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The conclusion to the New Testament and the entire Bible - New Jerusalem, eternal life and blessing, the grand consummation to the eternal economy of God, and an echo-cry to the Lord's soon return, and the final word to God's people - GRACE!
This mystery is Great - but I speak with regard to the holy city, New Jerusalem - the bride, the wife of the Lamb! The redeeming God marries His chosen, redeemed, regenerated, sanctified, transformed, and glorified built-up Church!
The firstfruits to God and to the Lamb, are not defiled and follow the Lamb wherever He may go!
"And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they loved not their soul-life even unto death..."
The seventh trumpet, the execution of God's economy - the conclusion to the first section of "the things which are about to take place."
"Eat the book (the scroll)" is the command given to John and how we should receive the words of the whole Bible!
In the midst of the fifth trumpet and the first "woe" we need to realize that Christ overcame death and hades - we cling to Christ and choose Him!
God's will in the heavens plus man's cooperation on the earth to pray God's will to be done, issues in God's will being fully accomplished!
The first six seals - hidden things opened - the first is the white horse - the Gospel - running since Christ's ascension to the end of the age!
The One on the throne is the Lion-Lamb - victorious and redeeming - to make us a kingdom and priests to our God!
To see God's will, verse 11, and God's throne with One sitting and administrating we must be in spirit!
Lord Jesus, make us intensely living and intensely shining and You are intensely living and intensely shining!
The revelation (unveiling) of Jesus Christ! The Bible consummates with a consummate revelation of Jesus Christ - the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus!
The common salvation, the common faith - this is what we contend for earnestly, in everything else we're charitable and general.
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God; and we are... think about it!
His divine power has granted to us all things that related to life and godliness...what a supply!
Casting all your anxiety on Him because it matters to Him concerning you...check out the context!
Drink your milk! Grow unto salvation! Come to Him, a living stone! You also are being built up!
The full salvation of the Triune God and its results - something Peter surely appreciated first-hand!
The indwelling Spirit makes His home in us that He may occupy our entire being for God, causing us to be wholly for our Husband!
James 2:5 Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which He promised to those who love Him?
10 practical virtues for the church life and experiences of Christ for the church life!
"I will impart My laws into their mind, and on their hearts I will inscribe them; and I will be God to them, and they will be a people to Me." The New Covenant!
We have such a High Priest, according to the order of Melchizedek - able to save us to the uttermost!
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Philemon, Onesimus, and Paul - what a glorious picture of the Body of Christ, the One New Man!
What was Timothy to be among the declining churches? An inoculator - a teacher, a soldier, an athlete, a farmer, and a workman - serving the church!
The household of God, the family of God, is full of all ages and our interaction should be "Jesusly" human - full of the Spirit and full of genuine care as in a family!
A good minister of Christ Jesus is one nourished with the words of the faith and one who lays these things before the brothers...like a waiter!
Our Savior God desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth!
The Lord is coming soon, but certain things must happen first... stand firm and hold to a holy life for the church life in faith, love, and hope developing!
Paul wanted to establish and encourage the believers for the sake of their faith - objective and subjective!
... your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope...even as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake...
The key to everything in the book of Colossians - Persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving!
Verse 2: ...that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love and unto all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, unto the full knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ...
This mystery is great but I speak with regard to Christ and the church! Another aspect of the church is the bride of Christ!
...that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind! This is where Christ Jesus becoming the person of the New Man happens practically!
"THAT Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you... may...apprehend... with all the saints what the breadth and length and height and depth are...that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God!" (Ephesians 3:14-19)
From a pitiful condition to God's Poeima-Masterpiece - the Church! What a wonderful salvation that manifests God's multifarious wisdom!
Ultimately, Paul's solution and remedy to the Galatian believers was to enjoy grace in their spirit. Our human spirit is the key to God's economy!
"Did you receive the Spirit (the blessing of the Abraham) out of the works of law or out of the hearing of faith?"
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Four kinds of grace in the matter of material offerings...even in this matter, grace is still preeminent!
This chapter shows us the intimate concern of the apostle's ministering life - a life of ministering not dead letter, mere teaching, but ministering the Spirit of the living God!
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power would be of God and not out of us...we do not regard the things which are seen... Tune in to hear more about the content of our Christian life!
Paul was so concerned how the Corinthians would receive the first letter, in this episode we can see what is going in inside Paul, the concerned Apostle for the church.
The result of resurrection revealed and experienced is grace, even physical, material, and visible among the saints and among the churches! What a glorious victory!
1 Corinthians 15:45 - a verse for today and now! What an astounding fact in 1 Corinthians!
Did you know the Spirit was given for us to drink? And how is this related to the spiritual gifts and the Body of Christ? Tune in and find out!
1 Corinthians 11 addresses a matter related to God's administration in the church - where He will administrate the entire universe.
"I do all things for the sake of the gospel that I may become a fellow partaker of it. Do you not know that those who run... run in this way!"
Concerning chapter 8, Paul's main burden was for the believers in Corinth to care for Christ and for the members of His Body!
Tune in to hear the answer of one absolute for God and His economy concerning the matter presented in 1 Corinthians 7!
"Our Passover, Christ, also has been sacrificed. So then let us keep the feast!" This is Paul's word to the church in Corinth dealing with a gross sin. Eat the sinless Lamb and the unleavened bread - Christ!
Lord Jesus, grow in me and grow in us! We're God's cultivated land...and a fundamental problem in Corinth was a lack of growth!
Things which God has prepared for those who love Him...the depths of God - Christ, the Lord of Glory, God's wisdom in a mystery! Lord Jesus, we love You! You gotta tune in.......
The unique Person, God's unique way, and God's unique goal in 1 Corinthians 1. Christ and His cross is the solution
to all problems in the church!
What is the conclusion to the book of Romans, the Gospel of God? It is the church practically living out the life of the Body of Christ! Tune in to hear Paul's description of the complete gospel!
We're those who receive others according to Christ and are the laboring priest of the gospel of God - just like our brother Paul!
In the context of the living of the church, the Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit!
We need transformation - an inward metabolic change to live out the things in this chapter!
The book of Romans takes 5 chapters to open up the matter of the Body of Christ, the practice of the eternal life! Romans doesn't end in chapter 8!!!
Tune in for an introduction to the Law of the Spirit of Life the main point in Romans 8 which shows the focus of the entire Bible and the center of the universe!
The wonderful results of our justification and the MUCH MORE salvation in the life of Christ!
An example of justification by faith - Abraham, whose faith was a reaction to God's repeated appearing!
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God...but the story does not end there...
All men have a desperate need for the good news of the gospel - this is the stark background Paul presents to manifest the brightness and preciousness of the gospel! Praise God for the complete gospel recorded in Romans!
Paul introduces the book of Romans on the Gospel of God centered on the wonderful Person of Christ! This is a great start!
The book of Acts concludes open-ended with Paul's living as a duplication and magnification of Christ, proclaiming, and teaching... but The Author of this book is still writing on, and we're going on with Him...
Paul was commissioned to be a minister and a witness of the things in which He saw the Lord and in the things in which He would see the Lord! Amazing!
"...I also exercise myself to always have a conscience without offense toward God and men."
God is in control, yet He still gives confirmation to His serving ones, but the main picture is to see Jesus living again through Paul!
The Lord is rich to all who call on Him! (Rom. 10:12) Paul began to call very early on in His Christian life!
God in His New Testament Economy cannot tolerate any mixture with the law, including our self-made laws!
Paul and the brothers only presented Christ, from place to place, with or without persecution!
The Spirit of Jesus, a rich aspect of the Holy Spirit, supplied Paul and Silas in their journey and testifying in all kinds of situations!
Acts 15:1 - the common faith, the common salvation gets challenged... we must be brought back to grace!
This chapter shows the Apostle's concern and care for the new believers in the cities of Galatia - very touching; may the Lord duplicate His heart for His people in us, as He did with Paul.
The Spirit initiated His move among the Gentiles with Barnabas and Saul and it was confirmed by the brothers - two critical principles in the Work of God! The Work of God should always be initiated by Him and always confirmed by the members of the Body of Christ!
The Move and Acts of the Spirit in Acts 12 involve the Spirit, a praying church in the divine stream, and an open vessel!
Repentance unto life has been given to the Gentiles - and now we have a part in sharing this good news!
The baptism of the Holy Spirit with the Gentiles (as with the Jews in chapter 2) was a result of prayer (a living of prayer) and speaking!
Paul saw something at his conversion that set the course for his whole Christian life - we need to see the same thing!
The scattering of the believers resulted in the gospel going out from Jerusalem into Judea, and Samaria, and even into Ethiopia!
Before his martyrdom, Stephen speaks concerning God's habitation! God was living within Him and was being expressed through him in his last words and actions.
Who are the ones sought after to take care of some practical matters early in the history of the church? Men full of the Spirit!
Pretending to be something we're not is a very serious matter - for every demand there is a supply of grace, Christ as our enjoyment!
The ONE Spirit has two aspects, one for essential life and spiritual living and the other for economical power for work with authority - this is very important to realize for the Book of Acts and the rest of the New Testament!
The Lord Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God - Christ and the Church - the entire New Testament, and the Book of Acts!
The Gospel of Life concludes with mutual shepherding; the resurrected Christ restores and brings the disciples alongside to co-shepherd the flock, the church!
The Life, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, gets breathed into the disciples! ...That you may have life in His name - this is why John wrote this book!
Verse 34 - out of Jesus' side there came BLOOD AND WATER! Redemption accomplished and life released!
The Gospel of Life shows us Jesus being one with God the Father's desire to release the divine life into all the believers!
Before His crucifixion, Jesus prayed to the Father - that the Father would be glorified in the Son's glorification and for the oneness of all believers!
The Spirit is the "Another" Comforter and functions to convict us concerning three items and guide us into all the reality!
The joy of the Christian life - receiving, abiding, and bearing fruit, as the overflow of the life of the Vine!
The house in Bethany - a miniature of the church life - a feast with Simon (forgiven sinner enjoying), Martha (serving), Lazarus (testifying), and Mary (loving)!
The last case of changing death into life eternal - Lazarus is raised from the dead by Resurrection Himself!!!
Jesus as life is the Good Shepherd, the door, and the pasture! Be free to enjoy Christ Jesus as all these rich aspects in life!
John 9 contains the secret to spiritual sight - the anointing and obeying the anointing!
Jesus is the light of life, freeing those who follow Him - Lord Jesus, draw us as an immense magnet that we would follow You!
Tune in for more!!!
John 6 - a special chapter in the Bible on eating - not only to satiate hunger but for life's supply!
Jesus was satisfied when the Samaritan woman drank of the living water that had been installed in her being! Believers have a fountain installed in their being - satisfaction on call anytime anywhere!
From a serpent to a child of God with the life and nature of the new life from a new birth!
John 1:1-4 - God, the Word of God, Life, Light! Sets up the whole gospel according to John, the gospel of Life!
The seven statuses of the crucified Jesus Christ - behind the scenes in Luke chapter 23!
The question of questions points us to the wonderful Person of Christ - the son of David and the Lord of David!
A case of salvation and a teaching concerning service - illustrated with Zaccheus, a top sinner!
When the Son of Man comes will He find faith on the earth? The faith of the persistent widow?
Occupied with Christ and filled with Christ - this is how we should be in the das of the coming of the Son of Man!
The saving love of the Triune God taught by the Man-Savior, Jesus, as a response to sinners drawing near to Him!
Two parables - one on the invitation of the Man-Savior and another on following the Man-Savior!
Jubilee Jesus releases a depressed and oppressed woman - from looking at the world, society, and herself to stand upright and glorify God in the Jubilee!
Jesus' death and resurrection released and imparted the divine life! It also put us in opposition to the kingdom of darkness!
Who is my neighbor? Who became a neighbor to him? Two questions, two perspectives - the Good Samaritan according to the gospel of the Jubilee!
He who is forgiven much loves much - experiencing fresh forgiveness daily issues in fresh love for the Lord daily!
The excellent service of the Man-Savior and the highest standard of morality taught by the Man-Savior!
What happened during the "silent years" of Jesus' life and how does that connect to our experience of Christ as our salvation?
We can all learn to daily feed on the Word of God chapter by chapter to bring forth Christ in our living today!
The first and greatest commandment - You shall love the Lord, Your God, from your whole heart...
The Serving Savior goes inward and deals with the real condition of man and a mother's eating is her daughter's healing! What a Savior!
When faced with feeding a multitude, Jesus tells the disciples, "You give them something to eat...".
Touching Jesus is all that really matters...and your life will never be the same! There is always a way to really touch Him, even just the fringe of His garment!
The Slave-Savior's service to God is to sow the word of God into our hearts that it would bear fruit for the glory of God!
The manifestation of the Kingdom of the Heavens in two parables concerning believers as virgins toward the Bridegroom and slaves of the Master.
A wedding feast, a king tested, and the question of questions - What do you think concerning the Christ?
The meek and lowly King's glorious entrance into Jerusalem and the praise from little ones!
The King-sower and King-seed sown into the heart of man - this is the Kingdom of the Heavens!!
Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath and gives Himself as rest to us! Tune in to hear how we can experience the real Sabbath rest!
What should be our response to the Constitution of the Kingdom? Eat it, the divine life is able!
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