Praise the Lord, in the eyes of God the church is sanctified, perfect, and beautiful, for the church is full of Christ! Balaam’s parables in Num. 23-24 portray Israel as being holy, perfect, and fair; in its standing the church is holy, in the sight of God the church is perfect, and in appearance the […]
Seeing a Vision of the All-Sufficient One and having a Divine View of God’s People
November 4, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Like Balaam – a Gentile prophet who was brought into a vision – we also need to see the vision of the All-sufficient One and have a divine view of God’s people, having God’s view of things and of His people. This week in our crystallization-study of Numbers we come to Num. 23-24, and the […]
Going Forward in God’s Glorious Goal to Enjoy Christ with all the Saints in the Body
October 12, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The story in Num. 32 needs to be a warning to us, for if we care too much about ourselves and our enjoyment but not for God’s people, not being willing to go forward, we will not be able to fulfill God’s will and plan or reach God’s glorious goal. Outwardly what the two and […]
Giving up our Self-Choice in Spiritual Things to take God’s Choice and Reach His Goal
October 11, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In the matter of enjoying Christ as the good land, we need to give up our self-choice in spiritual things and take what God has allotted to us, and we need to be willing to allow the death of Christ to operate in us and bring us into resurrection and ascension to enjoy the elevated […]
Not Exercising our Choice but going through Death and Resurrection to Enjoy Christ
October 10, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The book of Numbers reveals the pre-arrangement of the distribution of the good land, which typifies the enjoyment of the rich Christ according to God’s choice; in particular, we want to see that we shouldn’t exercise our choice in this. God gave the land to Israel; He promised it to their forefathers, and He brought […]
Being Rooted in Christ to Absorb His Riches, Grow in Him, and be Built up in the Body
October 9, 2019 by 1 Comment
As we believers in Christ we are rooted in Christ, we grow in Christ, we are being built up in Christ, and we are also being built up with the saints into the Body of Christ. It is quite amazing to realise that we not only were regenerated by God with His divine life but […]
Being Deeply Rooted in Christ by Spending Time with Him in the Word to Absorb His Riches
October 8, 2019 by Leave a Comment
As believers in Christ we have been rooted in Christ and we need to grow in Him and be built up in Him by spending adequate time with the Lord in His word to absorb His riches. Christ has been allotted to us as the portion of the saints in the light; we have been […]
