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Originally Posted by Unregistered
3. This is a big one: guess who can determine if you are in your soul or spirit? ITS NOT YOU, it’s the “fully blended” that have special connection to God, and have installed themselves as the intermediaries between Jesus and you. They know what is of the spirit and what is of the soul. They have been in the local church for decades, they know better than you. They are spiritual mothers and fathers, and you are just a young one, unconforming rebel. Just listen and OBEY.
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Witness Lee taught that to know Christ is not enough, we must go on to know the local churches. Was he effectively setting up another "god" for us to worship deceptively along the same lines?
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"To know God is not adequate. To know Christ is also not adequate. Even to know the church is not adequate. We must go on to know the churches which are local. If we are up-to-date in following the Lord, we will realize that today is the day of the local churches."
Witness Lee, The Seven Spirits for the Local Churches, p. 23
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Compare this with what Paul wrote:
Phil 3:8
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
Knowing and obeying Jesus is the means by which we attain eternal life, not knowing "the local churches" and not obeying the "Body".
John 17:3
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Hebrews 5:9
And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him