#expressgod

The unique Body of Christ is expressed in many local churches in the divine oneness as it is with the Triune God and in the divine nature, element, essence, expression, function, and testimony; there are many churches, yet they have one divine nature, one divine element, one divine essence, one divine expression, one divine function, and one divine testimony because they are one Body — Rev. 1:11; John 17:11, 21, 23. 2021 spring ITERO, outline 3 #bodyofchrist #localchurch #churches #testimony #expressGod more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CQejLleBxE3/?utm_medium=tumblr

Man was created by God with the highest and most noble purpose, that is, to express God in His image with His divine life and nature — Gen. 1:26. God’s enemy, Satan, the devil, came in to inject himself as sin into the man created by God for His purpose — 3:1-6; Rom. 5:18; 3:23; 1 John 3:4. Through this fall of man, man and all the created things that had been committed by God to his dominion were made subject to vanity (Rom. 8:20-21); thus, human life in the corrupted world also became vanity. The way for us to escape this vanity is to come back to God and take God in Christ as redemption, life, wealth, enjoyment, pleasure, and satisfaction so that we may still be used by God to fulfill His original purpose in creating man for the fulfillment of His eternal economy — Eccl. 12:13-14. Crystallization-study of Ecclesiastes, outline 12 #created #purpose #expressGod #lifeandnature #creation #godseconomy https://www.instagram.com/p/COLzutxB7DJ/?igshid=rujoarvqffbb

God created man and wanted man to take Him as life that man might express Him, be transformed into precious materials for His building, and be built up to be His counterpart to match Him (Gen. 1:26-27; 2:9-12, 18-24). God took a rib out of Adam and built it up into a woman to match Adam to be his counterpart. This is a type showing how God in Christ is the Husband, needing a match, a counterpart. Therefore, in the fulfillment of this type, something came out of Christ — the divine life — to become the church, which is the bride to match Christ. Life-Study of Job, Chapter 32, by Witness Lee #creation #expressGod #transformed #transformation #church more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CNBU0sLhx96/?igshid=vwv5kqrxqxq

Job’s three friends could not speak anything because they had no knowledge, no understanding, concerning the purpose of what had happened to Job. The scene here indicates that Job and his friends were ignorant concerning that most painful and most terrifying occurrence, and were puzzled in their godliness, unable to discern what the reason was, what the purpose was, and what the result would be. Actually, Job’s experience was a step taken by God in His divine economy to carry out the consuming and stripping of the contented Job in order to usher Job into a deeper seeking after God, that he might gain God instead of His blessings and his attainments in his perfection and integrity. God’s stripping and consuming were exercised over Job to tear Job down that God might have a base and a way to rebuild him with God Himself that he might become a God-man, the same as God in His life and nature but not in His Godhead, in order to express God. Job 2:13, footnote 1 (part 1), RcV Bible #job #knowledge #understanding #deification #expressGod #bible more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CMvXI_9BLDQ/?igshid=rwstyzbn47rk

Eventually, God's intention was to make Job a man of God (1 Tim. 6:11; 2 Tim. 3:17), filled with Christ, the embodiment of God, to be the fullness of God for the expression of God in Christ, not a man of the high standard of ethics in Job's natural perfection, natural uprightness, and natural integrity, which Job attempted to maintain and hold (Job 2:3, 9a). Such a person, constituted with God according to His economy, would never be entangled by any troubles and problems so that he would curse his birth and prefer to die rather than to live. Life-Study of Job, Chapter 4, by Witness Lee #godsintention #job #manofgod #fullnessofgod #expressGod #ethics #morality more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdToi2BgGX/?igshid=ohcmf16knng5

Heb. 1:2-3 God... Has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son, whom He appointed Heir of all things, through whom also He made the universe; who, being the effulgence of His glory and the impress of His substance and upholding and bearing all things by the word of His power, having made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. #bible #scripture #christ #expressGod #hebrews more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnoet7jH-W2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1s0lotq8cl0e1

In the Godhead the Son is the effulgence of God’s glory and the impress of His substance (Heb. 1:3): The glory is the outward expression, and the substance is the inward essence. With respect to glory as the outward expression of God, the Son is the effulgence of God’s glory, the brightness of the Father’s glory (v. 3). With respect to substance as the inward essence of God, the Son is the impress of God’s substance, the expression of what the Father is. For the Son to be the effulgence of God’s glory and the impress of God’s substance means that the Son is God coming to us (v. 3; John 1:1, 14, 18). By Witness Lee #christ #expressGod #hebrews #glory more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/BnoegaJHJwi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=55m6fqvktm7j

the believers as New Testament priests are adorned with Christ’s divine attributes mingled with His human virtues; our outward expression should be Christ’s divine attributes expressed in human virtues. Witness Lee #believers #expressGod more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/BnWcrazghaz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1f36f1zf1i90n