OK, dear ones. I have really enjoyed this “preliminary” fellowship.
Now, I would like to begin to dig into the actual messages in TAS’s two-volume set
That They May All Be One, Even As We Are One, starting, of course, with message one.
TAS begins by saying these messages will not be teachings based upon his study of certain subjects; rather, they will be speakings based upon deep experiences “in the school of the Lord”. He wanted the audience to face up to some very practical issues in their walks with the Lord. He knew their rich background, and his desire was to build upon all the teachings they had heard about the purpose of God and bring them into an experiential knowledge of the ways of God. Not just a knowing of the works of God, but a real learning of the ways of God. There was one thing TAS had deeply, experientally, learned over the years and which he desired to impart to these dear ones in Manila – the ways of God are
not the ways of the natural man.
An excerpt from Message One:
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“God has a way, not only an end; and it is very important to know the ways of God as well as the end of God. If there is one thing that we have learned more than another thing in God’s school, it is this. God’s ways are very different from our ways . . . You just cannot say, ‘I know the Lord wants such and such a thing done, and therefore, I am going to do it’ . . . I think the Lord wants us to learn something of His ways in these days together – to learn the spiritual laws which govern the purpose of God.”
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