Truth:
1. The 39 books of the OT may be considered as the element, and the first 39 chapters of Isaiah are the essence extracted from this element.
2. Revealing means manifesting. The revealing of the Lord Jehovah is the appearing of the very God, and this Lord Jehovah, the very God, is the Lord Jesus Christ. Jehovah, the Lord God, appears as the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior.
3. The church was not created. The church was built up with something that has come out of Christ.
4. Cyrus was God's counselor and Jehovah's shepherd.
5. God loves Israel, loves His kingdom signified by the city, and loves His house signified by the temple.
6. Cyrus supported the release of captives and provided a way for them to go back to their fathers' land. He charged them to go back to build up the temple of their God.
7. Cyrus was used by God to release God's captured elect, to build His house, His household, and to establish His kingdom on this earth.
8. Israel, as ones chosen by God, they are God's kingdom, God's house, and God's household.
9. Israel typifies Christ as the Witness of Jehovah.
10. Cyrus was not only serving God but also serving Israel. His pleasant service sent them back to their fathers' land and provided for them on the way.
11. Cyrus, the Gentile king, Israel, God's chosen people, and Isaiah, the prophet set up by God, all did the same thing to please God. They served to release God's people, to build up God's house, and to build up God's kingdom signified by the city.
12. We all are God's servants doing the same thing in the universe -- to release God's people, to build up His temple, the house, and to build up His kingdom, the city.
13. Cyrus, Israel, Isaiah, and Christ are one, serving Jehovah God for His good pleasure to make Him happy in releasing and raising up God's elect to build God's temple and God's city and to set up God's kingdom, which will be enlarged to consummate in the New Jerusalem.
Life experience/Application:
1. Each one of us needs to be today's Cyrus. Like Cyrus, we need to be birds of prey who go out to gain sinners for God's kingdom. The saved sinners are our prey.
2. We should not go to speak to others as professors. We should go to speak as learners, as trainees, as instructed and taught ones.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Isa Msg 44
Truth:
1. As the Servant of Jehovah, He is typified by three persons -- Cyrus, Isaiah, and Israel.
2. Isa. says in 40:9, "Here is your God!" As long as God is here, the glad tidings are here.
3. Jesus came in the way of incarnation, the way of entering into man and becoming a man to directly participate in man's humanity, partaking of man's blood and flesh.
4. When we heard the gospel, we saw Jesus, we were made alive, and we partook of His eternal life for our enjoyment.
5. He is the Ruler who comes as a mighty One to rule over us. He is also the Judge. He will either reward us or punish us. With Him is a reward on the positive side and a punishment, which is a recompense on the negative side.
6. His ruling and correcting is His shepherding. He is adjusting us not to go too fast or too slow, but to take the pace of the flock.
7. As the Shepherd, He also feeds His flock, gathers the lambs in His arm, carries them in His bosom, and leads those who are nursing the young.
Life experience/Application:
1. To prepare the way of Jehovah is to prepare our heart. Jesus comes with the intention of getting into our spirit, but to enter into our spirit, He must pass through our heart. The human heart is full of valleys, hills, crooked places, and rough places.
2. Every part and avenue of our heart need to be straightened by the Lord through repentance that the Lord may enter into us to be our life and take possession of us.
3. The more you listen to His speaking, the more you see Jehovah. Jesus is still speaking, and His words remain forever.
4. When I speak, I always exercise not to speak from myself. I exercise to speak the word of the Lord. When we speak in this way, the Lord is present in our speaking, and others are able to see Jesus.
5. If you have God, you have everything. If you have God, every problem will be solved, every lack will be supplied, and every shortage will be filled. We should pray adequately to be filled with God, to receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit.
6. We will realize that apart from Christ, we are even less than nothing, vanity, emptiness.
7. If a brother with a high position treasures this position, he will not be able to enjoy Christ that much.
1. As the Servant of Jehovah, He is typified by three persons -- Cyrus, Isaiah, and Israel.
2. Isa. says in 40:9, "Here is your God!" As long as God is here, the glad tidings are here.
3. Jesus came in the way of incarnation, the way of entering into man and becoming a man to directly participate in man's humanity, partaking of man's blood and flesh.
4. When we heard the gospel, we saw Jesus, we were made alive, and we partook of His eternal life for our enjoyment.
5. He is the Ruler who comes as a mighty One to rule over us. He is also the Judge. He will either reward us or punish us. With Him is a reward on the positive side and a punishment, which is a recompense on the negative side.
6. His ruling and correcting is His shepherding. He is adjusting us not to go too fast or too slow, but to take the pace of the flock.
7. As the Shepherd, He also feeds His flock, gathers the lambs in His arm, carries them in His bosom, and leads those who are nursing the young.
Life experience/Application:
1. To prepare the way of Jehovah is to prepare our heart. Jesus comes with the intention of getting into our spirit, but to enter into our spirit, He must pass through our heart. The human heart is full of valleys, hills, crooked places, and rough places.
2. Every part and avenue of our heart need to be straightened by the Lord through repentance that the Lord may enter into us to be our life and take possession of us.
3. The more you listen to His speaking, the more you see Jehovah. Jesus is still speaking, and His words remain forever.
4. When I speak, I always exercise not to speak from myself. I exercise to speak the word of the Lord. When we speak in this way, the Lord is present in our speaking, and others are able to see Jesus.
5. If you have God, you have everything. If you have God, every problem will be solved, every lack will be supplied, and every shortage will be filled. We should pray adequately to be filled with God, to receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit.
6. We will realize that apart from Christ, we are even less than nothing, vanity, emptiness.
7. If a brother with a high position treasures this position, he will not be able to enjoy Christ that much.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Isa Msg 42
Truth:
1. Isa 22:20-24 show that He is the Steward in God's house, He is the Father as the Source and Supplier to the people of God key-holder, a peg, throne of glory, and One upon whom hangs all the glory of His Father's house.
2. While Christ as the Steward serves us in God's house, He governs us. Christ is God's Steward taking care of God's children.
3. The house of David was for the establishment of the kingdom of David, and the house of God is for the establishment of the kingdom of God.
4. When the church as the house of God is adequately built up, the church is manifested as the kingdom of God.
5. The treasures today in the house of God are all the riches of Christ.
6. To be exalted to the third heaven is to be exalted to God the Father because the Father is in the third heaven.
7. The glory is the children of God as the offspring and issue of God, and these children of God are the vessels of Christ, hanging upon Him as the peg.
8. Glory refers to God's descendants, all of God's people. Offspring implies the second generation, and issue implies the later generations.
9. As the children of God, we are God's shooting out and also God's growth.
10. Today in God's house, on the one hand, we are God's children, and on the other hand, we are the vessels. Whether we are small cups or bulging bottles, we are all vessels.
11. Cups, or bowls, are small vessels to contain water, and bulging bottles, pitchers, or jars are big vessels to contain wine. Water typifies the Spirit of Christ, and wine typifies the divine life.
12. All the riches of the bountiful supply for the enjoyment of God's children are hanging on Christ as the peg, the holder. In the house of God all His children who hang on the all-inclusive Christ and who are the containers of the riches of God in this Christ should also be vessels for ministering Christ to others.
Life experience/Application:
1. The more I prayed to Him, the more I enjoyed Him, and the more I enjoyed Him, the more He restricted me.
2. If we are short of understanding and wisdom, we should call on Him, look to Him, and wait on Him. He will be our understanding and wisdom.
3. Lord, replace me with Christ. He Himself must be everything in us and to us.
4. I am not hanging on the plane; I am hanging on Christ. Christ is the peg on which I hang.
5. If we feel that we are dead, we need to drink the living water and drink the new wine.
1. Isa 22:20-24 show that He is the Steward in God's house, He is the Father as the Source and Supplier to the people of God key-holder, a peg, throne of glory, and One upon whom hangs all the glory of His Father's house.
2. While Christ as the Steward serves us in God's house, He governs us. Christ is God's Steward taking care of God's children.
3. The house of David was for the establishment of the kingdom of David, and the house of God is for the establishment of the kingdom of God.
4. When the church as the house of God is adequately built up, the church is manifested as the kingdom of God.
5. The treasures today in the house of God are all the riches of Christ.
6. To be exalted to the third heaven is to be exalted to God the Father because the Father is in the third heaven.
7. The glory is the children of God as the offspring and issue of God, and these children of God are the vessels of Christ, hanging upon Him as the peg.
8. Glory refers to God's descendants, all of God's people. Offspring implies the second generation, and issue implies the later generations.
9. As the children of God, we are God's shooting out and also God's growth.
10. Today in God's house, on the one hand, we are God's children, and on the other hand, we are the vessels. Whether we are small cups or bulging bottles, we are all vessels.
11. Cups, or bowls, are small vessels to contain water, and bulging bottles, pitchers, or jars are big vessels to contain wine. Water typifies the Spirit of Christ, and wine typifies the divine life.
12. All the riches of the bountiful supply for the enjoyment of God's children are hanging on Christ as the peg, the holder. In the house of God all His children who hang on the all-inclusive Christ and who are the containers of the riches of God in this Christ should also be vessels for ministering Christ to others.
Life experience/Application:
1. The more I prayed to Him, the more I enjoyed Him, and the more I enjoyed Him, the more He restricted me.
2. If we are short of understanding and wisdom, we should call on Him, look to Him, and wait on Him. He will be our understanding and wisdom.
3. Lord, replace me with Christ. He Himself must be everything in us and to us.
4. I am not hanging on the plane; I am hanging on Christ. Christ is the peg on which I hang.
5. If we feel that we are dead, we need to drink the living water and drink the new wine.
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