The Body lifeJacob’s dream was a dream of God’s goal, the dream of Bethel, the dream of the house of God, which is the church today and which will consummate in the New Jerusalem as the eternal dwelling place of God and His redeemed elect : God had a dream, and that dream was to have the […]
The burnt offering typifies Christ not mainly in His redeeming man from sin but in His living a life that is perfect and absolutely for God and for God’s satisfaction and in His being the life that enables God’s people to have such a living : The burnt offering is God’s food so that God […]
1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him; Because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father […]
We need to see a vision of the self so that the self may be exposed and denied and that we may hate our independence from God and from the Body. The self is the soul-life with the emphasis on human thoughts and opinions. In Matthew 16:23-25 three terms are related to one another: mind, […]
The church is the heart’s desire of God; the desire of God in this age is to have the church: The church is the hidden mystery in God’s eternal economy. According to Ephesians 3:9, there is a relationship between creation and the church; God’s intention in His creation of all things, including man, was that […]
