The Word of God, the Bible, is our divine supply to be our food; the Bible is God’s speaking, the word that proceeds out of is mouth, it is the embodiment of God in Christ as the Spirit, and the words spoken to us by the Lord are spirit and life. This week we come […]
Find the Lord’s Words and Eat Them: the Words the Lord speaks to us are Spirit and Life
Drink the Water of Life in Resurrection to Build up the Body and Prepare the Bride
When we come to the Lord to drink the water of life in resurrection, we receive and enjoy all that He is and has accomplished, and we are made the members of the Body and are prepared to be the bride of Christ. Hallelujah, it is all accomplished by our drinking the living water! We […]
Being in the Resurrection Life of Christ to have the Authority of Christ as the Church
We need to enjoy and experience Christ as a land of iron stones; iron signifies the authority of Christ, and we can have this authority when we live in the resurrection life of Christ. In our enjoyment and experience of Christ we need to advance and progress from merely enjoying Him as the foodstuffs to […]
We Experience Christ in His Resurrection as our Authority in the God-given Ministry
In Num. 17 we see God’s vindication of His appointed authority, which is the budding rod of Aaron; this shows that we need to experience Christ in His resurrection in the God-given ministry. In Num. 16 we see the general rebellion of the leaders and the people of Israel against Moses and Aaron, and we […]
Not Exercising our Choice but going through Death and Resurrection to Enjoy Christ
The book of Numbers reveals the pre-arrangement of the distribution of the good land, which typifies the enjoyment of the rich Christ according to God’s choice; in particular, we want to see that we shouldn’t exercise our choice in this. God gave the land to Israel; He promised it to their forefathers, and He brought […]
Serving God in the Principle of the Budding Rod, through Death and Resurrection
This week in our deeper study of the book of Numbers we want to see and experience the major types concerning Christ in Numbers, and today in particular we want to see how Aaron’s budding rod typifies the resurrected Christ blossoming and bearing fruit to maturity. Strictly speaking, in the book of Numbers there’s only […]
In Spirit we Experience Christ’s Death and Resurrection to be Produced as Pearls
When we’re in the mingled spirit, we experience Christ’s death and resurrection to be produced as pearls, gates into the New Jerusalem. For us to become a pearl as an entrance into the New Jerusalem, we need to exercise our spirit to enjoy the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, so that we […]