Praise the Lord for the Saints being Full of Life and Light and Participate in Life

According to God’s view, His people are sheaves full of life and heavenly bodies full of light; if we praise the Lord for His saints being full of life and light, we will be the first to participate in life. Praise the Lord for the saints! We need to learn that the way we look […]

God’s People are Sheaves full of Life and the Church is Resurrectionly and Heavenly

We need to have the dreams that Joseph had so that we may realize that in God’s view all His people are sheaves full of life to produce food for the meal offering to satisfy God and man. When we see the church and the saints the way that God sees them, we will praise […]

Praising God and Speaking Well of the Church Life to be under God’s Blessing today

We want to be those praising God and speaking well of the church so that we may be under God’s blessing today. Throughout the centuries, those who have blessed Israel and who spoke well of the church have been blessed, and those who spoke evil of Israel and of the church have been under a […]

In God’s Eyes the Church is Sanctified, Perfect, and Beautiful for it is Full of Christ

Praise the Lord, in the eyes of God the church is sanctified, perfect, and beautiful, for the church is full of Christ! Balaam’s parables in Num. 23-24 portray Israel as being holy, perfect, and fair; in its standing the church is holy, in the sight of God the church is perfect, and in appearance the […]

Seeing a Vision of the All-Sufficient One and having a Divine View of God’s People

Like Balaam – a Gentile prophet who was brought into a vision – we also need to see the vision of the All-sufficient One and have a divine view of God’s people, having God’s view of things and of His people. This week in our crystallization-study of Numbers we come to Num. 23-24, and the […]

Going Forward in God’s Glorious Goal to Enjoy Christ with all the Saints in the Body

The story in Num. 32 needs to be a warning to us, for if we care too much about ourselves and our enjoyment but not for God’s people, not being willing to go forward, we will not be able to fulfill God’s will and plan or reach God’s glorious goal. Outwardly what the two and […]

Giving up our Self-Choice in Spiritual Things to take God’s Choice and Reach His Goal

In the matter of enjoying Christ as the good land, we need to give up our self-choice in spiritual things and take what God has allotted to us, and we need to be willing to allow the death of Christ to operate in us and bring us into resurrection and ascension to enjoy the elevated […]