God expresses Himself on earth the way He wants – in His church, His dwelling place. It is in the church that God can practice His New Testament economy, He can speak forth what is in His heart, and He can manifest His glory! God feels at home in no other place but in the church, and it is here that He expresses Himself and manifests Himself – all He is, all He’s doing, and all He wants to obtain are to be expressed in the church as God’s dwelling place.
the church is the house of the living God, the supporting pillar and holding base of the truth
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we need to take Christ as our Head in order for the church as the house of God to be the kingdom of God
This morning I realized that there is so much more to Christ than we ever imagined! Our Christ is so much! He came so that we may have life, and may have it abundantly (John 10:10) – so now Christ is our life (Col. 3:4). When we enjoy Christ as our life, we as the […]
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