In order for us to have the proper church life as the corporate expression of Christ we need to have certain crucial experiences, the first of which is having our soul subdued and saturated with Christ. If we still live in and according to our soul, deciding things by ourselves as we always do, having […]
Being Open Vessels to the Lord’s Shining within from our Spirit, the Lamp of Jehovah
December 18, 2014 by 3 Comments
Our experience and enjoyment of Christ is for the church, and as we know Christ, pursue Him, enjoy Him, and experience Him we become His corporate expression in the church life. Too many times, however, we don’t enjoy the Lord, we don’t open to Him, and we don’t experience Him, and therefore the church life […]
Having the Divine Reality Wrought into us to Become our Reality, Life, and Living
December 17, 2014 by 3 Comments
The church life is nothing else but Christ Himself being enjoyed, realized, experienced, and expressed through the believers in Christ for God’s corporate expression. In order for the church life to be such a place, we need to have our soul subdued and saturated with Christ as the life-giving Spirit. If we all live in our […]
Growing in Life by Having our Soul Subdued and Saturated with Christ as the Spirit
December 16, 2014 by 5 Comments
The church life is Christ Himself enjoyed by us, experienced by us, realized by us, and expressed through us corporately. For us to have the proper church life to express Christ according to God’s eternal purpose, however, our soul must be subdued and saturated with Christ as the Spirit. Most of the time we live […]
The Church Life is Christ Experienced and Expressed by All the Saints Corporately
December 15, 2014 by 2 Comments
After seeing a clear vision of the church and God’s threefold purpose for the church, we now come to the practice of the church and the crucial experiences we need in order to practice the church life today. The church is to have the full sonship to express God; the church is the corporate new […]
Growing up into Christ and Functioning in our Measure for the Building up of the Body
December 13, 2014 by 2 Comments
God’s purpose to head up all things in Christ through the church is being accomplished today through the growth in life into Christ, the Head, of all the members of the Body of Christ. As all believers in Christ enjoy Him, eat Him, and drink Him to grow up into Him as the Head, their […]
Growing in Christ by Acknowledging His Headship and by Allowing Him to Increase in us
December 12, 2014 by 1 Comment
In order for God to head up all things in Christ at the fullness of the times (Eph. 1:10) we today as the church need to hold to Christ as the Head and grow up into Him in all things (Eph. 4:15). We need to allow the Lord to grow in us by cooperating with Him […]
