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From where does the church receive power to shine in the dark age? We can say that the world today is suffering more lies, more subtleties, and more evil than in previous ages. What gives God’s people power to shine, what empowers them to rise above the worldly trend unto a minister’s calling?

1 Corinthians 15 shows us Paul’s understanding of the resurrection life: while he was facing those who denied the resurrection — a generation of religious people and worldly philosophers alike — Paul insisted that we be recovered back to the essential experience of the Bible, and that we enter into the reality of the resurrection, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep: Christ.

The Bible gives us a fundamental understanding to enter into the essential experience of our salvation — to come to the “norm” of a believer’s life and develop the full functionality and faculties of a spiritual living. As Christians, our “norm” should be a life in resurrection.

And from there they journeyed to Beer; that is the well where Jehovah said to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. Then Israel sang this song: Spring up, O well! Sing to it! The well, which the leaders sank, Which the nobles of the people dug, / With the scepter, with their staffs…

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. That every one who believes into Him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one who believes into Him would not perish, but would have eternal life.

In these days of the pandemic, we may feel dry and lifeless. Alone, and without our face-to-face interactions and physical serving, can we still find the living water? Can we still produce the fruit...

Today, our church life needs vitality—and vital serving ones. Any servant of the Lord needs to be under the administration of the headship by having the true experience of entering into Ephesians—into the condition of the heavenlies.

Ephesians 1:3 says, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ.” The blessings in this book are related to God’s speaking.

“The eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.” (Eph....