We must Avoid Division and Reject Apostasy by Keeping the Oneness and Keeping the Faith

The opening of Your words gives light, imparting understanding to the simple. Psa. 119:130

In Deut. 12-13 we see Moses telling the people of Israel to avoid division and reject apostasy; today we as believers in Christ need to avoid apostasy, avoid living in the principle of antichrist, and turn away from the divisive ones and reject the … [Continue reading]

Utterly Destroying all Idols and Exalting Christ to be the Church with Christ as All

And He is the Head of the Body, the church; He is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that He Himself might have the first place in all things. Col. 1:18

In order for us to be the overcomers of today, we must maintain the ground of oneness, God's unique choice, elevating Christ and Christ alone so that we may be the church with Christ as all. We need to tear down anything that replaces Christ and … [Continue reading]

Living a Life of Enjoying Christ Personally to Enjoy Him Collectively for the Body

Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light. Col. 1:12

Our Christian life is a life of enjoying Christ personally to enjoy Him corporately with God and with the saints; for this, we need to labour on Christ as the good land. In order for us to be the overcomers of today, we must enjoy Christ with God on … [Continue reading]

Choosing to be Vitalized to be the Overcomers in the Church Life for God’s Purpose

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna... Rev. 2:17

The church life on the ground of oneness is today's Jerusalem, and within the church life there must be a group of overcomers who are the reality of Zion; we need to be vitalized to be the overcomers in the church life today. In the Old Testament we … [Continue reading]

The Proper Ground of Oneness is the Unique Ground of One Church for one Locality

To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus,…with all those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place… 1 Cor. 1:2

The unique ground of God's choice is the proper ground of oneness of His people; in the Old Testament this ground was Jerusalem with Mount Zion where the temple was built, and in the New Testament it is the ground of oneness - the one universal … [Continue reading]

Gathered into the Lord’s Name, in our Spirit, and with the Cross – the Ground of Oneness

For where there are two or three gathered into My name, there am I in their midst. Matt. 18:20

Wherever we may be, when we meet with the saints, we should be gathered into the Lord's name, in our spirit, and with the cross; this is the ground of oneness, and this keeps us one in the Body of Christ. In Deut. 12 we see a very important … [Continue reading]

Enjoying Christ at the Unique Place of God’s Choice for the Keeping of the Oneness

In whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit. Eph. 2:22

In Deut. 12 we see that the enjoyment of Christ with God has to be at the unique place of God's choice for the keeping of the oneness of God's people. This week in our crystallization-study of Deuteronomy we come to the topic of, Enjoying Christ … [Continue reading]