The unique subject, center, content, and substance of the apostle’s ministry is the crucified Christ, and God’s way to deal with every problem in the universe is to terminate everyone and everything through the cross. As we are prayerfully considering the crystals in the book of Ezekiel, the matter of the cross is quite critical […]
Seeing that the Cross is the Center of the Universe and the Principle of the Cross
One of the major pieces of furniture in the temple seen by Ezekiel in a vision was the altar, which typifies the cross; the cross is the center of the universe, and the principle of the cross is termination, death. As those who love the Lord and pursue Him, we all know how crucial the […]
We need to Experience the Spirit of Jesus to have the Humanity of Jesus for God’s building
The key for us to experience the humanity of Jesus for God’s building, that is, the secret for us to be Jesusly human for God to gain a corporate expression, is for us to experience the Spirit of Jesus. What God is after in this universe is a building, a corporate expression in humanity, and […]
Being Trained by the Lord Jesus to be Jesusly Human living a Divinely Human Life
![[The Lord's] training was to help the disciples realize that they were mingled with the Triune God, that they were no longer merely human but divinely human, even “Jesusly human.” They were no longer separate from the Triune God, but they could now live a life in which they were one with the processed Triune God. They were no longer merely men but God-men, divine men, with the Triune God as their intrinsic essence to become their divine being. Witness Lee, God's New Testament Economy, p. 184](https://i0.wp.com/mail.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The-Lords-training-was-to-help-the-disciples-realize-that-they-were-mingled-with-the-Triune-God2.jpg?fit=199%2C300&ssl=1)
Because the humanity of Jesus is the only material qualified to be in the building of God, we need to be Jesusly human, that is, the most human of people, those who are under the Lord’s training to let Jesus live in them. The Lord’s death on the cross terminated our old man, crucifying it […]
Living out the Uplifted and Resurrected Humanity of Jesus for the Building of God
The unique material of God’s holy building is the humanity of Jesus: for God’s building, we need to be human not by our natural humanity but by the humanity of Jesus, the resurrected humanity, the uplifted humanity of Jesus. The way the Lord Jesus lived was like no other man on earth. He didn’t just […]
For God’s Building we need the Humanity of Jesus, His Human Life in Resurrection
The Lord Jesus is not only the Son of God but also the Son of Man, and as the Son of Man He is the unique material for God’s building; we need the humanity of Jesus for God’s building. God’s desire and intention is to obtain a building, which is the corporate expression of Himself […]
God desires to gain a God-man, a Man Mingled with God, to Express and Represent Him
The whole Bible and the book of Ezekiel in particular reveals that God’s central thought and arrangement are related to man, for God needs man – He wants to gain a God-man – for His corporate expression and representation. From the very beginning in the book of Genesis God created man according to His image […]