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Originally Posted by Peter Debelak
I don't disagree with the idea that there is something called "God's economy" in the New Testament. But Lee's definition of that goes much further, I think, than what the NT states on the matter. I think the NT did "make plain" what the economy of the mystery is. And it includes, as a central piece of it, love, as you have pointed out. All I'm saying is that Lee's "interpreted word" version of "God's economy" is one which differs from the NT in which Paul did, in fact, "make plain" what it is.
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Ah.
Well, I had the realization while I was still among them that many were actively exchanging the reality of God's economy for the doctrine of God's economy. Meaning, they turned memorizing and celebrating Lee's teachings concerning God's dispensation into a substitute for really participating in the actual flow from the Throne. I thought it was curious back then but didn't see it as a trend or a natural outcome as I eventually came to recognize.
I could never understand the excitement over things like the great revelation about a sevenfold-intensified Spirit while the reality of the present One was being neglected. I mean, I can get excited about the seven Spirits too, but, really,
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1Cr 13:2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
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