From Faith to Faith: by Watchman Nee & Herbert L. Fader

Author:Watchman Nee & Herbert L. Fader
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780935008623
Publisher: Christian Fellowship Pub.
Published: 1984-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

The Seed of God

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himself was this very grain of wheat of which He spoke that fell into the earth, that died, and that then bore much fruit. Life out of death was a fact in the earthly life of our Lord, and so it is to be with us in our lives. Fruit bearing through death was our Lord’s experience, and so must it be our experience too.

The principle of fruit bearing, therefore, is not one of simply preaching but of dying. People can know and will recognize who has fallen into the earth and died, and who has not. Whether one has died to the self life or not may be judged by the absence or presence of the outer shell. Alas, how much natural softness as well as natural hardness we still have about us. Whether it be softness or hardness, it is the outer shell of the natural self life which blocks the outflow of divine life within, so that people are unable to touch that inner life.

Only through the working of the cross will this outer shell be broken.

How difficult it is to touch the real person if he remains unbroken.

You may talk with him for an hour, but you will still feel the great distance between you and him. This is due to his uncracked shell.

But with those whom God has stricken, pressed and broken, you touch life when you touch them because the natural, soulish part of their being has been broken. How true, indeed, that only those who have fallen into the earth and died can bear fruit! Before God, those who have passed through death can alone bear fruit; those who have not passed through death can never bear any fruit, for although it is possible for them to have tens of thousands of people following them, they still do not bear any fruit before God because they have refused to die

To sum up, then, the law of fruit bearing is death. Without death, the grain remains alone. May the Lord have mercy upon us that we may be the seed of God. May we fall into the earth and die, that God may reap much fruit from us.

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