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bride, are the increase of Christ. Due to the fact that we have Christ as life through the second birth, we are the increase of Christ. Therefore, the ultimate result of regeneration is that Christ has a bride as His increase. Christ is increased through regeneration because by regeneration He is reproduced in us. We, the regenerated peo ple, are His reproduction.

Eve could be the increase of Adam because she was constituted with the rib of Adam and became one flesh with Adam, a part of Adam. In the same principle, we can be the increase of Christ because we are spiritually constituted with the life of Christ and have become one spirit with Him, a part of Him. As Eve came out of Adam and returned to be one with Adam, thus becom ing Adam's increase, so we also have come out of Christ and will return to be one with Him, thus becoming His increase. This increase is just His reproduction in us through regeneration. All the people who participate in this reproduction are given to Christ by God.

THE WORKER FOR CHRIST

DECREASING

We must let Christ increase. We all must decrease. The entire following must go to Him.

If all of today's Christian preachers and leaders would say, "Lord, let my following be Yours that You may increase and that I may decrease," there would be no problem. Some people seem to say, "He must increase, and I must decrease, but I must hold my following." As long as one holds his following, he will never decrease and He cannot increase. The increase or the decrease all depends upon the following. To whom does the following belong? May the Lord have mercy upon us. We all need His mercy not to keep a following under our hand. If we do, sooner or later, we shall be cast into prison. Let the fol lowing go to Him. He must increase, and we all must decrease.

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