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Our Christian life is a life of the altar and the tent, just like Abraham’s life

December 9, 2009 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

Abraham’s life was characterized by these two things: he built an altar, and he lived in a tent. Whenever God appeared to him, he didn’t GO and do something immediately: he simply built an altar, consecrating himself to God, putting everything he is and was and had on the altar. This is actually what God […]

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faith and love are two inseparable virtues of the believers in Christ, Titus 3:15

December 3, 2009 by aGodMan 1 Comment

My words are not adequate, but I enjoyed Titus 3:15 all these past few months, especially by listening to it being sung, me singing it, singing it with the saints in a spontaneous way, and reading & enjoying the explanatory footnotes on this short verse. It is indeed true: the Word has so much in […]

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We need to eat Jesus every day as the tree of life, He is our real food!

November 30, 2009 by aGodMan 1 Comment

God’s original intention in His creation of man can be seen in Genesis – after He created man, He placed man in a garden with lots of trees good for food! God gave man only one “commandment” – take care of your eating! Don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, […]

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God is glorified in the church, where His wisdom is made known to His enemy!

November 24, 2009 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

God’s original intention in creating man is expressed in Genesis 1:26 “Let Us make man in our image and according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over…” – Image and Dominion. Image: God wants to be expressed, manifested, shown to the entire universe in what the depth of His riches are – He […]

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We are the branches in Christ as the vine (who is the organism of the Triune God)

November 23, 2009 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

John 15:1-2 tells us that Christ is the real vine, and the Father is the husbandman. We, the many believers in Christ, are the many branches in the vine – and we are set to go forth and to bear fruit! In this whole universe there is a vine-tree, a universal vine-tree: Christ as the […]

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God’s intention and heart’s desire is fully related to man

November 18, 2009 by aGodMan 1 Comment

Throughout the whole Bible we see that God’s heart’s desire and His intention in His plan, His economy, is related to man. In Genesis 1:26 we see that, according to the council held in the Triune God, man was created according to God’s image and His likeness – and man was intended to have dominion […]