Links and stuff I find interesting

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The entire Bible is a divine romance. This means that the Bible is a very romantic book. This is true in particular of Song of Songs....When I was young, I also wondered why such a book is in the Bible, a book concerned with a romance between a man and a woman. This book is a portrait of the love relationship between us and Christ. According to Song of Songs, our relationship with the Lord should be very romantic. If there is no romance between us and the Lord Jesus, then we are religious Christians, not romantic Christians. If you wish to know what I mean by romance, I would encourage you to read and pray-read Song of Songs. Pray-reading this book of romance will cause you to become romantic with the Lord. You will be beside yourself with love for Him. The Bible is a divine romance, and our relationship with the Lord should become more and more romantic. (Life-study of Exodus, pp. 648-649) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu6pYTYhwEh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hesn88ggdu8z

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Isa. 54:5-6 For your Maker is your Husband; Jehovah of hosts is His name. And the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth. For Jehovah has called you, like a wife who has been forsaken and is grieved in spirit, even like a wife of one’s youth when she has been rejected, says your God. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu4Ew8JhiNm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e0upfdo8mh3w

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The entire Bible is a divine romance, a record of how God courts His chosen people and eventually marries them (Gen. 2:21-24; S.S. 1:2-4;...Rev. 19:7; 21:2, 9-10; 22:17). When we as God’s people enter into a love relationship with God, we receive His life, just as Eve received the life of Adam (Gen. 2:21-22). It is this life that enables us to become one with God and makes Him one with us. We keep the law not by exercising our mind and will (cf. Rom. 7:18-25) but by loving the Lord as our Husband and thereby partaking of His life and nature to become one with Him as His enlargement and expression. (Exo. 20:6, footnote 2) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu4EoekhmKR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17al4aoiah7rg

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As priests of the gospel of God, we should consider ourselves warriors (Rom. 15:16). While we are preaching, teaching, edifying others, and building up the Body of Christ, we are fighting (Eph. 3:8; 4:12, 16; 6:10-12). The New Testament priests are warriors, and our priestly service is a fighting (Rev. 5:10; 19:11-14). All the spiritual work that we are doing for God, whatever form it may take, as long as it touches the things of the spiritual realm, is in nature a warfare (2 Cor. 10:3-5). https://www.instagram.com/p/BuwYTv8hgLX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1npmx3qfsrf86

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Lord Jesus, open our eyes to see and realise that our priestly service before God is in the nature of spiritual warfare, and our holy service is actually a military service. May we be aware of the fact that whenever we touch God’s move, we touch the resistance of the enemy, and our service as priests and Levites is in the nature of spiritual warfare. Amen, Lord Jesus, we stand with You; we stand on Your side, in Your victory, one with You and with our fellow priests for Your testimony on the earth. https://www.instagram.com/p/BuwWU-9hLlO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gap3f49zjrvu

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Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love. Col. 1:13 https://www.instagram.com/p/BuwV7UmBy5Y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hvrvzaplwatn

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In the Old Testament, God could move by Himself, without man. For instance, when God created the heavens and the earth, there was no need of man to match Him. But the New Testament begins with the divine incarnation. This set up the principle for God’s New Testament economy, which is that God needs man to match Him. Without man, God can do nothing. In the Old Testament, God could do many things without man. In the New Testament, God has given Himself to be bound together with man....In the New Testament, God must have man to match Him, to be one with Him, to coordinate with Him. This is the basic principle of God’s New Testament economy. (Life-study of Numbers, p. 33) https://www.instagram.com/p/ButyBmDBEIn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jhgqtoodg51l

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1 Pet. 2:5 You yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. https://www.instagram.com/p/Butx4b-hWtp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5ni7rn88vc76

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To minister is to serve, and to serve is to supply people by ministering to them, just as a waiter supplies people with food. The ministry of the priests and the Levites always supplies people with the riches of Christ. The cross of Christ is for redemption, and the riches of Christ are for supply. Today we, the New Testament believers, serve others with the cross of Christ for redemption and the riches of Christ for the life supply. (Life-study of Numbers, pp. 25-26) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuooA3yhjsx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=192q6cmzcybed

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Col. 2:9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. #bible #scripture #fullness #christ #god more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/BuHPtdDhWNI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13bnulurrt6sf

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Rev. 1:5-6 ...Jesus Christ, the faithful Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood and made us a kingdom... #bible #scripture #kingdomofgod #witness #christ #firstborn more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/BuHPdVuB_CY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4naa6oam0lwd

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Christ is also the center of God’s people. This is portrayed by the way the children of Israel were encamped around the tabernacle with three tribes on each side. The four camps, each composed of three tribes, and the three families of the tribe of Levi all took the tabernacle with the Ark as the center. The children of Israel thus took Christ as the meaning of life, the testimony, and the center. This shows us that as the church today we should take Christ as our meaning of life, our testimony, and our center. Witness Lee #christ #tabernacle #church more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/BuHJ6WuhSxY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rih7femwraoy

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Col. 1:27 To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. #bible #scripture #god #Christ #mystery #glory more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/BuHJxU6hcdn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uiz3mdx4va44

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Num. 1:1-3 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting,...saying, Take the sum of all the assembly of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head. From twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go forth for military service in Israel, you and Aaron shall number them by their companies. #bible #scripture #numbersCS #israel more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/BuCACTChRHQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=owwcjrzcwg41

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Because God desires a corporate man to represent Him in subduing and regaining the earth from the usurping hand of Satan, God’s chosen and redeemed people need to be formed into an army to journey with God and to fight with God for His interest on earth. #numbersCS #god #corporate #GodsInterest more at www.agodman.com https://www.instagram.com/p/BuB_6k9h1hY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rljgdihq5kqp