Literature

Read part 1 here. Read part 2 here. Read part 3 here. Throughout the entire Bible until today, God is only after this one thing: gaining His people — His overcomers — unto the fulfillment...

After Saul’s exposure at Gilgal and his removal from the kingship, Saul’s life fell into a steep decline. We see that “the Spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Jehovah terrorized him” (1 Sam. 16:14). This Spirit of Jehovah was the Spirit that once rushed After Saul’s exposure at Gilgal and his removal from the kingship, Saul’s life fell into a steep decline.

Gilgal is a milestone in every true believer’s walk. While Gilgal was the place where Saul was made king before Jehovah in a glorious beginning, it was also where he was exposed by Samuel’s judgment, and where he was rejected by God from the kingship. Gilgal, furthermore, was also the place where Samuel hewed Agag, king of the Amalekites, to pieces — slaying the flesh completely (11:15; 15:33).

Why, today, are we not reigning in the church life? What keeps us from entering into the reality of the kingship, and from living out this victorious and reigning kingdom life among us today? The church life today is all about the birthright, and the birthright is given to those through whom God can move the dispensation.

At the turning of the age, we anticipate that the believers in the church life will be overcoming and powerful, ready to stand against the nations and the evil and adulterous generation that has become more and more degraded as His return draws near.

“Now when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Perhaps the people will change their...

The Bible is all about parenting — and not just any parenting, but a parenting that produces the sonship. Why do so many women in the Bible — from Rachel to Tamar to Hannah...

The church life carries a very weighty, solid being. It is not hyper or momentary, like worldly or religious trends. It is real; it is visible. It is proved and perfected. The church life requires something lived out, involving real “doing” and “being.”

Since the time of Adam, as recorded in Genesis 5, death has been part of human history (v. 5). And yet, it was not God’s original intention that Adam should die. Through the fall, sin brought in death to the generations of man: “Therefore just as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin, death; and thus death passed on to all men because all have sinned” (Rom. 5:12).