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The Economy of God, first published in 1968, is one of Witness Lee's principle works. It is a compilation of messages he gave in the summer of 1964 in Los Angeles. These messages are based on one of Watchman Nee's classics, The Spiritual Man, which reveals that man is composed of three parts-spirit, soul, and body. The subject of this book is that the central revelation of the Bible is God's economy, which is the way God carries out His heart's desire to impart Himself into man for His full expression. Witness Lee also reveals practical ways for believers to cooperate with God for the fulfillment of God's eternal purpose.

"The economy of God" is a quotation from 1 Timothy 1:4, according to the Greek. Economy is the Greek word "oikonomia", which primarily signifies the household management, the household administration, arrangement and distribution, or dispensation. The word "economy" is used with the intention of stressing the focal point of God's divine enterprise, which is to distribute, or dispense, Himself into man.

The key verses are 1 Timothy 1:3-7: "...that you might charge certain ones not to teach different things, nor to give heed to myths and unending genealogies, which produce questionings rather than a dispensation of God (Gk. God's economy) which is in faith. But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and out of a good conscience and out of unfeigned faith; from which things some, having misaimed (Gk. missed the mark), have turned aside to vain talking, desiring to be the teachers of the law..."

A mass-distribution edition of this book was published in 2004.