Christ is so vast, so immese that He needs coperate vessels to contain Him. But the church is so narrow that there is no room for natual man. In the entrance of the hall there is the cross that we need to leave our natural man on it. The geniune church life is not like  wild west that  who has the biggest gun will make the law.  There are spiritual charters for the church life.  The carrters are the constitutaions of the church.  

Acts 15:22  "It then seemed good to the apostles and elders with the whole church to choose men from among them to send to Antioch together with Paul and Barnabas."  In Acts chapter 15 was the first church conference.  Acts 15:28 "For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us."  Brother Lee said : Whenever we have a conference, we must have the assurance that whatever we decide is the decision of the Spirit.  We must be able to say : "It seems good to the Holy Spirit and to us."  The decision made in chapter 15 was not made only by the apostles and the elders with the whole church; it was made also by the Holy Spirit. 

Brother Minora mentioned that in 1990, brother Lee suggested Santa Carla for migration.  The brothers and sisters did not have a responce.  Brother Lee brought this to fellowship so the saints can pray, fast and wait on the Lord.  He did not give instruction who should go or where should they go, which would have transgressed the headship of Christ.  That would have been an insult to the Lord.  when we speak in the church, we need to discren that if we are speak "forth" the Lord, or if we are speaking "over" the Lord.

Only the Lord Jesus is the Lord of the harvest.  He is the Master, and we must honor Him by not making decisions in ourselves.  Even not making our own decision.  It is not a easy word.  I acho brother Minora when he  "said guilty as charged" in this matter.  It is much easier to give instruction, and make my own decision.  But if I see this: Who am I?  Who authorized me to make suggestions to others?  How this can be an insult to the Lord in His headship, then I won't take this so lightly.  Instead, I need to stop and give room to the Lord.  so everyone including myself, must go and contact the Lord,  pray,  until are are clear what to do and where to go.   If the Lord is moving to the campus, let the Lord has the sovereignty to "stop" you to go.  Thoese who cannot stop for the sake of the Lord, cannot work for the sake of the Lord.

How much we need to experience this kind of fellowship which always bring us to the presence of the Lord.  We must pray, fast and wait on the Lord.  Lord, shine on us, that we won't make ourself the the Lord of the harvest, the masters of the work.  Let's pray, fast and wait on the Lord, The glory is all His.

3/31/18

Psalm134 :   Bless Jehovah now, all you servants of Jehovah.  When stand by night , in the house of Jehovah.  Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless Jehovah.  May Jehovah, who made heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.

The oneness is the mingling of the processed Triune God with the believers. It is not like most believers understand in their natural concept, they think the oneness is "to add the beliebers together to from a harmonious unit".

Psalm 134 is the praise of the saint in his going up to Zion, as the last of the Songs of Ascents, Psalm 134 is a conclusion to the wonderful church life presented in Psalm133.

In Pasalm 134 is the charge of children of Israel to the serving priests.  Although these priests are serving in the house of God, they are lower than the ones in Zion.  Thus those in Zion can give such a charge to these servants of Jehovah.

These priests lift up their hands to bless Jehovahm, and commend blessing among the Iseralite.  

This is such a good meeting life.  In Ex 17:11, when Iseralite was fighting with Amalek, when Moses lifted his hand up, Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.  How much the Lord want us to overcome the flesh in our daily life, ont only in our meetings.

Let us have such a life.  Lifting our hand to bless God, and have felloship and communicate in this way.    This is glorious.

3/31/18

Lev.20:7  Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy;for I am Jehovah your God.  

May we all say : Oh Jehovah our God!

Through the book of Leviticus, God wants to train us to live a holy, clean and rejoicing life.  What is training?   Training is to bring us from what our natural ablity can do to that we can learn and be equipped to do a particular job or task.

God needs not only a place to speak---God speaks in the church which is the tabercle.  God also need an audience.  But these audiouence need to have circumcised ears.  First God need us to be holy.  Holy means not only sanctified, separated unto God, but also different, distinct from everything that is common.  We need to be such worshippers.

Outwardly, we need to be like Israelite to put off the former Egyptian conduct and not walk in the statutes of the Canaonites.  Then we can put on the New Man inwardly.  That kind of putting on the New Man is to have God's holy living according to His holy nature.

Such a living can then produce fruit. Then we would not appear before God empty handed.  Not only God is our enjoyment,We can be God's enjoyment.  We can be God's peculiar treasure, and we enjoy Him as everything to us.  As a result, we becaome a holy nation.

3/31/18

We need to see the oriainal condition of the church and the degradation of the church so that we can reconize the need for the recovery/

Watchman Nee wrote :

During the past two thousnad years, the gospel has not changed.  On the very day that the church was produced, God saw this new creation and considered that it was good.  This is like God considering everything as good in Genesis after He created everyghing in six days.  After some time, the situation changed,  Aolthough the situation changed, the beauty of the original creation remains the same.  The beauty of the church on the first day at Pentecost was comparable to the beauty of Eve on the day of her creation.

However, the church gradually changed.  It changed from Ephesus to Sardis.  At the time of Martin Luther, God began to take the way of recovery step by step.  For the past four hundred years, God did some recovery work every fifty years.  During the past one hundred years,  His work has been especially strong.  It seems as if the last few decades have seen the peak of recovery.  There has never been a time when the church has been as rich as it is now.

Although Brother Nee wnet to be with the Lord before Brother Lee , Brother Nee's speaking still continued through Brother Lee's speaking.  .  Now Brother Leee went to be with the Lord for twenty years, Brother Lee's speaking continues through our speaking.  We continue with God's speaking,  God's speaking is never out of date!