When we gather ourselves together to hear the preacher preach, it is more than just listening to God’s man speak. God has purposed to reveal hidden mysteries (Colossians 1:26-27) through the assembling of the brethren. In Acts 4:31-34, the power of God is revealed in boldness. The group that was...

Many local churches take on the one personality of their doctrine, never utilizing their own God-given portion. Why? Because they are not secure in their own fellowship with Christ in grace; therefore, they must establish their own security. Their standard for loving one another becomes their own belief or concept....

Adam gives me the option to live. God has made the decision that he die. People do not want the commitment to a personal cross. They live relying on religious exercise to appease their conscious idea of a need to produce something for God. They feel indebted. They never have...

John the Baptist, according to Jesus, was the greatest born of a woman (Matthew 11:11). And yet Jesus says that he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than John the Baptist. And who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven? Jesus said, in Matthew 5:19, that...

Some people suffer because of their situation. Others may suffer because of temptation and the negative onslaught of the enemy. These people do not have the mind or the mood of God to live in that Christ may be presented in conviction. They take on a reactionary mood toward that...

The enemy wants to leave you headless. When Satan can keep you from drinking the portion of the government of the Body, you are left without direction and order in your portion of life. You know how you can live in that humanity without its Adamic effects, and yet you...

What I learned in the presence of God yesterday is not relevant today. We may get to know things about the Cross and acknowledge those things, but the Cross must live today in my communion with God so that I am dying daily but always alive unto God. Personality wants...

In the days ahead will come the intensity of the devil’s attack. People will be forced to reveal Christ or to reveal a compromise that does not go through the Cross. Some people will face situations over and over until by choice they withdraw to the easy road. They will...

How easy it is to be familiar with Christ and take away from the sacredness of His presence. It is the mistake people make as they are either too familiar or too distant. We are to treat neither God nor people with familiarity. When we prevent familiarity from creeping into...

No matter how intimate the friendship, and despite the fact that he was one soul with David, Jonathan was always to honor David as the anointed king. Their intimacy in friendship never took honor away from God’s delegated position. People have particular positions, but these do not magnify the people....