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need to grow from stage to stage. If we are young and immature, it will be easy
for us to be stumbled. But in order for us to participate in the building up of the
Body of Christ, we cannot afford to be stumbled.
Recently, I met a few brothers. They have been serving for quite a while.
And for some reason, they were stumbled. Maybe while they were serving,
they were not really growing. It would be sad if we serve and do not grow.
One day, when we meet the Lord, we may tell Him that we did this and that.
But what will the Lord say to us? Will He say that we are good and prudent
slaves, and that we will enter into the joy of the Master? Or will He say that
He does not know us, workers of lawlessness? I just hope that we consider this
very much before the Lord. We are here serving the Lord. We are not playing
games. As the Lord is speaking this to us, may we all be touched and go to the
Lord with much prayer and consideration so that we will be God in life and in
nature. We will become the love that is the very nature of God.
After we have lived in the church life for some time, it is easy to fake it.
We know exactly how to act, so we can fake it, or we can actually live it. Are
we actually comforting a brother out of God who is love? Or are we just being
polite? Probably, many times, we are just being polite. It would be quite sad if
after we have been here for some time, and because we did not grow in this life
and develop in this life, we get stumbled. It is actually a very sad thing. Today,
the Lord needs many of us. What the Lord needs is that as we go through life,
we need to become more and more mature so we can participate in this great
enterprise of our Lord. But if there is a lack of growing, we may get stumbled.
The Lord may lose us and we would lose the Lord and the blessing of the Lord.
OUR NEEDING TO BE DILIGENT TO PURSUE THE GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT OF THE DIVINE LIFE AND DIVINE NATURE FOR
A RICH ENTRANCE INTO THE ETERNAL KINGDOM
We should be diligent to pursue the growth and development of the
divine life and divine nature for a rich entrance into the eternal kingdom.
The Bountiful Supply That We Enjoy in the Development of the Divine
Life and Divine Nature Bountifully Supplying Us a Rich Entrance into
the Eternal Kingdom of Our Lord
The bountiful supply that we enjoy in the development of the divine life
and divine nature (vv. 3-7) will bountifully supply us a rich entrance into the