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C. Man's Heart Turning Away from God Resulting in Serious Tragedy

The turning away of man's heart from God results in serious tragedy. To turn away from God and from His word, which is Christ, is to lose all the blessings and to suffer the curse.

These three points regarding God's loving heart and righteous governmental dealing, man's obedience and faithfulness, and the tragic result of man's turning his heart away from God make up the governing thought of reviewing the past. This thought, which is found throughout the Bible and which is evident in the New Testament, should govern us whenever we intend to have a review of our condition.
(Life-Study of Deuteronomy, pp. 23-25, Witness Lee, published by Living Stream Ministry 1991.)

INHALING THE BREATH OF THE TRIUNE GOD

The loving, righteous, faithful, and blessing God does not
want us to do something for Him. He knows that we are nothing, that we have nothing, and that we can do nothing.

His economy, His way, is not to allow us to do something by ourselves but to have us do everything with Christ, by Christ, through Christ, and in Christ. Christ is our life and life supply; therefore, daily we need to feed on Him. Christ is also our faithfulness and the body, the substance, of all our necessities (Colossians 2:17). For our supply, Christ is the word, and continually we need to contact Him in the Word and by the Word.

Do you know what the Bible is? The Bible is not merely a book of history, stories, and teachings. The Bible is the embodiment of Christ. Whatever Christ is and has and whatever Christ has done, is doing, will do, and can do are embodied in the Bible. To read the Bible, therefore, is to participate in Christ. Since the Bible is God's breath, God's exhaling, the best way to study the Bible is to breathe it, to inhale it. Let us learn to inhale the breath of the Triune God in the holy Word!

Learn to inhale the breath of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. If we breathe the processed Triune God, the grace of Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Spirit will be with us (2 Corinthians 13:14).
(Life-Study of Deuteronomy, pp. 22-23, Witness Lee, published by Living Stream Ministry 1991.)