Human life under the sun is vanity, but we as believers should no longer walk in the vanity of the mind but live the life of the new man as the reality is in Jesus. Hallelujah, reality is in Jesus, and we have Jesus living in us to be our reality! We human beings are […]
Our Standard of Living must be According to the Reality in Jesus as we Learn Christ
February 1, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Our standard of living as believers in Christ must not be according to our culture but according to the reality in Jesus, the reality lived out by the Lord Jesus when He was on earth, for the living of the new man should be the way that the Lord lived on earth. This week in […]
We Experience a Constant Salvation by taking Christ our Pattern in our Daily Life
August 8, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In Phil. 2:12 Paul tells us to work out our own salvation; this is not the eternal salvation from God’s condemnation but the daily and constant salvation that is Christ as a living person. After seeing the wonderful pattern of Christ in Phil. 2, Paul tells us, as beloved ones, to work out our own […]
When we Live Christ, we live the One who is the Pattern of a Crucified Life
August 7, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In Phil. 2 we see Christ crucified as our pattern, and this pattern is the crucified life within us; when we live Christ, we live the One who is the pattern of a crucified life. Christ as our pattern is not something only objective, something that we should follow outwardly, but also something subjective and […]
As our Pattern, Christ Emptied Himself, Humbled Himself, and was Glorified by God
August 5, 2019 by Leave a Comment
For us to experience Christ, we need to know Him as the pattern; we need to have Him as the pattern infused into us, realising that Christ emptied Himself and humbled Himself, and later He was exalted and glorified by God. Oh, may this mind be in us – the mind of Christ, the same […]
To Know Christ as the Pattern we need to Let this mind be in us, the Mind of Christ
August 5, 2019 by Leave a Comment
If we would know Christ as the pattern, we should let the mind which was in Christ Jesus be in us; we need to let this mind be in us, which was also in Christ Jesus. This week we are focusing on, Knowing and Experiencing Christ as the Pattern, as seen mainly in Phil. 2:3-9. […]
Having Fellowship unto the Gospel with one Soul without Strife by the Spirit of Jesus
December 29, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Spirit of Jesus is clearly portrayed in the first two chapters of Philippians; here we see that for us to preach the gospel, have fellowship unto the gospel, and take Christ as our pattern, we need to experience the Spirit of Jesus. We may have never considered the matter of the Spirit of Jesus […]
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