1. Our situation.
2. Christ's redemption or His propitiation.
3. The riches of the processed and consummated Triune God.
4. The jubilee.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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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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.
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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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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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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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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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.
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.
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2. The feast of tabernacles will take place not in the new heaven and new earth but on the restored earth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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