4/17/2014 Thursday 11:22:52 PM Lifestyle Design---Day 63 2013 Winter Training Crystallization-Study of Genesis (2) Message Five Enjoying Christ in His Heavenly Ministry by Fighting for the Brother Morning Nourishment WEEK 4 — DAY 4 Heb. 7:11 If indeed then perfection were through the Levitical priesthood..., what need was there still that a different Priest should arise according to the order of Melchizedek and that He should not be said to be according to the order of Aaron? 25 Hence also He is able to save to the uttermost those who come forward to God through Him, since He lives alwaysto intercede for them. In His earthly ministry Christ was a High Priest according to the order of Aaron for the putting away of sin (Heb. 9:14,26). Then, in His heavenly ministry Christ was designated a High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek (Heb. 5:6, 10), not to offer sacrificesfor sin but to minister to us the very God who was processed through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection, signified by thebread and the wine (Matt. 26:26-28), as our life supply that we may be saved tothe uttermost (Heb. 7:25a). (Gen. 14:18, footnote 3) Christ is the High Priest, but His status is that of a king. As He functions as a Priest, He is a King. He is the King tobe the Priest; so His priesthood is kingly, royal (1 Pet. 2:9). He combines the kingship together with the priesthood (Zech. 6:13) for God's building and forHis glory. Christ's kingship maintains a peaceful order through righteousness.This peaceful order is necessary for God's building. The building of God's house is in a situation of peace. Christ's priesthood ministers all the supply needed for the building of God. In this His glory is manifested. Before our Melchizedek ministers the processed God to us, He intercedes for us, praying that we may take up our sword and slaughter the enemies. We must slaughter the self, the natural mind,the wild emotion, the stubborn will, and other enemies....After we havefinished our slaughtering, He will change His interceding to the ministering ofbread and wine. The proper Christian life is to slaughter the enemies during the day and to enjoy the ministry of our Melchizedek with the bread and wine inthe evening. At the end of every day, when the slaughtering and interceding have been accomplished, He and we, we and He, may have a good time enjoying the bread and wine in righteousness and peace. (Life-study of Hebrews, pp. 361-364)
4/16/2014 Wednesday 9:40:15 PM Lifestyle Design---Day 62 2013 Winter TrainingCrystallization-Study of Genesis (2) Message Five Enjoying Christ in HisHeavenly Ministry by Fighting for the Brother Morning Nourishment WEEK 4 —DAY 3 Gen. 14:18-20 AndMelchizedek the king of Salem brought out bread and wine. Now he was priest ofGod the Most High. And he blessed him and said, Blessed be Abram of God the Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth; and blessed be God the Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand... It must have been through his intercession that Abraham was able to slaughter the four kings and gain thevictory (cf. Exo. 17:8-13). Today Christ, our High Priest, is interceding forus in a hidden way (Rom. 8:34b; Heb. 7:25b) that we may be His overcomers to defeat God's enemies, so that through our victory Christ can be manifested openly in His second coming. (Gen. 14:18, footnote 1) While we walk on this earth, many things happen to us. Apparently, these things just happen. Actually, behind theearthly scene, an intercession is going on. Our Melchizedek, our High PriestChrist, is still interceding for us in heaven (Heb. 7:25). His intercession overshadows us and cares for us. We need to slaughter somekings daily. We need to slaughter the kings in our mind, emotion, and will. Weneed to slaughter the kings in our environment, families, and schools. After we have finished our slaughter of the kings, our Melchizedek will come to us, meet with us, and celebrate our victory. The Lord will not come back until we have slaughtered all the kings. Then He will return and drink the fruit of the vine with us, as indicated by His word in Matthew 26:29: “I shall by no means drinkof this product of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new withyou in the kingdom of My Father.” We all need to echo the Lord's intercession. If we turn to our spirit and contact Him, there will always besome echoing. If we go according to that echoing, forgetting our environment,enemies, and even ourselves, we shall gain the victory and slaughter the kings.At the end of our slaughter of all the kings, our Melchizedek will appear tous. That will be the second coming of Christ. When Christ comes in, the whole earth will know the Most High God. Then all the earth will realize that God is the Possessor of heaven and earth. The earth is not possessed by any king,president, statesman, or politician; it is possessed by God the Most High, the Possessor of heaven and earth. How can this fact be declared to the earth? Only by our slaughter of the kings. (Life-study of Genesis, pp. 583-585) “One thing I know, I cannot say Him nay; Onething I do, I press towards my Lord; My God my glory here, from day to day, Andin the glory there my great Reward. ” Lyrics from Hymnal.net
4/15/2014 Tuesday 10:25:19 PM Lifestyle Design---Day 61 2013 Winter Training Crystallization-Studyof Genesis (2) Message Five Enjoying Christ in His Heavenly Ministry byFighting for the Brother Morning Nourishment WEEK 4 — DAY 1 Gen. 14:14-16 And when Abram heardthat his brother had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, born inhis house, three hundred eighteen of them, and pursued as far as Dan. Andhe...struck them....And he brought back all the possessions and also brought back Lot his brother and his possessions as well as the women and thepeople. In the matter of the capture of Lot, God was sovereign. Genesis 14:13 says, “And one who had escaped came and told Abramthe Hebrew.”...While so many others were captured, this one escaped. That person was preserved by God's sovereignty. As we shall see, it must have happened because of the intercession behind the scene. Unlike us, Abraham did not count the weak point of hisbrother and did not take pleasure in Lot's suffering and calamity . Lord Jesus, thank You for shinning on me, I should love the saints with Your eternal love, however they offense me, I should forgive them. (Mark25-26: And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in the heavens may also forgive you your offenses. But ifyou do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in the heavens forgive youroffenses.) It was not a small thing for him to risk his life in order to rescue his captured brother. But he did it. The fight wentsmoothly, and Abraham pursued the enemy from the south all the way to Dan in the north. His victory must have been the result of the intercession behind the scene. Abraham gained the victory by trusting in God. He had confidence in God because he had learned to know Him. Likewise, we all must learn to know God. We must learn that, even today, the earth is God's.God is the landlord. He is not only the landlord but also the heavenlord.(Life-study of Genesis, pp. 580-582)
4/14/2014 Monday 10:07:38 PM Lifestyle Design---Day 60 2013 Winter Training Crystallization-Studyof Genesis (2) Message Five Enjoying Christ in His Heavenly Ministry by Fighting for the Brother Morning Nourishment WEEK 4 — DAY 1 Gen. 13:11-12 So Lot chose forhimself the entire plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed east; and theyseparated themselves from each other. Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, andLot dwelt in the cities of the plain and moved his tent as far as Sodom. , the fighting occurred mainly at Sodom...because one of God's people, Lot, was living there. Before the time of that fighting, Lot had separated himself from Abraham(13:11). Do you think that it was good for Lot to have separated himself from Abraham? No, it was not good. All of the young people today like to be separated from the older generation. In God's economy, however, it is not good for the young ones to be separated from the older generation. If you do this,you will miss the mark and the protection. At the time of Genesis 13, God's goal andeternal mark were with Abraham. If you had been there and had separated yourself from him, it would have been equal to separating yourself from God'smark . God's goal is with the called ones. If you separate yourself from the called ones, you separate yourself from God's goal. Lot should never have separated himself from Abraham, because God's goal was with Abraham. To leave Abraham was to leave God's mark. Moreover, to leave Abraham was to leave the protection.(Life-study of Genesis, p. 578) God‘ goal is with the called ones. Did you find the one that you can follow with ?
4/13/2014 Sunday 6:55:28 PM Lifestyle Design---Day 59 My prophesy for today’s Lord’s day: Genesis 13:17 Rise up; walk through theland according to its length and its breadth, for I will give it to you. In Genesis 13:17 , God said to Abraham: Rise up; walk through the land according to its length and its breadth...Dear brothers and sisters, did you hear Lord speaking to you to rise up and walkthrough the land this morning! When I was pray reading this verse ,I was refreshed, my exhaust and weary gone, since Lord is calling me to rise up! Walk through the land! For us today, the land is Christ, who is live in us,and in whom we are living. We should live in Christ, and on Christ. The brother has very heavy burden in this message. In the Lord’s recovery, we emphasize not just having a Christian life that is performance; we emphasize a life that Christ live out in our daily life. We emphasize and the ministry reminds us all the time that we need to live a life that walk in Him, only we walk in Him in our daily life, can we produce Church life that is rich, and eventually become a Kingdom that will defend God’s enemy. But everything else that is not Christ will try to take away us from this land. Just like the old story in the OldTestament, that when the children of Israel, they follow the Lord, they will remain in the land, but when they got distracted, they will be taken away from the land. We need to be careful, be alert, not to be carried away by anything,but remain in this land. How could we live in and live on this land? In my daily experience, whenever I stop pray consistently, I live in my flesh. When I turn to my spirit via unceasingly pray, I was kept in this land. When I arrived in the meeting hall this morning, I was distracted from the land. Why? Because I did not today is our blending gathering. Sitting down, I was wondering whether I should prophesize in English or in Chinese, since I have gathering with the English saints this semester. Even before the Lord’s table, my mind is full of cranky…At that time, I pray to Lord, calling upon His name, Lord , come to me, I do not know what to say, Lord I need You, Lord teaches me to live in You. With this prayer, Lord brought me back to the land and when brother John shared, I feel I should rise up and then I rise up!
4/12/2014 Thursday 9:32:33 PM Lifestyle Design---Day 58 2013 Winter Training Crystallization-Studyof Genesis (2) Message Four The Land for the Fulfillment of God’s Purpose Morning Nourishment WEEK 4 — DAY 6 Rom. 6:8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. Gal. 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. Whenever people offered something to God inthe Old Testament, they laid their hand upon the sacrifice, signifying theirunion or identification with it. , God's asking Abraham to offer the cattle and birds to Him implied that Abraham had to be one with all of thethings that he offered to God. This indicates that we also have to be cut in Christ's being cut and crucified in His crucifixion. Our natural man, our flesh, and our self must be cut and crucified. As we are identified with Him in His crucifixion, we are also identified with Him in His resurrection. We are dead in His death (Rom. 6:5a, 8a) and we are living in His resurrection (Rom.6:5b, 8b) to fulfill God's purpose. We were terminated in His crucifixion andwe were germinated in His resurrection. It is in this way that we are enabled to fulfill God's eternal purpose. It is impossible for the natural man to have the church life. Among us we have many different kinds of brothers and sisters. Humanly speaking, it is impossible for us to be one. Nevertheless, in the church we are truly one by the crucified and resurrected Christ. We are so one in Him that even the devil has to admit that we are one. Our old man was terminated in Christ's crucifixion. Whenever my terminated old man comes out ofthe grave, I immediately rebuke him, saying, “What are you doing here? You havebeen terminated already. It is wrong for you to come here.” We all have been terminated in Christ's crucifixion and germinated in His resurrection. In His resurrection we all are living, not living by ourselves but by the resurrected Christ who lives within us and who enables us to have the church life. “It is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me” (Gal. 2:20). It is by this fact that we can be livingtoday in order to have the church life. Praise the Lord, in the church life we have Christ within as the seed and Christ without as the land. Hallelujah for such a Christ as the seed for usto live by and as the land for us to live in! (Life-study ofGenesis, pp. 610-612)
4/11/2014 Friday 11:14:38 PM Lifestyle Design---Day 57 2013 Winter Training Crystallization-Studyof Genesis (2) Message Four The Land for the Fulfillment of God’sPurpose Morning Nourishment WEEK 4 — DAY 5 Gen. 15:9 And He said to him, Bring Me a three-year-old heifer and a three-year-old female goat and athree-year-old ram and a turtledove and a young pigeon. John 11:25 Jesus said..., I am theresurrection and the life; he who believes into Me, even if he should die,shall live. 14:19 Yet a little while and theworld beholds Me no longer, but you behold Me; because I live, you also shalllive. Because Abraham found it difficult to believe in God regarding the promise of the land, God was forced to make a covenant with him....In making His covenant with Abraham, God told him to take a heifer, a female goat, a ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon (Gen. 15:9).The three cattle, all of which were three years of age, were divided in half,but the two birds were not; they were kept alive. It was through these that God made His covenant with Abraham, implying that it was in this way that Abrahamcould fulfill God's eternal purpose. In typology, all things offered to God by man are atype of Christ . Based upon this principle, each of these five things undoubtedly is a type of Christ. Christ is firstly the crucified Christ, the cut Christ, and secondly He is the resurrected, living Christ. If we see this, then we can immediately understand that the three cattle, which were cut and killed, are types of the crucified Christ.(Lifestudy of Genesis, pp. 605-607) The two birds, neither of which was killed,signify the resurrected, living Christ (Lev. 14:6-7). This resurrected Christis mainly in His divinity because, according to the Bible, a dove in typology signifies the Holy Spirit (John 1:32). Therefore, while the cattle typify Christ in His humanity, the birds typify Him in His divinity. He was sacrificed for us in His humanity, and He is living for us in His divinity. In typology,the turtledove signifies a suffering life and the young pigeon signifies abelieving life, a life of faith. While He was living on earth, the Lord Jesus was always suffering and believing. In His suffering life He was the turtledoveand in His believing life He was the young pigeon. There were two birds, andthe number two means testimony, bearing witness (Acts 5:32). The two livingbirds bear testimony of Christ as the resurrected One living in us and for us(John 14:19-20; Gal. 2:20). There were three cattle and two birds, making atotal of five items. The number five is the number of responsibility,indicating here that Christ as the crucified and living One is now bearing allthe responsibility for the fulfillment of God's eternal purpose. (Life-study ofGenesis, pp. 608-609)
4/10/2014 Thursday 9:32:33 PM Lifestyle Design---Day 56 2013 Winter TrainingCrystallization-Study of Genesis (2) Message Four The Land for the Fulfillmentof God’s Purpose Morning Nourishment WEEK 4 —DAY 4 1 Cor. 12:12-13 For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ. For also in one Spirit we were allbaptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all given to drink one Spirit. Eph. 2:22 In whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit. In this matter of God'spurpose we should not count on what we have or on what we can do. Eliezer was what Abraham had and Ishmael was what Abraham could do, and neither of them counted for the fulfillment of God's purpose. What we have is Eliezer and what we can do is Ishmael. What we have and what we can do does not count. It has to be God Himself. After a certain time, when we truly have become nothing, God will work Himself into us, and that which He has worked into us will bring forth Christ as the seed and will also bring us into Christ as our land. Christ should be the seed within us. Christ should also be the land in which we live.(Life-study of Genesis, p. 601) The Body of Christ, the church, is the expansion of Christ. In the church we live in Christ and on Christ; in the church we slaughter the enemies; and in the church we have the kingdom of God with the habitation of God. For this reason, when we came intothe church, we immediately had the sensation that we had come home. Now we areno longer wandering but have a place in which and on which to live, a place inwhich to slaughter all our enemies, a place in which we may have the kingdom ofGod with the habitation of God. In the church life God'skingdom is set up, His habitation is built up, and God is expressed andrepresented. This is the fulfillment of God's eternal purpose today.(Life-study of Genesis, pp. 601, 605)
4/9/2014 Wednesday 9:34:00 PM Lifestyle Design---Day 55 2013 Winter Training Crystallization-Studyof Genesis (2) Message Four The Land for the Fulfillment of God’sPurpose Morning Nourishment WEEK 4 — DAY 3 Gal. 3:14 In order that the blessingof Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receivethe promise of the Spirit through faith. 1 Cor. 15:45 ...The last Adam becamea life-giving Spirit. The physical aspect of the blessing Godpromised to Abraham was the good land (Gen. 12:7; 13:15; 17:8; 26:3-4), whichwas a type of the all-inclusive Christ (Col. 1:12). Since Christ is eventually realized as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 3:17),the blessing of the promised Spirit corresponds to the blessing of the promisedland. Actually, the Spirit as the realization of Christ in our experience isthe good land as the source of God's bountiful supply for us to enjoy.(Life-study of Galatians, pp. 130-131) At the time of the Lord's incarnation, the Holy Spirit began to have the element of humanity as well as divinity. From that time, the Holy Spirit was compounded with the Lord's human living,crucifixion, and resurrection and became the Spirit, the all-inclusive Spirit compounded with divinity, humanity, and the Lord's human living, death, and resurrection. All that God has purposed and planned and all that He has accomplished through incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection are included in the Spirit. Hence, the Spirit is all-inclusive, the Triune God processed to be everything to us. This Spirit is the blessing of the gospel. We can say that the processed Triune God is the all-inclusive One who is everything to us and that this One is our goodland. When the children of Israel entered into the good land, they had no lack.Therefore, this good land is a type of the processed Triune God who is realizedin full as the allinclusive Spirit indwelling our spirit. The good land todayis in our spirit. (Life-study of Galatians, pp. 131-132, 134, 149-150)
4/8/2014 Tuesday 09:31:04 AM Lifestyle Design---Day 54 2013 Winter Training Crystallization-Studyof Genesis (2) Message Four The Land for the Fulfillment of God’sPurpose Morning Nourishment WEEK 4 — DAY 2 Col. 1:12 Giving thanks to theFather, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saintsin the light. 2:6 As therefore you have receivedthe Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in Him. Gal. 5:16 But I say, Walk by theSpirit and you shall by no means fulfill the lust of the flesh. God gave His chosen people, the children of Israel, the good land for their inheritance and enjoyment. The land meanteverything to them...Even today the problem in the Middle East regarding Israel and the surrounding nations is a problem of the land. (Life-study ofColossians, p. 48) As we have received Christ, we should walk in Him. To walk is to live, to act, to behave, and to have our being. We should walk, live, and act in Christ so that we may enjoy His riches, just as the children of Israel lived in the good land and enjoyed all its rich produce. In our experience Christ should be the good land in which we live and walk. This should not merely be a doctrine to us. We need to pray, “ Lord, I want to live and walk in You. Lord, I pray that You will be the good land to me in my experience, and that every aspect of my living may be in You .” In Colossians 2:6 Paul tells us to walk in Christ, but in Galatians 5:16 he charges us to walk by the Spirit. Furthermore,in Romans 8:4 he speaks of walking according to spirit. These verses indicate that the good land for us today is the all-inclusive Spirit who indwells our spirit. This all-inclusive Spirit is the all-inclusive Christ as the processed Triune God. After being processed, the Triune God is the all-inclusive Christas the all-inclusive Spirit for us to experience. Today this all-inclusive Spirit indwells our spirit to be our good land. Nothing in the New Testament is orecentral, crucial, and vital than walking according to the mingled spirit.Christ as the all-inclusive Spirit dwells in our spirit to be our life, our person, and our everything. Our need today is to return to Him, to setour minds on the spirit, and to walk according to the spirit. This is to walkin Christ as the mystery of God . (Life-study of Colossians, pp. 159,167-168) A Turkish friend of mine came to my officethis evening, seeing I was having my dinner with chopstick…He was extremelycurious about how could chopsticks hold rice together…What a funny question.Then I showed him how things work, and he even had a try. He is not comfortablewith chopsticks, but still can handle it somehow. This experience tells me, how often I took things for granted, just let things happen, never go a furtherstep or challenging the world around me.
4/6/2014 Sunday 11:14:19 PM Lifestyle Design---Day 52 Psalms 84:5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways to Zion. 84:6 Passing through the valley of Baca,They make it a spring; Indeed the early rain covers it with blessings. 84:7 They go from strength to strength;Each appears before God in Zion. Thanks the Lord for arranging brothers teach me to drive…Really moved by brother’s love in the lord. They just have burden towards me, and sacrificed their valuable time to prepare the road testwith me. Thank You Lord and many thanks to brothers. Now I have a feel for driving…Praise the Lord, How brothers love me! “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. Bythis shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love for oneanother. ” (John) When you approach a turning,remember to Enter Slow and Exit Fast Why? The condition for a safe and smooth turn is, Directional Force (Momentum Force + Centrifugal Force) · Directional force (pulling towards right) due to changein direction. · Momentum force (pulling straight) as it was movingforward in straight line. · Centrifugal force (pulling towards left) This condition can be achieved by following the rule 'Enter Slow and ExitFast'. (From http://www.quora.com )
4/5/2014 Saturday 7:03:10 AM Lifestyle Design---Day 51 2013 Winter Training Crystallization-Study ofGenesis (2) Message Three The Seed for the Fulfillment of God’s Purpose Morning Nourishment WEEK 3 — DAY 6 Rom. 4:13 For it was not through the law thatthe promise was made to Abraham or to his seed that he would be the heir of theworld, but through the righteousness of faith. 12:5 So we who are many are one Body inChrist, and individually members one of another. Abraham was not justified by faith in Genesis 14 when he believed that God was the Most High God, the Possessor of heaven and earth. God did not count that kind of faith to him as righteousness....It wasthe faith that believed that God was able to work something into him to bring forth the seed. Believing that God will supply our daily needs, our daily food,is good, but it is not the kind of faith that is precious in the eyes of God.What kind of faith is precious in God's sight? The faith that believes that He is able to work Himself into us to bring forth Christ. Most Christians today only care for the faith that believes that God can do outward things for them. That kind of faith believes that God is able to give them health, healing, a good job, or a promotion. Many Christians only have that kind of faith. Although that kind of faith is good,it is not the faith that is so dear and precious in the eyes of God. He did notcount that kind of faith as righteousness to Abraham. The kind of faith that was counted as righteousness to Abraham was the faith that God was able to work something into him to bring forth a seed. In Genesis 15 Abraham did not believethat God would give him bread and butter, cattle, or more servants. He believedthat God was able to work something into him and bring forth a seed.(Life-study of Genesis, p. 593) Paul wrote Romans 4 because he wanted to show thatGod's justification is for the fulfillment of His purpose. God's purpose is to have the one Body, which is the kingdom, to express Him and to exercise His dominion on the earth. The church as the kingdom of God is not composed of one Isaac, but of many Isaacs who have proceeded out of God's justification. All of these are the issue of the subjective and deeper experience of justification .(Life-study of Romans, pp. 84, 87, 98) TodayI had my first formal western dinner with three foreign friends. (Emre, fromTurkey; Victor from Spanish, and Wojciexh from California). Why I say it is Formal, because it is in the right palce with right people and eat theright food in right language...Actually, I seldom go out to dinners, and often cook my own meals. I prefer to use chopsticks instead of a knife and fork....However, they did not put me in a tight spot…So thoughtful and courteous they are! During the table, they asked about my feelings, and Wojciexh even joked that next time they should bring me to Chinese restaurant…
4/4/2014 Friday 10:29:21 PM Lifestyle Design---Day 50 2013 Winter Training Crystallization-Studyof Genesis (2) Message Three The Seed for the Fulfillment of God’sPurpose Morning Nourishment WEEK 3 — DAY 5 Gen. 15:6 And he believed Jehovah,and He accounted it to him as righteousness. Rom. 4:2-3 For if Abraham wasjustified out of works, he has something to boast in, but not before God. Forwhat does the Scripture say? “And Abraham believed God, and it was accounted tohim as righteousness.” Abraham did not believe God to obtain outward blessings for his own existence; he believed that God wasable to work something into him to bring forth a seed out of his own being forthe fulfillment of God's purpose. This kind of faith is precious to God and isaccounted by Him as righteousness. Abraham was justified by such a faith (Rom.4:1-5 and footnote 1 of v. 1). (Gen. 15:6, footnote 1) As we have mentioned previously, God first had to work on one person and gain something in him before He could gainsomething through many others. In order for God to have many believers, Hefirst had to gain one believer. Abraham believed in God, and God counted it to him for righteousness. (CWWN, vol. 35, “The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,”p. 47) God's justification is not a reward (wages) for our good works (labor); it is grace freely given to us through Christ's redemption. If God's justification were based on our good works, or if it required our good works, then it would be the wages we earn for our good works;that is, it would be something owed to us, not something freely given by God. Since God's justification is reckoned according to His grace, it is no longer out of works; otherwise, grace is no longer grace (Rom. 11:6). Our works can by no means replace God's grace; God's grace must be absolute. (Rom. 4:4, footnote2)
4/3/2014 Thursday 09:43:11 PM Lifestyle Design---Day 49 2013 Winter Training Crystallization-Study of Genesis (2) Message Three The Seed for the Fulfillment of God’s Purpose Morning Nourishment WEEK 3 — DAY 4 Gen. 15:4-5 But then the word of Jehovah came to him, saying,This man shall not be your heir, but he who will come out from your own bodyshall be your heir. And He brought him outside and said, Look now toward theheavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them. And He said tohim, So shall your seed be. In what way are the sons of God also the sons of Abraham? Christ isboth the Son of God and the son of Abraham. Because we are now in Christ, weare sons of God on the one hand and sons of Abraham on the other hand. How canwe be sons of God? Because we are in Christ , who is the Son of God. How can we besons of Abraham? Also because we are in Christ , who is theson of Abraham. (Life-study of Galatians, p. 176) We should live in Christ toexperience the reality of being the sons of God and the son of Abraham. This impartation of the divine life causes an organic union whichmakes us both the sons of God and the sons of Abraham. This organic union takes place exclusively in Christ . In Christ we enjoy the wonderful organic union with the Triune God. In this union we are, on the one hand, the sons of God and, on the other hand, the sons of Abraham. Christ is the unique sphere in which this all takes place. When we enter into this sphere, we become sons of God and sons of Abraham. Our true status is that in Christ and by the organic union we are both sons of God and sons of Abraham. Although we all have a natural life with a natural ancestry, we need not live any longer according to that life. Instead, we may live by the divine life with the divine nature. By living according to this life, we are in reality the sons of God and the sons of Abraham. The seed needed for the fulfillment of God's purpose could not be anything Abraham already possessed(Eliezer—Gen. 15:2) or could produce out of himself (Ishmael—16:15). Only that which God worked into Abraham could bring forth from Abraham the required seed. In order to fulfill God's purpose we must have Christ wrought intous. None of the things that we had could bring forth Christ. Only that which God worked into our being could bring forth Christ.
4/2/2014 Wednesday 9:48:26 PM Lifestyle Design---Day 48 2013 Winter Training Crystallization-Study of Genesis (2) Message Three The Seed for the Fulfillment of God’s Purpose Morning Nourishment WEEK 3 — DAY 3 Gal. 3:7 Know then that they who are of faith, these are sons of Abraham. 26 For you are all sons of God through faith in ChristJesus. 29 And if you are of Christ, then you are Abraham's seed,heirs according to promise. Works of law make people disciples of Moses (John 9:28) with nothing whatever related to life. Faith in Christ makes the New Testament believers sonsof God, a relationship altogether in life. We, the New Testament believers,were born sons of fallen Adam, and in Adam, because of transgressions, we were under the law of Moses. But we have been reborn to become sons of Abraham and have been freed from the law of Moses by faith in Christ. We are sons ofAbraham not by natural birth, but by faith. Hence, our being sons of Abraham is based upon the principle offaith. It is based on our believing, not on our working. Our basis for being sons of Abraham surely is not natural descent. We are Abraham's sons accordingto the principle of faith. We are both sons of Abraham and sons of God because we have been baptized into Christ and have put on Christ (Gal. 3:27). To believe is to believe intoChrist (John 3:16), and to be baptized is to be baptized also into Christ.Faith in Christ brings us into Christ and makes us one with Christ, in whom isthe sonship. We must be identified with Christ through faith so that in Him wemay be sons of God. By both faith and baptism, we have been immersed into Christ, we have thus put on Christ, and we have become identified with Him. When we believed in Christ, the divine life with the divine nature—in fact, the Divine Being of the Triune God Himself—entered into us, and we were born of God to become sons of God. Just as a man's son partakes of his life and nature, so we as God's sons partake of the divine life and nature.(Life-study of Galatians, pp. 178, 173-174, 176, 175) Failed in the road test again, Lord what do you want me to learn from this experience? Actually it was just a road test, what I need is more practice, but why I am so nervous before the test. Lord, on the day You come,will I be nervous facing You. Will I be the one You delight in? I am so easily be affected by the outer environment, Lord sorry, there are lots of things distracting me from living before You. Lord, may You teach me to live in You, looking away unto You whenever changes surrounding me. Lord I really need You. Lord I give the road test to You, may Lord release the driver’s license to me at the propriate time. Lord You always give me the best, You know when I need the license. Thank You Lord for everything happened in me. Lord, no matter what happens, do not give me up, Lord I love You. Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion? And not one of themwill fall to the earth apart from your Father. 10:30 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. 10:31 Therefore do notfear; you are of more value than many sparrows.
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