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Originally Posted by Unregistered
I have a struggle with this issue of calling people who spoke out the immoral behaviors and abuses of leadership as being negative. Just this morning, I read a post from a LC with a quote from Witness Lee.
"Positive listening will rescue us from negative listening. If we listen to God's word from morning to evening, we will not have an ear to listen to any negative speaking. Negative talk prevails in the church life because certain ones turn their ears from God to something else. These ones do not speak Christ, the word of God, grace, or the gospel. Instead they listen to negative things, and they work and move according to the negative things they hear. The result is the spreading of death. If we turn our ears from other things back to God Himself, there will not be any problems, and only life will be spreading, not death." (Life-study of Leviticus, Msg. 30)
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“From Watchman Nee’s time until today, for seventy-two years, our practice has never come up to the standard of our vision that we have received of the Lord.”
(Living a Life According to High Peak Revelation, www.MinistryBooks.org)
High Peak Revelation period 1991-1997
Watchman Nee period
1922-1952
“Brother Nee had stressed two things: Christ as life to produce the church and the church as the Body of Christ to express Christ. But, sorry to say; even among Brother Nee’s co-workers, who were my contemporaries, very few fully entered into the realization of these two matters. Not to mention the matter of the Body of Christ, they did not even see the matter of Christ as life to us.”
Witness Lee period
1962-1997
“From the time that I began my ministry until today, I have put out many books concerning the vision that we have seen. Through all the years, in mainland. China, in Taiwan, in Southeast Asia, and in the West today, in our practice we have never come up to the standard of what we have seen”
“Since we have seen such a high peak of the divine revelation, we need to put into practice what we have seen. “The goal of our practice should be to live the life of a God-man. This is the goal we should reach.”
"Our practice will have a success, and that success will be a new revival—the highest revival and probably the last revival before the Lord’s coming back".
"This should be and this must be our church practice from today onward. If not, we are practicing something
in vain.
Witness Lee 1994 “But when the Lord put me in quietness, I examined myself according to this light, and found out that I have not really entered into it that much [the God-Man living]. What I have seen is very thorough, and what I have preached may also be considered quite complete, but it is really questionable how much of the reality of Christ as life I have in me.”
This spoken 3 years before his passing. (Witness. Lee, 1994 message, Taipei)
Such a revival has not been realized by those charged to practice the God-Man living; and neither has the past been cleared
by God-Man living in the leadership in taking reconciling measures in the Body - which in itself would bring revival before high peak teachings ABOUT God-Man living should be expected to do so.