The Church in Cleveland's Newsletter for April 2002
All new messages will be posted by April 1, 2002.

I. We are continuing to feature four new messages of the Psalms of Ascent in April.
A summary of each new message is listed below and can be found at: http://www.clevelandonline.org/English/framesindex.htm.

1. The Stage of Enlargement Psalms 129-131: Now we need an even greater turn, which we call "the stage of enlargement." The Lord must work on us and enlarge us so that our desire is not for ourselves, but for the whole church life to be healthy.

2. Being Enlarged through the Lord's Environmental Dealings Psalm 129: The psalmist has been dealt with his entire life since his youth, yet he realizes that the dealings and afflictions always came to him from the Lord with His testimony in view. He has the mark of the Lord's workmanship. It is the plowing and cutting of deep and long furrows that give us the healthy growth in life.

3. Being Enlarged through the Knowledge of Ourselves Psalm 130: Whenever we experience the Lord's plowing work through our environment, we become a person of prayer. The knowledge of ourselves makes us the proper person for the building up of the church. By our knowledge of ourselves and our trust in the Lord's redemption we become enlarged for the sake of His testimony.

4. Being Enlarged through Lowliness and Submission Psalm 131: By knowing ourselves, we are humbled and no longer desire to be exercised in great matters. We enjoy submitting to Him. Now we are able to properly care for the Lord's testimony.

II. We have added three new Audio Clips from the message 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? http://www.clevelandonline.org/English/Audio/audio_list.htm

1. Knowing God is Spirit - If someone mentions the word God, you would try to match it with a word. You might match it up with powerful, mighty, all wise, loving, kind. You would match it up with many things. But if you came to God and asked Him, God who are You? He would say, I'm a Spirit.

2. Knowing the Blood of Jesus Christ - As Christians living on this earth we still have our fallen nature. For this reason the Lord has given us the blood of Jesus Christ as a divine provision for us to have a life of fellowship with Him.

3. Loving the Word - When we build up a habit of memorizing and speaking the Bible then our ministering will become rich, because the word of God will be mingled with our speaking. If a brother is anointed when he speaks, it means that he has experienced three things. First, he has paid the price to do the groundwork. Second, he has learned to abide in the anointing. And third, he has been through many hardships.

III. We have added one new Audio Clips from the message To Know the Lord's Leading.
How do we know whether or not the Lord has led us? To know the Lord's inward leading some fundamental principles are crucial: being restful, seeking His presence, and having a ready spirit. http://www.clevelandonline.org/English/Audio/audio_list.htm.

IV. We are adding three new messages in the "Fellowship with Full-timers" section.
A summary of each new message is listed below and can be found at:
http://www.clevelandonline.org/English/serving/serv_list.htm#fulltime

1. How to Serve the Lord - The Sense, Nature, and Operation of the Divine Life - Every full-timer 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.

2. How to Serve the Lord - Three "E's," Three "P's," and Three "C's" - The secret of serving the Lord full-time is to serve according to these three "e's," three "p's," and three "c's." The three "e's" for your person - expectations, exercise, and energized. The three "p's" for your daily life - pursue, perfected, and preach. The three "c's" for your labor - church, co-workers, and companions.

3. How to Labor in the Word - Taking Care of Our Person and Our Way - 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.

V. We are adding five new messages titled "Being a Brother." The highest place ordained by God for you is to be a brother. Regardless of how manifested you become, always remember that you can never be more than a brother. Appreciate being a brother. If you appreciate your being a brother, you will be adequately protected. A summary of each new message is listed below and can be found at: http://www.clevelandonline.org/English/serv_list.htm#brother

1. "Brother" - The Highest Place Ordained by God - In the church life there are none besides brothers. And this is the highest status. Any other title among us reveals there is a shortage of truth.

2. Being a Brother Versus Being a Worker - Being a brother is the highest place ordained for us by God. This realization should be a safeguard to us. Many, however, disregard their status as brother and seek something else they think to be higher, such as apostle, elder, or "ministering brother."

3. Four Crucial Elements and our Four-fold Place - In following the Lord there are four crucial elements: life, ministry, commitment, and fellowship. In life we are brothers. In ministry we are members. In commitment we are slaves. In fellowship we are the Lord's friends. The Lord has placed us in a four-fold place.

4. Appreciate Being a Brother (1) - There is the need to more fully appreciate what it is to be a brother. There are four points on this matter that we shall cover in this message. Firstly, being a brother is our place by birth. Secondly, it is our highest exercise by growth. Thirdly, being a brother is the hardest thing for us to learn. Fourthly, it is the greatest manifestation and test to our person.

5. Appreciate Being a Brother (2) - To appreciate being a brother is our highest exercise in growth. We shall cover 7 more points in this message. To be a brother we must learn to be for the maturity in life, to live by means of the humanity of Jesus, to exercise in the revelation of the mystery, to carry out the ministry committed to us, to care for the exercise of our operation, to have a healthy daily walk and living, and also to labor effectively.

VI. We are adding six new messages titled "Confronting Crisis in the Serving Life."
As a person grows spiritually, various crises are bound to confront him. Just as there are particular problems with each stage of our physical growth, so it is with our spiritual growth. If a person has a healthy spiritual condition, he may be relatively immune from crises. A summary of each new message is listed below and can be found at: http://www.clevelandonline.org/English/serv_list.htm#crisis

1. The Way to Handle Crisis - If we want to be healthy, we need to be controlled and exercised. We need to be controlled by three things: Christ, the church, and the proper awareness of the soul-life. Then we have two exercises. We must exercise to live a normal life that the saints can approve of. And we must exercise to be in the Word, in the spiritual riches, and in the Lord's presence.

2. The Major Crisis - A Deformed Daily Life - In this message we come to what could be considered the most crucial crisis confronting any servant of the Lord. It concerns how your daily life is being formed. Your daily life determines your entire operation.

3. Guarding Against the Desires of the Soul-life - As you guard against a deformed daily life by understanding your soul-life, watch out for these five things in particular. Watch out for what fits you. Watch out for what makes you comfortable. Watch out for what satisfies you. Watch out for the desire to be special. Watch out for the desire for accomplishment.

4. Further Guarding Against a Deformed Daily Life - The following 5 points will protect you from developing a deformed daily life. First, know your soul-life. Second, don't compromise. Third, be pure. Fourth, be disciplined. Fifth, let the truth guide you in your daily life.

5. Preventing and Being Rescued from a Deformed Daily Life - Two major concerns confronting every serving one: how to prevent the improper things from coming into one's daily life, and how to be rescued after such deformity has already occurred.

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