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 […]
Life-Study of Genesis: Messages 48-50
In message 48 of the Life-Study of Genesis we come to the unveiling of the divine title and the changing of human names for the fulfillment of God’s purpose. To properly understand this portion in Genesis 17, we must see that God’s purpose is to have a collective people be His expression and representation on […]
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 […]
Life-Study of Genesis: Messages 42-44
In message 42 of the Life-Study of Genesis, we come to Abraham’s experience of trials. Before this, Abraham had attained a high point in his experience of God at the place between Bethel and Ai (Gen. 12:8). Instead of remaining there, however, Abraham continued his journey southward. Therefore, when the famine came, Abraham moved into […]
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 […]
Life-Study of Genesis: Messages 36-38
Message 36 of the Life-Study of Genesis covers the fourth fall of man. This fall occurred at Babel when man built a city and a tower. Behind each of the four falls there was one common source – Satan. First, man fell from God’s presence to man’s conscience. Second, man fell from man’s conscience to […]
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 […]