For the building up of the church we need the ministry – our experience of the riches of Christ in a subjective way, having Christ wrought into our being through all kinds of sufferings and consuming pressures…. This kind of experiences produces and constitutes the ministry for God’s new covenant, and these experiences are for the building up of the Body of Christ today! We love the ministry – we don’t “hate the gifts”, but we value more being a minister of the new covenant than desiring to be a gifted one…
our repentance and confession marries God’s forgiveness to produce something for God’s building
In a way, if in our Christian life we didn’t have a great failure – something that we do which makes the other saints shake their head when they think about it – we cannot say we have experienced a great repentance matched by God’s forgiveness… No, we don’t want to say, Let us do evil so that good may later come. We don’t want to tempt God nor do we desire to willingly fail, but we may fail and commit a great sin – we may have a great failure – and there will be a deep repentance that will follow.
in today’s world situation we can see the wheel of God’s economy turning: the Body is being built up!
Everything that is going on in the world, whether big changes or small things, is for the building up of the Body of Christ! Just as we see in Ezekiel ch. 1, there are wheels turning – the move of God’s New Testament economy is like the turning of a big wheel (see. Ezek. 1:15-21). […]
being those living out and working out the New Jerusalem to become and build the New Jerusalem!
As those whom the Lord has shined on to show us what the New Jerusalem is, we need to have the realization that we are living out the New Jerusalem to become the New Jerusalem and we are working out the New Jerusalem to build the New Jerusalem(1 Cor. 3:9, 12-17). The New Jerusalem as […]
the seven Spirits of God in Revelation are for God’s building, for the producing of the New Jerusalem
The last aspect of THE SPIRIT is the seven Spirits – as we see in Rev. 1:4, 4:5, and 5:6, in the book of Revelation the Spirit is “the seven Spirits of God”. This does not mean that there are seven separate Spirits today, but that the one Spirit of God has been intensified sevenfold […]
God’s economy is fully accomplished by the exercise of our mingled spirit (as revealed in Ephesians)
Praise the Lord for God’s economy! The economy of God (His household administration according to His heart’s desire) revealed in the book of Ephesians is accomplished by the exercise of our mingled spirit for the dispensing of the Triune God into us unto the building up of the church as the Body of Christ (1 […]
Christ is the Word of life: He declared the mysterious God to us and brought us the divine life!
This week we are enjoying one item from the central line of the Bible – the Word of God. But what is most interesting is that the Word of God is not “something in itself” – the main thing about the Bible is that Christ is the Word of God! We don’t come to the […]