Amazing Grace by Watchman Nee

Author:Watchman Nee [Nee, Watchman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Christian Fellowship Publishers
Published: 2013-12-26T05:00:00+00:00

Add the Holy Spirit’s Leading

to the Bible’s Teaching

A brother once asked me: “If I am to do a certain thing, please tell me what the teaching of the Bible is.” I answered him in the name of the Lord with these words: “If you do not know the Bible’s teaching on a particular matter, do you not have other means by which to know God’s will?” During the Old Testament period there were only written rules void of any leading of the Holy Spirit within them. In the present New Testament period, however, we have the Holy Spirit indwelling us to lead us into doing God’s will. In comparing today’s New Testament era with that of the Old Testament we can say that whereas the Holy Spirit is living, the law is dead. It is highly harmful to one’s spiritual life if a person sees only rules and lacks the inward guidance of the Holy Spirit. In Old Testament times God’s people had only the Judaic Scriptures without possession of the Holy Spirit within; but in our current New Testament era we also have the indwelling Holy Spirit who tells us what is right and what is wrong.

Today if anyone should look solely to the teaching of the Bible without also experiencing the Holy Spirit’s guidance in relation to its teaching, that person is still living under the Old Testament dispensation and not under that of the New Testament. I am not in any sense despising the Bible; rather, what I am trying to say here is that while the Bible is without doubt most precious, it cannot be superior to the work of the Holy Spirit within the believer. In fact, if the New Testament is superior to the Old Testament, which it is, then the Holy Spirit surpasses the Bible. Some Christians deem the not keeping of the Ten Commandments to be against the law. They do not realize that the law is only a principle, apart from which it does nothing further. Yes, it tells us yea and nay, but nothing more. I would here declare that the Bible is indeed a most precious book, but it cannot be a substitute for the Holy Spirit nor is it the only standard against which a given action is to be judged as being right or wrong. The Bible is essential, but Bible truth must be supported by the leading of the Holy Spirit in relation to that truth.

Once a brother who fellowshiped with us talked about baptism with another brother who happened to be in the denominations. I would have to say that this brother of ours acted as though he were a member of the Baptist Church, since he talked about nothing but water baptism. He was able to convince that other brother regarding baptism by immersion. So he brought that other brother to my dwelling place and asked me to baptize him. I therefore asked that other brother why he wanted to be baptized. He said it was because he now saw that the Bible teaches immersion, not sprinkling.

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