God’s purpose is to have a corporate man to express Him with His image and represent Him with His dominion, and the way He is accomplishes His purpose is by His life. First, God in Christ is the tree of life for man to take in God, enjoy God, partake of God, and be filled […]
The Bible is a Building Manual, and We Can Cooperate with God for His Building
The Bible is a book of God’s building, with the first two chapters in Genesis giving us a blueprint of God’s building and the last two chapters presenting a picture of the finished building, while the rest of the book presents the process of the building. The first two chapters and the last two chapters […]
Letting the Lord to Saturate our Soul to Transform us for the Building up of the Body
Our growth in the divine life equals our being transformed, and it is for the building up of the Body of Christ. In 1 Cor. 3:6, 9, 12-13 we see that Paul equals God’s cultivated land (God’s farm) with God’s building. This shows us that we start out as plants in God’s cultivated land, but […]
Turning our Heart to the Lord to be Metabolically Transformed into His Image
In 2 Cor. 3:16-18 Paul speaks of the process of transformation, how we are being transformed into the same image as Christ from glory to glory. May we be those who continually turn their heart to the Lord so that any veil would be taken away! When we read the Bible, do we see the […]
The Church is the Household of the Faith Composed of All the Believers in Christ
In the completing ministry of Paul we see many aspects and definitions of what the church is, and one of these is, the household of the faith. The church is the house of God and the house of faith. First of all, without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to God, since if […]
Practicing Being One Spirit with the Lord to Stay in the Process of God’s Salvation
The desire of God’s heart is not only to be worshipped by man but to be one with man and make man one with Him. The only way He can do this is by getting into man as life and being man’s life and person. God created man in His image and with His likeness, […]
Man is a Vessel to Receive God by Eating, Drinking, and Breathing in God
The central vision of Paul’s completing ministry is God in us as our contents, Christ as the mystery of God, and the church as the mystery of Christ. First of all, we need to see that God made us as vessels to contain Him, and He wants to be our content. It is only in […]