For us to experience Christ, we need to know Him as the pattern; we need to have Him as the pattern infused into us, realising that Christ emptied Himself and humbled Himself, and later He was exalted and glorified by God. Oh, may this mind be in us – the mind of Christ, the same […]
To Know Christ as the Pattern we need to Let this mind be in us, the Mind of Christ
If we would know Christ as the pattern, we should let the mind which was in Christ Jesus be in us; we need to let this mind be in us, which was also in Christ Jesus. This week we are focusing on, Knowing and Experiencing Christ as the Pattern, as seen mainly in Phil. 2:3-9. […]
Having Fellowship unto the Gospel with one Soul without Strife by the Spirit of Jesus
The Spirit of Jesus is clearly portrayed in the first two chapters of Philippians; here we see that for us to preach the gospel, have fellowship unto the gospel, and take Christ as our pattern, we need to experience the Spirit of Jesus. We may have never considered the matter of the Spirit of Jesus […]
Rejecting Self-Cultivation and Allowing Christ to Fill us and Live a God-man Life in us
As believers in Christ, the goal of our Christian practice and of our Christian living is to live the life of a God-man, the same kind of life that the Lord Jesus lived when He was on earth. Our practice shouldn’t be just something according to the Bible but the God-man living. Being a Christian […]
Our Life should be a Reproduction of the Model of the Life of Christ, the First God-Man
All the believers in Christ are disciples of Christ who have been called by Him out of wherever they are and whatever they are doing to follow Him, learn from Him, be discipled by Him, and live like Him. The Lord today is discipling us by guiding us as the Spirit of reality into all […]
Learning Christ and being Kind and Tenderhearted to One Another for the Church Life
In the church life as a living in the Body of Christ we need to experience the divine dispensing of the Divine Trinity and we need to arrive at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God by growing in life unto maturity. Furthermore, we need to beware […]
Seeing the Pattern of the Lord Jesus as a Man of Prayer in the Gospels
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For God to accomplish His will, He needs a people on the earth that would pray His will for Him to do it. God doesn’t need only “prayers once in a while, when we remember or when we are reminded by others” – God needs men of prayer. With Daniel as a man of prayer […]