Though we all may know that God became man in the person of Christ Jesus, do we all know what is the purpose of God’s incarnation? Why did God move out of eternity into time, and why did God come into man? This morning I had a fresh appreciation of some of the main points […]
The purpose of God’s move in His incarnation – to bring God into man and mingle God with man!
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Being on the alert and guarding ourselves from all vain replacements for our genuine and true God!
As we have seen in previous sharings on this blog, Christ is the One pleasing to God, and He replaces everything and everyone in God’s economy. We really are nothing and can do nothing apart from Him – we just come to Him day by day to be replaced with Christ in this organic union… […]
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sustaining the weary with a word – speaking what we hear and speaking as an instructed one!
The Lord Jesus as the Servant of Jehovah did not speak His own words and did not do His own work – He spoke the words of God and He did the work of the Father. He was instructed by God in the morning, in His time with the Father, and this is what He […]
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as the Servant of Jehovah, Christ was a man of sorrows, despised by men, willing to be humiliated…
Day by day, as you spend time with Him to enjoy Him in the Word and as you experience Him, you will appreciate the Lord Jesus more and more. How can you help it not falling in love with this One, the Servant of Jehovah? Everyone around Him was a “bruised reed” trying to hurt […]
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being awakened by God to spend time with Him and speaking as an instructed one
The prophet Isaiah also typifies Christ as the Servant of Jehovah – he is a type of Christ especially in the aspect of witnessing for God and speaking for God. Christ is the One who speaks for God and He even is the Word of God. When the Bible speaks of Isaiah as the servant […]
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To live in the new creation, we have to turn from the things seen to the things not seen
In order for us to live in the new creation, we have to turn from the things seen to the things not seen. The 3 verses at the end of chapter 4 in the second epistle Paul wrote to the Corinthians are very striking, for they unveil how we, the believers in Christ who have […]
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learning to be those loved by God by doing the things which are on His heart
King Cyrus, though a Gentile king, was raised up by Jehovah, anointed by Jehovah, and loved by God (Isa. 48:14). God loves the people that do the things which are on His heart. Cyrus did what was pleasing to God, bringing pleasure to God, by releasing the people of Israel to go to their own […]
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