We need to intrinsically follow Nehemiah’s pattern to build the wall by being under the headship of Christ in the church life, having the divine order manifested among us, and having a strong and definite protection and safeguard around God’s house and His interest on earth. Nehemiah lived in the Old Testament but he […]
The Church Life is a Life of being Headed up in Christ by Growing in the Divine Life
The church life is a life of being headed up in Christ by our growing in the divine life; as we hold Christ as the Head, we grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, and through us God can head up all things in Christ. God’s will is to head up […]
The Gospel Brings forth the Church, and the Kingdom is the Reality of the Church
In Exodus 18 we see a portrait of life in the kingdom of God; today, in the age of grace, when the gospel of the kingdom is preached, the kingdom of God is brought in and the church is brought forth. In the New Testament what we see first is the kingdom of God: the […]
Living in the Principle of the Nazarite by Overcoming Worldly Enjoyment and Rebellion
We are not our own: we belong to God, He has bought us with the high price of the death of His Son, and now it is an honor and a privilege for us to consecrate ourselves to the Lord to live to Him and no longer to ourselves (2 Cor. 5:15). All those who […]
Seeing the Divine Stream, the Unique Flow of Life, in the Whole Bible
In the Scriptures, we see the concept of the divine stream, the flow of life, from Genesis all the way to Revelation. Everything that God does is in this living stream, which appears in the garden of Eden and also in Revelation in the New Jerusalem. In the book of Acts we also see that […]
God ordained the plurality in eldership – not a single person leading and doing everything but plurality and leadership
This morning I was so much enlightened again regarding God’s ordination of the members in the Body. As believers in Christ, we are all simply “members of the Body” and that’s it – none of us is higher or lower, but rather we are on the same level. Just like in a family though, some […]