Dear ones, TAS now has a very important question to answer: When all the natural human hands are taken off of the things of the Lord, and when the things of God are no longer brought under human control, what is left? In other words, what exists at very heart, the very root, of all God desires to do in this age? The answer, which is clearly presented in Message Seven by dear brother TAS, should be familiar to all of us with an LC background – The one, basic, fundamental, foundational, all-inclusive, principle which underlies everything God is doing today is simply a person, Jesus Christ! Yes! Our wonderful, precious, supremely-rich Christ!
Watchman Nee clearly testified in the message entitled “What Are We?” that TAS was one of the ones outside of the “Little Flock” in China who also saw the “centrality and universality” of Christ:
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“Christ is God’s centrality and God’s universality. All of God’s plan is related to Christ. This is the truth that God is pleased to reveal to us in these days. It is also the message we are preaching during this conference. This is what God showed Brother Sparks also.”
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How great was TAS’s longing that those listening to him speak would get past all that is of man and get back to Christ Himself:
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“So we have got to get right back to Christianity as a system as we know it. And get right to the first simple spiritual principle of Jesus Christ . . . The new dispensation is the dispensation of Jesus Christ. Christ is the new dispensation. ‘I am here’, He said. You go through that Gospel of John. He is centering everything in Himself. I am the Way; I am the Truth; I am the Life; I am the Shepherd; I am the Vine; I am the Resurrection. IT IS A PERSON. It is that which lies behind everything . . . That is where it all begins and it never departs from HIM. The development of the Christian life is only the development of Jesus Christ in the life . . . We are getting right back behind Christianity to Christ. Right back behind what man calls the Church to Christ.”
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