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Originally Posted by aron
...But I wanted to come back to another point, because we shouldn't worry about WL, WN, or RZ, who are gone, but about ourselves, who remain. Why do we gather around some people, lift them up unduly, ignore warning signs?
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My answer is identity: we identify ourselves with what we perceive as greatness. I felt that associating myself with the ministry of Witness Lee and Watchman Nee, and I was on "the express elevator to the top", as I put it in my youthful mind. I was no longer "just a Christian" but "a Christian associated with the ministry of WL and WN", which I felt was vastly superior. So by association, my portion increased.
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Why? Why did the woman eat of the forbidden tree? She was deceived.
Why do people gather around the RZ, WL, and WN's of the world? Deception.
We identify with "greatness" because of pride.
Again, why? We "...wrestle not against Lee, Nee, Zacharias, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. "
Again, why? Because we fail to give credit where credit is due. We blame everyone and/or everything
except God's enemy. Our enemy. Every "spiritual" problem has a spiritual solution.
This deception began in the garden and has not lessened to this day.
Nell