The book of Numbers records how God’s chosen and redeemed people were formed into an army – a priestly army – to journey with God and fight with God for His interest on earth (see Num. 1:1-4:49; 9:15-10:36; 12:16; 20:1-21:35; 31:1-54; 33:1-49). In ch. 1 of Numbers there’s a numbering of the people for the […]
Keeping Ourselves in the one Divine Stream by Loving the Lord with the First Love
December 17, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In propagating Christ as the development of the kingdom of God on earth, we need to be those keeping ourselves in the one flow of the Lord’s work for the spreading of the church, and receiving the Lord’s mercy to be saved from Satan’s schemes. The Lord is spreading on earth today, both in number […]
Fight the Spiritual Warfare to Defeat the Satanic Forces and gain Christ for the Church
August 22, 2018 by Leave a Comment
For us to take possession of Christ for our enjoyment, that is, for us to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the reality of the good land, we must fight against and defeat the satanic forces so that we may gain more Christ for the building up of the church. Christ is our good land; He […]
Allowing Christ to Build Himself into our being for the Building up of the Church
June 13, 2018 by Leave a Comment
For God to fulfill His eternal economy He needs to build Himself into our being by working Himself in Christ into us to be our life, our nature, and our constitution for the church as the one new man. Christ said that He will build His church (Matt. 16:18), and He does this not mainly […]
The Church is Built with Resurrection Life and Washed by the Word to be the Bride
January 12, 2018 by 3 Comments
As seen in the type of Adam and Eve in Genesis 2 and shown throughout the New Testament, the church comes out of Christ, is built in His resurrection life, and is composed of all the believers in Christ who are being transformed to be the counterpart of Christ, the reproduction of Christ. We may […]
Christ’s Death and Resurrection Produced and Built up the Church as His Counterpart
January 11, 2018 by 3 Comments
Through Christ’s death and resurrection, God produced and built the church as the counterpart of Christ. Adam and Eve are a picture, a type, of Christ and the church; when Adam was created, he was a type of Christ, and his need for a wife shows the need Christ has for the church. In God’s […]
Seeing the Principle of Babylon and being Saved from Human Endeavor and Hypocrisy
November 27, 2017 by 11 Comments
This week in our deeper study of the recovery of the church we come the matter of the degradation of the church – the principle of Babylon and the way to overcome it. As those who have been shown mercy by the Lord to be in the Lord’s recovery today, we are not in Babylon, […]
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