According to Matt. 9 and Luke 5, Christ is the unfulled cloth and our new garment; He is our new garment covering us before God and He’s also our wedding garment for us to participate in the wedding feast, so there’s no need for us to imitate Him: we just need to enjoy Him, love […]
Cooperate with God to have the Second Garment, Christ as our Subjective Righteousnesses
July 18, 2024 by 16 Comments
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We need to cooperate with God to have not only the first garment – Christ as our objective righteousness, but also the second garment, Christ as our subjective righteousnesses, so that we may be qualified to enter the wedding feast of the Lamb when the Lord Jesus returns. The two aspects of righteousness – the […]
Enjoy and Experience Christ as our Objective and Subjective Righteousness Today
July 17, 2024 by 17 Comments
In order for us as believers in Christ to be awarded with Christ as our crown of righteousness in the next age, we must experience and enjoy Him as our subjective righteousness, as our lived-out righteousness in this age. We need to have not only Christ as our objective righteousness for our justification before God […]
The Righteousness of the Bride: Christ as our Subjective Righteousness Lived out of us
March 28, 2024 by 13 Comments
![And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine linen, bright [and] clean; for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the saints. Rev. 19:8](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/And-it-was-given-to-her-that-she-should-be-clothed-in-fine-linen-bright-and-clean-for-the-fine-linen-is-the-righteousnesses-of-the-saints-jpg.webp?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1)
For the joy set before us, which is the Lord Jesus as our dear Bridegroom coming for His bride, we are today preparing to be the bride of Christ; there is the need for the righteousness of the bride, that is, the wedding garment that the bride wears for the wedding feast, which is […]
Christ is our Objective and Subjective Righteousness as we Live by the Spirit and Life
August 16, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Christ as our objective righteousness enables us to meet the requirement of the righteous God, whereas Christ as our subjective righteousness enables us to meet the requirement of the overcoming Christ; the subjective truths are linked to the Spirit and life and are constituted with Spirit and life. The truth in the Bible has two […]
The Ministry of the Spirit and of Righteousness makes us Living Letters of Christ to Express Him
June 17, 2021 by 1 Comment
For us to live out and work out the New Jerusalem is for us to live out and work out God’s complete salvation according to the unique New Testament ministry, the ministry of the age; this ministry is the ministry of the Spirit – the ministry of the new covenant – to deify us by […]
Christ Lived out of us as our Subjective Righteousnesses becomes our Wedding Garment
August 19, 2020 by Leave a Comment
One of the most important things related to a bride is the wedding dress; our wedding garment as the bride of Christ is of fine linen, bright and clean, for it is the righteousnesses of the saints. As believers in Christ, our aspiration and inner yearning is not only to enjoy and experience Christ in […]
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![Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither [can] you unless you abide in Me. John 15:4](https://i0.wp.com/agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Abide-in-Me-and-I-in-you-11.jpg?fit=178%2C100&ssl=1)
