Truth:
1. He reigns not only in our hearts but also in the tent of David. Christ reigning in the tent of David signifies consolation, encouragement, and restoration.
2. For Him to reign in us in the tent of David means that He reigns in us with a kingdom.
3. Lovingkindness means tender affection. All of us can approach His throne because lovingkindness is there.
4. To judge is to adjust and correct in order to make peace. Christ is the unique Judge in the whole universe.
Life experience/Application:
1. If we are under His ruling, His reigning, we will be the same as He is in these virtues -- lovingkindnes, truthfulness, faithfulness, justice, and righteousness.
2. Lord, we do not ever want to plant plants for another god. We want to always remember You.
3. He not only saves us in many ways but also defends us at the time of need.
4. We have such a Teacher who will no longer hide Himself in a corner from His people but will always instruct His people to turn to the right or turn to the left at the crossroad.
5. Today we are enjoying Him in these four aspects in the age of grace as a foretaste. Christ is our King, our eternal Rock, our Savior as our mighty Defender, and our Teacher. Every day He is teaching us. He is no longer hiding. Whenever we come to a crossroad, He is there at the corner, telling us whether we should to the right or to the left.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Isa Msg 40
Truth:
1. The fountain is the source, the spring is the issue of the source, and the waterbrook, or the river, is the flow.
2. The springs issue out of the fountain. The springs are Christ. These springs become the rivers, which are the Spirit.
3. God as our salvation is the fountain; Christ is the springs of salvation for our enjoyment and experience; and the Spirit is the flow of this salvation within us.
4. Salvation is based upon redemption. Based upon His redemption, He as our Redeemer becomes our Savior and our salvation.
Life experience/Application:
1. When God's salvation is experienced by us, this salvation becomes our strength, and eventually it will be our song, our praising.
2. If we want the Lord to save us, we must drink Him. They way to receive the processed Triune God is by drinking Him. When the water gets into us, it permeates our entire being. The way that we get nourished, transformed, conformed, and glorified is by drinking Christ into us.
3. The water that we drink passes through our entire being, is assimilated by us, and even becomes us.
4. Jesus to breathe the Name of Jesus is to drink of life indeed.
5. By calling "O Lord Jesus" we breathe, and by breathing we drink.
6. Praising Jehovah and calling upon His name are put together as one. Whenever we call on the name of the Lord, that implies praising. When we say, "O Lord Jesus, I love You," this is praising and breathing.
7. We human beings are altogether weak, frail, fragile, and mortal. We cannot do anything apart from the Lord.
8. When we breathe in this air, we get the water because the water is in the air. This illustrates that our breathing is also our drinking. Spiritually, our calling is our breathing, and our breathing is our drinking.
1. The fountain is the source, the spring is the issue of the source, and the waterbrook, or the river, is the flow.
2. The springs issue out of the fountain. The springs are Christ. These springs become the rivers, which are the Spirit.
3. God as our salvation is the fountain; Christ is the springs of salvation for our enjoyment and experience; and the Spirit is the flow of this salvation within us.
4. Salvation is based upon redemption. Based upon His redemption, He as our Redeemer becomes our Savior and our salvation.
Life experience/Application:
1. When God's salvation is experienced by us, this salvation becomes our strength, and eventually it will be our song, our praising.
2. If we want the Lord to save us, we must drink Him. They way to receive the processed Triune God is by drinking Him. When the water gets into us, it permeates our entire being. The way that we get nourished, transformed, conformed, and glorified is by drinking Christ into us.
3. The water that we drink passes through our entire being, is assimilated by us, and even becomes us.
4. Jesus to breathe the Name of Jesus is to drink of life indeed.
5. By calling "O Lord Jesus" we breathe, and by breathing we drink.
6. Praising Jehovah and calling upon His name are put together as one. Whenever we call on the name of the Lord, that implies praising. When we say, "O Lord Jesus, I love You," this is praising and breathing.
7. We human beings are altogether weak, frail, fragile, and mortal. We cannot do anything apart from the Lord.
8. When we breathe in this air, we get the water because the water is in the air. This illustrates that our breathing is also our drinking. Spiritually, our calling is our breathing, and our breathing is our drinking.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Isa Msg 39
Truth:
1. A twig coming out from a dried and dead stump is a strong indication of the restoring power in this life.
2. The branch signifies that this life has the deepening power, the growing power, and the fruit-bearing power.
3. A banner is full of explanation, description, and instruction. A standard is to call the people and to gather the people.
4. Christ as the twig becomes the banner and as the branch becomes the standard.
5. Christ stands as a banner indicates being full of strength and ability.
6. Christ as the banner to the peoples and the standard to the nations will bring in the return of God's people and the submission of the Gentiles.
7. God's chastisement of His chosen people and His judgment of the nations ushers in Christ.
Life experience/Application:
1. If we are jealous of each other and hostile to each other, we cannot be together to plunder the people from the west and from the east, and they will not fall into the grasp of our hand and submit to us.
2. Lord, make me full of restoration of life.
1. A twig coming out from a dried and dead stump is a strong indication of the restoring power in this life.
2. The branch signifies that this life has the deepening power, the growing power, and the fruit-bearing power.
3. A banner is full of explanation, description, and instruction. A standard is to call the people and to gather the people.
4. Christ as the twig becomes the banner and as the branch becomes the standard.
5. Christ stands as a banner indicates being full of strength and ability.
6. Christ as the banner to the peoples and the standard to the nations will bring in the return of God's people and the submission of the Gentiles.
7. God's chastisement of His chosen people and His judgment of the nations ushers in Christ.
Life experience/Application:
1. If we are jealous of each other and hostile to each other, we cannot be together to plunder the people from the west and from the east, and they will not fall into the grasp of our hand and submit to us.
2. Lord, make me full of restoration of life.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Isa Msg 38
Truth:
1. The completion of His being sent by God is accomplished in three ways: by His building up of the church, by His preparing of Israel, and by His adjustment, His judging, of the nations.
2. He is so full of the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of Jehovah.
3. His being the Shoot of Jehovah indicates His divinity. His being a twig from the stem of Jesse and a branch from the roots of Jesse indicates His humanity.
4. A twig from the stem of Jesse indicates the restoring power of life in freshness.
5. The roots of Jesse indicate the hidden deepening power of life.
6. A twig is the beginning of a branch, and a branch is for fruitfulness.
7. The administration of Jehovah is of two items -- righteousness and justice.
8. Equity is justice.
9. Righteousness girds His loins, making Him strong, faithfulness girds His hips, making Him steady.
10. Because the church life is a foretaste of the coming age, all the "wolves," "leopards," "bears," "lions," and "vipers" should have their nature changed.
Life experience/Application:
1. There are many places to which we dare not go, because we have the fear of Jehovah.
2.
1. The completion of His being sent by God is accomplished in three ways: by His building up of the church, by His preparing of Israel, and by His adjustment, His judging, of the nations.
2. He is so full of the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of Jehovah.
3. His being the Shoot of Jehovah indicates His divinity. His being a twig from the stem of Jesse and a branch from the roots of Jesse indicates His humanity.
4. A twig from the stem of Jesse indicates the restoring power of life in freshness.
5. The roots of Jesse indicate the hidden deepening power of life.
6. A twig is the beginning of a branch, and a branch is for fruitfulness.
7. The administration of Jehovah is of two items -- righteousness and justice.
8. Equity is justice.
9. Righteousness girds His loins, making Him strong, faithfulness girds His hips, making Him steady.
10. Because the church life is a foretaste of the coming age, all the "wolves," "leopards," "bears," "lions," and "vipers" should have their nature changed.
Life experience/Application:
1. There are many places to which we dare not go, because we have the fear of Jehovah.
2.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Isa Msg 37
Truth:
1. Christ is the great light for the shining in darkness and for the release from bondage.
2. In the entire universe, light is the key to life.
3. When we have light, everything is in order. When we see everything, we have peace.
4. Darkness is the shadow of death.
5. He shines upon the people walking in darkness, shining upon those dwelling in the shadow of death.
6. His shining is our salvation, and His shining is His saving of us. By His shining, darkness is gone.
7. The shining of the light is the release, and the darkness is the bondage.
8. Christ as the great light destroys our enemies and destroys their armor.
9. The Lord Jesus fights against His enemy by fire.
10. The release from bondage is actually the multiplication of God's people. The more God's people are released from bondage, the more they are multiplied.
11. Whenever there is a harvest, there is joy.
12. On the one hand, we are the farmers, on the other hand, we are the warriors, the fighters. We have the gladness of the harvest and the gladness of the warriors dividing their spoil from their victory.
Life experience/Application:
1. Light subdues, defeats, and overcomes darkness. A brother may be quarreling with his wife, but when the light shines within him, he stops quarreling.
2. We need more shining because the inner shining is His saving.
3. Christ saves us by shining in us. What can stop the unpleasant situation between roommates? Christ as the light can stop this. This is why we need a morning revival with the Lord. In the morning when we are in the Word and in the Lord, the Lord takes the opportunity to shine into us.
4. In addition to our time of morning revival, we need to walk in Christ as the light. Just as we wash our hands many times a day, we need the washing of His blood through the confessing of our sins under the shining of His light many times a day.
1. Christ is the great light for the shining in darkness and for the release from bondage.
2. In the entire universe, light is the key to life.
3. When we have light, everything is in order. When we see everything, we have peace.
4. Darkness is the shadow of death.
5. He shines upon the people walking in darkness, shining upon those dwelling in the shadow of death.
6. His shining is our salvation, and His shining is His saving of us. By His shining, darkness is gone.
7. The shining of the light is the release, and the darkness is the bondage.
8. Christ as the great light destroys our enemies and destroys their armor.
9. The Lord Jesus fights against His enemy by fire.
10. The release from bondage is actually the multiplication of God's people. The more God's people are released from bondage, the more they are multiplied.
11. Whenever there is a harvest, there is joy.
12. On the one hand, we are the farmers, on the other hand, we are the warriors, the fighters. We have the gladness of the harvest and the gladness of the warriors dividing their spoil from their victory.
Life experience/Application:
1. Light subdues, defeats, and overcomes darkness. A brother may be quarreling with his wife, but when the light shines within him, he stops quarreling.
2. We need more shining because the inner shining is His saving.
3. Christ saves us by shining in us. What can stop the unpleasant situation between roommates? Christ as the light can stop this. This is why we need a morning revival with the Lord. In the morning when we are in the Word and in the Lord, the Lord takes the opportunity to shine into us.
4. In addition to our time of morning revival, we need to walk in Christ as the light. Just as we wash our hands many times a day, we need the washing of His blood through the confessing of our sins under the shining of His light many times a day.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Isa Msg 36
Truth:
1. Isaiah 8:14-15 reveals that Christ is a sanctuary to the positive ones. he is also seen as a stone to the strike against, a rock of stumbling, a trap, and a snare to the negative ones.
2. The tabernacle and the temple were not only the dwelling place of God but also the dwelling place of His serving ones, the priests.
3. In John 1 He is God's tabernacle; in John 2 He is God's temple.
4. Christ as the Head and we as the members of His Body are the temple of God. Eventually, this temple will consummate in the New Jerusalem, the enlarged, extended sanctuary of God.
5. The church life is a life in which we take our God, our Lord, our Christ as our sanctuary and as our roommate.
6. The New Jerusalem is the aggregate of God and man living together. For eternity God will love man, man will love God, and God and man will live together as roommates.
7. The One, who is Jehovah's Shoot to branch out Jehovah, in His divinity, into humanity, would be the sanctuary of all His chosen ones.
8. The Pharisees and the Jewish leaders struck against Christ as a stone, and the unbelieving ones stumbled at Christ as a rock.
9. To the negative ones, He is a stone to strike against, a rock of stumbling, a trap, and a snare.
Life experience/Application:
1. We enjoy God as our sunshine, our drinking water, our food, and our air when we dwell in Him as our sanctuary, our dwelling place.
2. The only way that we can enjoy God in every way is to live in Him, taking Him as our sanctuary and living with Him as our roommate.
1. Isaiah 8:14-15 reveals that Christ is a sanctuary to the positive ones. he is also seen as a stone to the strike against, a rock of stumbling, a trap, and a snare to the negative ones.
2. The tabernacle and the temple were not only the dwelling place of God but also the dwelling place of His serving ones, the priests.
3. In John 1 He is God's tabernacle; in John 2 He is God's temple.
4. Christ as the Head and we as the members of His Body are the temple of God. Eventually, this temple will consummate in the New Jerusalem, the enlarged, extended sanctuary of God.
5. The church life is a life in which we take our God, our Lord, our Christ as our sanctuary and as our roommate.
6. The New Jerusalem is the aggregate of God and man living together. For eternity God will love man, man will love God, and God and man will live together as roommates.
7. The One, who is Jehovah's Shoot to branch out Jehovah, in His divinity, into humanity, would be the sanctuary of all His chosen ones.
8. The Pharisees and the Jewish leaders struck against Christ as a stone, and the unbelieving ones stumbled at Christ as a rock.
9. To the negative ones, He is a stone to strike against, a rock of stumbling, a trap, and a snare.
Life experience/Application:
1. We enjoy God as our sunshine, our drinking water, our food, and our air when we dwell in Him as our sanctuary, our dwelling place.
2. The only way that we can enjoy God in every way is to live in Him, taking Him as our sanctuary and living with Him as our roommate.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Isa Msg 35
Truth:
1. The word child in these verses implies God, implies man, implies God becoming a man, and implies God and man mingled together as one.
2. He was a human child born of a human virgin, yet He was also the very God.
3. The divine essence out of the Holy spirit has been generated in Mary's womb before she delivered the child Jesus.
4. This God-man is Emmanuel, and He is also God the Savior.
5. He is God coming from divinity and with divinity into humanity to be Jehovah the Savior to save us from sin, on the negative side, and to save us to God, on the positive side.
Life experience/Application:
1. God came as grace and reality for us to receive Him, gain Him, and enjoy Him. We had nothing real until we received the incarnated God.
2. Whenever we go to Jesus, He IMMEDIATELY gives us the counsel. In all of our relationships with others, He is our Counselor to give us the best counsel.
3. When we have Him, we have His ruling, His government, His peace. If we would silently receive the cross and receive Christ as the Prince ruling over us, we would immediately have peace within.
1. The word child in these verses implies God, implies man, implies God becoming a man, and implies God and man mingled together as one.
2. He was a human child born of a human virgin, yet He was also the very God.
3. The divine essence out of the Holy spirit has been generated in Mary's womb before she delivered the child Jesus.
4. This God-man is Emmanuel, and He is also God the Savior.
5. He is God coming from divinity and with divinity into humanity to be Jehovah the Savior to save us from sin, on the negative side, and to save us to God, on the positive side.
Life experience/Application:
1. God came as grace and reality for us to receive Him, gain Him, and enjoy Him. We had nothing real until we received the incarnated God.
2. Whenever we go to Jesus, He IMMEDIATELY gives us the counsel. In all of our relationships with others, He is our Counselor to give us the best counsel.
3. When we have Him, we have His ruling, His government, His peace. If we would silently receive the cross and receive Christ as the Prince ruling over us, we would immediately have peace within.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Isa Msg 34
Truth:
1. His robe is the first main item in the scene in Ch 6 because it fills the temple. The second item is the temple being filled with smoke. The third item is the seraphim.
2. The divine glory is signified by the smoke, holiness is signified by the seraphim, and the Lord's human virtues are signified by the train of His robe.
3. Human virtues depend upon righteousness.
4. The seraphim calling to each other signifies their fellowship with each other, indicating that they signify or represent the holiness of Christ.
5. Christ is expressed in His human virtues much more than in His divine glory.
6. Christ was wearing a long robe in this vision. This means that Christ's humanity is "long."
7. The glory filling the earth is universal, and the robe filling the temple is local.
8. A righteous person is a sanctified person.
9. Isaiah was sent by Christ to a people who were short of the divine glory, were violating the divine holiness, and were corrupt in the human virtues. He was sent by the Lord to lead Israel to express Christ's divine glory in His human virtues held in His holiness.
10. Righteousness is the base, the foundation, of God's salvation.
Life experience/Application:
1. To live Christ is to express Christ's divine glory in His holiness with His righteousness.
1. His robe is the first main item in the scene in Ch 6 because it fills the temple. The second item is the temple being filled with smoke. The third item is the seraphim.
2. The divine glory is signified by the smoke, holiness is signified by the seraphim, and the Lord's human virtues are signified by the train of His robe.
3. Human virtues depend upon righteousness.
4. The seraphim calling to each other signifies their fellowship with each other, indicating that they signify or represent the holiness of Christ.
5. Christ is expressed in His human virtues much more than in His divine glory.
6. Christ was wearing a long robe in this vision. This means that Christ's humanity is "long."
7. The glory filling the earth is universal, and the robe filling the temple is local.
8. A righteous person is a sanctified person.
9. Isaiah was sent by Christ to a people who were short of the divine glory, were violating the divine holiness, and were corrupt in the human virtues. He was sent by the Lord to lead Israel to express Christ's divine glory in His human virtues held in His holiness.
10. Righteousness is the base, the foundation, of God's salvation.
Life experience/Application:
1. To live Christ is to express Christ's divine glory in His holiness with His righteousness.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Isa msg 33
Truth:
1. Isaiah's central point is to show us how God made Christ the centrality and universality of His great move for the accomplishment of His economy.
2. The title Immanuel includes "Jehovah" and "the earth" because it means God with us, that is, God with man.
3. Christ as the Shoot of Jehovah is for the branching out of Jehovah God, in His divinity, into humanity.
4. Jesus was the divine title given by god. Immanuel, meaning God with us, was the name called by man.
5. Our God with His divine nature is our beauty and our glory. His divinity is our beauty and our glory.
6. Christ as the Fruit of the earth is for multiplication and reproduction of the divine life in humanity; humanity is the soil, the earth, for the Triune God to be multiplied and reproduced.
7. The canopy is covering, and the tabernacle is overshadowing. The canopy is of the divine glory, and the tabernacle is of Christ's grace in His humanity.
8. The Shoot of Jehovah and the Fruit of the earth, as the God-man in His divinity and His humanity as well, will be a covering canopy of the divine glory and an overshadowing tabernacle of grace in humanity.
9. The covering canopy of glory is also a cloud of smoke as a shade by day from the heat and the brightness of a fiery flame by night against the darkness.
10. He is presently overshadowing His believers in His grace as a daytime shade from the heat and as a refuge and a cover from storm and rain.
Life experience/Application:
1. We must live a life which expresses Christ's beauty and glory in a divine way and which expresses Christ's excellence and splendor in a human way.
2. Requirements to partake Christ in the age of restoration:
1) We should be people who have escaped any kind of bondage or slavery
2) Living and remaining in a holy life in God's chosen place -- the local church is Zion and the Body of Christ is Jerusalem
3) The judging and burning Spirit should work within us to wash away our filth and to cleanse away our bloodstains. We "kill" the saints through our gossiping and spreading of rumors.
1. Isaiah's central point is to show us how God made Christ the centrality and universality of His great move for the accomplishment of His economy.
2. The title Immanuel includes "Jehovah" and "the earth" because it means God with us, that is, God with man.
3. Christ as the Shoot of Jehovah is for the branching out of Jehovah God, in His divinity, into humanity.
4. Jesus was the divine title given by god. Immanuel, meaning God with us, was the name called by man.
5. Our God with His divine nature is our beauty and our glory. His divinity is our beauty and our glory.
6. Christ as the Fruit of the earth is for multiplication and reproduction of the divine life in humanity; humanity is the soil, the earth, for the Triune God to be multiplied and reproduced.
7. The canopy is covering, and the tabernacle is overshadowing. The canopy is of the divine glory, and the tabernacle is of Christ's grace in His humanity.
8. The Shoot of Jehovah and the Fruit of the earth, as the God-man in His divinity and His humanity as well, will be a covering canopy of the divine glory and an overshadowing tabernacle of grace in humanity.
9. The covering canopy of glory is also a cloud of smoke as a shade by day from the heat and the brightness of a fiery flame by night against the darkness.
10. He is presently overshadowing His believers in His grace as a daytime shade from the heat and as a refuge and a cover from storm and rain.
Life experience/Application:
1. We must live a life which expresses Christ's beauty and glory in a divine way and which expresses Christ's excellence and splendor in a human way.
2. Requirements to partake Christ in the age of restoration:
1) We should be people who have escaped any kind of bondage or slavery
2) Living and remaining in a holy life in God's chosen place -- the local church is Zion and the Body of Christ is Jerusalem
3) The judging and burning Spirit should work within us to wash away our filth and to cleanse away our bloodstains. We "kill" the saints through our gossiping and spreading of rumors.
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