As believers in Christ who want to build the church and follow the Lord by taking up our cross, we need to exercise the key of self-denial and lock up the self with all its expressions and manifestations so that the church may be built up today. The way to cooperate with the Lord to […]
Exercise the Key of Self-Denial to Lock up the Self and Build up the Church Today
Deny the Self by the Cross to be Dependent on the Lord and on the Body of Christ

The self is the soul declaring independence from God and from the Body of Christ; we need to deny the self and be dependent on the Lord and on the Body, for only when the self-life has been utterly dealt with by the cross are we able to touch the reality of the Body of […]
Dealing with the Flesh, the Self, and the Natural Constitution to Grow unto Maturity

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 […]
Denying the Self by the Cross to Depend on the Lord and on the Body of Christ

The greatest enemy of the Body is the self, the soul declaring independence from God and from the Body; when we see a vision of the self and depend on the Lord and on the members of the Body, we have the Lord’s presence, are full of peace, and touch the reality of the Body. […]
Learning to Take Christ as our Person to Live Christ as the Proper Church Life today

If we as believers in Christ take Christ as our person and let Him live in us, we will live Christ as the proper church life. When we were regenerated, without us realising this, another person came into us – Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came into our spirit as the life-giving Spirit. […]
Denying the Self and Walking by the Spirit to Coordinate with Others in the Body

This week we have been prayerfully considering the coordination among the four living creatures in Ezek. 1; in a practical way, for us to coordinate with others we need to deny our self, live and act by God’s grace, walk by the Spirit and according to the spirit, and be one with the coordinating Triune […]
Learning to Exercise the Key of Denying the Self, who is the Embodiment of Satan

The building up of the church depends on the shutting of the gates of Hades through the exercise of the three keys, the first of which is denying the self; the self is nothing else but the embodiment of Satan – the self is one with Satan and is expressed through our opinionated mind. Matthew […]