In our experience, the defilement of the feet that need to be washed by the Lord signifies our separation from God and from one another through contact with the world; through foot-washing, we recover our spiritual freshness and vitality and we recover our fellowship with the Lord and with one another. John 13, a […]
The need for Spiritual Foot-Washing in the Church Life to Maintain the Fellowship
The Lord Jesus loved us to the uttermost, so He washed our feet; foot-washing in John 13 shouldn’t be taken merely in a physical sense, but even more, in a spiritual sense, for we need the Lord’s spiritual foot-washing day by day as we live in this world. Amen! This week in our morning […]
The Body Builds itself up in Love as the Joints are Supplying and Each Part is Functioning
The Body builds itself up in love as the joints are supplying and each part is functioning in their measure. The joints supplying and the parts functioning in their measure cause the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love; when the joints of rich supply function and each one […]
As Building Members, we need Shepherding and Teaching to be Perfected in our Function
Thank the Lord for His giving of some gifts for the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry for the building up of the Body of Christ by means of shepherding and teaching so that all saints may be perfected! How much we appreciate Him, our dear Head and Lord, who […]
Gifted Persons Perfect the Saints to Function for the Building up of the Body of Christ
Christ gave gifts to the Body, and the gifted persons perfect the saints, nourishing them according to the tree of life and perfecting them in their function, so that the perfected saints may do the work of the ministry unto the building up of the Body of Christ. It is amazing to realize that […]
Allow Christ to Defeat us as He Descends and Ascends Within us to make us Gifts to the Body
We need to allow Christ to defeat, subdue, conquer, and vanquish us as He descends and ascends within us so that He may fill us and constitute us into gifts for His Body. Through His descending and ascending, Christ defeated Satan and death, He took us as His captives, and made us gifts to […]
By His Universal Travelling, Christ led us Captive and Gave us as Gifts to the Body!
It is amazing to realize that, through His universal travelling in His ascension, Christ let as captives those who had been taken captive by Satan and made them gifts to His Body; He descended from heaven, descended to Hades, was raised to the earth, and ascended to the third heavens, and by His universal […]