Gleanings in Fields of Boaz: by Watchman Nee & Herbert L. Fader

Author:Watchman Nee & Herbert L. Fader
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780935008685
Publisher: Christian Fellowship Pub.
Published: 1987-06-01T22:00:00+00:00

P A R T T W O

PULLED-OUT SHEAVES∗

∗ See Ruth 2.15-16

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1 Watch and Be Sober∗

On that day there came to him Sadducees, they that

say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him

saying, Teacher, Moses said, If a man die, having no

children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up

seed unto his brother. Now there were with us seven

brethren: and the first married and deceased, and

having no seed left his wife unto his brother; in like manner the

second also, and the third, unto the seventh. And after them all,

the woman died. In the resurrection therefore whose wife shall

she be of the seven? for they all had her. But Jesus answered and

said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the

power of God. (Matt. 22.23-29)

So then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be

sober. (I Thess. 5.6)

A group of Sadducees, who did not believe in resurrection, came

and asked the Lord Jesus a question. To us the question they put to

Him was indeed a most peculiar question and one that is seldom met.

There were seven brothers in one place who married the same

woman one after another. They all died without leaving a child. This

would appear to be highly fictitious. So that these Sadducees were

obviously intent upon using this question to tempt the Lord Jesus and

to refute the belief in resurrection. Yet, as we see in the Bible, their fabricated story did not ruffle the Lord one whit. Instead, He calmly

struck back, saying, “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the

power of God.” The Lord Jesus declared that they were wrong. Both

their insinuation and their question were wrong. Why did they ask

such a strange question fabricated out of their fanciful imagination?

For what reason did they refuse to believe in resurrection? Why were

they wrong? Let us see that He pointed out clearly that all this was

due to their not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

∗ Translated and published in English for the first time.— Translator 62

Gleanings in the Fields of Boaz

Now we do not intend to explain this passage of Scripture. We

only desire to derive an important principle out of this portion of

God’s word. Though this speaks of the erring of the Sadducees, it

also tells of the knowledge which a Christian ought to possess. A

Christian is a believer in the Lord Jesus, but he is still subject to

error. He may be wrong without even knowing it. The two main

explanations for such a condition to be able to exist are: first, a not

knowing the Scriptures, and second, a not knowing the power of

God. If we expect to walk well on the spiritual path, to serve well in

the Lord’s work, or to be in the will of God in our managing church

affairs, in expounding the Scriptures, and in our daily living, we must

know the Scriptures, and we must also know the power of God.

“Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching,

for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

that the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto

every good work” (2 Tim.

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