Sermon Notes

ADAM’s CHOICE THE REASON FOR THE CROSS

THE ETERNAL PURPOSE(The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee - Chapter 7, Part 3) Adam chose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and thereby took up independent ground. In doing so he became (as man is now in his own eyes) a ‘fully developed’ man. • He could command a knowledge; • he could decide for himself; • he could go on or stop. From then on he was “wise” (Genesis 3:6). GENESIS 3:6 NKJV So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant

THE ETERNAL PURPOSE

• FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BRETHREN (The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee - Chapter 7, Part 1) We have spoken of the need of revelation, of faith and of consecration, if we are to live the normal Christian life. But unless we SEE the END GOD has in view we shall never clearly understand why these steps are necessary to lead us to that end. Before therefore we consider further the question of inward experience, let us first look at the great DIVINE GOAL before us. What is G

PRESENTING OURSELVES TO GOD(The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee - Chapter 6, Part 2)

SERVANT OR SLAVE? If we give ourselves unreservedly to God, many adjustments may have to be made: • in family, or business, or church relationships, or in the matter of our personal views. God will not let anything of ourselves remain. His finger will touch, point by point, everything that is not of Him, and He will say: ‘This must go’. Are you willing? It is foolish to resist God, and always wise to submit to Him. We admit that many of us still have controversies with the Lo

THE DIVIDE OF THE CROSS(The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee - Chapter 5, Part 2)

BURIAL MEANS AN END Peter goes on now to describe BAPTISM in the passage just quoted as “the answer of a good conscience toward God” (1 Peter 3:21 A.V.). 1 PETER 3:21 TPT This was a PROPHETIC picture of the IMMERSION that now saves you—not a bathing of the physical body but rather the response of a GOOD CONSCIENCE before God • through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Now we cannot answer without being spoken to. If God had said nothing we should have no need to answer. But H

JESUS, MY STRENGTH TO BUD, BLOSSOM AND PRODUCE FRUITS WITH RESILIENCE

NUMBERS 17:1-2 NKJV And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Speak to the children of Israel, and get from them a rod from each father’s house, all their leaders according to their fathers’ houses—twelve RODS. Write each man’s name on his rod. NUMBERS 17:3 NKJV And you shall write Aaron’s name on the ROD of LEVI. For there shall be one rod for the head of each father’s house. NUMBERS 17:4 NKJV Then you shall place them in the tabernacle of meeting before the Testimony, where I m

THE DIVIDE OF THE CROSS

THE DIVIDE OF THE CROSS (The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee - Chapter 5, Part 1) The kingdom of this world is not this kingdom of God. God had in His heart a world system – a universe of His creating—which should be headed up in Christ His Son (Col. 1:16, 17). But Satan, working through man’s flesh, has set up instead a RIVAL SYSTEM known in Scripture as “THIS WORLD”— • a system in which we are involved and which he himself dominates. He has in fact become “the prince

THE SUPERNATURAL YOU IN CHRIST

THE PATH of PROGRESS: RECKONING (The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee - Chapter 4, Part 5) ABIDING IN HIM Now although we have already spent long on this matter, there is a further thing that may help to make it clearer to us. The Scriptures declare that we are “dead indeed”, but nowhere do they say that we are dead in ourselves. We shall look in vain to find death within; that is just the place where it is not to be found. We are dead NOT in OURSELVES but in CHRIST. We

TEMPTATION And FAILURE, THE CHALLENGE To FAITH – cont

THE PATH of PROGRESS: RECKONING(The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee - Chapter 4, Part 4) Now of course in a particular personal matter such as the above it might be quite possible for me to deceive myself as to what God had said, but of the fact of the Cross there can never be any such question. We must believe God, no matter how convincing Satan’s arguments appear. A skillful liar lies not only in word but in gesture and deed; he can as easily pass a bad coin as tell

THE PATH of PROGRESS: RECKONING

THE PATH of PROGRESS: RECKONING (The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee - Chapter 4, Part 3) TEMPTATION And FAILURE, THE CHALLENGE To FAITH For us, then, the two greatest facts in history are these: • that all our sins are dealt with by the Blood, and • that we ourselves are dealt with by the Cross. But what now of the matter of temptation? What is to be our ATTITUDE when, after we have seen and believed these facts, we discover the old desires rising up again? Worse stil

THE PATH of PROGRESS: RECKONING

HE PATH of PROGRESS: RECKONING (The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee - Chapter 4, Part 2) THE SECOND STEP: “EVEN SO RECKON...” What does reckoning mean? ‘Reckoning’ in Greek means DOING ACCOUNTS BOOK-KEEPING. Accounting is the only thing in the world we human beings can do correctly. An artist paints a landscape. Can he do it with perfect accuracy? Can the historian vouch for the absolute accuracy of any record, or the map-maker for the perfect correctness of any map? T

FOUNDATION 13THE SUPERNATURAL YOU IN CHRIST

SESSION 8 THE PATH of PROGRESS: KNOWING (The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee - Chapter 3, Part 1) Our old history ENDS with the CROSS; Our new history BEGINS with the RESURRECTION. “If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold they arebecome new” (2 Cor. 5:17). The Cross terminates the first creation, and out of death there is brought a new creation in Christ, the second Man. If we are ‘in Adam’ all that is in Adam necessarily d