The way for us to realize the genuine church life is to experience Christ as everything to us; furthermore, the genuine church life requires us to take up our cross and follow the Lord, for only when the self is crossed out can Christ come to be the reality of the church life. The […]
Being Willing to Take up our Cross and Bear it for the Building up of the Church
July 6, 2019 by 1 Comment
As believers in Christ, we need to learn to exercise the keys of the kingdom to lock up the gates of Hades and release the building up of the church; we need to learn to deny the self, take up our cross, and lose our soul life. If we do not exercise daily to deny […]
We need to Accept the Dealing of the Cross in the Realm of the Body of Christ
May 23, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The cross of Christ brings us to the Body, the cross operates in the realm of the Body, and if we want to be members of the Body, we cannot go on with out the cross – we need its organic function, and we need to accept the dealing of the cross. God gives us […]
Living a Life of being Conformed to the Death of Christ for the Reality of the Body
May 16, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The reality of the Body of Christ is a corporate living of being conformed to the death of Christ; our Christian life is a life of pursuing to die with Christ through the experience of the cross so that Christ may live in us. What is the reality of the Body of Christ? There are […]
The Practical Way for us to live Christ is to daily Walk According to the Spirit
June 20, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The practical way for us to live Christ in our daily life is to walk according to the spirit, that is, to live in the mingled spirit and walk according to the mingled spirit. In a sense, we believers in Christ have only one all-inclusive command or task, which is to walk according to the […]
Being Willing to Take up and Bear the Cross, Realizing that it is the Will of God
February 10, 2017 by 6 Comments
After revealing that He will build His church in Matt. 16, the Lord Jesus continued by exposing the gates of Hades and by giving us the keys to lock these gates: to deny the self, to take up and bear the cross, and to lose the soul life (Matt. 16:24). In digging deeper into God’s word and […]
Deny the Self, Take up Your Cross, and Follow the Lord by Exercising Your Spirit
August 15, 2014 by 2 Comments
When the Lord shows us what is the greatest hindrance to the building up of His Body, we will truly see what the self is and how much it frustrates the Lord in building up His church. Under the divine light, as the Lord exposes our self in all its activities, manifestations, and utterances, we […]
