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Originally Posted by Witness Lee
Recently, some among us became dissenting, although the claimed to have seen the ground and to be for the Lord's recovery. Because they had not been solidly overlaid with gold, they caused the oneness to be damaged. The same thing may happen in the future to anyone who is not fully overlaid with gold. Not having an adequate amount of God can create a serious problem with the oneness. The Lord's recovery is not a movement. We do not desire to gain a large number of people. In the recovery we are concerned for this genuine weight of gold. The important is this: how much of God do you have? The Lord's recovery consists of God overlaying His recovered people with Himself.
Whenever I see that any are dissenting, I feel sorry for them. At the same time I realize that such a situation of dissension is a test, and exposure, and a purification. It is a test of what is real, of how much gold we actually have. We all need to gain more gold. ~Truth Messages, p. 84
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So the measure here is "more gold". But who makes the measure? Witness Lee. If he says you have more gold, then you have it.
Conversely, those who don't have sufficient gold, in this case, became "dissenting". But why can't we say that Watchman Nee didn't have enough weight of gold, to bear with the Western denominations, who had brought him the message of God's salvation in Jesus Christ, and who then became dissenting, and left to form his own denomination, aka The Little Flock? I mean, Nee was how many years a Christian, at that point? Five? How can we safely assume that Watchman Nee got that much gold, that soon? Why this dangerous assumption?
Why does the rule of measurement always fall on the "other" in the supposedly rich ministry of Witness Lee, and never is applied to himself, or to Nee? Somehow God's Specially Chosen Vessel of the Hour is always exempt from the same weights and measures that he continually places on others.