In order for us as children of God to reach the spiritual age of twenty, we need to pass through the first three stages of the experience of life and enter into the fourth stage; there’s the need for the dealing with the flesh, the self, and the natural constitution. Only those who were twenty […]
When we Live Christ, we live the One who is the Pattern of a Crucified Life
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 […]
We need to Live in our Spirit by Denying Ourselves and Taking Christ as our Person
If we realise that Christ is our person in our inner man, we will be those taking Christ as our person to live in our spirit in and for the church life today. When we believed into the Lord Jesus and received Him as our Lord and Savior, He came into us not only as […]
As the Meal Offering Christ Lived a Crucified Life in Resurrection without any Sin
The meal offering typifies Christ in His God-man living; as the meal offering, Christ’s humanity was fine and perfect, He was mingled with the Holy Spirit, His humanity bore the aroma of resurrection, He lived a crucified life, and He had no sin or any negative thing, neither did He have any natural affection or […]
Today is the day to have a New Man Constituted of All the Local Churches on earth
The application of the new man spoken of in Eph. 2:15 and Col. 3:10-11 is that all the local churches in the different countries are one new man. So our practice of the church life should be with the Body of Christ and the new man as the goal in view. The constitution of the […]
Since the Resurrected Christ lives in us, the Churches are Living, Overcoming Death
In speaking to the church in Smyrna, the Lord said of Himself that He is the First and the Last, who became dead and lived again; as the resurrected Christ, He is living in us and among us, and we as the church are living as He is, full of life and overcoming any death. […]
Paul’s Gospel concerns Christ as the Spirit Living in us and the Body of Christ
The Bible is the complete divinely inspired word of God, His letter written to us with the help of men who were borne of the Holy Spirit, and every book in the Bible is God’s speaking, focusing on God’s economy, His eternal plan. In His sovereignty, God has allowed certain books to be in the […]