This is our Christian life and our church life – a life in which we daily learn – through many failures and some victories – to deny our natural life and live by the divine life. Once we received the Lord as our Savior and our life, He came into us as Another Life – […]
Day by day, we are continuing steadfastly in the teaching and fellowship of the apostles
Today I was encouraged with the fact that we can continue steadfastly in the teaching and fellowship of the apostles. In the Lord’s recovery, we are being recovered back to the teaching of the apostles (the proper teaching of the New Testament concerning Christ and the church) and the fellowship of the apostles (the fellowship […]
The Mystery of the Divine Fellowship of Life – the Divine Life is Flowing in us all the Time!
Ever since we became a believer by receiving the Lord Jesus as our Savior and as our life, we Christians became a mysterious people. Now we’re not just human beings with all that the humanity entails, but we’re also divine beings with all that the divine life brings about! We are mysterious people – we […]
We abide in Christ as the vine, we are rooted in Him as the soil, and we take Christ as the Head!
The Word of God is so rich, so full of illustrations and examples of our organic union with the Lord, and also it is so encouraging! This morning I especially enjoyed these three aspects concerning our relationship with the Lord: In John 15 we see that we are branches in Christ the vine – we […]
With one mouth we are speaking the same thing as the one new man on the earth today
There are some verses in the New Testament that puzzle or at least trouble most of us when we read them – verses that talk about “speaking the same thing”, “having the same mind”, “being attuned in the same mind and the same opinion”, “speaking with one mouth”, etc. Especially in the age we live […]
Holding Christ as the Head and being properly related to the other members in the Body of Christ
This morning I was so impressed with the fact that, as members in the Body of Christ, we have no direct relationship one with another – we are related one to another and we fellowship one with another through the Head. All the members of my physical body have no special or direct fellowship one […]
Only Christ is the Head of the Body, and He is the Unique Head having authority in the Body
On the one hand, Christ is our life, and on the other hand, Christ is the Head of the Body, the church. When we were regenerated, we were born of God and Christ became our life – our inward, spiritual, hidden life. Christ is our source – Christ is the source of our life; we […]