In His sovereignty, God uses persons, things, and events to empty us of everything that has filled us so that we may have an increased capacity to be filled with God, thus being brought to maturity; our life is under God’s sovereignty for our transformation and maturity so that we may have the overflow of […]
Maturity is Being Enlarged in our Capacity by the Discipline of the Holy Spirit
September 25, 2025 by 8 Comments
The goal of Paul’s ministry was to present every man mature, full-grown in Christ for the one new man; we are in the process of being matured to arrive at maturity, the fullness of life, to have the enlargement of our capacity with the help of the discipline of the Holy Spirit. As believers in […]
Old Man assumed the Position of a Husband: the Law Exposes his Inability to keep it
July 7, 2025 by 17 Comments
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In Romans seven, we see how the old man assumes the position of a husband, and how God uses the law to expose his inability to keep it. But praise the Lord, we believers in Christ are regenerated persons and we are married to Christ, our new Husband, and we now live not in the […]
Justification is of Life: the Result of Justification is Enjoying Christ as life
June 24, 2025 by 17 Comments
The goal of God’s salvation is life, for justification is of life and unto life; the result of our justification is the full enjoyment of God in Christ as our life, for God wants us to enjoy Him as life after we are being justified by faith. Praise the Lord! How can we, sinful human […]
See a Controlling Vision and Take the Way of Enjoying Christ as the Tree of Life
June 21, 2025 by 13 Comments
It is good for us to see a vision of the tree of life both in Genesis and in Revelation, but we need to go further than this: we need to take the way of enjoying Christ as the tree of life day by day. We believers in Christ need to daily be on the […]
Experience the Divine Transfer out of the Flesh into the Spirit by Being in Spirit
June 20, 2025 by 13 Comments
In Romans 5 we are in Adam, in Romans 6 we are in Christ, in Romans 7 we are in the flesh, and in Romans 8 we are in the spirit; we experience the reality of the divine transfer out of Adam into Christ and out of the flesh into the spirit by setting our […]
God uses the Ugly Flesh to Force us Turn to our Spirit to Gain Him for His Building
June 19, 2025 by 17 Comments
God in His wisdom and sovereignty uses our sinful and ugly flesh to force us to turn to our spirit so that we may gain more of the Spirit for His building by the growth of God in us; the flesh causes us to turn to our spirit, having no confidence in the flesh, so […]
