As believers in Christ, we want to grow in life and be useful to the Lord in service; for this, however, we need to deal with our natural disposition, that is, reject what we are by birth so that it would be Christ who lives and is expressed through us. Our natural disposition is what […]
Being Dealt with in our Natural Disposition to Grow in Life and be Useful in Service
In order for us to be useful to the Lord in His service, we need to deal with our natural disposition for our growth in life; for us to have a proper church life, even a good practice of the genuine church life, we need to deal with what we are by birth. This week […]
Learn from the Lord Jesus to Deny the Self and Not seek our Glory in Serving God
As we follow the pattern of the Lord Jesus, our self has to be denied, our purpose has to be rejected, and our ambition must be given up for the sake of the one new man so that we can be useful to the Lord in His recovery. We need to learn from the Lord […]
Knowing the Body and Engaging in Spiritual Warfare by being for God and Obeying Him
We need to grow in life unto maturity until we reach the fourth stage of our spiritual experience and spiritual life – Christ’s full growth in us; this stage is of engaging in spiritual warfare, where Christ is fully grown and matured in us. In the first stage of the experience of life we experience […]
The more we have Fellowship unto the Gospel Corporately, the more we Experience Christ
Our experience of Christ is our fellowship unto the furtherance of the gospel until the Lord comes back (Phil. 1:3-6); the more we have fellowship unto the gospel, the more we experience Christ. We have seen that our experience of Christ is something very mysterious yet very necessary, for the church life is the sum […]
Exercise the Key of Denying the Self, for Satan Manipulates the Self 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 living God, builds the church on […]
Exercising the Keys of the Kingdom to Lock the Gates of Hades and Build up the Church
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 of the […]