In ourselves we’re not able to live a life of sacrifice, for our life is a selfish natural life; we need to abide in the Lord and enjoy His riches to bear fruit for the expression of His life for His glory, and the Lord within us will energize us and strengthen us to sacrifice […]
Being the Sons of Fresh Oil Today, those Filled with the God as Golden Oil
We need to see a vision of the two olive trees on the two sides of the lampstand in Zech. 4:11-14. Because God’s testimony among His people on earth was waning and declining, there was the need for two olive trees, two sons of oil, who would pour out oil into the lampstand and strengthen […]
The Intrinsic Meaning of the Sabbath is to be Fired by Christ and Replaced by Him!
What is the Sabbath and what is the real significance, the intrinsic meaning, of the Sabbath? In the Old Testament, God commanded His people to “take one day off”, the Sabbath day, when they would just worship God and spend time with God to “do His business”. But what about us, in the New Testament? […]
We abide in Christ as the vine, we are rooted in Him as the soil, and we take Christ as the Head!
The Word of God is so rich, so full of illustrations and examples of our organic union with the Lord, and also it is so encouraging! This morning I especially enjoyed these three aspects concerning our relationship with the Lord: In John 15 we see that we are branches in Christ the vine – we […]
We are the branches in Christ as the vine (who is the organism of the Triune God)
John 15:1-2 tells us that Christ is the real vine, and the Father is the husbandman. We, the many believers in Christ, are the many branches in the vine – and we are set to go forth and to bear fruit! In this whole universe there is a vine-tree, a universal vine-tree: Christ as the […]