[UntoHim]

"To express God is higher than fearing God and turning away from evil"
Witness Lee

No, expressing God is not higher than fearing God. As a matter of fact, I would question the biblical soundness of anyone who teaches such a thing. Actually this explains a lot about Witness Lee's understanding and mindset. It explains how he could have been such a hypocrite. At the podium he appeared to be very knowledgeable and sincere, but behind the scenes he was very small, weak-minded and petty. Maybe Lee was expressing God behind the podium there in all those excruciatingly long training "messages", but he sure was not expressing God behind the scenes.

Someone who really has a genuine fear of God is not two-faced. They are the same speaking before hundreds as they are fellowshipping one on one. Those who would be a shepherd and leader among God's people should be the most God-fearing. New believers and young people do not need someone to "express God" as much as they need someone to teach them to fear God and his Word. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Proverbs 9:10) I would submit that without godly fear there is no godly wisdom. And I would highly doubt that anyone who lacks godly wisdom is expressing God. And anyone who has no godly fear surely has no fear of his Word, and would have no right or authority to be a minister of the Word. May God have mercy.
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