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The subject of the book of Ephesians is the church. There are seven aspects of the church revealed in Ephesians. The church is the Body, the new man, the kingdom, the family, the dwelling place, the bride, and the warrior.

In this life-study, Witness Lee presents the Epistle to the Hebrews as God's speaking in Christ the son, who is now in the heavens as our minister and our high priest, ministering to us the heavenly life, grace, authority, and power and sustaining us to live a heavenly life on Earth. He is the Christ now, the Christ today, and the Christ on the throne in the heavens, who is our daily salvation and moment-by-moment supply.

The subject of Philippians is the experience of Christ. Concerning the experience of Christ, each chapter of Philippians covers a major point. First, in chapter one, we have the magnification of Christ. No matter what the circumstances are in which we find ourselves, we need to express Christ in such a way that we magnify him. In chapter two, Paul presents Christ as our pattern.

In Life-Study of James, Witness Lee emphasizes two key points related to the Epistle of James—first, that the believers must progress in practical Christian perfection, and second, that the believers must be careful not to cultivate such perfection without a clear vision concerning the law and grace of God in God's New Testament economy. In Life-Study of First Peter, he describes the Christian life under the government of God with its high demand.

Throughout the New Testament, the apostles draw on the book of Exodus as a book of types concerning the believers' corporate experience of God's salvation. Paul speaks of "our Passover, Christ" (1 Cor. 5:7). He says that Israel was "baptized...in the sea", that Israel ate the "same spiritual food", and that Israel "drank of a spiritual rock which followed them", which rock "was Christ" (1 Cor. 5:7; 10:2-4). The Lord Jesus similarly says that He is "the living bread which came down out of heaven", the fulfillment of the manna in the wilderness (John 6:51).

In the book of 1 Corinthians, Paul addresses 11 problems, in two categories. In the Life-Study of 1 Corinthians, Witness Lee helps us see that Christ is the unique factor to solve the first six problems, and that the church is the unique factor to solve the final five problems.

Life-Study of Genesis presents the book of Genesis in a completely new light. Strictly speaking, Genesis is neither a book of creation nor a book of biographies. It is a book of life. God uses the record of creation to show the matter of life. God uses the biographies of eight persons to show how he needs a life to fulfill his purpose.

In Life-Study of Romans, Witness Lee opens up the gospel of God according to the apostle Paul. The gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John reveal Christ in the flesh as he lived among us and carried out God's judicial redemption through his death on the cross. The gospel in Romans concerns Christ in resurrection indwelling us as the Spirit to carry out God’s organic salvation.

Luke’s Gospel reveals God among men in his saving grace given to fallen mankind. Its purpose is to present the Savior as a genuine, normal, and perfect man. It gives a complete genealogy of the man Jesus, from his parents back to Adam, the first generation of mankind, and shows that he is a genuine descendant of man–a son of man.

In the book of Colossians, Christ is unveiled to a fuller extent than in any other book in the Bible. Christ is unveiled as the all-inclusive one, having the first place in all things as the mystery and embodiment of God, as the head and constituent of the church, as the allotted portion, life, constituent, and hope of the saints, and as the body of all positive things. In addition to presenting such a Christ as the one person in God's economy, Colossians also presents the cross of Christ as the one way in God's government.

In the book Being Renewed Day by Day, Witness Lee speaks of the renewing process that we need to pass through in our Christian life for God’s purpose. All the sufferings God has assigned to us have one unique purpose - to renew us. Regardless of whether we are good or bad, we are the old creation, but God desires to work out something new from his old creation. In order to consummate his renewing work in us and with us, God becomes our life and nature within and uses the environment in order to work His life and nature into us.

La Biblia, especialmente en Mateo 18 y 2 Timoteo 2, muestra la necesidad de que los creyentes se reúnan en grupos vitales y pequeños para llevar la vida del reino y enfrentarse a la degradación de la iglesia. En Los grupos vitales Witness Lee presenta el propósito y los constituyentes de los grupos vitales, la gran comisión de Cristo en resurrección, el asunto del pastoreo y la enseñanza, la edificación del Cuerpo de Cristo, el hecho de que Cristo nos cuida con ternura y nos nutre, nuestra necesidad de cuidar con ternura y nutrir a otros.

Gran parte de lo que se predica y enseña entre los cristianos hoy en día está relacionado con el ministerio terrenal del Señor Jesús, es decir, a la obra que Él realizó durante Su vida en la tierra. Sin embargo, así como la persona de Cristo tiene dos aspectos, también lo tiene Su ministerio.

Como cristianos, sabemos que la salvación nos salva de nuestros pecados y nos libra de la perdición; sin embargo, es posible que no entendamos que éstos no son el significado ni la meta de la salvación.

El reino de los cielos es un ítem principal en la Biblia, y a fin de entenderlo, debemos prestar atención al Evangelio de Mateo. En los capítulos del 5 al 7 de Mateo, el Señor explicó el reino de los cielos.