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Originally Posted by Witness Lee
“As long as we are in this wonderful spirit, everything is all right. Moreover, the supply is here. Whatever we need is in our spirit. If we need light, here is the light. If we need comfort, joy, peace, rest, power, or patience, all these and something more are in our spirit. This is why the entire Bible eventually brings us to this point, stressing that we should walk in the spirit, live in the spirit, pray in the spirit, love our brothers in the spirit, have fellowship in the spirit, and do everything in the spirit. When we are in this spirit, everything is wonderful. All the problems are not only solved but are gone altogether.“
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Where does the Bible ever say "whatever we need is in our spirit"?
Where does the Bible say we should love the brothers "in our spirit"?
The Bible does not say we should pray in the spirit. It says we should pray with our spirit AND with our mind.
What does it mean that "when we are in the spirit, everything is wonderful"? If anyone was "in the spirit", surely it was Jesus. Does this mean everything was wonderful for His whole life? It was wonderful when people were after Him trying to kill Him? It was wonderful when He was sweating blood and distressed and asking that the cup be taken from Him? It was wonderful when God forsook Him? Were all of Jesus's problems not only solved but gone when He was on the cross? Were Paul's problems when he was pressed in every direction solved and gone altogether? Lee's statement here is simply false and unsupported.
It may be that we can maintain our trust in God and we can know that God is good even when we are swimming in problems, but things in human life don't always have to be "wonderful", and in fact the Bible tells us there will be suffering.
Lee sets up a false scene here, leaving the LC members wide open to be deeply discouraged and beating themselves up that they must not be "in the spirit" enough when their life is not simply wonderful and problem-free.