This week we’re in the last of the six portions of enjoyment on, The Increase of Christ for the Building up of the Church, and the title of this week is simply, The Increase of Christ for God’s Building. In order for Christ to have the increase of Himself in God’s economy, He must create […]
The Central Vision of the Bible: the Increase of the Triune God is for God’s Building
Eating Christ as the Meal Offering in His Word to Live out His Human Living Today
The humanity that we as believers in Christ should have in serving God is the humanity of Christ, which is not merely a perfect humanity but a humanity mingled with divinity; the proper humanity we need in serving God is divinity mingled with humanity for the expressing of the divine attributes in the human virtues. […]
In Christ God and Man have Become One Entity, the God-man, God mingled with Man
God did not create mankind – He created man according to God’s kind, making man in His image and according to His likeness (Gen. 1:26). The plants, animals, fish, and birds all were created according to their kind, but man was created in God’s image and likeness, so that man would become the same as […]
Christ’s Humanity is Strong in Character and High in Standard for Expressing God
In our crystallization-study of Exodus we don’t merely want to see what the types in this book represent but how can we apply them to our Christian life and experience. As we delve into the deeper study and appreciation of the tabernacle with all its furnishings, we need to realize that the tabernacle is a […]
God Redeemed us to make us God in Life and Nature so that He can have the Body of Christ
We praise the Lord for bringing us to see the high peak of the divine revelation in the Bible, which is that God became man so that man may become God in life, nature, and expression but not in the Godhead to produce and build up the organic Body of Christ consummating in the New […]
What Does it Mean to Grow in Life? Growth in Life is More of God and Less of Us
In order for us to grow in life, we first need what life is. Life is NOT a gift, a power, an ability, or anything else – life is simply God Himself. God the Father is life, Christ is life, and the Spirit is life (John 3:36; 1 John 5:12; 1 Cor. 15:45). You could […]
he who prophesies builds up the church as the organic Body of Christ
Our God is a speaking God, and we are the speaking people of the speaking God! When we come together with the saints, our meeting need to be full of speaking Christ to one another! According to 1 Cor. 14:3-4, he who prophesies SPEAKS building up and encouragement and consolation to man! Also, he who […]