The Father’s righteousness is the righteousness expressed by the keeping of the new law of the kingdom (Matt. 5:20), and this righteousness is Christ lived out by the kingdom people; according to the New Testament, righteousness has four main aspects: being right with persons and things, the outward expression of Christ, God’s kingdom, and being […]
The Righteousness of God, the Ministry of New Covenant, and our Experience of Christ
The righteousness of God is what God is in His action with respect to justice and righteousness; our experience of Christ rests on the foundation of God’s righteousness, and the new covenant ministry ministers the Spirit into us as our supply and life for us to live in spirit and be right with God and […]
The Ministry of the Spirit and of Righteousness makes us Living Letters of Christ to Express Him
For us to live out and work out the New Jerusalem is for us to live out and work out God’s complete salvation according to the unique New Testament ministry, the ministry of the age; this ministry is the ministry of the Spirit – the ministry of the new covenant – to deify us by […]
Our Ministry is the Issue of Revelation Plus Suffering for the Building up of the Body
We need to realize that ministry is the issue of revelation plus suffering, for what we see has to be wrought into us through suffering so that what we minister is what we are; for this, tribulation is the sweet visitation and incarnation of grace, and it can work out ministry for us. Related to […]
The Need to be Constituted with God to Have the Ministry of Life for the Body
This week in our study we come to the topic, Ministry of Life. In Christianity today there are many “ministries”, and as soon as someone feels he has a ministry from the Lord, he goes ahead and does his best to carry it out, many times resulting in creating yet another division in the Body […]