We have been saved by grace through faith to be God’s masterpiece, through which God’s multifarious wisdom is made known to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies: The Greek word for masterpiece is poiema, which means “something that has been made,” “a handiwork,” or “something that has been written or composed as a […]
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There are three main items of God’s purpose for the church: The church must have the full sonship. Through the church God’s multifarious wisdom is made known to the enemy; the church thus becomes God’s poem, His wise exhibition of all that Christ is. God’s purpose is to head up all things in Christ through […]
The book of Genesis begins and ends with image and dominion (1:26-28): The subject of Genesis is man bearing the image of God and exercising God’s dominion over all things: For God to create man in His image means that God created man with the intention that man would become a duplication of God, the […]
The prophecy concerning the apostasy with Dan indicates Jacob’s concern about the setting up of a divisive center of worship: Dan fought as a young lion to gain more land (signifying Christ), but after being successful and victorious, he became a serpent —proud, individualistic, and independent; he acted in his pride to set up an […]
Jacob’s twelve sons eventually became the twelve tribes of Israel, a type of the church as God’s house, the Israel of God, composed of all the believers: Jacob’s maturity in life, the zenith of his life, issued in the overflow of life, his prophesying with blessing for the building up of God’s house. Whatever was […]
