Lev Msg 9

1. The proper Christian life, a life of abiding in the Lord that we may enjoy His life is a life of doing things not by ourselves but by Him.
2. Even if our behavior does not seem to be sinful, if we live by ourselves and not by Christ, sin will issue forth.
3. The way to avoid trouble with our husband or wife is to live Christ and thereby have Him as our wisdom.
4. The only life that is pleasing to God is the life that is a repetition of the life Christ lived on earth.
5. If we do not have the experience of being washed by the Holy Spirit, we shall not have the capacity to offer a burnt offering that has been washed.
6. If we are full of the experiences as the burnt offering, we shall have rich utterance in praise not only in the meetings but also in our private time with the Lord.
7. To experience Christ in His experiences is to follow in His steps.
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Lev Msg 8

1. The only thing that can ascend to God from earth is the life lived by Christ.
2. To take Christ as our burnt offering, we need to experience what Christ experienced.
3. If we have not experienced anything of Christ in His experience as the burnt offering, we cannot offer Him to God as the burnt offering.
4. The more we live Christ, the more we will live a life of being brought to the slaughter.
5. Being skinned equals being defamed.
6. To become the offscouring of the world and the scum of all things is to be cut into pieces.
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Lev Msg 7

1. What we offer of Christ as the burnt offering must be according to our experience.
2. The Lord Jesus also had much experience in God's delight, as signified by the fat.
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Lev Msg 6

1. If we daily and hourly live a life of experiencing Christ, we shall have Christ as a burnt offering to offer to God.
2. We cannot offer Christ as a burnt offering if we do not live Christ and experience Christ in our daily walk.
3. Living a life of being conformed to the death of Christ requires the power of His resurrection, because as we experience being conformed to His death, we shall be cut into pieces.
4. As he is living a life of being conformed to the death of Christ, he will experience the Holy Spirit's keeping, preserving, and protecting him from defilement.
5. When we offer the burnt offering, we should not offer to God ourselves or our experiences. Instead, we should offer Christ to God as our burnt offering, yet this offering should not merely be Christ but should be the Christ whom we have experienced.
6. The washing is a review of the offerer's experience of Christ's life, a life in which He was continually washed by the indwelling Holy Spirit from any contaminating factor.
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Lev Msg 5

1. The size of the burnt offering indicates not that Christ Himself varies in size but that our apprehension, realization, and appreciation of Christ differ in degree.
2. Spiritually speaking, the one who offers Christ as typified by turtledoves or pigeons has a limited apprehension, realization, and appreciation of Christ.
3. To experience Christ's head is to experience His understanding, wisdom, and prudence.
4. To experience Christ's inwards is to experience His sensibility, affections, feelings, thoughts, will, intentions, and purposes.
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Lev Msg 4

1. These chapters show us the way to offer Christ.
2. In our experiences, Christ is of different sizes.
3. We need to labor on Christ that we may be able to bring something of Christ to God.
4. Instead of resisting, we shall allow our wife to put us on the cross.
5. The skinning of the burnt offering signifies Christ's willingness to let the outward expression of His virtues to be stripped.
6. To be accused of doing something wrong is to be cut into pieces.
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Lev Msg 3

1. Sacrifices are for sins, and offerings are for gifts.
2. The person who replaced the offerings and sacrifices had to be one who was absolutely for God, even in every small thing.
3. Laying our hands on Christ not only makes us one with Him but also akes care of our problems, propitiating our situation with God and enabling us to have peace with God.
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Lev Msg 2

1. Christ as the tabernacle brings God to man, and Christ as the offerings brings man to God.
2. The tabernacle brings God to us that we may experience, enter into, and join to God.
3. The offerings are God in Christ for our enjoyment.
4. All the offerings are not only for us to enjoy God but also to have God assimilated into our being.
5. The offerings are not only for us to enjoy God and to be mingled with God; they are also for God's enjoyment.
6. The more we enjoy and experience Christ, the more we shall appreciate Him. Then we should present Christ to God for His enjoyment.
7. The offerings are presents to God.
8. Sacrifices are for redemption, for propitiation, whereas presents are gifts for intimate fellowship between us and God.
9. The burnt offering is for God's eating and the meal offering is for our eating.
10. The burnt offering is for the sin offering. The meal offering is for the trespass offering.
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Lev Msg 1

1. Today's world is the expression of man's fall to the uttermost, for the world is the ultimate express of the steps of man's fall.
2. In Exodus, we have God's redemption and God's habitation.
3. In Leviticus we have the redeemed's worship and living.
4. Worship is our contact with God to enjoy a common portion with God for our fellowship with Him.
5. The flaming fire in Exodus and the infinite grace in Leviticus.
6. In the church today, God is approachable. We can contact Him, commune with Him, and fellowship with Him, enjoying Christ with Him.
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Exo Msg 185

1. We need to enjoy not only the cloud upon the tent of meeting, but also the glory within the tabernacle.
2. The dwelling place of God is the unique leading.
3. The corporate Israel produced in Exodus bears the image of God an exercises His authority.
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Exo Msg 184

1. Our salvation is at the altar, but God's testimony is at the ark.
2. The second beginning is related to the building of God's dwelling place.
3. We should not have the baptism without the reality of the Lord's death and resurrection. We should not have the Lord's table without the reality of the BC.
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Exo Msg 183

1. The heave offering signifies the ascended Christ; the wave offering signifies the resurrected Christ.
2. "Lord, I am going to argue with my wife. Lord, I don't want to argue without You. If You are not my way to argue with my wife. I will not argue with her."
3. "Lord, I intend to show a long face to my husband. Will You do this with me? If You are not one with me in this matter, I will not do it."

Exo Msg 182

1. To redeem a donkey with a lamb indicates that we as fallen ones who are unclean, are redeemed by Christ.
2. In our natural man and according to our natural life, we can be compared to beasts under a heavy burden.
3. The feast of Passover, unleavened bread. If we want to enjoy Christ and rest with Him and with God, the first thing we must do is have a clearance of the past.
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Exo Msg 180

1. Five conditions to enjoy the feast.
2. First, to redeem the firstling of a donkey with a lamb.
3. As donkeys, we need our natural being to be replaced with Christ as the Lamb.
4. Having our natural life replaced with Christ is a condition both of feasting with the Lord and resting with Him.
5. Second, don't mix Christ's redemption with a sinful life.
6. Third, We should enjoy the riches of Christ in this age and not leave them until the next age.
7. If we enjoy Christ daily and rest with Him hourly, we shall live Christ, and Christ's life surpasses the highest standard of morality.
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Exo Msg 179

1. God's intention was to command His people to enjoy Him --- to feast with Him and rest with Him.
2. If the children of Israel would feast with the Lord properly and rest with Him continually, they would not have a problem in keeping the Ten Commandments.
3. At least three times a day we should feast with the Lord, and many times a day we should rest with Him.
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Exo Msg 178

1. When it is time to meet with the Lord alone, we should be free from our necessities.
2. When we meet with the Lord alone early in the morning, we should not speak too much. We should let God speak to us.
3. God wanted His people to enter into the good land so that eventually He could have a temple on earth.

Exo Msg 176

1. If we would serve the Lord, we must be a person who has an intimate relationship with Him.
2. Between two people there is first friendship and then companionship.
3. Companions mean associates. If you and someone else are associates, you have a common interest, a common enterprise, in a common career.
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Exo Msg 175

1. Moses was a true mediator, an ancient attorney, as he made his petition to God.
2. The Levites denied even their closest relationships with those who were worshipers of the golden calf.
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Exo Msg 174

1. God has truly given him the gift of writing messages. But this brother needs to ask himself what is his purpose in exercising this gift? Is it pure? Is it genuine?
2. Division, idolatry, and fornication go together.
3. If something is truly of the Lord, He will accomplish it.
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Exo Msg 173

1. We break the law because we have idols.
2. The indwelling Christ becoming our enjoyment is actually the keeping of the commandments.
3. Self-beautification leads to idolatry.
4. Calf is for enjoyment. They worship their enjoyment.
5. Idolatry involves five principles: self-beautification, Satan's usurping God's gifts and making them a waste, the worship of the things we enjoy, pretending to worship the true God, and mixture in worship.
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Exo Msg 172

1. If we only know how to work for the Lord but do not know how to rest with Him, we are acting contrary to the divine principle.
2. What was the seventh day to God was man's first day.
3. The significance of it is that to God the Sabbath was rest after work, to man it was rest first then work.
4. Man was God's refreshment.
5. God first supplies us with enjoyment. Then after a full enjoyment with Him and of Him, we may work together with Him.
6. If we have enjoyed and been filled with Him, we are ready to work for Him.
7. God wants us to sign a contract with Him that assures Him that from now on we shall enjoy Him and be filled with Him before we go to work for Him, with Him, and in oneness with Him.
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Exo Msg 171

1. Carving of wood signifies dealing with our humanity.
2. The co-master worker (Oholiab) was a man for the tabernacle of God with strength and support (Ahisamach).
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Exo Msg 170

1. Bezalel was altogether under God's shadowing.
2. Not only should we be under God's shadow and full of light (Uri), but we should be free and noble (Hur).
3. You many know all the verses used in a particular message. Nevertheless, although you know these verses, if you put all the verses together, you may not have any understanding of them.
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Exo Msg 169

1. Without the death of Christ, it would be impossible for us to go to God.
2. Fat signifies that Christ lived a life that was absolutely for God. Weeping signifies Christ wept for those who were not for God.
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Exo Msg 168

1. The four items used for the composition of the incense signify humanity.
2. Christ's resurrection is signified by frankincense.
3. Our going to God requires salt in place of oil because the source is full of uncleanness.
4. Our going to God requires the cross.

Exo Msg 167

1. The anointing oil is Christ as God coming to us from God, and the incense is Christ going from us to God.
2. God's coming to us is a matter of the anointing, and our going to God is a matter of prayer.
3. According to the Bible, prayer is not an offering; it is an incense that ascends to God.
4. The bronze altar is for burning offerings, sacrifices. The incense altar is for burning incense to God.
5. God comes to us through Christ, and we go to God in Christ and through Christ.
6. The bronze altar in the outer court supplied the priests two needs. The blood washed them of their sins, and the meat nourished them.
7. The life supply on the showbread table brought the priests to the lampstand, where they received light.
8. The light received at the lampstand guides us to the ark. At the ark, God's presence leads us to the golden altar of incense.
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Exo Msg 166

1. To deny that Jesus is the Christ is to deny the Father and the Son.
2. Eternal life is Jesus, Christ, the Son, and the Father.
3. Because He is the Spirit, the air, He can be in us, we can be in Him.
4. The Father is the source of life, the Son is life expressed, and the Spirit is life flowing.
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Exo Msg 165

1. It is wrong to systematize the Trinity. Actually, we cannot divide Jesus Christ, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit because They all are one.
2. We have a compound of Jesus Christ, the Father, the Son, and eternal life.
3. All things refer to Jesus Christ, the Father, the Son, and the eternal life.
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Exo Msg 164

1. The crucifixion is carried out by the Spirit from whom is the fruit of the Spirit.
2. There is no need for us to try to kill ourselves or the germs within us. We simply need to take the antibiotic.
3. The fulfillment of the mingling of divinity with humanity in the NT is the mingling of the divine Spirit with our regenerated human spirit.
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Exo Msg 163

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Exo Msg 162

1. Apart from the Spirit of reality, in our experience we cannot have divinity, the Trinity, or the holy nature of God.
2. What God cares for is the fact, rather than the accomplishment of the fact in time.
3. The Spirit of glory is the indwelling Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of grace becoming the glory shining upon the believers.
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Exo Msg 161

1. The spirit of a certain substance is the extract of the substance.
2. The verb to be is the basic verb. Everything else depends on this.
3. Whenever God came to contact people in the OT, He was the Spirit of Jehovah with the element of the Trinity.
4. The Holy Spirit was first used with respect to Christ's incarnation, to the time when the Spirit came to Mary to conceive the Lord Jesus.
5. The Spirit of grace enables us to taste the Triune God as our enjoyment.
6. The Lord Spirit with the elements of ascension and lordship.
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Exo Msg 160

1. The description of the ointment shows God's dwelling place and God's serving ones.
2. Even without the tabernacle and the priesthood, they could have the enjoyment of the lamb, the manna, and the living water.
3. If our enjoyment of Christ is before the tabernacle and the priesthood, we cannot have any share in the compound ointment.
4. The numbers three and five together signify the Triune God in resurrection bearing responsibility for His people.
5. Why did the Spirit of God need to be compounded?
6. In the NT, two matters are crucial: the blood that sanctifies us and the Spirit of grace that supplies us with the Triune God.
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Exo Msg 159

1. The Spirit is for the building up of a spiritual house and for the holy priesthood.
2. The title Christ includes incarnation, human living, death, resurrection, and ascension.
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Exo Msg 158

1. Myrrh signifies the precious death of Christ.
2. Cinnamon signifies the effectiveness of His death.
3. Calamus signifies the precious resurrection of Christ.
4. Cassia signifies the power of Christ's resurrection.
5. The holy anointing oil is to sanctify the things of God and men of God.
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Exo Msg 157

1. The ointment signifies God, who is triune, after a long process becoming the all-inclusive compound Spirit to reach His chosen and redeemed people to be one with them.
2. The ointment reveals how God comes to reach us in Christ and with Christ. The incense signifies how we go back to God in Christ and with Christ.
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Exo Msg 156

1. The ark and the tabernacle Christ and the church, move by means of the army.
2. The propitiation silver was for the building of God's dwelling place.
3. In the outer court there were the altar and the laver; in the Holy Place, the table, the lampstand, and the incense altar; in the Holy of Holies, the ark.
4. The Bible speaks of two kinds of defilement: the defilement that comes from sin and the defilement that comes by the earthly touch.
5. The propitiation silver is for God's move, and the laver is for the operation of God's dwelling place.
6. The bronze on the altar signifies judgment, but the bronze on the laver signifies the result, the issue, of God's judgment.
7. The more we walk in the Spirit and live in the mingled spirit, the more we shall be washed.
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Exo Msg 155

1. The tax was used by God to accomplish two things. First, it's for the building up of the tabernacle. Second, God used this tax to accomplish the formation of an army.
2. The half-shekel of silver signifies the ascended Christ experienced by us and paid by us as the poll tax.
3. If the leading ones pay too much, they will kill the meetings.

Exo Msg 154

1. The incense altar is for God's move, that God's move requires an army that can fight for His interests, and that for the formation of His army a census is necessary.
2. The natural man surely is not qualified to be drafted into the army.
3. The ransom silver was related to redemption as it applied to those who were qualified to be formed into God's army.
4. The more intercession there is at the incense altar, the greater will be the urgency for God's people to grow.
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Exo Msg 153

1. Christ's life has three basic elements: the animal life (Lamb), the vegetable life (wheat), and the minerals (gold, silver, and precious stones).
2. The propitiation silver is only for males twenty years old and upward.
3. The number of males for which the ransom price was paid was the number of those who could be soldiers to form an army.
4. In order to express God, we need to fight against His enemy.
5. The answer to this intercessory prayer requires the formation of an army.
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Exo Msg 152

1. The tour begins at the altar in the outer court, passes through the table, the lampstand, and the ark, and stops at the incense altar.
2. You need to ask how much the things you pray for have to do with Christ.
3. Anything that has not been dealt with by the cross and yet motivates us to pray is strange fire.
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Exo Msg 151

1. To pray to God is one thing, but to pray in God is deeper.
2. With the sin offerings we can see three things: the blood, the ashes, and the sweet savor ascending to God.
3. Our conduct is vs. Christ as life. Our sight is vs. Christ as our light. Our virtue is vs. Christ as our incense to God.
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Exo Msg 150

1. God's kingdom is the church, which is Christ.
2. God's righteousness is Christ expressed through the church.
3. Concerning our prayer life, Christ is the tabernacle, Christ is the food offered, and Christ is also the incense.
4. The burning on the offering altar was a burning of judgment, but the burning on the incense altar was a burning of acceptance.
5. By the anointing, the blood, and the fire, the two altars are connected.
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Exo Msg 149

1. Christ is the incarnated god into whom we may enter, and He is also the offerings that are good for us to eat.
2. We enter into Him as the tabernacle and He comes into us as the food.
3. First, be in the tabernacle. Second, be satisfied by the hold food. Third, offer incense to God. Forth, pray with Christ as the incense.

Exo Msg 148

1. In order for people to be motivated to experience Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension, His intercession is necessary.
2. The incense altar signifies Christ as the Intercessor to maintain the relationship between god and His people.
3. The horns indicate Christ's intercession is powerful toward the four corners of the earth.
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Exo Msg 147

1. The incense altar comes in only after the tabernacle with all the rest of its furniture has been revealed.
2. The OT indicated already that the incense altar belonged to the Holy of Holies.
3. Christ's interceding life, His prayer life, is the center of God's administration.
4. Ch1., the altar, Ch3., the laver, Ch. 6, the bread, Ch. 8, the lampstand, Ch. 14-16, the ark., Ch. 17, the incense altar.
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Exo Msg 146

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Exo Msg 145

1. Bull for a sin offering, two lambs for burnt offerings, a meal offering, and a drink offering.
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Exo Msg 144

1. Wheat and barley are types of Christ as our life supply.
2. We have Christ as the bull for a sin offering, as the lamb for a burnt offering, and as the grain that produces life and supplies life.
3. Christ Himself is the bull, the lamb, the flour, the olive tree producing oil, and the wine.
4. To produce oil is to live by Christ, and to produce wine is to die for Him.
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Exo Msg 143

1. The bull of the sin offering was for atonement, for propitiation.
2. God's food consists of two lambs, a meal offering containing flour and oil, and a drink offering of wine.
3. As a lamb, Christ was obedient to God.
4. The lamb is not for propitiation, but for burnt offering as food to God.
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Exo 142

1. The sin offering purifies our dining table, the altar, and makes it clean as a place for eating.
2. We need the blood to make us pure and the Spirit to cause us to shine.
3. Anything that is offered on the altar is spontaneously sanctified.
4. To live Christ is actually to grow Christ.
5. Just as we need to wash our hands before eating, we need to wash ourselves by offering Christ as our sin offering.
6. To grow wheat is to experience Christ daily as our life supply.
7. Wheat signifies Christ in incarnation, whereas barley signifies Christ in resurrection.
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Exo Msg 141

1. Aaron and his sons were washed, clothed, and satisfied by having their emptiness filled.
2. Being a priest involves 3 steps related to the priests themselves and another step related to God's satisfaction.
3. Feeding God is much more complicated than feeding the priests.
4. Three items of the animal life-a bull and two lambs-and three items of the plant life-fine flour, oil, and wine.
5. In order to feed God, we need these six items.
6. The bull was for a sin offering, and the two lambs offered with the flour, the oil, and the wine were for a burnt offering.
7. Before God can come to have dinner with us, our sinful nature must be dealt with.
8. Daily we must offer Christ to God as our sin offering.
9. The sweet savor is for God's satisfaction, and the blood is for our satisfaction.
10. The sin offering solves the problem between the host, the inviter, and God, the invited One.

Exo Msg 140

1. In order to have the anointing and the filling of hands, the high priest had to be clothed with the holy garments.
2. You must be anointed and filled in the priestly garments.
3. God's service is not merely for a day; it is for our entire Christian life.
4. Those who wear Christ constantly and then come to the meetings of the church to serve have depth, weight, and riches.
5. In actual practice, we need to be clothed, and then we need to be satisfied.
6. The left breast was a wave offering, and the left shoulder was a heave offering.
7. Not only was this second ram eaten only in Zion; it had to be eaten in the holy court. This signifies that this portion of Christ is to be enjoyed in the church life.
8. We should not save Christ for enjoyment in the future.
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Exo Msg 139

1. Ch. 28 is on priestly garments; Ch. 29 is on priestly foods.
2. The result of having the priestly garments, the priestly food, and the food offered to God by the priests is that God comes to meet with us, speak with us, and dwell among us.
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Exo Msg 138

1. We must learn how to listen to our Master, to our God, how to do what is required to serve Him, and how to walk according to His way in serving Him.
2. The blood implies termination and redemption.
3. The anointing oil implies germination.
4. Whatever is terminated by the blood and redeemed by it is then germinated by the anointing oil.
5. Apart from Christ, we are unclean, naked, sinful, empty, and without anything to satisfy God or ourselves.
6. Eating is related to saturation and transformation.
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Exo Msg 137

1. Uncleanness comes from two sources: one is within us and one is outside of us.
2. The priestly garments not only covered the nakedness of Aaron and his sons; these garments also qualified them to fill the office of priest.
3. Redemption includes 3 matters: termination, redemption, and restoration.
4. God will not redeem anything sinful unless it is terminated.
5. The sin offering is considered a sacrifice, but the burnt offering may be considered a gift.
6. The sin offering is for redemption; the burnt offering is for fellowship; the peace offering is for enjoyment and satisfaction.
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Exo Msg 136

1. First ram for burnt offering.
2. Identification with Christ shows we need to be slaughtered and cut into pieces.
3. The burnt offering satisfies God.
4. As our burnt offering for our sanctification as priests, Christ shed His blood for our peace and He Himself was burned for God's satisfaction.
5. The other ram is the peace offering.
6. On the ear indicates we need an ear to listen; thumb signifies working; toe signifies walking.
7. Two kinds of anointing: first anointing requires no redemption.
8. The blood of the peace offering: first, apply to ear, thumb, and toe; second, apply to the altar; and third, blood with the anointing oil on the garments.
9. Christ in resurrection is the wave offering; Christ in ascension is the heave offering.
10. Right breast was waved: wave offering, given to Moses.
11. Left breast was heaved: heave offering, given to Aaron and his sons.

Exo Msg 135

1. It is our birthright to be priests serving God, but the traditional system of clergy and laity has taken away our birthright.
2. When a priest has his hands filled with the sweetness and riches of Christ, he is different from others.
3. 3 animals: a young bull and two perfect, flawless rams. We also have bread, cakes, and wafers; vegetable life that signifies the generating life.
4. Bull is for the sin offering.
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Exo Msg 134

1. The burning satisfied God's requirements: righteousness, holiness, glory.
2. The second kind of burning is the flesh, skin, and the dung outside the camp.
3. The second burning is a burning of judgment.
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Exo Msg 133

1. If we would serve God, our hands must be filled with Christ.
2. What makes us different from others is that we have Christ filling our hands.
3. This filling sanctified them, set them apart, and became a mark of separation and sanctification.
4. To exist we must solve the problems of both outward nakedness and inward hunger.
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Exo Msg 132

1. Righteousness is God's way of doing things, holiness is God's nature, and love is God's heart.
2. The operation of the Triune God for our participation in His salvation is that we live a holy life and love the brothers.
3. Holiness is the Triune God wrought into our being.
4. Holiness in divinity is exalted as glory, and righteousness in humanity is expressed for beauty.
5. Today holiness is our glory, and righteousness is our beauty.
6. Christ as the High Priest is safeguarding a portion of holiness for God's satisfaction.
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Exo Msg 131

1. The fact that these linen breeches were to be upon the priests whenever they functioned indicates that we need Christ to cover us whenever we function as priests.
2. Te full view of the high priestly garments signifies the holiness of God.
3. With divinity we receive an impression of holiness, and with humanity, an impression of righteousness.
4. If we are not priests serving God, we are abnormal.
5. If something is holy, it must be heavenly, for holiness is associated with heavenliness.
6. A gift is for fellowship; it is a sign of an intimate relationship.
7. The term "holy gifts" signifies peace with God, fellowship with God, and enjoyment with God.
8. Four stages of holiness: holy land, holy produce, holy tithe, and holy portion separated to God and His priests.
9. The tunics signify Christ experienced as beauty; the girdles, Christ experienced as strengthening; and the turbans, Christ expressed as glory.
10. A priest is a person entirely covered by Christ as his righteousness.
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Exo Msg 130

1. The priestly garments are the expression of Christ's human beauty and divine glory.
2. Because the Lord is so full, His skirt fills the temple, His dwelling place.
3. The long train signifies the expression of Christ's virtues.
4. If someone were to wear a garment that did not properly cover his body, this would indicate that this person was short of virtue.
5. The Lord's virtues are so extensive that they become His fullness.
6. The expression of His virtues and attributes makes up a long train, a train that covers the whole earth.
7. Without the church, Christ's expression would be lacking in fullness and beauty.
8. Ephod holds the breastplate and supports the shoulder-pieces.
9. Our priestly garment must have the kind of opening to indicate that our ministering is a fighting.
10. Pomegranates signify the fullness of life.
11. The golden bell is to warn us not to walk too fast or carelessly.
12. Fullness of life is expressed in the church's humanity, but the voice of warning is expressed in the church's divinity.
13. The bells were placed alternately indicating the divine voice is interrelated with the divine life.
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Exo Msg 129

1. The saints should be transparent in order for Christ to shine through them so that God's will may be shown.
2. If in a certain church things that are wrong are easily found out, the church is normal.
3. If we are not full, what we need is the inscribing.
4. If we are full, we need Christ for our completion.
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Exo Msg 128

1. The Thummim contained four letters not used for the 12 tribes.
2. Urim and Thummim typify Christ that is added to the church.
3. We may have Him as the letters for inscription and completion.
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Exo Msg 127

1. A godly person is not only for God; he is also one with God.
2. 3 ways God reveals matters: dreams, the Urim, and prophets.
3. The Urim typifies Christ as lights, illuminators.
4. The shining Christ works through the Spirit and the cross.

Exo Msg 126

1. Thummim means perfecters or completers.
2. Because the Urim and Thummim were with the Levites, the priests, they could teach the people not only the law of God, but also His judgements.
3. God speaks to the church through all the saints.
4. It is important for all leading ones to read the condition and situation of the saints in their locality.
5. Breastplate is the church and the stones are the saints.
6. The content on the stone depends on the letters inscribed upon it.
7. Only when Christ has been inscribed into our being do we become His living letters.
8. We need to be transformed (to be stones), we need to be transparent, and we need to be inscribed with Christ.
9. The law of God includes 10 commandments, regulations, and ordinances.
10.

Exo Msg 125

1. Shoulder-pieces with two plates, 12 names of the children of Israel.
2. Breastplate with 12 precious stones.
3. Shoulder plates and the breastplate symbolize the church.
4. The entire ephod with the shoulder plates and the breastplate is a portrait of Christ with His church.
5. Chains signify Christ's divinity; breastplates signify the Spirit of Christ.
6. The chains were the connecting element, but the rings were the holding element.
7. Holding is a matter of love; upholding is a matter of strength.
8. Two ribbons of linen signify Christ's humanity.
9. Church is on Christ's heart and His shoulders.
10. Satan, right now I am borne on Christ's heart before God.
11.

Exo Msg 124

1. Precious stones are formed into precious stones by a process of transformation.
2. 3 signifies not only the Triune God, but the Triune God in resurrection.
3. 7 (3 + 4) signifies the Triune God added to His creature, man; this is merely a matter of joining, of addition. Twelve signifies mingling and multiplication.
4. The church is on Christ's heart and is within the span of His loving care.
5.

Exo Msg 123

1. The ephod refers to Christ, and the breastplate refers to the church.
2. This judgment is so that God's people could know His leading.
3. First, there was a need for judgment and cleansing. Then it could be possible to obtain a decision concerning God's leading in a positive way.
4. God's leading and the church are one.
5. Squared means that there was no defect in the breastplate.
6. Doubled means twofold, hence, a testimony.
7. The church is fully within the limit of Christ's hand, Christ's hand is altogether sufficient to take care of the church.
8. If you think that holiness is impossible in such a situation, this indicates that you do not believe that the Lord's hand is greater than the situation.

Exo Msg 122

1. As long as you are regenerated, there is at least a small amount of onyx stone within you.
2. That which has its source in the fall of man will be shaken away, and that which comes from God's creation will remain with us and be transformed.
3. We are being held to Him in a very beautiful way.
4. We might have the experience of being fastened to Christ and held by Him without realizing what is contained within His fastening strength and power.
5. They were a memorial of church set in Christ, a memorial of Christ holding the church, God's redeemed people.
6.

Exo Msg 120

1. Preciousness of Christ and saints in the sight of God.
2. The ephod was made of two materials (gold and linen) and five colors (golden, white, blue, purple, and scarlet).
3. The weaving together of the gold and the linen in the ephod typifies the mingling of divinity and humanity in Christ.
4. Christology is the study of Christ.
5. Docetists - Christ has only divinity, not humanity.
6. Ebionites - Christ has only humanity, not divinity.
7. Arians - Christ's divinity is not complete, merely the highest among creatures.
8. Apollinarians - Christ's humanity is not complete.
9. Nestorians - Christ's divinity and humanity are separated.
10. Eutychians - no distinctness and coexistence of Christ's humanity and divinity.
11. Christ's divine nature has been processed, just as the gold used in making the ephod was processed.
12. The Lord did not want to see the people go hungry. This implies redemption.
13. Your divinity and humanity are together in Your one Person, yet the nature of divinity and humanity remain.
14.

Exo Msg 120

1. We the believers are signified by the onyx stones.
2. As we behold the Lord in His glory and beauty, we are spontaneously held, fastened, to Him.
3. We are held not only on Christ's shoulders but also on His breast.
4. The breastplate signifies the building together of God's redeemed people upon Christ.
5. The weaving together of gold and the linen into one piece of cloth signifies the mingling of divinity and humanity.

Exo Msg 119

1. The breastplate and the two shoulder plates were connected to ephod.
2. The word ephod means to bind, fasten, gird, or link.
3. The first purpose for waring clothing is to cover our nakedness.
4. The second purpose is for our health.
5. The third is to beautify ourselves.
6. The ephod was mainly for beauty and glory.
7. In our dressing we must first take care of God's glory.
8. The holding power is His divine glory and human beauty.
9. As the High Priest, Christ has the fastening power, the tying strength, and the binding ability.
10. We are fastened and bound to Christ.
11. When we realize the divine glory and the human beauty of Christ, we are spontaneously fastened to Him.
12. The shoulder pieces had the joining power, the binding strength.
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Exo Msg 118

1. The priestly garments sanctify the priests.
2. Glory means to express Christ's divinity. Beauty means to express Christ's humanity.
3. Whenever the divine glory and the human beauty are not expressed in us, we are immediately detached from the priesthood.
4.

Exo Msg 117

1. In Genesis 2, we have the tree of life and the materials for God's building.
2. Our protection is not our spirituality; our protection is the building.
3. The nourishment is for the building, the spiritual house, and the spiritual house is for the holy priesthood.
4. It is impossible to have the priesthood without the building.
5. The ephod was altogether for building; it was for the linking together fo the breastplate and the two shoulder plates.
6.

Exo Msg 116

1. Spiritually the priesthood and the tabernacle are one entity.
2. The spiritual house is the holy priesthood.
3. The priesthood requires the building up of the saints.
4. When we are built up together, we become the church in the aspect of God's dwelling place and priesthood.
5.

Exo Msg 115

1. The lighting of the lamps at least implies the proper way to meet.
2. In order to light the lamps, we must express Christ, and we must have the experience of the embodiment of god, the divine nature, the humanity of Jesus, and the Spirit of Christ with the elements of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, and resurrection.
3. Our release, enjoyment, and laughter must always be with pure olive oil.
4. Whenever we light the lamps in the church meetings, we can see some aspect of Christ.
5.

Exo Msg 114

1. Because there were no windows in the tabernacle, there was the need for the lighting of the lamps inside the tabernacle.
2. The lighting of lamps was a priestly service.
3. 3 items of the priestly service: first, offer sacrifices, second, lighting lamps, third, burning the incense.
4. Priesthood denotes tow things. First, a priestly body. Second, priestly service.
5. The divine light includes the embodiment of the Triune God, the divine nature, the humanity of Christ, and the Spirit of Christ.
6. The priestly garments, typified by Christ, are needed for the lighting of the lamps.
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Exo Msg 113

1. Outwardly, God's expression is righteousness, signified by linen. Inwardly, it is holiness, signified by gold.
2. Whenever a person repents, he places himself under the judgment of God.
3. As we have been under God's judgment in a full way, the righteousness of God will be expressed upon us.
4.

Exo Msg 112

1. Types in Exodus have two aspects - contents and appearance.
2. The appearance of the front side of the outer court is that of man bearing the Triune God as a testimony.
3. The goal of salvation is to bring us into god's building.
4. The purpose of knowing Christ is that we may be built into the church.
5. Whenever a person repents, believes, and enters into God's salvation, that person should realize that he is entering into God's building and that this building is God's testimony.
6. If we would come into God's building, we must pass through the gate of judgment and experience God's judgment on everything we are, have and do.
7. Whatever God judges, Christ redeems and whatever Christ redeems is linked by this redemption to God's righteousness.
8. The pegs signify the standing and holding power.
9. Without judgment, there is no boundary, no base, no strength for standing, and no stability.
10. The capitals overlaid with silver signify glory.
11. By the bronze, we enter into the court. Through the silver, we enter into the Holy Place. In the Holy of Holies, everything is gold.
12.

Exo Msg 111

1. God's dwelling in 4 stages: Christ, the children of Israel, the church, and the NJ.
2. The hangings of the court signify Christ as God's righteousness to be the expression of God's building as its boundary.
3. The new man is renewed in the image of God, which bears the expression of righteousness and holiness.
4. 40 is the number of trial and testing.
5. If you do not bear responsibility, you cannot be righteous.
6. Bronze is God's judgment; linen is God's righteousness. The righteousness of God comes out of God's judgment.
7. The judgment is implied by the bronze sockets upholding the bronze pillars.
8. As we grow in the Lord, we shall go from the stage of prohibition to the stage of judgment.

Exo Msg 110

1. Three categories of building materials: metal (gold, silver, precious stones), plants (acacia wood and linen), animal (rams' skin and goats' hair, porpoise skins). Plant for generation and animal for redemption.
2. The ministry of the old covenant was of death and condemnation. Death is vs. Spirit and condemnation is vs. justification.
3. The new covenant ministry is of the Spirit for life and righteousness for justification.
4. The first 4 commandments are related to God's holiness.
5. The last 6 are related to God's deeds, righteousness.
6. Linen = righteousness.
7. The number of 6 is the number of man, for man was created on the 6th day.

Exo Msg 109

1. The height of the part of the altar above the grating signifies the efficacy of Christ's redemption is according to its standard.
2. The life-giving Spirit is the life pulse, the reality, the power, and the impact of all the doctrines and stories in the Bible.
3. The all-inclusive life-giving Spirit is the issue of the redeeming Christ.
4.

Exo Msg 108

1. The sweet savor was for God's satisfaction and the ashes were a proof that the offering had been accepted by God.
2. The grating is both Christ and His redemption.
3. Christ bore the judgement of God not only upon His shoulders; He also bore it within His heart.
4. The redeeming Christ as signified by the grating and the altar of the burnt offering.
5. The rings forming one piece with the grating indicates that the redeeming Christ issues in the Spirit.
6. The rings are not only the power for moving, but also the strength for upholding the grating.
7. The reason that many do not have a personal Christ or personal redemption is that they separate Christ from the Spirit.
8. The move of the cross is by the church; it is the Body that carries the redeeming Christ in the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit.
9. The altar with the grating, rings, and poles covers the whole New Testament.
10.

Exo Msg 107

1. The inner content of the altar is the grating with the four rings.
2. The grating comes up to the standard of the propitiation-cover.
3. The grating was upheld by four rings.
4. Christ (grating) offered Himself by the Spirit (rings) and through the Spirit.
5. Christ did not do anything apart from the leading Spirit.
6. His all-inclusive death was accomplished through the eternal Spirit.
7. Christ's offering Himself through the eternal Spirit makes the offering powerful and efficacious.
8. The power of Christ's redemption depends on the eternal Spirit.
9. Apart from the Spirit the redemption of Christ is a lifeless redemption, a dead redemption.
10.

Exo Msg 106

1. The four rings are for reaching the four corners of the earth.
2. The grating is presented in the Gospels; the connection of the four rings to the grating is seen in Acts; and in all the following Epistles we have a definition of the four rings.
3. Today's Christianity is that the grating have been separate from the rings.
4. The fact that the grating of the altar was level with the cover of the ark indicates that Christ's redemption was accomplished according to the standard of God's requirements.
5. The one and one-half cubits above the grating signify that the effectiveness of Christ's redemption is also according to the standard of these requirements.
6. The eternal Spirit, the accomplishment of redemption, and the efficacy of Christ's redemption.
7. Christ Himself is the eternal Spirit. On the cross He was the redeeming Christ, but in our experience, He is the life-giving Spirit.

Exo Msg 105

1. The efficacy and power of Christ's redemption depend on the eternal Spirit.
2. The rings typify the eternal Spirit. The move of the altar is by the eternal Spirit.
3. Both the burning and moving are dependent upon the rings.
4. Christ was upheld by the strengthening power while He was on the cross suffering the judgement of God.

Exo Msg 104

1. There is no shedding of blood at the incense altar but there was the burning of incense to offer a sweet-smelling savor to God.
2. The burning of the sacrifices at the altar in the outer cout was for redemption, but the burning of the incense at the incense altar was for God's acceptance.
3. One kind of fire burns two kinds of substances.
4. On earth is to be in the outer couter, in the heavens is to be in the tabernacle.
5. Redemption implies termination, replacement, and being brought back to God.
6. He visited the earth, He dwells in the Holy of Holies, and He wants to bring us there. He went to the altar, to the cross, with the intention that we, fallen sinners, might be brought back to Himself in the place where He dwells.
7. The acceptance by God is the result of all the other items.
8. How much we are accepted by Him depends on how close we are to Him.
9. The cross of Christ contains all the spiritual experiences. The experience of the cross is the basis of all spiritual experiences.
10. The accacia wood signifies the Man Jesus.
11. The saving element is not in the cross as a thing; it is in the Person who was crucified on the cross for us.
12. The Lord Jesus was squared means that with Him there was a great deal of testing or proving.
13. 5 cubits long and wide signify Christ bearing full responsibility on the cross to fulfill all the requirements of God's righteousness, holiness, and glory.
14. The horns signify the power of the cross of Christ to reach four corners of the earth.
15. The horns are one with the cross signifies the power and strength of Christ's redemption cannot be separated from Christ's cross.
16.

Exo Msg 103

1. There are two aspects of reconciliation; one is related to sinners, the other is related to believers.
2. The Corinthians have passed the first veil, but not the second.
3. The goal of reconciliation is to take away the barrier between us and God.
4. However, a particular aspect of the barrier remains, and this aspect is our flesh, our fallen nature.
5. The second aspect of reconciliation is that Christ becoming sin so that we may become the righteousness of God in Him.
6. Living to Christ by walking according to the spirit is much deeper than simply having our sins forgiven.
7. Triumphal procession and bearers of incense, living epistles, uncovered mirrors, earthen vessels

Exo Msg 102

1. A dwelling place is a place of enjoyment.
2. Christ is a screen keeping all the negative things away from God's dwelling place.
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Exo Msg 101

1. The ceiling, the inner veil, and the curtain for the door were made of the same material and of the same colors, design, and workmanship.
2. The inner curtain is called the veil, whereas the curtain for the door is called the screen.
3. The lid is where God can meet with us and speak to us; this is where God's glory is expressed; and the redeeming blood was sprinkled on this propitiatory cover.
4. In the Holy Place, we have supply, enlightenment, and acceptance (Christ as the frankincense as the sweet fragrance for God's acceptance of us).
5. In the Holy Place, there is bread. In the HH, there is the manna.
6. In the Holy Place, there is the lampstand. In the HH, the law of God's testimony. Both enlighten us.
7. In the Holy Place, there is the frankincense at the incense altar for our acceptance. In the HH, we have the budding rod signifying the resurrection life becoming our acceptance.
8. The correspondence can be illustrated by the correspondence between grace and truth in the gospel of John and love and light in the first Epistle of John.
9. The screen at the entrance serves to keep all negative things out of God's dwelling place.
10. There is a two-fold barrier, for both the veil and the screen keep us away from God's presence.
11. On the one hand, this Christ is a screen keeping us away; on the other hand, He is an entry allowing redeemed sinners to come into God's dwelling place.
12. The reason that you have not yet entered the HH is although your sins have been forgiven, your flesh remains untouched.
13. There is a great difference between being forgiven of our sins and living to the Lord (dealt with in the flesh).
14. Two aspects of Christ's death. On the one hand, He died for our sins. On the other hand hand, He died that we may be terminated.
15. The outer veil signifies Christ died for our sins in an objective way. The inner veil signifies Christ's subjective death.
16. The screen has 4 entrances (spaced out by 5 pillars) indicates that God's dwelling place is open to all people from the four corners of the earth.
17. The attachment of the veil and the curtain to pillars indicates identification.
18. Christ is identified with us and we with Him.
19. The pillars attached to the curtain are evangelists.
20. The pillars attached to the veil are elders who experience Christ in a deeper way.
21. We need pillars bearing the testimony that Christ died for our sins and also pillars bearing the testimony that Christ died for us.

Exo Msg 100

1. According to the Old Testament, the tabernacle was a duplex. But according to Paul's writing in Hebrews, it was two houses.
2. The shekinah glory of God in the Holy of Holies was a reality, not a type or a figure.
3. The first tabernacle, a type of the present age, signifies the old covenant. The second tabernacle, the reality of the New Testament age, signifies the new covenant.
4. To love the Lord and to be burning is one thing, and to be in the Holy of Holies may be an absolutely different thing.
5. In the first tabernacle, we have the life supply and the light of life. We are nourished and enlightened.
6. According to the New Testament, we are in the Holy of Holies simply because we are believers. We are in Christ, and in Christ we have been crucified, buried, and resurrected, we are in the second tabernacle.
7. According to our actual living day by day, we may in fact still be in the first tabernacle.
8. Christ's flesh in nature was sinless, but in form it was in the likeness of sinful flesh.
9. Although the flesh was riven when Chris was crucified, experientially our flesh may still be whole.
10. Whether or not an assembly can enter into the Holy of Holies depends on whether or not the flesh of the leading ones has been cleft.

Exo Msg 99

1. According to Heb. 10:20, the veil signifies the flesh of Christ.
2. Both the boards and pillars are believers who stand on Christ's redemption.
3. Pillars are extraordinary believers.
4. The pillars are not only redeemed but have been dealt with. They signify believers strong to bear the testimony of Christ's incarnation and crucifixion.
5. The golden hooks signify the incarnated and crucified Christ.
6. 10 commandments signify a full and complete demand on man.
7. There had to be a separation because fallen man in his nature is separated from God.
8. God will not see us and have fellowship with us until our flesh is broken.
9. The lamb is the redeeming Christ, the manna is the nourishing Christ, and the veil is Christ in the flesh crucified for us.

Exo Msg 98

1. 48 boards; 4 * 12 = 6 * 8. As the standing boards, the believers have been created, become fallen, and then have been redeemed and resurrected.
2. The tenons and sockets are for standing, whereas the rings and the bars are for uniting.
3. 96 sockets = 12 * 8, signifying the completion of the divine administration in resurrection.
4. The sockets of silver signify the solid redemption of Christ as the base of our standing in God's building.
5. The tenons signify our faith by which we stand.
6. Two tenons signify complete faith.
7. Number two signifies confirmation, testimony, and coordination.
8. Golden rings signify the initial gift of the Spirit.
9. The Spirit is the Spirit of the Triune God in resurrection.
10. We stand on Christ's redemptive work, and we are united by His divine Person.
11. We have a firm standing and we also have the expression of Christ.
12.

Exo Msg 97

1. Boards typify believers built together to be the dwelling place of God.
2. All the boards in the tabernacle are the extension and enlargement of the ark.
3. Ark: 2.5 in length, 1.5 in width and height; tabernacle: 30 in length, 10 in width and height.
4. Board: 10 in length, 1.5 in width and height.
5. If Christ had not become a man to die on the cross for our sins in order to accomplish redemption , fulfill God's requirements, and withstand the attacks of the enemy, there would be no way for us to be God's people.
6. Through regeneration our humanity has been renewed and reinforced. We have the uplifted humanity of Jesus.
7. We stand because we have a regenerated and uplifted humanity.
8. One half of three cubits indicates that every believer is a half needing to be matched by another to form three cubits for the building of God's dwelling place.
9. We all must learn to do things in the church in he way of sharing.
10. To serve the church privately and individualistically is to serve as a single board which is not joined to another.
11. The corner is a place of turning. Whenever there is a turn in the Lord's move, there is the need for doubling, strengthening, and reinforcing.
11.

Exo Msg 96

1. The first layer of the tabernacle is called the tabernacle and the second layer is called the tent.
2. 10 curtains for the first layer. This is human completion and perfection. 12 is perfection in the divine administration. 11 curtains is for the second layer.
3. The number 11 is sinfulness.
4. The 11 curtains of goats' hair signify that Christ was made sin for us.
5. 30 = 5 * 6 (responsibility for sinners)= 3 * 10 (resurrection life in human completion). 6 is the number of sinners.
6. 50 clasps signify joining power.
7. Rams are males and signify Christ as a strong man.
8. The first layer signifies the perfect man, Jesus; the second layer signifies Christ as our substitute; the third layer, redemption.
9. As the rams' skins, Christ enables us to stand before God, but as the porpoise skins He enables us to stand against Satan and all his attacks.
10. The first layer of fine linen is from the plant life; whereas the goats, the rams, and the porpoises are all animals.
11.

Exo Msg 95

1. 4 layers of the covering of the tabernacle; the first layer being the 10 curtains.
2. The first layer of curtain typifies Christ's humanity.
3. The overflow signifies the Triune God in resurrection.
4. Fine indicates evenness, and twined indicates the linen was not loose in any way.
5. Blue is heavenly. Purple is kingly. Scarlet signifies redemption.
6. 28 cubits long. 28 = 4 * 7. 7 is perfection of the Lord Jesus as a man.
7. 40 = 4 * 10 curtains. It signifies testing and trial.
8. Loops of blue signify availability for joining.
9. There is a gap between our virtues which makes it difficult to connect them.
10. The curtains clasped together are not simply a covering, but are a protective covering.
11.

Exo Msg 94

1. The Christ is portrayed by a lampstand with one stalk, six branches, and seven lamps.
2. Knobs and branches indicate growth.
3. 25 knobs (calyxes), 5 x 5. 5 is responsibility.
4. 25 knobs for growth, 22 for blossoming and shining.
5. Christ grows first in Himself and then also in us as the branches.
6. The wick was made of material from plants and thus signifies humanity. The oil, a symbol of the Spirit, is divinity.
7. We discern the church by the shining of the light.
8. If we have more growth of Christ, we have more light.
9. The shining of the lampstand directs us to enjoy Christ as our life supply.
10. Light directs us to nourishment which directs us back to snuff the wick.
11. The light also directs us to enjoy Christ as the fragrant incense of resurrection in the prayer of fellowship with God.
12. It also leads us to enjoy Him as God's testimony and as the throne of grace in the HH.
13. At the lampstand, God shines. On the throne of grace, God appears. God's appearing is always in glory.
14.
The appearing of God's shekinah glory can be awesome and frightening; therefore, we need the redeeming blood sprinkled on the propitiatory cover, the throne of grace.

Exo Msg 93

1. The first significance of the lampstand is not light, but life.
2. With the lampstand, we have the divine nature, resurrection, Spirit, life, and light.
3. The lampstand becomes seven and they are the church. This implies we are part of the lampstand.
4. The charred portion of the wick is called snuff.
5. The wick signifies humanity not divinity.
6. The wick signifies Christ and us because we easily become charred and need to be snuffed every day.
7. The fact that the lampstand and its knobs and branches are all of one beaten work of pure gold signifies that the entire entity is all purely of Christ's divinity without anything added to it.
8. A priest lighting the lamps signifies that Christ, or anyone who serves as a priest with Christ, keeps the resurrection life shining.
9. The tongs (snuffers) and firepans (snuff dishes) made of pure gold signifies that the trimming, the purifying, must be altogether of the divine nature.
10. One talent (complete unit of weight) signifies Christ as the lampsand shining the divine light in resurrection is perfected and completely weighty.
11. The lampstand followed by the incense altar signifies that the shining of Christ in resurrection as the divine light leads us into contact with God in the sweet fragrance of prayer.
12. In the outer court, there is the natural light.
13. The light in the Holy Place is from the light of the lampstand. This light excludes all human thoughts, concepts, and perspectives.
14. The light in the HH is the light of God's shekinah glory.

Exo Msg 92

1. Lampstand is the expression of the Triune God.
2. The lampstand is the church and the seven lamps are the Spirit of God.
3. Gold signifies the divine nature, the nature of God the Father.
4. The solid form signifies the Son, the embodiment of God the Father.
5. Lamps are the Spirit.
6. Exo 25, the lampstand signifies Christ but in Rev. it signifies the churches.
7. The lampstand is in the Holy Place.
8. The lampstand signifies Christ as the the light of life.
9. Life is light, death is darkness.
10. When we receive the divine life supply, we have spiritual sight, and this sight is the light.
11. If we would have the light of life, we must come to the table before we come to the lampstand.
12. The light of life is derived from Christ's divinity.
13. Beaten work signifies sufferings.
14. The base is for stability and the shaft is for strength.
15. The cups shaped like almond blossoms signify the resurrection life blossoming.
16. To shine the divine light is to blossom.
17. When you leave resurrection and return to your natural life, you immediately stop shining.
18. In the golden lampstand we have divinity, resurrection, and the light of life.
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Exo Msg 91

1. Acacia wood signifies that Christ's humanity is the basic element for Him to be our feast.
2. Upon Him is God's divinity as the expression of God.
3. The more we enjoy Christ as the basic element of our feast, the more we express God.
4. The rim signifies that the expressed glory of Christ's divinity becomes the keeping power and holding strength.
5. The two square cubits (2 x 1) signify the perfect and complete life supply of Christ to issue in a testimony.
6. 1.5 height signifies the nourishment of Christ to us as serving priests matches the standard of God's testimony. Is the standard of Christians' enjoyment the standard of God's testimony?
7. The purpose of the frame is to connect the legs and strengthen them.
8. When we obtain Christ as our nourishment, Christ becomes to us a table with power to connect and strengthen.
9. The rings signify the Spirit of Christ as the linking factor and the linking power.
10. The rings close to the frame indicates that the linking and the moving are dependent on the connecting and the strengthening.
11. Dishes are used to serve the bread.
12. Cups contained frankincense.
13. The bread of the Presence is also the bread of arrangement in 1 Chronicles 9:32.
14. The bread of the Presence is to be eaten in the Holy Place. this means that it is to be partaken of and enjoyed in God's habitation.
15.

Exo Msg 90

1. The ark is for God's testimony, and the table is for our nourishment.
2. The table of Presence signifies Christ is a feast for God's priests.
3. The bread of the Presence was in the Holy Place, whereas the manna was gathered outside the court of the tabernacle.
4. The manna typifies Christ as our daily supply and the table signifies Christ as our weekly supply.
5. The daily supply of manna enables us to live; the weekly supply of the table enables us to live and serve the Lord.
6. The enjoyment of the table requires the building of the tabernacle, the church.
7.

Exo Msg 89

1. Propitiation is not an act; it is also Christ Himself as a place.
2.

Exo Msg 88

1. The living way, the way to the tree of life, has been opened by the blood of Jesus.
2. The inner sense of peace and joy comes from the blood and the glory in the midst of which God meets with us.
3. Whenever we come to Christ, to the ark in the Holy of Holies, two things are before our eyes: the redeeming blood and the cherubim of glory.
4. The NJ will be the ultimate and consummate issue of the experience of Christ as the ark.
5. Christ is not only the One who propitiates and the propitiatory sacrifice, but even the place of propitiation, the propitiatory cover.
6. Through Christ both the demands of God's law and the requirements of God's glory have been satisfied.
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Exo Msg 87

1. Propitiatory cover signifies Christ as the cover of God's righteous law and also the place where God speaks to His redeemed people in grace.
2. The cover is made of pure gold, signifying Christ's divine nature; the size signifies a testimony.
3. As the ark, Christ is God's testimony.
4. If Christ were only God and not man, only the Creator and not a creature, He would not be all-inclusive.
5. The cherubim (glory) were made of beaten work, signifying that Christ's expression of the divine glory was through sufferings.
6. The cherubim shows that God's glory is upon Christ.
7. The blood from the sacrifices at the outer court was brought to the Holy of Holies and sprinkled on the ark.
8. The blood shed on Calvary has been brought into the Holy of Holies and sprinkled on the propitiatory cover.
9. The blood accomplished redemption and enabled God to meet with man and speak with man from between the cherubim.
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Exo Msg 86

1. Hilaskomai refers to such a transaction in which reconciliaion is brought about through the appeasement of a particular party and the satisfaction of his requirement.
2. Christ not only reconciles, but He is the sacrifice.
3. Christ is the One who propitiates, He is the propitiatory sacrifice, and He is the propitiatory cover, the place where God and His redeemed people meet together.
4. Propitiatory cover is God's throne of grace.
5. The cherubim signifiy God's glory. The glory of God shines out of Christ and upon Christ.
6. They were made of gold, God's divine nature, and they were made of beaten work, indicating Christ's suffering.
7. The cherubim signify Christ shining.
8. In our experience, we need the humanity of Jesus in order to express Christ's divine nature.
9. Because of the blood of redemption, we today can have fellowship with the righteous God in the glory of God.
10. The cherubim on the propitiatory cover signify Christ's shining with His divinity, and the blood sprinkled on the cover signifies His humanity for redeeming.
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Exo Msg 85

1. Anything that does not have a measurement refers to something eternal, immeasurable, unlimited, and inexhuastible.
2. The glory of the divine nature as a rim signifies the divine keeping power and holding strength.
3. If we live Christ at home and at work, the very Christ whom we live will become the glory expressed through us. Tis glory, this expression, will become a rim that holds us and keeps us.
4. A golden ring signifies the eternal Spirit.
5. Four rings of gold signify that the divine nature of Christ is the linking factor and power.
6. The eteranl life-giving Spirit becomes the linking power through the expereience of the cross.
7. In our experience, the Spirit must pass through the testing of the cross, the casting, before the eternal Spirit can become in us a golden ring with its linking power.
8. Four signifies the four corners of the earth to reach all men.
9. If we would bear Him as God's testimony, we should be one with Him.
10.

Exo Msg 84

1. Just as Christ is the testimony of God, so the church is the testimony of Christ.
2. The law is a definition of God, not as commandments for people to keep.
3. The law is holy, just, good, and spiritual because it is a portrait of God.
4. The ark typifies Christ as the embodiment of God's testimony.
5. The ark signifies the center of God's dwelling place, the church.
6. The church must have Christ as the content in reality and not merely in terminology.
7. The outward prerequisite is the ground of oneness, and the inward prerequisite is Christ as the contents, as the embodiment of God's testimony.
8. Christ's humanity was strong in character and high in standard.
9. The overlaying of gold inside and outside signifies the divine nature mingled with the human nature.
10. The numbers of five and three signify God's building.
11. A half signifies another half is needed for a full testimony.
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Exo Msg 83

1. Silver signifies Christ's redemptive work.
2. Redemption involves termination and replacement.
3. Bronze signifies the testing of God's judgement.
4. Under God's testing, a young person may be examined by Him when he is about to say or do a certain thing at school.
5. The experience of the onyx is the basis for the experience of the other precious stones.
6. Linen signfies Christ's conduct
7. Blue color indicates heavenly.
8. Purple signifies royalty.
9. Scarlet signifies the blood of Christ shed for our redemption.
10. We need the Lord's cleansing even though we may not feel defiled because we are still in the old creation.
11. Acacia wood signifies Christ's human nature that is strong in character and high in standard.
12. Oil signifies the Spirit of Christ.
13. Spices signify the effectiveness and sweet odor of Christ's death and resurrection.
14. Goat's hair signify Christ made sin for us.
15. The rams' skins dyed red signify Christ's redemption accomplished through the shedding of His blood.
16. Porpoise skins signify Christ's strength in bearing sufferings.
17. The pattern of the tabernacle and of all its furniture signifies the church and all the details of the church life.
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Exo Msg 82

1. All the materials refer to the virtues of Christ's Person and work and that all were offered to God as a heave offering.
2. Wave offering is a type of Christ in resurrection.
3. Heave offering is the ascended Christ.
4. Gold signifies Christ's divine nature and it is pure and everlasting.
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Exo Msg 81

1. The tabernacle and the temple should be regarded as one dwelling place, not two.
2. Christ is the tabernacle, the church is the enlarged tabernacle, and the New Jerusalem will be the consummate tabernacle.
3. The sanctuary is not an individual person, it is a corporate people.
4. The ark typified the individual Christ. The tabernacle typifies both the individual Christ and corporate Christ.
5. In order to see the vision of the tabernacle, we need to pass through experiences of Passover, the Red Sea, Marah and Elim, manna, living water out of the cleft rock, the war against Amaleke.
6. 40 signifies tests and trials.
7. The materials of the tabernacle refer to Christ's person and work.
8. The heave offering refers to the uplifted Christ in ascension. The wave offering typifies Christ in resurrection.
9. There were 12 kinds of materials used in building the tabernacle. These 12 materials belong to 3 categories: minerals, plants, and animals. Animals are for redemption. Plant is for generating life. Minerals are used for building and fighting.
10. Christ's life is first redemption, generation, and building.
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Exo Msg 80

1. God's goal in His salvation is to bring His redeemed people into His dwelling place on earth.
2. Tabernacle is used in 3 ways in the bible. First, it's the tabernacle at the foot of Mount Sinai. Second, it is the Lord Jesus as God's tabernacle with man. Third, it is the New Jeruslam, the ultimate, consummate, enlarged tabernacle of God.
3. In our experience we may come to the stage of seeing god under a clear heaven without reaching the stage of remaining with God under His glory.
4. On the one hand, we cannot go back to the experience of seeing God under a transparent sky; on the other hand, we have not yet entered into the glory.
5. Where are we in our fellowship with the Lord? Are we with the people at the foot of the mountain, or are we with those on the mountain, or are we Moses on the mountaintop?
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Exo Msg 79

1. Sprinkled on the book because when the law was brought down to the people, it became unclean.
2. The blood for forgiveness of sines ushered in the better things.
3. In the new covenant, a new heart. To change their heart is with respect to their nature.
4. A new spirit to regenerate and reconstitute them.
5. I will put my Spirit within you - to put Himself into them.
6. A new heart to love Him and a new spirit to receive Him.
7. God promised to give the people a new heart, a new spirit, His spirit, and the inward law of life.
8. The blood not only redeemed God's people but also brought them into the enjoyment of God.
9. The blood of Christ redeems us, brings us to the tree of life, leads to waters of life, ushers us into the Holy of Holies, enables us to serve the living God, brings us to the temple of God to enjoy God for eternity,
10. The blood of the covenant is not mainly for forgiveness; it is primarily for God to be our portion.
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Exo Msg 78

1. The altar with the sacrifices produced the blood for the enactment of the law.
2. The first function of the law is to reveal God.
3. The seconf function of the law is to cause people to realize that they are fallen and far away from God.
4. The blood of the sin offering was shed on the altar. Then this blood was brought into the Holy of Holies and sprinkled on the propitatitory cover.
5. The blood brought His people into His presence.
6. Instead of trying to carry out these commandments, we should confess, in the light of the revelation in the Bible, that we are fallen, sinful, and corrupt.

Exo Msg 77

1. The burnt offering was for God's satisfaction.
2. Christ first became the burnt offering offered to God to satisfy Him, and then He became the peace offering to make peace between man and God.
3. Instead of making ridiculous promises, we should pray, "Lord, I have nothing, and I can do nothing. But with You there is the possibility for me to be redeemed, terminated, and replaced. Lord, by working Yourself into me You can reconstitute me and make me a living pillar as Your testimony."
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Exo Msg 76

1. Because God is holy, with Him there is nothing common.
2. Because God is righteous, with Him there is no injustice.
3. Because He is love and light, with Him there is no hatred or darkness.
4. As soon as the law was enacted, it became a covenant between God and His people.
5. With the enactment of the law through Moses, there are a certain particular, uncommon parts. First, there was an altar, twelve pillars, two types of offerings (burnt and peace), and the blood.
6. The altar indicates that we cannot keep the law of god and that we need to be redeemed.
7. They needed to be terminated and replaced by the sacrifices.
8. Christ is our Redeemer, substitute, and replacement.
9. The pillars are for a testimony.
10. After we have been redeemed, terminated, and replaced, we become pillars, the testimony of god, reflecting what He is.
11. The NT was given to make Christians a reflection of God.
12. For us to be a living testimony is accomplished by Christ through the cross.
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Exo Msg 75

1. Whether our sins are gross or somewhat refined and cultured, they have their source in the natural life.
2. We should not make any covenants with the natural life. To make a covenant with a natural life is to compromise with it.
3. God is ready to give us life, but we much be willing to kill the practices of the body.
4. The Spirit is willing to lead us, but we must be willing to e led by Him.
5. God gives life and the Spirit leads, witnesses, and intercedes. However, these four activities depend on our taking the initiative.
6. When we drive out the pagan tribes, the natural life, God also drives out these tribes.
7. According to the Bible, everything is by God's grace. Nevertheless, man must cooperate with God.
8. Mother's feeding the child requires the child to cooperate.
9. The more we grow in life, the more we shall take the initiative to drive out the natural life.
10. We must grow and be replaced by Christ. We must have the increase of Christ within us so that we can be replaced by Him so that we can take the initiative to drive out the natural life.
11. Our food is the word and our drink is the Spirit.
12. Today many Christians are spiritually blind, deaf, dumb, or paralyzed.
13. God's complete care of His people includes: blessing their food and water, taking sickness away from them, granting them multiplication, and causing them to live to full age.

Exo Msg 74

1. If we would experience Christ we must, on the one hand, know the frustraters and, on the other hand, know he detailed way to take possession of Christ and gain Him experientially.
2. We need to obey His voice, His speaking.
3. Once we have provoked the Lord, He will not pardon us until we confess.
4. The heathen may denote the Gentiles, whereas pagan indicates something demonic, devilish, and idolatrous.
5. The degree of God's driving out of the inhabitants of the land is measured by the increase of His people.
6. Our natural life is fallen, sinful, devilish, and demonic.
7. God's driving out of the natural life depends on our growth, increase, reproduction, and multiplication. It also depends on our taking the initiative to drive out these tribes.
8. If god were to drive out the natural life without a corresponding increase of Christ, we would become vacant. The something worse, the beasts, demons, would enter in to take possession of us.

Exo Msg 73

1. If we would take possession of the promised land, we must deal with the frustraters and also pay attention to the boundaries of the land.
2. The angel typifies Christ as the One sent by God to guard us in the way and to bring us into the land.
3. Zechariah 2:8 indicates that Johovah of hosts is being sent and 2:9 indicates He is the sent One. This indicates that the Sender and the sent One are one.
4. Trinity denotes the dispensation and application of the Triune god.
5. The sea signifies death and river signifies the water of death; wilderness signifies barrenness. The land is surrounded by death and barrenness. The land itself is a region of life filled with abundance of fruit.
6. The various pagan tribes occupying the land signify different aspects of our natural life.
7. Cannan means merchant.
8. In our natural life there are many frstraters which hinder us from taking possession of the all-inclusive Christ.
9. Christians should not expect to become fully spiritual overnight.

Exo Msg 72

1. "Thou shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread" indicates not to mix christ's redemption with our sinful life.
2. Any experience of Christ that is truly a topmost experience should be kept in secret and then brought to god's temple and offered directly to God for His satisfaction.
3. "Not boling a kid in its mother's milk" typifies that the word of God which nourishes the believers should not be used to kill them.
4. Christ alone should be our food and life supply.
5.

Exo Msg 71

1. In many of these ordinances Christ is portrayed. Either He is typified in a rather direct way or He is implied, indicated, or signified indirectly.
2. Man can worship God through the cross and by Christ.
3. The ordinanaces present us a vivid picture of fallen man living in the fall, filled with sins, invovlved with Satan, related to demons, and fully enslaved. However, there is One who came to man in his fallen and enslaved condition, becoming a slave Himself. After He was delivered by God to be a sacrifice for fallen man, He restored the matters of life, released us from our burdens, and became our refuge. Now we, fallen sinners, may flee into Him and take Him as our rest and freedom.
4. The fulness of the harvest and the outflow of the wine and oil presses signify the fullness of our harvest of Christ and the outflow of our experience of the cross.
5. If we live in Christ, enjoying Him as our rest and freedom, we shall grow in life, produce a harvest.
6. We need to flee into Christ, enjoy Him as our rest and freedom, and then live in Him, the all-inclusive One, as the good land.
7. The tears is the flow of wine and oil presses. Wine flows out to cheer God and man; oil flows out to please God.
8. If you enjoyed and experienced God in such a way, you should come to the feeling and offer to God the fullness of your harvest without delay.
9. Although these firstborn deserve to be slain by God, the firstborn of the children of Israel were redeemed by the Passover Lamb.
10. We are redeemed by Christ; now we do not belong to ourselves, but God.
11. To be holy is to be saturated by Christ and with Him as our holiness before God.
12. Not eating any flesh that is torn by beasts (Exo 22:31), but casting it instead to the dogs signifies that we should take only Christ as our life supply, not anything of death.
13. Keeping the Sabbath day enabled others to rest and be refreshed, whereas observing the Sabbatical year supplied others with food.
14. By keeping Sabbath day, we take Christ as our rest but by observing the sabbatical year we take Christ as our rest to a much fuller degree.
15. On the one hand, we need to learn how to live in Christ; on the other hand, we need to learn how to benefit others in Christ.
16. Keeping feasts unto god three times a year typifies the full enjoyment of the Triune God in Christ.
17. Keeping the feast of unleavened bread typifies enjoying Christ as the sinless life supply.
18. The feast of Passover and the feast of unleavened bread are one.
19. The feast of harvest typifies the enjoyment of the firstfruit of the Spirit of the resurrected Christ.
20. Firstfruits are related to the resurrected Christ (1 Cor. 15:20,23). The resurrected Christ is the life-giving spirit (1 Cor. 15:45). In the OT, there are firstfruits. In the NT, there is the Spirit. Firstfruits = resurrected Christ as the life-giving spirit.
21. Pentecost is related to the Spirit. The feast of the harvest was on the fiftieth day after the firstfruit was offered to God on the eighth day.
21. The feast of ingathering typies the enjoyment of the fullness of the Father in Christ.
22. This feast is also called the feast of tabernacles signifying the enjoyment of the fullness of the Triune God for eternity in the new heaven and the new earth.
23. First, we have the enjoyment of Christ as the Son; second, the enjoyment of God as the Spirit; and, consummatedly, the enjoyment of God the Father.

Exo Msg 70

1. Words like pollution, nakedness, slavery, murder, stealing, coveting, and witch strongly point both to man's fall and to his living in the fall.
2. Because of man's fall and man's living in the fall, there was the need for god to come in to decree the law with its ordinances.
3. On the negative side, we have Satan, demons, indwelling sin, and outward sins. On the positive side, we have God, Christ, the cross, redemption, forgiveness, justification, and reconciliation.
4. "Lord, I thank You that You are able to replace my husband with Yourself. I ask You, Lord, to replace Him."
5. The need for redemption indicates we are sinful. The need for termination indicates we are a hopeless case.
6. If we trace murder and lies to their source, we shall find the Devil.
7. Are you a sinner by mistake, or are you are a willful sinner? Your repentence toward God indicates that you are a sinner by mistake. Any sinner who repents is a mistaken sinner, one who can be graciously forgiven by God.
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Exo Msg 69

1. Theft is motivated by greed.
2. Someone who kidnaps a person is also one who does not honor his parents.
3. The ordinances in these chapters require us to preserve human life.
4.

Exo Msg 68

1. We must worship God through an altar (cross) and with the sacrifices (Christ)
2. The spirit of the ordinance in 21:1-6 is love and obedience.
3. The willingness to be a slave is a prerequisite to keeping all the detailed ordinances of the law.
4. To be a slave is to have the spirit of sacrifice.
5. Psalm 40:6: God desires not sacrifice or offering, but ears which are open to Him. He opened the ears of Lord Jesus so that He could do God's will.
6. Continuing as a slave is not a legal requirement; it is a matter of love.
7. Love is shown through sacrifice.
8. Love produces obedience.
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Exo Msg 67

1. Religion is the result of a thoughtful study of nature with man's philosophical inferences.
2. In 20:24-26, both man's work and way are utterly rejected by God.
3. Man's way is to build up something with as many steps as possible.
4. The altar God requires must be something which, in the eyes of man, is primitive and uncultured.
5. God's revelation leaves no room for man's work or way.
6. People may claim to worship God, but in their worship the work and way of man have actually caused them to put God aside.
7. To bring in anything of a human source is to insult the very God whom we worship.
8. To add man's work to the cross is abominable to God.
9. Everyone who worships God is terminated at the altar. Because we are a totality of sin, when we come to worship God, we should pray, "Lord, cleanse me with the precious blood and cover me with Yourself. Lord, in myself I dare not do anything. I come to worship You through Your cross. Wash me with Your redeeming blood and cover me with Yourself as my righteousness. Because I am a fallen person, I dare not do anything, plan anything, or bring anything of my own."
10. Anything that originates with us, anything which comes from our labor, is pollution and is not acceptable to God.
11. Nakedness denotes the shame of fallen man.
12. Climbing up steps to an altar exposes one's nakedness.
13. "Lord, cover me. I don't know what to say to the brothers. Lord, you be everything in this situation." To pray in this way is to keep ourselves under Christ as our covering.
14. The altar will terminate us with all our works and ways.
15. In the worship of God we must be identified with Christ as our sacrifice on the cross and be terminated.
16. The sacrifices, typifying Christ, satisfy god and give us mutual satisfaction with God and other worshippers.
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Exo Msg 66

1. The book of Exodus has one main point: God's redemption and salvation.
2. At Mount Sinai the children of Israel were feasting with God.
3. The law includes ordinances and commandments.
4. God whom we worship is the living and the speaking God (He has spoken from heaven, 20:22)
5. The burnt and peace offering in 20:24 is fellowship between God and His redeemed people.
6. To hold on to wealth instead of holding on to the living God is to worship idols.
7. The altar denotes the corss. Related to altar, we have death, burning, and resurrection.
8. The fact that the children of Israel could erect an altar either of earth or stone idicates that the cross is readily available.
9. "God, thank You for prreparing the cross that I may worship You. There is no need for me to work. I simply receive the cross You have prepared."
10. To hew the stones to make the altar more beautiful is to add man's work to God's work. This brings in pollution.
11. Steps refer to man-made way. Every denomination has its kind of steps. These steps cause man's nakedness to be exposed.
12. No steps means no place for human attainment or achievement, no place for man's way.
13. Burnt offering is for God's satisfaction, and the peace offering is for the people's enjoyment with God mutually.
14. A God who does not speak cannot bless. Our worship must be such that it invites the living God to come to us and bless us.

Exo Msg 65

1. The ministry of Moses was a ministry of condemnation and death because the pople were in darkness and their hearts were hardened.
2. Paul's ministry was of righteousness and Spirit.
3. The veil was simply the hardened heart of the children of Israel.
4. To unbelievers and even to believers who are indifferent in heart, the gospel of grace may become a ministry of condemnation and death.
5. Whether the Lord's ministry brings justification or condemnation, life or death, depends on our heart.

Exo Msg 64

1. The principle of life is dependence, whereas the principle of knowledge is independence.
2. The law has three functions: a) It portrays and defines God, b) It exposes us, c) It subdues us.
3. God does not want a people who strive to keep the law; He wants a glowing people to express His glory.
4. The law is spiritual, holy, just, and good.
5. The law results in life, but it cannot give life by itself.
6. "Law, I wish to thank you for exposing me and subduing me and bringing me to the One who can give me life. I wish to thank you for leading me to the Life-giver."
7. Whenever believers neglect their union with Christ and turn to the law and strive to keep it, they cut themselves off from Christ and from grace.
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Exo Msg 63

1. The coats of skins with which God covered Adam and Eve point to Christ as the real covering.
2. "Lord, I cannot do it." He will answer, "I realize that you cannot do it. Let Me come in to fulfill My requirements for you and in you. I am willing to do everything for you, but you must allow Me to come in. If you close the door to Me, there is no way for Me to do anything in you to fulfill My commandments. In order for Me to do these things for you, I must be in you."
3. Our responsibility is to love Him, receive Him, stay with Him, and spend time with Him so that He can infuse Himself into us.
4. "We may receive God's salvation, but we are not able to work out our own salvation... In ourselves we are not able to work out our own salvation. But God is operating in us. We need to open to Him, cooperate with Him, and work with Him."
5. "Lord, I love You, but I simply cannot fulfill this word. I would like to do it, but I can't." Then the Lord will say, "I only ask that you open to Me so that I can come into you and do this for you."
6. "God did not first give Moses the law. He first spent time infusing Moses with Himself."
7. The more we are infused with Him, the more He will have a way to do everything in us and for us to fulfill the commandments He gives to us.
8. The more we are infused with Him, the more He will have a way to do everything in us and for us to fulfill the commandments He gives to us.

Exo Msg 62

1. The law is both good and spiritual.
2. Although in itself the law is always good and spiritual, to us the decree of the law may be either positive or negative, either "day" or "night," depending on our spiritual condition.
3. If we wish to be those who shine as the sun, we need to be a Moses on the mountaintop beholding the Lord and being infused with Him.
4. God's intention is to have a people who stay close to Him that He may transfuse His element into them.
5. God's salvation is to bring His people back to Himself.
6. In order to stay with God, we need to stay in the Word.
7. What we are not able to do ourselves God desires to do in us.

Exo Msg 61

1. Before Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, satanic thoughts had already been planted into her.
2. The house of Jacob is the title of the people who are after the Devil's kind.
3. In the restored universe, day follows night.
4. When we come to the bible, we must set aside our fallen, natural, and religious background.
5. Mount Horeb was the place for God to meet His people and for His people to meet one another.
6. If we are with those who make idols and offer sacrifices to them, the fire will be terrifying to us. But if we stand with Moses, the fire will be enjoyable and infusing.
7. Mount Horeb can also be Mount Sinai where pople cannot see God.

Exo Msg 60

1. If our heart is proper when we come to the Word, we shall enter into the realm of light.
2. When we have God as our portion, we have not only light, life, water, and all the benefits these bring us, but we have the very God Himself.
3. When we come to the Word with the Spirit, we receive God.
4. As we enjoy God Himself, we also enjoy His countenance.
5. It is marvelous and wonderful to enjoy the Lord Himself, His countenance, and the shining of His face.
6. To enjoy the shining of the Lord's face is richer and more satisfying than simply experiencing His presence.
7. God is with us when we lose our temper. When we are tempted to be angry and lose our temper, we should call on the Lord. The One who is always with us rescue us from our anger.
8. When we enjoy God as our portion and experience the shining of His countenance, He becomes our covering and hiding place.
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Exo Msg 59

1. If our condition is normal, we should be helped and very much blessed whenever we come to the Word of God.
2. Coming to the Word should be the equivalent of coming to God.
3. If you fail to receive help when you come to the Word, there is probably a problem of some kind in your heart.
4. If a person' heart is divided into two parts, one part for something good and another part for something evil, the evil tendency will always prevail.
5. If we come to the bible halfheartedly or with a divided heart, we shall not receive blessing from the Word.
6. A small leaf can hide a bright star. Likewise, a small matter can keep us from receiving blessing from the Bible.
7. "Lord, have mercy on me. I don't want to be covered by anything, and I don't want to have anything between You and me. Lord, grant that there will be nothing between us."
8. We may love Him without ever having humbled ourselves before Him.
9. To have no trust in ourselves means that we have no reservations.
10. The Word has an entrance into light.
11. Light is in the realm of the soul. Life is in our spirit.
12. First, we have enligtenment; second, life supply; and third, watering.
13. To have root hairs requires that we go deeper into the Word in a very fine way.
14. When we go along with the Word and the Word comes into our spirit, in our experience we shall have the root hairs.
15.

Losing Child-like Innocence

As I was taking my shower, I recalled that when I was twelve, I wished to marry someone who plays the piano. I saw many sisters and brothers who are good at piano. Because I do not play, I greatly admire them. Now some fifteen years later, I thought to myself five years down the road, I might marry someone who does not match with what I used to desire. The sister that I marry to may be completely different from what I as a child used to want the future mate to be. At that time, I would probably accept with what is given and lump into a state of non challenge. An old man is never too picky. He is happy to accept what is given to him.

I feel sad. The non-challenging and non-picky attitude indicates the loss of child-like innocence. Why should I be satisfied with what I've got? Well it is too late to turn back and have a new start all over again. What's the moral of the story? I do not know. But I know that it is a fact of nature. People get tired of things and see each other's imperfections. However, people are flexible enough to forgive each other and move on with what's given to them. Child-like innocence is a romance, a fairy tale. It is played only once on the day it occurs. And we always look back to that day of unseeming reality which propels us to go on with what we've got. Or do we?

Exo Msg 58

1. If we want the Word of God to function properly in our experience, we need to be "plugged in" to the divine current whenever we read it.
2. Just as it is not possible to separate the breath of a living person from the person himself, so we should not separate the Word of God from God Himself.
3. The functions of the law as God's living word are actually the moving and working of God Himself.
4. If we contact the Lord by praying with the Word, we shoall receive life from the Word.
5. We need to exercise our spirit in reading the Word, and we need to aspire to contact the Lord.
6. To receive the Word by prayer obviously requires that we pray the Word.
7. Praying is the best way to stop our gossiping tongue.
8. In psalming we muse upon the Word.
9. When we contact the Word in a living way, praying, singing, psalming, and thanking, we shall be saturated with the Lord and become one with Him.
10. Only when we have continual, personal, living, and intimate contact with the Lord all day long do we truly live by breathing Him.
11. We contact this living One through the Word and are infused with Him and saturated with Him so that He becomes our life and our very being.
12. If we praise the Lord in the meetings without praising Him in our daily life, our meetings will be a performance, and we shall be actors.
13. When the word of Christ inhabits us richly, it permeates, saturates, and sustains every part of our inner being.
14. The Word of God gives us light; then it quickens us, enlivens us, gives us life.
15. If we would enjoy Christ as our portion in the Word, we should not only study the Word, but receive the Word in a living way by praying, singing, psalming, and thanking.
16. Psalm 119:114 says that the Word is our shiled and hiding place.

Exo Msg 58

1. If we want the Word of God to function properly in our experience, we need to be "plugged in" to the divine current whenever we read it.
2. Just as it is not possible to separate the breath of a living person from the person himself, so we should not separate the Word of God from God Himself.
3. The functions of the law as God's living word are actually the moving and working of God Himself.
4. If we contact the Lord by praying with the Word, we shoall receive life from the Word.
5. We need to exercise our spirit in reading the Word, and we need to aspire to contact the Lord.
6. To receive the Word by prayer obviously requires that we pray the Word.
7. Praying is the best way to stop our gossiping tongue.
8. In psalming we muse upon the Word.
9. When we contact the Word in a living way, praying, singing, psalming, and thanking, we shall be saturated with the Lord and become one with Him.
10. Only when we have continual, personal, living, and intimate contact with the Lord all day long do we truly live by breathing Him.
11. We contact this living One through the Word and are infused with Him and saturated with Him so that He becomes our life and our very being.
12. If we praise the Lord in the meetings without praising Him in our daily life, our meetings will be a performance, and we shall be actors.
13. When the word of Christ inhabits us richly, it permeates, saturates, and sustains every part of our inner being.
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Exo Msg 57

1. Having a heart inclined unto the Word of God, we seek the Word, long for it, and hope in it.
2. To meditate on the Word of God is to enjoy it by musing upon it, chewing the cud.
3. When we chew, we shall spontaneously pray.
4. Musing is also enjoy His Word as His breath.
5. We muse upon the Word by talking to God, worshipping Him, enjoying Him, receiving grace from Him, and conversing with ourselves in the Lord's presence.
6. When we enter into God's Word, we see light.
7. Inwardly we have faculties created by God by which we can understand His Word, and outwardly we have the enjoyment and circumstances by which we are disciplined.
8. If we muse upon the Word, the enemy will be defeated, and we shall gather much spoil.
9. We should never separate the Lord's Word from the Lord Himself.

Exo Msg 56

1. Psalm 119 is the deep sentiment and aspiration of the psalmists.
2. Seeking God is related to keeping the law.
3. If we entreat the Lord's face, we shall receive bounty. The Lord's countenance brings His favor to the seeking one.
4. To sense the shining of the Lord's face we need a seeking heart.
5. The words are His breath, life, food, and water to us.
6. Whenever we read the Word, we need to touch the source of the Word, and this source is God Himself.
7. To lift up our hands to God's word is to welcome it, to indicate we receive it warmly and say "Amen" to it.
8. We may be joyful silently, but we must use our voice in order to rejoice.
9. Because our heart often has the tendency to depart from God's word, we need to pray that our heart would be called back to God's word adn be inclined to it.
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Exo Msg 55

1. The goal of regeneration is to produce and prepare the bride for the Bridgeroom (He who has the bride is the bridegroom, John 3:3-6)
2. Only after we have been regenerated with the divine life and have thereby received the divine nature can we, sinners, be taken by Christ to be His love.
3. If there is no romance between us and the Lord Jesus, then we are religious Christians, not romantic Christians.
4. In John 14:23, the Father and Son making an abode with the one who loves the Lord Jesus is a reference to living together in married life.
5. When God gave the law to His people on the mountain, He was betrothing them to Himself. In giving them the law, He was seeking to stir them up to love Him and not to have any other beloved in addition to Him.
6. Since the law was given as an engagement contract, we should not try to keep it apart from loving the Lord and being one with Him.
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