Did you know that in the resurrection of Christ the consummated Triune God was incorporated with the regenerated believers? This is the highest vision concerning Christ in His resurrection: He was glorified by the Father by releasing the divine life from within Him, He became the life-giving Spirit, He was begotten of God to be […]
Holding Christ as the Head and Teaching the Unique Ministry of God’s Economy
If we put together Ephesians 2:15 (Christ creating the one new man in His body on the cross), Romans 15:6 (with one accord with one mouth glorify God), and 1 Cor. 1:10 (speak the same thing, be attuned in the same mind and in the same opinion), what we get is that in the one […]
We Need to Deny the Self and Take Christ as our Person for the Church Life Today
Why do we need to “deny the self”, lose our soul-life, and take up our cross to follow the Lord? Many believers and unbelievers alike may not like to hear these words of the Lord, but they are part of the secret of the Christian life. It is crucial for a believer to deny the […]
In our Daily Living We Need to Consider the One New Man – All the Local Churches!
There is only one Body of Christ in this universe, and all the local churches are the local representations of the Body of Christ, as the Lord has ordained. In the same way, there is only one new man on the earth, and all the churches are part of the one new man. Christ created […]
Learning from Paul to Live the Church Life with the Consciousness of the One New Man
As we practice the church life daily by eating, drinking, and breathing in Jesus with all the saints, we need to do so with a consciousness of the one new man. With the Apostle Paul there was such a consciousness – in his writings and in his living we could see that this faithful steward […]
The Greatest Hindrance to the One New Man and How can We be Renewed in Our Mind
The greatest hindrance to the one new man which God desires to obtain on the earth is the unrenewed mind. Actually, the greatest hindrance to the practical existence of the new man is my mind – when it is unrenewed, not saturated with the element of God. Throughout our life we build up a certain […]
We Need to be Renewed in the Spirit of Our Mind for the Body and the One New Man
God’s desire and intention in creating man is to have a full-grown corporate man who is filled with His life and accomplishes His purpose to express Him with His image and represent Him with His dominion (see Gen. 1:26). The first man Adam fell, but God Himself became a man to bring in a new […]