The Lord’s primary work in the recovery is His genuine work to prepare us to be His glorious bride; we as the church are being beautified through the process of sanctification by Christ as the life-giving Spirit cleansing us by the washing of the water in His word. Amen! The Lord today wants to gain […]
Behold the Beauty of the Lord to be Transformed and Beautified as the Bride of Christ
The beauty of the bride of Christ comes from the very Christ who is wrought into the church and shining out from the church to be expressed through the church; we need to behold the Lord’s beauty continually to be transformed into His image and become His beautiful bride. Amen! We believers in Christ are […]
Christ is the Redeemer, the Life-giving Spirit, and the Bridegroom to Gain His Bride
We believers in Christ are in the process of dispositional sanctification, our organic salvation, as our beautification to become the beautiful, holy, and glorious bride of Christ; Christ redeemed the church, as the life-giving Spirit He is washing and cleansing us to sanctify us today, and in the future He will be the Bridegroom presenting […]
Becoming the Lord’s Beautiful Bride by the Washing in the Word to Express Christ
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The Lord Jesus as our dear Bridegroom is the joy set before us; for us to meet Him as His beautiful bride, there is the need for the beauty of the bride – we need to have Christ wrought into us to be expressed through us, for our beauty is the shining out of […]
The Living of the Overcomers is to Live in the Mingled Spirit and Pray-read the Word
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The epistle of Paul to Ephesians reveals the living of the overcomers, those who live in the reality of the Body of Christ by living in the mingled spirit. Though the word, overcomers, is not mentioned in this epistle, the principle of the living of the overcomers is seen in every chapter, and it […]
The Beauty of the Bride comes from the Christ Wrought into and Expressed in the Church
For the presentation of the bride of Christ to Himself as the Bridegroom, the bride needs beauty; this beauty is nothing else but Christ wrought into us to be lived out of us and be expressed through us. There are many aspects of the bride, but what matters on the wedding day is that the […]
The Church is Built with Resurrection Life and Washed by the Word to be the Bride
As seen in the type of Adam and Eve in Genesis 2 and shown throughout the New Testament, the church comes out of Christ, is built in His resurrection life, and is composed of all the believers in Christ who are being transformed to be the counterpart of Christ, the reproduction of Christ. We may […]