Dealt With
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 The following quotes are from Watchman Nee

Dealt With:

That about you which is the human element is something established by the spirit of God; but you as a person, that is, your natural skill, your natural life with its thought, will and emotion, must assuredly be broken down by God. The breaking of the outward man does not at all imply that God also rejects our human elements.

Paul because he was completely yielded to the Spirit of the Lord and allowed God' Spirit to work in him so thoroughly, the words he spoke became the words of the Holy Spirit.

God has disciplined a person to such an extent that he can own the he person's thought and idea as his. Thus, a minister of the word is one whom God can trust. Such ministry requires not only the word, but also a suitable minister in whom God's word will neither be corrupted nor misunderstood.

The more dealings we receive the nearer we approach revelation.

We must allow the word to come to us, to drill and to grind us, until it flows out with - yes, our personal elements in it - and yet not spoiled or corrupted in the least.

The great problem is that many living waters cease to be living after they flow through men.

If we are not right, the word of God is blocked. This flesh must therefore be wrought upon by God. We need to be daily disciplined. Any defect in us will defile the word and destroy its power.

In the New Testament God must not only put His word in the person but just deal with them as well. He will use their thoughts, feelings and characteristics, but they must be dealt with.

It is obvious that the elements of all those who have not be dealt with by God are unusable.

To be one who delivers God's word we must be pruned and refined. God has to lay aside side those whose human makeup contains uncleanness, fleshly things and matters condemned by God.

God's emphasis in the New Testament ministry is in bringing into play the human element in the word. Under the discipline, control and work of the Holy Spirit, all human elements can be properly engaged by God. God is to be released through man.

The presence of human feeling does not necessarily ruin God's word; it does so only when such feeling is inadequate.

The word of God has taken up personality. It is united with man's word.

The great principle is that human elements must not be of such a nature as to hinder God's word.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ the word was advanced from revelation to personality.

In the Lord Jesus Christ it is the word become flesh, that is, first the word, then the flesh to fit the word.

God gives His word to man and lets the latter speak. If man's condition is right, God puts him into the word too.

The Bible is not a devotional but men performing or living out the word of God.

 

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