As believers in Christ who have seen something of God’s eternal purpose and desire to gain the one new man, we need to put off the old man and put on the new man, that is, put on the community life of the one new man. We need to cooperate with the Triune God to […]
Cooperating with the Triune God to Put Off the Old Man and Put On the New Man
As believers in Christ, we need to cooperate with the Triune God to put off the old man, which was terminated on the cross by Christ, and put on the new man, which was created through Christ’s death and resurrection. We have seen that there’s an urgent need to see the church as the one […]
Christ and the New Man as our Clothing is also our Dwelling Place as Priests to God
As believers in Christ, we are all priests to God, and Christ is our food, our clothing, and our dwelling. The priests were a particular kind of people who were set aside for God; they spent time with God, served God, and were infused with God to be mingled with God and express God. Their […]
The Significance of the Priestly Garments and their Application in our Christian Life
All believers in Christ are priests to God, and as such we need to have a certain kind of diet (Christ as the reality of all the offerings and as the bread of the presence) and we need to have a particular kind of clothing, something that will set us aside from the rest as […]
We Need to be Renewed in the Spirit of Our Mind for the Body and the One New Man
God’s desire and intention in creating man is to have a full-grown corporate man who is filled with His life and accomplishes His purpose to express Him with His image and represent Him with His dominion (see Gen. 1:26). The first man Adam fell, but God Himself became a man to bring in a new […]
Put Off the Community Life of the Old Man and Put On the New Man, the Church Life
The new man was created by the Lord Jesus through His death on the cross, and it is coming into existence today in the proper church life. When all the brothers and sisters in the Lord exercise their spirit and live according to the spirit of their mind (the spirit spreading into their mind), there […]
Learning Christ as the Reality is in Jesus to Live the Same Kind of Life Jesus Lived
For us as believers in Christ to arrive at a full-grown man we need to learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus. The one new man as the full-grown man that accomplishes God’s purpose is a corporate man that lives on earth the same kind of living that the Lord Jesus lived when He […]