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Nee Watchman's Ideas of Christian Life

Nee, Watchman. The Normal Christian Life. Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndall, 1957.

The author asks what is the normal Christian life and says at the outset that it is something very different from the life of the average Christian. Such a life has never been lived on earth except by the Son of God himself. The definition for this life was given by the apostle Paul, and God makes clear that he has only one answer for every human need--his Son, Jesus Christ. Nee begins by examining the Christian life as described in the first eight chapters of the Epistle to the Romans, a self-contained unit explaining sin and forgiveness through Christ. The blood and the cross are God's dual remedy for sin. The blood is for God, and the sinner has access to God through Christ and the blood.

We need the blood for forgiveness, and the second section of Romans 1 through 8 takes us to the Cross, which we need for deliverance. Aspects of the resurrection are mentioned in this section, first in relation to our justification, and second in terms of imparting to us a new life with a view to a holy walk. In section five, grace is brought into contrast with sin and the obedience of Christ is set against the disobedience of Adam. We are sinners because of Adam, and our life comes from Adam. The whole family of man is included in Christ. God has dealt with us in Christ, and in his death we achieve our own justification and deliverance.

Our old history ends with the Cross, and our new history begins with the resurrection. The conditions of living the Christian life are fourfold: 1) knowing, 2) reckoning, 3) presenting ourselves to God, and 4) Walking in the Spirit. All four steps are required. Forgiveness is achieved through our death with Christ. Our own crucifixion can never be made effective by will or by effort but only by accepting what the Lord Jesus did on the Cross. God's way of overcoming sin is to remove the sinner. The normal Christ...

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