After seeing a clear vision of the church and God’s threefold purpose for the church, we now come to the practice of the church and the crucial experiences we need in order to practice the church life today. The church is to have the full sonship to express God; the church is the corporate new […]
Growing in Christ by Acknowledging His Headship and by Allowing Him to Increase in us
In order for God to head up all things in Christ at the fullness of the times (Eph. 1:10) we today as the church need to hold to Christ as the Head and grow up into Him in all things (Eph. 4:15). We need to allow the Lord to grow in us by cooperating with Him […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Rainbow around God’s Throne Signifies that Christ Became Wisdom to us from God
Through the church God’s multifarious wisdom is being manifested and displayed to the enemy and to the whole universe, and for this Christ became wisdom to us from God, both righteousness and sanctification and redemption (1 Cor. 1:30). It is a fact that all the believers in Christ can enjoy the continual transmission of Christ […]
Christ Became Wisdom to us from God as Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption
God’s purpose for the church is to subdue His enemy by displaying His multifarious wisdom through the church. The church is God’s masterpiece, His work of art, His amazing handiwork to be displayed for all to see God’s multifarious wisdom. Through the church God’s wisdom is being expressed in its multi-faceted way, in its many […]
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 […]