According to the divine revelation in the New Testament, Christ is both the Head of the Body corporately (the church), and individually the Head of all the believers; He is the Head directly of every one of us, and we all are under His unique authority. This is something that we all need to realize […]
Christ has already Won the Battle, and the Church Maintains Christ’s Victory on earth
The Lord Jesus has already won the battle – He has won the victory, and now our work as the church on earth is to maintain Christ’s victory. Hallelujah, the victory has been won, and we can apply it, stand in it, proclaim it, and make it real to the enemy wherever we are and […]
Our Self is the Greatest Enemy of the Body: We Need to Deny it and Live by God’s Life
As believers in Christ we are not meant to live in an individualistic way – we are members of the Body of Christ. However, do we have the realization that we are members of the Body? Do we live in the Body of Christ? Do we depend on the Lord as the Head and on […]
knowing the Body in practice: the universal church and the local churches
On the one hand, we need to know the Body of Christ in life – Christ is the life of the Body of Christ, and the Body is a mingling of divinity with humanity. When we see that the Christ we have received through regeneration is the life of the Body of Christ, we will […]
knowing the Body by dealing with our flesh, our self, and our individualism
All the believers in Christ are members of the Body of Christ by their spiritual birth in the life of God. But do we know the Body in reality? Is the Body of Christ something real to us in our experience? We may understand the concept of the Body of Christ, and we may mentally […]
being enlightened by the Lord to really see the Body and care for the Body
When it comes to spiritual things, we need to not only mentally know the spiritual principles and the word of God but we need to have a clear spiritual seeing of the spiritual things. Eph. 1:17-18 says, That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit […]
having a consciousness of the Body of Christ – all the members of the Body have the life of the Body!
This week we are coming to another item on the central line of the Divine Revelation in the Bible – the Body of Christ; more specifically, we are getting into, The Consciousness of the Body of Christ. As believers in Christ, we are not individualistic people living our own life by ourselves; rather, the divine […]