It is amazing to see how the lives of Noah, Daniel, and Job reveal the Triune God dispensing Himself into us to fulfill His eternal economy; with Noah we see God the Father in His faithfulness to dispense Christ into us, with Daniel we see Christ the Son as coming as the crushing stone to […]
Give Christ the First Place in our Speaking and Work to Speak Christ & Serve God
Christ must have the first place not only in our living but also in our messages, for we work for Christ, we bring people back to Christ, we speak Christ, and we have an affectionate love for Him, so we praise Him and testify of Him, taking Him as our centrality and our universality. Lord […]
Christ is Intimately Involved with Human History, and His Second Coming is Victorious
Zechariah 12-14 speaks of Christ’s victorious second coming, which will be with power and authority; as the centrality and universality of God’s economy, Christ is intimately involved with human history. This is why we need to read the Bible and especially get into the prophecies in the Old Testament with a vision of God’s […]
A Vivid Portrait of the All-inclusive Christ in and for God’s Eternal Economy
The Old Testament history is closely related to God’s economy in the way of typology; in the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament, we see a vivid portrait of the all-inclusive Christ in and for God’s eternal economy. When we come to the matter of typology, many new and young saints may not be […]
God’s Economy concerning Christ and the Church is seen in Typology in 1 and 2 Kings
The books of 1 and 2 Kings are concerned not with the historical facts but with an intrinsic revelation related to Christ and the church, for these books of history were written from the point of view of God’s eternal economy concerning Christ and the church. May we have such an intrinsic view of […]
God’s Intention in His Administration is to Give Christ the Preeminence in All Things
God’s intention in His administration is to give Christ the preeminence in all things, that is, to cause Christ to have the first place in everything (see Col. 1:15, 18). In Colossians Paul writes concerning this principle of Christ being preeminent; he says that Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of […]
God wants His All-inclusive, Extensive Christ to become our Everything for the Church
God wants that His all-inclusive, extensive, and preeminent Christ would become our everything for the church, the Body of Christ. The Christ unveiled in the book of Colossians is the all-inclusive, extensive, preeminent One, the centrality and universality of God’s economy; God wants to work such a Christ into us so that we may enjoy […]