In order for us to become suitable materials for God’s building, we need to experience Christ in His death (signified by cypress), Christ in His resurrection (signified by cedar), and Christ as the Spirit (signified by olive wood), being filled with the Holy Spirit and being in spirit for God’s building. Amen! This week […]
Allow the Crucified and Resurrected Christ as the Spirit to Build Himself into us for the Church
Drink the Word to Grow and be Transformed to be Living Stones for God’s Building
![1 Pet. 2:4-5 Coming to Him, a living stone, rejected by men but with God chosen and precious, you yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1-Pet.-2-4-5-Coming-to-Him-a-living-stone-rejected-by-men-but-with-God-chosen-and-precious1.jpg?fit=300%2C157&ssl=1)
If we read John 1:42 and Matt. 16:18 we will realise that both Christ and the believers are living stones for God’s building, and that God’s goal is to have a spiritual house built up with living stones. Yes, Christ is the living stone, and we are born as men of clay, but through regeneration, […]
Baptizing People into God and Practicing the God-Ordained Way for God’s building
![In order to have the increase of Christ for God’s building, we must take four steps in our practice: preaching the gospel to gain an increase, having home meetings to keep the increase, having group meetings to teach and perfect the increase, and having church meetings in which all the saints function by prophesying for the building up of the Body of Christ (v. 14; 1 Cor. 14:3-4). Witness Lee](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/In-order-to-have-the-increase-of-Christ-for-God%E2%80%99s-building-we-must-take-four-steps-in-our-practice3.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1)
Everything the Lord is doing today is for God’s building, and what we as believers in Christ should seek to do today is build up the church as the Body of Christ. However, some may say that it is impossible to have the recovery of the church life today, and it is close to impossible […]
The Central Vision of the Bible: the Increase of the Triune God is for God’s Building
![The central and divine thought of the Scriptures is that God is seeking a divine building as the mingling of Himself with humanity. He is seeking a living composition of living persons redeemed by and mingled with Himself. Witness Lee](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-central-and-divine-thought-of-the-Scriptures-is-that-God-is-seeking-a-divine-building-as-the-mingling-of-Himself-with-humanity.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1)
This week we’re in the last of the six portions of enjoyment on, The Increase of Christ for the Building up of the Church, and the title of this week is simply, The Increase of Christ for God’s Building. In order for Christ to have the increase of Himself in God’s economy, He must create […]
Letting the Lord to Saturate our Soul to Transform us for the Building up of the Body
![Letting the Lord to Saturate our Soul to Transform us for the Building up of the Body. 1 Cor. 3:9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's cultivated land, God's building](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/1-cor-3-9-we-are-gods-cultivated-land-gods-building.jpg?fit=300%2C205&ssl=1)
Our growth in the divine life equals our being transformed, and it is for the building up of the Body of Christ. In 1 Cor. 3:6, 9, 12-13 we see that Paul equals God’s cultivated land (God’s farm) with God’s building. This shows us that we start out as plants in God’s cultivated land, but […]
12 Items Related to the Fellowship Being the Flow of the Divine Life in us
![12 Items Related to the Fellowship Being the Flow of the Divine Life in us](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Fellowship-Being-the-Flow-of-the-Divine-Life-in-us-flowing-river.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1)
Just as blood is indispensable for our human life so fellowship is vitally important for our spiritual life. Fellowship is the flow of the eternal life into us and through us into others. The divine life which we have received through regeneration is the flowing Triune God, and we need to daily keep ourselves in […]