The Good Land as a Type of the All-Inclusive Christ
Genesis 12:1 and 7 say, “Now Jehovah said to Abram, Go from your land and from your relatives and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you…And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said, To your seed I will give this land.” The land that God promised to Abraham and his seed […]
The Glory of God (1): Concealed in the Shell of Christ’s Humanity
Our God is the God of glory, and He has called us by His glory (Acts 7:2; 2 Pet. 1:3). “Glory is God expressed” (Matthew 5:16, note 2 in the Holy Bible Recovery Version). Whereas the creation testifies concerning God’s eternal power and divine characteristics, it is only in Christ and the church that God’s […]
Christ Growing in Our Heart (4): The Significance of Speaking in the Experience of Jacob and Joseph
In the first chapter of the book of Genesis, we see that God made man in His own image and gave him His dominion to have authority (Gen. 1:26). In the last section of Genesis, the fulfillment of these matters of image and dominion is seen in the experience of Jacob and Joseph. With Jacob, […]
Experiencing Christ as the Burnt Offering (Part 2)
In a previous post, we saw that Christ is the reality of the burnt offering revealed in Leviticus 1. Through prayer we can experience Christ as the One who is absolute for God’s interest. In this post we would like to see more regarding the position of the burnt offering in relation to the other four […]
Freed to be Joined to Christ as our Husband
From eternity past God’s intention has been that we the believers would be joined to Christ as our Husband, as typified by Eve being joined to Adam (Rom. 5:14; Gen. 2:18, 21-23; Isa. 54:5; Eph. 5:25-27). God created man to be dependent on Him and to live in union with Him, taking God as his […]
Knowing God’s Will
What is the will of God? This is a common question asked by believers. Many of us seek to know the will of God. Specifically, we seek to know the will of God for our lives. What is the will of God for our education, our marriage, and our occupation? However, we must realize that […]
The Sweetness of Taking Christ as our Person for the One New Man
In Ephesians 2:15 Paul speaks of the one new man: “Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace.” According to this verse, Christ abolished all the ordinances that separated men for the purpose of creating one new […]
Ask, Seek, Knock
In the Gospels the Lord Jesus exemplifies a man of prayer. The way that He prayed and the way He taught His disciples to pray far exceed most believers’ concepts concerning prayer. Much prayer is common, asking God to take care of basic, human needs, but the Father knows our needs even before we ask […]
Experiencing Christ as the Burnt Offering (Part 1)
Leviticus 1-5 reveals five basic offerings—the burnt offering, the meal offering, the peace offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering—that the Israelites were required to provide in order to worship God and maintain their relationship with Him. The book of Hebrews reveals that Christ has come as the reality of all the Old Testament […]
Only One is Good
Matthew 19 records an exchange between the Lord Jesus and a young ruler concerning good deeds and eternal life. The young ruler asked, “What good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” (v. 16). The Lord responded, “Why do you ask Me concerning what is good? There is only One who is […]