The basic principle of the church is that the church is universal and eternal, so the church must spread constantly on earth; the book of Acts in particular speaks of the spreading of the church. When we speak of the spreading of the church we need to realise that this is not something of organisation […]
Eating the Lord’s Humanity for our Life to be a Duplication of Christ’s God-man Living
March 7, 2018 by 12 Comments
The meal offering typifies first Christ in His God-man living, and it also typifies our Christian life as a duplication of Christ’s God-man living, for when we eat the human life and living of Jesus, His human living becomes ours. We praise the Lord for coming to be the reality of all the offerings, and […]
The Mysterious Thought in the Bible Concerning God’s Relationship with Man
September 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
There’s a mysterious thought in the Bible concerning God’s relationship with man. If you read the Old and the New Testament, you could say that outwardly God wants to gain a people who would have Him as their God, would worship Him, and would bear His name among the peoples. Many people who read the […]
God Created Man in His Image and According to His Likeness for Man to Express God!
September 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
On the sixth day of God’s creation and process of restoration He created man in His own image and according to His likeness (see Gen. 1:26). God’s creation of man was more particular than His creation of any other thing: there was a council held in the Three of the Godhead, and the result was […]
Being Infused with God to Become the Same as He is for God’s Building
April 21, 2013 by 6 Comments
Christ is the Stone with seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God. When we come to the Lord to spend time with Him, He infuses us through His seven eyes, and we are being transformed from glory to glory into His image (1 Cor. 3:18). Something happens in us organically as we spend […]
women in the Old Testament typifying the church as Christ’s counterpart
August 24, 2012 by 4 Comments
In our love relationship with the Lord we are the wife, the female, and He is the Husband, the male. In the Old Testament there are several women that can be considered as a type of the church due to their marriage to certain men who were types of Christ. Paul himself expounded on people […]
becoming the same as Christ to be qualified to work with Him for His Body
July 5, 2012 by 1 Comment
Who can work with the Lord for the Body? In Song of Songs we see that if we would work with the Lord for the Body we need to become the Shulammite, one who is qualified to work with the Beloved (see Song of Songs 6:13; 7:1-13). In other words, for us to work with […]
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