The Gospel of the Kingdom must be Preached for All Men to Repent for the Kingdom!

God commands everyone to repent for the kingdom, and we in the church life need to bring the gospel of the kingdom to the whole inhabited earth for a testimony, and then the end will come! The gospel of grace, the gospel of the forgiveness of sins, has been preached throughout the earth; the gospel […]

We Maintain the Newness of our Heart and Spirit by having a Repentant and Soft Heart

In considering what should our heart and spirit be in serving the Lord, we all need to have a new start to maintain the newness of our heart and our spirit, and we can do this by having a continual repentance in our fellowship with the Lord daily. In serving the Lord and particularly in […]

Repenting and Doing the First Works – the Works Motivated by our Love for the Lord

The Lord’s word to the church in Ephesus in Rev. 2:1-7 is a warning to us all; after He acknowledged the many works, labor, endurance, and suffering that the church in Ephesus had, the Lord said He has one thing against her, that she has lost her first love, and therefore she had to repent, […]

God Charges all to Repent for the Kingdom; we need to Repent to Live in the Kingdom!

As human beings we were born in the human kingdom to be men, and as believers in Christ we have been re-born into the divine kingdom to be citizens of the kingdom of God. We are not merely men part of the human kingdom, the highest created form of life, but we are also God-men, […]

Repenting and Humbling Ourselves to be Saved from Lukewarmness and Spiritual Pride

The Lord Jesus as the High Priest is right now walking among all the local churches in order to know their situation, and He is speaking a word to the messengers of the churches so that He may produce the overcomers. Through His speaking, the Lord is trimming the charred wicks of the lamps and […]

Realising the Impotence and Insufficiency of Our Natural Being in the Things of God

In order for us to grow in the divine life and to serve God according to His heart’s desire, we need to deal with our natural constitution. How much we grow in life and how much we can minister life to others depends on our dealing with our natural constitution. We need to ask the […]

create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit / a right spirit within me

Once we confess our sins, God forgives us of our sins and He also forgets them! To forgive literally means “causing it to leave” / “sending away” (Matt. 12:31; Rom. 4:7). When God forgives us of our sins, He forgives us of our sins because of the Lord’s blood which covers us and He also causes them to depart from us!