We believers in Christ are God-men, the reproduction of Christ as the first God-man, to be those partaking of God’s life and nature and be one with God to express Him; the way we do this is by dying to live, that is, dying to the self so that Christ may live in us and […]
As Christ’s Continuation, we should Live the same kind of Life that Jesus Lived
The Lord Jesus set up a model for our God-man living – He was crucified to live so that God might be expressed through humanity; today we are His continuation, and we should live the same kind of life that Jesus lived. If we read the Gospels we can clearly see a pattern, an example, […]
Christ Constantly Denied Himself: He Lived the Father and Worked with the Father
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In His human living, the Lord Jesus expressed the Father, declared the Father, and lived the Father. God the Father sent Christ the Son, and the Son lived because of the Father (John 6:57). This is very mysterious and yet very wonderful – Christ as the first God-man lived a life not in or by […]
for the Body to be built up the self needs to be dealt with by the cross
We need to take the lead to know the Body of Christ (of which we are members) and to keep every principle of the Body. The first principle of the Body is the oneness – we need to KEEP the oneness of the Body at any cost. Then, we need to see that the Body […]
the way to build up the church as the kingdom of God is death and resurrection
What is the way to build up the church? As revealed by the Lord in Matt. 16:16-18 and then in 21-26, the way the church is built up in a practical way is through death and resurrection. The Lord Jesus builds up the church through His death and resurrection – if He would have not died on the cross for us and if He would have not resurrected, there would be no church. It is the same with us today – if we do not die to ourselves and if we don’t live the resurrection life in the church life, we do not build up the church. [continue reading this article online]
God fires us and replaces us with Christ organically, we are being re-constituted with Christ daily!
I love this verse in Galatians 2:20, which says, I am crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who lives, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave […]