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Elders' Training, Book 10: The Eldership and the God-ordained Way (2)

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
The messages in this book were given by Brother Witness Lee to the elders in Anaheim, California. Chapters 1 and 2 were previously published in The Present Turmoil in the Lord’s Recovery and the Direction of the Lord’s Move Today and were given on November 26, 1989. Chapters 3 through 6 were previously published in The Intrinsic Problem in the Lord’s Recovery Today and Its Scriptural Remedy and were given on March 9 and 10, 1990. Chapter 7 was previously published in A Brief Presentation of the Lord’s Recovery and was given on July 7, 1990. Chapter 8 was previously published in a booklet entitled How to Have a Definite Beginning of the God-ordained Way in a Local Church and was given on July 8, 1990. Chapters 9 and 10 were previously published in The God-ordained Way and the Eldership and were given on January 3 and 4, 1991.
The present turmoil in the Lord’s recovery    ch.1
Outline
Turmoil among the children of God
Turmoil among the children of Israel in the Old Testament, as recorded in the book of Numbers
Turmoil among the Lord’s people in the New Testament
The present turmoil in the Lord’s recovery
Instigated by the evil one
Carried out by the perverted ones
With the winds of teaching
A test to the faithful ones
A purification to the recovery
The proper way to take care of the problems in the Lord’s recovery
With a genuine and sincere concern for the Lord’s recovery
Through the proper and common fellowship of the Body
Avoiding any attempt at conspiracy
Holding to the unique goal
According to the Scriptures
The hidden divisive factors in the past
The intention to do an extra work in the unique work of the Lord’s recovery
The tendency to keep separate territories
The way of not having one’s work mingled with others’ work
The hidden expectation of being a prominent figure in the Lord’s work
The negligence regarding the keeping of the one accord in the Lord’s recovery
The direction of the Lord’s move today    ch.2
Outline
Our God being living, our Lord moving, and the Spirit working
The Lord’s move today
The direction of the Lord’s move today
The genuine oneness of the Body    ch.3
God’s promise to crush Satan under the feet of the local churches
The intrinsic problem in the Lord’s recovery today
The Body being the genuine oneness
The oneness of the Lord’s aspiration and prayer
The oneness of all the believers in Christ in the Father’s name by His divine life
In the Father’s name
By the Father’s divine life
The oneness of all the believers in Christ in the Triune God through sanctification by the reality of the word
In the Triune God
Through sanctification by the reality of the word
Through the reality of the word
The oneness of all the believers in Christ in the divine glory for the expression of the processed and mingled Triune God
In the divine glory
For the expression of the processed and mingled Triune God
The oneness of the Spirit
This oneness in actuality being composed of four factors by two means with one goal
Composed of four factors
By one faith and one baptism as the two means
With one hope as the one goal
Making the Body an object of seven attributes of oneness
The oneness to accomplish the aspiration and prayer of the Lord
The oneness possessed by all the believers in Christ, who have received the Spirit as the seal of God’s possession (the church) and the pledge of our inheritance (the Triune God)
The oneness to be kept diligently by all the believers
The oneness partly of the faith and partly of the full knowledge of the Son of God
The oneness to which all the believers in Christ need to go on and at which all the believers need to arrive
The oneness that needs the full growth of the new man and the measure of the stature of the fullness (the Body) of Christ
No longer little children tossed by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching in the sleight of men, in craftiness with a view to a system of error
All growing up into the Head, Christ, in all things by holding to truth in love and being built up in the organic Body of Christ by each one part functioning in its measure
The oneness to fulfill the aspiration and prayer of the Lord
The proper one accord in the church    ch.4
The one accord being the practice of the oneness
The attributes of the oneness of the church as the unique Body of Christ
The proper one accord in the church being the practice of the genuine oneness of the Body
Being in one spirit, with one soul
Being attuned in the same mind and in the same opinion
The base of the practice of the proper one accord in the church
The identity of the churches
The seven golden lampstands, symbols of the seven churches, being all identical
The seven churches differing in the business affairs of their administration
The seven churches being the same normally in the positive things
The seven churches differing abnormally only in the negative things
The seven epistles being written as one book to the seven churches
Each of the seven epistles being addressed by the Lord to a particular church in a certain locality
All the seven epistles being closed as the speaking of the Spirit to all the churches
The apostle teaching the same thing in all the churches
An epistle written to a certain church being also for other churches
Teaching differently being prohibited
All the churches being the same in their custom and practice
The same in custom
The same in practice
The one solution being the decree for all the churches
The gentile churches imitating the Jewish churches
All the books of the New Testament, as one New Testament, being written to all the saints and all the churches universally
All the churches through the centuries needing to imitate all the churches unveiled in the New Testament
A strong encouragement to the practice of the proper one accord
A discouragement to the one accord, encouraging and promoting division
Spirituality or scriptural teaching not to be used as a cloak for division
Saying “I am of Christ” being condemned by the Scriptures
Taking the enjoyment of Christ as an excuse for separation or for division also being condemned
Preaching Christ because of envy and strife being condemned by the Scriptures
Using teachings that are seemingly scriptural as reasons for separation or for division also being condemned
The catholic hierarchy
The brethren “federation”
Differences in the degree of maturity in life
Intentional differences
Unity with variety and variety versus uniformity
A concluding word
The tests of the oneness of the Body and of the one accord in the church    ch.5
I. The test of the problem of language — Acts 6:1-6
II. The test of Peter’s contact with the Gentiles — Acts 11:1-18
III. The test of the heretical teaching concerning circumcision as a requirement for salvation — Acts 15:1-31
IV. The test of a sharp contention between the two co-workers, Paul and Barnabas, concerning taking Mark along with them — Acts 15:36-40
V. The test of those who make divisions and causes of stumbling contrary to the apostles’ teaching, deceiving people by smooth words and flattering speech — Rom. 16:17-18
VI. The test of divisions and strifes among the saints in exalting gifted persons — 1 Cor. 1:10-13
VII. The test of some fleshly Corinthian believers being puffed up as though the apostle were not coming to them — 1 Cor. 4:18
VIII. The test of a Corinthian brother who lived in gross sin and would not repent — 1 Cor. 5:1-5, 9-13
IX. The test of a brother having a case against another brother — 1 Cor. 6:1, 6-8
X. The test of the Corinthian believers examining Paul as to his qualification for being an apostle — 1 Cor. 9:3
XI. The test of the believers partaking of the Lord’s table unworthily — 1 Cor. 11:19-22, 27
XII. The test of some believers in Corinth saying that there is no resurrection of the dead — 1 Cor. 15:12
XIII. The test of the disobedience of some of the Corinthian believers — 2 Cor. 10:2-10
XIV. The test of some preaching another Jesus, ministering a different spirit or a different gospel, yet the believers in Corinth bearing well with them — 2 Cor. 11:4
XV. The test of some fleshly Corinthian believers charging that the apostle, being crafty, took advantage of them with guile through titus, who took care of the gifts for the Jewish believers — 2 Cor. 12:16-18A
XVI. The test of some Jewish believers troubling the Galatian believers and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ with a different gospel, that is, the Judaic observances of the law — Gal. 1:6-7
XVII. The test of Peter being hypocritical in relation to the truth of the gospel due to His fearing of the believers of the circumcision — Gal. 2:12-13
XVIII. The test of a brother being overtaken in some offense — Gal. 6:1
XIX. The test of some preaching Christ because of envy and strife, out of rivalry, not purely, thinking to raise up affliction in the apostle Paul’s bonds — Phil. 1:15, 17
XX. The test of two sisters, euodias and syntyche, being different in their thinking — Phil. 4:2
XXI. The test of wrong teaching, either by spirit or by word or by a letter in the name of the apostles, concerning the day of the Lord’s coming — 2 Thes. 2:2
XXII. The test of some walking among the believers disorderly, working at nothing, but being busybodies — 2 Thes. 3:11
XXIII. The test of certain ones teaching different things, occupying themselves with things other than God’s economy, which is in faith — 1 Tim. 1:3-4
XXIV. The test of some departing from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons by means of the hypocrisy of men who speak lies — 1 Tim. 4:1-2
XXV. The test of an elder committing sin and being accused by the believers — 1 Tim. 5:19-20
XXVI. The test of all the believers in Asia turning away from Paul — 2 Tim. 1:15
XXVII. The test of the profane word being spread like gangrene by the party of Hymenaeus and Philetus, who misaimed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection had already taken place, and overthrew the faith of some — 2 Tim. 2:17-18
XXVIII. The test of men being lovers of self, lovers of money, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having an outward form of godliness but having denied its power, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith — 2 Tim. 3:2-8
XXIX. The test of demas having loved the present age, forsaking Paul — 2 Tim. 4:10
XXX. The test of Alexander the coppersmith having done many evil things against Paul — 2 Tim. 4:14
XXXI. The test of a factious, sectarian man — Titus 3:10-11
XXXII. The test of any one among the believers being led astray from the truth — James 5:19-20
XXXIII. The test of false teachers among the believers who secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the master who bought them, and many following their licentiousness, because of whom the way of the truth will be reviled; in covetousness, with fabricated words, they make merchandise of the believers — 2 Pet. 2:1-3
XXXIV. The test of mockers mocking according to their own lusts, saying, “where is the promise of his coming?” — 2 Pet. 3:3-4
XXXV. The test of many antichrists having come — 1 John 2:18
XXXVI. The test of the Spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ having come in the flesh — 1 John 4:1-6
XXXVII. The test of a believer seeing a brother sinning a sin not unto death — 1 John 5:16
XXXVIII. The test of many deceivers, as antichrists, going out into the world, not confessing Jesus CHrist coming in the flesh but going beyond the teaching of Christ — 2 John 7, 9-11
XXXIX. The test of diotrephes, who loved to be first in the church in which gaius was — 3 John 9, 1
XL. The test of those who have gone in the way of cain, rushed out in the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah, going on according to their own lusts, flattering persons for the sake of advantage — Jude 11, 16
XLI. The test of some in Ephesus calling themselves apostles and not being such — Rev. 2:1A, 2
XLII. The test of the church in Ephesus leaving its first love — Rev. 2:4
XLIII. The test of the church in Pergamos dwelling in the world, where Satan’s dwelling and throne are — Rev. 2:12A, 13
XLIV. The test of some in Pergamos holding the teaching of Balaam, who caused the Sons of Israel to stumble in eating idol sacrifices and committing fornication — Rev. 2:14
XLV. The test of some in Pergamos holding the teaching of the Nicolaitans — Rev. 2:15
XLVI. The test of the church in Thyatira tolerating the woman Jezebel, who taught and led the Lord’s slaves astray to commit fornication and to eat idol sacrifices — Rev. 2:18A, 20
XLVII. The test of the church in Sardis having a name that it was living, but being dead — Rev. 3:1
XLVIII. The test of the church in Sardis with the remaining things being about to die — Rev. 3:2A
XLIX. The test of the church in Sardis having its works not found by Christ completed before God — Rev. 3:2B
L. The test of the church in Laodicea being neither cold nor hot — Rev. 3:14A, 15-16
LI. The test of the church in Laodicea boasting, “I am wealthy and have become rich and have need of nothing,” not knowing that it was wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked — Rev. 3:17
A concluding word
The way to face the present divisive situation in the Lord’s recovery    ch.6
The practical truths versus the dissenting accusations
The dissenting accusation — the change of the nature of the Lord’s recovery
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — the emphasizing of the building up of the ministry more than the local churches
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — a great effort and promotion to unite the saints and the churches around a certain leader and organization
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — the pressuring of all the saints and the churches to conform to the ministry in full uniformity
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — the writing of the letter by the elders concerning the one accord
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — the centralization of the churches and the work
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — a pervasive control over the church
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — the training center and the affiliation under one leadership
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — exalting Brother Lee above what is written
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — Brother Lee and his ministry having been made a great issue and factor of division
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — the relationship with the saints and with the church being made to depend on the relationship to Brother Lee
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — the application of the church ground in a divisive and sectarian way
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — our attitude toward other Christians
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — an overstressing and distortion of the teaching concerning deputy authority
The practical truth
The dissenting accusation — the emphasizing of methods more than the inner anointing, and external big success more than the experience of the inner life
The practical truth
The way to face the divisive situation
To pay full attention to the truth concerning the church as the Body of Christ and as the house and kingdom of God
To keep the truth at any cost
To exercise to quarantine
The divisive ones
The heretical ones
The fornicators
A concluding word
Divisions testing and approving the believers
Not a matter of being right or wrong but a matter of keeping or not keeping the oneness
To remain neutral not being good for the building up but for the destruction of the Body of Christ
To keep the truth needing the overcoming of personal affection
The Lord’s recovery being not only through life but even the more of the truth
To walk in the light of the judgment seat of Christ
The fellowship of the churches, the nature, ground, and condition of a local church, the factors of a denomination, and the discerning of the one Body    ch.7
The fellowship of the churches in the Lord’s recovery
The fellowship of the Body of Christ
The Body of Christ being uniquely one universally
The fellowship of the Body of Christ also being uniquely one universally
The fellowship of the apostles
The fellowship for the Lord’s unique recovery
The need for the fellowship among the churches
To keep the universal oneness of the Body of Christ
The fellowship of the local churches
The local churches being many in different localities
The local churches being locally kept away from one another but not being divided universally
The local churches needing to fellowship with all the genuine local churches on the whole earth
Every local church needing to receive all kinds of Genuine believers in Christ
A believer to be kept away from the fellowship of a local church because of only three things
Being divisive
Being heretical
Committing gross sins and living in them
How to deal with the divisions
Considering them divisive sects
Not recommending any believer in the local churches to have any share in the divisions
Not rejecting any believer who does not promote anything divisive
Considering as divisive and rejecting anyone who promotes sectarian divisions
The nature, ground, and condition of a local church
The nature
The church of God, possessing the divine nature of God
The churches of Christ, being in the element of Christ
The ground
The genuine oneness of the Body of Christ — the oneness of the Spirit
In the limit of the boundary and jurisdiction of a locality — the ground of locality
The condition
The factors of a denomination (sect)
A special teaching
A special fellowship
A special name
Any of the three factors being adequate to make a division
The discerning of the one Body
How to have a definite beginning of the God-ordained way in a local church    ch.8
Taking the opportunity to make the God-ordained way clear to the congregation of the church
Not pushing the congregation to take the God-ordained way
The leading ones and some of the leading seeking ones taking the lead to practice, in a definite way, each step of the God-ordained way
Practicing the priesthood of the gospel according to the God-ordained way    ch.9
Contacting people by ourselves directly, personally, and continually to bear remaining fruit
A simple way to bear remaining fruit
Laboring in a personal way for the increase of the church
The need in the eldership in the God-ordained way and the need for more fellowship among the churches in the Lord’s recovery    ch.10
The practice of the local churches depending upon the apostles’ teaching and the eldership
Learning to preach the gospel and to prophesy in the new way
The fellowship of the churches in the Lord’s recovery

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