Outlines of Words of Farewell to Graduates of FTTA from Brother Witness Lee

Remember: The Church is Always One Universally and Locally!

1. One with the church -- John 17:11, 21-23.
2. Submissive to the leading ones -- Heb. 13:17.
3. Loving all the saints -- John 13:34.
4. Coordinating with all the members in one spirit -- Phil. 1:27a.
5. No labeling.
6. No formality.
7. No legality.
8. Burning in spirit and fanning into flame the gift of God -- Rom. 12:11; 2 Tim. 1:6.
9. Not carrying out a "work."
10. But living a daily life of:
    1. Seeking and saving sinners -- Luke 10:2, 6; John 15:16.
    2. Cherishing and nourishing the new believers -- 1 Thes. 2:7; John 21:15.
    3. Teaching and perfecting the saints, by informal group meetings, to build up the Body -- 1 Thes. 2:11; Eph. 4:12.
    4. Prophesying, speaking for and speaking forth the Lord, in the church meetings, to build up the church -- 1 Cor. 14:3-5.
11. Avoiding discord (cf. Phil. 4:2), separation (cf. Acts 15:37-39), and division (cf. 1 Cor 1:10).
12. Striving together with the saints with one soul in the faith of the gospel -- Phil. 1:27b.

A Departing Word to the Full-time Trainees of the Spring Term 1994

1. A reminder:
   1. The purpose of the training:
      1. To buid up the trainees in Christ in the growth of His life unto maturity -- Eph. 4:15; Col. 1:28.
      2. To equip the trainees in the realization of the divine truths according to the Scriptures by the revelation of the Holy Spirit -- 2 Tim. 3:16-17; 1 Tim. 2:4; 2 Pet. 3:18.
      3. To raise up the trainees in the cultivation of their spiritual capacity in the preaching of the gospel, the nourishing of the young believers, the perfecting of the saints, and the prophesying of the word of God for the building up of the local churches, consummating in the building up of the Body of Christ -- Matt. 28:19; 1 Thes. 2:7; Eph. 4:12; 1 Cor. 14:1.
   2. The goal of the training:
      1. To reach the highest peak of the divine revelation -- God becoming a man that man may become God.
      2. To reach the high peak of today's Zion (the overcomers) in today's Jerusalem (the church) -- Rev. 14:1.
      3. To reach the reality of the Body of Christ by living a life conformed to Christ's death in the power of His resurrection -- Phil. 3:10.
2. A word of advise:
   1. Do not consider yourselves a trainee and others a non-trainee.
   2. Serve the Lord in a local church under the eldership.
   3. Do not do things that contradict the elders' leadership.
   4. Join with the vital groups; if there is not a vital group, endeavor to build up a vital group in fellowship with the elders.
   5. Do not criticize others, do not condemn anyone or anything and do not consider that what you are doing is superior to others' doing; always minister Christ to all people.
   6. Keep the oneness of the Body of Christ at any cost; never cause any division; do not do anything that could become a factor of division, nor do anything that could be a hidden seed of division sown by you unconsciously -- Jn. 17:21-23; Eph. 4:1; 1 Cor. 1:13.

The Most Marvelous, Excellent, Mysterious, and All-inclusive Transformations of the Eternal and Triune God In His Becoming a Man

1. In His becoming the flesh -- John 1:14:
   1. He became a God-man:
      1. Bringing divinity into humanity.
      2. Mingling divinity with humanity.
   2. As a prototype for the mass reproduction of many God-men.
2. In His human living:
   1. He lived a human life:
      1. Not by His human life.
      2. But by His divine life.
      3. To express the divine attributes in His human virtures.
   2. As the model of the human living of His mass reproduction of the many God-men.
3. In His all-problems-solving death:
   1. He became the flesh of sin (only in its likeness) -- Rom. 8:3:
      1. Being made sin and condemning sin in the flesh -- 2 Cor. 5:21; Rom. 8:3.
      2. Being the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world -- John 1:29.
   2. He became the serpent (only in its likeness as the brass serpent -- Num. 21:4-9) -- John 3:14:
      1. Destroying the devil, who has the might of death -- Heb. 2:14.
      2. To judge the world, which is a system, cosmos, of the devil, its ruler -- John12:31.
   3. He became the end of the old man:
      1. Crucifying the old man -- Rom. 6:6.
      2. Terminating the old creation.
   4. He became the Peacemaker -- Eph. 2:14-16:
      1. Abolishing the law of the commandments in ordinances that separate men from one another.
      2. Reconciling men to God, thus making peace.
   5. He became the grain of wheat -- John 12:24
      1. Falling into the earth and dying to break the shell of His humanity.
      2. To realease the divine life for the producing of many grains to constitute His organic Body.
4. In His all-conquering resurrection:
   1. He uplifted His humanity for Him to be begotten of God as God's firstborn Son -- Acts 13:33; Rom. 8:29.
   2. He became, by God the Father's regeneration, the many sons of God as His many brothers -- 1 Pet. 1:3; Rom. 8:29.
   3. He, as the last Adam, became the life-giving Spirit, the pneumatic Christ, the all-inclusive compounded Spirit, as the consummation of the processed and consummated Triune God -- 1 Cor. 15:45b; Exo. 30:23-25.
5. In His all-transcending ascension:
   1. He became:
      1. The Head of all things to be the Head of the Body -- Eph. 1:22-23; Col. 1:18.
      2. The Lord and Christ -- Acts 2:36.
      3. Leader (of all the kings) and Savior -- Acts 5:31.
      4. Our High Priest in God's New Testament economy -- Heb. 4:14; 7:26; 9:11.
      5. The Mediator of the new covenant -- Heb. 9:15.
      6. The surety of the better covenant -- Heb. 7:22.
      7. The Paraclete (Advocate) of the New Testament believers -- 1 John 2:1; John 14:16, 26; 15:16; 16:7.
      8. The New Testament believers' Intercessor at the right hand of God and within them as well -- Rom. 8:34, 26.
      9. The heavenly Minister -- Heb. 8:2.
   2. For the accomplishment of God's eternal economy.

A Departing Word to the Graduates 1995 Full-time Training Spring Term

1. The Triune God's eternal economy is to produce and build up the Body of Christ for the consummation of the New Jerusalem as His heart's desire and ultimate goal.
2. The Triune God has chosen, predestinated, redeemed, and regenerated you to be a God-man for the purpose to accomplish His eternal economy.
3. A God-man should deny his self, his natural man, and his old man by the power of Christ's resurrection that he may live Christ, magnify Christ, and walk and work with Christ, by the bountiful supply of the all-inclusive Spirit, for the carrying out of God's eternal economy.
4. You have not been trained and perfected to be a preacher but to be an overcomer of the Lord to overcome sin, the world, the environmental troubles, opposition, persecutions, and the deformed Christianity, even at the cost of your life.
5. You must strive and struggle to reach the maturity in the divine life.
6. You must fulfill your duty to produce the members of the Body of Christ, to feed and shepherd the younger believers, and to perfect the saints for the building up of the Body of Chirst.
7. You should only know to work and labor for the Body of Christ, and you should not know any opinions and any teachings other than the divine revelation as revealed in the New Testament concerning God's eternal economy.
8. You should keep the oneness of the Body at any cost and escape from division in the fear of Christ and of the judgments at His judgement seat.

A Loving Word of Eternal Worth To The Full-time Trainees December 16, 1995 Anaheim

He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
1 Cor. 6:17

The key of the spiritual fellowship of the regenerated tripartite believers with the consummated Triune God

1. We worship God the Spirit with our spirit -- John 4:24.
2. We were regenerated of God as the Spirit to be a spirit -- John 3:6.
3. The Spirit witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God -- Rom. 8:16.
4. We become a dwelling place of God in our spirit and the Spirit is the indweller -- Eph. 2:22.
5. The Lord Jesus as the pneumatic Christ and as the life-giving Spirit is in our spirit -- 2 Tim. 4:22; Rom. 8:10.
6. If the Spirit of the One who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you -- Rom. 8:11.
7. If by the Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live -- Rom. 8:11.
8. If by the Spirit you put to death the practices of the body, you will live -- Rom. 8:13b.
9. We set our mind on the spirit for life and peace -- Rom. 8:6.
10. They who are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and its lusts (by the Spirit) -- Gal. 5:24.
11. Walk by the Spirit and you shall by no means fulfill the lust of the flesh -- Gal. 5:16.
12. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit -- Gal. 5:25.
13. We walk (have our being) in and according to the spirit (the mingled spirit) for the fulfilling of the righteousness of the law -- Rom. 8:4.
14. By the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Christ we live Christ and magnify Him -- Phil. 1:19b-20a.
15. We pray at every time in spirit -- Eph. 6:18.
16. We are sanctified by the Spirit -- Rom. 15:16.
17. We are renewed by the Spirit in our spirit -- Titus 3:5; Eph. 4:23.
18. We are transformed by the Lord Spirit into the glorious image of Christ -- 2 Cor. 3:18.
19. The Spirit as the consummated Triune God and the bride as the transformed tripartite man eventually becomes a spiritual couple, a mingling of divinity with humanity (Rev. 22:17), to be the consummated New Jerusalem for His eternal enlargement and expression with the divine glory manifested in the glorified humanity (Rev. 20:1).

A Short Message for the Graduation of the Spring Term, 1996

The God-men's Divine Right to Participate in God's Divinity

1. To participate in God's life -- John 3:15; Col. 3:4.
2. To participate in God's nature -- Eph. 1:4; 2 Pet. 1:4.
3. To participate in God's mind -- Eph. 4:23; Phil. 2:5.
4. To participate in God's being -- 2 Cor. 3:18b; Eph. 3:8.
5. To participate in God's image -- 2 Cor. 3:18a; Rom. 8:29.
6. To participate in God's glory -- Rom. 8:30; Heb. 2:10.
7. To participate in God's sonship -- Eph. 1:5; Rom. 8:23.
8. To participate in God's manifestation -- Rom. 8:19.
9. To bear God's likeness -- 1 John 3:2.
10. To be Godkind--God's species -- John 1:12; Rom. 8:14, 16.

These outlines were given by Brother Witness Lee at the graduation of the training. They are used by permission of Living Stream Ministry. Please contact Living Stream Ministry for personal use of these outlines.