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 Watchman Nee (1903 - 1972)
Read freely text sermons and articles by the speaker Watchman Nee in text and pdf format. Was a church leader and Christian teacher who worked in China during the first half of the 20th century. In 1922, he initiated church meetings in Fuzhou that may be considered the beginning of the local churches. During his 30 years of ministry, Nee published many books expounding the Bible, including The Normal Christian Life and The Normal Christian Church Life. He established churches throughout China and held many conferences to train Bible students and church workers.
Following the Communist Revolution, Nee was persecuted for his faith. He spent the last 20 years of his life in prison. Nee was honored by Christianity Today magazine as one of The 100 Most Influential Christians of the Twentieth Century.
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THE SEPARATION AND MOVEMENTS OF THE APOSTLES
ANTIOCH — THE MODEL CHURCH
The church in Antioch is the model church shown us in God’s Word, because it was the first to come into being after the founding of the churches connected with the Jews and the Gentiles. In Acts 2 we see the church in con ... read more
THE SOUL-LIFE
The soul is man's self-consciousness. We are conscious of our own existence. This consciousness is the soul. The soul is the organ of our personality. All of our personality is part of the soul. All of the elements that constitute us as human beings, our ... read more
THE STARTING-POINT OF RECOVERY
We begin with Abraham because the divine plan of redemption begins with Abraham. When we open our New Testament the first words we read are these: `The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.' Immediately the genealog ... read more
THE STATUS OF AN HEIR
The distinctive feature of true Christianity is that it compels people to receive. The letter to the Galatians draws a close parallel between ourselves and Isaac, and shows that we are people who receive just as he did. We are heirs (3. 29; 4. 7). We part ... read more
THE THREE ASPECTS OF PRAYER
There are three aspects to our prayer: (1) concerning ourselves, (2) concerning God to whom we pray, and (3) concerning our enemy Satan. Every genuine prayer must be related to these three aspects. When we pray concerning ourselves, we are, of course, doi ... read more
THE THREE STAGES OF THE BELIEVERS' LIFE
When a man believes in Jesus Christ as the Savior who has died for him, he is regenerated. Regeneration is the initial step in the spiritual life. Those who are regenerated have received eternal salvation. After a believer has received the regenerated lif ... read more
The Tragedy Of The Church Of Ephesus
“But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.” Revelation 2:4
The expression “first love” refers not only to primacy in time but also in quality. The story of the prodigal son’s return home tells us that the father call ... read more
The Trend Away from God
Having every one of us been in bondage to sin, we readily believe that sinful things are Satanic; but do we believe equally that the things of the world are Satanic? Many of us, I think, are still in two minds about this. Yet how clearly Scripture affirms ... read more
THE UNREGENERATED MAN AND THE FLESH
Man was born of the flesh. This means that he was born of the will of man. Hence, man is flesh (John 3:6). To say that man is flesh means that man is filled inwardly with the lusts and the things of the flesh. All day long, his thoughts are filled with ev ... read more
THE VICTORY OF CALVARY.
"Fear hath torment." The finished work of Calvary ends the fear of death (Hebrews 2. 14, 5), and fear of the prince of death.
On the Cross Christ took away your sins, so that you might have the blotting out of them through His blood, when all the wic ... read more
THE WAY TO BE VICTORIOUS ALL THE TIME
Now finally, as to the keeping of the position in the spirit where these things can become true, and where you will have your spirit perpetually in victory. As you walk in victory resisting the devil in his attacks on soul and body, you will find the "wr ... read more
THE WEALTH OF THE CHILD OF GOD
THE sacrifice of Isaac is the believer's deepest lesson. It puts to us very straightly the question, Is our hope and expectation still in God, or is it in God and the Isaac we are holding on to? Or, worse still, is our hope in our Isaac only? After all, o ... read more
The Widow
This widow was helpless. The word widow shows her isolated situation. The husband on whom she depended for her living was gone, and she had become a widow. This is a good representation of a Christian on earth. Our Lord Jesus has ascended to the heavens. ... read more
THE WORD OF GOD
What we must do is lie on the altar. It is our High Priest's job to apply the sharp knife to us to divide our soul from our spirit. If we have truly committed ourselves to the cross, our High Priest will surely fulfill His ministry and divide our soul fr ... read more
THE WORK AND THE CHURCHES
THE APOSTLES AND THE CHURCHES
In regard to the universal Church, God first brought it into being, and thereafter set apostles to minister to it (1 Cor. 12:28); but in regard to the local churches the order was quite otherwise. The appointment of apostl ... read more
THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL
The Son of God was manifested for the purpose of destroying the works of the devil (1 John 3:8). We should be careful not to take the concept of leaving everything up to fate or leaving the condition of the world and the church today to fate. We should no ... read more
The Years The Locusts Have Eaten
“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten.” Joel 2:25
Do our hearts ache over the years we have foolishly squandered? Then let us thank God for the comfort of knowing his power to restore them. “Alas,” we lament, “our be ... read more
THE. CROSS AND THE SOUL LIFE
God has made full provision for our redemption in the Cross of Christ, but He has not stopped there. In that Cross He has also made secure beyond possibility of failure that eternal plan which Paul speaks of as having been from all the ages " hid in God w ... read more
THOSE WHO OVERCOME THE TEMPTER
II. THE TEMPTER
AND THOSE WHO OVERCOME THE TEMPTER
A. The Overcomers
Other than our Lord Jesus Christ, no one is an overcomer. "The Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3:8). "It [the seed of the woman ... read more
THREE SIGNIFICANT MEN
WHEN in the Old Testament God sets out to secure a people wholly delivered from bondage and separated to Himself in a unique way, and when in order to do so He appears first to Moses at the burning bush, it is remarkable that He identifies Himself by a th ... read more
TRANSLATED OUT OF THE POWER OF DARKNESS
(The following is an excerpt from an article by Jessie Penn-Lewis, "Translated Out of the Power of Darkness." It appeared in The Overcomer, Vol. 3, published by The "Overcomer" Office, Leicester, England, September 1911. It was later revised and repri ... read more
Union With Christ
“Thou art fair, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.” Song of Songs 6:4
It is in the heavenly realm that the saints have their union with Christ, but there too they meet the real force of the enemy's attacks. ... read more
VICTORY OVER THE WORLD
Concerning victory over the world, the same thing applies. First, there is the accomplished work of Christ, which is God's fact. Jesus says, "I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). Second, there is our faith, for "the victory which has overcome the ... read more
WALKING IN THE WILL OF GOD
(The following is an article by Jessie Penn-Lewis, "Walking in the Will of God." It originally appeared in The Overcomer, Vol. 6, published by The "Overcomer" Office, Leicester, England, June 1914.)
It is most important for the Lord's children to ... read more
Watchman Nee Quotes
From the normal Christian Life:
1. “Grace means that God does something for me; law means that I do something for God. God has certain holy and righteous demands which he places upon me: that is law. Now if law means that God requires something ... read more
We Should Not Sin
“And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father.” 1 John 2:1
What the Lord has done is wholly to forgive us for our sins and totally to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. When Scripture says “all,” there is no doubt that God means al ... read more
WHAT IS PRAYER
Prayer is the most wonderful action in the spiritual realm; it is also the most mysterious matter.
Prayer is a mystery. After we present a few questions concerning prayer, we will see how mysterious prayer is. These questions are hard to answer. But ... read more
"STRONGER THAN HE."
The "Stronger than he"the Lord Christis then, by His Spirit, the Overcomer Who is greater in us than he that is in the world (1 John iv. 4).
It is necessary to emphasize here that the Stronger than the strong man can only manifest His power through ... read more
"WHO HATH NOT LIFTED UP HIS SOUL TO VANITY."
The soul is the seat of self-lovepridethe "I" in us that wants to be seen and known and heard; also, the religious pride that says in effect "I thank God that I am not as other men are." This religious pride creeps into the most spiritual souls and ... read more
"YES" TO GOD, AND "NO" TO THE DEVIL.
In relation to all these four aspects of the adversary's workings, there is one strong central position which the believer must hold toward them all. We have it tersely described in James iv, 7. "SUBMIT YOURSELVES TO GOD, RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE WILL FL ... read more
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