Tuesday, December 6, 2016

One Master, or Two?

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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