads and Guides us

The Triune God was embodied in Christ as the tabernacle for the purpose of dispensing Himself into His redeemed people for their enjoyment of all the riches of His being. Witness Lee

After the tabernacle was erected in the wilderness, Moses anointed every piece of furnishing and all the priests for service with the holy anointing oil, as per God's instructions; in the church as the house of God we have the Spirit anointing us as … [Continue reading]

How Amazing it is that the Triune God is Embodied and Expressed Through the Church!

Because the tabernacle is a type of Christ, the cloud represents the Spirit, and glory is God Himself expressed, the picture of the tabernacle covered by the cloud and filled with glory embodies the entire Triune God in figure (Exo. 40:34-35). #ExoCS4, outline 12

It is quite amazing to see how the tabernacle filled with the glory of Jehovah and covered by the cloud in Exo. 40 is a full type of the Triune God. At the end of Exodus everything is coming to a consummation, a conclusion: God finished giving Moses … [Continue reading]

The Desire of God’s Heart is Fulfilled when His Glory Fills the Tabernacle, the Church

Exo. 40:34 Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.

This is our last week in the Crystallization-Study of Exodus, and the topic we are enjoying is, The Erecting of the Tabernacle and the Tabernacle, the Cloud, and the Glory being a Full Type of the Triune God (based on Exo. 40, the last chapter of … [Continue reading]

Taking the Lord as our Real Sabbath Rest and Laboring with Him as our Strength

Keeping the Sabbath is an eternal covenant assuring God that we will be one with Him by first enjoying Him and then working with Him, for Him, and in oneness with Him. The mentioning of the Sabbath here [Exo. 31:16] indicates that everything related to the tabernacle and its furniture leads us to God’s Sabbath, with its rest and refreshment in the enjoyment of what God has purposed and done. #ExoCS4, outline 11

It is very significant that, after God gave Moses the specific instructions concerning the tabernacle and about the workers of the tabernacle, He reminded His people concerning keeping the Sabbath; keeping the Sabbath was a perpetual contract or … [Continue reading]

The Principle of the Sabbath is that we First Enjoy God and Rest in Him, then we Work

Man’s first day being a day of rest established a divine principle — God first supplies us with enjoyment, and then we work together with Him; we need to be one with God in His work (1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor. 6:1); this requires that we enjoy Him. #ExoCS4, outline 11

After seeing who are the workers of the tabernacle and what are their qualifications, today we want to see how God rested and was refreshed on the Sabbath, and therefore He charged that His people would keep His Sabbaths (Exo. 31:13-16); today we … [Continue reading]

Being Willing to be Emptied and Freshly Filled with the Spirit to Build up the Church

Every day and all the time we need to be freshly filled with the Triune God through prayer; the Christian life is a life of prayer; if we are short of prayer, we will be short of the Spirit (Col. 4:2). #ExoCS4, outline 11

In order for us to do the building work of God's house, we need to be wise in heart, receive wisdom, understanding, and grace from God, and we need to be stirred up in our heart to do the noble work of building up the church; above all, we need to be … [Continue reading]