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.
Monday, June 13, 2011
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.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Isa Msg 32
Truth:
1. Christ intends to come down to earth and remain on earth for eternity. Before He can do this, He needs to accomplish His work of renewing the earth.
2. The unique work carried out by God's people in the restoration will be to sing, praise, worship, and rejoice.
3. Calling on the Lord will be their occupation.
4. In this restoration death will be limited, and there will be abundant life and much praise and rejoicing.
5. Today we offer sinners to God as sacrifices, but in the restoration the nations will bring the scattered Israelites as a meal offering to God.
6. In the millennial kingdom the Jews will be priests on earth, and the believers will be priests in the heavens.
Life experience/Application:
1. Christ intends to come down to earth and remain on earth for eternity. Before He can do this, He needs to accomplish His work of renewing the earth.
2. The unique work carried out by God's people in the restoration will be to sing, praise, worship, and rejoice.
3. Calling on the Lord will be their occupation.
4. In this restoration death will be limited, and there will be abundant life and much praise and rejoicing.
5. Today we offer sinners to God as sacrifices, but in the restoration the nations will bring the scattered Israelites as a meal offering to God.
6. In the millennial kingdom the Jews will be priests on earth, and the believers will be priests in the heavens.
Life experience/Application:
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Isa Msg 31
Truth:
1. Christ was anointed by God and with God, and then through His death and resurrection He became the ointment for the anointing of others.
2. In His first coming, Christ came to minister, to dispense, Himself into His followers. When He comes the second time, He will come mainly in an outward way to rescue Israel from their circumstances and to bring in their restoration.
3. In Isaiah's prophesy the Lord's two comings are like two mountain peaks which, when viewed from a distance, seem to be one peak.
4. Both Christ and His 12 apostles seemingly forsook Israel and established the church. However, in the restoration, when the Lord returns in His second coming, He will first receive the throne of David His father, and then He will be the Ruler of the nations. His twelve apostles will be His helpers to rule over the nation of Israel.
5. During the restoration, righteousness will be dispensed, transfused, into the Jews, they will shine forth righteousness.
6. The first section of His coming results in the producing and building up of the church.
7. The second section will be of 3 parts. 1) Christ will be in the heavens to receive the raptured overcomers into His presence. 2) He will descend with His overcomers from the third heaven to the air. He will judge the believers and have a wedding day. 3) Christ and His newly-married bride as His army will descend to Bozrah to destroy the armies of the earth.
Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, may I have more of Your anointing!
1. Christ was anointed by God and with God, and then through His death and resurrection He became the ointment for the anointing of others.
2. In His first coming, Christ came to minister, to dispense, Himself into His followers. When He comes the second time, He will come mainly in an outward way to rescue Israel from their circumstances and to bring in their restoration.
3. In Isaiah's prophesy the Lord's two comings are like two mountain peaks which, when viewed from a distance, seem to be one peak.
4. Both Christ and His 12 apostles seemingly forsook Israel and established the church. However, in the restoration, when the Lord returns in His second coming, He will first receive the throne of David His father, and then He will be the Ruler of the nations. His twelve apostles will be His helpers to rule over the nation of Israel.
5. During the restoration, righteousness will be dispensed, transfused, into the Jews, they will shine forth righteousness.
6. The first section of His coming results in the producing and building up of the church.
7. The second section will be of 3 parts. 1) Christ will be in the heavens to receive the raptured overcomers into His presence. 2) He will descend with His overcomers from the third heaven to the air. He will judge the believers and have a wedding day. 3) Christ and His newly-married bride as His army will descend to Bozrah to destroy the armies of the earth.
Life experience/Application:
1. Lord, may I have more of Your anointing!
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