Based on God’s Redemption, the Excluding Flame has Become the Indwelling Spirit!

Based on God's Redemption, the Excluding Flame in Gen. 3 has Become the Indwelling Flame in Exo. 3, the Indwelling Spirit as the Divine Fire!

When God created man He had a specific purpose in mind: He wanted man to be in His image and according to His likeness to express Him and represent Him on earth by taking God in as his life and living by Him. After creating man, God put him in front … [Continue reading]

The Divine Economy: the Church is the Triune God Burning within Redeemed Humanity!

Praise the Lord that His economy has been unveiled to us! Every local church is a thornbush burning with the Triune God!

God's desire is to obtain a dwelling place; the heavens are His throne, the earth is His footstool, but where is the man in which He is pleased to dwell? God dwells in man - His dwelling place is in our mingled spirit today (Eph. 1:21-22). The … [Continue reading]

The Thornbush is Gradually Sanctified and Transformed to Become God’s Dwelling Place

In the Lord’s recovery we do not care for a large number; we care for the genuine experience of transformation. I am happy that we are under the divine burning, the burning that transforms us and makes us dispositionally different from the worldly people. Because the element of God is being burned into our nature, we are becoming men of God. This is what it means to be a burning thornbush in an individual sense. According to our nature, we are still a thornbush, but according to God’s burning within us, we are transformed people. On the one hand, we are a thornbush; on the other hand, we are men of God. (Life-study of Exodus, pp. 76-78)

Throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation we see that God's goal ultimately is to obtain a dwelling place; what He is focused on today is building up His habitation. From Jacob's dream in Genesis to Revelation 22 what God desires is to gain a … [Continue reading]

Individually and Corporately we are a Thornbush Burning with the Triune God as Fire

We need to see how both individually and corporately we are a thornbush burning with the Triune God as the fire (and the fuel)

This week we are having a closer look at the matter of the burning thornbush in Exodus; there is much more than meets the eye concerning the matter of the burning bush in Exo. 3, since even at the end of his life, Moses still recalls God as the One … [Continue reading]

God Called us in the Fellowship of Christ, into His Sufferings, and unto His Glory

God has called us for the purpose of obtaining the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ; He has called His chosen ones unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth so that they might obtain the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Thes. 2:13-14).

The New Testament reveals many aspects of God's calling. In the Gospels, the Epistles, and in the book of Revelation we can see a clear picture of God calling us. First, God called us according to His predestination, His foreknowledge and choosing … [Continue reading]

God’s Calling is According to His Purpose in Christ through the Gospel to be Holy

God’s calling is in time, in Christ, and through the gospel.

The Old Testament is a book of pictures, types, figures, and signs; the New Testament is a book of the spiritual reality of the signs and types in the Old Testament. If we have a bird's-eye view of the whole Bible we will realize that many truths … [Continue reading]

Journeying Onward to Enter into the Good Land and have a Corporate God-man Living

We need to help others experience Christ in all His unsearchable riches

The history of the people of Israel in Exodus is a type and figure of our spiritual history with the Lord, and Moses being called by God is a pattern for our being called by God. The purpose of God's calling of Moses was to deliver God's people out … [Continue reading]