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built up this great empire. Now I know that I do not rule. The heavens rule.”
Brothers, we all need to understand this. It is a basic principle that in the
universe, in the Christian life, and in the church life, there is a government.
There is a system of grace and a system of government. But in this training,
we are emphasizing the system of government.
Then message 2 was on the Christian life under the government of God.
This is to live in the kingdom of God. To live the Christian life is to live the
kingdom life, and to live the kingdom life is to live under the rule or the
government of God. How do we do that? That is found in message 3. We do
it by being recovered back to the direct rule of God in our spirit. Through the
intuition in our spirit, we are recovered back to living under God’s direct rule.
Then in message 4, we talked about the church being a kingdom. What
kind of kingdom is it? It is a kingdom unlike any kingdom on earth. It is a
kingdom of love. God’s way of ruling is love and light. I am so glad that He
does not rule by fear. Fear is the way that Satan rules. As those taking the lead
in the churches, if the saints fear you, that might not be a good thing. If they
fear your kind of exercise of authority, then I do not know what kingdom you
are in. I hope we would all be in the kingdom of love—being ruled by the
Son of God’s love.

Then in message 5, we saw the way for us to fully enter into this kingdom.
As I said at the beginning, we are in the kingdom, but we are not fully in it.
How do we fully enter into it? Growing is the way. The divine seed that has
gotten into us needs to grow and develop. Everything is in that seed. It is like
the genetic material in a human being. Everything is already there, but it still
has to grow and develop. It has to mature, and the result is that we will have
an entrance into the kingdom. We were regenerated into the kingdom so we
are already there, but we have not had a full entrance. In particular, we need
an entrance firstly out of the appearance of the kingdom into the reality of the
kingdom, and then finally, into the manifestation of the kingdom.

Then message 6 was a very weighty message. I hope you would study
this message. If we enter into the truths in these outlines, all the problems in
the church life would be solved. You may think this is too much to say. But
if we knew what it was to live under authority and how to properly represent
God, there would be no problems in the church. Are there any problems?
Yes, it is not a secret that there are problems. But why are there problems?