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 […]
Children of God Born of the Spirit of Life
When we are born again by believing into Christ, we are born of the Spirit in our human spirit (John 3:3-6, 8). Just as our body as flesh is born of the flesh of our parents, our human spirit is reborn of the divine Spirit. Of our three God-created parts—body, soul, and spirit—it is our […]
Christ Growing in Our Heart (2): Growth in Life in Genesis 1
The entire Bible is a book of life, and Genesis, in which all the seeds of the divine truth are sown, is focused on life. Many things mentioned in Genesis chapter 1 reveal Christ as life. God’s restoration and further creation, starting from the second part of verse 2, is a matter of the generating […]
Man – A Vessel to Contain God
Because the God who said, Out of darkness light shall shine, is the One who shined in our hearts to illuminate the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not out […]
A Brief Overview of the Economy of God (Part II)—Major Steps of Christ in God’s Economy
In a previous post we saw that God has a divine arrangement, an economy, to dispense Christ with His unsearchable riches into His believers (Eph. 3:8-9). God took several deliberate steps in Christ in order to work out His dispensing in His economy. In this post, we will briefly review the major steps of Christ […]
God’s Faithfulness and Our Perseverance in Prayer
God is faithful (1 Cor. 1:9; 10:13; 2 Cor.1:18). This fact can be observed in His promise concerning the seed of the woman (Gen. 3:15), His word that He would never again destroy the earth with a flood (9:15), and His limiting the time of captivity of the children of Israel in Babylon to seventy […]
Seeking the Full Knowledge of Christ (1): Knowing Christ by Revelation
For centuries people have asked the question, “Who is Jesus Christ?” From the time Jesus was conceived until His death on the cross, He was a mystery (Col. 2:2; Rom. 16:25). When He walked the earth, even His closest followers obtained only a partial understanding of who He was (John 16:12, 14). Nevertheless, if we […]