The goal of God’s salvation, provision, and revelation as seen in the book of Exodus is God’s building, His dwelling place on earth. The purpose for which God redeemed and saved His people from Pharaoh’s usurpation was so that they would enjoy God’s full salvation and build up His dwelling place. The goal of God taking […]
Seeing how God’s Building is the Goal of His Salvation, Provision, and Revelation
The subject of the book of Exodus is that Christ is the redemption, salvation, and supply of God’s people, and the means for them to worship and serve God so that in Him they may be built up with God together for them and God to meet, communicate, and dwell mutually (see the Holy Bible, […]
The Growth of the Body Depends on the Growth of God within us as Members of the Body
The Body of Christ is a living organism composed of the Triune God and His believers, and as such an organic entity the Body is built up by the growth in life of all the members of the Body. The church of God as the Body of Christ is NOT an organization of human beings […]
Growing in Life by Holding to Truth in Love for the Building up of the Body of Christ
God’s highest and deepest purpose for the church is to head up all things in Christ through the church. As part of the church, how can we cooperate with the Lord for the heading up of all things in Christ? It is not by our outward doing or “ruling over others” that we bring all […]
Seeing and Enjoying God’s Dispensing through the Ages until the Fullness of the Times
At the fullness of the times, all things will be headed up in Christ; today we are in the process of being headed up in Christ so that through the church God would head up all things in Christ. According to the Bible in God’s eyes there are four main ages in the span of […]
Enjoying the Dispensing of God’s Abundant Life Supply to be Headed up in Christ
The highest purpose of God for the church is that all things would be headed up in Christ through the church (Eph. 1:10). God’s purpose for the church is threefold: to have the divine sonship for God’s corporate expression, to subdue God’s enemy by being the display of God’s multifarious wisdom, and to cooperate with […]
Being Sanctified by the Spirit unto Sonship and Growing in the Life of Christ
As God’s chosen ones, all the believers in Christ are made the sons of God in full by His sanctifying Spirit. First, the Spirit sanctifies us positionally by working in our environment to bring us to salvation, and then He operates in us in a dispositional way to sanctify us dispositionally so that we may […]