As believers in Christ who desire to cooperate with the Lord for the building up of His church so that He may return soon, we need to learn to exercise the key of taking up the cross; we need to partake of the Lord’s willingness to bear the cross so that we may be happy […]
Deny the Self by the Cross to be Dependent on the Lord and on the Body of Christ
The self is the soul declaring independence from God and from the Body of Christ; we need to deny the self and be dependent on the Lord and on the Body, for only when the self-life has been utterly dealt with by the cross are we able to touch the reality of the Body of […]
Experience Christ as Everything and Taking up our Cross for the Genuine Church Life
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
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
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
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
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 […]