We can experience transfiguration in the church life today by losing our soul-life for the Lord’s sake and for the sake of the church. The church as the kingdom of God cannot exist in the natural life but only in the realm of transfiguration; if we today are willing to lose our soul-life for the […]
Overcoming Believers will Reign with Christ and Enter the Lord’s joy in the Kingdom
July 20, 2024 by 16 Comments
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The overcoming believers will be rewarded in the coming kingdom with feasting with the Old Testament believers, inheriting eternal life to have a fuller enjoyment of the divine life, entering into the Lord’s joy and saving their soul, and will reign with Christ and rule over the nations. May we aspire to be the Lord’s […]
Lose the Soul-Life and Live in Resurrection to Share in Christ’s Sufferings for His Body
October 5, 2023 by 2 Comments
We believers in Christ can never participate in Christ’s sufferings for accomplishing redemption, but we must lose our soul-life through death to participate in His sufferings for the producing and building of the church, so that we may enjoy eternal life in resurrection. Amen! On the positive side, we have been captured and captivated […]
As the Totality of our Fallen old man, the Flesh is Enmity against God and Cannot Please God
April 26, 2022 by Leave a Comment
In the eyes of God and according to the Bible, the flesh denotes the totality of the fallen old man, our entire fallen being; it is the living out and expression of the old man, and the flesh is enmity against God, not being subject to God’s law nor being able to please God. […]
Exercise our Spirit to Reject the Self and Live by the Divine Life to Deal with our Natural Disposition
July 6, 2021 by Leave a Comment
As believers in Christ, we want to grow in life and be useful to the Lord in service; for this, however, we need to deal with our natural disposition, that is, reject what we are by birth so that it would be Christ who lives and is expressed through us. Our natural disposition is what […]
Being Dealt with in our Natural Disposition to Grow in Life and be Useful in Service
July 5, 2021 by Leave a Comment
In order for us to be useful to the Lord in His service, we need to deal with our natural disposition for our growth in life; for us to have a proper church life, even a good practice of the genuine church life, we need to deal with what we are by birth. This week […]
Human Culture is a Frustration to Experiencing Christ and it Opposes God’s Kingdom
January 15, 2021 by Leave a Comment
We need to realize that the whole of the human culture opposes God, and culture is a frustration to God’s purpose concerning Christ and the church, for culture frustrates us from experiencing Christ, growing in life, and arriving at a full-grown man. From its very beginning to its development until today throughout the ages, culture […]
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