Mystery of Creation: by Watchman Nee

Author:Watchman Nee
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, General
ISBN: 9780935008524
Publisher: Christian Fellowship Pub.
Published: 1981-07-14T22:00:00+00:00

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delights and fashions of this world cannot entrap him. Just as a healthy body must not breathe in polluted air, a saint must not breathe in an atmosphere of wickedness, jesting and confusion. He will rather love the presence of the brethren because they are his companions in the heavenly pilgrimage. “We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren” (1 John

3.14).

By this time (that of vv.6-8) the heart of the believer has already come under God’s control. Even so, his actual condition is not greatly different from that of his former state because the dry ground has not yet appeared in his life and the fruits have not been produced.

Nevertheless, his heart is now turned upward, and the communion of heaven and man has already begun. With but one more step he shall be able to bear fruit to the glory of God

Six

“And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so”

(v.9). This is the third day of God’s work. What God did on this day is in perfect agreement with the “third day” mentioned in 1

Corinthians 15.4, for the number “three” in the Scriptures always represents resurrection. The land now emerged from the waters.

Formerly it had been buried beneath the darkness of the bitter seas; now it arose from its grave and became a dry land which could bear fruits. Though God did not eliminate the waters, He confined them to their limited boundaries. The seas now had their bounds; they could not deluge the land. God named the Seas (v.10) and thus recognized

their existence. Not until the new heavens and the new earth arrive will the seas be eliminated. The dry land too was given a name—the name of Earth (v.10)—to distinguish it from the seas. This was the work of the first half of the third day. (The work on the third day was divided into two halves; on that day God spoke twice and twice He 68

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called it good. During the first half of the day, the earth came out of the water; during the second half of the day, the earth produced grass, herbs, and fruitful trees.)

We have noticed how, spiritually speaking, the cross was at work on the preceding day. Naturally what is typified here on the third day is resurrection. The death and the resurrection of Christ give us new life. Just as He died for us, so He was also raised for us (Rom. 4.25).

Even as we need His death, so we also need His resurrection (Rom.

5.10). The absence of either one of these will reduce the gospel to vanity. Through the death of the Lord Jesus we are delivered from all which belongs to Adam—that is to say, to the natural. By His resurrection we can enter into all which belongs to Christ—that is to say, to the supernatural. His death delivers us from the position and experience of a sinner in order that we may no longer be sinners.

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