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Genesis (Program #54) – The Victory of the Called
We have a very positive and encouraging message today as we are going to consider the victory of the called. Again this is from the account of Abraham. But Abraham’s life is not always one of victory was it?
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John (Program #4) – A Foreword to the Life-Study of the Gospel of John (4)
You have to remember the first section of this book (John) is to bring God into man, and to declare God to man. This is the first section. Then the second section is to bring man into God.
We come to the position of John’s writings in the scripture. First of all, we have to realize John’s ministry is a mending ministry. When John was called, he was not fishing there; he was mending the net. When Peter was called, Peter was fishing, but John was mending. So in the later ministry, Peter did a lot of fishing. Peter brought in the people, but eventually it was John that mended the heavenly net. John’s ministry was a mending ministry, and this mending was one with life. Only life mends. Only life covers all the holes of the heavenly net…
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Genesis (Program #53) – The Trial of the Called Ones
Today we are going to look at the most precious experience of Abraham, a message entitled “the trial of the called ones”. How Abraham’s life is really a picture of our own Christian walk…
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John (Program #3) – A Foreword to the Life-Study of the Gospel of John (3)
The central thought of the scripture is life and building. What is life? What is building? Firstly, life. God’s creation was centered on life. This has been fully revealed in Genesis chapter 1. And number two, man was placed in front of the tree of life, indicating that God wanted man to take it as life. This is revealed, thus, in two verses: verses 8 and 9 of chapter 2 of Genesis. Number 3, the Old Testament saints enjoyed God as their life. Psalms 36:9 says “With Thee, there is the fountain of life.”..
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Genesis (Program #51) – Living by Faith (2)
We have our second program today on a life of faith. Our message will begin with Abraham building his second altar. What is the significance of Abraham building altars while human society was building cities and high towers?
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John (Program #2) – A Foreword to the Life-Study of the Gospel of John (2)
The experience of Christ as life is in the realization of Christ being God himself dispensed into our being. This is life.
We all have to know, Christ is life, the Church is the building, but still what is life? You should say, life is Christ. But we should realize to such an extent that Christ as life to us is just God Himself dispensed into our very being.
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Genesis (Program #50) – Living by Faith (1)
This one should be very instructive and helpful to anyone desiring to live by faith. We’ve seen before that we really need to look at Abraham, Isaac and Jacob collectively if we are going to get a full picture of God’s calling.
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John (Program #1) – A Foreword to the Life-Study of the Gospel of John (1)
In today’s program, we like to see something from the whole Bible. The Bible is a book of two things. Many of you would say Christ and the Church. The two things are not Christ and the Church, but life and building. Christ is life and the Church is building. If you don’t realize that Christ is life and the Church is building, when you say Christ and the Church, it is just a kind of doctrine. When we say Christ, we mean life. When we say the Church, we mean building. What is Christ? Christ is our life. What is the Church? The Church is God’s building.
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Luke (Program #65) – The Man-Savior’s Ascension (3 & 4)
The Gospel of Luke concludes with one of the mysterious and difficult to understand items in the entire New Testament and that’s the ascension of the Lord Jesus Christ to the heavenlies, some forty days after His resurrection. Luke 20:4 says “while He blessed them He parted from them and was carried up into heaven and they worship Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy and were continually in the temple blessing God.” One of the reasons that seems to be mysterious and difficult is that it appears to be very removed even remote from us. Yet when we see His ascension properly in view of the entire New Testament revelation we realized that it has tremendous implications for us.
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Genesis (Program #49) – The Progress in Answering God’s Calling
Our life study today is dealing with progress in answering God’s calling. A central item in God’s call to Abraham was the necessity for him to cross a river. What does this mean? The explanation should take into account both literal and the spiritual significance of this. Literally, Abraham had to cross a great river in order to go from one realm, the land of Chaldea into the realm, the good land into which God was calling him. Spiritually speaking, this points to the reality of the experience of baptism. Elsewhere in the Scriptures, when God’s people were to go from one realm to another, they pass through water. Noah passed through water to get into the realm of God’s new creation. The children of Israel passed through the water of the Red Sea and again through the water of the Jordan. All of these may be understood and rightly as types of baptism. When God calls us, we began in an old fallen realm. God wants to bring us out of that realm into a realm where Christ is everything to us. In order to make this transition by the Lord’s grace, we need so to speak to cross a river. We need to pass through water which spiritually signifies death and resurrection. So in summary, Abraham’s crossing the river indicates our need to go through death and resurrection in Christ signified by baptism in order to be transferred out of the realm of old creation into the realm of God’s new creation…
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