As a conclusion to our week on the subject of, Being Fully Reconciled to God and Enlarged in Heart to Represent God Rightly in His Economy, today we want to see some qualifications of a person who represents God rightly on earth. God created us in His image and according to His likeness so that […]
Our Priority is not to Work for God but for God to Work Himself into us and Live in us
God’s main goal is not for man to work for Him but for God to gain our so that He may work Himself into us; in and for the church life what we are is more important than what we do. The central work of God, the unique work that God does in this universe, […]
God’s Central Work is to Work Himself into His People to be their inward Constituent
As believers in Christ, we need to be those experiencing God’s central work and taking Christ as our person in and for the church life. God’s unique work, His central work, is nothing else but to work Himself into us and become our very inward constitution so that we may live the church life, having […]
Our Natural Man needs to be Dealt with for us to have the Fellowship of the Body
As members of the Body of Christ, our relationship with the Head is that of obedience, and our relationship with the Body is that of fellowship, for we need the fellowship of the Body. On one hand we obey Christ, the Head, as the unique authority in the Body, and in the other, we need […]
Treasuring Christ and Serving, Testifying, and Loving the Lord in the Church Life
In the church life we all have three main functions: serving, testifying, and loving; we serve the Lord, we testify of His resurrection life which we experience, and we love Him and pour out everything on Him. This is our experience and our testimony in the church life, and this is what we also see […]
Having a Proper Concept of Value and Treasuring Christ above All Persons and Things
As believers in Christ we need to have a change in our concept of value to treasure Christ above all, for He is the preciousness to us. The reason we love the Lord and we love the church life so much that we are willing to offer everything we have and are for the Lord […]
God Desires to have Christ and the Church for His Expression and Dominion on Earth
![The third step of God’s procedure in fulfilling His purpose was to work Himself into man to make man His complement. Adam here [in Genesis 2:18] typifies God in Christ as the real, universal Husband, who is seeking a wife for Himself (Rom. 5:14; cf. Isa. 54:5; John 3:29; 2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 5:31-32; Rev. 19:7; 21:9). Adam’s need for a wife typifies and portrays God’s need, in His economy, to have a wife as His complement. Gen. 2:18, footnote 1, RcV Bible](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/The-third-step-of-God%E2%80%99s-procedure-in-fulfilling-His-purpose-was-to-work-Himself-into-man2.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1)
In Genesis 2 we see a picture of Christ and the church in the types of Adam and Eve; God wants not only Christ (as typified by Adam) but also the church – God wants Christ and the church. Christ is the mystery of God, He is the explanation and expression of God, and He […]