Truth:
1. The law cannot do what God requires because it is weak through the flesh.
2. David should have asked God to enlighten him so that he could see how evil and sinful he was.
3. The law and David's knowledge of it did not work for him.
4. David asked God to judge him according to his righteousness and integrity. Where was his integrity?
Life experience/Application:
1. The more we appreciate the law, the more we will commit something against the law.
2. We human beings always are not easily convinced of or subdued in our sinfulness.
3. We all need God's mercy to see our failures, our sinfulness, and our filthiness, to even roll on the floor in confession of our sins.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Psa Msg 3
Truth:
1. To be Christ's complement means that we are a part of Him.
2. Mount Zion is not a place to show us the law, the commandments. It is a place to show us Christ -- only Christ.
3. God is embodied in Christ, Christ is in His Body, and His Body is God's house and God's city for God's kingdom.
4. Christ was the only begotten Son of God in His divinity, but when He became incarnated, He put humanity upon Him.
5. The sonship began with the regeneration of our spirit, is continuing with the transformation of our soul, and will be consummated with the redemption of our body.
6. To believe into Christ is to take refuge in Him. Today our Christ is our refuge, our protection. We are hiding ourselves in Him.
7. To believe in the Lord is to receive Him; to love the Lord is to enjoy Him.
8. The Lord is within us to be our faith and to be our love.
Life experience/Application:
1. Our being for Christ is mostly in theory, but our being for the law is very practical.
2. A parent may say to his child, "This is not right; you shouldn't do it." But have we ever said, "This is not Christ; you shouldn't do it."
3. Kissing the Son is higher than keeping the law.
4. A young believer may be strong to boldly tell the Lord that he loves Him and will never deny Him. But when he is defeated, his natural confidence in his love toward the Lord will be dealt with. Then he will learn to follow the Lord and to love the Lord without any confidence in his natural strength.
1. To be Christ's complement means that we are a part of Him.
2. Mount Zion is not a place to show us the law, the commandments. It is a place to show us Christ -- only Christ.
3. God is embodied in Christ, Christ is in His Body, and His Body is God's house and God's city for God's kingdom.
4. Christ was the only begotten Son of God in His divinity, but when He became incarnated, He put humanity upon Him.
5. The sonship began with the regeneration of our spirit, is continuing with the transformation of our soul, and will be consummated with the redemption of our body.
6. To believe into Christ is to take refuge in Him. Today our Christ is our refuge, our protection. We are hiding ourselves in Him.
7. To believe in the Lord is to receive Him; to love the Lord is to enjoy Him.
8. The Lord is within us to be our faith and to be our love.
Life experience/Application:
1. Our being for Christ is mostly in theory, but our being for the law is very practical.
2. A parent may say to his child, "This is not right; you shouldn't do it." But have we ever said, "This is not Christ; you shouldn't do it."
3. Kissing the Son is higher than keeping the law.
4. A young believer may be strong to boldly tell the Lord that he loves Him and will never deny Him. But when he is defeated, his natural confidence in his love toward the Lord will be dealt with. Then he will learn to follow the Lord and to love the Lord without any confidence in his natural strength.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Psa Msg 2
Truth:
1. God in His economy planned to create and to have a man in His image and after His likeness that man one day could receive him as life to live Him and to manifest him so that He might have an organism to express His Divine Trinity.
2. Sarah signifies the new covenant of grace and Hagar symbolizes the old covenant of the law.
3. A lady may be good and spiritual in her nature, yet still be a concubine. Because the law is the word of God, it is good and spiritual in nature.
4. The 10 Commandments cover our relationship with God, with our parents, and with others.
5. Killing comes out of anger and hating.
6. The law is a portrait of God, a testimony of God.
7. The law functions to subdue men as sinners under God's judgement.
8. The law is not able to give life and not able to do that which God wants because it is weak through the flesh. The flesh is the law's companion.
9. To remember another person's faults is not good. The proper forgiving is to forget.
10. We are God's pants by being grafted into Christ to be made branches of Christ as the great true vine.
Life experience/Application:
1. If someone who loves the Lord is suffering, his suffering is not basically a matter of his being right or wrong. What God is concerned with is our having more of God in our inward being.
1. God in His economy planned to create and to have a man in His image and after His likeness that man one day could receive him as life to live Him and to manifest him so that He might have an organism to express His Divine Trinity.
2. Sarah signifies the new covenant of grace and Hagar symbolizes the old covenant of the law.
3. A lady may be good and spiritual in her nature, yet still be a concubine. Because the law is the word of God, it is good and spiritual in nature.
4. The 10 Commandments cover our relationship with God, with our parents, and with others.
5. Killing comes out of anger and hating.
6. The law is a portrait of God, a testimony of God.
7. The law functions to subdue men as sinners under God's judgement.
8. The law is not able to give life and not able to do that which God wants because it is weak through the flesh. The flesh is the law's companion.
9. To remember another person's faults is not good. The proper forgiving is to forget.
10. We are God's pants by being grafted into Christ to be made branches of Christ as the great true vine.
Life experience/Application:
1. If someone who loves the Lord is suffering, his suffering is not basically a matter of his being right or wrong. What God is concerned with is our having more of God in our inward being.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Psa Msg 1
Truth:
1. The law works to expose us. Paul pointed out that the law was something added to the central line of the divine revelation to expose man's sinful nature and wicked deeds.
2. The book of Psalms is not a book of stories, but a book of divine revelation through the expressions of the sentiments, feelings, impressions, and experiences of godly men.
3. Eventually, the psalmists turned from enjoying the law in which they delighted to enjoying God whom they loved and sought after.
4. The divine concept of God in Psalms is concerning His eternal economy in Christ, taking Christ as its centrality and universality.
5. The divine concept in the Psalms is also concerning God's heart's desire, His good pleasure in Christ as His centrality and universality, in the church as His fullness for His expression, in the kingdom for His eternal administration, and in the recovery of the earth for His eternal kingdom in eternity.
6. To take refuge in Christ means to believe in Him, and to kiss Him means to love Him.
7. According to the divine concept, the central thought of the book of Psalms is Christ, as revealed in plain words, and the church as the house of God and the city of God for His kingdom, as typified by the temple and the city of Jerusalem.
8. When his name is here on the earth, the earth is excellent.
9. Book 4 of Psalms indicates that the saints, being joined to Christ, are one with God so that he can recover His title over the earth through Christ in His house and city.
10. The law doe not bring people close to God. However, the law does escort people to Christ.
Life experience/Application:
1. The law was not given for us to keep for our prosperity. Instead, the law was given to expose us.
2. If we want to make the earth excellent, we need to preach the gospel and turn sinners into Christians.
1. The law works to expose us. Paul pointed out that the law was something added to the central line of the divine revelation to expose man's sinful nature and wicked deeds.
2. The book of Psalms is not a book of stories, but a book of divine revelation through the expressions of the sentiments, feelings, impressions, and experiences of godly men.
3. Eventually, the psalmists turned from enjoying the law in which they delighted to enjoying God whom they loved and sought after.
4. The divine concept of God in Psalms is concerning His eternal economy in Christ, taking Christ as its centrality and universality.
5. The divine concept in the Psalms is also concerning God's heart's desire, His good pleasure in Christ as His centrality and universality, in the church as His fullness for His expression, in the kingdom for His eternal administration, and in the recovery of the earth for His eternal kingdom in eternity.
6. To take refuge in Christ means to believe in Him, and to kiss Him means to love Him.
7. According to the divine concept, the central thought of the book of Psalms is Christ, as revealed in plain words, and the church as the house of God and the city of God for His kingdom, as typified by the temple and the city of Jerusalem.
8. When his name is here on the earth, the earth is excellent.
9. Book 4 of Psalms indicates that the saints, being joined to Christ, are one with God so that he can recover His title over the earth through Christ in His house and city.
10. The law doe not bring people close to God. However, the law does escort people to Christ.
Life experience/Application:
1. The law was not given for us to keep for our prosperity. Instead, the law was given to expose us.
2. If we want to make the earth excellent, we need to preach the gospel and turn sinners into Christians.
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