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Only when we are Built and Coordinated into the Building can we Serve the Lord

September 22, 2016 by aGodMan 6 Comments

1 Pet. 2:5 You yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

As believers in Christ we are both living stones being built up into a spiritual house and a priesthood that is built up and coordinated into the building of God. In Exodus we see that the goal of God delivering His people from Egypt, bringing … [Continue reading]

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We need to be Built up to be God’s Dwelling Place to Serve Him as the Priesthood

September 21, 2016 by aGodMan 4 Comments

The priestly service is a work of being built up and of building. One aspect of our work is to be built up, and another aspect is to build. We are building by being built up; this is to genuinely serve God as priests. When we are built up into a priesthood, we can have work that is acceptable to God. #ExoCS4 msg. 5

In the building of God, the goal of God's work and His heart's desire, the living stones are the priests, and the building is the priesthood; for us to be the priesthood in reality, we need to be built up in God and with one another for God's … [Continue reading]

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The Church is Composed of God’s Redeemed People as a Spiritual House and a Priesthood

September 20, 2016 by aGodMan 4 Comments

In the Old Testament the house and the priesthood were separated, but in the New Testament the spiritual house is the priesthood, and the priesthood is the spiritual house (1 Pet. 2:5). The twofold function of the church — that of the dwelling place and that of the priesthood — is typified by the tabernacle and the priesthood (Eph. 2:21-22; 1 Pet. 2:5, 9). #ExoCS4, msg. 5

After seeing that the entire Bible speaks mainly of life and building, we today come to the matter of the tabernacle and the priesthood: the tabernacle is the priesthood, and the church is both a spiritual house and the priesthood. The basic and … [Continue reading]

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Seeing that Life and Building are the Basic and Central Revelation of the Bible

September 19, 2016 by aGodMan 8 Comments

The Lord’s recovery is the recovery of life and building for us to be built up to be the church as the house of God and the Body of Christ (Eph. 2:21-22; Rom. 12:4-5; 1 Cor. 15:45b; 12:12, 27; Col. 3:4, 15; 2:19). The central vision of the Bible—the building of the house of God—can be considered the highlight of the Bible and also the essence extracted from the Bible (Exo. 25:8; 40:17-35; Matt. 16:18; Eph. 2:21-22; 1 Tim. 3:15; Rev. 21:2-3). Witness Lee

The entire Bible speaks of life and building, and when we look at the priesthood in the book of Exodus we realize that it is inseparable from the building of God. As one of the hymns says, holy priests are living stones (see Hymns #849). The … [Continue reading]

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Enjoying and Experiencing Christ for the Church, the Dwelling Place of God (Psa. 84)

September 17, 2016 by aGodMan 6 Comments

Psa. 84:10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand; I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Psa. 84 is very enlightening and encouraging as we try to deepen our study of the tabernacle in the Bible; in this psalm we see the yearning, desire, and love of the psalmist for the house of God, and at the same time we see God's desire being … [Continue reading]

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Dwelling in God’s House by Praising Him and Having the Highways to Zion in our Heart

September 16, 2016 by aGodMan 6 Comments

The highways to Zion signify our intention to enter into the church as the house of God and are the blessed highways for seeking the incarnated Triune God in His consummations, typified by the furniture in the tabernacle (Heb. 10:19-22). On the one hand, we have entered into God; on the other hand, we are still on the highways to enter into God. The highways to Zion in our heart mean that we need to take the way of the church internally, not externally; when we are deeply in the inner life, we will certainly be in the way of the church; the highways to Zion will be within our heart (cf. 1 John 1:3-4). Witness Lee

The goal of God's salvation, provision, and revelation as seen in the book of Exodus is His building, the tabernacle; as believers in Christ, we need to go on with the Lord and experience Him as reality of all the furnishings of the tabernacle so … [Continue reading]

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Experiencing Christ at the Two Altars to be Incorporated into God as seen in Psa. 84

September 15, 2016 by aGodMan 8 Comments

1 Cor. 12:12 For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

Psalm 84 is a wonderful and mysterious psalm speaking of the psalmist's appreciation and longing for the house of God; the two altars are mentioned in particular, as they refer to the leading consummations of the work of the incarnated Triune God for … [Continue reading]

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