The Church in Ontario

06/07/2026

The first gathering in the new Ontario meeting hall today! May God bless all the saints! And trust in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ!!!!!!! For all things!

06/07/2026

All the saints, relatives, friends, and gospel friends are warmly welcome to join us as we enjoy the unsearchable riches of Christ, partake of the fellowship of the Body, and testify together of the Lord’s blessing and leading in the church in Ontario! Praise the Lord!

“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell in unity!”

(Psalm 133:1)

06/07/2026

The Triune God Has Now Become Our All
—— Hymn 608

May the truth in this hymn impress, encourage and motivate all to pursue Christ to gain Him more and offer praises to the One who is All and in all. https://...

06/07/2026

PROPHESYING NOTES FOR ISA 2:1-8:22
Excerpted from The Life-study of Isaiah Chapters 8

In this message I would like to speak a word concerning the sign of Christ’s incarnation given to Ahaz, king of Judah (Isa. 7:14). We will consider this sign in relation to Satan’s use of Babylon to oppose God and God’s economy. The New Testament begins with the sign of a virgin conceiving and bearing a son, whose name is called Immanuel, God with us (Matt. 1:22-23). As we will see, this great sign covers the entire Bible from Genesis 11 to Revelation 22.

According to the divine revelation in the Bible, God made a plan, and this plan is His eternal economy. God’s plan, God’s economy, is to gain for Himself a people from among the human beings created by Him. God’s calling of Abraham was part of the fulfillment of God’s desire to have a people for Himself, a people who were chosen, called, and separated to be God’s treasure. With the coming of Christ, God took a further step to gain another people—the church. To God, the church is a great treasure. Therefore, God has two elect peoples: Israel in the Old Testament and the believers in the New Testament. In totality, the believers are the church, God’s elect in the New Testament. For the fulfillment of His eternal purpose, God desires to gain these two elect peoples.

God, however, has an enemy, Satan, and this enemy has come in to cause a great deal of damage in his attempt to frustrate God from accomplishing His eternal economy. Satan’s way is to use the nations—the human beings created by God but not chosen by Him—to frustrate God’s eternal purpose.

The divine revelation always has its own principle, and according to the principle of the divine revelation, the first nation used by Satan to frustrate God from accomplishing His eternal economy was Babel in Genesis 11. Babel was an ancient name for Babylon. At Babel rebellious people built a tower and a city in order to make a name for themselves (Gen. 11:4). Eventually, after many centuries, Babel was enlarged to become Babylon. According to the Old Testament, all the Gentile nations used by Satan against God began from Babylon. This human opposition to God is signified by the human image in Daniel 2. This image includes Babylon (the head of gold), followed by the Medo-Persians (the breast and arms of silver), the Greeks (the belly and thighs of brass), and the Romans (the legs of iron).

In the Old Testament, those who invaded the land of Immanuel were physical invaders, such as the Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans. In the New Testament, the invaders, although still from Babylon, are spiritual invaders. The Babylon in the Old Testament was physical, but the Babylon in the New Testament is spiritual. Toward the end of the New Testament, there is a revelation of this Babylon in its two aspects—the religious aspect (Rev. 17:1-18) and the material aspect (Rev. 18:1-24).

In Isaiah Christ is unveiled first as the Shoot of Jehovah (4:2a) and then as the Fruit of the earth (4:2b), as a canopy to cover all the interests of God in the whole universe (4:5), and as a tabernacle overshadowing God’s chosen people (4:6). Eventually, this Christ becomes the center of an all-inclusive sign—the sign of a virgin conceiving and bearing a son.

The real fulfillment of this sign was the Lord’s incarnation (Matt. 1:20-23). When Christ came, He was Immanuel, which means God with us (Matt. 1:23). Christ is God with us. This is revealed not only in Matthew 1 but also in Matthew 28, where the Lord Jesus says, “Behold, I am with you all the days until the consummation of the age” (v. 20). Actually, the entire New Testament is an Immanuel, and we are now a part of this great Immanuel that will consummate in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth for eternity.

Christ as Immanuel, as the Son born of a virgin, is our sanctuary. This sanctuary is the place where we may live, dwell, and worship God. We are God’s priests, His worshippers, and the sanctuary is the place where we dwell with God. When Christ was incarnated, He became a tabernacle (John 1:14). Tabernacle is a general term used to denote the sanctuary. For us today, the sanctuary is the innermost part of the temple where we as God’s priests worship God, serve God, and dwell with God.

Christ has many opposers, including the Gentile nations who have invaded His land. These nations compose the image in Daniel 2. To them, Christ will be the smiting stone. According to Daniel 2:34 and 35, He will be the stone that smashes the image into pieces.

In the four Gospels we can see that when Christ was on earth, He was opposed by another category of people. Those in this category included the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Herodians, the scribes, the elders, and certain of the priests. To those in this category Christ was a rock of stumbling (Isa. 8:14b). The ones who fell upon this rock were broken to pieces.

Furthermore, many of those who opposed Christ were cunning and subtle, and in their subtlety they tried to trap or to snare the Lord Jesus. During the Lord’s last visit to Jerusalem, the Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians, scribes, and others tried over a period of four days to trap Him, to snare Him. Instead, they were eventually trapped and snared by Him. To them, Christ was a trap and a snare (Isa. 8:14c).

We thank the Lord that to us who believe in Him, He, as Immanuel, is our sanctuary. In Him we have God’s presence, and God’s presence is our dwelling, the place where we worship God and serve Him.

—— Stanley Han

06/07/2026

Weekly Bible Reading Schedule-Prophesying Notes

Week 74: Isa. 2:1-8:22

As we begin to read Isaiah, the first chapter feel like a very upset fundamentalist raging at the sins that he sees around him, on the surface. But such speaking against negativity, is that they are to make room for the positive things. Starting with chapter 2, it is pointed out that the nations were haughty, and God will judge the nations. In addition, to the admonishing of Judah and Israel that ushers forth from a perfecting love. The humiliating judgement of Jehovah on the nations is to usher in the God-man, signified by the restoration of Israel. Which brings in the kingdom and consummates in the new heavens and new earth.

Isaiah 4:4 shows that. The Lord will wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion and will cleanse away the blood stains of Jerusalem from her midst by the judging Spirit and the burning Spirit. Then he who is left over in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who has been written down in Jerusalem for life. He will create a canopy over Zion and convocations and providing His chosen people with a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime from the heat and for a refuge and a cover from the storm and rain. Isaiah speaks concerning the ushering in of Christ and the restoration of the nation of Israel in several different sections of his prophecy. When we put these sections together, we will have a clear view of the revelation in this book regarding these two secret and mysterious matters.

Verse 2: In that day the Shoot of Jehovah will be beauty and glory, and the fruit of the earth, excellence and splendor, to those of Israel who have escaped. That is Christ, the God-man. Shoot of Jehovah refers to the divinity, fruit of the earth symbolizes humanity. Being both, Christ is the God-man. In Him, God and humanity live together as one.

In Isaiah 6:1-7, we have a vision of Christ in glory. In spite of the rebellions, iniquities, and corruptions of Israel, Christ is still sitting on a high and lofty throne in glory. These verses indicate that no matter what the situation might be on earth and regardless of the corruption and degradation among God's people, Christ is still on the throne in His glory.

Isaiah’s response to the vision is in 6:5, Then I said, Woe is me, for I am finished! / For I am a man of unclean lips, / And in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell; / Yet my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts. I see that this is very much my problem too, a great percentage of words spoken are evil because most of it are words of criticism like gossip, murmuring and reasoning.

The world’s situation these past few months, the civil unrest these past week or two…Saints, remember that these are the admonishing of a perfecting love, and it is more reminders that we see the rich Christ, who says to Isaiah, our stand-in in experience, "Don't look down at the situation. If you look down, you will be disappointed. Look up at Me. I am still here. There may be nothing good there, but everything is good here. I am the unique good thing in the universe. Look at Me." Let our experience be clean and able to contact God and receive commission from God.

—— Grace Liu

05/31/2026

I Love Thee, Jesus
—— Hymn 1154

Hymn 1154Category: Experience of ChristSubcategory: Loving HimLyrics: D. P.Music: D. P.Lyrics: https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/1154LYRICS:1I love Thee, Jesu...

05/31/2026

PROPHESYING NOTES FOR S.S 4:9-ISA 1:31
Excerpted from The Life-study of Song of Songs Chapter 10

Through Brother Nee we can see that Song of Songs is a spiritual life-story of Christian experiences, signified by a romance. In Song of Songs these experiences are in four stages.

In the first stage we are attracted by Christ and drawn by Him to pursue after Him for full satisfaction (1:2—2:7). This stage includes many things: yearning to be kissed by Christ; the fellowship in the inner chamber; entering into the church life by following the footsteps of the flock; being transformed by the remaking of the Spirit; and participating in Christ’s rest and satisfaction.

In this stage a sinner saved by grace is stirred up, attracted by Christ’s love, and charmed by what He is. Song of Songs 1:2 says of Christ, “Your love is better than wine.” Nothing in the whole universe can compare with Him. Verse 3 goes on to speak of Christ’s “anointing oils” and says that His “name is like ointment poured forth.” This ointment, which is actually Christ Himself as the Spirit, is a compound of divinity, humanity, Christ’s death and resurrection, the effectiveness of His death, and the power of His resurrection. The name here signifies Christ’s person, His being, and Christ is this compound Spirit. “The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit” (1 Cor. 15:45b). This indicates that Christ’s name as His person is the compound ointment.

The second stage is the call to be delivered from the self through the oneness with the cross (S.S. 2:8—3:5). In brief, the second stage is the stage of the experience of the cross. When we pursue after Christ and become satisfied with the rest and enjoyment in Christ, we may become very occupied with and concerned about the self and thereby fall into introspection. Thus, we need to experience the denying of the self and the breaking of the self by being one with the cross. We need to stay in the clefts of the rock and remain hidden in the covert of the precipice. This means that we should daily stay at the cross. We should be able to say with Paul, “I am crucified with Christ” (Gal. 2:20). We—“I,” the self, the natural man, the old man—have been crucified, and now we should stay on the cross. This is to be in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the precipice. How can we reach the clefts and the covert, which are rugged places high up in the mountains? How can we remain there? We can go to the cross and remain there only by the power of Christ’s resurrection (Phil. 3:10).

The third stage is to be called by Christ to live in ascension as the new creation of God in the resurrection of Christ (3:6—5:1). Christ’s death is followed by Christ’s resurrection, and in His resurrection we are a new creation. The new creation is a product of Christ’s resurrection. Anyone who is in Christ and in His resurrection is a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17). The matters of resurrection and a new creation are closely related to Christ’s ascension. Actually, Christ’s resurrection and ascension are one. If we are in His resurrection, we are also in His ascension. When we live in resurrection, we are surely living in ascension.

Proof that the third stage of spiritual experience in Song of Songs is the call to live in ascension is found in 4:8. When we live in ascension, we realize that the war is over, that the victory has been gained, and that the enemy has been destroyed. The lions’ dens and the leopards’ mountains signify Satan and his evil forces. These evil powers are in the air, but when we live in ascension, we are in the heavens, far above them. Furthermore, when we live in ascension, spontaneously we are a new creation of God in the resurrection of Christ. How wonderful!

We may think that the third stage is the highest stage, but according to Song of Songs there is yet another stage. The fourth stage is to be called by Christ more strongly to live within the veil through His cross after the experience of His resurrection (5:2—6:13). In ascension, in the heavens, there is the sanctuary of God, and a veil, which signifies the flesh (Heb. 10:20), divides this heavenly sanctuary into two sections. We should not think that once we have arrived at the heavenly sanctuary, we have already attained the highest point of spiritual experience. We may have come to the highest point, but we may not yet be in the inner chamber of the heavenly sanctuary. This inner chamber is the Holy of Holies—God Himself. The veil separating the Holy of Holies from the Holy Place was split in two at the time of Christ’s crucifixion (Matt. 27:51), but the veil has not been taken away. The veil is still there. After we reach ascension we eventually realize that with the sanctuary in the heavens there is an inner chamber and that we need to enter within the veil and live within the veil, that is, live in God Himself.

We have seen that the veil signifies the flesh, which is worse than the self. After the first stage, the object of our dealing is the self. Later, in the fourth stage, the object of our dealing is the flesh. This requires a further experience of the cross, for we need to enter within the veil through the cross. This means that even after we have experienced resurrection and ascension, we still need the cross in order to live in the Holy of Holies within the veil. We experience the cross in the second stage, but we need to have the deeper experience of the cross in the fourth stage.

Song of Songs 6:4 says, “You are as beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, / As lovely as Jerusalem.” Here the lover of Christ is likened to Tirzah and Jerusalem, indicating that she has become God’s dwelling place.

We have seen the four stages of spiritual experience in this book: the stage of pursuit, the stage of the cross, the stage of ascension, and the stage of living in the Holy of Holies. If we have a clear view of these four stages, we will have the proper understanding of Song of Songs. Such an understanding surely is priceless.

—— Stanley Han

05/31/2026

Weekly Bible Reading Schedule-Prophesying Notes

Week 73: S. S. 4:9-Isa. 1:31

This week, we finish reading the latter half of the Song of Songs and get started on the Books of Prophesy, at Isaiah.

In the middle of the third part, resurrection, among the many analogies, there is a point where the Beloved has been calling the lover as “sister and lover”. It’s a reflection that at this point, the two of them are alike enough in life. Furthermore, after having passed thru the various stages of transformation by the end of chapter 6, the lover is now called Shulamite, the feminine form of Solomon. For she is now finally, fully Solomon’s duplication, same as Solomon in life, nature, and image to match their marriage.

One might expect that a fairy tale ending is with the culmination of marriage, but precisely because reality is not a fairy tale, there is work to be done after the marriage. Lovers need to share the work, be each other’s coworkers to make their future work. Then the Spirit is reviewing the qualifications and virtues of the lover for the labor. And in working together with her beloved, they are working for the entire world by moving from place to place, and working diligently for others to bud, blossom, and bloom. There was also a desire for rapture and concern for younger believers. May such a progress with all four of these stages portrayed in the Song of Songs serve as milestones for us during our pursuit of Christ for His and our mutual satisfaction!

Next is the beginning of the Book of Isaiah, the first of the Prophets. Isaiah’s ministry lasted more than sixty years and served four generations of kings. The central thought of Isaiah is: Christ is God incarnated in humanity to be the Savior of man, that all the God-created universe, which is fallen, might be restored and consummate in the new heaven and new earth for eternity. The subject of the book of Isaiah is the full salvation of Jehovah through the incarnated, crucified, resurrected, ascended, and coming Christ.

Chapter 1, the first of the visions of Isaiah is of Jehovah the Father’s complaint against His people, concerning Israel and Judah. So much that the people of Israel were compared to the rulers of S***m and Gomorrah, and their incense and sacrifices were an abomination to Him.

So let us pray while being watchful, then our prayer will still be pleasing to the Lord.

—— Grace Liu

05/25/2026

Welcome! Praise the Lord!

05/25/2026

Jesus Lord, I’m captured by Thy beauty

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