The Church in Cleveland

Gospel Messages - A collection of messages introducing the gospel of Jesus Christ.

How to Study the Bible - When we labor in the Word our person must be simple, consecrated, and spiritual. Then when our person is right we must have the proper way to learn what the facts are in the Bible. The facts of the Bible will bring us to inspiration, to truth, and to light.

Knowing the Divine Life - Every believer must pay attention to the growth in life. Your growth in life will eventually lead you to a maturity in life. Maturity comes from the proper understanding of what life is and how life operates. The divine life we have received includes three things: the divine life with its sense, its nature, and its operation.

Living a life in fellowship with the Lord - Living a life in fellowship with the Lord is a crucial matter. A life in fellowship is the base of our pursuing life, our growing life, and our serving life. We need to ask ourselves whether we are really touching the Lord in the Lord in our Christian life, or are we still merely living a good life?

Open Homes for the Lord's Testimony - When we see that our living is with the saints, it really means that we must be living the church life in our households. We can only be healthy when we are firmly attached with the saints unto Christ. This is the secret of being anointed. In order to realize such a church life, one element is crucial: our homes must be open.

Our Experience of the Golden Lampstand - The necessity of experiencing the Lord's trimming and beating work for the sake of His testimony.

Practicing to Live With the Present Christ - To know Christ in the way He desires to be known: as the present Christ in His move and economy. Therefore, we would like to fellowship with you about this matter of coming to the presence of the present Christ by means of calling, singing, Bible reading, prayer, and gathering with others.

The Eternal Life - Eternal life is the element of church life. Paul wrote that Christ came to save sinners, to those who believe on Him unto eternal life. We received this life at the time of our salvation. Then, after receiving this life, we have to lay hold on this eternal life. This is how we should go on in our Christian life.

The Experience of God's Full Salvation - The Experience of God's Full Salvation is a series of 24 short lessons. These easy-to-read lessons show how new believers can experience God's full salvation progressively, and thus are being changed from lost, hopeless sinners into vibrant, operating members of the church of God.

The Living Needed for the Church Life In a Proper and Healthy Local Church - Being a local church in practice requires three extremely crucial things. Firstly, for the church life, concerning your person, be with lowliness, meekness, and long-suffering. Then secondly tell the Lord, "Lord, I have dorea, now let me be perfected, so that in being perfected I can become a doma, a real blessing to the church." And thirdly, love the brothers just as the Lord loves us.

The Mixed Multitude from Numbers 11 - Having a direct calling and commitment from the Lord, and not living according to our logic.

To Know the Lord's Leading - Fundamental principles in knowing the Lord's inward leading. Includes: being restful, seeking His presence, and having a ready spirit.

Treasuring Our Human Virtues for the Church Life - When we received the Lord Jesus as our Savior we were regenerated with the divine life, and in this life we received many capabilities, attributes, and virtues. The following virtues are most crucial for your exercise as a brother in the church life. Every genuine believer, through the life he received at regeneration, is: pure and trusting; longing after the Lord and pursuing the Lord and the things of the Lord; and poor in spirit and open.

What Does it Mean to be "Born Again"? - At the moment we first believed in the Lord Jesus and received Him as our Savior, something wonderful happened to us. The Bible describes it by saying that we were "born again" (John 3:3). Many people use this term, and so many Christian teachers have spoken about this subject, yet very few of us understand how rich and wonderful it is to be born again.

We Have Received a New Life - The first marvelous thing that happened to us when we believed in Jesus Christ was that we received a new life. As human beings, all of us have a human life. But when we were born again, we received a new life. This new life we received is the life of God Himself. We will cover nine separate points concerning the new life that we have received.

We Have Received a New Position (1) - When we were born again we received a change in our position. By being born again we have been transferred from the kingdom of Satan to the kingdom of God (Col. 1:13). This means that our position has changed. In order to fully appreciate our new position we will look at eight different aspects of the negative position we were in before we were born again.

We Have Received a New Position (2) - When we were born again, we received an entirely new position. We should not underestimate the significance of receiving a new position, because our position will determine what kind of living we will have. Now in our new position we can enjoy all the marvelous riches which God has prepared for us. In the next two messages we will cover thirty wonderful aspects of our position after being born again. The first twenty aspects are covered here.

What We Have Become in Christ - The new position we received is truly marvelous. We don't need to beg the Lord that we might enter into them. All of these wonderful aspects of our new position belong to us already. We are born again, and God has transferred us into His kingdom! The last ten of the thirty aspects of our position after being born again are covered here.

We Have Received the Necessity of a New Living (1) - We were not born again so that we would have to struggle so hard. We were born again into a living of enjoyment. We can enjoy Christ as everything to us. He is the Lamb, He is our Friend, He is our older Brother, He is our Shepherd, He is the Builder, and He is the Bridegroom!

We Have Received the Necessity of a New Living (2) - Christ is not only a living person for us to enjoy, He is also the supply to meet our daily needs. In the Gospel of John we see that Christ is life to us. He is the bread of life, the water of life, the light of life, and the word of life. Then He is also grace, reality, satisfaction, freedom, the resurrection, and the true vine. The enjoyment of all these riches will supply us to meet all the needs in our daily life.

We Have Received the Necessity of a New Living (3) - We have seen that when we were born again we received the necessity of a new living. The first aspect, which we have covered, is the enjoyment of Christ. The second aspect of this new living is that it is for the Body of Christ and the practical church life. Now that we are in the Body of Christ, we should realize that the Lord requires something from us. We should love one another, keep the oneness, and feed and shepherd the lambs and the sheep.

A Savior for Your Past, Present, and Future - Those who are Christians know that we have a marvelous Savior. Those who do not yet believe, need this marvelous Savior.

One Savior, Two Ministries, and Two Blessings - This is the reality of salvation - one Savior, two ministries and two blessings.

The True Meaning of Marriage - The picture in Genesis 2 shows us God's need and also man's need.

Journeying to a Distant Country (The Prodigal Son) - The parable of the prodigal son is considered by many Bible scholars to be the prince of all the parables.

The Quest for Peace - Man is continually searching for peace. God's peace is a Person.

The Lord Has Need of You! - Have you had this experience yet?

A Rock Solid Experience of God - To experience Him is to experience a living Person.

God is Light - The principle of all of God's work is light.

Freedom and Victory! - There is one man in all of human history that never was a victim of the devil. That man was the Lord Jesus.