God drew us with cords of a man and with bands of love by firstly becoming a man in His incarnation, by living a perfect human on earth, by dying an all-inclusive all-terminating death on the cross, by entering into a life-imparting resurrection, and by being in an all-transcending ascension. Through all these segments of […]
being drawn with cords of a man and bands of love to be in the divine romance
There is a very precious portion of a verse 4 in Hosea 11 which says, “I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love”. Even though we are evil, unchaste, unfaithful, and in apostasy, God drew us with cords of man and with bands of love. He loves us with His divine […]
seeing Christ as the Only Begotten Son becoming the Firstborn Son of God!
“Hallelujah, we are happy Christians because in the Lord’s recovery we are being brought again and again to Christ!” (brother Dick Taylor). This week we come to Hosea 11:1 and 4 – two verses for a whole week, speaking of, Three Implications concerning Christ. The first implication is in verse 1, When Israel was a […]
we have an organic union with our evergreen, fresh, and forever new God!
The genuine believers in Christ do not live for themselves, trying their best to better themselves to become good people to be appreciated by others. Rather, the genuine believers produce satisfying fruit and cheering drink for others to be happy and to enjoy the Lord. There’s an overflow of the divine life which they daily […]
the Lord Jesus is the Bridegroom courting us to be His bride to marry Him!
The Lord Jesus did not come to earth only as a Savior and Redeemer. As we see in John 3, the Lord came as the Bridegroom, and Him being the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world was for redeeming His bride! We were regenerated to be part of the bride […]
women in the Old Testament typifying the church as Christ’s counterpart
In our love relationship with the Lord we are the wife, the female, and He is the Husband, the male. In the Old Testament there are several women that can be considered as a type of the church due to their marriage to certain men who were types of Christ. Paul himself expounded on people […]
being romantic Christians by loving the Lord personally and affectionately
The Bible is a book of romance, and both the Old Testament and the New Testament are written as espousal covenants. God loves man and courts man, and He desires to have man espoused to Him to be His counterpart. We can see this in every book of the Bible, especially in the prophets and […]