Being a Brother - The highest place ordained by God for you is to be a brother. Regardless of how manifested you become, always remember that you can never be more than a brother. Appreciate being a brother. If you appreciate your being a brother, you will be adequately protected.

 
 
    Being One With the Ministry to Speak the Healthy Words - All ministers of the New Testament ministry who desire to speak healthy words for the building up of the Body should benefit from these messages.  
       

 
Confronting Crisis in the Full-time Serving Life - As a person grows spiritually, various crises are bound to confront him. Just as there are particular problems with each stage of our physical growth, so it is with our spiritual growth. If a person has a healthy spiritual condition, he may be relatively immune from crises.

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Fellowship for Full-timers - Spiritual help for those who serve the Lord full-time.
       

 
Serving the Church of the Living God - The apostle Paul wrote three books of the New Testament which were entirely focused upon the practice of the church life. These books are First and Second Timothy, and Titus. In these three epistles we can see how the church should operate, how the church should bear the testimony, the relationship between the church and the workers, and how to handle the situation when the church becomes degraded.

 
   
   
The Growth of the Seed : The Four Hearts in Matthew 13:3-23 - The parables of the sower reveals the four possible conditions of our heart. How can our heart become good earth?
 
     
   
The Reality of the Divine and Mystical Realm - All who desire to serve the Lord in the church life, edify the saints, and build up the church must first realize what Christ has accomplished for us. The reality of His accomplishment exists for us as a realm that is both divine and mystical. The key to serving is to abide in this heavenly realm in which the Triune God is accomplishing His purpose.
  
     
   
The Secret of Being a "Seed" for an Effective Operation (John 12:24) - The principles of being a seed: being hidden, being full of life, and being ready to grow and bear fruit. The Lord Jesus Himself was a pattern to us.
 
     
   
The Survival Messages - Paul's first epistle to Timothy focuses upon how we may grow fully into what God has arranged for us despite all the frustrations and dangers which confront us as we are growing.
 
       
   
To Serve in Humanity with Divinity - A series of conferences on learning to serve the Lord according to His humanity.
 
       

 
What a Prophet Must See - Prophets are the spiritual strength of a local church. The vision of the prophets will determine how their local church will go on. If you wish to exercise as a prophet in your local church, the first thing I would say to you is that you must be a spiritual person who is under a controlling vision.

 
 

 

 
   
What We Have Been Given, and How We Should Operate - We need a view of what the Lord has given to us, and how the Lord desires us to operate. Firstly, the Lord has given us Himself. With the Lord their are at least three aspects: the Lord is Christ, the Lord is life, and the Lord is Spirit. The Lord has also given us the Bible, the saints, and the environment. But even further, the Lord has brought us into a kind of living for us to exercise. This living is for us to have the church life.
  
       
 
 
  
  A series of conferences on learning to serve the Lord according to His humanity.
       

 
The Necessity of Humanity with Divinity - The origin of our serving life.

 
   

 

 
   

 
   

 
Struggling in an Uplifted Humanity with Commitment (1) - The book of First Corinthians indicates that the serving life is a struggling life.

 
   

 

 
   

 
Paul's Admonition in an Uplifted Humanity - By presenting his labor and himself as a steward of the mysteries of God.

 
   

 
Struggling in an Uplifted Humanity with Commitment (2) - Dealing with the problems in Corinth.

   

Struggling in an Uplifted Humanity with Commitment (3) - Taking care of the human needs and the spiritual life of the saints.

 
   

 
Exercising the Gifts in a Local Church Life - Spiritual exercises demand maturity.

 
   

 

The Apostle Paul's Uplifted Humanity with Divinity in Second Corinthians
To labor with the New Covenant ministry as a New Covenant minister

 
   

Being One with Christ in Stand, in Experience, and in Labor - The apostle Paul, a man with emotions and with considerations, with love and also with righteousness.
       
    To Labor with the New Covenant Ministry - The sufficient ministry of the Spirit.
       
    To Labor as a Constituted New Covenant Minister (1) - The ministry of Jesus Christ, becomes the New Testament minister's very constitution.
       
    To Labor as a Constituted New Covenant Minister (2) - The practice of the New Testament ministry.  
       
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  Being One With the Ministry to Speak the Healthy Words
       
    Exercises Necessary To Speak For The Lord - According to Paul in the fourteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians, we all can prophesy, and we all can be prophets. If you wish to speak for the Lord as a prophet, however, you must meet five requirements. First, your person must be healthy before the Lord. Second, the word you speak must become spirit. Third, the word you speak must have content. Fourth, the word you speak must be with a burden. Finally, you must have an adequate utterance.  
       
    Three Crucial Matters Concerning Prophesying - In this message we will address three further matters that must be taken into account if we wish to prophesy for the Lord in the church. First, we should pay attention to the Lord's anointing more than what we plan to say. Second, we should seek that our sharing be in a five-fold harmony as we speak. Third, we should take as our goal that our speaking would produce the operation of the Spirit in others and bring them into their spiritual function.  
       
    One With the Ministry to Speak the Healthy Words - When we speak of "the ministry," we should be referring to the New Testament ministry, which is also the ministry of the Lord Jesus. All individual ministries should be but portions of the New Testament ministry. In other words, all ministries should be one with the ministry of the Lord Jesus.  
       
    What It Means To Be One With The Ministry - We must realize that the word of the ministry is a matter of revelation. Apart from the Spirit, there is no way for you to minister God's economy or to dispense life. Thus we have to receive the word of the ministry by means of our spirit, for the word of the ministry is based upon revelation, and revelation is related to our spirit.  
       
    Learning To Receive The Visions And Revelations Of The Ministry - If you wish to gain the visions and revelations available through the ministry, you must be willing to pay a price, for they do not come cheaply. For this we must remain absolutely consecrated to the Lord and continually live absolutely for the church.  
       
    Learning To Have The Spirit Of The Ministry (1) - To be one with the ministry, we have to learn to have the spirit of the ministry, and in order to have the spirit of the ministry, we must understand the spirit and the heart. Since your life is determined by your spirit, you should take care that your spirit would not become a subduing, domineering, or accommodating spirit.  
       
    Learning To Have the Spirit of the Ministry (2) - The spirit of the ministry is for the perfecting of the saints. When we prophesy, we must learn to have the spirit of the ministry. On the one hand, our spirit is for the entire recovery, and on the other hand we must have a spirit for the perfecting of the saints within each locality.  
       
    Learning To Have the Spirit of the Ministry (3) - We must learn to have the spirit of the ministry. What kind of person a prophet is will determine what kind of spirit he has. The spirit of the prophet should be characterized by a conscience that leads his soul, causing him to live in the operation of the Spirit through his spirit so that the divine attributes might be manifested.  
       
    Learning to Have the Equipping of the Ministry (1) - Besides having the spirit of the ministry, you must also have the equipping of the ministry. Even when your spirit is rich and full of feeling, full of burden, and full of commitment from the Lord, you must still have adequate equipping if you desire to minister the riches you possess. Even if you have revelation upon revelation and vision upon vision, if you lack the proper equipping you will not be able to adequately minister the riches you possess.  
       
    Learning to have the Equipping of the Ministry (2) - If we desire to be adequately equipped for ministry we must be equipped spiritually. If we love the Lord and desire to follow Him, we should no longer have the idea that something is lucky, or unlucky, or coincidental, we must begin to realize that the Lord's hand is in everything that happens to us; nothing is accidental. This is to realize that all things that happen to us are spiritual.  
       
    Learning to Have the Equipping of the Ministry (3) - For the equipping of the truth, you should first know the facts of the Bible. Second, you must enter into the riches of Brother Nee and Brother Lee. Third, you have to employ everything the Lord has given to us and not be a narrow or self-complacent person. Fourth, you have to learn to use the reference tools.  
       
    Learning to have the Equipping of the Ministry (4) - The last point we need to learn, if we are to be equipped for the ministry, is the equipping of our personality. We must love the Lord, we must be absolute, we must be equipped with the truth, and we must also have spiritual experience. However, it is our personality that determines whether or not these other things become a blessing to the church.  
    Learning to have the Equipping of the Ministry (5) - For the equipping of the personality, we must know these three things - the nature or disposition, the character, and the personality. When you touch the Lord in a deep way, your nature and disposition will become different, your person will become different, and your views and feelings will become different. When your nature and disposition are transformed, they also must go through your character in order to produce a good personality.  
       
    Learning to Have the Intrinsic Being of the Minister (1) - To be one with the ministry, we must learn to have the intrinsic being of its minister. On the one hand, we must know that Brother Lee's ministry is one with the New Testament ministry of the Lord Jesus. On the other hand, we also need to know why it is that Brother Lee can be a person who is one with the New Testament ministry.  
       
    Learning to Have the Intrinsic Being of the Minister (2) - I hope you all can learn to have the intrinsic being of the Lord's minister. Take Brother Lee as your pattern and learn to cooperate with the Lord's leading. Deny yourself. Do not allow any self-pity. You must know the Lord and His sovereignty. Do not blame things on any person or thing. Lay hold on Christ and His testimony in all situations so that they can become the source of higher blessings.  
       
    Learning to Have the Intrinsic Being of the Minister (3) - In the recovery, we have received much truth, revelation, and vision. Our need is that our living and practice must match our vision. Our daily life and our church life do not match the revelation we have received. It is one thing to see the vision; it is another to live out the vision in the church life among the saints.  
       
    Learning to Have the Intrinsic Being of the Minister (4) - There are three important questions that have very much to do with how we live. First, do we respect ourselves? Second, do we preserve ourselves? And third, do we protect ourselves? We all have our own portion from God. He has constituted it into us. We also should learn to protect ourselves without preserving ourselves.  
       
    Knowing the Commitment of the Minister (1) - If we understand the commitment of the minister, we will be regulated by a vision. Our walk is based upon what we know of this commitment. The harmony among the churches, the saints, and the co-workers is also related to our understanding of this commitment.  
       
    Knowing the Commitment of the Minister (2) - Your assurance of the recovery is only the beginning, the first step. When you follow the Lord absolutely, you will have a sense of commitment, and your existence will have a purpose and a meaning. But you have to go beyond this, beyond your sense of commitment. You must pursue and live in the riches so that they become your constitution, the substantiation of your commitment.  
       
    Knowing the Commitment of the Minister (3) - When we begin to serve the Lord, we need to avoid the problems that are caused by not fully understanding the commitment of the minister. This message continues the Lord's desire to keep us living in the reality of the truth and the operation of life, so that we may be inclusive as we receive others for the Lord's testimony and not exclude others because of differences over minor truths or practices.  
       
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  The Reality of the Divine and Mystical Realm
       
    Treasure the Blessings We Have and Lay Hold On the Common Faith (1) - It is not an easy matter for the Lord to gain what He is after in the churches through the operation of the leading ones. Because the church is in the divine mystical realm, those who lead in the church must do so in the divine mystical realm.  
       
    Treasure the Blessings We Have and Lay Hold On the Common Faith (2) - Our participation in the divine mystical realm is a matter of organic salvation in three stages: union in life, mingling in nature, and incorporation in person. Through our participation in the divine mystical realm, we become God's masterpiece and appreciate the new man.  
       
    Treasure the Blessings We Have and Lay Hold On the Common Faith (3) - Our appreciation of the right matters brings us into a healthy exercise more than any advice on how to practically carry something out. A proper appreciation will enable us to value and enjoy what the Lord has provided for a healthy church life. Therefore your healthy exercise doesn't begin with what you do, but with a proper appreciation.  
       
    Treasure the Lord's Testimony - In treasuring the Lord's testimony in your locality, there are four things that require careful attention. First, you must treasure the leadership in your locality. Second you should treasure your assets in the church life: the Spirit, the Word, the saints, and your local church. Third, you must treasure your operation and the operation of all the saints. Finally, you must treasure the local church that practically bears the Lord's testimony in life.  
       
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  Spiritual help for those who serve the Lord full-time.
       
    A Religious Living versus Spiritual Reality - Our living must be grounded in life, truth, genuine spiritual experiences and the proper humanity.
       
    Being Spiritual in our Practice - The expression of spirituality.  
       
    Being a Spiritual Person to Serve the Lord Full-time - The necessity of being a spiritual person.  
       
    How to Labor in the Word - Taking Care of Our Person and Our Way - When we labor in the Word our person must be simple, consecrated, and spiritual. Then when our person is right we must have the proper way to learn what the facts are in the Bible. The facts of the Bible will bring us to inspiration, to truth, and to light.
       
    How to Labor on the Campus - Our labor should be broad and high.  
       
    How to Serve the Lord - The Sense, Nature, and Operation of the Divine Life - Every full-timer must pay attention to the growth in life. Your growth in life will eventually lead you to a maturity in life. Maturity comes from the proper understanding of what life is and how life operates. The divine life we have received includes three things: the divine life with its sense,its nature, and its operation.  
       
    How to Serve the Lord - Three "E's," Three "P's," and Three "C's" - The secret of serving the Lord full-time is to serve according to these three "e's," three "p's," and three "c's." The three "e's" for your person - expectations, exercise, and energized.The three "p's" for your daily life - pursue, perfected, and preach. The three "c's" for your labor - church, co-workers, and companions.  
       
    Principles in Serving the Lord Full-time (Part I) - The reasons and the frustrations of serving full-time.  
       
    Principles in Serving the Lord Full-time (Part II) - Principles to serve properly.  
       
    Serving the Lord by Taking Care of our Person in Life, Truth, and Operation - To serve the Lord is not a simple matter. In order for you to be a proper person to serve the Lord, you have to grow in life, truth, and operation. This requires that you grow in life, come to have a measure of maturity, and learn how to exercise according to that maturity.  
       
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    Secrets of Survival in the Serving Life (Otherwise Known as "The Survival Messages") Introduction  
       
    Survival is for Growth unto Our Measure - Survival is pursuing on in spite of outward discouragement.
       
    Three Pillars for Our Survival - A proper relationship with the apostles,our relationship with the God who is saving you into His purpose and our entire life must be a life of accumulating the riches of Christ.
       
    Receiving Our Savior God's Arrangement in our Environment - God's arrangement is not for us to have an experience, but for us to receive His light.
       
    The Fourth Pillar: Our Life Relationship with the Saints - Beware of natural relationship, seniority, spiritual taste and mutual advantage.
       
    Three Crucial Secrets for the Genuine Life Relationship - Three principles for producing a genuine child.
       
    A Fourth Item Needed to Produce a Genuine Child - Value brothers more than the work.
       
    The Practical Exercise to Raise Up Genuine Children - The practical application of raising up a genuine child.  
       
    The Necessity of a Proper Humanity for our Life-Relationship with the Saints - The crucialness of your humanity for your own spiritual growth.  
       
    Five Warnings Concerning Our Relationships with Others - Being watchful regarding your exercise in the church life.
       
    Honoring God's Administration and His Administrative Arrangement - We need a high realization of both ourselves and all the saints in light of God's Divine Administration.  
       
    Being Faithful to God's Faithfulness - The exercises for us to be in God's divine dispensing.
       
    Honoring the Place and Learning from the Person - Honor a person's place and learn from his person.
       
    Honoring God's Government Concerning Our Place Spiritually and Practically - Learning what God desires for us to learn where He has placed us.
       
    The Church, the Churches, and the Work (1) - Having the Lord's testimony, the saints perfecting, and the Lord's recovery in view.  
       
    The Church, the Churches, and the Work (2) - Labor with God's testimony, the saints perfecting, and the Lord's recovery in view with the goal of our labor being the building up of the Body of Christ.  
       
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    Serving the Church of the Living God as the Organic Body of Christ (1) - The church is an organic Body. As an organic Body, first it must have a physical appearance. If a body lacks a physical appearance, it is but a ghost. A body provides an existence in the physical realm, something by which the host can participate in the sphere of earthly existence. Therefore whenever we talk about the Body, we cannot bypass the local churches.  
       
    Serving the Church of the Living God as the Organic Body of Christ (2) - When we consider the church there are three elements that are crucial. Firstly, the local churches are for the physical existence and manifestation of the Body of Christ. The Body also has a specific content for its growth and function: the divine life. Also for the church to be healthy there must be a third element, the Person of Christ. Therefore each member of the Body must be directly related to Christ.  
       
    Serving the Church of the Living God as the Organic Body of Christ (3) - The church must express Christ as its person. Christ's personality must characterize the church and become the content of the church, and Christ's person must lead the church. If we lack Christ's person and personality, then, honestly speaking, we are just an institution taking part in a movement.  
       
    Serving the Church of the Living God as the Organic Body of Christ (4) - In Spirit there is such a life giving Person to be the reality of the Body. Once we touch this Person, we touch His divinity, which means we touch His divine attributes, such as love, light, holiness and righteousness, and many other things, even including eternity. This living Person is the reality of the church life.  
       
    Serving the Church of the Living God as the Organic Body of Christ (5) - Once a local church comes into existence as the physical expression of the organic Body of Christ, there must be the Spirit as the organic life to be the substance of the church life, and there must also be the person, the personality of Jesus Christ, experienced by all His members. You and I, day by day, must live in and enjoy the Lord's presence, eventually enjoying the Lord's person, living as Christ, and having Christ live out through us.  
       
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    "Brother" - The Highest Place Ordained by God - In the church life there are none besides brothers. And this is the highest status. Any other title among us reveals there is a shortage of truth.  
       
    Being a Brother Versus Being a Worker - Being a brother is the highest place ordained for us by God. This realization should be a safeguard to us. Many, however, disregard their status as brother and seek something else they think to be higher, such as apostle, elder, or "ministering brother."  
       
    Four Crucial Elements and our Four-fold Place - In following the Lord there are four crucial elements: life, ministry, commitment, and fellowship. In life we are brothers. In ministry we are members. In commitment we are slaves. In fellowship we are the Lord's friends. The Lord has placed us in a four-fold place.  
       
    Appreciate Being a Brother (1) - There is the need to more fully appreciate what it is to be a brother. There are four points on this matter that we shall cover in this message. Firstly, being a brother is our place by birth. Secondly, it is our highest exercise by growth. Thirdly, being a brother is the hardest thing for us to learn. Fourthly, it is the greatest manifestation and test to our person.  
       
    Appreciate Being a Brother (2) - To appreciate being a brother is our highest exercise in growth. We shall cover 7 more points in this message. To be a brother we must learn to be for the maturity in life, to live by means of the humanity of Jesus, to exercise in the revelation of the mystery, to carry out the ministry committed to us, to care for the exercise of our operation, to have a healthy daily walk and living, and also to labor effectively.  
       
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    The Way to Handle Crisis - If we want to be healthy, we need to be controlled and exercised. We need to be controlled by three things: Christ, the church, and the proper awareness of the soul-life. Then we must have two exercises. We must exercise to live a normal life that the saints can approve of. And we must exercise to be in the Word, in the spiritual riches, and in the Lord's presence.  
       
    The First Major Crisis - A Deformed Daily Life - In this message we come to what could be considered the most crucial crisis confronting any servant of the Lord. It concerns how your daily life is being formed. Your daily life determines your entire operation.  
       
    Guarding Against the Desires of the Soul-life - As you guard against a deformed daily life by understanding your soul-life, watch out for these five things in particular. Watch out for what fits you. Watch out for what makes you comfortable. Watch out for what satisfies you. Watch out for the desire to be special. Watch out for the desire for accomplishment.  
       
    Further Guarding Against a Deformed Daily Life - The following 5 points will protect you from developing a deformed daily life. First, know your soul-life. Second, don't compromise. Third, be pure. Fourth, be disciplined. Fifth, let the truth guide you in your daily life.  
       
    Preventing a Deformed Daily Life - Two major concerns confronting every serving one: how to prevent the improper things from coming into one's daily life, and how to be rescued after such deformity has already occurred.  
       
    Preventing and Being Rescued from a Deformed Daily Life - The previous points have had to do with our soberness in spiritual things. The second virtue we need to exercise if we are to be protected from an improper daily life is watchfulness.  
       
    The Second Major Crisis - Doing Spiritual Things without Christ - The first major crisis we confront as we serve the Lord full-time is the matter of handling our daily life. Now we come to the second major crisis facing those who serve the Lord full-time: doing spiritual things without Christ.  
       
    How to Grow in a Healthy Manner in our Serving Life - Growing in a healthy manner in our serving life includes avoiding becoming involved with spiritual things without Christ, pursuing spiritual knowledge instead of truth, and not engaging in spiritual activities without organic operation.  
       
    How to Avoid Arriving at a Stature Rather than At Spiritual Maturity - Healthy growth in life should cause us to arrive at spiritual maturity. In our spiritual growth we should begin healthily, continue healthily, and arrive healthily. It is notable, however, that many brothers arrive at a kind of stature in the church life who may lack spiritual maturity.  
       
    The Third Major Crisis - Manifestation - The third crisis is the possibility that our manifestation might surpass the reality of our growth in life.  
       
    Being Manifested by a Healthy Spiritual Operation - A healthy spiritual operation is according to our desire to be manifested, backed up with spiritual understanding, spiritual equipping, and subjective experiences of Christ.  
       
    The Ten Improper Means of Manifestation - We will look at four improper means of manifestation which we should be watchful of in this message. Manifestation based on status of a manner of life, position or place, seniority, and leadership ability.  
       
    The Ten Improper Means of Manifestation (Continued) - In this message we will cover six more improper reasons for manifestation. They are, manifestation based on speaking ability or eloquence; knowledge of the Bible and spiritual books; spiritual exercise; human decency; social status; and ability to use others.
  
       
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