Today the Lord is recovering the matter of loving the Lord Jesus with the first love, the best love, and of loving one another for the building up of the church; we need to be one with the church-loving Christ and love the Lord to the uttermost by being constrained by His love. The […]
Being Stirred up to Love the Lord Jesus with the First Love and Eat the Tree of Life
September 19, 2022 by 14 Comments
The genuine ministry of the New Testament always stirs us up to love the Lord Jesus with the first love, strengthening us in the simplicity of eating and enjoying Christ as the tree of life for our life supply; to love Him is to give Him preeminence in all things, being constrained by His love. […]
We Take Christ as our Lord by being Constrained by His Love to Live to the Lord
January 4, 2022 by Leave a Comment
We need to take, experience, and enjoy Christ as our Lord by being people who live to the Lord (not merely for the Lord), being constrained by the love of Christ to live to Him and thus be under His control, direction, and governing. Amen! Hallelujah, Jesus Christ is our Lord and our King! For […]
We need to Love God with our whole Being and Fear God to be Sanctified unto Him
March 26, 2020 by 1 Comment
For us to be the proper kind of persons who care for what God cares in our organic union with Him, we need to love God and fear God, loving God with all our being and having a proper fear of God. Amen! It is crucial for us to realize that God wants us to […]
The Church is the Kingdom of the Son of God’s Love, a Realm of Love, Light, and Life
June 28, 2019 by Leave a Comment
When we understand the intrinsic significance of the church as the kingdom of the Son of God’s love we will realise that we can live the kingdom life in the church life today in a realm of love, light, and life. Hallelujah! When Paul wrote to the church in Colossae, he realised that this church […]
In God’s light we see that God is Jealous over us to Love Him Supremely as His Wife
March 16, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The dealing with a wife over whom her husband is jealous in Num. 5:11-31 typifies Christ’s jealousy over His believers and the church; we have a jealous God, and God is jealous whenever we love anything or anyone in place of Him. This portion in Num. 5 is very particular, and if such a procedure […]
Never Leaving our First Love for the Lord but Giving Him the First Place in all Things
November 15, 2016 by 15 Comments
The first epistle the Lord sent to the seven churches in Rev. 2-3 was to Ephesus, and He had only one thing against them, that they left their first love; therefore, they had to repent and do the first works – if not, He would come to them and remove their lampstand out of its […]
