
Christ the Sum of All Spiritual Things

One day I was talking to a group of people about this spiritual fact. As I spoke, many eyes stared at me. I told them I would present a most significant fact to them; namely, that God’s Christ is God’s everything, for God has nothing else but Christ! God has not given us light, He gives Christ to us; God has not given us food, He gives Christ to us
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May God have mercy upon those who are so self-righteous and self-conceited. For such people have never known light; all they possess are but doctrines and knowledge. Had they seen the true light, they would have confessed, “Oh Lord, what do I know! I know absolutely nothing!” The greater the revelation, the deeper the blindness; the stronger the
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What the Lord Jesus wishes to tell us here is not that He is able to preserve one’s life but that He himself is life; not that He can raise the dead, but that He himself is resurrection.
Watchman Nee • Christ the Sum of All Spiritual Things
It is still possible for people to remember the letters of the Bible and yet not know Christ. Not for a moment do we suggest that we need not read the Scriptures; we simply stress that in reading the Word we may obtain knowledge without ever knowing Christ.
Watchman Nee • Christ the Sum of All Spiritual Things
Friends, whatever is not Christ living in us or is not Christ as our truth—that is, whatever is done on the basis of a doctrine—is dead work. It has no life, it is not living.
Watchman Nee • Christ the Sum of All Spiritual Things
Just as there were many matters eliminated when we first believed, so many more matters must be totally wrecked today. The only difference being, that what was first destroyed were sins, while what is later to be demolished are spiritual things. It was at the first that our pride, jealousy, vainglory, ill-temper, or some other sin(s) were destroyed
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Some time ago, it being the first instance that I prayed after my salvation, I asked God to give me a Bible like the one a certain brother had. We so often can only pray for what we have seen concerning others. We are unable to ask for something from heaven which we have never seen. We therefore pray for patience or humility such as a certain
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Memetic desires drive our prayers
To know Him as “er” is primary knowledge; to know Him as “tion” is further and deeper knowledge.
Watchman Nee • Christ the Sum of All Spiritual Things
5 NOTHING BUT CHRIST Jesus therefore said, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he. (John 8.28) For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. (Col.
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