Collected Works of Watchman Nee, The (Set 3) Vol. 57: The Resumption of Watchman Nee's Ministry

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33

Section one talks in Foochow, September 1947

The mercy of God    _ch.1

Everything depending on the mercy of God
The need to deal with the mind, the emotion, and the will — being tempered under the discipline of the spirit
The way of the church — looking to God's mercy

On not being stumbled    _ch.2

Not being stumbled by the Lord
Not being stumbled by anything or anyone
The way to avoid being stumbled — laying aside the outward appearances and realizing the spiritual reality

Section two messages in Shanghai, April — May 1948

The way of our service today and its crucial points    _ch.3

(Co-workers' meeting)
Understanding the two aspects of the condition of the church
Catching up with God's present work to maintain the testimony of the Body
Submitting to authority and receiving the riches of the members
A standard Christian being one who bears the Body testimony
Having the reality of the Body of Christ and experiencing it
A believer dropping what he is holding, and experiencing what he has received positionally

The recovery of the Body and the authority of the ministry    _ch.4

(Co-workers' meeting)
Concerning the truth
Not arranging the sequence of truth according to one's personal experience
The two sides of the truth
Not sacrificing God's word on account of our own experience
Not taking what we see today as the whole truth
The need for a clear vision of the Body of Christ
Concerning the practice
Finding the ones to submit to
Fellowshipping and coordinating together
Being delivered from the self
Not being individualistic
Submission to the authority of the ministry
Ministry being the authority
The need to see one's limitations
Submission to the ministry being submission to God
Submission being a joyful matter
Pursuing submission
Honoring the authority that God has established
Submission perfecting ourselves and others
Submission bringing in the building of the church
The way of the work today
Going on with the Lord
The testimony of the local church in an age of desolation
Maintaining the Lord's testimony with the ministry of the church
Expressing the reality of Christ's Body in the local church

The way of the church    _ch.5

(Co-workers' Meeting)
The types in the Old Testament
The tabernacle and the temple typifying two aspects of the church
The tabernacle in the wilderness being temporary and movable, whereas the temple in the holy land being eternal and stable
The tabernacle typifying God's church on earth, whereas the temple typifying the church as Christ's unique Body
The tabernacle being in ruins and the ark wandering, typifying the desolation of the church
The reality in the New Testament
The normal condition of the church at the beginning — bearing a testimony of oneness in all the places
The desolation of the church
God's eyes upon the spiritual reality of the church in the age of its desolation
The way for our work today
Realizing the limitation of an individual and being delivered from individualism
Submitting to the authority of the ministry
Not being interested in interfering with others, but always seeking help from others
Submitting to the arrangement of the Head and receiving the riches from the members
Accepting the laying on of hands — handing oneself over to accept God's assigned authority
The principle of the work — the co-workers handing themselves over
The outlet of the work — handing oneself over to the Body to be a three-dimensional vessel
The direction of the work — from the center to the circumference
A testimony

God's work of recovery (1)    _ch.6

(Co-workers' meeting)
The beginning of the recovery — Martin Luther
The recovery of voluntary poverty
The deficiency of the reformation
The recovery of faith without a clear understanding of justification
Bringing in national churches
The raising up of independent churches
The recovery of the equality of believers and the truth of baptism
The recovery of the inner life
The raising up of the Puritans
The recovery of the Brethren
The heavenly calling of the church
The oneness of the church
The raising up of John Wesley — the recovery of sanctification by faith
The recovery of sanctification by consecration
The keswick convention and others
The recovery of the crucifixion of the old man
The recovery of the truth of the cross
The recovery of the truth of resurrection
The recovery of the reality of the kingdom
The welsh revival
The kingdom being to gain ground for God
The kingdom being a matter of spiritual warfare
The recovery of the reality of the Body of Christ
Messages concerning the Body of Christ
The Body life
The proper Body life not yet realized
The responsibility of the recovery today being on our shoulders
The last recovery — the coordination in the Body and the manifestation of authority
Taking the way of submission
Having the Body consciousness
Leading in the Body
The judgment of the Body being more reliable
Learning to submit to authority
Protection and blessings in the Body
Being an absolute person
The impact of the gospel
The way to go on
As consecrated ones, living fully for God

God's work of recovery (2)    _ch.7

(Co-workers' meeting)
Seeing the Body life
The Holy Spirit being the starting point of the work
The work being carried out in the Body
The Body being the test of spirituality
Accepting the limitations and the coordination in the Body
Submission to authority being submission to the head
Accepting the ministry rather than repeating the ministry
Every member enjoying the riches of the Body
Coordination dealing with the self
Living in the reality of the Body life
No local church becoming a head church
The starting point of the work being the oneness of the Body
The two lines of the work
Organization being the result of the lack of life
The local churches not becoming a method
Concerning "handing over"
Handing over being a make-up lesson and not a teaching
A proper start for the new believers
The ministers of the gospel
The need for the work of the Holy Spirit in the gospel
The center of the gospel being God
A minister of the gospel being one who lives the gospel
The need for impact in the gospel
The ministry being a matter of the inward burden
Concerning the move of the local churches
The need today
Committing oneself to the Body
Realizing the supply of the Body
Principles of offering
Material offerings — not a matter of amount, but a question of where the heart lies
Offering up our occupation — taking up occupations approved by God
A prayer

Testimonies of co-workers and comments    _ch.8

(Co-workers' meeting)
Not being controlled by emotions
Being direct and simple in one's mind
Having a definite burden in our spirit and speaking into others' spirit
The need for our speaking to be short and direct
The need for a strong spirit to render others the practical help

The whole body serving and the recovery of authority    _ch.9

(Co-workers' meeting)
Open to receive the supply of the ministry
Understanding the ministry and the ministries
Gaining all the one-talented ones
Recovering the authority and dealing with the flesh
Uplifting the spiritual standard and establishing church authority
Submitting to authority and coordinating in service
Learning to listen to others and to be submissive in everything
Perfecting and edifying those who are rich and in high positions
The recovery of the whole church preaching the gospel
Taking the way of the whole church serving
Perfecting the saints and committing the work to them
Allowing God to have a way among us
Ushering in the service of the church

The leading of the Body and the whole Body serving    _ch.10

(Co-workers' meeting)
Concerning leading
The leading of the conscience and the leading of the church
Personal leading being a matter of the sense of the inner life
Leading concerning the way in the service being a corporate matter
Leading being a matter in the Body
God speaking to the whole Body
The rejection of the leading in the Body being the rejection of all leadings
Taking the corporate leading being wiser than taking individual leadings
The leading in the Body cutting short an individual's journey
Everyone functioning and everyone submitting to authority
The service in the Holy Spirit and God's light being found in the Body
The whole Body serving
Church service being absolutely under the sovereignty of the Holy Spirit
The whole Body serving being the greatest recovery today
The loss and the recovery of the priesthood
God securing the place of rest through the priests
God calling the Israelites to be a kingdom of priests
The Israelites having failed, the priesthood becoming the special privilege of the tribe of Levi
In the New Testament, God intending the church to be the kingdom of priests
The church today not having arrived at God's goal yet
The way today being for the whole Body to serve
The whole Body taking the gospel as our center
Realizing the glory and grace of serving God

The treasure in the earthen vessel and the principle of Jerusalem    _ch.11

(Co-workers' meeting)
Concerning receiving a person for the bread-breaking meeting
The New Testament ministry — the treasure in the earthen vessel
Not mending or improving
Not pretending or imitating
Being simple and strong in spirit
Coordination among the co-workers
By the authority of the Holy Spirit
Keeping the principle of Jerusalem — working from the center to the circumference
Co-workers coming together to the center of the work
Every believer receiving spiritual education
Not replacing but leading
Humbling oneself to give to the poor

The absoluteness of the truth and the relationship between the Body and its members    _ch.12

(Co-workers' meeting)
The absoluteness of the truth
Truth bearing no relationship with man's condition
The truth being the unique standard
The truth not being affected or changed by human factors
The relationship between the Body and the members
The starting point being the Body
Having fellowship in the Body
The accepting and exercise of authority
Report of the work

The Body in 1 Corinthians 12 and the way of the work    _ch.13

(Co-workers' meeting)
The Body in 1 Corinthians 12
One Body, one Spirit
The power of the Holy Spirit being in the Body
Standing on the ground of the Body
The riches in the Body
Love in the Body
Love being expressed only in the Body
Loving in the Body
The way of the church and the way of the work
Taking the Jerusalem line — the church and the work being one
Consolidating the work and spreading the fruit
Report of the work
The building of the big meeting hall
Everyone begetting and nourishing
Caring for the poor
The new believers' meeting
A model of the work
Migration

Money and occupations    _ch.14

(Co-workers' meeting)
The solid consecration — handing oneself over to the church
The thorough consecration — involving money and occupations
Money
The relationship between God, all things, and money
God making from one all things, whereas Satan unifying all things through money
Satan withstanding God through mammon and usurping man's worship through mammon
Being delivered from mammon to serve God
Overcoming mammon to have spiritual power
Working only to sustain our living, not to make money
Occupations
God having ordained that man take up occupations that involve manual labor
Rejecting occupations that do not increase the value of goods
Occupations having much to do with God's testimony
Offering up ourselves and our occupations to God
The long-term, normal way — providing for those of one's own household and accepting the arrangements made by the church
The whole Body coordinating together for the accomplishment of God's will
A testimony of the revival in the church in Chefoo
Coordination between the working saints and the co-workers
On being the wise stewards in material riches
First handing ourselves over and then our money
Paying a serious price and coordinating together

The desolation of the church and the advance of the church    _ch.15

(Church conference)
The desolation of the church
Beginning from the time of the apostles
Desolation continuing until now
The advance of the church
The age of the Fathers until the time of Luther's reformation
The reformation until now
The continuation of the recovery of the church
Fleeing dishonoring things and taking the way of the recovery
The types of the recovery of the church
A prayer

Dealing with mammon and serving God    _ch.16

(Co-workers' meeting)
Making money being unbecoming of a Christian's standing
Rejecting occupations of a purely commercial nature
The nature and substance of money being unrighteous
The way to deal with money
Returning money that comes by unrighteous means
Avoiding occupations that do not increase the value of goods
Giving up occupations that contain elements of danger or temptations
Fellowship concerning Brother Nee's operation of his pharmaceutical business
Brother Lee's fellowship
Brother Nee's fellowship

Fellowship and exhortations    _ch.17

(Co-workers' meeting)
Individuals handing over resulting in the Body taking over
Sister Ruth Lee's fellowship and testimony
Requirements of a worker
A proper and pure spirit
Waiting for confirmation
"Offer up yourselves''

The service of the whole Body    _ch.18

(Co-workers' meeting)
All redeemed ones needing to serve God
The history of the priesthood and its changes
God's salvation being to obtain a kingdom of priests
The degradation of the Israelites resulting in a kingdom of priests becoming a tribe of priests
In the New Testament, God's desire being for the church to be a kingdom of priests
The recovery of the universal priesthood
All the saved ones serving God
A person needing to forsake everything to serve God as soon as He is saved
The whole Body consecrating, ushering in a thorough service
The only service that counts being the Body service
Full coordination bringing in the Body service
Consecration bringing in singleness in service
Serving God being the highest glory
God honoring us and granting us the favor
Serving God being to our profit and being the result of the Lord's dynamic salvation
The need in service and the way of service
A strong testimony producing a strong result

Things that a co-worker should pay attention to    _ch.19

(Co-workers' meeting)
Taking care of one's standing in contacting the saints
Being based on spiritual relationships only
Rejecting any friendship
Not falling into others' weaknesses
Learning to be led away to the lowly
Keeping a distance from the rich ones
It being a shame to have selective fellowship
Learning to listen to others
Listening to others being a basic qualification of the workers
Being quiet within and not having one's own words
Touching others' spirit with the spirit
Learning to speak accurately
Not speaking carelessly or loosely and not being double-tongued
Not speaking from feelings
Only an accurate person being able to receive light from the Bible
The appointment of elders
Concerning the physical needs of the co-workers
Taking simple luggage when traveling
Eating what others serve
Learning to overcome our bodies in our dwelling
Knowing how to live in abundance — taking only what one needs
Concerning receiving gifts
Accepting in love and sharing with others
No need to give others gifts in return
Testimony and exhortations

The whole Body serving    _ch.20

(Co-workers' meeting)
God's salvation and demands being the same today as at the beginning
The degradation and the recovery of the church
The Body testimony being God's final recovery
The church being built upon the universal priesthood
Not the service of the ministers, but the service of the church
Not individuals preaching the gospel, but the church preaching the gospel
The whole church involved in the care of the new believers
The way for the whole Body to rise up to serve
All the one-talented ones being put to use
Recovering the authority of the church to deal with the flesh
Everyone handing over himself, everyone working, and everyone submitting to authority
Everyone needing the training
Migration
The working saints offering up their material riches
All mystical things becoming tangible and practicable
The Lord being after absolute ones
A prayer

Deliverance from mammon and ministry and authority    _ch.21

(Co-workers' meeting)
Delivered from mammon to serve God
Deliverance from mammon being the basic qualification for one to serve God
Money being Satan's means to unify all things
Satan usurping man's worship through money
The only way to serve God being to be delivered from mammon
Ministry and authority
Concerning the ascertaining of ministry
Concerning pursuing the gifts
The ministry being constituted of the death of Jesus, whereas the gifts being bestowed upon us outwardly by the Holy Spirit
The church needing life ministry more than spiritual gifts
Gifts being what one uses, whereas ministry being the person Himself

The exercise of authority in the Body and the Body-consciousness    _ch.22

(Co-workers' meeting)
The exercise of authority in the Body
Being restricted in our speaking
Not speaking reviling words
Withstanding reviling words
The example of Michael
Reviling words damaging the Body
The need to know the Body
Learning not to be the head
Submitting to the authority of the Head, and being the authority one to another
Ministry being authority
Those who are in authority not interfering with others
Only those having been dealt with by the Lord and who know the Lord's mind being able to be the authority
An additional word
Not being a pretender to the throne
The Body-consciousness
The Body-consciousness — submitting to the authority of the Head and fellowshipping with the Body
The Body testimony — taking the Head as the authority and being one with all the saints
The way to have the Body-consciousness — dealing with individualism
On seeing the Body
To be obedient, to be taught, and to not assume headship

Voluntary poverty and submission to authority    _ch.23

(Co-workers' meeting)
Voluntary poverty
Deliverance from mammon to serve God
Voluntary poverty as a result of the Lord's salvation
It being difficult for a rich man to enter God's kingdom
Mammon being an idol
The testimony of voluntary poverty
Dealing with mammon to take care of the church's need
Money having to go before one can experience deliverance
No excess through much gathering and no lack through little gathering
Offering up everything and keeping only what one needs
Giving to the poor for the purpose of being delivered from the power of mammon
Concerning submission to the authority of the Body
First finding out the deputy authority
Submission without any preference
Submission to authority being the nature of the Lord's life
Learning submission in the church
Submission to the government

Brother Nee's word of farewell to Brother K. H. Weigh    _ch.24

(Co-workers' meeting)

Brokenness and ministry    _ch.25

(Co-workers' meeting)
Concerning the one talent in the Bible
Concerning coordination in the Body
The need for arrangements
Submission helping a person to break through his individual limitations
Concerning following the ministry of the age
Seeing the ministry of the age
Forsaking the past ministries
All being a matter of God's mercy
Concerning the content of the ministry
The outward man being broken, and the inward life being released
The outward man being broken for the inward man to be released
The release of our inward man to touch others' inward man
The extent of the outward man being broken determining the amount of ministry one has
No short cut
The need for the strongest point to be broken
God's mercy
Having a deeper knowledge of the Lord's life through the Lord's dealings
Passing through the dealings to know the riches of the Lord's life
Paying a high price for the Lord to have a way

Report on the work (1)    _ch.26

(Co-workers' meeting)
Putting the Jerusalem principle into practice
Perfecting the believers
Conducting trainings to produce standard Christians
Having basic lessons and receiving the same teachings
The workers needing to be living and full of life
Recovering the literature work
The whole Body serving
Preaching the gospel
Mobilizing all the brothers and sisters
Not being negligent and not being covetous for gain
Everyone participating
Gospel visitation and visitation of the new believers
Being baptized as soon as one is saved
The whole church working, bringing increase in quantity and quality
Teaching others to serve God properly and conscientiously
The perfecting of the new believers
Conducting the new believers' meetings by districts
Those who are absent needing to receive make-up lessons
Caring for the poor
The Lord's commandment
A practice of the church in the time of revival
The normal work of the church
The arrangement of personnel
Other matters
The offering of material riches
Concerning the receiving of co-workers — the need for letters of recommendation

Report on the work (2)    _ch.27

(Co-workers' meeting)
Arrangements concerning the future of the co-workers
Understanding the meaning of handing over oneself, and having the reality of it
Everything done in the fellowship of the church and for the benefit of the gospel
Concerning money
Four things concerning the work
The need for suitable meeting halls in different places
The need for the publication of the magazines
The need of the training with the hospitality
Grasping the best opportunity to offer up everything for the gospel
Concerning the money received
Maintaining a balance
Determining and acknowledging the co-workers
Witness Lee's fellowship
The gospel work in Foochow
The campus work in Shanghai
The campus work in Nanking
Watchman Nee's fellowship

A prayer for the gospel    _ch.28

(Church prayer meeting)

A talk with those who are engaged in business    _ch.29

(Church conference)
Meeting God by ascending
Still a handful
A talk to those who are engaged in business and who have handed themselves over
Not being unequally yoked with the unbelievers
Learning to coordinate one with another
Learning from the failure of the past
Being delivered from riches
The need of money to match the need of the gospel
The need for a more thorough consecration

Testimonies by the saints and words of exhortation    _ch.30

(Church meeting)

The relationship between the church and the work, the meaning and authority of the church, and identification with the church    _ch.31

(Co-workers' meeting)
The relationship between the church and the work
The church being local and the work being regional
Work being divided into regions, but the fellowship being one
The elders being responsible for the church, and the apostles being responsible for the work
How to handle finances
The meaning and the sphere of the church
The two aspects of the church
The two aspects of the universal church
Maintaining the local testimony and God's testimony on earth as well
Learning to be one
The authority of the church
The authority of the church being with the elders, whereas the authority of the work being with the apostles
Oneness with the general church bringing in authority
The authority of the apostles
Submitting to the authority assigned by the Head
The meaning of being one with the church
The church not being a matter of numbers
There being oneness with the church only by being dealt with and by being in the Holy Spirit
Being dealt with to have the Body consciousness, and being identified with the Body
Identification with the church
Submission to the discipline of the Holy Spirit bringing in identification
Identification with the Head being mystical, whereas identification with the Body being practical
Identification with the Head without identification with the Body being to live in deceit

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