It is crucial for us to see that Christ has the keys, the authority, of death and Hades, and we should praise the Lord that Christ has the keys of death and of Hades. The Christ revealed in Revelation is living, burning, and fierce to purify the churches, produce the overcomers, and gain the New […]
Supply the Nutrients for Christ to Grow in us for the Building up of the Church
We need to supply the nutrients for Christ to grow in us for the building up of the church as the Body of Christ. As believers in Christ, we are God’s cultivated land, a farm in God’s new creation to grow Christ so that precious materials may be produced for the building of God. Therefore, […]
Christ Builds the Church by Making His Home in our Heart to Constitute us with God
Christ is the only One qualified to build up His church, and he does this by building Himself into our being, that is, by making His home in our heart so that we may be mingled with the Triune God and become a mutual abode with Him. This is what the Bible reveals that God’s […]
As the One holding the Key of David, Christ Makes us a Part of the New Jerusalem
To the church in Philadelphia the Lord introduces Himself as the Holy One, the true One, the One who has the key of David, the One who opens and no one will shut, and shuts and no one opens (Rev. 3:4); the fact that Christ has the key of David is very meaningful, for this […]
The Central Line of the Bible – the one unique Body of Christ, the organism of the Triune God!
Praise the Lord for His divine revelation in the Bible! In the Bible, there are many things, but there is a CENTRAL LINE, a central revelation, something so basic and so important that all the believers agree with and believe! In our life and service we need to focus not on the “leaves” or “branches” […]
our Lord Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, and it is He who builds up His church!
It is so easy to take for granted what the Bible says, especially the paragraphs / sections that we know and read often. But we daily need to exercise ourselves to empty ourselves from anything old, even any old knowledge, so that we may receive a fresh revelation concerning the wonderful Person of Christ – […]
Christ as our replacement is a peg driven into a sure place, a throne of glory, and the One on whom all the vessels hang
As we saw in the previous portion, Christ as the all-inclusive replacement of everything else in God’s economy with Himself is represented by David – Christ is the real David, since He is the One who builds the house of God and the kingdom of God. As the greater David, Christ has built up the […]