Friday, November 30, 2007

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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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

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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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

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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Monday, November 19, 2007

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."

Friday, November 16, 2007

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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Monday, November 12, 2007

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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Sunday, November 11, 2007

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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Saturday, November 10, 2007

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.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

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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Sunday, November 4, 2007

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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