As we grow and develop in the divine life unto maturity, we will be those who know the ascension of Christ – both in an objective way (the facts that Christ accomplished and attained to when He was ascended) and subjectively (by experiencing Christ’s ascension in our experience). If we are those knowing the ascension, […]
We All have a Special Place and Function in the Body: Don’t Go Beyond Your Measure!
The Body of Christ is, on the one hand, a mystical and spiritual entity that is universal, transcending time and space, and is composed of all the believers in Christ as the many members of the Body of Christ. On the other hand, the Body of Christ is a reality and a life we live […]
Our Need to See a Revelation of the Body of Christ: We are Members of the Body!
What the believers need today is NOT more knowledge concerning Christ and the Body of Christ but a revelation of Christ and His Body. In the spiritual realm whenever we see something, when we see the Body of Christ, for example, we enter into the reality of the thing we see. Only God can give […]
Seeing a Vision of the Body of Christ and Realizing our Great Need for the Body
In all spiritual things, our seeing is our knowing and entering in. If you see the Body of Christ, you know the Body and you enter into the Body life in practicality. We need to see a vision of the Body of Christ in the same way that Paul saw it, and then we will […]
Allowing the Razor of the Cross to Deal with the Many Aspects of Our Leprous Self
When we see the Body of Christ, we will also see the self as the greatest enemy of the Body. For us to have the Body of Christ in reality, the self needs to be denied and rejected. But what does it mean to deny the self? What is the self? The Bible has a […]
Our Self is the Greatest Enemy of the Body: We Need to Deny it and Live by God’s Life
As believers in Christ we are not meant to live in an individualistic way – we are members of the Body of Christ. However, do we have the realization that we are members of the Body? Do we live in the Body of Christ? Do we depend on the Lord as the Head and on […]
The Goal of the Lord’s Recovery is to Bring Forth the New Man, a Full-Grown Corporate Man
Due to the degradation of the church in general, today the Lord has a recovery – He desires to recover His people to what was there in the beginning. In His recovery, the Lord’s goal is the same as His original purpose – He wants to gain a full-grown corporate man who expresses Him and […]