Announcements
Week of July 12, 2026
Lord's Day - 7/12
Lord's Table and prophesying meeting at the hall, also children's and young people's meetings
Hall cleaning by all the saints with last names starting with A - C
Tuesday - 7/14
Prayer meetings by area in person and on Zoom
Lord's Day - 7/19
Lord's Table and prophesying meeting at the hall, also children's and young people's meetings
Hall cleaning by all the saints with last names starting with D - J
Holy word for morning revival
July 13 - 19
HWMR: The All-inclusive Christ as Revealed in Matthew, Week 4,
$5.50 each; "Christ as the Center of the Processed Triune God"
PursuiNG THE TRUTH
July 13 - 19
Read Life-Study of Ephesians, Message 81 - "The Church - the Expression
of Christ" and Message 82 - "The Church - the Overflow of Christ"
To help you develop a habit of reading the Life-studies for your spiritual
nourishment and growth in Christ, download and use the 500 Life-Studies
app on your phone by clicking this link. Also, here is a very encouraging
excerpt entitled "Becoming What We Read" as an incentive to read the
Bible and the ministry that opens up the Word of God to us.
To read the Life-study messages for Ephesians online at Living Stream
Ministry, use this link.
To listen to the Life-study of the Bible Radio Broadcast for Ephesians online
at Living Stream Ministry, click this link.
Reading through the Recovery Version Bible each year: three chapters
in the Old Testament and one chapter in the New Testament six days
per week. Click here for the 2026 schedule. Or to create your own
personal Bible reading schedule, go to this link.
July 13 - 19
Read chapter one in The Excelling Gift for the Building Up of the
Church, $8.00 each
Conferences, Trainings, & MEETINGS
July 3 - 12
June Semiannual Video Training at the meeting hall. Open meetings
on June 12 for all the saints to join are at 1:25 and 3:55 pm.
July 10 - 14
Southeast College Training, Athens, GA
July 18
Meeting hall cleaning starting at 10 am
July 26
Love feast and serving groups' coordination and fellowship meetings
August 9
Blending with the church in Sarasota at the Twin Lakes Park in the
"Green Room" conference room.
September 4-6
2026 Southeast Labor Day Blending Conference, Atlanta, GA. See the
conference schedule and "Helpful Links and information" by clicking
on this link.
You can watch the most recently recorded TSUF webinar from June 14 and all the previous ones on the Truth Sets US Free website’s video page. The next webinar will be on August 9 at 5:00 pm EDT. You can also read encouraging reports from the saints who have been spreading God’s word on the Testimonies page. You may share your own testimonies with others here. “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” (Galatians 5:1)
Living Stream Ministry offers two series of free eBooklets: Nuggets and Gems from the Bible and Essential Classic Booklets. All these eBooklets are free to download and share, with the hope that many will join them in spreading these riches.
A suggested eBooklet for you to read and share with someone else this week is The Triune God Dispensing Himself into the Believers. In this booklet compiled from Life-study of John, Witness Lee expounds John 14:7-20. In these verses, the Lord Jesus tells the disciples more concerning the “coming and going” that He spoke of in verse 3. The disciples were puzzled by the Lord’s words in verse 3, but today we have the revelation to make these words clear. The Lord’s going was through His death, and His coming was in resurrection as the Spirit. This Spirit, the “another Comforter” and Spirit of reality that the Lord spoke of, comes and enters into us to be our life and everything we need.
Also, at the Rhema Literature Distributors website you can download the three volumes of the Basic Elements of the Christian Life, which include eleven short publications that everyone should read and then share with others.
EXCERPTS FROM THE MINISTRY
FIVE ASPECTS OF CHRIST
Christ was incarnated, accomplished redemption through crucifixion, was buried, resurrected, and then ascended to the third heaven. Furthermore, He has descended as the Spirit upon His Body. Now He is waiting for people to open to Him and call upon Him so that He may come into them, regenerate them, and make His home in their hearts. One day, He will come back from the heavens by coming out from within His people. Then He will be the King over all the earth, and His chosen people will be co-kings with Him in His kingdom. For eternity, He will be the centrality of the New Jerusalem. It is impossible to exhaust all that God is and all that He has done and will do in Christ.
The church is not simply a group of people who have been saved out of hell, who are waiting to go to heaven, and who beg the Lord to give them peace, joy, and a good life. The church in the Lord’s recovery does not beg God for things. Rather, we in the local churches praise the Lord for all He is to us. Praise Him that the church has the embodiment of God as her content! How we thank the Lord for revealing this to us!
The church is the one new man with Christ as the person. As the person of the new man, Christ is the embodiment of God. Do you realize that the One you are to take as your person is the very embodiment of God? If we see this vision, we shall be beside ourselves with joy. Oh, what a Person we have within us! It is crucial for us all to see that the church is a vessel with the living Christ as its unique content.
THE CHURCH-LOVING CHRIST
In 5:25-27 we see that Christ gave Himself up for the church, not merely to save the church from hell and bring her into heaven, but to sanctify her and to cleanse her by the washing of the water in the Word. Through this washing He will present the church to Himself glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. The church Christ will present to Himself will be holy and without blemish.
THE NEW-MAN-CREATING CHRIST
In 2:15 and 16 we see that Christ is also the new-man-creating Christ. For centuries, Christians have spoken about Christ’s death on the cross without seeing the consummate point that He died for the creation of the new man. He abolished in His flesh the ordinances in order to create in Himself one new man. The cross is not only for salvation, release, and victory; it is also for the creation of the new man. The creation of the new man required that all ordinances be abolished. Praise the Lord that He is the new-man-creating Christ! By abolishing the ordinances on the cross, He has created the Jews and the Gentiles into one new man.
THE ALL-THINGS-HEADING-UP CHRIST
In 1:20-23 we see that Christ is also the all-things-heading-up Christ. God has seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies and has subjected all things under His feet. Furthermore, Christ has been made Head over all things to the church. The headship over all things has been given to Christ as a gift from God.
THE GIFT-MAKING AND GIFT-GIVING CHRIST
Chapter four reveals that Christ is the gift-making and gift-giving Christ (4:7-8, 11-12). Because Christ is the Head over all things to the church, He is able to make gifts and to present them to the church. Ephesians 1:22 says that Christ is the Head over all things to the church. The little word to is crucial. It implies transmission. Whatever Christ, the Head, attained and obtained is transmitted to the church, His Body. In this transmission the church shares with Christ in all His attainments. Because all that Christ is and has is transmitted to the church, He is able to constitute us as gifts to the Body.
We have pointed out that it is through His descending and ascending that Christ constitutes us into gifts to the church. By His traveling, by His descending and ascending within us, we are made useful gifts to the church.
THE HOME-MAKING CHRIST
Finally, as 3:17 reveals, Christ is the home-making Christ. He is no longer homeless, for He is making His home in our hearts. The more Christ settles down in our hearts, the more He can boast to Satan that He has a home in His believers. (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 661-667)