The land God promised to Abraham is a type of Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit, and this land today is in reality with our spirit for our enjoyment, participation in, and experience. Also, the good land promised by God to Abraham is the church, the Body of Christ, as the enlargement of Christ (see 1 […]
Christ Shepherds us by Being our Life and by Living in us; He Guides us into His Flock
February 4, 2014 by 2 Comments
The Lord Jesus is the good Shepherd, and He shepherds us by feeding us with Himself and in Himself as the pasture (see John 10:9-10). There are other shepherds, that’s true, but the Lord is the good Shepherd. He takes an all-inclusive tender care of His believers as His sheep. On the cross He tore […]
The Mending Ministry is of Life: Christ is our Life Personally and Intimately!
January 22, 2014 by 2 Comments
John the Apostle had a mending ministry of life – the way he mended the church and the situation among the believers was by presenting Christ as life to them. What we need in order to be mended by the Lord for His building is not outward correction or self-improvement but life, the divine life. […]
We Need to Take Christ as our Person for the One New Man who Fulfills God’s Plan
December 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
After seeing so many aspects and ways to grow in life unto maturity, now we need to see some of the implications and applications of what the full-grown man is. What is the full-grown man that God desires to obtain, and what does he look like? First of all, for God to obtain a full-grown […]
We Worship the Enthroned Christ but we Enjoy the Indwelling Christ as our Everything
July 31, 2013 by 3 Comments
In Colossians we see a high revelation of Christ as our life and our everything. In his completing ministry, Paul shows us an all-inclusive Christ as the reality of all the positive things, and especially in Colossians we see that this Christ is our life. Somehow, the Christ who fills all in all, the one […]
The Triune God has been Processed and Consummated to Dispense Himself into us
June 29, 2013 by 4 Comments
This is a fact that all the believers in Christ should know, treasure, enjoy, and benefit of in their daily Christian life: the Triune God has been processed and consummated to dispense Himself into our entire tripartite being (John 7:37-39; Rom. 8:11). This means that God became a man and He passed through a long […]
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