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Lord, the ancient types and symbols
  As our all Thyself portrayed;
As was shadowed in those figures,
  Real to us Thou now art made.
Contemplating such a picture,
  As we on its wonders gaze,
How we marvel at Thy riches
  And our song of worship raise.

Lord, Thou art our true Passover,
  God passed over us thru Thee;
By Thyself and Thy redemption
  We with God have harmony.
Thou, the Lamb of God, redeemedst us
  With Thyself and with Thy blood;
We apply Thy blood, our ransom,
  Eating Thee, our real food.

Lord, Thou art the Bread from heaven,
  The unleavened Bread of life;
Eating Thee, with Thee we mingle,
  Ceasing from our sin and strife.
Lamb and Bread are both Thy figures,
  Showing Thou art life to us;
Feasting on Thee at Thy table,
  We enjoy Thy riches thus.

Lord, Thou art the Heav’nly Manna,
  As our daily food supply;
Strengthening and energizing,
  All our need to satisfy.
Living Rock Thou also art, Lord,
  Cleft for us with life to flow;
Drinking of this living water,
  Thirst is quenched, Thy life we know.

Lord, Thou art the Land of Canaan—
  Elevated, rich and good,
Flowing with both milk and honey
  In a glorious plenitude.
By Thy surplus God we worship,
  In Thy fellowship we move;
Thus in love we’re joined together
  And God’s building we will prove.

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十一月 23 2025

Un Hermano

THE CORINTHIAN ENJOYMENT OF CHRIST

There are two passages in 1 Corinthians that indicate that the church in Corinth was only in the initial stage of the enjoyment of Christ: “Purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened; for our Passover, Christ, also has been sacrificed... And all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of a spiritual rock which followed them, and the rock was Christ” ( 5:7 ; 10:4 ).

The children of Israel were in Egypt when they enjoyed the passover lamb and in the wilderness when their thirst was quenched by the living water that flowed out of the rock that followed them. To enjoy Christ as the Passover pertains to salvation and the exodus from the world. Christ as the rock supplying living water is for the beginning period of the Christian life.

The church in Corinth was in this elementary stage. It was characterized by worldliness and wanderings in the soul. Thus, their enjoyment of Christ was not mature.

THE MATURE ENJOYMENT OF CHRIST

When we come to the writings of Paul to the Colossians and the Ephesians, however, we find that their enjoyment of Christ was as the good land. This is the mature stage.

Colossians 1:12 says, “Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light. ” What the apostle Paul had in mind here was the good land, which was allotted to the twelve tribes of Israel when they entered it. Our portion means the part of the good land allotted to us.

Christ in Colossians is no longer merely the Passover or the manna but rather the final portion of God’s chosen people, that is, the good land. Colossians 2:6 bears this out: “As therefore you have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in Him. ” We could not walk in the passover lamb or in the manna, but Christ as the good land is spacious and rich. Our lot is a rich land that produces many passover lambs and many grains, as well as oil and wine.

Christ in this book is “all and in all” ( 3:11 ). Such a description does not fit the passover lamb or the manna; only the good land can be described in such an inclusive way.

The same is true of the unsearchable riches of Christ, a term found in the book of Ephesians ( 3:8 ). The passover lamb and the manna cannot be considered as unsearchably rich. Christ’s unsearchable riches are surely the rich produce of the good land.

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Message 57 (LSM)

THE PASSOVER BEING A TYPE OF CHRIST

First Corinthians 5:7 and 8 say, “Purge out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened; for our Passover, Christ, also has been sacrificed. So then let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. ” These verses indicate clearly that the passover in the Old Testament is a type of Christ. Christ is our Passover. Every day we enjoy Him as the unleavened bread, as the sinless element. Day by day we feast not only on the flesh of the Lamb but also on this unleavened bread. We have escaped from Egypt, and we have been delivered from the bondage of Satan. Now we are free to follow the Lord in the wilderness, where there is no more bondage.

The Kernel of the Bible Chapter 2 (LSM)

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