The revelation in Ezekiel 37 shows that the unique way to have the Body, the church, and the House of God in the genuine oneness is the way of life, just as the bones came together and were enlivened to become an army, and the two pieces of wood were joined to be one in […]
Being Joined together in the Way of Life through Grafting for the Building of God
Being Joined with others by and in the Holy Spirit with the Holding Power of the Divine Nature
![How could the church be built up with so many believers? It could be done only in the divine nature and divine life of Christ by the Spirit of the Triune God. Witness Lee](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/How-could-the-church-be-built-up-with-so-many-believers.-It-could-be-done-only-in-the-divine-nature2.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
When we look at how the boards and the uniting bars were made, put together, and functioning, we realize that in the Body of Christ we must be joined with others by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit with the holding power of the divine nature. First of all, these boards were quite […]
The Emphasis in the Bible is on God’s Building; our Unique Need is to be Built Up
![True spirituality is a matter of the building. Without the building, the spiritual house, there is no sanctification, spirituality, or spiritual power. A certain brother may seem to be kind, holy, and spiritual. But if this brother is not built into God’s building, his apparent spiritual wealth will become spiritual bankruptcy. The reason for such a condition is that without the building there is no protection or covering. Witness Lee](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/True-spirituality-is-a-matter-of-the-building.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1)
Christ today is building up His church; God’s goal is His building, and our unique need is for us to be built up. The entire Bible speaks of life and building: God is life, He gives Himself to man as life in the form of food (the tree of life) and drink (the living water) […]
The Church is Composed of God’s Redeemed People as a Spiritual House and a Priesthood
![In the Old Testament the house and the priesthood were separated, but in the New Testament the spiritual house is the priesthood, and the priesthood is the spiritual house (1 Pet. 2:5). The twofold function of the church — that of the dwelling place and that of the priesthood — is typified by the tabernacle and the priesthood (Eph. 2:21-22; 1 Pet. 2:5, 9). #ExoCS4, msg. 5](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/In-the-Old-Testament-the-house-and-the-priesthood-were-separated-but-in-the-New-Testament-the-spiritual-house-is-the-priesthood.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1)
After seeing that the entire Bible speaks mainly of life and building, we today come to the matter of the tabernacle and the priesthood: the tabernacle is the priesthood, and the church is both a spiritual house and the priesthood. The basic and central revelation of the Bible are life and building; from Gen. 2 all […]
God’s Building is the Desire of God’s Heart and the Goal of His Salvation
![Heb. 3:6 But Christ was faithful as a Son over His house, whose house we are if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end.](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Heb.-3-6-But-Christ-was-faithful-as-a-Son-over-His-house-whose-house-we-are-if-indeed-we-hold-fast1.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1)
The book of Exodus is a book of pictures, starting from the portrait of life in the world under Satan’s usurpation and ending with God’s building, the goal of God’s salvation. The experiences that the people of Israel went through are a portrait and a type of our own Christian experience, and today we as […]
The Judging and Renewing Spirit Washes away all Negative things for God’s Building
![Exo. 27:1-2 And you shall make the altar of acacia wood,...and you shall overlay it with bronze. 1 Kings 7:23 And he made the molten sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, fully round; and it was five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits encompassed it. v. 38 And he made ten bronze lavers; each laver held forty baths; each laver was four cubits across; there was one laver upon every one of the ten bases.](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Exo-27-1-2-And-you-shall-make-the-altar-of-acacia-wood...and-you-shall-overlay-it-with-bronze.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1)
In working to build up the church we need to take heed what materials we use; if we use wood, grass, stubble (works coming out of our natural man, our flesh, or our self) we will mar the temple of God and not build it, and this is not pleasing to God (we may even […]
Seeing how God’s Building is the Goal of His Salvation, Provision, and Revelation
![The goal of God's complete salvation including His redemption, our going out from the world, and our baptism is God's building.](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/The-goal-of-Gods-complete-salvation-is-Gods-building.jpg?fit=300%2C228&ssl=1)
The subject of the book of Exodus is that Christ is the redemption, salvation, and supply of God’s people, and the means for them to worship and serve God so that in Him they may be built up with God together for them and God to meet, communicate, and dwell mutually (see the Holy Bible, […]