The basic teaching of the whole Scripture is that God is the content and we are made as vessels, containers (even God-shaped containers!), to receive God, be filled with God, and be vessels unto honor; not being filled with God is vanity of vanities, making us a senseless contradiction. On one hand, we need to […]
As God-shaped Containers we’re Open Vessels Emptying ourselves to be Filled with God
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Our Urgent Need is to Experience Christ as our Pattern of Living a Crucified Life
There is an urgent need among us in the church life in the Lord’s recovery today to experience Christ as our pattern; we need to live Christ in His human living, especially in emptying Himself and humbling Himself and in not grasping equality with God as a treasure. We need not only to know what […]
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Learning to be Slaves of God and Sacrifice Everything for Others to Gain them for God
The Lord Jesus is the Slave of God, the fulfillment of the type of the slave who loves his master, his wife, and his children in Exo. 21, and therefore he would not go out free. The Lord Jesus humbled Himself and emptied Himself to become a man and even a slave, serving God and […]
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Having the Spirit of a Slave to Serve and Obey God out of Love as the Lord Jesus did
The Lord Jesus, the Son of God, came to earth not as a King or someone high in the society but as a Slave – He came to serve God and man, and He willingly forsook all His rights so that, out of love for God and man, He would serve God by accomplishing His […]
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Being Poor in Spirit and Pure in Heart to be Useful in Building up the Body
In order for us as Christians to be useful to the Lord for the building up of the church, the Body of Christ, we need to have a proper spirit. This means that our spirit needs to be right and proper; not only the things we do and the way we do things must be […]
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