Salvation of the Soul: by Watchman Nee

Author:Watchman Nee
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, General
ISBN: 9780935008319
Publisher: Christian Literature Crusade
Published: 1978-07-14T22:00:00+00:00

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the Lord with perfect love and in simplicity, without any guile but in all purity. This, we agree, would be so good! This we hope, yet it seemingly is so unattainable. However, God is able to save us to that degree. It is not only possible but also attainable.

Our mind should be pure. If, however, we are double-minded, we will be like Eve. On the one hand Eve saw that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was good for food but on the other hand reasoned that God had charged her not to eat of its fruit. She saw that the fruit was a delight to the eyes and much to be desired but also remembered that God had commanded that it not be eaten. Yet being so aroused, Eve ate of the forbidden fruit. Thus by deviating just a little, she lost the simplicity and purity that is towards the Lord.

Let us ask ourselves, Do we have the simplicity and purity of heart towards Christ? We need never be afraid of loving Him too much. We should love Him without any consideration and without any argument. Praise God, He can save us to such a place as that! It is quite possible to have a simple and pure heart towards the Lord.

“And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye

transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God” (Rom. 12.2). By

this verse we are told once again that God is able to save our mind by renewing it to that place wherein it can prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Have you ever thought of this that has just been said? A renewed mind can actually prove what the good and acceptable and perfect will of God is. How frequently on a given point this thing seems to be God’s will but that thing seems also to be His will. How often we mistake one for the other. But a renewed mind will make no mistake concerning the will of God. Unless our mind is renewed, we will not be able to prove what the will of God is. And thus we will not have experienced a full salvation. Yet God has not only saved us to where 58

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we are today, He will also save us even further to a perfect position.

And it is to this that we must aspire and it is for this that we must thank God: because this too is attainable as well as possible.

Five: Our Thought

“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ; and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall be made full” (2 Cor.

10.5-6). These two verses show us that God can save our thought and bring it to the obedience of Christ.

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