31 God created man as a vessel to contain Him (Gen. 1:26-27; Rom. 9:23-24); therefore, God is man’s possession, just as the content of a vessel is its possession.
42 God is not only our inheritance but also the portion of our cup (Psa. 16:5) for our enjoyment; to be saved is to come back to God and enjoy Him anew as our possession, as signified by a man’s returning to his possession in the jubilee (Lev. 25:10; Luke 4:18-19; 15:17-24; Acts 26:18; Col. 1:12).
53 God gives us the Spirit not only as a guarantee of our inheritance but also as a foretaste of what we will inherit of God (2 Cor. 1:22); the Spirit’s pledging adds more of God into us little by little until we enter into eternity and have God as our full enjoyment.
71 We not only inherit God as our inheritance (1:14) for our enjoyment but also become God’s inheritance (v. 11) for His enjoyment.
82 我们乃是借着神作到我们里面,被构成为神的基业;这就是变化,这也是主观的圣别。
82 It is by having God wrought into us that we are being constituted into God’s inheritance; this is transformation, and it is also subjective sanctification.
93 God put His Holy Spirit into us as a seal (v. 13) to mark us out, indicating that we belong to God; this seal is living, and it works within us to permeate and transform us with God’s divine element until the redemption of our body.
104 Consummately, the mutual inheritance of God and man becomes God’s inheritance in the saints for eternity (v. 18); this will be His eternal expression to the uttermost universally and eternally (Rev. 21:11).
11Ⅴ “They shall by no means each teach his fellow citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all will know Me from the little one to the great one among them”—Heb. 8:11; Jer. 31:34a:
12A The function of life enables us to know God in the inward way of life; we can know God subjectively from within by the sense of life, which is the feeling, the consciousness, of the divine life within us—Rom. 8:6; Eph. 4:18-19; Phil. 3:10a:
164 This is to live according to the principle of the tree of life, not according to the principle of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil—Gen. 2:9.
175 The sense of life makes us know whether we are living in the natural life or in the divine life and whether we are living in the flesh or in the spirit.
18B “In order to serve God and work for Him, a Christian must learn to stay away from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil... Only those who touch the tree of life will see their life and work remaining in the New Jerusalem” (Messages Given during the Resumption of Watchman Nee’s Ministry, vol. 1, pp. 94-95).
19Ⅵ Ultimately, our enjoyment of the indwelling Spirit as the automatic law of the divine life, the law of the Spirit of life, is in the Body of Christ and for the Body of Christ with the goal of making us God in life, nature, and expression but not in the Godhead to accomplish the goal of His eternal economy—the New Jerusalem—Rom. 8:2,28-29; 12:1-2; 11:36; 16:27; Phil. 1:19; cf. Gal. 4:26-28, 31.
26Further Reading: Life-study of Ephesians, msgs. 11, 13, 15; Messages Given during the Resumption of Watchman Nee’s Ministry, vol. 1, msgs. 9, 11, 16, 19