God’s intention is to gain man for His purpose so that He may work Himself into man and be lived out and expressed through man in a corporate way for His glory. We can see God’s intention from the beginning of the Bible (when God put man in front of Himself as life, the tree […]
Living by Grace: God Rejects Man’s Fleshly Effort to Please Him According to the Law
April 8, 2014 by 2 Comments
God promised Abraham a seed and Abraham believed God; this was counted to him as righteousness. However, since both Abraham and Sarah were getting older and nothing was happening, Abraham listened to Sarah’s suggestion to have a seed with the help of her maidservant, Hagar. It would have been so easy and simple if, based […]
In the Covenant of Grace God is Working Himself into Us to Bring Forth Christ
April 7, 2014 by Leave a Comment
It is not easy to understand what the Old Testament speaks of if you don’t have the proper view, that is, if you don’t see God’s economy. It is easy to misunderstand and misinterpret the stories and prophecies in the Old Testament if you don’t see what the whole Bible speaks about. The Apostle Paul […]
Standing for God on Earth and Overcoming the Temptation of Material Possessions
April 6, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The history of Abraham rescuing his nephew Lot is full of spiritual significance, and Abraham is a pattern to us today in our life of living by faith. To live by faith doesn’t mean only to live a life of the altar and the tent, fully trusting in the Lord in our consecrated life and […]
Fighting for the Brother by Praying for Him to Rescue Him and Give Life to Him
April 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Lot made his choice to separate from Abraham and move his tent close to Sodom, even moving into the city of Sodom. When the four kings came and defeated the five kings of the plain, Lot was also taken captive with all his family and his possessions. When Abraham heard this, he could have been […]
Never Leave the Proper Persons in God’s Economy (as Lot did) but Be Joined to Them!
March 31, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Living by faith – as our father Abraham did – means to live a life of the altar and the tent and to fight for the brother. We live by faith by putting everything on the altar through consecration and using only what God allows us to receive back in the tent, in a non-settled, […]
Being Identified with Christ in His Death and Resurrection to Live the Church Life
March 30, 2014 by 1 Comment
Due to the fact that Abraham was short of faith in believing God concerning the promise of the land, God entered into a covenant with him to strengthen his faith. He instructed Abraham to get three cattle and two birds and slaughter / cut the cattle but leave the birds alive. Whenever someone offered something […]
