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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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
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.
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.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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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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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Friday, May 11, 2007
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.
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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.
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Monday, May 7, 2007
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?
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.
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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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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