Truth:
1. The all-inclusive Christ is the Servant of Jehovah in two aspects. First, He is the Anointed of Jehovah. Second, He is the Angel of the presence of Jehovah.
2. Angle of the presence of Jehovah means that He is the presence of Jehovah.
3. Angle of the presence of Jehovah is a term mostly applied toward the enemies of God's people.
4. Messiah, the Anointed One of Jehovah, will come two times. The first time is for the age of grace, and the second time will be for the age of restoration.
5. The church was hidden between the two peaks of Christ's coming.
6. Jesus was anointed to 1) bring good news, 2) to bind up wounds of the brokenhearted, 3) to proclaim liberty to the captives and the release of those who are bound, 4) to proclaim acceptable year of Jehovah and the day of vengeance of our God, 5) to comfort those who mourn, 6) to grant those who mourn in Zion a headdress instead of ashes, oil of gladness instead of mourning, and the mantle of praise instead of a spirit of heaviness.
7. Those who mourn in Israel put ashes upon themselves, but Christ will remove the ashes and give them a turban, a headdress.
8. At Christ's coming back, He will burn the world and tread the great winepress, which includes Antichrist.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Isa Msg 53
Truth:
1. God promised that the very Christ, who would come out of David's descendants, would be the sure mercies of God toward the royal family of David.
2. The last king of the royal family of David will be Jesus Christ, the embodiment of God's sure mercies.
3. Why did Paul not exhort the saints through the great love of God? This is because the great love of God is too far away from us in our pitiful condition and situation.
4. If I am so poor, I am not on the level to match God's love.
5. Mercies are somewhat like kindness and compassion. God's mercies, as the initiation of God's grace in His love, reach us the farthest. Mercy is the initiation for God's grace to come in with God's love.
6. God needed to exercise His mercy. Without mercy, He could not have reached His people.
7. These mercies were covenanted. A covenant is not just a promised but a contract, and this covenant is Christ.
8. The holy things of David, the faithful things, are the sure mercies of David. The Holy One is Christ, the Son of David, in whom God's mercies are centered and conveyed. Christ is the sure mercies, and He is also the One who is holy. This shows that these sure mercies will do a work to sanctify all the enjoyers.
9. The Father's compassion sanctifies the returning son, makes him holy, separating him entirely unto the Father.
10. Sanctification needs a based, and the base of sanctification is justification. Based upon such a justification in Christ's resurrection, we are enjoying Christ as the mercies which sanctify us.
11. Without being God's mercies, Christ could never be a Redeemer to the rotten, corrupted children of Israel.
Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, give us a heart that is seeking after You, and give us the eyes that we could see You.
2. Peace means that all the problems are solved. When I say that I am a saint, this implies that I have no problems.
3. Because we believers have Christ within us, we are rising up. Today Christ is our divine mercies; He is our Redeemer; and He is our light. Based upon Him, we are rising.
1. God promised that the very Christ, who would come out of David's descendants, would be the sure mercies of God toward the royal family of David.
2. The last king of the royal family of David will be Jesus Christ, the embodiment of God's sure mercies.
3. Why did Paul not exhort the saints through the great love of God? This is because the great love of God is too far away from us in our pitiful condition and situation.
4. If I am so poor, I am not on the level to match God's love.
5. Mercies are somewhat like kindness and compassion. God's mercies, as the initiation of God's grace in His love, reach us the farthest. Mercy is the initiation for God's grace to come in with God's love.
6. God needed to exercise His mercy. Without mercy, He could not have reached His people.
7. These mercies were covenanted. A covenant is not just a promised but a contract, and this covenant is Christ.
8. The holy things of David, the faithful things, are the sure mercies of David. The Holy One is Christ, the Son of David, in whom God's mercies are centered and conveyed. Christ is the sure mercies, and He is also the One who is holy. This shows that these sure mercies will do a work to sanctify all the enjoyers.
9. The Father's compassion sanctifies the returning son, makes him holy, separating him entirely unto the Father.
10. Sanctification needs a based, and the base of sanctification is justification. Based upon such a justification in Christ's resurrection, we are enjoying Christ as the mercies which sanctify us.
11. Without being God's mercies, Christ could never be a Redeemer to the rotten, corrupted children of Israel.
Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, give us a heart that is seeking after You, and give us the eyes that we could see You.
2. Peace means that all the problems are solved. When I say that I am a saint, this implies that I have no problems.
3. Because we believers have Christ within us, we are rising up. Today Christ is our divine mercies; He is our Redeemer; and He is our light. Based upon Him, we are rising.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Isa Msg 52
Truth:
1. Col. 2:15 says that while Christ was hanging on the cross, the Father stripped off the rulers and authorities, the evil angelic powers.
2. When Greece under Alexander was fighting against Persia, the two princes also were fighting in the air.
3. Spoil signifies prey, and prey denotes captives taken in a war.
4. God the Father was the Great and also the Strong, and God the Son was the Fighter.
5. Christ vanquished and captured them through His death and resurrection and took them to the heavens in His ascension.
6. The Father acknowledged the Son's victory and divided to Him a portion of the spoil.
7. Neither the Father nor the Son received the ultimate benefit from such a demonstration. Eventually, the Body of Christ, the church, gained all the gifts, all the spoil.
8. The Father was pleased to receive such a gift, and He returned us to the Son, and the Son made us a gift through transformation with His resurrection life. Then He gave us as gifts to the church in our locality to do the work of the New Testament ministry, that is, to build up the Body of Christ.
9. According to Eph 1:7, we were redeemed into Christ not only as a person but also as a sphere and as an element.
10. Christ continues His ministry in the heavens. In executing such a ministry, He is the Lord in the heavens, the Christ, the Head, and the great High Priest.
11. The lampstands among which Christ is walking are not on the earth but in the heavens.
12. The old creation is like an egg, and the new creation is like a little hen.
13. The 4 stages of God's old creation are 1) the age before the law, from Adam to Moses; 2) the age of the law, from Moses to the first coming of Christ; 3) the age of grace, from Christ's first coming to His second coming; 4) the age of the kingdom, from Christ's second coming to the end of the thousand-year kingdom.
Life experience/Application:
1. We are all gifts given by Christ to the church. We too were once Satan's captives. Then Christ defeated Satan and captured us and brought us to the Father; and the Father gave us to the Son. The Son made us a gift by transforming us with His resurrection life.
2. Christ is the Leader to the unbelievers and the Savior to us, the believers.
1. Col. 2:15 says that while Christ was hanging on the cross, the Father stripped off the rulers and authorities, the evil angelic powers.
2. When Greece under Alexander was fighting against Persia, the two princes also were fighting in the air.
3. Spoil signifies prey, and prey denotes captives taken in a war.
4. God the Father was the Great and also the Strong, and God the Son was the Fighter.
5. Christ vanquished and captured them through His death and resurrection and took them to the heavens in His ascension.
6. The Father acknowledged the Son's victory and divided to Him a portion of the spoil.
7. Neither the Father nor the Son received the ultimate benefit from such a demonstration. Eventually, the Body of Christ, the church, gained all the gifts, all the spoil.
8. The Father was pleased to receive such a gift, and He returned us to the Son, and the Son made us a gift through transformation with His resurrection life. Then He gave us as gifts to the church in our locality to do the work of the New Testament ministry, that is, to build up the Body of Christ.
9. According to Eph 1:7, we were redeemed into Christ not only as a person but also as a sphere and as an element.
10. Christ continues His ministry in the heavens. In executing such a ministry, He is the Lord in the heavens, the Christ, the Head, and the great High Priest.
11. The lampstands among which Christ is walking are not on the earth but in the heavens.
12. The old creation is like an egg, and the new creation is like a little hen.
13. The 4 stages of God's old creation are 1) the age before the law, from Adam to Moses; 2) the age of the law, from Moses to the first coming of Christ; 3) the age of grace, from Christ's first coming to His second coming; 4) the age of the kingdom, from Christ's second coming to the end of the thousand-year kingdom.
Life experience/Application:
1. We are all gifts given by Christ to the church. We too were once Satan's captives. Then Christ defeated Satan and captured us and brought us to the Father; and the Father gave us to the Son. The Son made us a gift by transforming us with His resurrection life.
2. Christ is the Leader to the unbelievers and the Savior to us, the believers.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Isa Msg 51
Truth:
1. In Isaiah 53:10b-11b, there are 4 points: 1) Christ's making Himself an offering for sin; 2) His seeing a seed and extending His days; 3) His seeing the issue of the travail of His soul and being satisfied; and 4) His making many righteous by the knowledge of Him. The first item of the four belongs to the stage of Christ's crucifixion. The remaining 3 belong to the third stage, the stage of Christ's resurrection.
2. By the knowledge of Him does not mean by Christ's knowledge but by knowing Him, the righteous One, the resurrected Christ as God's Servant.
3. For Christ to make us righteous is not merely to justify us through His death by His blood. It means primarily to make us righteous.
3. Christ's resurrection produced the life-giving Spirit.
4. Elijah's raising of the widow's son and even the Lord Jesus' raising of Lazarus cannot be counted as resurrection in full, because after being resurrected, both of these resurrected ones died.
5. In His resurrection, Christ became the Germinator of the new creation, and He also became the Head, the top One, of the Body.
6. In the aspect of His being a man, He was not divine before His resurrection.
7. Christ's believers are His brothers, and His brothers are the many sons of God.
8. From His resurrection, God began to have a family, a household. Eventually, this household becomes God's kingdom, and the children of God, the household of God, become God's precious inheritance.
9. The many grains as the increase of Christ are the components of His Body.
10. Christ's making Himself an offering for sin is related to His crucifixion. It is the "cause," and the "effect" is His seeing a seed in His resurrection.
11. God's economy comes out of God's good pleasure. God's dispensing is to fulfill God's good pleasure, which is to produce many sons to be the components of the Body of Christ, the church.
Life experience/Application:
1. Let us come to Christ as our "gasoline station" to get the spiritual gasoline, the spiritual air, and the spiritual water.
2. Since Christ is in us, the many grains, He is wherever we are.
1. In Isaiah 53:10b-11b, there are 4 points: 1) Christ's making Himself an offering for sin; 2) His seeing a seed and extending His days; 3) His seeing the issue of the travail of His soul and being satisfied; and 4) His making many righteous by the knowledge of Him. The first item of the four belongs to the stage of Christ's crucifixion. The remaining 3 belong to the third stage, the stage of Christ's resurrection.
2. By the knowledge of Him does not mean by Christ's knowledge but by knowing Him, the righteous One, the resurrected Christ as God's Servant.
3. For Christ to make us righteous is not merely to justify us through His death by His blood. It means primarily to make us righteous.
3. Christ's resurrection produced the life-giving Spirit.
4. Elijah's raising of the widow's son and even the Lord Jesus' raising of Lazarus cannot be counted as resurrection in full, because after being resurrected, both of these resurrected ones died.
5. In His resurrection, Christ became the Germinator of the new creation, and He also became the Head, the top One, of the Body.
6. In the aspect of His being a man, He was not divine before His resurrection.
7. Christ's believers are His brothers, and His brothers are the many sons of God.
8. From His resurrection, God began to have a family, a household. Eventually, this household becomes God's kingdom, and the children of God, the household of God, become God's precious inheritance.
9. The many grains as the increase of Christ are the components of His Body.
10. Christ's making Himself an offering for sin is related to His crucifixion. It is the "cause," and the "effect" is His seeing a seed in His resurrection.
11. God's economy comes out of God's good pleasure. God's dispensing is to fulfill God's good pleasure, which is to produce many sons to be the components of the Body of Christ, the church.
Life experience/Application:
1. Let us come to Christ as our "gasoline station" to get the spiritual gasoline, the spiritual air, and the spiritual water.
2. Since Christ is in us, the many grains, He is wherever we are.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Isa Msg 50
Truth:
1. The stage of Christ's resurrection will have no ending; it will last for eternity.
2. The arm of Jehovah is Jehovah in His power, and the man of sorrows is Jesus. When these two are put together, they equal incarnation.
3. Christ grew up like a tender plant. The plant here actually refers to a sprout, which is very tender, small, and delicate. He also grew up like a root out of dry ground, meaning that He was born of a poor family.
4. Instead of majesty, He had poverty, and instead of a beautiful appearance, He had a visage and form that were disfigured.
5. Christ was wounded by the nails in His hands and His feet, by the spear that pierced His side, and by the crow of thorns on His head.
6. Sin refers to the totality of evildoings, iniquities, trespasses, wrongdoings, and transgressions.
7. First, Christ was oppressed; then He was afflicted. Then, He was led to slaughter.
8. Christ had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in His mouth, yet people treated Him in a mean way. But God in His sovereignty came in to carry out His justice.
9. During the first 3 hours, from nine o'clock until noon, all that Christ suffered was inflicted by man. Then, at noon God came in to cause all the iniquities of His chosen people to fall upon that dying One.
10. Christ died a vicarious death that was legal according to God's law and was recognized by God.
11. Christ's death was not a martyrdom. Christ's death was something carried out by God Himself according to His law.
12. In the Lord's death He laid down His life, and in His resurrection He received it back.
13. Every offering, if it is a sacrifice, must be killed, and the blood must be poured out.
14. Man did the murdering, the killing, but God carried out the legal judgement to kill Him as a legal Substitute that He might die a vicarious death for the ones for whom He died as a Substitute.
Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, it was because of my sins. Because of my sins were put on You, at that time You were counted by my God as the unique sinner; so God forsook You for my sake, because You were my Substitute there, dying a vicarious death for me that was recognized legally by God according to His law.
2. We were not only sinners but also enemies of God; thus, we also needed reconciliation. Christ's redemption did all this for us. Christ's redemption accomplished the forgiveness of sins and justification for us, the sinners, and it also accomplished reconciliation for us, the enemies of God.
1. The stage of Christ's resurrection will have no ending; it will last for eternity.
2. The arm of Jehovah is Jehovah in His power, and the man of sorrows is Jesus. When these two are put together, they equal incarnation.
3. Christ grew up like a tender plant. The plant here actually refers to a sprout, which is very tender, small, and delicate. He also grew up like a root out of dry ground, meaning that He was born of a poor family.
4. Instead of majesty, He had poverty, and instead of a beautiful appearance, He had a visage and form that were disfigured.
5. Christ was wounded by the nails in His hands and His feet, by the spear that pierced His side, and by the crow of thorns on His head.
6. Sin refers to the totality of evildoings, iniquities, trespasses, wrongdoings, and transgressions.
7. First, Christ was oppressed; then He was afflicted. Then, He was led to slaughter.
8. Christ had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in His mouth, yet people treated Him in a mean way. But God in His sovereignty came in to carry out His justice.
9. During the first 3 hours, from nine o'clock until noon, all that Christ suffered was inflicted by man. Then, at noon God came in to cause all the iniquities of His chosen people to fall upon that dying One.
10. Christ died a vicarious death that was legal according to God's law and was recognized by God.
11. Christ's death was not a martyrdom. Christ's death was something carried out by God Himself according to His law.
12. In the Lord's death He laid down His life, and in His resurrection He received it back.
13. Every offering, if it is a sacrifice, must be killed, and the blood must be poured out.
14. Man did the murdering, the killing, but God carried out the legal judgement to kill Him as a legal Substitute that He might die a vicarious death for the ones for whom He died as a Substitute.
Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, it was because of my sins. Because of my sins were put on You, at that time You were counted by my God as the unique sinner; so God forsook You for my sake, because You were my Substitute there, dying a vicarious death for me that was recognized legally by God according to His law.
2. We were not only sinners but also enemies of God; thus, we also needed reconciliation. Christ's redemption did all this for us. Christ's redemption accomplished the forgiveness of sins and justification for us, the sinners, and it also accomplished reconciliation for us, the enemies of God.
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