The Spreading of the Lord’s Recovery is Part of our Ultimate Responsibility Today

God has an ultimate move, which is His ultimate recovery, and we have an ultimate responsibility, which is to spread the testimony of Jesus by establishing local churches as golden lampstands; the spreading of the Lord’s recovery is part of our ultimate responsibility.

First of all, our ultimate responsibility is to be saturated and permeated with Christ for the church as the Body of Christ, the one new man. No one can do this for us: no one can eat Christ, grow in Christ, or be filled with Christ for us; we all have the responsibility as members of the Body of Christ to open our being to the Lord, consecrate to Him, and seek to be saturated and permeated with Him.

The only way that God can obtain His corporate expression – which is what He desires from the very beginning – is by working Himself into us, filling us, saturating us, and being lived out of us for the church as the Body of Christ.

Our ultimate responsibility that matches the Lord’s ultimate move is to be a living witness of Christ, one who in his daily life lives Christ and meets in the local church in such a way that he is a member of the Body, a part of the new man, the lampstand, and the bride.

Furthermore, our ultimate responsibility is to bear the testimony of Jesus, that is, be part of the corporate expression of Christ. For this, we need to cooperate with the Lord to be transformed in our soul, so that the Lord may be expressed through us both individually and corporately.

We cannot be independent anymore, and we cannot express ourselves anymore; we need to exercise our spirit, touch the Lord, abide in Him, and let Christ saturate us, fill us, and permeate us, and He will be the One living in us.

The living person of Jesus is the image of God, the expression of God, and the testimony of God; today we as the church are the testimony of Jesus, His corporate expression.

Jesus is the living photograph of God, and we are His reproduction; all believers in Christ are photographs of Jesus, and together we are God’s corporate expression, the church, for His manifestation in the flesh.

The Spreading of the Lord’s Recovery is Part of our Ultimate Responsibility Today

When it comes to His move on earth, God has a particular arrangement and order; for example, God’s way of carrying the Ark in the Old Testament was that it be borne on the shoulders of the priests.

God did not want oxen to pull a cart with the Ark in it: He wanted men to carry it, and in particular, He wanted His priests to carry it.

In order for the testimony of Jesus today to be manifested among us, we need to be the Lord’s witnesses, those who bear the Ark of the Testimony, and we need to be one with the Lord’s testimony on earth.

The apostle Paul spread the testimony of Jesus by his speaking as he visited different places, and then by writing letters to the churches and the saints. Today in our living we should be those who carry the Lord’s testimony by living Christ, bearing Him wherever we go.

As those who have been shown mercy of the Lord to be in His recovery today, we realize that the Lord’s return is imminent, and in these last days He has an ultimate move, which is His ultimate recovery, to recover the experience of Christ for the building up of the church, and for this He needs more local churches – especially in Europe.

But how can we practically cooperate with the Lord in His move today? Should we simply pray and go to move to a city in Europe to start the church life?

The spreading of the Lord’s recovery must be considered part of our ultimate responsibility to spread the testimony of Jesus by establishing local churches as golden lampstands.

In His move toward Europe, the Lord takes a specific way, which is the same way He took when He sent out His disciples to preach the gospel: going in two’s and three’s to spread the Lord’s recovery.

The church testimony was spread by the disciples being sent out by the Lord in twos, and later when Paul went out for the gospel, he also had either Silas or Barnabas with him.

Those who go out by twos to foreign countries may mostly go to study, to attend school, and to learn the language. They can also contact people. Foreign students find it easy to contact other students and teachers. Out of these contacts they will be able to pass on Jesus Christ. There will be no need to be concerned about living expenses, because the saints here will support them. This will be easy to carry out, and it is the biblical way.

After a few years there could be a small testimony in many countries. The two in each place, as they are studying or working or just contacting people, could bring at least ten to the Lord. Then there would be twelve meeting together as a small lampstand. A lampstand is not big like a lighthouse; I believe the Bible uses the lampstand to signify the church to give the sense that the church does not have to be a big thing. (Witness Lee, The World Situation and God’s move)

We may think that we can just go by ourselves, as the Lord touches us concerning His move, and we will bring the Lord’s testimony wherever we go.

But the way the Lord takes today is in the principle of the Body: we first fellowship with the Lord as the Head, and then we open our feeling to other members of the Body to be balanced and sent out by the Body.

Then, when we go, we go by being paired up with at least one or two other saints, and we go one with the Lord for the spreading of Lord’s recovery. The way to spread the Lord’s recovery in Europe, as seen in the Bible and in the ministry, is by going in twos and threes in the Body, and being supported by the sending locality.

Those who go can study the language, do a master’s degree, serve full-time by contacting people, or even take a job; then, they contact people, and in a few years the Lord will have an increase.

We contact people in Europe with the high gospel, the deeper truths in the Bible, the properly interpreted word, and with the good news of the gospel, being high-class witnesses of Jesus Christ on this continent.

The Lord needs to establish some local churches in the countries in Western Europe before the Antichrist is manifested, and we need to cooperate with Him for the spreading of the Lord’s recovery in Europe.

We need to be one with the Son of Man to manifest Him in Europe for Him to undo, nullify, and destroy the works of the devil. In particular these days the Lord is moving toward Germany to establish many golden lampstands in Germany for His move on earth.

We need to stay away from any movement coming from man and stay close to the Head, Christ, being in spirit and in the Body, to participate in the Lord’s ultimate move for the spreading of the Lord’s recovery in Europe.

Lord Jesus, cause us to realize that the spreading of the Lord’s recovery must be considered part of our ultimate responsibility. Thank You for entrusting us with Your recovery. Thank You for opening the word of God to us and showing us God’s economy, the Body of Christ, the one new man, and the New Jerusalem. Lord, we want to be faithful to You in Your word and in the ministry to open to You, take You as our Head, remain in fellowship with the saints, and go to Europe in Your going by being paired up and coordinated with the saints. May our going be Your going, and may our going be in the Body, for the Body, and through the Body, for the spreading of the Lord’s recovery in Europe!

Being Sober and Alert that the Lord would Guide us how to Cooperate with Him in His Ultimate move

As the Lord’s recovery is spreading all over the earth and in particular in Europe in the way ordained by Him in the word and in the ministry, the bride of Christ is being prepared. It is our ultimate responsibility now to cooperate with the Lord for His ultimate move on earth today.

As we read and hear about the Lord’s ultimate move in man toward Europe, what should our response be? Should we merely read and say, Amen, Lord, send those whom You prepared to spread Your recovery? Should we merely stay where we are and make a good living? Should we merely be content with good meetings and some preaching of the gospel in our neighbourhood or city?

We need to be sober and alert so that the Lord may grant us proper guidance. We all need to come before the Lord and pray this back to Him. He may not physically send us to Europe, but He definitely wants us to cooperate with Him for His ultimate move.

We may be a high schooler, a student, a working one, a single parent, or a family with children – how can we cooperate with the Lord for His move? Don’t dismiss the matter of the Lord’s move, and don’t have the attitude of, “Here am I, Lord, send him or her for they are more qualified”.

We need to seek the Lord’s leading by coming before Him in a specific way that He will show us what is our responsibility in the spreading of the Lord’s recovery to our city, our country, our continent, and especially to Europe.

On His side, the Lord arranges the entire world situation to match His ultimate move; on our side we need to give ourselves to the Lord to cooperate with Him.

We may not be led by the Lord to move to a country in Europe, but how much responsibility should we – together with the ones that we are being built up with – bear for those who go out in his name for His recovery by faith to other countries?

We may not go, but in our being we need to be send-able, our finances need to be available to the Lord for those who go, and our prayers need to be the utterance of the Lord’s prayers in us for His move.

By enjoying the Lord and being sustained by His grace, we can cooperate with His ultimate move on earth and thus bear the ultimate responsibility of spreading the Lord’s recovery to Europe by praying in the Lord’s praying, giving in His giving, and going in His going.

The Lord’s command is clear: GO into all the world (Mark 16:15, 20), and, Abide in Me, and you will bear much fruit (John 15:16).

When we abide in the Lord as the vine, we are joined with our fellow members in the Body, and we can go to the uttermost part of the earth being clothed with the power of the Spirit to preach the gospel, disciple the nations, and spread the Lord’s testimony on the earth.

Lord Jesus, we want to be sober and alert that You may grant us the proper guidance how to cooperate with You for Your ultimate move on earth today. Save us from merely reading concerning Your move and praying for others to go. Lord, here we are: send us! Lead us in spirit and in the Body how much responsibility we should bear for those who go out in Your name for Your recovery by faith to other countries! Keep us enjoying Your grace day by day so that we may be enabled to bear the ultimate responsibility of spreading Your testimony on earth!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by Ron K. for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1981, vol. 1, “The World Situation and God’s Move,” pp. 355-356, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Special Fellowship concerning the World Situation and the Lord’s Move, msg. 4 (week 4), Bearing the Ultimate Responsibility in God’s Ultimate Move.
• Hymns on this topic:
  # By Your Spirit in our spirit— / Working, breaking through, / Free us from the self and back to You. / We redeem each precious moment, / Spending time with You, / To become the testimony of Christ. / Lord, there is none whom I desire but You. / I would love You and give my all to You. (Song on being the testimony of Jesus)
  # Lord Jesus, we are Your increase, / The church, the kingdom, now we see; / Lord, may we in Your kingdom live, / For Your economy. / May Your recovery, / Forward march, spread far and wide. / Your lampstands shining forth / In every city bright. / Nor ill nor hardship do we fear, / For Lord, You stand beside. (Song on spreading the Lord’s recovery)
  # How can we complacent be / When Your churches are so few? / Let us spread thru all the land; / Make us faithful, make us true. / Send me, Lord, unto Your work; / Let me gain a harvest grand / That Your kingdom might be spread, / And Your testimony stand. (Song on spreading the Lord’s testimony)