God became a man in the Lord Jesus Christ for the purpose of making us also the same as He is! His hearts' desire is to have man as His counterpart (Rev. 19:7), His expression, the same as He is. That's why He "bothered" / "took the pain" of … [Continue reading]
even as He is, we will be – His reproduction, His duplication!
I really enjoyed John 12:24 this morning Truly, truly I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. In the physical world, if you take a grain of wheat and put it … [Continue reading]
the seed of man became the son of God!
This is actually our gospel, as Paul said in Rom. 1:1-4, 1. Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, a called apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 2. Which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures, 3. Concerning His Son, … [Continue reading]
preaching a high and uplifted gospel according to the Bible
Many times most of us think "oh, maybe people can't really understand the gospel if we preach it in such a high way" - and on the other side, many of the people that are not saved think "why believe in such a watered-down and not-so-high gospel, that … [Continue reading]
loving the Lord with our first love = giving Him the first place in all things
Continuing the thought from the previous post ("why this waste"), what does it mean to love the Lord? In Mark 12:30 it says "you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole … [Continue reading]
Why this waste? Wasting ourselves upon the Lord…
This is the goal of the gospel - that loving the Lord Jesus with the first love we would pour out upon Him what is most precious to us - even our most costly and valuable spiritual treasures! Just wasting ourselves upon Him! We see this in Matthew … [Continue reading]
nothing else satisfies us but God in Christ
If you haven't reached this conclusion, take a moment and think about it: our family life can't satisfy us fully, our social life can't satisfy us; even our online life - social media - networking - can't satisfy us; knowledge and … [Continue reading]