Christ is our new wine to be put into fresh wineskins; the church life today is the new wineskin into which Christ as the new and fresh wine can be contained, and together we are the Body of Christ, for we all have Christ in us as the new and fresh wine. Praise the Lord! […]
The Sacrificing Christ Lives in us to Energize us to Sacrifice Ourselves for Others
The vine is a type of the sacrificing Christ, the Christ who sacrificed everything of Himself, and out of this sacrifice He produced new wine to cheer God and man; such a One lives in us to energize us to live a sacrificing life to cheer God and man. Hallelujah! This week in our […]
The Nazarites are Sanctified Absolutely to God and Abstain from Earthly Enjoyment
God desires that all His people be Nazarites, those who are sanctified and separated absolutely and ultimately to God; these are for nothing other than God, and they abstain from earthly enjoyment or pleasure because they are for God’s satisfaction. Who can be such a one? Who can be absolutely for God, seeking nothing else […]
Living in the Principle of the Nazarite by Overcoming Worldly Enjoyment and Rebellion
We are not our own: we belong to God, He has bought us with the high price of the death of His Son, and now it is an honor and a privilege for us to consecrate ourselves to the Lord to live to Him and no longer to ourselves (2 Cor. 5:15). All those who […]
Christ is the Physician and the Bridegroom, the unfulled cloth, the new wine, and the Shepherd!
Every day as we read the Bible we discover more aspects of Christ – all the positive things in the universe point to Him as the reality. What we see and even what we are – and it is positive – is just a shadow; Christ is the reality. I never thought that the gospel […]