The Breaking of the Alabaster Flask to Release of Christ’s Frangrance for the Body

All the believers in Christ contain Christ as the costly pure nard, the pure ointment in our alabaster flask; in order for Christ to come forth and flow for the whole house to be filled with the fragrance, there is the need for the breaking of the outer man. We are vessels containing a priceless […]

God Shines in our Hearts that We may Shine on Others with the Gospel of the Glory of Christ

As the New Jerusalem is being developed, worked out, and built up through our experience of all the aspects of the New Jerusalem, we need to cooperate with the Lord and be one with Him to preach the gospel of the glory of Christ so that many would become parts of the New Jerusalem. The […]

The Secret of our Christian Life and the Treasure in our Earthen Vessel: Christ in us!

Being a Christian is not adhering to some religious doctrines and set of teachings, neither is it “joining a Christian church” and so now you’re a person who does his best to behave better. Being a Christian is a matter of having Christ dwelling in you. One becomes a Christian when he opens to the […]

Man is a Vessel to Receive God by Eating, Drinking, and Breathing in God

The central vision of Paul’s completing ministry is God in us as our contents, Christ as the mystery of God, and the church as the mystery of Christ. First of all, we need to see that God made us as vessels to contain Him, and He wants to be our content. It is only in […]

Seeing the Church as a Corporate Thornbush Burning with the God of Resurrection

The vision of the burning thornbush impressed Moses and stayed with him throughout his life, so that at the end of his life as he was speaking his departing words and he was blessing the children of Israel he said, ….With the choicest things of the earth, and the fullness thereof, and the favor of […]

we are earthen vessels containing a priceless treasure, the Christ of glory!

When God shines on us through the speaking of His Word, the glory of God in the face of Christ is being infused into us to become the indwelling treasure in our spirit (see 2 Cor. 4:6-7; 1 Pet. 3:4). This is so wonderful! We are earthen vessels – worthless, fragile, temporal, ephemeral, and passing away – but we contain a priceless treasure – the face of Christ, the person of Christ, the image of God Himself – in our spirit (2 Cor. 2:10)! There is nothing more precious and valuable in the whole universe than beholding the face of Jesus [read more online]

God’s shining in our hearts brings into us a priceless treasure – the Christ of glory!

This morning I was freshly impressed and supplied at the same time with God’s desire to shine in our hearts! In the Old Testament He was shining over people, mainly outwardly, but now in the New Testament, He can shine in our hearts! Without the Lord shining in us, we are in darkness; any part […]