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28/08/2026

John 5:19
Then Jesus answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son can do nothing from Himself except what He sees the Father doing, for whatever that One does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

8:29 And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.
..[The Lord] was a man of prayer, a man who is one with God (John 10:30). We may be a Christ-seeker, desperately praying to gain Christ, yet we may not be one with God. He was also a man living in the presence of God without ceasing (Acts 10:38c; John 8:29; 16:32). He said that He was never alone, but the Father was with Him. Every moment He saw His Father’s face. We may seek Christ, yet not live in the presence of God so closely and continuously without ceasing. Also, He trusted in God and not in Himself, under any kind of suffering and persecution. First Peter 2:23b says that in the midst of His suffering He did not speak threatening words but kept committing all to Him who judges righteously. Luke 23:46 says that at the time He was dying on the cross, He prayed, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.” In our daily life, do we trust in God when trouble comes? Maybe we do to a small extent, but not absolutely.

In John 14:30 the Lord said, “The ruler of the world is coming, and in Me he has nothing.” This means that in the Lord Jesus, Satan as the ruler of the world had no ground, no chance, no hope, no possibility in anything. If we are enlightened, we will admit that Satan has too many things in us…But here was a man of prayer who said that Satan, the ruler of the world, had nothing in Him. This is a particular sentence in the whole Bible. Thus, Christ was a man of prayer, a man who was one with God, lived in the presence of God continuously, trusted in God in His suffering and persecution, and in whom Satan had nothing. (CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “The God-man Living,” pp. 529-530)

27/08/2026

Leviticus 6:11
Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.

1:16 …Toward the east, in the place of the ashes.

Philippians 3:10
To know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.

For God to accept the burnt offering is for Him to turn it to ashes. Concerning this, Psalm 20:3 says, “May He remember all your meal offerings / And accept your burnt offering.” The Hebrew word translated “accept” here actually means “turn to ashes.” When our offering has been turned to ashes, this is a strong sign that it has been accepted by God.

Ordinarily, people do not regard ashes as something pleasant. However, to us who offer the burnt offering, ashes are indeed pleasant, even precious, because they are a sign which gives us the assurance that our burnt offering has been accepted by God.

The Hebrew word rendered “accept” can be translated not only as “turn to ashes” but also as “accept as fat,” “make fat,” and “be as fat.” For God to accept our burnt offering means not only that He turns it to ashes but also that He accepts it as fat, something that is sweet and pleasing to Him. For the burnt offering to be turned to ashes means that God is satisfied and that we therefore may be at peace.

The ashes were not thrown away. Instead, they were put beside the altar toward the east (Lev. 1:16; 6:10), the place of the ashes. The east side is the side of the sunrise. Putting the ashes beside the altar toward the east is actually an allusion to resurrection. [That] the ashes were not thrown away… indicates that we should treasure the result of our offering of the burnt offering to God. We should never throw it away.

In God’s eyes, the result of our burnt offering is highly regarded. It is fine, pure, and clean. Thus, in carrying the ashes outside the camp [cf. 6:11], the priest wore stately garments and carried the ashes in a stately way. This teaches us to have a high regard for the result of our burnt offering.

To become a full-timer is to offer ourselves to God as a burnt offering…The result of our being a burnt offering will be something that carries out God’s New Testament economy. What we do as full-timers is not merely to preach the gospel to save sinners, to establish local churches, to teach the Bible, or to help people to grow in life and in truth. What we do must result in the building up of the Body of Christ, which is a miniature of the coming New Jerusalem.

What we are doing is actually extraordinary, but to the worldly people it is nothing. To them what we are doing is ashes. However, God has a high regard for these ashes. Eventually, these ashes will become the New Jerusalem. Have you ever realized that the ashes, the result of the burnt offering, will be the coming New Jerusalem?…The New Jerusalem is our destiny and our destination. How can the ashes of the burnt offering become the New Jerusalem? Ashes indicate the result of Christ’s death, which brings us to an end, that is, to ashes. But Christ’s death brings in resurrection. In resurrection the ashes become precious materials—gold, pearl, and precious stones—for the building of the New Jerusalem…When we are brought to ashes, we are brought into the transformation of the Triune God. (Life-study of Leviticus, pp. 57-58, 208-209)

26/08/2026

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26/08/2026

Leviticus 1:3
If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall present it, a male without blemish; he shall present it at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.

9 But its inward parts and its legs he shall wash with water. Then the priest shall burn the whole on the altar, as a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a satisfying fragrance to Jehovah.
..The way to satisfy God with sweetness, peace, and rest is to live a life that is absolutely for God. Since we cannot live such a life, we must take Christ as our burnt offering. We need to lay our hands on Him to indicate that we desire to be identified with Him, one with Him, and to live the kind of life He lived on earth. To lay our hand on the offering means that we are one with the offering and take the offering as being one with us. Hence, the laying on of hands makes the two parties one. We are joined to Him. We and He, He and we, become one. Such a union, such an identification, indicates that all our weaknesses, defects, shortcomings, and faults become His and that all His virtues become ours. This is not exchange—it is union.

We may realize that we are altogether unqualified and hopeless. This is our actual situation. But when we lay our hands on Christ, our weak points become His, and His strong points, His virtues, become ours. Furthermore, spiritually speaking, by such a union He becomes one with us and lives in us. As He lives in us, He will repeat in us the life He lived on earth, the life of the burnt offering…By laying our hands on Him, we make Him one with us, and we make ourselves one with Him. Then He will repeat His living in us. This is to offer the burnt offering. (Life-study of Leviticus, pp. 69, 39, 27-28)

25/08/2026

Matthew 11:29
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

John 6:57
As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.

When we believed in the Lord Jesus and were saved, God put us into Christ as the mold. This mold is the life of Jesus recorded in the four Gospels, a life absolutely according to reality, truth. Truth is the shining of light, the expression of light. Since God is light (1 John 1:5), truth is the expression of God. Every aspect of the life of Jesus recorded in the Gospels is an expression of God…This expression of God is the shining of light; hence, it is the truth, the reality. This life of Jesus according to reality is the pattern in which God has placed us. In this pattern we have learned Christ as the reality is in Jesus. This means that we have learned Christ according to the reality shown in the Gospels, that is, according to the life of the Lord Jesus, which was wholly according to God’s reality, God’s truth. This life is the shining of light. The shining of the light is truth, and truth is the expression of God. Therefore, in the life of Jesus there is truth, reality. The essence of the pattern set up by the Lord Jesus is reality. This means that the essence of the life of Jesus is reality. We have learned Christ as the reality is in Jesus.

The Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, but we believers live a life as the reality is in Jesus [cf. Eph. 4:17, 21]. When the Lord Jesus was living on earth, He never walked in vanity. Rather, He always walked in reality, in truth, that is, in the shining of the divine light. This means that the Lord Jesus lived and walked in the expression of God. We have learned Christ according to this very reality that is in Jesus. (Life-study of Ephesians, p. 383)

太十一29「我心裡柔和謙卑，因此你們要負我的軛，且要跟我學，你們魂裡就必得安息。」

約六57「活的父怎樣差我來，我又因父活著，照樣，那吃我的人，也要因我活著。」

當我們相信主耶穌而得救時，神就把我們放在作為模子的基督裡。這模子就是記載在四福音書中耶穌的生活，這是完全照著實際而有的生活。實際（真理）是光的照耀，光的彰顯。因為神就是光（約壹一5），所以實際（真理）就是神的彰顯。福音書裡所記載耶穌的生活，每一面都是神的彰顯。 ……神的這個彰顯，就是光的照耀；因此，這彰顯就是實際（真理）。耶穌這照著實際而有的生活乃是模型，神已經把我們放在其中。在這個模型裡，我們照著那在耶穌身上是實際者，學習了基督。這意思是，我們照著福音書所給我們看見的實際，亦即照著主耶穌那完全照著神實際的生活，學了基督。這生活是光的照耀。光的照耀是實際（真理），而實際（真理）是神的彰顯。所以，在耶穌的生活裡有實際。主耶穌所設立的模型，其素質乃是實際。這意思是，耶穌之生活的素質乃是實際。我們照著那在耶穌身上是實際者，學習了基督。

外邦人在他們心思的虛妄裡行事為人，但我們信的人所過的生活，卻是照著那在耶穌身上是實際者〔參弗四17、21〕。當主耶穌在地上生活時，祂從未在虛妄裡行事為人，反倒一直在實際裡行事為人，也就是在神聖之光的照耀下行事為人。這意思是，主耶穌的生活行事都彰顯神。我們乃是照著那在耶穌身上是實際者，學了基督（以弗所書生命讀經，四七七至四七八頁）。"

24/08/2026

Ephesians 4:20-21
But you did not so learn Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him as the reality is in Jesus.

1 Peter 2:21
…Christ also suffered on your behalf, leaving you a model so that you may follow in His steps.

Romans 8:29
…He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.

To be saved is to be put by God into Christ. First Corinthians 1:30 says, “Of Him you are in Christ Jesus.” When God put us into Christ, He put us into the mold…Romans 8:29 indicates that we are to be conformed to the image of Christ, the Firstborn among many brothers. To be conformed is to be molded…To learn Christ is simply to be molded into the pattern of Christ, that is, to be conformed to the image of Christ.

By means of baptism God has put us into Christ, who is the pattern. To be baptized is to be placed into Christ as the mold…To be baptized into Christ [Rom. 6:3; Gal. 3:27] is to be buried into Him. The tomb of this baptism is the pattern, the mold. In God’s eyes, we were put into this mold when we were baptized. Through being placed into the mold, we have put off the old man and have put on the new man. By being buried into Christ, we have been brought out of Adam and the old creation. By baptism we have been put into Christ, who is both our life and our pattern. This explains why Paul uses the past tense in speaking about learning Christ. We learned Christ when we were buried into Him in baptism. This means that to learn Christ is to be put into Christ as the mold. It is to be molded into the pattern set up by Him during His years on earth... (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 381-382)

22/08/2026

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21/08/2026

Ephesians 1:5
Predestinating us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.
..When we think of ourselves as God-men, this thinking, this realization, revolutionizes us in our daily experience. For example, a brother may be unhappy with his wife. But he remembers that he is a God-man, and immediately his attitude is changed. Then he will desire to be a God-man husband.

As believers in Christ and children of God, we are not mankind—we are God-man kind. To realize this is to be changed, even revolutionized. When we realize that we are God-men, we will say, “Lord, You are the first God-man, and we are the many God-men following You. You lived a human life not by Your human life but by God’s divine life to express Him. His attributes became Your virtues. You were here on this earth dying every day. You were crucified to live. Lord, You are my life today and You are my person. You are just me. I therefore must die. I need to be conformed to Your death. I have to be crucified to die every day to live a God-man’s life, a human life yet not by my human life but by the divine life, with Your life and Your nature as my constitution to express You in Your divine attributes, which become my human virtues.” This makes us not just a Christian or a believer in Christ but a God-man, one kind with God. This is the highest point of God’s gospel.

According to this gospel, we were fallen, yet Christ died for us. If we believe in Him and receive Him, we will have the eternal life to be the sons of God. Christians today admit that all the believers in Christ are the sons of God or the children of God, but they do not dare admit that the believers in Christ are God. At the end of this age, we are teaching and preaching the truth that God became a man in order to make man God, the same as He is in life and in nature but not in the Godhead. It is a great blessing to hear this truth.

After hearing that God wants a group of God-men, how can you be content to be anything else?…We should all declare that we want to live the life of a God-man. Eventually, the God-men will be the victors, the overcomers, the Zion within Jerusalem. This will bring in a new revival that has never been seen in history, and this will end this age. (Life-study of 1 & 2 Chronicles, pp. 24, 27-28)

20/08/2026

Ephesians 3:17
That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith…

If we read the Bible without paying attention to this crucial point, then, in a very real sense, the Bible is to us an empty book. This means that although the Bible is real in itself, in our understanding of it, the Bible is empty. As an illustration, let us suppose that a certain box, which is quite attractive, contains a large diamond. A child may be interested in the box but not in the diamond. An adult, however, would focus his attention on the diamond contained in the box. Today many Christians care for the Bible as the “box,” but they have not seen and do not appreciate the “diamond,” which is the content of this box, and they may even condemn those who have a proper appreciation of the “diamond” in the “box.” The “diamond” in the “box” of the Bible is the revelation that in Christ God has become man in order that man might become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.

We need God to build Himself in Christ into our humanity. This means that we need God to work Himself in Christ into us as our life, our nature, and our constitution. As a result, we are not simply a man according to God’s heart—we are God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.

In order to accomplish this, God in Christ became a man and went through some processes that this man could be designated something divine. In resurrection He was designated the firstborn Son of God. In and through resurrection Christ, the firstborn Son of God, became the life-giving Spirit, who now enters into us to impart, to dispense, Himself as life into our being to be our inner constitution, to make us a God-man just like Him. He was God becoming man, and we are man becoming God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead.

Ephesians 3:17 tells us that Christ is now within us doing the work of building Himself into us to produce [a] mutual abode…Christ is working in us to build up God’s habitation by building Himself into us. This mutual abode is also unveiled in John 14:23: “If anyone loves Me,…My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.” This abode will be not only for the Triune God but also for us. What God builds up in us is both God’s habitation and our habitation. God will have a habitation not by our doing or working but by His building. Christ builds the church (Matt. 16:18) by coming into our spirit and spreading Himself from our spirit into our mind, emotion, and will to occupy our entire soul. This church will become His habitation and our habitation... (Life-study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 206, 170171)

弗三17“使基督藉著信，安家在你們心裡…。”

我們讀聖經若沒有註意到這個重要的點，那麼，就實際意義說，聖經對我們就是一本空洞的書。這意思是，聖經本身雖然是實際的，但在我們的領會裡，它是空洞的。舉例來說，假設有個盒子很吸引人，裡面放著一顆大鑽石。小孩可能對盒子有興趣，但對鑽石沒有興趣；然而，大人卻會將注意力集中在盒子裡面的鑽石。今天，許多基督徒在意聖經這個“盒子”，但他們沒有看見，也不珍賞這盒子裡面的內容—— “鑽石”，甚至可能定罪那些對“盒子”裡面的“鑽石”有正確珍賞的人。聖經這「盒子」裡的「鑽石」乃是一個啟示，就是神在基督裡已成為人，為要使人在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成為神。

我們需要神在基督裡將祂自己作到我們的人性裡。這意思是，我們需要神在基督裡將祂自己作到我們裡面，作我們的生命、性情和構成。結果，我們不是僅僅合乎神心的人——我們乃是在生命和性情上（但不在神格上）成為神。

為要成就這事，神就在基督裡成為人，經過一些過程，使這人能被標出為神聖的。在復活裡，祂被標出為神的長子。在復活裡並藉著復活，神的長子基督成了賜生命的靈，現今進到我們裡面，將祂自己作為生命分賜到我們裡面，成為我們內裡的構成，使我們成為神人，就像祂自己一樣。祂是神成為人，我們是人成為神－在生命和性情上，但不在神格上。

以弗所三章十七節告訴我們，基督現今正在我們裡面作工，將祂自己建造到我們裡面，好產生〔一個〕相互的住處。 ……基督在我們裡面作工，是要藉著將祂自己建造到我們裡面，而建造神的居所。 ……這一個相互的住處也啟示在約翰十四章二十三節：「人若愛我，…我父也必愛他，並且我們要到他那裡去，同他安排住處。」這住處不僅是為著三一神，也是為著我們。神在我們裡面所建造的，要成為神的居所和我們的居所。 ……神要得著一個居所，不是藉著我們所行所作，乃是藉著祂的建造。基督建造教會（太十六18），乃是藉著進到我們靈裡，並將祂自己從我們的靈擴展到我們的心思、情感和意誌裡，以佔有我們的魂。這教會要成為祂的居所和我們的居所。... （撒母耳記生命讀經，二四九、二○五至二○七頁）

19/08/2026

2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same IMAGE from GLORY to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit.

Romans 8:23
And not only so, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting SONSHIP, the redemption of our body.

As God-men, we also have the divine right to participate in God’s IMAGE [2 Cor. 3:18]…This is the image of the resurrected and glorified Christ. In God’s creation man was made in God’s image in an outward way, but the image into which we are being transformed is something inward. To be transformed into the same image is to be conformed to the resurrected and glorified Christ, as the firstborn Son of God, to be made the same as He is (Rom. 8:29).

We Christians, who are God-men, all have the Lord Spirit within us, and the Lord Spirit is in the process of carrying out a metabolic change in our being, transforming us into the image of Christ. To be metabolically transformed into the image of the resurrected and glorified Christ is to participate in God’s image.

Eventually, we will be brought into God’s glory to participate in His GLORY. Hebrews 2:10 says that God is leading many sons into glory. Paul refers to this in Romans 8:30: “Those whom He predestinated, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He also justified; and those whom He justified, these He also glorified.” Glorification is the step in God’s complete salvation in which God will completely saturate our body with the glory of His life and nature. In this way He will transfigure our body, conforming it to the resurrected, glorious body of His Son (Phil. 3:21).

Another aspect of the God-men’s divine right to participate in God’s divinity is the right to participate in God’s SONSHIP (Eph. 1:5; Rom. 8:23). We can have God’s life, God’s nature, God’s mind, God’s being, God’s image, and God’s glory because we are God’s sons…Before the foundation of the world, that is, in eternity past, God predestinated us, marked us out, unto sonship. Before time began, God intended and determined that we would participate in His sonship.

As God-men, we will participate also in God’s manifestation (Rom. 8:19). When Christ our life is manifested, we will be manifested with Him in glory (Col. 3:4). Today God is hiding, but one day He will be manifested to the whole universe. Romans 8:19 indicates that when God is manifested, revealed, we, the sons of God, will participate in that revelation, in that manifestation. God will be manifested with His sons, who will be the same as He in life, in nature, in mind, in being, in image, and in glory...(CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 4, “Incarnation, Inclusion, and Intensification,” pp. 216-217)

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