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Originally Posted by Freedom
According to Nee, the "final recovery" was reached as a result of two things that he alone uncovered: 1)the coordination of the Body 2) the manifestation of authority... As is evidenced by this quote, Nee did indeed leave the door open for other so-called items of recovery, but he somewhat confidently stated that what he saw was what consisted of a final recovery. It is particularly interesting that the way in which Nee could characterize the final recovery is vastly different from what Lee characterized it as. The so-called manifestation of authority, though an important aspect of the LC, is not something that most members would included on a list of items that the LC has supposedly "recovered". This is the kind of discrepancy that needs some explanation on the part of LCers.
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As I noted elsewhere, Nee was initially in fellowship with Leland Wang, a serving and zealous believer who became a noted Christian minister. Leland Wang also was perfected under Miss Barber, and is probably one of the older ones Nee famously chafed under (Wang was, I believe, 6 yrs older). Wang rented the hall that began the Shanghai Christian Assembly.
So how did Nee get out from under Wang? He "recovered" an item of "truth" which allowed him to move away, because of course Wang didn't get the recovered revelation (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). Once free of any constraints, Nee "recovered" the "truth" of "authority". Then he could be Number One.
And the clear word of scripture, that we should love one another, receive one another in Christ, serve one another, encourage one another, and testify of the gospel, together, to the unbelievers, gets set aside. The "final revelation" has made it of none effect.
It reminds me of the ones who supposedly recovered the apostolic ministry. I am thinking of the Lakeland Fla/Toronto Airport "outpoured blessing" people. They think the so-called manifestations of the Spirit were due to the recovery of the apostolic position, and rushed to anoint themselves and one another the apostles of God on earth today, who would become vehicles for God's outpoured Spirit "in the last days."
If you hear the transcription of the speaking of these so-called apostles, they are so excited that they are barely coherent. "God is in my shoe! God is in my shoe!!" One of them, Todd Bentley, decided the Holy Spirit wanted him to dump his wife and set up with another acolyte. Etc etc.
Nee was obviously much more coherent (almost anyone is more coherent than that), but still suffered from the delusion and self-obsession of one who felt himself (not Jesus Christ) to be the center of God's will. I think that Nee's down fall was when Margaret Barber, herself not under any covering of fellowship, warned Nee to stay away from unbalanced spiritual writings, and he snuck off and got them anyway. Thus the obsession was fed, and grew, and formed and bore fruit from a great tree. Shouters, anyone? Eastern Lightning? Lord's Recovery? Titus Chu? Arvore da Vida? It's all there, in spades.