Truth:
1. The first deeper item of Christ is Christ's crucifixion. Another item of the depths of God concerning Christ is Christ's resurrection.
2. He is the searching Spirit, and He is also the unveiling Spirit, the revealing Spirit.
3. From the day that He came out to minister on this earth, the Lord Jesus acted wisely and prospered in God's pleasure.
4. First, the Father's pleasure was that the Son would go to the cross and die for His chosen people.
5. Christ entered into death and then rose up from death to enter into resurrection. Through this, God the Father begot many sons. This too is the Father's pleasure, and it is also Christ's prosperity in His resurrection.
6. Christ was not only exalted but also lifted up.
7. The Lord Jesus was continually despised, was forsaken of men, and was a man of sorrows who knew nothing but grief.
8. Christ's suffering was altogether vicarious; He suffered everything in our place.
9. In being arrested, judged, and crucified, Christ was oppressed and judged.
10. The seed produced by Christ in His resurrection is His believers for the building up of His Body as His continuation, with which He will extend His days.
11. The pleasure of Jehovah is to reveal Himself into us, to make us the seed of Christ, to make us a part of Christ, to make us the sons of God.
12. Christ is the incarnated Savior, the crucified Redeemer, the resurrected Life-giver, and the ascended Victor.
13. Jehovah will divide to His Servant a portion with the Great, that is, with God, and Jehovah's Servant will divide the spoil with the Strong, that is, with God.
Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, I look to You for my understanding of Your Word.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Isa Msg 48
Truth:
1. The first deeper item of Christ s Christ's crucifixion. Another item of the depths of God concerning Christ is Christ's resurrection.
2. He is the searching Spirit, and He is also the unveiling Spirit, the revealing Spirit.
3. From the day that He came to minister on this earth, the Lord Jesus acted wisely and prospered in God's pleasure.
4. Christ entered into death and then rose up from the death to enter into resurrection. Through this, God the Father begot many sons. This too is the Father's pleasure, and it is also Christ's prosperity in His resurrection.
5. Christ was not only exalted but also lifted up.
Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, I look to You for my understanding of Your Word.
2. As children of God, we are also heirs of God to inherit God as our everything.
3. As sinners, we have condemnation over us from God and also death within us from Satan. The condemnation of God is dissolved by Christ as the covenant, and the death that comes from Satan is annulled by Christ as the light that issues in life.
4. In the experience of a sinner, the first thing that comes in is not life but light.
5. The way to receive and enjoy such a full salvation of God is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit.
6. The way to receive and enjoy Christ is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit, with which is the very Christ.
7. If we call "O Lord Jesus," for 10 minutes, we will be in the third heavens; that is, we will be in our spirit.
8. We surely need to do the right thing, the good thing, the excellent thing, but we must go further to check by what person we do things -- by our self as our person, or by our dear Savior, Jesus Christ, as our person.
9. We need to need to remain in the spirit continuously. First, we need to call on Him, to exercise our spirit; then we need to live according to our spirit, and then remain in our spirit.
1. The first deeper item of Christ s Christ's crucifixion. Another item of the depths of God concerning Christ is Christ's resurrection.
2. He is the searching Spirit, and He is also the unveiling Spirit, the revealing Spirit.
3. From the day that He came to minister on this earth, the Lord Jesus acted wisely and prospered in God's pleasure.
4. Christ entered into death and then rose up from the death to enter into resurrection. Through this, God the Father begot many sons. This too is the Father's pleasure, and it is also Christ's prosperity in His resurrection.
5. Christ was not only exalted but also lifted up.
Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, I look to You for my understanding of Your Word.
2. As children of God, we are also heirs of God to inherit God as our everything.
3. As sinners, we have condemnation over us from God and also death within us from Satan. The condemnation of God is dissolved by Christ as the covenant, and the death that comes from Satan is annulled by Christ as the light that issues in life.
4. In the experience of a sinner, the first thing that comes in is not life but light.
5. The way to receive and enjoy such a full salvation of God is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit.
6. The way to receive and enjoy Christ is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit, with which is the very Christ.
7. If we call "O Lord Jesus," for 10 minutes, we will be in the third heavens; that is, we will be in our spirit.
8. We surely need to do the right thing, the good thing, the excellent thing, but we must go further to check by what person we do things -- by our self as our person, or by our dear Savior, Jesus Christ, as our person.
9. We need to need to remain in the spirit continuously. First, we need to call on Him, to exercise our spirit; then we need to live according to our spirit, and then remain in our spirit.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Isa Msg 47
Truth:
1. God's economy is to dispense Himself into us as our life, our person, and our everything.
2. God's justification is according to the highest standard, the standard of His righteousness.
3. Christ is the righteousness of God to us.
4. The unique way in which Abraham could receive such a son that equaled God's righteousness was by faith.
5. It is through Christ's blood that we can receive and gain God's forgiveness, and God's forgiveness equals God's justification.
6. Christ died for our sins to solve all the problems related to god's righteousness. In His resurrection He became a life-giving Spirit that He might enter into us to enliven us, to germinate us, to animate us, to make us alive.
7. For us to be God's people means that we are God's inheritance, and for God to be our God means that He is our inheritance.
8. Christ as our covenant takes care of God's righteousness, and Christ as our light releases God's life into us.
9. The central line of the divine revelation is God's economy and God's dispensing. The totality of what the Bible reveals to us is the New Jerusalem.
10. The rainbow is a sign that reminds us of God's faithfulness in keeping His word. God's faithfulness is based on His righteousness.
11. Life is the consummation of righteousness and righteousness is the base, the foundation of life.
12. New Jerusalem is the embodiment of God's full salvation, and God's full salvation is a composition of God's righteousness as the base and God's life as the consummation.
13. Christ as the covenant and Christ as the light, added together, equal God's full salvation.
14. Justification brings us into life. When we receive God's justification according to Christ as God's righteousness, the issue in us of this justification is the divine life.
15. Christ served us by dying for us, and that was to serve us by being a covenant.
16. He serves God by ministering life to us through His death and resurrection.
17. Light issues in Christ as the divine life to us.
18. The life of this light grows in us all the time, issuing in our church life today and consummating in the New Jerusalem in eternity.
19. As long as our God reigns among us, we do not need to worry about anything. When God reigns, He also supports, supplies, and provides.
20. To redeem Jerusalem is to deliver Jerusalem out of any kind of trouble, any kind of oppression, and any kind of tyranny.
21. God's people still need to know Christ in the New Testament sense.
22. The more they are oppressed, the more Christians rise up. Christ acts wisely and prosperously.
23. On the one hand, Christ is now glorified, but on the other hand, He still bears the impress of His being disfigured for us. If He were not so, He could never save us; He could never be our Substitute on the cross.
24. The entire chapter 53 is a recounting, a telling, of the things concerning Christ according to the New Testament gospel.
25. Christ was exalted indicated that He was first humiliated. To be glorified by anyone is a shame.
Life experience/Application:
1. We need to receive Him first as our righteousness, then as our life, then as our person, then as our everything, and finally as our inheritance.
2. As children of God, we are also heirs of God to inherit God as our everything.
3. As sinners, we have condemnation over us from God and also death within us from Satan. The condemnation of God is dissolved by Christ as the covenant, and the death that comes from Satan is annulled by Christ as the light that issues in life.
4. In the experience of a sinner, the first thing that comes in is not life but light.
5. The way to receive and enjoy such a full salvation of God is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit.
6. The way to receive and enjoy Christ is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit, with which is the very Christ.
7. If we call "O Lord Jesus," for 10 minutes, we will be in the third heavens; that is, we will be in our spirit.
8. We surely need to do the right thing, the good thing, the excellent thing, but we must go further to check by what person we do things -- by our self as our person, or by our dear Savior, Jesus Christ, as our person.
9. We need to need to remain in the spirit continuously. First, we need to call on Him, to exercise our spirit; then we need to live according to our spirit, and then remain in our spirit.
1. God's economy is to dispense Himself into us as our life, our person, and our everything.
2. God's justification is according to the highest standard, the standard of His righteousness.
3. Christ is the righteousness of God to us.
4. The unique way in which Abraham could receive such a son that equaled God's righteousness was by faith.
5. It is through Christ's blood that we can receive and gain God's forgiveness, and God's forgiveness equals God's justification.
6. Christ died for our sins to solve all the problems related to god's righteousness. In His resurrection He became a life-giving Spirit that He might enter into us to enliven us, to germinate us, to animate us, to make us alive.
7. For us to be God's people means that we are God's inheritance, and for God to be our God means that He is our inheritance.
8. Christ as our covenant takes care of God's righteousness, and Christ as our light releases God's life into us.
9. The central line of the divine revelation is God's economy and God's dispensing. The totality of what the Bible reveals to us is the New Jerusalem.
10. The rainbow is a sign that reminds us of God's faithfulness in keeping His word. God's faithfulness is based on His righteousness.
11. Life is the consummation of righteousness and righteousness is the base, the foundation of life.
12. New Jerusalem is the embodiment of God's full salvation, and God's full salvation is a composition of God's righteousness as the base and God's life as the consummation.
13. Christ as the covenant and Christ as the light, added together, equal God's full salvation.
14. Justification brings us into life. When we receive God's justification according to Christ as God's righteousness, the issue in us of this justification is the divine life.
15. Christ served us by dying for us, and that was to serve us by being a covenant.
16. He serves God by ministering life to us through His death and resurrection.
17. Light issues in Christ as the divine life to us.
18. The life of this light grows in us all the time, issuing in our church life today and consummating in the New Jerusalem in eternity.
19. As long as our God reigns among us, we do not need to worry about anything. When God reigns, He also supports, supplies, and provides.
20. To redeem Jerusalem is to deliver Jerusalem out of any kind of trouble, any kind of oppression, and any kind of tyranny.
21. God's people still need to know Christ in the New Testament sense.
22. The more they are oppressed, the more Christians rise up. Christ acts wisely and prosperously.
23. On the one hand, Christ is now glorified, but on the other hand, He still bears the impress of His being disfigured for us. If He were not so, He could never save us; He could never be our Substitute on the cross.
24. The entire chapter 53 is a recounting, a telling, of the things concerning Christ according to the New Testament gospel.
25. Christ was exalted indicated that He was first humiliated. To be glorified by anyone is a shame.
Life experience/Application:
1. We need to receive Him first as our righteousness, then as our life, then as our person, then as our everything, and finally as our inheritance.
2. As children of God, we are also heirs of God to inherit God as our everything.
3. As sinners, we have condemnation over us from God and also death within us from Satan. The condemnation of God is dissolved by Christ as the covenant, and the death that comes from Satan is annulled by Christ as the light that issues in life.
4. In the experience of a sinner, the first thing that comes in is not life but light.
5. The way to receive and enjoy such a full salvation of God is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit.
6. The way to receive and enjoy Christ is to exercise our spirit, to live according to our spirit, and to remain in our spirit, with which is the very Christ.
7. If we call "O Lord Jesus," for 10 minutes, we will be in the third heavens; that is, we will be in our spirit.
8. We surely need to do the right thing, the good thing, the excellent thing, but we must go further to check by what person we do things -- by our self as our person, or by our dear Savior, Jesus Christ, as our person.
9. We need to need to remain in the spirit continuously. First, we need to call on Him, to exercise our spirit; then we need to live according to our spirit, and then remain in our spirit.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Isa Msg 46
Truth:
1. As the Servant of Jehovah, He is a covenant to the people and a light to the nations. Both Israel and the nations are fully qualified to inherit Jesus Christ as the covenant and to enjoy Him as the light.
2. The covenant is a matter of righteousness according to the law. If there is no fulfillment of the requirement of the law, the covenant means nothing.
3. God's righteousness binds Him, and His righteousness gives us the ground, the standing, to say, "God, You have to save me."
4. The blood was the very means by which He made for us the new testament with His Father. Redemption, justification, forgiveness, and salvation have all been covenanted by Him through His blood.
5. We can use the buying of a house to illustrate this. The deed is an agreement, a covenant. The house has been covenanted to us, the guarantee of this covenant is the title deed.
6. Before the person who enacted the covenant dies, it is the covenant. After he dies, that covenant becomes a testament. A testament in today's terms is a will.
7. The reality of all the hundreds of bequests in the New Testament is Christ. Without Christ, the Bible is empty, so the real testament, the real will, is Christ. Christ is our title deed, and this title deed is in our spirit as the all-inclusive, life-giving, indwelling, consummated Spirit.
8. God's salvation today is a covenanted salvation.
9. Christ, the Servant of Jehovah as a covenant to the people of Israel and a light to the nations has a source, an origin. This source is in His divinity, in His deity, in His being God.
10. God formed Jesus to be His Servant in the womb with His divinity saturated and mingled together with His humanity.
11. When someone is standing, we may hold him, but when he is falling, we need to uphold him.
12. To be quiet indicates a kind of victory. If a person is condemned and scolded, and yet still remains quiet and does not argue, that is a victory.
13. Some of the Lord's people are like the smoking flax that cannot give a shining light, yet the Lord will not extinguish these smoking ones.
14. When righteousness has been judged, it becomes justice. Justice is the verdict of the judgement on righteousness.
15. We not only have the items of the new testament in our mind, but we also have the reality of the new testament, who is Christ, in our spirit.
16. Christ as the covenant is for God's people to gain God with His riches as their inheritance; whereas Christ as the light is for God's people to receive God as life for their new germination.
17. Why did God, after creating the heavens and earth, form a spirit in man? This was so that man could have a recipient, a receiver, to receive God who is the Spirit to be his inheritance and life.
18. Righteousness in God's justice and life through God's light are the two basic factors of God's salvation.
19. God gives Christ as the covenant to us for justification, and He gives Christ as light to us for life.
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.
1. As the Servant of Jehovah, He is a covenant to the people and a light to the nations. Both Israel and the nations are fully qualified to inherit Jesus Christ as the covenant and to enjoy Him as the light.
2. The covenant is a matter of righteousness according to the law. If there is no fulfillment of the requirement of the law, the covenant means nothing.
3. God's righteousness binds Him, and His righteousness gives us the ground, the standing, to say, "God, You have to save me."
4. The blood was the very means by which He made for us the new testament with His Father. Redemption, justification, forgiveness, and salvation have all been covenanted by Him through His blood.
5. We can use the buying of a house to illustrate this. The deed is an agreement, a covenant. The house has been covenanted to us, the guarantee of this covenant is the title deed.
6. Before the person who enacted the covenant dies, it is the covenant. After he dies, that covenant becomes a testament. A testament in today's terms is a will.
7. The reality of all the hundreds of bequests in the New Testament is Christ. Without Christ, the Bible is empty, so the real testament, the real will, is Christ. Christ is our title deed, and this title deed is in our spirit as the all-inclusive, life-giving, indwelling, consummated Spirit.
8. God's salvation today is a covenanted salvation.
9. Christ, the Servant of Jehovah as a covenant to the people of Israel and a light to the nations has a source, an origin. This source is in His divinity, in His deity, in His being God.
10. God formed Jesus to be His Servant in the womb with His divinity saturated and mingled together with His humanity.
11. When someone is standing, we may hold him, but when he is falling, we need to uphold him.
12. To be quiet indicates a kind of victory. If a person is condemned and scolded, and yet still remains quiet and does not argue, that is a victory.
13. Some of the Lord's people are like the smoking flax that cannot give a shining light, yet the Lord will not extinguish these smoking ones.
14. When righteousness has been judged, it becomes justice. Justice is the verdict of the judgement on righteousness.
15. We not only have the items of the new testament in our mind, but we also have the reality of the new testament, who is Christ, in our spirit.
16. Christ as the covenant is for God's people to gain God with His riches as their inheritance; whereas Christ as the light is for God's people to receive God as life for their new germination.
17. Why did God, after creating the heavens and earth, form a spirit in man? This was so that man could have a recipient, a receiver, to receive God who is the Spirit to be his inheritance and life.
18. Righteousness in God's justice and life through God's light are the two basic factors of God's salvation.
19. God gives Christ as the covenant to us for justification, and He gives Christ as light to us for life.
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.
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