God’s will is to have the church as the Body of Christ for His fullness, His expression, with Christ as the Head of the Body and the believers as the members of the Body who grow in life with the growth of God for the building up of the Body of Christ. Lord Jesus, may […]
God’s Will is Concentrated in Christ: He wants us to Enjoy and Experience Christ!
The will of God is concentrated in Christ and is for Christ, for Christ is everything in the will of God – He’s the centrality and universality of God’s economy, and God desires for this Christ to be everything to us. Lord Jesus, we want to enjoy You, know You, experience You, and be filled […]
See the Mystery of God’s Will in Christ and the Church according to His Good Pleasure
Our God is a God of purpose, having a will according to His own pleasure; we praise God for His will, we want to know the mystery of God’s will and do His will, and we want to be persons in His will, even in the good desire of His heart, His good pleasure, and […]
Two Aspects of Christ being Righteousness to the Believers: Objective and Subjective
According to the New Testament, there are two aspects of Christ being righteousness to the believers: He is our objective righteousness before God to be justified before Him, and He is the lived out righteousness subjectively to be justified before God; we need to know and experience Christ in both of these aspects. Lord Jesus, […]
Righteousness is being Right with God and Man, and having Christ Lived out of Us
The Father’s righteousness is the righteousness expressed by the keeping of the new law of the kingdom (Matt. 5:20), and this righteousness is Christ lived out by the kingdom people; according to the New Testament, righteousness has four main aspects: being right with persons and things, the outward expression of Christ, God’s kingdom, and being […]
Reject Lukewarmness and Spiritual Pride, and Pay the Price to Gain the Living Faith
Once Philadelphia fails, she becomes Laodicea, which is to know everything but be fervent about nothing, having much and not actually sacrificing her life for anything, and to be lukewarm; may we receive God’s mercy to pay the price to buy the living faith to partake of the divine element of Christ and have fresh, […]
Christ uses the Key of David for our Transformation and Building into Pillars in God
To the recovered church, the church in Philadelphia, the church of brotherly love, the Lord is the One who has the key of David not only to objectively open the door for the spread of the church but even more subjectively for our transformation and building into the house of God so that we may […]