David received the blueprint of the temple and prepared the materials and ground for the building, while Solomon built the temple, we need to not only know the blueprint of God’s house but also experience the Spirit of resurrection (signified by Solomon) to build the house of God. Amen! David and Solomon typify Christ […]
Build up the Church as the Temple of the Living God through our Experience of Christ
The Gospel of John is the gospel of Christ as life for the building up of the church as the temple of the living God; this building work is carried out through our experience and enjoyment of the crucified and resurrected Christ as the tree of life for the church. Amen! We have seen […]
The Local Church must be a Testimony of the Reality of the Body of Christ in Oneness
The tabernacle typifies God’s church on earth, the church of God in the localities, whereas the temple signifies the church as the reality of the Body of Christ; we love the local churches as the precious procedure for us to be brought into the reality of the Body of Christ as the glorious goal […]
Going on with God to have a Renewed and Enlarged Experience of Christ and the Church
The Lord within us is aspiring that we would go on from the tabernacle church life in the wilderness of our soul to the temple church life with Christ as the reality of the good land in our spirit; our experience of Christ and our church life needs to be renewed and enlarged, strengthened […]
Seeing the Difference between Natural Ability and Resurrected Ability in Serving God
We need to see the difference between the natural ability and the resurrected ability, for our natural being and natural ability are impotent and insufficient in the things of God, for He accepts only the manifestations of the ability of the maturity of life. Solomon was a man full of natural ability, but he […]
Being Careful in our Living: Do Not Indulge the Flesh but Walk According to the Spirit!
As believers in Christ, we need to be careful in our living that we would not indulge the flesh but those walking according to the spirit. We need to see Solomon’s failures under the light of the spiritual life; he became a man of wisdom and a man of understanding because of the God-given […]
The Kingdom of God is the Shining of the Lord Jesus, the Realization of what He Is
In Matt. 16:28-17:5 we see a miniature of the manifestation of the kingdom of the heavens in the millennium; when we have the realization of the transfiguration of the Lord Jesus, we have the kingdom, for the kingdom is the shining of the reality of the Lord Jesus! Amen! As believers in Christ, we […]