The Four Kinds of Difficulties — Hindrances to God’s Life in Us
Colossians 3:4 When Christ is the life, you also will appear with him in glory.
John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Luke 9:23 Then Jesus said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”
Galatians 2:20 For I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live in faith with the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
📊 Table
|
Category |
Definition |
Manifestation |
Spiritual Problem |
Effect on Life |
|
Not knowing life |
Not taking Christ as life but living by concepts |
Zeal and activities without following Christ within |
Living in dark concepts, not knowing the way of life |
Christ has no way out; only religion remains |
|
Hypocrisy |
Using temperament or virtues to replace life |
Slowness, gentleness, smoothness taken as spirituality |
Taking the natural as life and morality as Christ |
Man is expressed; Christ is hidden |
|
Rebellion |
Knowing the inner leading but refusing to obey |
Choosing what one likes instead of what Christ wants |
Rejecting Christ’s inner leading |
Life is suppressed; the spirit becomes dull |
|
Natural ability |
Serving God by talent and skill |
Relying on ability, experience, and methods |
The self is unbroken by the cross |
Ability replaces life; Christ has no ground |
✨ Spiritual Integrated View (Key Points)
1. All four difficulties are essentially “not Christ.”
2. The most dangerous hindrance is not sin but the natural good.
3. The way of life is not to do better but to let Christ live.
4. The only way out is the breaking of the cross.
📣 One Prophetic Summary Sentence
Lord, save me from not knowing life, hypocrisy, rebellion, and natural ability, so that You may have a way out in me.
🏁 Ultimate Conclusion
The greatest difficulty to God’s life in us is not outward sin,
but the inward self;
only through the cross
can Christ be lived out from within us.
*Please refer to the 2025 Winter Training: Experience, Enjoy, and Manifest Christ (Part 4), Week 5: Tree of Life.

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