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In Acts 2:46 the believers continued steadfastly in their meeting life in the temple and from house to house. The word "steadfastly" means that we, the believers, should be fixed, unchanging, constant, unswerving, and firmly loyal to our meeting life.

Hebrews 10:25 also says, "Not abonding our own assembling together, as the custom with some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more as you see the day drawing near." We should continue to meet until the Lord's coming back. Those who love His appearing should never stop meeting. Wether we can receive a reward or discipline depends on how healthy our church life or meeting life is. Our proper church Life today will become our reward in the millennial kingdom.

As the Lord's coming is drawing near, the world's evil is also increasing, worldly things and affairs frustrate us from having a proper church life and cause us to be discouraged. Many things around us can make our heart cold. Without the meetings we cannot survive, just as the fish dies without being in the water. Hence, meetings are crucial to our Christian life. In every meeting we receive an exhortation and supply to encourage us to go on. Meetings also incite us or stir us up to love the Lord and do good works. We need to be good imitators by imitating those who are faithful and absolute in attending Christian meetings. Our meeting life today will cause us to meet the Lord face-to-face in a glorious way.

Matthew 13:44 — The kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid, and in his joy goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

In this parable, the field represents the world, and the treasure hidden within it signifies the kingdom—something not outwardly visible, yet exceedingly precious. The man who found it sold all that he had just to gain that field, showing that the treasure was worth everything to him. Likewise, the pearl of great value reveals the church as something produced through life and transformation, not merely found but formed.

The kingdom and the church are not outward things—they are precious in God’s eyes, like a hidden treasure and a pearl of great value. The Lord gave everything to gain this pearl, and today He is still seeking a people who will live under His inward ruling.

In a world full of mixture, distractions, and appearances, the real call is not just to be part of something outward, but to be inwardly transformed—regenerated from “sand” into something living, precious, and built up. Not just entering as the pearl, but growing as precious stones for God’s expression.

This kingdom life is not forced—it is an inward control, a quiet leading that shapes our choices, our desires, and our daily living. It may restrict us from what others freely do, but it brings us into something deeper, real, and eternal.

Tonight’s message is a reminder: the kingdom is within our living. Choose what is truly valuable, submit to His inward working, and let your daily life express the treasure He sees in you.

Matthew 13:23 — “But the one sown on the good earth, this is he who hears the word and understands, who by all means bears fruit and produces, one a hundredfold, and one sixtyfold, and one thirtyfold.”

The central burden of this parable is not merely about hearing the word, but about the condition of our heart as the soil where Christ Himself is sown as the seed of life. The Lord does not come primarily as a teacher to give teachings or as a king to establish an outward rule—He comes as a Sower, sowing Himself into us so that the kingdom may grow from within. This means that everything depends not on what we do outwardly, but on how we receive Him inwardly.

The problem is not with the seed, but with the soil. A heart hardened by worldly traffic—filled with ambitions, plans, and constant distractions—cannot receive the word deeply, allowing the enemy to easily sn**ch it away. A shallow heart, though quick to receive with joy, is still occupied with hidden rocks—self, flesh, personal desires, and inward struggles—that prevent the seed from taking root. Then there is the heart consumed by anxiety and the deceitfulness of riches, where the word is choked, leaving no room for growth or fruit.

The Lord’s burden is to gain a good earth in us—a heart that is soft, open, pure, and fully available to Him. A heart that is not occupied with the world, not hindered by hidden sins, and not weighed down by anxieties. Only such a heart gives Him the ground to grow, to spread, and to bear fruit.
This shows us that the kingdom of the heavens is not established by outward works, activities, or human effort, but entirely by the growth of Christ within us. If we truly see this, our focus will shift—from doing for God to allowing God to grow in us. The real question then is not how much we are doing, but how much room we are giving Him in our heart.

May we allow the Lord to deal with every hardened place, remove every hidden rock, and clear away every choking thorn within us, so that our heart may become good soil—where Christ can grow freely and produce fruit for the kingdom.

𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒘 𝟏𝟏:𝟐𝟖
“𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒊𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕.”

This verse shows that Christ is calling us not to religion, but to Himself as our rest. At that time, people were burdened by religious regulations like the Sabbath, yet the Lord led His disciples into freedom and satisfaction instead of more rules.

When He said, “Something greater than the temple is here” and “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath,” He revealed that He is above all rituals and regulations. Our Christian life, therefore, should not be governed by outward practices, but by Christ as a living Person.

This is further seen when He healed the man with a withered hand—even on the Sabbath—showing that He cares for people, for the members of His Body, more than for regulations. His concern is not religion, but the restoring and caring of His people.

Tonight’s college meeting reminded us that Christ did not come to give more rules, but to be our rest. He is the Head who cares for His Body, and what truly matters is not religion, but Christ Himself and the church. In response to His word, we can simply come to Him just as we are—even when we are tired, burdened, or struggling—without pretending or trying to fix ourselves first, trusting that He will receive us and give us true rest.

Matt. 9:16–17—“No one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for that which fills it up pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out, and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

In this portion, the Lord reveals that He did not come to repair or improve our old life or our religious practices. Our natural life—even with good behavior, good deeds, and religious effort—is like an old garment produced by our old, natural life. Christ cannot simply be added to this old life like a patch on old clothing. Instead, Christ Himself became the new garment through His death and resurrection, becoming our righteousness so that we may be acceptable before God.

Christ is also the new wine, signifying His fresh, living, and exciting life within us. This new wine cannot be contained in old wineskins, which represent old religious forms, traditions, and outward practices. The living Christ cannot be confined within religion or outward rituals. When Christ as the living life is placed into these old forms, they cannot contain Him.

The Lord desires fresh wineskins—new vessels that can contain Him. The fresh wineskins signify the church life, the corporate life of believers as the Body of Christ. The church life is not merely a gathering or organization; it is the proper vessel where Christ as the new wine can be contained, experienced, and enjoyed by His people together.

Without the church life, the new wine has no proper container. As believers, we are not meant to live the Christian life individually, but as members of the Body, enjoying Christ together in the church. In the church life we are not focused on forms or religion, but on Christ Himself—Christ in you and Christ in me.

Tonight’s college meeting reminded us that the Christian life is not about improving our old life, but about receiving Christ as our new garment outwardly, our new wine inwardly, and experiencing Him together in the church life as the fresh wineskin.

Psalm 145:18 "Jehovah is near to all who call upon Him, / To all who call upon Him in truth."

𝐂𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝♡♡♡

Matt. 7:1–2—“Do not judge, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged; and with what measure you measure, it shall be measured to you.”

In Matthew 7:1–12, the Lord brings us to a deeper matter—not merely outward behavior, but taking care of others. The heavenly ruling over the kingdom people requires that we consider others in everything we do.

In our natural life, we are self-centered. We think of ourselves, our feelings, our opinions. But when we judge and criticize others, it proves that we do not truly care for them. If we cared, we would sympathize. If we considered their feelings, we would not be quick to judge.

The kingdom people, living under the heavenly ruling, learn to judge themselves and not others. If we do not like being judged, measured, or criticized, then we should realize that others feel the same. To take care of others is to stop measuring them.

Mercy does not measure. Mercy does not calculate. Mercy is blind. If we show mercy to others, we will receive mercy. But if we measure others without mercy, we will also be measured in the same way.

Even in speaking spiritual truths, we must take care of others’ capacity. We should not speak according to our excitement, but according to what they can receive. Contacting people is serious—we must ask, seek and knock for the proper way to deal with them.

Tonight’s college meeting reminded us: to live in the kingdom is to forget ourselves and truly take care of others.

Matt. 6:3-4–But you, when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, So that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

Matt. 6:5-6–And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, so that they may be seen by men…But you, when you pray, enter into your private room, and shut your door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

In Gospel of Matthew 6:1–18, the Lord unveils the principle of the hidden life. The righteous deeds of the kingdom people—whether in giving, praying, or fasting—are not meant to be displayed before men, but carried out before the Father who sees in secret.

The fallen life loves attention and outward glory, but the kingdom life rejects the self that seeks to be noticed. To live hidden is to deny our natural desire for recognition and to choose the Father’s approval alone. In the secret place, our motives are purified and our being is touched.

This kind of hidden living issues in growth in life. As we turn from outward show to inward fellowship, Christ gains more ground within us. The more we practice living before the Father in secret, the more His life grows in us, and the more we are brought under the reality of the kingdom of the heavens.

Tonight’s college meeting from the Life-study of Matthew reminded us that the true reward is not man’s praise, but the Father’s seeing—and in that hidden fellowship, we grow.