Solid Ground Bible Study - Different aspects of the matter of reconciliation

Verse reading (2 Corinthians 5:18-21)

18 But all things are out from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Christ and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

19 Namely, that God in Christ was reconciling the world to Himself, not accounting their offenses to them, and has put in us the word of reconciliation. 

20 On behalf of Christ then we are ambassadors, as God entreats you through us; we beseech you on behalf of Christ, Be reconciled to God.

>>> the apostles are fully authorised to bring saints to the reconciliation to God. 

21 Him who did not know sin He made sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

The ministry of the NT - many ministers are in the one ministry (Unlike what's commonly discussed in the Christianity 

Two stages of reconciliation 

1. Unbelievers need to be reconciled to God

2. Believers need to be further reconciled to God. 

Something other than sins, but what we are, our being, our flesh, and our natural constitution also hinder us from being fully reconciled to God (the 2nd veil). 

Life-study radio 46 - The Correspondence between the Vision in Revelation 12 and the Book of Ephesians

The whole armour of God is for the Body, and thus it requires us to be in the Body (in the fellowship of the Body). Strength gets magnified when we have one another. 

Watchman Nee - tried to preach the gospel but couldn't succeed because, during that time, he thought that the matter of victory is only concerned with individuals. Yet when he realised that he needed to ask people he was staying with to pray for him. Even though people who stayed with him were not educated much to understand too many spiritual things, they were real believers. They prayed for brother Nee and the blessing followed. 

Life-study of Revelation msg 45 - The Beast out of the Earth

The characteristics of false prophets

Rev. 13:11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.

Rev. 13:12 And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his sight, and he causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose death stroke was healed.

Rev. 13:13 And he does great signs, so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth before men.

Rev. 13:14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth on account of the signs which he was given [power] to do before the beast, commanding those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast, who had the stroke of the sword and revived.

Therefore, not a matter of signs that we should focus on, but the life that we shall focus on. 

Only this kind of life will preserve us till the end - the life that God has put in us to be lived out. 

Rev. 13:15 And [power] was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast that the image of the beast might even speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

Rev. 13:16 And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the freemen and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,

Rev. 13:17 And that no one may be able to buy or sell except him who has the mark, [that is,] the name of the beast or the number of his name.

Rev. 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred sixty-six.