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.

The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1990, volume 2, contains messages given by Brother Witness Lee from February 10 through December 21, 1990. During the first three months of 1990 Brother Lee was in Anaheim, California. In early April he traveled to Taipei, Taiwan, and at the end of that month he visited Hualien, Taiwan. He returned to Anaheim in the first part of May and remained there until the end of the third week in August. During that time he visited Long Beach, California. At the end of August Brother Lee visited San Francisco, San Jose, and Berkeley, California. In early September he returned to Anaheim and remained there until the middle of October. During that period he briefly visited San Diego and San Bernardino, California. In the middle of October Brother Lee traveled to the Far East and remained there until the first part of November. During that period he visited Taipei and then Kota Kinabalu, Sibu, Kuching, and Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. In the middle of November he returned to Anaheim and remained there until the end of the year. The contents of this volume are divided into fifteen sections, as follows: 1. Eight messages given in Anaheim, California, on February 10 through May 19. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Practice of the Group Meetings and are included in this volume under the same title. 2. Four messages given in Anaheim, California, on March 9 and 10. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Intrinsic Problem in the Lord's Recovery Today and Its Scriptural Remedy. They are included in The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1989, volume 4, as chapters 3 through 6 of Elders' Training, Book 10: The Eldership and the God-ordained Way (2). Therefore, they are not reprinted in this volume. 3. Four messages given in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 5 through 8. These messages were previously published in Chinese and English in a book entitled The Oneness and the One Accord according to the Lord's Aspiration and the Body Life and Service according to His Pleasure and are included in this volume under the same title. 4. Four messages given in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 12 through 15. They were previously published in Chinese and English in a book entitled A Thorough View of the Body of Christ and are included in this volume under the same title. 5. Four messages given in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 18 through 21. They were previously published in Chinese and English in a book entitled The Mysteries in God's New Testament Economy and are included in this volume under the same title. 6. Three messages given in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 25 through 27. They were previously published in Chinese and English in a ten-chapter book entitled Salvation in Life in the Book of Romans and are included in this volume under the same title. 7. Two messages given in Hualien, Taiwan, on April 28 and 29. They were previously published in Chinese and English in a book entitled Conformation to the Image of the Son of God and are included in this volume under the same title. 8. Five messages given in Anaheim, California, in May and June. These messages were previously published in a book entitled To Be Saved in the Life of Christ as Revealed in Romans and are included in this volume under the same title. 9. Four messages given in Anaheim, California, on May 26 through June 16. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Practice of Prophesying and are included in this volume under the same title. 10. A message given in Long Beach, California, on June 2. This message was previously published in a small book entitled A Genuine Church and is included in this volume under the same title. 11. A message given in Anaheim, California, on June 23. This message is included in this volume under the title Needing to Be Built Up with Christ, a Proper Character, and a Complete Education in Our College Years. 12. Two messages given in Anaheim, California, on July 7 and 8. These messages were previously published in a book entitled A Brief Presentation of the Lord's Recovery and are included in this volume under the same title. Chapter 2 appears also in The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1989, volume 4, as chapter 7 of Elders' Training, Book 10: The Eldership and the God-ordained Way (2). 13. A message given in Anaheim, California, on July 8, 1990. This message was previously published in a booklet entitled How to Have a Definite Beginning of the God-ordained Way in a Local Church. It is included in The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1989, volume 4, as chapter 8 of Elders' Training, Book 10: The Eldership and the God-ordained Way (2). Therefore, it is not reprinted in this volume. 14. A message given in Anaheim, California, on August 13, 1990. This message is included in this volume under the title Being Trained to Know the Depths of the Bible. 15. Twenty-one messages given in Anaheim, California, on August 14 through December 21. These messages were previously published in a twenty-chapter book entitled Messages to the Trainees in Fall 1990 and are included in this volume under the same title.

Two things are the key to the real experience of [the divine] life: our flesh and our spirit. On the negative side, we have to know the flesh. On the positive side, we have to experience our human spirit, which has been mingled with the divine Spirit (Rom. 8:16; 1 Cor. 6:17).

In the Lord’s recovery during the past five hundred years the church’s knowledge of the Lord and His truth has been continually progressing. This monumental and classical work by Brother Witness Lee builds upon and is a further development of all that the Lord has revealed to His church in the past centuries. It is filled with the revelation concerning the processed Triune God, the living Christ, the life-giving Spirit, the experience of life, and the definition and practice of the church. In this set Brother Lee has kept three basic principles that should rule and govern every believer in their interpretation, development, and expounding of the truths contained in the Scriptures. The first principle is that of the Triune God dispensing Himself into His chosen and redeemed people; the second principle is that we should interpret, develop, and expound the truths contained in the Bible with Christ for the church; and the third governing principle is Christ, the Spirit, life, and the church. No other study or exposition of the New Testament conveys the life nourishment or ushers the reader into the divine revelation of God’s holy Word according to His New Testament economy as this one does.

"The entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, shows us that God is our enjoyment. God also has His fullness (Eph. 3:19b). He is full for us to enjoy. His fullness is the expression of the riches of Christ, and the reality of Christ is in the Spirit. We know this by the revelation of the Word. The riches of Christ are revealed in the Word. Furthermore, we can realize God as our enjoyment in our spirit (John 4:24)."

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."

“We must realize that we Christians are a meeting people. A Christian is a meeting person. Without meeting, there is no Christian life and no church life. It is rather difficult for any Christian to grow without attending the meetings. There is no way for any Christian to serve God without meetings, and it is impossible for Christians to express Christ if there are no meetings. The church life is a meeting life.” In How to Meet Witness Lee offers much precious and practical guidance related to the biblical way to meet as Christians.