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speaking. This is first a personal matter, as your situation allows. Today we
are on the way home, as the situation allows, just be before the Lord and offer
yourself to Him again as a living sacrifice.
IF WE WOULD BE THE ISRAEL OF GOD, OUR NEEDING TO
EXPERIENCE THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB
If we would be the Israel of God, we must experience the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. Remember the sequence, there is Abraham, there is Isaac,
then Jacob; and Jacob is transformed, his name is change to Israel, then that
becomes the name of the people that descend from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
So we really need Hymns #608, “The Triune God has now become our all! How
wonderful! How glorious!” This is reminding us that we need to live under
the dispensing of the processed and consummated Triune God, so that we will
become the Israel of God to represent God and execute His government.
“The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob” Being
Jehovah Elohim, the Triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit
“The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob” is
Jehovah Elohim, the Triune God –the Father, the Son, and the Spirit.
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Being the Foundations of the Nation of
Israel; Without Them There Not Being the Nation of Israel
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are the foundations of the nation of Israel;
without them there would not be the nation of Israel.
The Experience of Abraham Signifying the Experience of God the
Father, the Unique Source, in His Calling Man, Justifying Man, and
Equipping Man to Live by Faith and to Live in Fellowship with Him
The experience of Abraham signifies the experience of God the Father,
the unique source – we need to learn, in everything in our life, in our church
life, that God the Father is the source; we have no right and we dare not be the
source of anything – in His calling man, justifying man, and equipping man to
live by faith and to live in fellowship with Him. You may expect the Lord to
perfect your faith, to develop your faith, for you to experience the fiery trial to
prove your faith. This is a blessing. We need our faith to be developed. Like
the Lord said in the parable in Luke 7, about the widow praying and the judge
ignoring, “When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?”