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We need to Know God and His Ways, and we Need to live with the Consciousness of God

August 29, 2016 by aGodMan 2 Comments

2 Pet. 1:2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the full knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

In our morning revival these weeks we return to the Crystallization-study of Exodus, and this week in particular we focus on the topic of Knowing God and His Ways; we need to know God and His ways! Moses asked God saying, Let me know Your ways, … [Continue reading]

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Christian Life is a life of Changing Death into Life for the Building up of the Body

August 27, 2016 by aGodMan 7 Comments

By the Spirit and through His death and resurrection, the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, is building an organism, the church, which is His Body and the Father’s house, produced by the mingling of the Triune God with His chosen and redeemed people for His corporate expression; this is the increase of Christ for the building up of the church. Witness Lee

God desires to gain a building, a habitation, a mutual dwelling place of God and man; Christ came to be the mingling of God with man, and in His resurrection He enlarged God's building to include all those who believe into Him; He's changing death … [Continue reading]

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Christ is Enlarging His Body by Working on us through the Process of Resurrection

August 26, 2016 by aGodMan 2 Comments

In His resurrection the Lord Jesus is building the temple, the Father’s house, in a larger way, making it a corporate temple, the mystical Body of Christ (John 2:19-22). Since the day of His resurrection, the Lord Jesus has been enlarging His Body in His resurrection life; He is still working for the building of His Body under the process of resurrection, working on us through the process of resurrection. Witness Lee

It is truly wonderful to realize that the building up of the church as the Body of Christ is the increase of Christ in us, His believers, and this increase is actually our growth in life; the way Christ enlarges His Body is through the process of … [Continue reading]

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The Church is the Body of Christ; the Growth of the Church is the Growth of Christ

August 25, 2016 by aGodMan 5 Comments

Has the element of Christ increased among us? Has the measure of the stature of Christ increased? This is what God is after. This is His focus. God’s work has been to cause the measure of the stature of Christ to increase in the church. God is expecting the church to grow to the full measure of the stature of Christ, because God’s desire is for the church to be the Body of Christ, His fullness. Witness Lee

Since the church is the Body of Christ, the growth of the church is the growth of Christ in all the believers in Christ as the many members of the Body of Christ. The church is not a physical building or location, neither is the church merely a … [Continue reading]

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Baptizing People into God and Practicing the God-Ordained Way for God’s building

August 24, 2016 by aGodMan 5 Comments

In order to have the increase of Christ for God’s building, we must take four steps in our practice: preaching the gospel to gain an increase, having home meetings to keep the increase, having group meetings to teach and perfect the increase, and having church meetings in which all the saints function by prophesying for the building up of the Body of Christ (v. 14; 1 Cor. 14:3-4). Witness Lee

Everything the Lord is doing today is for God's building, and what we as believers in Christ should seek to do today is build up the church as the Body of Christ. However, some may say that it is impossible to have the recovery of the church life … [Continue reading]

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God’s Main Work is the Work of Building up the Church for His Corporate Expression

August 23, 2016 by aGodMan 5 Comments

1 Pet. 2:5 You yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Today God does only one work: the work of building Himself into man and man into God so that God and man may be mingled together and become the building of God, the dwelling place of God, the house of God. Everything that He did and does is for His … [Continue reading]

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The Central Vision of the Bible: the Increase of the Triune God is for God’s Building

August 22, 2016 by aGodMan 14 Comments

The central and divine thought of the Scriptures is that God is seeking a divine building as the mingling of Himself with humanity. He is seeking a living composition of living persons redeemed by and mingled with Himself. Witness Lee

This week we're in the last of the six portions of enjoyment on, The Increase of Christ for the Building up of the Church, and the title of this week is simply, The Increase of Christ for God's Building. In order for Christ to have the increase of … [Continue reading]

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