The church life is Christ realized, experienced, and expressed by all the saints in a corporate way: God planned the church for the purpose of expressing Christ; thus, the church is the expression of Christ. The church life is nothing other than the all-inclusive Christ with His unsearchable riches experienced and enjoyed by us and […]
“Unto the economy of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in Him” (Eph. 1:10): The economy, or dispensation, that God, according to His desire, planned and purposed in Himself is to head up all things in Christ at […]
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 […]
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 […]
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To be transformed is to be metabolically changed in our natural life, to be mature is to be filled with the divine life that changes us, and blessing is the overflow of life: As Jacob was about to bless the two sons of Joseph, he spoke of the Triune God in his experience: The God […]
According to spiritual experience, Jacob and Joseph are one person; Joseph represents the reigning aspect of the mature Israel, the constitution of Christ in Jacob’s mature nature; as a mature saint constituted of Christ, the perfect One, Jacob reigned through Joseph: The reigning aspect typified by Joseph is Christ constituted into our being. The reigning […]
Joseph’s life was a copy of the life of Christ in the following aspects: In his being a shepherd. In his being his father’s beloved. In his being sent by his father to minister to his brothers according to his father’s will. In his being hated, persecuted, and betrayed (sold) by his brothers. In his […]
