26.1 God who alone does wondrous things

Series 26

Episode 1

Prologue

Message

Brothers and sisters, the Lord has a name called “wonderful.” God is truly wonderful. He is everlasting. His presence is everywhere. Everything you can see is wonderful. The more we know about Him, the more we understand how wonderful everything is. Man’s understanding of God is still very limited. God has given man wisdom to develop many instruments to view the enormous universe, and to see His greatness. Indeed, this is not a simple thing! Could this just be a coincidence? God wants us to know Him. Romans chapter 1, verse 20 explains how God helps us to know His eternal power and divine nature through the creation of the world and the things He made. God is indeed amazing! His creation of man is even more amazing. We are surrounded by wonderful things, big and small. In fact, a lot of huge objects are made up of many small elements.

The Bible says God is the one who alone does wondrous things. We are His most wonderful creation. We have a spirit, soul, and body. Angels only have spirits. Isn’t this wonderful? The Bible says God alone does wondrous things. In particular, among the Trinity God, the Lord became a man for us. This is extremely amazing and precious. God alone does wondrous things. Only He could do this. We live in a world of wonders. You yourself are already wonderful. It is right for Him to be called “wonderful.” His heart and love towards us are also very wonderful. It is so precious that we are united with Him forever. He indeed is the God who does wondrous things.

Today I want to talk about the firstborn, especially in regards to priesthood. It’s very precious that out of everything in the universe, the church is the assembly of the firstborn. The Lord is the High Priest, hence we are a team of priests. The Book of Revelation and the New Testament explain how the Lord made us priests. This is a wonderful era where all of us, including sisters, have become priests. All of us, including both brothers and sisters, ought to applaud. In the Old Testament times, there was only one high priest. He could enter the Holy of Holies only once a year. Now, God wants you to be free of fear and fully confident to come to the Holy of Holies by the blood of the Lord Jesus. There’s no doubt that God wants you to be very close to Him. This is His desire, yet He will not force you.

In Hebrews, God again and again calls you to come before Him. He calls you to enter the Holy of Holies. He calls you to be very close to Him and be face to face with Him. Psalm 91, verse 1 says “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High…” Song of Solomon chapter 1 tells us that this King of manifold love has brought us into His chambers. The Lord has not invited you to be His guest. No matter how important or honourable a guest might be, he or she would not be brought into the king’s chambers. When the Lord taught us to pray in Matthew chapter 6, verse 6, He told us to go into our room and pray to our Father who is in secret. He desires you to be very close to Him, and enjoy an intimate world of two with Him.

One of God’s names is “The Lord will provide.” It’s very precious to me that He will provide. Genesis chapter 22, verse 14 says “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.” It’s very precious that Jehovah, the self-existing and infinite One, would indeed provide. First and foremost, I treasure that God prepared a body for the Lord Jesus. The Lord became a man forever. This is indeed extremely amazing and stunning! God prepared a Saviour for us, who did not only become our Saviour but also a man forever. God prepared a lamb to be sacrificed for us. He prepared a body for the Lord, who made a single sacrifice for sins for all time. 

In John chapter 14 verse 2, on the night before His crucifixion, the Lord told the disciples “…I go to prepare a place for you.” (John 14:2) The Lord went to prepare a dwelling place for us, which is the New Jerusalem. It’s so precious! We are so blessed. People want to buy new places to live in. Our new dwelling place is beyond amazing! The time is near. This will come true very quickly. Don’t you feel joyous? When the time comes, we won’t even have to lift our feet to ascend to heaven. We will experience an exceeding joy! There’s no need to go to Disneyland. The Lord will take us on a grand tour of the universe. He has prepared an eternal home for us, the most beautiful and the warmest home. It is also the house of God. The Lord says, “In my Father’s house are many rooms.” (John 14:2) I know for sure I have a place there, because my name has been written in the Lamb’s book of life. Wow! We will not just regain paradise, but something that’s beyond paradise. We will surely see it with our own eyes soon.

Series 26

We are a royal priesthood

Message Date: 2020-05-17

This message continues to illustrate the identities and lives of both priests and firstborns. The Father set the Lord as our high priest; the Lord has perfected us and brought us before God. The Lord has caused us to be the closest to the Father and most deeply enjoy His love. In the Old Testament times, the head of the household was like the priest of the family. Later, God chose the tribe of Levi — the male offspring of Aaron — to be priests and to bring people before Him. Today, we as believers are a royal priesthood. To live the life of a firstborn, we must first live the life of a priest. How? We must draw near to God and experience Him daily, offer ourselves to God as living sacrifices, be full of praises to Him, preach the gospel, share the truth to others, and bless and pray for others.
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26.1 God who alone does wondrous things

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26.2 The Lord is the High Priest

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26.3 We are a royal priesthood (1)

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26.4 We are a royal priesthood (2)

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Introduction

01 Introduction of Treasures for the Soul

Series 1: Being Heart to Heart with the Lord

1.1 The Most Blessed Generation
1.2 Message from John the Baptist
1.3 Abide in the Lord Always
1.4 Abide in the Lord’s Love at All Times
1.5 The Lord Speaks to Us and Helps Us in Our Hearts

Series 2: Being Heart to Heart with the Lord Throughout this Year

2.1 God’s Greatest Work Starts in Our Hearts
2.2 To Be Heart to Heart with the Lord Throughout the Year
2.3 Our Spirits can Feel God and Have Fellowship with Him
2.4 The Importance of Peace
2.5 Our Spirits Need the Words of God
2.6 Give the Lord Time and Space to Speak in Our Hearts

Series 3: Let Our Hearts be Influenced

3.1 The World Needs People Who Deeply Experience God
3.2 Just as His Anointing 
Has Taught You, 
Abide in the Lord
3.3 Be Influenced 
by the Lord Throughout 
this Year

Series 4: The Importance of Peace

4.1 Enjoying God’s Peace in Your heart
4.2 Let Not Your Hearts be Troubled, Neither Let Them be Afraid.
4.3 How Should Our Spirit Respond to the Lord?

Series 5: Our Spirit Being Able to Enjoy the Lord

5.1 Our Spirit is Satisfied Only When We Worship God and Deeply Experience Him
5.2 How to Worship God with Our Spirit
5.3 Looking at the Lord with our Inner Eyes
5.4 Our Spirit Needs to Enjoy the Lord Himself
5.5 The Song of Solomon Often Mentions About “Eyes”
5.6 Realize Being Heart to Heart with the Lord in Singing and Worship

Series 6: Live out the Life of being Heart to Heart with the Lord

6.1 Living a life of union with the Lord in a stable pattern every day
6.2 Enjoying the Lord and not being disturbed
6.3 The Importance of Seeing Him with Our Spiritual Eyes

Series 7

7.1 Learn to Protect Our Spirits From Virus Prevention
7.2 Our Spirit Can Hear, Think, and See
7.3 How to Live a Life of Faith
7.4 The Importance of the Mind
7.5 David’s Eyes Beheld the Lord Always

Series 8: During the last supper, the Lord spoke about the essence of the blessings of the new covenant.

8.1 The Lord established with us the eternal love covenant by His blood
8.2 The Lord Treasures the New Covenant and Break-Bread Meeting the Most
8.3 Love Encounters
8.4 Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the fourth blessing
8.5 Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the first blessing (1)
8.6 Before His Crucifixion, the Lord clearly explained the essence of the blessings of the new covenant: the first blessing (2)

Series 16: We Have Come to Mount Zion and the Heavenly Jerusalem

16.1 See that the Lord is at the right hand of the Father
16.2 Coming to Mount Zion (1): the meaning of Mount Sinai
16.3 Coming to Mount Zion (2): the difficulty in forgiveness of sins
16.4 Coming to Mount Zion (3): to Live in Grace
16.5 Having Come to the Heavenly Jerusalem
16.6 What is in the heavenly Jerusalem (1)?

Series 9: Being Heart to Heart with the Father

9.1 Being Heart to Heart with Abba (Part 1)
9.2 Being Heart to Heart with Abba (Part 2)

Series 10

10.1 The Love Desire in the Depths of Abba and the Lord’s hearts
10.2 Fruit of the Lord’s Crucifixion: Eternal Life
10.3 The Lord Came to Manifest the Father’s Name
10.4 The Father Sent His Only Begotten Son
10.5 Reminders on enjoying heart to heart with the Father
10.6 The Father’s Desire for Me is Forever Steadfast

Series 11

11.1 The preciousness of the Letter to Philemon
11.2 The most profitable; the most accepted.
11.3 Charge That to My Account
11.4 The Father made the Lord our eternal High Priest by an oath (1)
11.5 The Father made the Lord our eternal High Priest by an oath (2)
11.6 We are the Lord’s darling love

Series 12

12.1 The Lord’s Words at the Last Supper
12.2 Apart from the Lord, we can do nothing.
12.3 What is true faith?
12.4 Look upon the Lord in glory
11.5 Trust and Peace (1)
12.6 Trust and Peace (2)

Series 13: The Lord’s Gentleness and Humility

13.3 The Lord’s Gentleness and Humility (Part 2)

Series 14: Manifold evidence

14.1 How does the infinite Lord see us?
14.2 We are the ultimate and final love of the Lord
14.3 The Lord is forever a Man; He once died for us
14.4 The Lord’s manifold love evidence (Part 1)
14.5 The Lord’s manifold love evidence Part 2

Series 15: Understand How Our Spirit Works And Be Heart To Heart With The Lord Continuously

15.1 We Can Only Enjoy God By Faith
15.2 His Words Abide In Us
15.3 Live With The Lord
15.4 Seek The Things That Are Above
15.5 Understand How Our Spirit Works: Will, Mind And Feelings
15.6 Guard And Uplift Our Mind

Series 17: Know that the Church is the Firstborn

17.1 Know that the church is the firstborn
17.2 The Blessing of the Firstborn (Part 1)
17.3 The Blessing of the Firstborn (Part 2)
17.4 The Lord redeemed us to be the firstborn (Part 1)
17.5 The Lord redeemed us to be the firstborn (Part 2)

Series 18: The Blessings to be the First Born

18.1 Israel is God’s Firstborn Son (Part 1)
18.2 Israel is God’s Firstborn Son (Part 2)
18.3 To be united with the Lord and become the Firstborn
18.4 The Lord is the Firstborn
18.5 The Blessing of the Firstborn: Kingship
18.6 The Blessing of the Firstborn: a Double Portion of the Blessings

Series 19: Coming to Mount Zion to Appear Before God

19.1 The Lord is the way, and the truth, and the life
19.2 Live in Grace. Enjoy the Father and the Lord
19.3 Mind the things that are above (1)
19.4 Mind the things that are above (2)
19.5 Appear before God in Mount Zion

Series 20: The final destination of our spirit and eternity is the heavenly Jerusalem

20.1 The Lord Desires Most for Us to Draw Near to Him (1)
20.2 The Lord Desires Most for Us to Draw Near to Him (2)
20.3 The Lord Becomes the Way so that We can Come Before God with Confidence
20.4 The Heavenly Jerusalem, Destination of Our Spirits and Eternity (1)
20.5 The Heavenly Jerusalem, Destination of Our Spirits and Eternity (2)

Series 21: Live Out the Life of the Firstborn: Be A Priest

21.1 The Father made the Lord the High Priest
21.2 Priesthood: One of the Blessings of the Firstborn
21.4 The Precedents of Priests in the Bible (2)

Series 22: When Believers Die, They Will Go to the Heavenly Jerusalem

22.1 The Heavenly Jerusalem is paradise (1)
The Heavenly Jerusalem is paradise (2)
The Spirits of the Righteous Made Perfect

Series 23: New Jerusalem is a real city

God has prepared a heavenly home for us
Is the heavenly new Jerusalem a real city?
Satan causes man not to be clear and assured about the things in heaven
Are physical substances not spiritual?
New Jerusalem is a real city (1)
New Jerusalem is a real city (2)

Series 24: God prepares for us

Genesis 22: Father and Son went together
Genesis 22: For us, the Father gave His only Son
Genesis 22: The Lord will provide
24.4 God’s preparation for us

Series 25: The Father and Son Affection

25.1 The Lord Came to Make Known the Father
25.2 The Father and Son Affection (Part 1)
25.3 The Father and Son Affection (Part 2)

Series 26: We are a royal priesthood

26.1 God who alone does wondrous things
26.2 The Lord is the High Priest
26.3 We are a royal priesthood (1)
26.4 We are a royal priesthood (2)