It is of God that all the born again Christians are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God: both righteousness and sanctification (holiness) and redemption (glory) (see 1 Cor. 1:30). All the believers in Christ are part of the church, and God’s purpose for the church is first that it would have […]
Experiencing Christ Day-by-Day as Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption
Living by the Spirit in the Church Life to be in Reality the Kingdom of God Today
The kingdom is the reality of the church and the genuine church is the kingdom of God in this age. God wants to bring in His kingdom into humanity and bring man into His kingdom, and in this age, God’s kingdom is manifested as the church. When we believed into the Lord Jesus and received […]
There are Two Sources issuing in Two Kinds of Living in our Christian Life
In Genesis 21 we see two wells: the well of Abraham and the well of Ishmael. A well is the source of man’s living, supplying man with water for his daily life. The two wells in Genesis 21 signify two sources of living. The first well, Abraham’s well (which later became the well of Isaac […]
We Need to Deal with the Spirit by Dealing with the Passage of the Spirit
When God created man, He intended man to live, act, and have his being in and by his spirit, and the soul and the body would be under the rule of his spirit. Adam had fellowship with God in his spirit every day! But when man fell by over-exercising his soul and not exercising his […]
the secret of the Christian life and the church life is living in the mingled spirit
What is the reality of the church life? The church life is composed of all the believers in Christ who live in their spirit. The reality of the church life is to live in the spirit. In the church life we learn to pay attention not to our mind or emotion but to our spirit. The Christian life, the family life, and the church life – are all a life in our spirit. The divine Spirit as the consummation of the processed Triune God is mingled with our spirit as the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, continually saturating us as we open to Him and allow Him to spread in us… [continue reading online]
the only requirement the Bible has from us is that we live in our mingled spirit
We don’t need to fight or struggle with our disposition or temper, trying to put it down whenever we feel it rises up and makes us do or say things that we shouldn’t. No, all we have to do is turn to our spirit and live in our spirit. The only way we can deny our self and we can bear the cross is by living in the spirit. “In the spirit Christ is life to me, / Strengthening and blessing all-inclusively; / Living in the spirit, holiness I prove, / And the triune God within my heart doth move” (Hymns #593, last stanza). [continue reading online a sharing inspired from today’s morning revival]