The Body lifea branch in Christ Jesus our Lord
Genesis 37—45 is a record of the process of Jacob’s maturity: In Genesis 27 we see a supplanter; in chapter 37, a transformed man; and at the end of chapter 45, a mature person. To be transformed is to be metabolically changed in our natural life, whereas to be matured is to be filled with […]
Since God created man to express Him with His image and to represent Him by exercising His dominion over all things, by birth every human being has a birthright —the right by birth to express God and represent Him; however, every fallen person has sold this birthright by being independent of God. In the Bible […]
In Genesis 35 the vision of Bethel came again; however, this time it did not come as a dream —it came as a reality: We all come into the church life twice: The first time we come in a dream, and the second time we come in reality; we need both the dream and the […]
We need to be enlightened by and fully saturated with the thought that in the universe God is doing only one thing —building His eternal habitation —Bethel: The entire Bible is a book of building; the main subject of the Bible is the building of God. The central and divine thought of the Scriptures is […]
Jacob was chosen by God; therefore, in Jacob we see God’s selection: God loved Jacob and selected him. Jacob was chosen before his birth, even before the foundation of the world: Jacob was chosen by God; it was not of his own works, nor was it the issue of his own struggle and strife. Jacob’s […]
Jacob’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 […]
