Yes, I've studied
the following before and not too long ago. I need to study it again, and maybe
again and again. If you really don't need to study this, please feel free to
ignore it completely. I just…need this.
(Excerpt from The
Spiritual Man- Watchman Nee)
'We have just seen
how the High Priest operates if we accept the cross. We shall consider next the
practical side; that is, how we may arrive at the experience of having the Lord
Jesus divide our soul and spirit.
(1) Know the necessity of having the spirit and
soul divided. Without this knowledge no such request will be made. Christians
ought to petition the Lord to show them the abhorrence of a mixed
spirit-and-soul life and also the reality of that deeper walk in God which is
wholly spirit and uninterrupted by the soul. They should understand that a
mixed life is a frustrated life. '
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Mat 6:21 For
where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Mat 6:22 The
light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body
shall be full of light.
Mat 6:23 But
if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore
the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Mat 6:24 No
man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other;
or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and
mammon.
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'The eye be single'
'No man can serve
two masters'
Rom 8:1 There
is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
'Walk not after the
flesh' but after the Spirit'.
These are Jesus'
words to us, God's words to us, words we are to use as weapons to protect
ourselves. Watchman Nee wasn't making things up and twisting them to suit his
own particular desires. The word of God
is plain truly.
When we are told to
NOT walk after the flesh we are told this for a reason. When our soul-self
chooses to indulge in our flesh rather than allowing our spirit self to reign,
we are not following God's word. We are not using God's word as our weapon. We
are laying down the weapon and allowing Satan free reign in us when we choose
to purposefully ignore God's word, God's truth. Is it any wonder Satan has such
powerful control over us? We are not allowing ourselves to truly comprehend our
need of having our soul-self and spirit-self divided. We need to ask to be
shown the abhorrence of a life not led by the spirit.
We are in a fight, a
spiritual fight and this fight is against the flesh and all that want us to
live after the flesh, all the spiritual wickedness that would induce us to live
to the flesh. That spiritual wickedness
will never disappear. The fight is ongoing until we die or our Savior returns
for us. The real fight is something we need to recognize and by the GRACE of
God we will. Please, Lord, please, help
us to know your truth.
Please, keep us from
our own destruction! Help us to believe and let our faith have the works You
desire from us!
Please, Lord, Your
will be done!
And please… bless my
new great nephew, Silas Alexander Lopez, born tonight. Bless him, help him to
learn of You as he grows. Bless his whole family! Thank you, Lord, thank you!
Amen.
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