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Sometimes we can deceive ourselves, and say, “I’m living by my spirit, I’m
living by life,” but we never graduate from dealing with our conscience.

In the book The Experience of life, the four stages of the growth in life, in
one sense are progressive but, in another sense, they are not. In other words,
just because we have dealt with our conscience at a certain point in time, it
does not mean that we never have to deal with our conscience again or with
the world, sin, flesh, or the self. These are things that are repeated many
times. Therefore, we have to take care of them.

God’s Rule Meaning That We Live by the Intuition of Our Spirit, Being
Responsible to the Intuition, That Is, Being Responsible to God
On the other hand, God’s rule means that we live by the intuition of our
spirit, being responsible to the intuition, that is, being responsible to God.
Just as our conscience represents God within us, much more the intuition.
The intuition, feeling, sense, or understanding that comes from our intuition
is God’s feeling. Oh, we have to learn to live by this. I am learning just like
you. In the beginning we do not know anything about the intuition. We do
not even know anything about the conscience. But we become aware of the
conscience and then we deal with the conscience, and through the dealing of
the conscience, we begin to learn how to fellowship with the Lord. And in
that fellowship, we develop a sense of the intuition that is in our spirit. In the
beginning it is not very clear. However, the more we live in that fellowship
and the more we exercise under the direct rule of God, the keener that sense
becomes. The God-man living of the Lord Jesus is the best example of living
under the direct rule of God. He always knew what was the thought, what was
the feeling, what was the direction of God the Father. This is how we want
the Lord to recover us.
Within our spirit there is a function to have a direct sense, to realize,
discern, and perceive things; this is the intuition in our spirit (1 Cor. 2:11;
Mark 2:8). We need to discover what is in our spirit because there is
something wonderful there. When I was a young person, I heard the gospel
on the university campus. The brothers who preached the gospel to me told
me that man has a human spirit. I grew up in religion like many of you and
yet they did not teach me about the tripartite man. They just said that man
has a body and a soul. When the brothers preached the gospel to me, I was
so surprised saying, “Do you mean there is a part in my being that I didn’t