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Reading: Zechariah 3:1-10; Revelation 12:1-12. "And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death." (R.V.) One clause of that verse sums up everything else and is sufficient - "because of the blood of the... Read More

"...having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved... to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped... Read More

"Having made known unto us the mystery of His will... to sum up all things in Christ... according to the purpose of Him Who worketh all things after the counsel of His will... He put all things in subjection under His (Christ's) feet, and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church, which is H... Read More

READING: Rom. 8:19,21-23, Heb. 1:2; 2:5-8, 9-11; 3:1,7-8; 12:5-6; Rev. 12:5. In our previous meditation, we were occupied with the School of sonship unto adoption. We are now going to follow that on to the next stage. We were seeing a little of the nature, meaning and need for transition from spirit... Read More

Reading: Isa. 1:9; Rom. 9:27,29; 11:2-5,26; Isa. 8:17,18. After long and very deep exercise of heart and weighing things solemnly before the Lord, I am led quite strongly to the conclusion that His message for us at this time, and not for us only, but for His whole Church, is concerning Overcomer Te... Read More

"Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out" (John 12:31). "I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me" (John 14:30). "Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might... For our wrestling i... Read More

Reading: John 4:20-24; Matt. 4:8-10; 2 Thess. 2:4; Rev. 13:4,8,15; 19:20; 20:4,5; Eph. 3:21. We shall be considering certain features of the church as a functioning Body, and the first of these, and the all-inclusive one, is worship. When we come to contemplate the matter of worship, we find that we... Read More

"Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem: I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her" (Ezekiel 5:5). We have traced Jerusalem from Melchizedek, king of Salem, to David, the great king, and then on to the Book of the Revelation, to the New Jerusalem. The governme... Read More

Reading: Revelation 12:1-12. Sonship in Representative Fullness Here we have, I believe, the whole matter of sonship gathered into representative fullness. This son, this man child, is sonship in representative fullness: that in which all the principles and elements of Christ have been brought to ut... Read More

Reading: Luke 2:25-38; I Cor. 10:11; Heb. 8:13, 9:26. We are being led at this time to take note of the fact that we are at an end-time, and that God does a peculiar work at such a time. Things become very strange and very difficult at an end-time; everything seems to be thrown into a state of distu... Read More