Sunday, December 23, 2007

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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Friday, December 21, 2007

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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Friday, December 14, 2007

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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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

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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Monday, December 10, 2007

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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Saturday, December 8, 2007

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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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

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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Monday, December 3, 2007

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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