Christ opened a new and living way into God and He is the Author & Perfecter of our faith!

The Epistle to the Hebrews is so rich – there are so many aspects of the all-inclusive Christ revealed in this book! He is the One sent by God coming to “do God’s will”(Heb. 10:9) – He came to put away the animal sacrifices of the old covenant and to establish Himself, in His Body, as the unique sacrifice for sin! He terminated God’s Old Testament economy and initiated God’s New Testament economy in which Christ replaces with Himself all the offerings, matters, things, and persons! In God’s New Testament economy Christ is the centrality and universality for producing and building up of the church as the Body of Christ – consummating in the New Jerusalem! This is why Christ came and died on the cross – to replace all the Old Testament sacrifices with Himself as the unique sacrifice for sin and to regenerate, transform, and glorify the believers that they may be members of the Body for the consummation of the New Jerusalem!...
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Christ is the Author of our salvation and the Merciful and Faithful High Priest! (Christ in Hebrews)

Christ is everything in God’s economy, and He is the Father’s beloved Son – all that God has the best and cares for the most is just Christ!This Christ is all-inclusive! In the Epistle to the Hebrews we see that Christ is the Author of our salvation(Heb. 2:10), the merciful and faithful High Priest(Heb. 2:17), and the kingly and divine High Priest(Heb. 5:6)!...
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About Watchman Nee

Watchman Nee's ministry of spiritual nourishment and his unique ability to expound the Scripture along with his firm testimony in the face of persecution has been widely recognized by Christians as a significant contribution to Christian faith and practice in the twentieth century. His writings have been appreciated by Christians around the world and translated into many languages...
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even as He is, we will be – His reproduction, His duplication!

Christ came as a seed full of life, yet contained/restricted in a human shell. Satan though that Christ would be finished if He is crucified – so Satan instigated the Roman politicians, the Jewish leaders and the religious leaders to put Him to death. Little did Satan know that His death was actually a release: His death opened the “shell of His humanity”, and the Spirit of holiness had the opportunity to operate for the germination of the new creation! His death actually released the divine life within Him!...
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The All-inclusive Christ

In God’s eternal plan, Christ is the “unifying theme”; He is... 
-everything to God and to us,
-the embodiment of God (Col. 2:9), 
-the perfect Man (1 Pet. 2:22),
-the reality, the true substance, of all the positive things in the universe,
-the delight of God the Father (Matt. 3:17),
-the desire of all the nations (Hag. 2:7).
Christ is the unique, all-inclusive One, possessing all the rich attributes of God and expressing all the virtues of man. Although this divine-human Christ is all-inclusive, we must ask what He is to us? How can we know Him as He is revealed in the Bible? Further, how can we experience Him as everything to us in our daily lives?....
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The Will of God

There are so many books today focused on knowing the will of God on individual grounds. It does show "the widespread occupation, if not obsession with knowing the will of God regarding one's individual life rather than seeking, knowing, caring for God's will for God and the desire of his heart to have an eternal, corporate expression of Himself in Christ, the Firsborn, with many glorified sons"....
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Building up the Body of Christ by the Function of Every Member

The New Testament reveals that Christ is building the church not by Himself directly, but rather in and through all the members of His Body....
Source: The Practical Building Up of the Local Churches

Building up of the Body of Christ by Life

The Body of Christ, expressed as local churches, is built up in the divine life and by the ministry, or supply of life—just as the human body exists, grows and develops by life. The church is not built by organization, gifts or doctrine...
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Man ate the tree of knowledge yet God came to save man

Instead of partaking of the tree of life, man ate of the tree of knowledge. When man ate of that tree, he not only made a mistake and disobeyed God, but something far more serious occurred. He received sin (the life of Satan) into his being (Romans 5:12). As a result, God had to close the way to the tree of life lest man live forever in his fallen condition (Genesis 3:22-24). Yet God, because of His great love toward us, never abandoned His original intention. One day He came out of eternity and entered into time to become a man by the name of Jesus Christ...
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Eating is a basic and underlying concept in the Bible

Eating is a basic and underlying concept in the Bible. After God created man He did not tell him to do anything; He simply spoke about man’s eating (Genesis 1:29). God set man in a garden with the tree of life at its centre as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Man’s destiny depended upon how he would deal with those two trees....
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Christ the embodiment of God; the Spirit the realization of Christ for our regeneration

God is mysterious, untouchable, all-powerful, and omni-present; He created all things, He sustains all things, and He owns all things. At one point in time, God became touchable and reachable in Christ – Christ is the embodiment of God(John 1:14; Col. 2:9). Christ fully expressed God in every way, not living His own life but the life of God. When people saw the Lord Jesus Christ, they actually saw God living on the earth. The realization of Christ is the Spirit – which Spirit Christ became in His resurrection(1 Cor. 15:45). Now all that Christ is, has, has attained and obtained, is in this life-giving Spirit, which can come into our spirit to regenerate us – give us the divine life!... Read Full Article

divinity was brought into humanity; humanity brought into divinity

In Christ, God became a man. In His incarnation, He put on humanity (according to the flesh), He brought God into man and united and mingled the Triune God with the tripartite man. Now there was such an entity on earth – both God and man, both man and God. In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily(Col. 2:9).

In His resurrection, Christ brought His humanity into divinity (He was designated the Son of God in power(v. 4). In His human living on earth Christ was both God and man, yet He longed that His human part would be “baptized” / filled / brought into divinity(Luke 12:50). This was possible only through death and resurrection.... Read Full article

our human spirit to contact and worship God

In order for us to contact anything, we need to use the proper organ: you can’t use your eyes to hear, or your ears to see. To substantiate sounds, we use our ears; to see, we use our eyes, to understand things, we use our mind, etc – in the same way, for us to contact and substantiate God and the spiritual things, we need to use the right organ. To worship God, who is Spirit, we need to use our human spirit! The Father God seeks people who worship Him in spirit and in truthfulness!... Read Full Article

the seed of man became the son of God!

This is actually our gospel, as Paul said in Rom. 1:1-4

1. Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, a called apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
2. Which He promised beforehand through His prophets in the holy Scriptures,
3. Concerning His Son, who came out of the seed of David according to the flesh,
4. Who was designated the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness out of the resurrection of the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord;

It is very impressive here to see that

• In Christ, God became a man...
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preaching a high and uplifted gospel according to the Bible

Many times most of us think “oh, maybe people can’t really understand the gospel if we preach it in such a high way” – and on the other side, many of the people that are not saved think “why believe in such a watered-down and not-so-high gospel, that tells you to get saved to go to heaven?” We’re all guilty of this, on the one or on the other side… The truth of the matter is that God created man in His image and His likeness and man can understand the things concerning God and man is even hungry to know about God and to receive God... Read Full Article

loving the Lord with our first love = giving Him the first place in all things

Continuing the thought from the previous post(“why this waste”), what does it mean to love the Lord? In Mark 12:30 it says “you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength”. Also, in Matt. 26 – where Mary poured out her love offering upon the Lord Jesus – the Lord seemed to be saying “Yes, you have the poor, and you will always have them: now you have to take care of Me! I am here – pay attention to Me!“ The Lord Jesus, God incarnated, is the most lovely and wonderful Person: He is so attractive in expressing the divine attributes through His human virtues... Read Full Article

Why this waste? Wasting ourselves upon the Lord…

This is the goal of the gospel – that loving the Lord Jesus with the first love we would pour out upon Him what is most precious to us – even our most costly and valuable spiritual treasures! Just wasting ourselves upon Him! We see this in Matthew 26:6-12 where the Lord Jesus was invited to eat at Simon’s house, and a woman came and poured out an alabaster flask filled with ointment upon Him. That ointment was very precious (more than 1 year’s work pay worth) – yet she simply “wasted” it on the Lord. That’s when one of the disciples asked this question:
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nothing else satisfies us but God in Christ

If you haven’t reached this conclusion, take a moment and think about it:

• our family life can’t satisfy us fully,
• our social life can’t satisfy us;
• even our online life – social media – networking – can’t satisfy us;
• knowledge and schooling can’t fully satisfy us;
• relationships – do not fill the deep void in us;
• owning things, being rich, having material goods – definitely can’t fill the hunger in us;
• having authority and managing things/people cannot satisfy us;
• being strong and powerful still exposes the emptiness within;
• beauty and being nice – cannot satisfy us,

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worshipping God in spirit and truthfulness

During the centuries, many people wanted/attempted to worship God, to know Him, and to have a relationship with Him. Even Cain, in the second generation of the mankind, brought a sacrifice to God – something that “he thought” that God would like. As we see from his example though, God doesn’t just want us to “worship Him in our own way with our own things to give Him”, but He has designed a way and some things that we can give Him.
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not imitating Christ but living Christ

Many people say “I can’t become a Christian because I can’t do all that the Bible says“, and “the Lord Jesus is a good model, but I can’t live the way He did“. Also, many believers try to imitate Christ, striving to obey what the Bible says, and struggling to be good people/Christians. Even some say: “If you are a Christian, you have to give up this and that(smoking, cursing, clubbing, vices and bad habits, etc)!” What is the Christian life? It is a life lived together with Christ, as we mentioned before, and even more – it is Christ living in us!... Read Full Article

the meaning of our Christian life

God’s intention with man is seen in a consistent way from Genesis to Revelation.

• In the book of Genesis, after creating man, He didn’t give him a list of to do/not to do things – God placed man in front of the tree of life(indicating that God wants to be man’s life – He’s outside of man, but wants to get INSIDE him!). Also, in the garden there is a river which actually reaches the whole earth…. so here we see – God intends that man would eat Him and drink Him.
• At the end of the Bible – in Revelation, in the New Jerusalem, what we see is again – a river of life flowing from the throne and the tree of life on both sides of the river. This time, the New Jerusalem is God mingled with man, God and man in full oneness – here, for eternity, what we do is that we continue to eat and drink God in Christ as the Spirit!.. Read Full Article

the Christian life – a life together with Christ

Christians are not just nice people, who obey what the Bible says. Christians are actually people who receive Christ into them, having the divine life in their spirit, and live by this life! Actually, whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved(Rom. 10:13)!...
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we can't: He can!

Even if we think that we can, we actually cannot and will not make it – without Him! Man was created as a vessel to contain God, and as we receive Him into us, we also become, little by little, like Him!...
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