In His resurrection Christ became the life-giving Spirit – now the Lord Jesus is the Spirit!

This is such a crucial truth seen everywhere in the Bible! In His resurrection Christ as the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45)! God became a man in the person of Jesus Christ, lived a perfect human life on earth (in which He expressed God, even though He was persecuted, criticized, and was […]

the blood of Christ is for our redemption and His flesh/His life is for our life supply!

In the Old Testament we have the type of the people of Israel being delivered out of Egypt (Exo. 12) – before God delivered them, they received specific instructions regarding how to prepare the Passover lamb. They had to kill the lamb and put the blood on the door posts and then they had to […]

by His bruise we were healed – we can apply the death of Christ to our being and be healed!

One particular aspect of Christ’s all-inclusive death is that Christ died for us to be healed! “By whose bruise you were healed” (1 Pet. 2:24-25) – we have been healed by Christ’s bruise! We were dead (Eph. 2:1) but Christ’s suffering of death healed our death so that we may live in His resurrection. He […]

the Lord Jesus was never discouraged – He took His satisfaction only in God and His will!

Why do we get discouraged and disappointed? The main reason we are disappointed or discouraged is because we have expectations from the people around us, from our environment, from situations and things. Expectations – this is what drives us to discouragement. We have expectations from our parents, our family, our teachers, our children, our spouse, […]

Christ as a man lived a lowly and sorrowful human life – this fully qualified Him to be our Redeemer!

Most Christians have heard of or read a specific chapter in the Bible which gives a view of Christ found nowhere else – Isaiah chapter 53. Here we see that Christ as a perfect man lived a lowly and sorrowful human life. He didn’t “look nice” nor was he famous and charismatic – rather, He […]

Christ expressed the bountiful God in His rich attributes through His aromatic virtues

This is not my utterance – this is a rich utterance in the ministry of the age regarding our wonderful Lord Jesus! The Lord Jesus didn’t just bring God into man and mingled God with man in His incarnation – He also expressed the bountiful God in all His rich attributes through His aromatic virtues! […]

The purpose of God’s move in His incarnation – to bring God into man and mingle God with man!

Though we all may know that God became man in the person of Christ Jesus, do we all know what is the purpose of God’s incarnation? Why did God move out of eternity into time, and why did God come into man? This morning I had a fresh appreciation of some of the main points […]