The growth of the Body of Christ depends on the growth of God in all the members of the Body; the Body grows with the growth of God. All the Body causes the growth of the Body by the joints of rich supply and the operation in the measure of each one part (Eph. 4:16). […]
Bearing one Another in Love and Keeping the Oneness in the Uniting Bond of Peace
Keeping the oneness of the Spirit (Eph. 4:3) is not something “too spiritual” for us to understand or practice; rather, we can keep the oneness of the Spirit in a very practical way with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one another in love, and in the uniting bond of peace. In the church […]
Being Diligent to Maintain and Keep the Oneness of the Spirit in All Lowliness
Today we are toward the end of the age of the church, and what the Lord is bringing into being is the one new man. In the church life we need to have some crucial experiences, and one of them is how to realize the church life in a practical way in the reality of […]
Being Open Vessels to the Lord’s Shining within from our Spirit, the Lamp of Jehovah
Our experience and enjoyment of Christ is for the church, and as we know Christ, pursue Him, enjoy Him, and experience Him we become His corporate expression in the church life. Too many times, however, we don’t enjoy the Lord, we don’t open to Him, and we don’t experience Him, and therefore the church life […]
Growing in Life by Having our Soul Subdued and Saturated with Christ as the Spirit
The church life is Christ Himself enjoyed by us, experienced by us, realized by us, and expressed through us corporately. For us to have the proper church life to express Christ according to God’s eternal purpose, however, our soul must be subdued and saturated with Christ as the Spirit. Most of the time we live […]
Growing up into Christ and Functioning in our Measure for the Building up of the Body
God’s purpose to head up all things in Christ through the church is being accomplished today through the growth in life into Christ, the Head, of all the members of the Body of Christ. As all believers in Christ enjoy Him, eat Him, and drink Him to grow up into Him as the Head, their […]
Christ Died for the Church to Sanctify her and Present her to Himself Glorious
In order for the church to display the multifarious wisdom of God to the enemy and to the whole universe, Christ Himself became wisdom from God to us as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. We were sinners, lost and even dead in sin, but Christ came and died for us to redeem us and bring us […]