Praise the Lord for His up-to-date speaking in the church life in the Lord’s recovery! The title for the May 2022 International Memorial day Blending Conference is, Taking the Way of Enjoying Christ As the Tree of Life.
2022 Memorial Day Conference – Taking the Way of Enjoying Christ As the Tree of Life – Key Statements
Eating the tree of life, that is, enjoying Christ as our life supply, should be the primary matter in the church life.
The two trees in Genesis 2:9—the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—represent two principles—the principle of life and the principle of right and wrong.
The Lord’s recovery is a recovery of loving the Lord Jesus with the first love, the best love, and of eating the Lord Jesus as the tree of life for the building up of the organic Body of Christ, which is the building up of the New Jerusalem as the goal of God’s eternal economy.
As a reproduction of Christ as the tree of life, we, the believers in Christ and children of God, not only have eternal life and may experience eternal life, but we also can minister this life to other members of the Body of Christ.
Taking the Way of Enjoying Christ As the Tree of Life – Enjoyment from the Holy Word for Morning Revival
Introduction: Crucial Fellowship from Brother Lee
Week 1 – Taking the Way of Enjoying Christ as the Tree of Life for the Accomplishing of God’s Eternal Economy
- Choose to Partake of Christ as the Tree of Life to be Constituted with Him for His Expression
- Rejecting the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and Choosing the Genuine Good, God
- Eat the Tree of Life to be Dependent on God, and Saved from Independence and Rebellion
- Stay on the Line of Life by Depending on the Lord and Living by the Sense of Life
- Stay on the Way of Life by Loving the Lord to the Uttermost and by Eating Him in His Word
- Enjoying the Triune God as the Law of the Spirit of Life and Living in Resurrection
Opening word of the prophesying meeting, concluding word of the prophesying meeting, and prophesying topics for this week via e-shepherding.
Week 2 – The Two Trees and the Two Principles of Living
- The Two Trees, the Two Principles of Living, and Living According to the Principle of Life
- Living the Christian Life by Checking with the Divine Life Within in All Things
- Our Christian Living is Based on the Sense of the Inner Life, not on Right or Wrong
- We need to Learn to Discern the Spirit from the Soul and have a Keen Sense of Life
- Follow the Inner Sense of Life to Live in the Spirit and Not in the Natural Life
- Learn to Discern things according to Life and Death, not according to Right and Wrong
Opening word of the prophesying meeting, concluding word of the prophesying meeting, and prophesying topics for this week via e-shepherding.
Week 3 – Loving the Lord with the First Love, Enjoying the Lord as the Tree of Life, and Being the Golden Lampstand as the Testimony of Jesus for the Building Up of the New Jerusalem as the Goal of God’s Eternal Economy
- Being Stirred up to Love the Lord Jesus with the First Love and Eat the Tree of Life
- Loving the Lord in Incorruptibility to enjoy Him and Love others with Him as our Love
- Overcome the Loss of the First Love for the Lord by Giving Him the First Place in All Things
- When we Love the Lord and Enjoy Him as the Tree of Life, we Shine as His Testimony
- Give Yourself to Love the Lord with the First Love and Enjoy Him as the Tree of Life!
- Being a Lover of the Lord and having His Manifestation to us, His Present Presence
Opening word of the prophesying meeting, concluding word of the prophesying meeting, and prophesying topics for this week via e-shepherding.
Week 4 – Grafted into Christ to Become Part of the Tree of Life
- The Relationship God desires to have with man is that God and Man become One!
- God and Man can be Grafted together and become One in an Organic Union, a Grafted Life
- As those Grafted into Christ, we should Live a Grafted Life in the Mingled Spirit
- In the Grafted Life, our Human Life is not Eliminated but Uplifted by the Divine Life
- Abide in Christ, receive the Dispensing of Life, and Live as Part of the Tree of Life
- God wants us to be God-men who have a Mingled Living of a God-man by Abiding in Christ
Opening word of the prophesying meeting, concluding word of the prophesying meeting, and prophesying topics for this week via e-shepherding.
Week 5 – The Secret of Living the Christian Life to Be an Overcomer — Taking the Way of Eating and Enjoying Christ as the Tree of Life
- Eating and Enjoying Christ as the Tree of Life by Musing on the Word of God Daily
- Keep our being Open to the Lord to have Proper Spiritual Digestion and Absorb Christ
- Eat Jesus by doing the Will of the Father and by Glorifying God on Earth in our Living
- Have Discernment in our Activities and Receive God’s Word with much Reconsideration
- Having Discernment in our Contact with people and not being Defiled by the World
- Living a Life of Enjoying Christ as Life and Enjoying the Top Portion in the Meetings
Opening word of the prophesying meeting, concluding word of the prophesying meeting, and prophesying topics for this week via e-shepherding.
Week 6 – Becoming a Reproduction of Christ as the Tree of Life for the Ministry of Life
- God’s Intention is for us to become a Reproduction of Christ as the Tree of Life
- The Ministry of Life: we need to have a Surplus of Life to Minister Life to others
- Releasing our Spirit to Minister Life to others in our Service in the Church
- To have the Outflow of Life and to Minister Life, our Outer Man must be Broken
- Being Identified with the Smitten Christ to Flow out the Divine Life as Living Water
- Being Channels of Life Ministering the Divine Life and being Aware of the Attack of Death
Opening word of the prophesying meeting, concluding word of the prophesying meeting, and prophesying topics for this week via e-shepherding.
Crucial Fellowship from Brother Lee
“The tree of life typifies Christ who imparts life to man and who pleases and satisfies man”—Life-study of Genesis, p. 141.
“The one thing we need is to enjoy the Lord as the tree of life”—The Tree of Life, p. 23.
“In May of 1943… I had contracted a serious case of tuberculosis… I saw the tree of life during the two and a half years of my illness. During those two and a half years I saw that in the Lord’s recovery and in His work we lacked life. Every kind of problem, regardless of what it may be, is the result of a shortage of life. When I saw this, I was extremely remorseful, I confessed much and had a thorough repentance before the Lord, and I also had many dealings before Him… The messages on the tree of life saved many saints and also released many of the brothers and sisters in Nanking. Because of the four years of turmoil in the church in Shanghai, the saints had been disheartened and depressed for years and were unable to do anything. These messages released their spirit and enlightened their heart… I thank the Lord that through the messages on the tree of life, the church in Shanghai was healed… The messages on the tree of life laid a foundation for the revival of the church in Shanghai”—The History and Revelation of the Lord’s Recovery, vol. 1, pp. 130, 133, 135, 138
“Eating the tree of life, that is, enjoying Christ as our life supply, should be the primary matter in the church life”—Rev. 2:7, footnote 6, para. 4.
“The evil condition of the wicked is that they do not come to the Lord to eat and enjoy the Lord… They do many things, but they do not come to contact the Lord, to take Him, to receive Him, to taste Him, and to enjoy Him. In the sight of God, nothing is more evil than this”—Isa. 57:20, footnote 1.
God’s intention for man was to give Himself as the tree of life to man for man to enjoy. “To see that God wants us to enjoy Him and that He does not want us to do anything for Him is to see that the Christian life is a matter of enjoyment… If our concept is changed so that we see these two points, it will be easy for us to live a life of enjoying God” — The Vision of the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, p. 60.
“If we want to take the way of enjoying God, we must have a change of concept… If we want to enter into the reality of the enjoyment of God, we must see a controlling vision… It was not until I was forty years of age that the Lord revealed to me the way of enjoying Him. I was disappointed that for twenty years most of my time and energy had been wasted. Most of my prayers were of no value, and the time that I had spent reading the Bible and other spiritual books was also of no value. This is when I realized that our way of working was wrong and that our way of spiritual pursuit was also wrong… Because I suffered a great loss from taking the wrong way, I do not want others to repeat the same mistake. I hope that others can take the way of enjoying God. I implore the saints to no longer take the wrong way. We should consider our former way of pursuit. We must have a drastic change of concept. We need to have a controlling vision”—The Vision of the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, p. 51.
