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 […]
Lose the Soul-Life and Live in Resurrection to Share in Christ’s Sufferings for His Body
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As the Totality of our Fallen old man, the Flesh is Enmity against God and Cannot Please God
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. […]
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Exercise our Spirit to Reject the Self and Live by the Divine Life to Deal with our Natural Disposition
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 […]
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Being Dealt with in our Natural Disposition to Grow in Life and be Useful in Service
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 […]
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Human Culture is a Frustration to Experiencing Christ and it Opposes God’s Kingdom
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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Exercise the Key of Denying the Self, for Satan Manipulates the Self to Damage the Church
The building up of the church depends on the shutting up of the gates of Hades through the exercise of the keys of the kingdom; for us to build up the church, we need to exercise the key of denying the self (Matt. 16:24). Christ, the Son of the living God, builds the church on […]
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Exercising the Keys of the Kingdom to Lock the Gates of Hades and Build up the Church
We need to see from Matt. 16 the way to build up the church and the enemy of the building; we need to cooperate with the Lord to lock the gates of Hades for the church to be built up. This week we come to a new topic in the series, The Development of the […]
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