Life Study of the Bible

Peter exhorts us of our need to grow unto salvation and reveals a full salvation comprising of many different phases. Witness Lee opens up the organic aspects of salvation revealed in 1 Peter 2:2-4, and our need to daily experience Christ as both the milk in the word and the living stone for the transformation of our soul.

This week’s highlight is taken from Wednesday’s broadcast., where Witness Lee continues the Life-study in 1 Peter: 1:5-9. We will see how the full salvation of the Triune God is composed of three stages – an initial stage, a progressing stage, and a completing stage and how God’s governmental dealings are used for our perfecting.

Today’s Life-study focuses on 1 Peter 1:10-12. We will see how Peter incorporates the prophecies of the Old Testament prophets and the teaching of the New Testament apostles, and connects them to the Holy Spirit’s application of God’s full salvation to His chosen people.

Why are Christians put into various trials under the divine government of God (1 Peter 1:6-7)? Not only will various trials prove our faith, but also such a proving functions to bring believers into a condition of praise, glory, and honour rather than be put to shame at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Today in the Life-study of 1 Peter, Witness Lee continues in 1 Peter: 1:5-9. We will see how the full salvation of the Triune God is composed of three stages – an initial stage, a progressing stage, and a completing stage and how God’s governmental dealings are used for our perfecting.

The sprinkling of the blood of Jesus brings us into the full enjoyment of God’s New Testament economy. Today, Witness Lee covers 1 Pet. 1:3-5 concerning our regeneration and divine inheritance. This divine inheritance is not merely something related to the future – but rather is our portion today which we can enjoy moment by moment in our spirit.

What are the two levels of wisdom revealed in the New Testament? James presents wisdom (James. 1:5) from the human level by emphasizing Christian perfection whereas Paul presents wisdom from the spiritual level (1 Cor. 1:30) by focusing on Christ, who is the centre of God’s economy. Christians need both levels of wisdom to be proper and complete.

What does it mean for all scripture to be God breathed (2 Tim. 3:16)? A practical understanding of this helps to explain seemingly confusing portions in James writings, which were recorded by God’s inspiration for a particular purpose. Witness Lee focuses on behaving in wisdom in chapter 3:13-18, and contrasts James concept of wisdom with the apostle Pauls.

Witness Lee opens up Acts 21:17-26 which provides crucial context in understanding James point of view. Here we see how James emphasis on the law of Moses reveals his lack of clarity concerning God’s New Testament economy.

Today’s Life-study focuses on James 1:19-27. Witness Lee expounds our need after regeneration to continually receive the implanted Word that is able to nourish, transform and ultimately save our souls.

We need to be perfected in our daily Christian walk and conduct, but it is also possible to be godly and pious but lacking a clear vision of God’s economy. Witness Lee highlights the balance and warning provided by James, and considers practical points in James 1:12-18 on enduring trials and resisting temptations through the divine life imparted by the word of the truth.

Witness Lee focuses on two very critical inward experiences of the divine life that are essential for our Christian living. Instead of living merely according to teachings, miracles or improved behaviour we should live by the sense of the divine life with its nature, and the teaching of the anointing according to the wonderful indwelling person of Christ.

To accomplish God’s central thought, Christ was made as a model, a prototype. Witness Lee opens up how our need is not outward correction but rather for the First-born Son as the model to saturate and spread within the inner being of His sons to bring them to maturity.

Today on Life-study of the Bible Witness Lee focuses on the law of life in Heb. 8:10, as it relates to the central thought of the entire Bible. By working Himself into man as the inner law of life He spreads into the believers’ inward parts to make them His living expression.

Witness expounds a completely new perspective of the law. Not only is the law a set of regulations, crucially it is also God’s testimony whose reality is Christ. Witness expounds a completely new perspective of the law. Not only is the law a set of regulations, crucially it is also God’s testimony whose reality is Christ.