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Christ In You: The Need for Ministry (1)

In Colossians 1:27 the Apostle Paul tells us, in a concise way, what is the central point of the entire Bible: “Christ in You, the hope of glory.” But how can we enter into the experience of Christ living within us? The New Testament makes it clear that for this to happen there must be, first of all, brothers raised up as servants of the Lord to help us in this regard (cf. Col. 1:24-29).In the 20th century the Lord used two brothers in particular in this way, Watchman Nee and Witness Lee. So, in this episode I first share about the need for such ministers, and then begin to share my own experience of how I came to appreciate the ministries of these two brothers.
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Previous EpisodesEpisode #7: The Way of Transformation.
Brief Notes Note #16: “The Bible in One Verse”
BooksWatchman Nee, Changed into His Likeness.Watchman Nee, Full of Grace & Truth, Vol. 1A.T. Pierson, George Muller of Bristol.A.W. Tozer, The Old Cross and the New
VideosHow I Became a ChristianHow I Found the New Testament Fellowship
Bible VersesSee Episode #81: “Christ In You (1): The Need for Ministry (1)”
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RecordingChicago, Illinois Wednesday, 28 February 2024

The Bible in One Verse

Have you ever asked yourself, What is the Bible all about? Or, to put it another way, What is the central thing in the entire Bible? How would you answer that question?Fortunately, we don’t have to guess, because there is one verse in the New Testament that tells us, very specifically, what the Bible is all about, namely, Christ and our relationship with Him.In this episode we consider the verse in the New Testament that makes this clear, and which helps us understand just what is our relationship with Christ. 
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RESOURCES REFERRED TO IN THIS EPISODEBrief Notes on the Christian LifeNote #16: “The Bible in One Verse”
BookWitness Lee, The All-Inclusive Christ
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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCEDIN THIS EPISODE
For a list of Bible verses referenced in this episode of the podcast, please visit its page on our website:Episode #80: “The Bible in One Verse”
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This edition of the program was recorded in Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, 22 February 2024.

God’s Purpose (2): Christ Enlarged in Our Experience

As the believers in Christ, we should always grow and be enlarged in our experience of Christ as our life, and in our realization and enjoyment of Christ as everything to us.This is just like the Children of Israel in the Old Testament, in their journey from Egypt to the Good Land: In each stage of their journey, their experience of God’s provision for them, and of His purpose for them, became richer and higher.So, in this episode of the podcast we consider how their journey typifies our experience of being enlarged in Christ.
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RESOURCES REFERRED TO IN THIS EPISODEPrevious Podcasts            Episode #78: “God’s Purpose & Our Growth In Christ”
BooksWitness Lee,The All-Inclusive Christ
David Canfield,Writings on the Turmoil Among the Churches, Full VersionWritings on the Turmoil Among the Churches, Abridged VersionDownload the Intro to this book in PDF Format
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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCEDIN THIS EPISODE
For a list of Bible verses referenced in this episode of the podcast, please visit its page on our website:Episode #79: “God’s Purpose (2): Christ Enlarged in Our Experience”
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This edition of the program was recorded in Chicago, Illinois on the Lord’s Day, 4 February 2024.

God’s Purpose (1): Our Destiny & Christ as Our Good Land

God created the universe for the sake of His purpose (Rev. 4:11), but as the believers in Christ, do we really understand what that purpose is? We should not think it is just to save us from eternal damnation, or that we would go to heaven.Rather, it is so much higher than that: God has predestined us to be conformed to the image of Christ so we would be His many brothers (Rom. 8:29, Eph. 1:5), and together become God’s eternal dwelling place! For this, we must enter into Christ and allow Him to be everything to us, just as God wanted the Children of Israel to enter into the Good Land so they could build up the temple as God’s Old Testament dwelling place.
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RESOURCES REFERRED TO IN THIS EPISODE
Podcast Episode #67: The Heaven Drug; or, Why I’m Not Going to Heaven
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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCEDIN THIS EPISODE
For a list of Bible verses referenced in this episode of the podcast, please visit its page on our website:
Episode #78: “God’s Purpose (1): Our Destiny & Christ as Our Good Land”
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This edition of the program was recorded in Chicago, Illinois on the Lord’s Day, 4 February 2024.

Spiritual Zombies Versus Living in Christ

One of great truths of the Christian life is that, as the believers in Christ, we are now “in Christ” (1 Cor. 1:30, Eph. 1:3, etc.). Even our redemption, as we can see from the type of the Passover, is in Christ; we are not redeemed apart from Christ (Eph. 1:7).In contrast, if we feel that, because we are under the blood, we can now live the Christian life apart from Christ, we are actually living as “spiritual zombies”; that is, we are trying to live the Christian life without having the divine life of Christ, and that can only end in failure.So, we need to tell the Lord: Give me a vision of the fact that I am now “in Christ”; Amen!
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RESOURCES REFERRED TO IN THIS EPISODE
Previous Podcasts
Episode #75: The Passover (1) Episode #76: The Passover (2)
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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCEDIN THIS EPISODE
For a list of Bible verses referenced in this episode of the podcast, please visit its page on our website:
Episode #77: “Spiritual Zombies Versus a Living in Christ”
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This edition of the program was recorded in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, 23 January 2024.

The Passover (2)

In the entire Bible the fullest, most complete picture of the redemptive work of Christ in is the Passover, through which God rescued the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt. In the New Testament we have the plain words concerning redemption, which give us the proper teachings about this matter, but our understanding of redemption, and how it is applied to us, will become much richer as we consider the Passover.
So, in this podcast we continue with our study of the Passover, by considering, first, the difference between what the Israelites were told to do on the outside of their house, and what they were told to do within their house, to keep the Passover. We also consider who was qualified to eat of the Passover, as well as how, after we keep the Passover, we must also keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
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RESOURCES REFERRED TO IN THIS EPISODE
Previous PodcastsEpisode #75: The Passover (1)
Notes“The Passover: Without and Within the House” (1)
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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCEDIN THIS EPISODE
For a list of Bible verses referenced in this episode of the podcast, please visit its page on our website:Episode #76: “The Passover” (2)
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This edition of the program was recorded in Chicago, Illinois on Friday, 12 January 2024.

The Passover (1)

In the entire Bible, the fullest, most complete picture of the redemptive work of Christ in is the Passover, through which God rescued the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt. In the New Testament we have the plain words concerning redemption, which give us the proper teachings about this matter, but our understanding of redemption, and how it is applied to us, will become much richer as we consider the Passover.So, in this podcast we do a brief, verse-by-verse study of the instructions God gave Moses regarding the Passover in Exodus 12:1-13, as well as Moses’ own word concerning it in Exodus 12:21-23.
LENGTH: 39 Minutes
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Previous Podcasts
Episode #54: “Out of Egypt”: (1) The Struggle to Forsake the WorldEpisode #55: “Out of Egypt”: (2) Bargaining With PharaohEpisode #57: Our Heart, Leaving Egypt, & Lot’s ChoiceEpisode #74: “Out of Egypt” (3)
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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
For a list of Bible verses referenced in this episode of the podcast, go to Episode #75: “The Passover” (1)
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This edition of the program was recorded in Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, 3 January 2024.

“Out of Egypt” (3)

Of all the books of the Bible, Exodus gives us the fullest picture of God’s redemptive work. This book begins with God’s people in slavery in Egypt, but ends with the glory of God appearing among His people in the tabernacle in the wilderness; what a wonderful picture of redemption is this!
From this we see that the purpose of Christ’s redemptive work in the New Testament is not merely to save us from our sins, but to deliver us from the world (Acts 2:40, Gal. 1:4), today’s Egypt, and the authority of Satan, today’s Pharaoh (John 12:31; 2 Cor. 4:4), so God can gain His kingdom on the earth and build up the church as His dwelling place.So, in this podcast we come once again to the book of Exodus, focusing on the struggle the Children of Israel went through to leave Egypt behind, including how Pharaoh bargained with Moses, offering him compromises to get the Children of Israel to stay in the land.All of this provides many important lessons for us as those who seek to follow Christ today (1 Cor. 10:5-6).
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Previous Podcasts
Episode #54: “Out of Egypt”: (1) The Struggle to Forsake the WorldEpisode #55: “Out of Egypt”: (2) Bargaining With PharaohEpisode #57: Our Heart, Leaving Egypt, & Lot’s Choice
Books
C.H. Mackintosh, Genesis to Deuteronomy: Notes on the PentateuchC.I. Scofield, The Old Scofield Study Bible, 1917 Edition
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BIBLE VERSES
For a list of Bible verses referenced in this episode of the podcast, please visit its page on our website:
Episode #74: “Out of Egypt” (3)
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This edition of the program was recorded in Chicago, Illinois on Friday, 16 December 2023.

Jesus and the Scriptures

Today so many feel we cannot trust that the Bible really is the word of God. This may be especially true among certain kinds of scholars; they claim the text of the Scripture has been corrupted, and anyway, that so many of the stories in the Bible are merely historical myths and symbolism, so we should not take it too seriously in any event.
There is, however, one witness more than any other who rebuts such claims, and that is Jesus Christ Himself. Therefore, in this episode of the podcast we consider how no one ever trusted so much in the Bible and its integrity, nor did anyone ever take it in such a literal, historical way, as He did.
This should surely strengthen our faith in the Bible, and also guide us today, as the followers of Christ, to take the Bible, not as mythology, but for what it truly is: as the unique, revealed, literal word of God.===================
RESOURCES REFERRED TO IN THIS EPISODE
BOOKS
G.H. Pember, The Great Prophecies, Volume 1 (1887)Philip Mauro, Life in the Word: Order the Print edition (1909) Philip Mauro, Life in the Word: Download the Free Online Edition
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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCEDIN THIS EPISODE
For a list of Bible verses referenced in this episode of the podcast, please visit its page on our website:Episode #73: “Jesus and the Scriptures”
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This edition of the program was recorded in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, 5 December 2023.Note: The audio for this episode has also replaced that from Episode #1 of the podcast.

Could We Be Disciplined When We See the Lord? (3)

As the believers in Christ, we can and should have the assurance that, because our sins are forgiven, we will be with the Lord for eternity; praise the Lord for that! (John 5:24).Nonetheless, we cannot have the assurance of where we will spend the Millennium, the 1,000 year reign of Christ upon this present earth. As the New Testament makes clear, that will be based, not upon the blood of Christ, but upon how we live our Christian life. Thus, that will not be determined until we stand before the judgment seat of Christ (2 Cor. 5:10; cf. Rom. 14:10).A proper understanding of this aspect of the truth will, on the one hand, strengthen our assurance of salvation, and on the other, save us from becoming loose and careless in our following of Christ.In previous episodes in this series we looked at the clear verses in the New Testament regarding this matter, as well as the type of the Children of Israel. So, in this episode we go on to consider some of the basic parables the Lord gives in the four Gospels to explain this matter to us.
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RESOURCES REFERRED TO IN THIS EPISODE
Podcast 63: Could We Be Disciplined When We See the Lord? (1)Podcast 68: “Could We Be Disciplined When We See the Lord?” (2)Podcast 71: “The Central Thing: God’s Purpose and Our Transformation”
Books:D.M. Panton: The Judgment Seat of ChristWatchman Nee: The Salvation of the Soul
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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCEDIN THIS EPISODE
For a list of Bible verses referenced in this episode of the podcast, please visit its page on our website:
Podcast 72: “Could We Be Disciplined When We See the Lord?” (3)
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This edition of the program was recorded in Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday, 22 November 2023