It is so encouraging and uplifting to read God’s promises to recover and restore His people, and to realize that He wants to bring us into the enjoyment of Christ as everything to God and to man so that we may be His people, the church, the Body of Christ! The people of Israel are […]
Building an Altar at Bethel and Realizing God’s All-Sufficiency in the Church Life
September 24, 2014 by Leave a Comment
At his second coming to Bethel, Jacob built an altar there and called it El-Bethel, and God appeared to him and said to him, “I am the All-sufficient God” (Gen. 35:11). Previously, Jacob built an altar at Shechem, where he also pitched his tent and was settled for a while, having a life of ease. […]
Obeying God in Faith and Having a Crystal Clear Vision with the Divine Provision
May 14, 2014 by 1 Comment
Many people who read the story in Genesis 22 – the one about God requesting Abraham to bring his beloved son, Isaac, as a burnt offering – think that God is too much in asking this from Abraham, and Abraham was too strong in faith (something which they can never achieve) to trust God to […]
Our Enjoyment of Christ in the Church Life Produces us as a Burnt Offering for God
May 12, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The God of Abraham is our God, and Abraham’s experience of God needs to become our experience of God in our Christian life today. According to Rom. 4:17, Abraham had a twofold knowledge of God: first, he knew God as the One who calls things not being as being, and then he experienced God as […]
A Picture of the Wonderful Church Life of the Saints, the Covenanted People of God
November 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The church life as a mysterious God-man living of the resurrected people is seen in a seed form in Genesis 8 after Noah and his family got out of the ark, and is also seen in picture in the gospel of John. In chapters 2 and 12 we see that in the church life Christ […]
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