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The Issue of Life is the Church Life as a House of Feasting in Christ’s Resurrection

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The church is composed of cleansed sinners as represented by Simon the leper; he must have been healed by the Lord (Mark 14:3; Matt. 26:6). Being grateful to the Lord and loving Him, he spread a feast in his house for the Lord and His disciples in order to enjoy His presence; a saved sinner would always do this. The Lord has raised us from the dead and cleansed us from our sins; now where we are becomes the meeting place of the church. The Genuine Church (2017 Thanksgiving Conference), outline 3

The issue of life is the church life as a house of feasting; the issue of our experience of Christ as life who meets all our needs is that we become the church life, we open our home for Him and the saints, and we feast together with the Lord. In … [Continue reading]

Life Meets the Need of Every Man’s Case to Build the House of God (Gospel of John)

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John 12:1-2 Then Jesus...came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead....They made Him a supper there; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of the ones reclining at table with Him.

The gospel of John is a book on life and building; God comes to is in Christ to be our life, and this life is for God's building - for Christ as life meets the need of every man's case to build up the house of God. This week in our deeper study of … [Continue reading]

The more we Grow in Life, the more we are Headed up in Christ by His Life and Light

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In order to be delivered from the heap of collapse in a practical way, we need to grow in life; the more we grow in life, the more we will be headed up and the more we will be rescued from the universal collapse (Eph. 4:15; Col. 2:19). Witness Lee

The heading up in Christ in the church life is by life and light; first God comes into us as life to swallow any death, then the light of life shines in us to dispel the darkness, and we are headed up in Christ, being under the light as we grow in … [Continue reading]

We are Headed up in Christ through the Divine Dispensing which is Sweet and Intimate

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Our Father has a great house with a vast store of the unsearchable riches of Christ. This great house needs some administration, some management, to dispense all these riches into God’s people for the producing of the church as the corporate expression of the Triune God. God’s economy, therefore, is His household administration to dispense Himself in Christ into His chosen people so that He may have a house, a household, to express Himself, which household is the church, the Body of Christ. Witness Lee, The Conclusion of the New Testament, p. 258

In the church life we are being headed up through the divine dispensing in the divine economy, for God is working Himself into us through an administration that is a sweet dispensing, an intimate stewardship, and a comfortable household … [Continue reading]

In the Church Life we Take the Lead to be Headed up in Christ by Growing in Life

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1 Cor. 11:3 But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ.

God's eternal purpose is to head up all things in Christ through the church, and we as the church need to take the lead to be headed up in Christ, so that through the church God will be able to head up all things in Christ. In this universe there was … [Continue reading]

We need to realize that the Proper Church Life is a Life of being Headed up in Christ

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We all need to be delivered from the heap of collapse and headed up in Christ (Col. 1:12-13). The collapse of the universe caused by the rebellion of Satan and the fall of man gives God an excellent opportunity to manifest His wisdom (Eph. 1:8; 3:10; Rom. 11:33). According to the Bible, God’s salvation is to save us not only from our fallen, sinful condition but also from the heap of collapse (Eph. 2:1-8, 21-22). Witness Lee

The church is life is a life of being headed up in Christ, for we all need to be delivered from the heap of collapse caused by man's fall, and to be headed up in Christ. God's eternal purpose is for Him to gain a corporate expression in man, so … [Continue reading]

God is Working to Liberate His Creation from Bondage by Heading up All things in Christ

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When Satan injected himself into man, he brought confusion to the whole creation. By this confusion the whole creation is under the bondage of corruption in vanity. This corruption came from darkness, the darkness came from death, and death came from Satan. So God has many problems. He has an enemy to deal with, and He has death, darkness, confusion, corruption, bondage, and vanity in His creation. Even today the whole creation is groaning because it is still in vanity and in the bondage of corruption. God must liberate His creation from bondage and bring it into the order of liberty by heading up all things under the headship of Christ. Witness Lee, God’s Purpose for the Church, pp. 24-25

Satan's goal is to corrupt God's creation and to cause confusion, and he did so by injecting himself into man at the fall; but God is working to liberate His creation from bondage by heading up all things in Christ. Hallelujah, God is operating to … [Continue reading]