Knowing the Purpose of our Calling and Dealing with Satan, the Flesh, and the World

God’s calling of Moses is a pattern to us, and in order for us to be qualified to serve God we need to see certain things and deal with certain things. First of all, we need to see the vision of the burning thornbush – God is the fire burning in the church as the […]

The God who Called us is the God of Resurrection, the Resurrecting Triune God

When God comes to call us, first we see who we are (thornbush, men of flesh under God’s curse – yet with the divine fire burning in us and not consuming us) and then we see who God is. The God who calls us is the great I am, the ever-existing and self-existing God, the […]

Seeing the Church as a Corporate Thornbush Burning with the God of Resurrection

The vision of the burning thornbush impressed Moses and stayed with him throughout his life, so that at the end of his life as he was speaking his departing words and he was blessing the children of Israel he said, ….With the choicest things of the earth, and the fullness thereof, and the favor of […]

The Vision of the Burning Thornbush: the Excluding Flame Became the Indwelling Fire

Our enjoyment of Christ, our experience of life, and our growth in life is for the ministry of life. We need to experience Christ, enjoy Him, and grow in life, so that we may be qualified to minister life to others. God’s economy is that we enjoy God as life, grow in life, experience Christ […]

We Need to Deal with the Spirit by Dealing with the Passage of the Spirit

When God created man, He intended man to live, act, and have his being in and by his spirit, and the soul and the body would be under the rule of his spirit. Adam had fellowship with God in his spirit every day! But when man fell by over-exercising his soul and not exercising his […]

Seeing the Great Importance of Life and the Desperate Need to Grow in Life

We need to see the importance of life and of the growth in life in our Christian life and church life. We may know the truth, we may love the Lord and read His word, and we may love the church and serve the saints in the Lord, but how much did we gain the […]

Being Thoroughly in the Divine Fellowship by Applying the Cross of Christ

It is so wonderful that the Lord has brought us into the fellowship of the divine life, where we can enjoy oneness with the Triune God, participating in all that He is and has accomplished. But we have to admit that there are still many problems in us, many obstacles to the fellowship of the […]