God’s Covenant with Abraham: Receiving the Life-Giving Spirit as the God’s Blessing

To receive the Spirit we need to have an ear to hear what the Spirit says to the churches (Rev. 2:7; cf. Heb. 5:11-14); the measure of the Spirit that can be dispensed into our inward parts depends on the measure of our hearing (Luke 10:38-42). Crystallization-Study of Exodus (2), msg. 6

Our God is a covenanting God, and we are His covenanted people. Even though man fell, God came in to preach the gospel and promised that the seed of the woman will destroy the serpent; this seed of the woman is Christ and also the man-child, the … [Continue reading]

God’s Covenant with Noah and the Rainbow: Enjoy God’s Faithfulness and His Promises

Gen. 9:11-13 ...I establish My covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living animal that is with you, for perpetual generations: I set My bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.

The first major covenant God made with man was His promise to Adam that "the seed of the woman will bruise the serpent on the head" (Gen. 3:15); this promise was fulfilled in the Lord Jesus as the individual seed of the woman, and it is being … [Continue reading]

Becoming the Man-Child by being Inwardly Strengthened and by Pray-Reading the Word

Jesus is Lord! Christ is Victor! Satan has been defeated! Praise the Lord! - this is the word of our testimony!

The first major covenant God made with man can be seen in Gen. 3:15, where God came in after the fall of man and preached the gospel by promising that the seed of the woman will bruise the head of the serpent. Instead of rebuking Adam and Eve for … [Continue reading]

The Promise of the Seed of the Woman destroying Satan’s Head: Christ and His Overcomers

Gal. 4:4-6 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under law, that He might redeem those under law that we might receive the sonship. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father!

Our God is a covenanting God, and we are His covenanted people. Throughout the Bible we see God making covenants with His people; His covenants reveal His desire toward man. The Bible is a book of the revelation of God's desire toward man. God … [Continue reading]

We Believers in Christ must be Slaves of God and of Jesus Christ in the Church Life

Matthew 23:11-12 And the greatest among you shall be your servant. And he who will exalt himself shall be humbled, and he who will humble himself shall be exalted.

It is quite impressive and amazing to see how God Himself, Christ, became a man and lowered Himself, humbled Himself, and emptied Himself to be found in fashion of a man and even become a lowly slave to serve God and man. God could have accomplished … [Continue reading]

As Slaves of God we Live to the Lord, not to Ourselves, because we are the Lord’s!

Rom. 14:7-8 For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself; for whether we live, we live to the Lord, and whether we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore whether we live or we die, we are the Lord's.

After God gave the law to Moses in Exo. 19-20, He went on in ch. 21:1-6 to speak of a slave who did not want to go out free but serve his master forever because he loved his master, his wife, and his children. The law was given to show the people of … [Continue reading]

Learning to be Slaves of God and Sacrifice Everything for Others to Gain them for God

The Lord Jesus is the Slave of God, the fulfillment of the type of the slave who loves his master, his wife, and his children in Exo. 21, and therefore he would not go out free. The Lord Jesus humbled Himself and emptied Himself to become a man and … [Continue reading]