In order for us as believers in Christ to be awarded with Christ as our crown of righteousness in the next age, we must experience and enjoy Him as our subjective righteousness, as our lived-out righteousness in this age. We need to have not only Christ as our objective righteousness for our justification before God […]
Build the Wall to Protect the Church and Magnify Christ to be the Expression of God
We need to build up the wall to protect the church as the house of God and we need to live by Christ and to live out Christ, thus magnifying Christ so that we can build up the church as the expression of God. Amen! We have seen how the ministry of Ezra and […]
Take Time to Absorb Christ in our Personal Time with Him to Grow in Him for the Body
As believers in Christ, we have been rooted in Christ as the rich soil so that we may grow with the elements that we absorb from Him; therefore, we need to take time to absorb Christ by having an adequate and considerable amount of time with the Lord personally and privately so that we spontaneously […]
Living in the Spirit to Overcome any Deadness and be Clothed in White Garments
To the one who overcomes in the church in Sardis the Lord promises to give him to be clothed in white garments, and He will not erase his name out of the book of life, and He will confess his name before His God and before His angels (Rev. 3:5). To have white garments means […]
Putting on Christ as our Clothing by Living out Christ to Magnify Him in our Living
Before we can work for God as priests we need to take care of our living; Christ is everything to us for our living as priests. Christ is our food – He is the reality of all the offerings in a specific and detailed way, and He is the bread of the presence to nourish […]
the reigning of Christ will be in righteousness and in justice, by which peace will be ushered in
Today we as believers in the Lord need to learn to submit to the Lord’s throne – we need to set Him as the King in righteousness in our being. As Matt. 6:33 says, we seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all the other things that we need will be added to us. The reality of the kingdom today is in the church life – here we learn to live out the righteousness expressed by keeping the new law of the kingdom. In other words, in the church life today we learn to live out Christ as our righteousness. When we live out Christ as our righteousness in the church life, we have peace!