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The Goal of the Lord’s Recovery is to Bring Forth the One New Man to End this Age

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What is here in the Lord’s recovery is nothing but Christ, and this Christ is all and in all. You cannot be an individual believer, and you cannot keep your local church separate from all the others. Today is the day to have a new man constituted with all the local churches, including all the saints as one in Christ, who is all and in all. This vision will rescue us from all things other than Christ. Witness Lee, The One New Man, ch. 6

God desires to gain the church as the Body of Christ to be the one new man, and the goal of the Lord's recovery is to bring forth the one new man. But if we look at ourselves, at the local church where we meet, and at the country we are in, can we … [Continue reading]

Today is the day to have a New Man Constituted of All the Local Churches on earth

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Col. 4:15-16 Greet the brothers in Laodicea, as well as Nymphas and the church, which is in his house. And when this letter is read among you, cause that it be read in the church of the Laodiceans also, and that you also read the one from Laodicea.

The application of the new man spoken of in Eph. 2:15 and Col. 3:10-11 is that all the local churches in the different countries are one new man. So our practice of the church life should be with the Body of Christ and the new man as the goal in … [Continue reading]

Taking Christ as our Life and Person so that Christ is All and in All in the New Man

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Col. 3:10-11 And have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all.

In the new man Christ is all and in all. What does it mean in reality and in our experience for Christ to be all in all in the church as the one new man? We need to ask the Lord to make this real to us, and even to make this our reality in the church … [Continue reading]

God’s Economy is to Work Christ into us; the New Man is Christ Spreading and being Enlarged

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God’s economy is to work a wonderful person into our being. This person is the all-inclusive Christ, the One who is the reality of every positive thing in the universe. Christ is the Firstborn of all creation. He is both God and man, for the One who was the eternal God became incarnated at a point in time. Hence, Christ is the real God and the real man. He possesses all the divine attributes and human virtues. He is the reality of love, life, light, grace, humility, patience, power, mercy, wisdom, righteousness, and holiness. Life-study of Colossians, p. 313, by Witness Lee

Hallelujah, the new man is Christ spreading in us and being enlarged in us! It is amazing to realize that Christ is all and in all in the new man, and that God's intention is to make Christ the center of His economy and make Him everything to the … [Continue reading]

The One New Man was Created in Christ to Bear His Image, and the New Man is Christ!

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Matt. 17:5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I have found My delight. Hear Him!

The new man was created in Christ on the cross; Christ is the element of the new man, Christ is all and in all in the new man, and the new man is Christ. The first main aspect or status of the church is that it is the Body of Christ, and the … [Continue reading]

The Church, the Body of Christ, is the One New Man to Accomplish God’s Eternal Purpose

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Eph. 2:15-16 Abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace, and might reconcile both in one Body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity by it.

The church as the Body of Christ is the one new man to accomplish God's eternal purpose. But what does it mean for the church to be the new man, and how can we experience this aspect of the church in our church life and even daily experience with … [Continue reading]

The Lord Desires to Recover the Organic Building up of the Body of Christ

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Eph. 4:15-16 But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ, out from whom all the Body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love.

May the Lord recovery us back to practicing the scriptural way to meet and serve, which is able to develop the organic ability and function of the members of Christ for the organic building up of the Body of Christ. The church is the Body of … [Continue reading]