Thank the Lord for His giving of some gifts for the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry for the building up of the Body of Christ by means of shepherding and teaching so that all saints may be perfected! How much we appreciate Him, our dear Head and Lord, who […]
Allow Christ to Defeat us as He Descends and Ascends Within us to make us Gifts to the Body
We need to allow Christ to defeat, subdue, conquer, and vanquish us as He descends and ascends within us so that He may fill us and constitute us into gifts for His Body. Through His descending and ascending, Christ defeated Satan and death, He took us as His captives, and made us gifts to […]
By His Universal Travelling, Christ led us Captive and Gave us as Gifts to the Body!
It is amazing to realize that, through His universal travelling in His ascension, Christ let as captives those who had been taken captive by Satan and made them gifts to His Body; He descended from heaven, descended to Hades, was raised to the earth, and ascended to the third heavens, and by His universal […]
Grow in Life and Enjoy Grace to have the Gifts of Life and Function Organically in the Body
The organic function of the church is in the organic Body of Christ and in the local expressions of the organic Body of Christ; we must be organic and function organically in the church life, for we are members of the Body. The church is the Body of Christ, an organic matter; the church is […]
The Gifted Members Perfect the Saints so that the Perfected Saints build up the Body
The gifted members of the Body perfect the saints so that the perfected saints would build up the Body of Christ. The way the church is built up intrinsically is through the function of all the perfected members of the Body of Christ; the Lord has given some gifts to the Body for the perfecting […]
In His Ascension Christ Led us Captive and gave us as Gifts to Build up the Body
In Psa. 68 we see the many wonderful things that Christ did in His ascension; He ascended on high, He led captive those taken captive (Christ led us captive, the believers), He received gifts from the Father, He gave gifts to the Body, and all this is for His dwelling place, the church. Hallelujah for […]
in His ascension Christ led us as captives to the Father and received us as gifts to the Body!
We are gifts produced by Christ’s descending and ascending – He defeated us and took us with Him as vanquished foes, He presented us to the Father, and the Father gave us as gifts for the building up of His dwelling place. But God did not “stop travelling” – He is still travelling within us! Christ is bringing God into us and bringing us into God – by descending and ascending in us and making us gifts to the Body of Christ!