For us to be renewed in the spirit of our mind is inward and intrinsic, for it revolutionizes the way we think and perceive things, causing us to have the mind of Christ. What is this “the spirit of our mind” spoken of in Eph. 4:23? At the time of our regeneration, Christ as the […]
Being Renewed by the Addition of God’s Element as our Outer man is being Consumed
We need to be renewed for the one new man; to be renewed is to have God’s element added into our being to replace and discharge our old element, and God arranges our environment so that our outer man is consumed and our inner man is renewed. We need to realise that, on the cross, […]
The Judging and Renewing Spirit Washes away all Negative things for God’s Building
In working to build up the church we need to take heed what materials we use; if we use wood, grass, stubble (works coming out of our natural man, our flesh, or our self) we will mar the temple of God and not build it, and this is not pleasing to God (we may even […]
The Secret of God’s Salvation: the Consummated Spirit with our Regenerated Spirit
Christ today is the life-giving Spirit, the Spirit of reality, coming to us to reach us, touch us, unite Himself with us, saturate us, mingle us with Himself, fill us, constitute us, and build us up into His habitation (see 2 Cor. 3:17; 1 Cor. 15:45). The Spirit is not “a power” or “a ghost”, […]
God’s economy is fully accomplished by the exercise of our mingled spirit (as revealed in Ephesians)
Praise the Lord for God’s economy! The economy of God (His household administration according to His heart’s desire) revealed in the book of Ephesians is accomplished by the exercise of our mingled spirit for the dispensing of the Triune God into us unto the building up of the church as the Body of Christ (1 […]