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Being Willing to Take up our Cross and Bear it for the Building up of the Church

July 6, 2019 by aGodMan 1 Comment

As believers in Christ, we need to learn to exercise the keys of the kingdom to lock up the gates of Hades and release the building up of the church; we need to learn to deny the self, take up our cross, and lose our soul life. If we do not exercise daily to deny […]

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We Exercise the Key of Denying the Self to Lock up the Self and Build up the Church

July 5, 2019 by aGodMan 1 Comment

May the Lord have mercy on us to show us a vision of the self so that we may exercise the key of denying the self to lock up the self in all its expressions and in all situations, for when the self is locked up, the church is built up. It is really the […]

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Denying the Self by the Cross to Depend on the Lord and on the Body of Christ

July 5, 2019 by aGodMan 1 Comment

The greatest enemy of the Body is the self, the soul declaring independence from God and from the Body; when we see a vision of the self and depend on the Lord and on the members of the Body, we have the Lord’s presence, are full of peace, and touch the reality of the Body. […]

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Exercise the Key of Denying the Self, for Satan Manipulates the Self to Damage the Church

July 4, 2019 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

The building up of the church depends on the shutting up of the gates of Hades through the exercise of the keys of the kingdom; for us to build up the church, we need to exercise the key of denying the self (Matt. 16:24). Christ, the Son of the living God, builds the church on […]

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Exercising the Keys of the Kingdom to Lock the Gates of Hades and Build up the Church

July 4, 2019 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

We need to see from Matt. 16 the way to build up the church and the enemy of the building; we need to cooperate with the Lord to lock the gates of Hades for the church to be built up. This week we come to a new topic in the series, The Development of the […]

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Governmental Forgiveness, Kingdom Forgiveness and not going against God’s Government

July 3, 2019 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

After seeing the eternal forgiveness, the instrumental forgiveness, and the restorative forgiveness, today we want to look deeper into the governmental forgiveness (related to discipline) and the kingdom forgiveness (related to God’s administration). In the Bible the word forgiveness and the principle of God’s forgiving us is used a lot, but not all forgiveness are […]

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To Live the Kingdom Life we should Forgive our Brother even as the Lord forgave us

July 2, 2019 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

For us to live the kingdom life, the God-man life, the church life, we must be humble and not despise any believer but love our brother and forgive our brother from our heart. In Matt. 18:1-35 we have a wonderful portion on how to live the kingdom life, and right from the beginning the disciples […]