The Lord Jesus is the good Shepherd, and we all are His sheep; He takes good care of us both inwardly and outwardly, both spiritually and psychologically and physically. How we love our good Shepherd, and how we enjoy His tender all-inclusive care! If we read the gospels we see how He shepherded and cared […]
Engaging in Spiritual Warfare to Build the Church and Bring in the Kingdom of God
The matter of knowing and living in ascension with Christ is not something light or cheap but high and deep, something that we can experience as we are being matured in the divine life. In His time and in His way, the Lord as our Beloved, the One whom we follow and pursue in love, […]
Being Released from Satan’s Usurpation through Baptism, a Declaration of our Faith
In Exodus, we see how God wanted to deliver His people from Egypt and bring them to the good land where they could serve Him and build up His habitation, His dwelling place. First, God called Moses and sent him to deliver His people from Egypt and, after displaying His mighty works and exposing the […]
Bearing one Another in Love and Keeping the Oneness in the Uniting Bond of Peace
Keeping the oneness of the Spirit (Eph. 4:3) is not something “too spiritual” for us to understand or practice; rather, we can keep the oneness of the Spirit in a very practical way with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one another in love, and in the uniting bond of peace. In the church […]
Being Long-Suffering in the Church Life Especially in Relation to our Speaking
Paul, the prisoner in the Lord, beseeches us to walk worthily of the calling with which we were called, with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing one another in love, being diligent to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace (see Eph. 4:1-3). In the church, under the abundant […]
Growing in Life by Having our Soul Subdued and Saturated with Christ as the Spirit
The church life is Christ Himself enjoyed by us, experienced by us, realized by us, and expressed through us corporately. For us to have the proper church life to express Christ according to God’s eternal purpose, however, our soul must be subdued and saturated with Christ as the Spirit. Most of the time we live […]
We need to Experience the Breaking of the Outer Man for the Release of God’s Life
Every believer in Christ needs to experience the breaking of the outer man for the release of the life of God in his spirit (Heb. 4:12). When we received the Lord Jesus into us, He as the Spirit came into our human spirit and now dwells in us; the Lord is with our spirit (2 […]