![The Lord Jesus Worked in the Father's Name and He Sought the Father's Will [in the picture: Christ is a genuine man: the perfect and finest man! Obedient, serving, no appearance of evil! The finest personality - divinity expressed through humanity!]](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/christ-is-a-genuine-man-perfect-balanced-finest.jpg?fit=298%2C300&ssl=1)
The Lord Jesus as the first God-man is our pattern and our model, becoming a mold in which we as the many God-men are being put to be conformed to His image. In His being, Christ was a man filled with God, a mingling of divinity with humanity. In His work, Christ didn’t do anything […]
Christ Constantly Denied Himself: He Lived the Father and Worked with the Father
![Christ Constantly Denied Himself: He Lived the Father and Worked with the Father [picture: colorful leaves on a sunny day in Cardiff]](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/colorful-leaves-cardiff-living-because-of-christ.jpg?fit=300%2C199&ssl=1)
In His human living, the Lord Jesus expressed the Father, declared the Father, and lived the Father. God the Father sent Christ the Son, and the Son lived because of the Father (John 6:57). This is very mysterious and yet very wonderful – Christ as the first God-man lived a life not in or by […]
exercising the key of denying the self to shut the gates of Hades and build the church
We need the Lord to shine on us and show us a vision of the self. From the very beginning in the garden of Eden we see that the self is the soul declaring its independence from God. When we are no longer dependent on God but “take matters into our own hands”, we are in the self. The self is the greatest problem to the building up of the Body, and the self is opposing the Body. The principle of the Body is depending on the Lord and depending on the brothers and the sisters… To be independent of the brothers and sisters equals being independent of Christ, but when we are dependent, the self is gone, and instead of the self, we have the Lord’s presence and are full of peace. [continue reading online]
spiritual principles for fighting the spiritual warfare: fight the battle in the Body and through the Word!
In the previous article entitled “we need to pass through Gilgal, Bethel, Jericho, and the river Jordan – for the new creation!” we saw that there are four main stations we need to pass through so that we may be completely OUT of the old creation and into the new creation. One of these stations is […]
in all the things we do for the Lord in the church, we need to stop first and have fellowship!
This morning I was impressed with these simple principles of the Body of Christ as unveiled in 1 Cor. 12:24, But our comely members have no need. But God has blended the body together, giving more abundant honor to the member that lacked. What does it mean that God has blended the Body together? It […]