The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1964, volume 3, contains messages and fellowship given by Brother Witness Lee from August 11 through December 10, 1964. During this period Brother Lee spent the majority of his time in Los Angeles, aside from a weekend trip to Tyler, Texas, in September, a weeklong trip in December to Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Eugene, and North Bend, Oregon, and a weekend to visit the saints in Las Vegas, Nevada. No record of his speaking on these trips has been found. The contents of this volume are divided into eight sections, as follows: 1. A series of five messages given on August 11 through 19 during the summer training in Los Angeles. These messages are included in this volume under the title Basic Principles for the Church Meetings. 2. A series of twelve messages given on August 18 through 30 during the summer training in Los Angeles. This series is included in this volume under the title The Oneness of the Body and the Service in the Church Life. 3. Messages given in Los Angeles on August 4 through 6 and September 13. Brother Lee gave four messages, which have been condensed into the three chapters of this section, entitled Prayer in Ephesians. 4. A series of twenty-four messages given from August 4 through September 2 during the summer training in Los Angeles. This series has been previously published under the title The Economy of God. 5. Three messages given in Los Angeles on August 2 and 3. These messages are included in this volume under the title Various Meetings in Los Angeles. 6. Miscellaneous messages given in Los Angeles on August 12 through 29. These messages are included in this volume under the title Miscellaneous Fellowship in Los Angeles. 7. A series of five messages given in Los Angeles on September 7 through 9. These messages are included in this volume under the title Fellowship concerning Migration. 8. Twelve messages given in various meetings in Los Angeles from September 15 through December 10. These messages are included in this volume under the title Various Fall Meetings in Los Angeles.

At the time of regeneration, all believers receive the divine life and are begotten as children of God. Yet, this life most grow and it does so by regulation unto maturity and function. This regulation comes from revelation and issues in obedience. This word is crucial for our progress and training in the divine life for our maturity and function in our living and service to God.

This book presents a vision of Christ and the church. It then goes on the emphasize the need to experience this Christ as the Spirit in our spirit and to practice the church life on the ground of oneness.

When God created man, He placed him before two trees: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. In warning man to avoid the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God indicated His desire for man to eat of the tree of life, signifying that man should receive God as his life supply. Witness Lee unveils in The Tree of Life that God is not looking for well-behaved Christians; He is looking for those who will experience and enjoy Christ as the reality of the tree of life.

This book traces "the New Testament service in the Gospel of Matthew from its beginning with the conceiving of Christ of the Holy Spirit, to finding Christ by following the heavenly living star, on to testifying of Christ in a living way, and then to the matter of following Christ. Finally, [it considers] the matter of life and the matter of work in the New Testament service according to the parables of the ten virgins and of the talents. In all these aspects, it is a governing principle in our service in the church life that the New Testament service is a service of coordination in every step to fulfill the Lord's purpose."