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We Lose our Soul-life for the Lord’s Sake in this Age to Save our Soul in the Next age

July 7, 2019 by aGodMan 1 Comment

For whoever wants to save his soul-life shall lose it; but whoever loses his soul-life for My sake shall find it. For what shall a man be profited if he gains the whole world, but forfeits his soul-life? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul-life? Matt. 16:25-26

We need to be those who lose our soul-life in this age, not allowing the soul to have its enjoyment in this age so that we may gain the full enjoyment in the next age. The church life today is the place where we can live the reality of the kingdom … [Continue reading]

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Being Willing to Take up our Cross and Bear it for the Building up of the Church

July 6, 2019 by aGodMan 1 Comment

...If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. Matt. 16:24

As believers in Christ, we need to learn to exercise the keys of the kingdom to lock up the gates of Hades and release the building up of the church; we need to learn to deny the self, take up our cross, and lose our soul life. If we do not exercise … [Continue reading]

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We Exercise the Key of Denying the Self to Lock up the Self and Build up the Church

July 5, 2019 by aGodMan 1 Comment

Doing nothing by way of selfish ambition nor by way of vainglory, but in lowliness of mind considering one another more excellent than yourselves. Phil. 2:3

May the Lord have mercy on us to show us a vision of the self so that we may exercise the key of denying the self to lock up the self in all its expressions and in all situations, for when the self is locked up, the church is built up. It is really … [Continue reading]

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Denying the Self by the Cross to Depend on the Lord and on the Body of Christ

July 5, 2019 by aGodMan 1 Comment

But now the members are many, but the body one. And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 1 Cor. 12:20-21

The greatest enemy of the Body is the self, the soul declaring independence from God and from the Body; when we see a vision of the self and depend on the Lord and on the members of the Body, we have the Lord's presence, are full of peace, and touch … [Continue reading]

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Exercise the Key of Denying the Self, for Satan Manipulates the Self to Damage the Church

July 4, 2019 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

We need to learn to exercise the key of denying the self. The self is the embodiment of the soul-life, which is expressed through the mind; thus, the self, the soul-life, and the mind are three-in-one. Behind these three is Satan, who manipulates the self in order to damage the church.

The building up of the church depends on the shutting up of the gates of Hades through the exercise of the keys of the kingdom; for us to build up the church, we need to exercise the key of denying the self (Matt. 16:24). Christ, the Son of the … [Continue reading]

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Exercising the Keys of the Kingdom to Lock the Gates of Hades and Build up the Church

July 4, 2019 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone wants to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. Matt. 16:24

We need to see from Matt. 16 the way to build up the church and the enemy of the building; we need to cooperate with the Lord to lock the gates of Hades for the church to be built up. This week we come to a new topic in the series, The Development … [Continue reading]

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Governmental Forgiveness, Kingdom Forgiveness and not going against God’s Government

July 3, 2019 by aGodMan Leave a Comment

Do not judge, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged;...with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you. Matt. 7:1-2

After seeing the eternal forgiveness, the instrumental forgiveness, and the restorative forgiveness, today we want to look deeper into the governmental forgiveness (related to discipline) and the kingdom forgiveness (related to God's … [Continue reading]

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