Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Lev Msg 64

1. Our situation.
2. Christ's redemption or His propitiation.
3. The riches of the processed and consummated Triune God.
4. The jubilee.

Lev Msg 63

1. The three previous devotions of ourselves, of our cattle, and of our houses are all for us to enjoy Christ.
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Monday, April 28, 2008

Lev Msg 62

1. The vow is of four kinds of devotions: the devotion of a person, the devotion of cattle, the devotion of a house, and the devotion of a part of a field.
2. To devote is stronger than to give or to consecrate.
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Lev Msg 61

1. Often when we repent and confess, we have the experience of God remembering the new covenant and also remembering Christ, who has been given to us as our rich land.
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Friday, April 25, 2008

Lev Msg 60

1. Instead of ignoring what God has done, we should deny what we can do or want to do. We need to deny our work but honor God's work and rest in Him.
2. The result, the issue, of God's work is the church.
3. We need to take the processed Triune God, His work, and the result of His work as the basis for our obedience.
4. If we obey God, we shall receive His blessing: rain, food, peace, chasing the enemies, fullness in multiplication, God's dwelling place.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Lev Msg 59

1. Keeping God's sabbath signifies that we should know that the work of God was done entirely by Himself that we might enjoy it, and that there is no need for us to do any work.
2. We need to learn to receive, regard, respect, and enjoy what God has done and not try to do something for ourselves.
3. Spiritual satisfaction and security are always the issue of our obedience to God's warning.
4. The greater the coordination, the greater will be our chasing power.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Lev Msg 58

1. We should take care of a brother in love so that he may live before the Lord as we do.
2. From this we see that it is possible for our spiritual care for others to cause offense.
3. Whenever we are helping or caring for a weaker brother, we need to respect him.
4. The one whom you help may be in bondage to you and needs a jubilee, a spiritual revival, in order to be released from this bondage.
5. In our attitude, in the way we deal with our neighbors, relatives, classmates, and colleagues, we may be indebted to outsiders.
6. Sometimes we cannot preach the gospel to others because we are spiritually indebted to them.
7. The enjoyment of Christ is based on grace, but the enjoyment of the church life is based on righteousness.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Lev Msg 57

1. Jubilee is that we were in slavery and in captivity, but we have been released and restored to our possession for our enjoyment and to our family that we may have real fellowship in God's grace.
2. In Adam we sold everything. But the Lord Jesus is our relative as our Redeemer, and He has redeemed everything for us.
3. 3 ways to recover lost possession. First, it could be redeemed by his nearest relative. Second, he could redeem it himself. Third, he could wait for the year of jubilee.
4. Losing the enjoyment of the church life is more serious than losing the enjoyment of Christ.
5. If we are those who serve God adequately in the church life and we lost the church life, it will be easy for it to be restored to us.
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Monday, April 21, 2008

Lev Msg 56

1. In order for there to be a jubilee, it was necessary for God's people to have the practice of observing the sabbath year.
2. We all need to learn how to labor with God and also how to cease our work and rest with God as long as He desires rest.
3. Our situation was that the longer we lived, the more we lost of our divinely allotted portion.
4. Jubilee is based on the propitiation for sin that the full freedom might be proclaimed to all the people.
5. Jubilee bears the denotation of a time of shouting and trumpeting.
6. The first consummation is Pentecost to produce, to bring in, the church life, and the second consummation is the millennium to bring in the full jubilee.
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Lev Msg 55

1. This chapter covers 4 things: the tending of the lamp in the tabernacle, the arranging of the showbread in the tabernacle, the blaspheming of the name of God, and the taking care of human life and animal life.
2. That shining is the very Christ whom we experienced and enjoyed in the morning tending Himself within us as the shining light.
3. What we enjoy is God's enjoyment, and what God enjoys is our enjoyment.
4. For us, the holy people of God, to live a holy life, we need the arrangement of Christ afresh as the divine light to shine over us and as the divine food to nourish us.
5. In order to enjoy Christ as our light and food, we must sanctify the holy Name.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Lev Msg 54

1. The consummation of the processed TG is the all-inclusive, life-giving, compound Spirit.
2. The feast of tabernacles will take place not in the new heaven and new earth but on the restored earth.
3.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Lev Msg 53

1. At Pentecost the Body of Christ came into being to match Christ, to make Him a corporate Christ.
2. The component of Pentecost is eight times resurrection.
3. These loads are the increase, the expansion, of the fine flour that came out of the firstfruit on the day of resurrection.
4.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Lev Msg 52

1. A convocation is a special assembly called for a special and particular purpose.
2. A holy convocation signifies a corporate enjoyment of rest, not be individual believers separately but by the church corporately.
3. The feast of Passover signifies Christ as our redemption to begin our enjoyment of God's salvation with God.
4. The feast of unleavened bread signifies the Christ who is without sin for our enjoyment as a feast in a life apart from sin.
5. The course of our entire Christian life is a feast of unleavened bread, a feast without sin.
6. The Lord's table is the replacement of the OT Passover.
7. After we enjoy Him as food, He becomes our offering to God to be God's food.
8. The day of His resurrection was the feast of the firstfruits.
9. With the burnt offering and the meal offering there was the drink offering wine.
10. The resurrected Christ in His human life who lived absolutely for God and was poured out on the cross, offered to God in His resurrection for God's enjoyment.
11.

Lev Msg 51

1. Two things: holiness in enjoying the holy things and the acceptable way for the offering of a vow and a freewill offering.
2. A vow is much stronger than a freewill offering. Once made, a vow is something is very stable, and it must be kept.
3. The vow offered to God eventually becomes a burnt offering with the significance of being absolute for God for our entire life.
4. Three kinds of offering, a vow, a freewill offering, and a peace offering may become a burnt offering for us to be absolute for God.
5. We should not offer to God as food the Christ whom we have experienced with the spiritual function damaged in any way.
6. Our experience of Christ must grow to the level of resurrection before it will be accepted as an offering to God for His food.
7. Our offering to God must match the measure of the divine life we have experienced.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Lev Msg 50

1. Although we have been regenerated into the holy priesthood, we might still be disqualified from the priesthood in some ways, even in many ways.
2. As God's priests, we are actually God's cooks. For us to offer Christ to God means that we cook Christ as God's food for His satisfaction.
3. When we bear the highest priesthood today, we also shall have to control our natural affection, not defiling ourselves even by our affection for our parents.
4. Among us who is deficient in Christ is not able to take care of Christ as food offered to God.

Lev Msg 49

1. To put off the living of the Egyptians and the Canaanites was to put off the old man, and to live a life according to God's holiness is to put on the new man.
2. Regulations without judgments are statues; regulations with judgments are ordinances.
3. To have God's holy living is to live a holy life according to God's holiness.
4. When we have the Lord's table we enjoy Christ as our peace offering for our fellowships with God with one another.
5. Our enjoyment of Christ as the peace offering for our fellowship with God and with one another should be fresh.
6. We should come to the Lord's table with something new by having a new repentance, a new confession, a new dealing, and a new touch with the Lord.
7. To live by the life of God on the one hand and by the flesh on the other is a mixture. Such mixture is not acceptable to God.
8. The word of God that is ministered should not be mixed with the word of the world.
9. Those living in the life of the NT should not live by the ordinances of the OT.
10. If we are not proper with Christ, who is our good land, He will vomit us out and not allow us to enjoy Him anymore.
11. In order to live a life that matches our service to God, we must live a high standard of humanity.

Lev Msg 48

1. God is holy, so the living of the priests as God's serving ones should also be holy.
2. The application of the sacrifices is not a matter of our choice, desire, intention, and enjoyment; it is a matter of God's intention, desire, and choice.
3. Christ is the one sacrifice becoming five sacrifices, or one sacrifice in five aspects.
4. Whereas the sacrifices refer to Christ's person, the blood refers to Christ's work.
5. To apply Christ in an abusive way is to apply Him without regulation, restriction, or limitation.
6. If we apply Christ in a denominated place and not in the church, we shall be cut off from the proper fellowship of God's people.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Lev Msg 47

1. The bull was for Aaron and his household, and the goat was for the entire people of Israel.
2. Putting the blood of the bull and of the goat on the horns of the altar all around signifies that the efficacy of the redemption on the cross is twoard the four corners of the earth.
3. Whereas the blood sprinkled on the altar is for our peace, the blood sprinkled on the propitiatory cover is for God's satisfaction.
4. After we have received the redemption of the Lord Jesus and the problem of our sins has been solved, we need the cleansing of the Spirit that we may take Christ as our burnt offering to live for God by the life of Christ.
5. If Christ's redemption only removed our sin but did not enable us to live for God absolutely, His redemption would not be complete.
6. With the sin offering, we have two things: Christ as the incense burned on the incense altar and the heart of Christ signified by the fat burned on the offering altar.
7. To be outside the camp is to be outside organized religion bearing the Lord's reproach.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Lev Msg 46

1. God is love, light, holy, and righteous.
2. He has loved us to such an extent that in eternity past He prepared a way first to cover our sins and then to remove them.
3. In the OT, God's economy was to cover man's sins; in the NT, God's economy is to take away man's sins.
4. Atonement is to cause two parties to be one. Atonement equals to redemption in the OT.
5. We need a sin offering to solve the root problem of our sin. We need a burnt offering so that we can be for God.
6. Man's coming to God must be through Christ as his sin offering and his burnt offering.
7. The one who comes near to God should take Christ as his righteousness and holiness in order that he may cover his entire being and express Christ.
8. First we experience Christ as the sin offering and as the burnt offering, and then we minister what we have experienced to others so that they may have the same experience.
9. Sin came from Satan and entered into man, and there is no way for fallen man to get rid of it. But Christ died on the cross for our sins and as our sin offering. The cross gives Christ the position, the strength, the power, and the authority to take sin away and send it back to Satan.
10. His being burned as the incense to be our acceptance before God depends on His death on the cross for our sins.
11.

Friday, March 28, 2008

Lev Msg 45

1. First factor is our contact with people. Second is the uncleanness of our birth. Third is our leprous condition. Forth is our discharge with its uncleanness and contagion.
2. Whatever issues from man's natural life, whether good or bad, is filthy.
3. The uncleanness of the issue of man's natural life should be ended (death) that there might be a new beginning (resurrection).
4. We need the cross of Christ, the resurrection of Christ, and the Holy Spirit as the water of life in the word of God.
5. As fallen, corrupted people, we need to be broken.
6. Man living by his natural life needs not only the redemption of Christ to deal with his sinful nature, but also the life of Christ that he may live for God.
7. If we stay in Christ's death, resurrection, Spirit, life, and word, we shall have a proper Christian life and church life.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Lev Msg 44

1. The leprosy in a house signifies sins and evils in the church.
2. When the condition of a church becomes abnormal, God causes the leprous sin to appear in the church, reminding and warning the believers that they no longer have a house to live in and are no longer able to enjoy all the blessings God promised in His salvation.
3. In order to stop the contagion, we should be careful about our talking, for gossiping will spread the disease.
4. The priest's examining the house is a kind of grace for healing.
5. Putting other stones in the place of the removed stones signifies the using of other believers to fill up the gap.
6. If the situation of a church reaches the point where it cannot be cured, healed, then it will be necessary for that church to be terminated.
7. We need to ask the Lord to be merciful to us that none of us will be those lying down or caring only for our eating. We should be those who serve in the church.
8. The blood of the bird signifies the blood of Christ, the water signifies the cleansing Spirit, and the oil signifies the anointing Spirit.
9. We should pray for ourselves that we might be able to bring something new of Christ into the church life. We should not pray too much for others or about the situation.
10. The more we experience Christ in a new way, the more the church will be healed.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Lev Msg 43

1. Leprosy, sin, rebellion, and Satan are synonyms.
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Monday, March 24, 2008

Lev Msg 42

1. To be healed is one thing, and to be cleansed is another.
2. The color scarlet signifies the shedding of blood.
3. Scarlet also implies kingship.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Lev Msg 41

1. Leprosy in a garment signifies the filthiness in one's outward living, conduct, contact with people.
2. Our conduct should be in meekness, in plainness, and in warmness.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Lev Msg 40

1. It is easy for leprosy to be hidden within human glory and dignity.
2. Clothes signify our conduct, our daily walk.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Lev Msg 39

1. Being a sinner is a matter of our birth.
2. The cause of the leprosy is from the outside, but the effect is inward.
3. In order to live a holy life, we must deal with our contact with things, with our birth, and with our leprous condition.
4. Leprosy is the outcome of a certain cause, which is rebellion against God's authority, against God's deputy authority, against God's regulation, and against God's economy.
5. Sin is actually leprosy.
6. Unruliness is a kind of eruption.
7. Friction with others also indicates leprosy. The same is with pride and self-exaltation.
8. Justifying ourselves, that is, excusing ourselves and not confessing our failures, mistakes, and wrongdoings, is a symptom of spiritual leprosy.
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Monday, March 17, 2008

Lev Msg 38

1. Christ is the unique male, and all those who are married to Him are females.
2. We do not become unclean simply by contacting something unclean; we are unclean already by birth.
3. The flesh of the unclean person should be put aside through the death of Christ that he might be brought into the resurrection of Christ, not only to be cleansed but also to have a new beginning of life.
4. To be circumcised simply means to be put to death and buried.
5. After our uncleanness by birth is fully dealt with, we need Christ to be our burnt offering for our not being for God and to be our sin offering for our sin.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Lev Msg 37

1. As long as there is a carcass, there is death.
2. Since knowledge is related to death, the more knowledge we have, the more we are involved with death.
3. To abstain from gossip is to abstain from death.
4. It is political to have a purpose, an intention, when we give something to a brother.
5. The issue of giving a book with this intention is the forming of a party, and such a party will spread death.
6. In the sight of God, human beings are the most defiling element.
7. Our daily walk should be washed from the defilement of death.
8. The spring of living water signifies the Spirit, and the cistern of the living water signifies Christ, who holds the living water.
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Monday, March 10, 2008

Lev Msg 36

1. In Leviticus 11, the things we eat sisgnify people, and eating signifies our contacting of people.
2. If we intend to live a holy life as required by the holy God, we need to be careful about our contact with people.
3. Beasts that divide the hoof and chew the cud signify persons who have discernment in their activities and who receive the word of God with much reconsideration.
4. Fins help fish to move, to act, in water according to their wishes.
5. Scales protect the fish and keep those fish which live in salt water from being salted.
6. We should be like birds, living and moving in a life that is away from and above the world and that we should take the things of life as our supply of life.
7. Those (insects) who are without wings and jointed legs cannot leave the world at all.

Friday, March 7, 2008

Lev Msg 35

1. Christ is the Maker, the Creator, of the universe and that He is also the Upholder of the universe He created.
2. As the High Priest, Christ is the One who went back to God from us and with us.
3. As the Apostle, Christ came to us with God to share God with us that we may partake of the divine life, nature, and fullness.
4. Christ, as a Minister of the true tabernacle, ministers heaven (which is not only a place but a condition of life) into us, so that we may live a heavenly life on earth as He did while He was here.
5. By sprinkling His blood in the heavens before God, Christ has found, obtained, procured, eternal redemption for us.
6. Christ is our perpetual due. This means that Christ is our eternal portion for us to enjoy.
7. Real worship is to give Christ to God as a present, as a gift, and then to enjoy this gift with God.
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Thursday, March 6, 2008

Lev Msg 34

1. The judging and correcting God continues to be merciful.
2. The best way to help a sinful brother is to be a person who lives in the fellowship of the Lord.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Lev Msg 33

1. In Ch 9, the holy fire consumed in the sense of accepting; in Ch. 10, the file consumed in the sense of judging.
2. Strange fire signifies man's natural enthusiasm, natural affection, natural strength, and natural ability offered to God.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Lev Msg 32

1. As we confess our mistakes, failures, and wrongdoings, we spontaneously take Christ as our sin offering and trespass offering.
2. When we serve God with Christ as the offerings according to God's regulations and not according to our own choice, we will often enjoy the appearing of God's glory.
3. Our experience of Christ affects the meetings; it especially affects, even determines, the atmosphere of the church meetings.
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Friday, February 29, 2008

Lev Msg 31

1. We today need to learn how to apply Christ according to God's requests.
2. The priestly service we render to God must be in resurrection.
3. Propitiation refers to the appeasing of a situation between two parties by doing something for one party to satisfy the demands of the other party.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Lev Msg 30

1. The redeeming blood of Christ cleanses our ears for hearing, our hands for working, and our feet for walking.
2. If a sister wants to have a good husband, she should not speak to him negatively but should talk to him about God, Christ, grace, the gospel, and the divine light.
3. I claimed to be a priest of God, yet I practiced my priesthood in ignorance.
4. Christ as the redeeming One with His humanity is our food.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Lev Msg 29

1. The anointing oil signifies whatever God is, whatever He does, and whatever He will do are ours.
2. We need the sin offering not only to be forgiven by God but also to be reminded of what we are.
3. The redeeming blood cleanses our ears, our hands, and our feet for the assuming of our New Testament priesthood.
4. Our moving and working are always under the direction of our hearing.
5. The purpose of the consecration offering is not to deal with our sin and trespasses but to deal particularly with our ear, our thumb, and our toe, that is, with our listening, our working, and our acting.
6. The unleavened cake, the cake of oiled bread, and the one wafer indicate respectively that we have Christ as our daily food without sin, that we have Christ as our daily food mingled with the Spirit, and the we have Christ as the food that is so available and easy to take in and that is good for feeding the young ones.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Lev Msg 28

1. Consecration is on our side, and ordination is on God's side.
2. Moses' clothing the sons of Aaron with priestly garments signifies that the New Testament priests are adorned with all the attributes and virtues of Christ.
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Monday, February 25, 2008

Lev Msg 27

1. The peace offering for thanksgiving is a weaker offering, and its enjoyment cannot be carried from one day to the next.
2. The unclean person who partakes of Christ as his peace, as at the Lord's table, shall be put aside from the fellowship of the enjoyment of Christ.
3. We who enjoy Christ as our offering to God should keep the excellent part of the person of Christ for God that we might not be put aside from the fellowship of the enjoyment of Christ.
4. The top part of the peace offering is for God; it is burned by fire and goes to God. The loving part, the breast, is alloted to us, the serving ones, for our enjoyment.
5. The more we minister Christ as the peace offering and the more we offer Christ as the peace offering to God, the more we will have the loving capacity and the strengthening power of Christ.
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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Lev Msg 26

1. Being absolute for God is the foundation, the base, for our Savior's being our sin offering and trespass offering.
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Friday, February 22, 2008

Lev Msg 25

1. Every law in letters is written according to a certain life.
2. In the new creation, there is a new life, and within this new life, there is a new law.
3. To preach Christ to others as the sin offering, we as the earthen vessels need to be broken.
4. We must enjoy in a way chosen by God.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Lev Msg 24

1. The meal offering is offered to God in His presence, but it must be offered in relation to the redemption of Christ on the cross.
2. Our enjoyment of Christ must be holy, it must be in a sanctified realm, and it must be in the sphere of the church life.
3. A brother who is a physician may carry out his medical practice as a priestly service, preaching the gospel to unbelievers to bring them to Christ and ministering life to believers.
4. If we do our daily work without serving God as a priest, we cannot share in the real enjoyment of Christ.
5. The meal offering is only for the priests, and it is prevailing only in the priestly service.
6.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Lev Msg 23

1. Worldly parents certainly do not teach their children to offer themselves to God to be burned.
2. To be burned to ashes is a matter not of enjoyment but of suffering.
3. After seeming to disappear for a while, He will spontaneously appear to us again.
4. When we are burned by God, we should be happy because this burning means that God is receiving us.
5. The more God burns us, the more He accepts us.
6. In resurrection, the ashes become precious materials - gold, pearls, and precious stones for the building of the New Jerusalem.
7. Regardless of how much we feel that we are enjoying Christ, if we do not have the real offering of the burnt offering, our enjoyment is in self-deceit.
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Monday, February 18, 2008

Lev Msg 22

1. Among God's people, there may be three kinds of death: wild death, mild death, and subtle death.
2. Instead of expressing our opinion about a matter, we should say nothing and, if necessary, bring the matter to the Lord, praying and asking Him to show us whether we should have a share in it or stay away from it.
3. The trespass offering not only includes the sin offering and the burnt offering, but it even refers to the humanity of Jesus.
4. The reason that we have sin in us and are not absolute for God is that we are lacking the humanity of Jesus.
5. The experience of the trespass offering is the result of our enjoyment of Christ as the burnt offering, the meal offering, the peace offering, the meal offering, the peace offering, and the sin offering in the fellowship of God and in the divine light.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Lev Msg 21

1. The trespass offering signifies Christ as our offering resolving the problem of sins in our conduct.
2. When God judged Jesus, He judged the flesh and sin.
3. A trespass offering is out of the inward sin and out of not living for God.
4. When we are not for God, we are careless in talking about others.
5. The sin offering takes care of the source; the trespass offering takes care of the children, or the fruits, produced from this source.
6. The spreading of gossip and criticism is the spreading of spiritual death.
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Thursday, February 7, 2008

Lev Msg 20

1. The power struggle is of 5 items: flesh, sin, Satan, the world, and the prince of the world.
2. Enjoying Christ as the burnt offering will lead us to take Him as our life supply, as our meal offering, which is Christ in His humanity becoming our daily food.
3. The law of sin is simply the spontaneous power, strength, and energy to struggle with God.
4. The ashes are for the offerers' assurance and peace in their heart concerning God's redemption of their sin.
5. The burnt offering means that mankind, created by God for the purpose of expressing and representing Him, should be for nothing other than God and should be absolutely for God.
6. Lord, save me from doing anything for my pride, my name, my promotion, my benefit, and for my interests.
7. As we take Him as our sin offering more deeply than ever, this causes us to enjoy Him more as the burnt offering.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Lev Msg 19

1. These five things are one matter: the flesh, sin, Satan, the world, and the prince of the world.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Lev Msg 18

1. As we are having fellowship with God and enjoying Him, we will realize that between us and God there is a problem, and this problem is sin.
2. The issue of our experience of the first three offerings is fellowship with God, who is light.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Lev Msg 17

1. When Christ satisfies us, He becomes the peace between us and God.
2. The only way to have peace is to enjoy Christ every day.
3. Meal offering is equivalent to life supply.
4. Here a goat signifies that some enjoy Christ as a goat, not much in His perfection and beauty.
5. The peace offering was slaughtered at the door of the tent of meeting signifying Christ was slain on earth before God.
6. The blood of the peace offering gives us peace and assurance.
7. Thank You, Lord. My sins have been forgiven. I know this because I see Your blood. The blood is the evidence that God has forgiven my sins.
8. Not eating the fat and the blood signifies that the best part of Christ is for God's satisfaction and that His blood for our redemption satisfies God's requirements.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Lev Msg 16

1. The church life described in 1 Corinthians corresponds to the life of the Lord Jesus.
2. To be a man means that we should have a high, uplifted humanity.
3. Christ is God's present, God's gift to us.
4. We are a part of the Lord in our life experience.
5. The grace of God which we enjoy is Christ in resurrection.
6. The slaves have a particular opportunity to demonstrate the reality of resurrection and to glorify Christ by living a life that overcomes slavery.
7. We all can be men oiled with the Spirit and joined to the Spirit to be one spirit, and we can be fully in resurrection, manifesting the fragrance of the resurrected Christ.
8. If we would have power in preaching the gospel, we need to live a crucified life.
9. Partaking of the bread and cup is a matter of fellowship. We partake of the bread and the cup in a corporate way.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Lev Msg 15

1. In Himself, Christ is the reality of the offerings, but He cannot be this reality to us apart from His being the life-giving Spirit.
2. The fine flour signifies Christ's humanity, which is balanced and fine.
3. The oil signifies divinity.
4. The sweet savor of frankincense signifies the fragrance of Christ's resurrection.
5. Salt signifies the death, or the cross, of Christ.
6. To drink the Lord's cup and to be baptized with the baptism with which He has been baptized are to experience His death, to have His death applied to us in our experience.
7. The Lord rejected His natural life and lived by the life of the Father. This is resurrection.
8. The meal offering can either be in the form of flour mingled with oil, or it may be in the form of a cake.
9. The salt will deal with the leaven, with the germs of sin; the salt will also deal with the honey, putting the natural life to death.

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Lev Msg 14

1. A high priest was to offer something to God not only to make propitiation but also to please God.
2. The offerings are for satisfying God and for satisfying, strengthening, and energizing God's serving ones.
3. The Spirit of reality is the transfiguration of Christ.
4. The more we eat Christ, the more we will be filled with Him and be satisfied with Him. This will enable us to serve God and to worship Him
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Saturday, January 12, 2008

Lev Msg 13

1. No leaven signifies there is no sin or any negative thing in Christ.
2. There is no natural affection or natural good in Christ.
3. The death of Christ, the cross, is signified by the salt.
4. We may experience Christ as the cakes, as something solid and with a definite form.
5. Christ as cakes is good for the strong ones, and Christ as wafers is good for the young ones.
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Lev Msg 12

1. In the burnt offering, the main item is the blood. In the meal offering, the main items are the oil and the frankincense.
2. The oil is for mingling and anointing, and the frankincense is to be put on the meal offering.
3. We need propitiation because we are short in being absolute for God.
4. Propitiation appeases the situation between us and God and settles certain problems.
5. The meal offering is a matter of Christ as the satisfaction of God's people enjoyed together with God.
6. The way to eat Jesus is by the Spirit.
7. To eat Jesus, to take Jesus, to enjoy Jesus, we must touch His word, and when we touch His word, the Spirit is there.
8. We can enjoy Christ by exercising our spirit to pray-read the word.
9. Christ's humanity is mingled with God, mingled with the Spirit, for the Spirit is His very being. Therefore, when we touch Christ, we touch the Spirit.
10. All the believers are one with Christ, not only merely in combination or in union but one in mingling.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Lev Msg 11

1. The burnt offering emphasizes Christ's living for God and the meal offering emphasizes Christ's human living and daily walk.
2. The burnt offering emphasizes that Christ is the righteousness of God and the meal offering emphasizes that Christ is righteous before God.
3. The only way to overcome temper is to live another person, the One who is not temper but the righteousness of God.
4. The fine flour is perfect in fineness, evenness, tenderness, and gentleness and is fully balanced, with no excess and no deficiency.
5. The frankincense in the meal offering signifies the fragrance of Christ in His resurrection.
6. The oil of the meal offering signifies the Spirit of God.
7. During the course of His human life, Christ suffered a great deal, but the aroma of His resurrection was manifested out from His sufferings.
8. Because the Lord Jesus lived daily under the cross, He always expressed resurrection from His humanity mingled with His divinity.
9. Nothing is as sweet, as fragrant, as this aroma of resurrection. This was Christ's human living on earth.
10. In real worship Christ as the burnt offering ascends to God, and Christ as the meal offering enters our being.

Friday, January 4, 2008

Lev Msg 10

1. Experiencing Christ in His experiences is not a matter of imitating Christ outwardly but is instead a matter of living Christ.
2. In order to live Christ, we need to call on Him and enjoy Him.