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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 […]
Christ as the Speaking Spirit Sanctifies us by His Living Word to make us His Bride
January 4, 2024 by 16 Comments
The divine, dispositional sanctification is carried out by Christ as the life-giving Spirit, who is the sanctifying and speaking Spirit; we are washed by the water in the Word to be sanctified in our disposition and be made holy, even as God is holy. Amen! In Eph. 5:26-27 we are told that Christ sanctifies […]
The Lord’s Present and Instant Speaking Washes and Reconstitutes us with God’s Element
October 21, 2023 by 12 Comments
The Lord’s present and instant speaking washes us, cleanses us, and reconstitutes us with God’s element to make us the holy city, New Jerusalem. We need to have the Lord’s speaking, which is His presence; when He speaks to us, His word washes us, for it is the instant, living word that both cleanses us […]
Being Dispositionally Sanctified by the Washing of the Water in the Word of God
October 20, 2023 by 14 Comments
We are being washed by the water in the word of God so that Christ as the life-giving Spirit would dispositionally sanctify us and make us His glorious, spotless, blameless bride. Amen! The holding line in the carrying out of God’s eternal economy in relation to man is the divine sanctification. God is holy; He […]
Experience the Functions of God’s Word as we let the Word of Christ Dwell in us Richly
August 25, 2023 by 7 Comments
On one hand, we need to let the peace of Christ arbitrate in our hearts; on the other hand, we need to allow the word of Christ to dwell in us richly, allowing the word of the Lord to have the first place in us and to inhabit us so that we may experience […]
We need the Washing by the Holy Spirit, the Living Word, and the Inner Law of Life
January 24, 2023 by 10 Comments
In our experience, the defilement of the feet that need to be washed by the Lord signifies our separation from God and from one another through contact with the world; through foot-washing, we recover our spiritual freshness and vitality and we recover our fellowship with the Lord and with one another. John 13, a […]
The need for Spiritual Foot-Washing in the Church Life to Maintain the Fellowship
January 23, 2023 by 12 Comments
The Lord Jesus loved us to the uttermost, so He washed our feet; foot-washing in John 13 shouldn’t be taken merely in a physical sense, but even more, in a spiritual sense, for we need the Lord’s spiritual foot-washing day by day as we live in this world. Amen! This week in our morning […]
