The Experience of Lifeby Witness Lee
ISBN: 978-0-87083-417-2
Printed Copy: Available Online from Living Stream Ministry
ISBN: 978-0-87083-417-2
Printed Copy: Available Online from Living Stream Ministry
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The content of this section is compiled from messages given by Brother Witness Lee during the Life Training conducted in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1953 and 1954.
We know that it is the desire and purpose of God’s heart to secure a corporate man, having His image, manifesting His glory, and exercising His authority to deal with His enemy—all in order that He Himself may obtain eternal rest. Very few people, however, know that this great heart’s desire and purpose can only be attained by God’s own life. Even fewer understand how one can experience this life and thus fulfill the desire of God’s heart. The saints are very weak and childish. Although many pursue, few find the path of life. There are yet many who confuse enthusiasm, knowledge, ability, and gifts with life.
Thank God that in these last days, days of such spiritual need, He has revealed through our brother His marvelous and mysterious way of life in such a way that every believer may comprehend and make it his own. We may say that these chapters contain the essence of the saints’ understanding and experience of life during two thousand years, plus the thirty years of personal testing and experience, which enabled our brother to compile these precious writings. It is indeed magnificent. The contents discuss the experience of life in nineteen items, explaining the experience of the various stages of spiritual life and the way of pursuing the Lord. If the experience of each subject is sought after and exercised, one can go on in a straight course and rise to the stage of the maturity of life very quickly.
These chapters make real that science of life which is not easily seen or grasped. Any saint who loves the Lord and seeks to grow in life must not fail to read them.
Dr. Y. L. Chang
Taipei, Taiwan
November 1956
From the experiences of the saints throughout the ages, and in the light that we have seen in these recent years before the Lord, we may say that the experience of life can be divided into four stages with a total of nineteen points.
According to our experience, the first four stages may be designated as follows: the first stage may be called the salvation stage; the second, the revival stage; the third, the stage of the cross; and the fourth, the stage of spiritual warfare. But according to our relationship with Christ, these four stages should be designated in this way: the first stage, in Christ; the second, abiding in Christ; the third, Christ abiding in us; and the fourth, Christ fully grown in us. The experiences of these four stages are based on our relationship with Christ.
Life is God Himself, yet in order that God may be our life, this life must necessarily be in Christ. Therefore, the Scripture says, “Christ our life” (Col. 3:4). Since life is Christ, when we experience life, we experience Christ. The experience of life may be expressed, therefore, as our relationship with Christ.
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