Herald Hsu Exposed the Anger of Witness Lee
We mentioned earlier that in 1933 Watchman Nee returned to China from London. He had a special conference the following year, in 1934. At the end of that conference, he mentioned especially T. Austin-Sparks’ ministry – the teaching of Christ and the Cross. Watchman Nee’s whole life was in “The School of Christ” (one of TAS's books). That meant he lived out of Christ by learning obedience through suffering. Most co-workers of Watchman Nee (including Witness Lee and the elders and deacons of the local churches) and the following generation of leaders wouldn't learn this; they even refused to learn, right through until today, this truth about obedience through suffering. The result is that there are a lot of carnal Christians or uncrucified workers everywhere today. This is the great challenge for me and for you, and in fact for every Christian today! Isaiah preached a crucified Christ, (He was despised and rejected by men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth. But He now is sitting upon a high and lifted up throne!) so Isaiah asked, ‘who has believed his report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?’ History tells us, only a remnant shall return (Shear-jashub—Isa 7:3), and those who are following (Gk - Rev 14:4) the Lamb wherever He goes! May this crucified Christ in you and in me by the grace of God transform us and live out from us, so that you and I are one of the remnant.
Herald Hsu
My Observations - Herald points out that when Witness Lee met with T. Austin Sparks (note T. Austin Sparks is an generalist extremist taking the opposite extreme of Witness Lee like two children battling each other, was unable to understand the principle in the Word of God taught by Watchman Nee on proper locality), Witness Lee got irate, and then when Sparks spoke on locality, Witness Lee got hostile and reviled T. Austin Sparks.
Here is quote from Herald, " (1959) In April, after one of the Thursday
evening meetings on John chapter 4, at around 8:40pm, Witness Lee (with an
angry red face) made a public (not private) announcement when all the
co-workers of the Taiwan churches and the local saints were gathered together in
Taipei. This announcement consisted of:
(1) His formal proclamation: "From now on, I will no longer work with TAS." This
contradicted his public announcement and comment in 1955: “We are going to work
with TAS! He is like refined pure gold and a pressed diamond! In 1934 Watchman
Nee introduced TAS and spread his ministry to the whole of China!” We were all
glad to hear that in 1955, which was the first time TAS visited the Far East.
Watchman Nee also referred to TAS as a spiritual man several times while he was
in Shanghai in 1947. This meant that in effect, Witness Lee had stated that he
would no longer work with spiritual people from 1959 onwards.
(note this shows the difference between Watchman Nee
and Witness Lee - Troy)
(2) He spoke evilly against TAS: He used Shandong dialect in speaking against
TAS: “那天晚上(拜五)我叫他吃了一口氣﹐他第二天(其實是第三天﹐拜一)就放出來了”! Which translated means "TAS’s
message (little church, little Christ) is like passing gas"!
(Can you sense the evil spirit welling up in the man
who is creating modern day cities localities, contrary to the Word of God? His
plan is already set in motion. - Troy)
When I heard Witness Lee’s terrible words, my whole body was shocked and I was
shaken right to the core. I sighed in my heart, “O dear brother Lee, what are
you doing?! Why?! Those dirty words... let it not even be named among us, as is
fitting for saints – Eph. 5:3!”
(I am convinced Witness Lee was never saved. He was
using Christianity for profit and he had a system set up in his mind - Troy)
(3) He cursed himself: Using Jacob's words he said: “If there is a division
among us due to my refusing to work with TAS, I shall go down to Sheol in
mourning!” (Gen. 37:35). ( 如果因為我不與史弟兄同工﹐而使我們中間發生分裂﹐我就悲悲慘慘的下陰間!)
(How true his words came to be, for on his deathbed he
went to the bad side of Hades awaiting resurrection at the Great White Throne to
be cast into the lake of fire - Troy).
This was the first time ever that there had been no prayer at the end of the
meeting, and everybody went home sad! The day after, Witness Lee was sick.
He didn’t do any public speaking for the next six months.
(Witness Lee though recovered, and came back with his unholy trinity of LSM-LEE-LC, he thought he had won, but he really lost for eternity - Troy).
After this public announcement, whereby Lee said that he would never work with TAS again, I went back to Gao-Xiong the very next morning. Following the leading of the Holy Spirit I prepared to leave brother Lee’s co-worker relationship. Thanks be to the Lord, my wife got a teaching job in Gao-Xiong high school. Since then, I have never participated in brother Lee’s co-workers meetings.
Herald Hsu