Section 9
all. The system of any religion is originated by Satan to frustrate and damage the proper church life. For the church to be the organism for the expression of the Triune God, we have to be sep arated from any kind of religion.
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD, HAVING PERSECUTED THE VINE,
PERSECUTING THE BRANCHES
The Lord told His disciples that if they were willing to follow Him in the way of life, they must be ready to suffer persecution (15:20-25). If we are willing to experience the Triune God as our life, to be mingled with the Triune God, and to be the mutual abode with the Triune God, we must be prepared to suffer persecution from reli gion. The persecution of the disciples was not to come from the so-called secular world, but from the religions that worshipped God and seem ingly loved Him. The Lord was telling His dis ciples that because of Him the religious people would persecute and even kill them. We have seen that the disciples, as branches of the vine, are the Body of Christ, the organism for the life and expression of the Triune God, and that the world, as a cosmic system, is the organized system of Satan. In the eyes of the Lord, the religious