The Body life“Let My people go that they may serve Me in the wilderness” (Exo. 7:16; 5:1; 4:23; 8:1, 20; 9:1, 13; 10:3): The children of Israel had been usurped by Pharaoh to serve as slaves to carry out the purpose of the Egyptians. Pharaoh signifies not only Satan but also the self and the […]
“I delight in…the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings” (Hosea 6:6): God delights in our knowing Him; therefore, He wants us to “pursue knowing Jehovah”. Our knowledge of God is more important than our service to God: We should not merely serve God without pursuing knowledge of Him. Our service […]
In Exodus the Ten Commandments are called the tablets of the Testimony; the commandments testify of God in two ways (32:15): First, they testify that God is the unique God. Second, they testify that God is a God of love, light, holiness, and righteousness. The law and its ordinances were decreed by […]
The universe is for the human race, the human race is for the church, and the church is the increase of Christ. The greatest prophecy in the Bible is in Matthew 16:18: “I will build My church”: The fulfillment of this prophecy has not been fully realized, so even today the greatest prophecy […]
Spiritual progress is the increase of the element of Christ within the believers: The first condition for spiritual progress in a believer is hunger: All spiritual progress depends on our hunger; in order to have sustained progress before the Lord, we need a sustained hunger. God’s principle is to fill the hungry […]
In order to have the increase of Christ for the increase and spread of the church, we must have the one accord; the Greek word for one accord is homothumadon from homo, “same,” and thumos, “mind, will, purpose (soul, heart)”: The one accord is the master key to every blessing in the New Testament; […]
First John 5:16a says, “If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask and he will give life to him”: “Life” here is zoe, the spiritual, eternal, divine life. This does not mean that the asker has life of himself and can give life by himself to others; […]
The increase and spread of the church is the increase and spread of Christ: After passing through death, the Lord Jesus entered into resurrection to impart His divine life into those who believe into Him so that they could become His reproduction. Through His death and resurrection, Christ has been propagated, increased, and […]
The Acts of the Apostles is a book without an ending because this book is still being continued for the increase of Christ: The Lord said, “My Father is working until now, and I also am working” (John 5:17); this shows that since the rebellion of Satan and the fall of man, God has been […]
As believers in Christ and children of God, we not only have eternal life and may experience eternal life, but we can minister this life to other members of the Body of Christ (1 John 5:11-16). To minister life is to impart life; when we have a surplus of life, we can minister from this […]
