The Lord’s greatest promise and prophecy is, I will build My church (Matt. 16:18); the church as God’s building is the center of God’s heart’s desire and the focus of His purpose. Today we are in the age of the church, and God cares only for the building up of the church. We are in […]
God’s Building is the Test of our Spirituality; Real Spirituality is for the Body
The building up of the church is the aim of God’s eternal purpose and plan; today God is doing only one thing: He is working to get a building, the church, as the mingling of God with man and the building up of the regenerated and transformed believers in Christ. When we see a vision […]
Today God needs a Remnant to Go Outside the Camp unto Christ for God’s Building
If we see that the only thing God is doing and caring for today is the building up of the church, the Body of Christ, we will give ourselves to cooperate with Him for His building. If the Lord is merciful to us to show us His building, we will realize that He cannot build […]
Building up the Body of Christ by Going Outside the Camp and Entering Within the Veil
The first thing we need to have in order to build up the Body of Christ is a vision of God’s building. What is in God’s heart today and the only work He is doing right now is building up His church, the Body of Christ. One could say that there are many things and works […]
Taking Christ as our Person for the New Man to Speak the Same Thing in One Accord
As the Body of Christ, the church has Christ as its life; as the one new man, the church has Christ as its person. In order for us to be in reality the Body of Christ, we need to take Christ as our life and live by Him to live Him out. In order to […]
Bearing one Another in Love and Keeping the Oneness in the Uniting Bond of Peace
Keeping the oneness of the Spirit (Eph. 4:3) is not something “too spiritual” for us to understand or practice; rather, we can keep the oneness of the Spirit in a very practical way with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one another in love, and in the uniting bond of peace. In the church […]
Being Long-Suffering in the Church Life Especially in Relation to our Speaking
Paul, the prisoner in the Lord, beseeches us to walk worthily of the calling with which we were called, with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one another in love, being diligent to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace (see Eph. 4:1-3). In the church, under the abundant […]