To reign in life over so many rebellious things, we must first be obedient and submissive to the Lord. If we are not submissive to the Lord, who is our Master and our God, no one will be submissive to us…When we have this sense of abundant grace, this…https://t.co/AZn1AagYxH
We must follow in the footsteps of the apostle. He brought us into the blending life of the entire Body of Christ by recommendations and greetings in order that the God of peace may crush Satan under our feet and we may enjoy the rich grace of Christ…https://t.co/qUHJruXUtN
By his recommendations and greetings in Romans 16:1-24, Paul was blending together many saints and many churches under his ministry for the practical living of the Body of Christ in the universal fellowship of the Body…Today there is the need for all…https://t.co/94Rhck8y4H
To present our bodies a living sacrifice is a matter of reigning in life. Without reigning in life, no one can present his body a living sacrifice. When we reign in life, we are not being fashioned according to this age but are being transformed by the
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When we reign in life, we more than conquer the environmental hardships and sufferings by having God being for us,…who gives us freely all things with Him, and who has chosen us and justified us; by having Christ who died for us, who was raised, and who…https://t.co/0Y7yovdGdR
By reigning in the divine life of Christ, we are saved from all kinds of insubordination. To be saved in life causes us to reign as kings. According to Romans 5:17, those who receive the abundance of grace and the abundance of the gift of righteousness, …https://t.co/9Gqgy5T1Kh
Doctrine, teaching, and exhortation are of no avail. In a sense, not even our prayer is effectual in enabling us to reign in life by grace. The only thing that works is to come to the divine source and open ourselves from the depths of our being to be…https://t.co/U8wD4HqQgp
How does God achieve [regeneration]? It is through His Spirit. After we repented and believed in the Lord, our sins were forgiven and we were reconciled to God. Then this God who loves us and who is the life-giving Spirit comes into us to regenerate our…https://t.co/yvTULgTiaq
The glorification of the matured believers is the top portion of their divine sonship in God’s organic salvation, which sonship they received at the time of their regeneration…The day is coming when our body will be redeemed, and we will enter into the …https://t.co/FIidYi7lP2
Nothing of the old creation can be brought into the New Jerusalem. Since the New Jerusalem will be constituted with the believers, they need to be thoroughly and absolutely renewed...The believers should live and walk by the Spirit (Galatians 5:16, 25)…https://t.co/N72PP6dBAJ
The initial feeding is to feed the newborn babes, the new believers. We feed them through cherishing them to pray-read the Word and call on the Lord by exercising their spirit…If the new believers are cherished, they will be willing to exercise their…https://t.co/nfs8kd5dOj
A great majority of the regenerated ones were regenerated through the word of God. The word of God as a “gene” entered into us and operated in us. In this way we were regenerated...Through regeneration the believers have the spiritual life of God in …https://t.co/n2unlK9CfR
What Christ carried out in His earthly ministry was a procedure of the complete salvation of God for the believers to participate in God’s organic salvation as the purpose of the complete salvation of God…The procedure is judicial, and the purpose is …https://t.co/BP3lzddtDi
God has accomplished a salvation with two aspects: the redeeming aspect and the saving aspect. Redemption is accomplished judicially, and saving is carried out organically...The eight items in the organic aspect issue in the church of God to constitute…https://t.co/j27edwVYPK
Although you may be new in the church life,…Christ has been constituted into you, and this becomes the constitution of Christ in your spiritual life. This is what gives you the burden to take care of others. This is shepherding. The constitution of …https://t.co/n493jHTRQ3
We must learn to minister life to others. In order to do this, we ourselves must have life…We must learn the lessons of life. Then we will know how to minister to others. In fact, if we have life, there is no need to purposely minister life to others…https://t.co/hWvdX15jRE
The apostles, all-mature and all-fitting, as depicted in 2 Cor. 6:3-10, had their mouths opened and their hearts enlarged to the believers. With an enlarged heart they were able to embrace all believers regardless of their condition, and with an opened…https://t.co/yXc1CSuW5g
According to God means that we must live God. We must have God on hand. We have God in our understanding, in our theology, and in our teaching, but we may not live God when we are shepherding people. When we are one with God, we become God. Then we have…https://t.co/ZD3OD88T3T
Christ was our Redeemer in His death on the tree. Now He is our soul’s Shepherd and Overseer in the resurrection life within us. Therefore, He is able to guide us and supply us with life that we may follow His model in His steps of suffering…https://t.co/H9N6qrutBw
According to Ephesians 4, the shepherds and the teachers are one category. This indicates that anyone who would be a shepherd must also be a teacher. Likewise, a good teacher is also a shepherd…in the Bible a shepherd is a teacher, and a teacher is a …https://t.co/eHCStAsoEE