Grace for Grace by Watchman Nee

Author:Watchman Nee
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, Christian, Sermons, General
ISBN: 9780935008593
Publisher: Christian Fellowship Pub.
Published: 1983-06-01T22:00:00+00:00

The Meaning of Baptism

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body of sin unemployed is “that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin.”

The old man is dead; therefore, we can overcome sin completely.

The blood of Christ was shed to save us from our sins before God and to cleanse our conscience from accusation. It tells us that we are now no longer people of perdition but are those instead who have peace with God. However, if we only know this aspect of salvation, our daily living will still be miserable. Though we know our sins are forgiven, we yet continue to make sinning our profession. We still cannot overcome sin in our daily living, nor can we bear the fruit of holiness. We are forced to sin daily; we have no peace in our hearts; and our communion with God is frequently interrupted. We know we are saved and have eternal life, but such sinning daily deprives us of the joy of salvation. Thank God, though, that the salvation of the Lord is no half-way measure. The Lord sheds His blood to cleanse us from our sins, and His cross sets aside the old man and delivers us from the power of sin.

Please be assured continually of this fact that each believer is dead as to the old man, yet not by his committing suicide. Some preach that each Christian ought to put himself to death in order not to sin again. Such counsel, however, is an error, simply because that at the time when the Lord Jesus was crucified, He brought us to the cross with Him as well. Let me ask you today if you are dead. Let me say that you and I can thank the Lord together for His having already crucified this hard-to-deal-with and impossible-to-kill old man of ours. Thank and praise the Lord! Hallelujah!

I wonder if we really know how utterly corrupted we are! I know I am most corrupted. How many times I was oppressed by the power of sin; how I longed that I would die. But sadly I could not put myself to death. Later on, I began to see that when the Lord was crucified, He put my old man to death with Him that the body of sin might no longer be in bondage to sin. And how happy I am today!

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Grace for Grace

Due to the work of Christ, sin has been trampled beneath my feet, for it now has no power over me. I praise and thank the Lord!

Please recognize that your sin cannot be gotten rid of through prayer, Bible reading, piety, worship, self-restraint, or suffering. It is only the Lord who can do this, and who has already done it when He took your old man with Him to the cross that you might be delivered.

Always remember this: that the blood deals with our sins before God while the cross deals with the old man.

What, then, should be our attitude toward sin? “Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ

Jesus” (Rom.

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