The Better Covenant by Watchman Nee

Author:Watchman Nee
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780935008555
Publisher: Christian Fellowship Pubns
Published: 1982-06-14T22:00:00+00:00

The Characteristics of the New Covenant: (2) Life and Power

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A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree

bring forth good fruit” (Matt. 7.17-18). This is the natural law of life.

To us who are born again and have the life of God, this new life

naturally has its own characteristic and instinct too.

We need to understand, however, that although the life we receive

is perfect, it is not matured. The life itself is so perfect that it has the potential of arriving at the highest level, yet at the time of

regeneration it is so newly born that it awaits to grow into maturity.

Like a newborn plant, its life is perfect and yet it is raw. The

perfection of the newly born is limited to the life source, but the perfection of maturity applies to every area of the organism. This explains why a man who is regenerated needs to be renewed

continuously by the Holy Spirit so that this new life may be perfected in every part of his being. In the following pages we will try to show how this seed of life manifests its own characteristic and instinct.

THE LAW OF LIFE

Let us again read Hebrews 8.10: “I will put my laws into their mind, and on their heart also will I write them.” Here lies the

difference between the New Covenant and the Old. In the Old

Covenant the law was placed outside of men, having been written on tables of stone; in the New Covenant it is put into our mind and

written on our heart. What is outside and written on tables of stone

must be of the letter (2 Cor. 3.6). What, then, is the law which can be put within us and written on our heart? What is the nature of this law? From the word of God we find that the law which can be put

into our mind and written on our heart is not of the letter but of life.

Each law may not be of life, but every life has its law. The law which God puts in us is the life which He gives to us.

As soon as anyone has God’s life, he has this law of life within

him. God comes among men in His Son, and God’s Son comes into

men in the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who brings to us this life, 94 The

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Convenant

and the operation of this life in us is what is here called the law of life. In other words, this law of life comes from the Holy Spirit. This

is what Romans 8.2 defines as “the law of the Spirit of life.” And this law is singular in number. The law in the Old Covenant contains

many articles, whereas the law in the New Covenant does not have

articles one, two, three, on up to the last one; for it has but one article, which is the law of life. This is the New Covenant.

What is the nature of this law of life? Such a nature will operate spontaneously along a certain line.

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