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 […]
Christ’s Birth in Resurrection
Acts 13:33, which says, “God has fully fulfilled this promise to us their children in raising up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘You are My Son; this day have I begotten You’” reveals that Christ’s resurrection was a birth to Him. Even though He is eternally the only begotten Son […]
Christ Growing in Our Heart (3): The Growth of Christ within the Believers as Typified by the Growth of Isaac
What God is after today is not a vast number of believers who have been regenerated yet have not grown in the divine life. Rather, to fulfill God’s purpose we must grow in life and progress from our initial experience of Christ being born in us until we arrive at the measure of the stature […]
Producing of Life as Seen in Genesis 1 and 2
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. But the earth became waste and emptiness, and darkness was on the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was brooding upon the surface of the waters. And God said, Let there be light; and there was light. (Genesis 1:1-3) Many Christians consider […]
Dealing with Our Conscience
One of the topics covered in The Experience of Life is dealing with the conscience. After regeneration, clearance of the past, and consecration to the Lord, we begin to deal with outward matters, such as sins and the world, and the inward matter of our conscience. In dealing with our conscience, we need to allow the […]