God’s desire is not only that He would save man from eternal perdition, but that man would be filled with Christ and even become Christ to express God in full. For this, God regenerates us with His life when we repent and believe into the Lord Jesus. Then, He grows in us and expands in […]
Being Full of the Stature of Christ for the Building up of the Body of Christ
December 23, 2013 by 3 Comments
God’s desire is not only to save as many people as possible but that His people would grow in life unto maturity to arrive at a full-grown man. This means that as we grow in number in the local churches, there’s a parallel great and urgent need for all the saints to grow in the […]
The Goal of Reigning in Life: Living a Life of the Highest Virtues for the Body Life
December 13, 2013 by 4 Comments
God’s desire is that all the believers regenerated by His life would be the same as He is, reigning in life. We can reign in life, on the one hand, by receiving the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness (Rom. 5:17, 21), and, on the other hand, by allowing the divine life […]
Reigning in Life by Being Ruled in the Sweetness of Love and by Enjoying God as Grace
December 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Our destiny as believers in Christ is to reign with Christ for God over all things. Today we need to submit to God’s authority and His sovereign arrangement in our circumstances and environment so that we may reign in life through Christ. The reigning in life the Bible talks about has nothing to do with […]
Reigning in Life by Submitting to God’s Authority and by Being Ruled by His Life
December 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
God’s desire is to make Himself the same as man is so that man may become the same as God is in life, nature, expression, and function, but not in the Godhead. This means that God wants man to rule with Him and through Him over all things. We need to see that our position […]
God’s Complete Salvation is for Us to Reign in Life by Receiving the Abundance of Grace
December 10, 2013 by 1 Comment
In His complete salvation, God intends not only to redeem us from the eternal perdition through His judicial redemption but also that He may fully save us in His life through His organic salvation. In the book of Romans we see this so clearly: God’s complete salvation has two aspects, the judicial aspect (His redemption) […]
God’s Intention is that Man would Reign in Life with Christ over All Things
December 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
God had a specific purpose in His creation of man. He created man in His own image and with His likeness so that man may express God and represent God (see Gen. 1:26). This means that God has a twofold desire in His creation of man – He wants man to possess His image and […]
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