The greatest enemy of the Body is the self, the soul declaring independence from God and from the Body; when we see a vision of the self and depend on the Lord and on the members of the Body, we have the Lord’s presence, are full of peace, and touch the reality of the Body. […]
Exercise the Key of Denying the Self, for Satan Manipulates the Self to Damage the Church
July 4, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The building up of the church depends on the shutting up of the gates of Hades through the exercise of the keys of the kingdom; for us to build up the church, we need to exercise the key of denying the self (Matt. 16:24). Christ, the Son of the living God, builds the church on […]
Exercising the Keys of the Kingdom to Lock the Gates of Hades and Build up the Church
July 4, 2019 by Leave a Comment
We need to see from Matt. 16 the way to build up the church and the enemy of the building; we need to cooperate with the Lord to lock the gates of Hades for the church to be built up. This week we come to a new topic in the series, The Development of the […]
Governmental Forgiveness, Kingdom Forgiveness and not going against God’s Government
July 3, 2019 by Leave a Comment
After seeing the eternal forgiveness, the instrumental forgiveness, and the restorative forgiveness, today we want to look deeper into the governmental forgiveness (related to discipline) and the kingdom forgiveness (related to God’s administration). In the Bible the word forgiveness and the principle of God’s forgiving us is used a lot, but not all forgiveness are […]
Eternal Forgiveness, Instrumental Forgiveness, and Restorative Forgiveness
July 3, 2019 by Leave a Comment
We must see and realize that in the kingdom of God and in the Bible there are more than one kind of forgiveness – there are at least five, the first three being eternal forgiveness, instrumental forgiveness, and restorative forgiveness. In the Bible the word forgiveness is mentioned many times, but it doesn’t refer to […]
To Live the Kingdom Life we should Forgive our Brother even as the Lord forgave us
July 2, 2019 by Leave a Comment
For us to live the kingdom life, the God-man life, the church life, we must be humble and not despise any believer but love our brother and forgive our brother from our heart. In Matt. 18:1-35 we have a wonderful portion on how to live the kingdom life, and right from the beginning the disciples […]
We Ask, Seek, and Knock in Prayer to Receive God’s Riches and Feed Others also
July 2, 2019 by Leave a Comment
As we are contacting people and in dealing with them, we must ask, seek, and knock in prayer for the proper way to contact them; we must receive the divine supply and minister this supply to others. In Matt. 7 we see the way for us as kingdom people – as citizens of the kingdom […]
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