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Our Christian life is a life of the altar and the tent, just like Abraham’s life

December 9, 2009 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

Abraham’s life was characterized by these two things: he built an altar, and he lived in a tent. Whenever God appeared to him, he didn’t GO and do something immediately: he simply built an altar, consecrating himself to God, putting everything he is and was and had on the altar. This is actually what God […]

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our believing is not our natural virtue, but a reaction to the appearing of God

December 8, 2009 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

If you read the history of Abraham, you will see that, even though people call him a “giant of faith”, he was not such a big “giant” (actually, God is the giant of faith). All his “great steps” were taken in faith after God appeared to him. It looks like just after God appears to […]

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faith and love are two inseparable virtues of the believers in Christ, Titus 3:15

December 3, 2009 by aGodMan 1 Comment

My words are not adequate, but I enjoyed Titus 3:15 all these past few months, especially by listening to it being sung, me singing it, singing it with the saints in a spontaneous way, and reading & enjoying the explanatory footnotes on this short verse. It is indeed true: the Word has so much in […]

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we depend on what we eat and we become what we eat: let’s eat Christ!

December 1, 2009 by aGodMan 1 Comment

I’m still considering the picture in the garden of Eden, which is actually what is going on within us today: we are being put in front of the two trees daily – the tree of the knowledge of GOOD and evil, and the tree of life. The simple fact that God cares so much about […]

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We need to eat Jesus every day as the tree of life, He is our real food!

November 30, 2009 by aGodMan 1 Comment

God’s original intention in His creation of man can be seen in Genesis – after He created man, He placed man in a garden with lots of trees good for food! God gave man only one “commandment” – take care of your eating! Don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, […]

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we were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ

November 27, 2009 by aGodMan 1 Comment

1 Cor. 1:9 says God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Our God is a faithful God – He called us into the fellowship of His Son – He called us and placed us in the vine, Christ as the embodiment of God! Here […]

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It is human to need God; as men, we need God!

November 15, 2009 by aGodMan 2 Comments

I read this tract recently: It’s Human to need God, and I realized that it is so true: as human beings, as men, we need God! It’s not mainly because we are sinners that we need Him – Adam, in the garden of Eden, was not a sinner yet, and still he needed God as […]