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 […]
[태그:] The Holy Word for Morning Revival
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 […]
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A Life-ministering Service
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 […]
Exodus 15:1-18 is a song of praise concerning the glorious triumph of Jehovah as a man of war for His salvation and His victory leading to God’s habitation and His kingdom: In verses 1 through 12 the children of Israel praised God for His salvation and His victory (v. 1b): Salvation is related to God’s […]
“Then Moses moved Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore its name was called Marah. […]
In order to be deeply impressed with the significance of the exodus from Egypt, we need both the picture in the Old Testament and the words in the New Testament: In Exodus 12:29-42 and 51 we have a number of details regarding Israel’s exodus from Egypt: The children of Israel did not make their exodus […]
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The Passover
The detailed account of Christ’s redemption typified in Exodus indicates that God intends for us to remember Christ’s redemption in a specific and detailed way: Fallen man ended up “in a coffin in Egypt” (Gen. 50:26); this is the reality of being “dead in your offenses and sins” and of “having no hope and without […]
