Religion is a field, a realm, for hypocrisy to prevail." Nowhere is hypocrisy more prevailing than in religion. Perfecting Training, Chapter 54, Section 1, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 0-87083-518-1 As long as you make a spiritual thing only a section of your daily living and not your whole daily living, that is a performance. In one of the ways for living, you don't apply the spiritual teachings to your life. When we say something is religion, we also mean that you have more than one way to live in your human living. ![]() Now I would add something more to this definition of religion. "Religion is to do something for God, to worship God, yet without.Life-Study of Galatians, message 6, section 1, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 0-7363-0961-6 "If we are short of grace and lack the wisdom to handle a particular situation, we may need to be silent.Life-Study of Luke, Chapter 36 Section 2, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 0-7363-1202-1 If we love money, we love something that should not exist." In this universe there should not be such a thing as money. Actually, as far as God is concerned, money should not exist. Therefore, money is unrighteous both in position and existence. Money is outside the kingdom of God it is in the world of Satan. Life-Study of 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus and Philemon, Chapter 24, Section 1, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, (.) by the divine life we can have the highest human living even in the worst social system!" If the saints could live such a human life in the worst social system imaginable, then we should be able to live such a life in any kind of circumstances today. We realize, however, that Paul used the worst social system as an opportunity to charge the believers to live a Jesusly human life in the midst of it. "Some have criticized Paul for not trying to reform the social system.50, of Witness Lee - BY Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 0-87083-155-0 "Efforts at self-vindication are a sign of their selfcondemnation.".52, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 0-7363-0755-9 "The more spiritual we become, the more normal and human we will be."."The second generation did not pass through as much as the first generation did, but they received the benefit of what the first generation experienced.". ![]() Life-Study of Revelation, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 978-0-7363-0657-7 The local churches are the expression of the Body, the Body is the realization of Christ as the life-giving Spirit, and Christ is the embodiment of God." Now the Body of Christ is expressed in all the local churches, for the local churches are the expressions of the universal church (1:11-12). The Spirit is the very constituent of the church which is the Body of Christ, His fullness (Eph. 2:9), and Christ is realized and experienced as the Spirit (John 14:16-17 1 Cor.
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