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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
I wasn't sure where to post this commentary noted on the right side of the forum so I picked this one.
From Watchman Nee:
Many Christians do not overcome because they have not failed enough.???? Many Christians have not committed enough sins yet.???? 
Well. That explains how they 'justified' their sins of fornication, adultery, their hypocrisy (especially Lee's) |
Yes, I saw that too and wondered if there shouldn't be some commentary! Paul asks the question in Romans 6:1 -
"Should we sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who have died to sin continue to live in it?"
But to be fair, what was Nee's intention in saying this? Let me take a stab at it. The flesh will always be the flesh and will not get any better, and God has left us with it for a purpose. But, even after all these years, we still try to do things out of the flesh. Why? Because perhaps we haven't fully seen the complete futility of our flesh and how bad it really is! In my two weekly men's fellowships we have a lot of discussion about the flesh, and recently we've had talk about how our flesh actually seems to be getting worse. This thought seems to have backing in scripture as Ephesians 4:22 says the flesh is
being corrupted. But until we realize that the flesh is really evil and against God, we might not be as motivated to walk in spirit. (or, some might say that as we go on we just see the sinfulness of the flesh more clearly . . .)
We know that God often has to bring us to the very bottom, usually with much failure, before we can surrender and give ourselves fully to him. Is this what Nee is trying to say?