LTC 2 Week

Let me ask you this…

Assignments

A Creature Continues after the fall BAD, BAD, BAD The Spirit takes priority over the physical Teach this to your new Believers! -A Stewardship -Salvation isn’t a self- centered thing. -A future.

The corruption of sin extends to every part of man’s nature, including all the faculties of his being. There is nothing in man that can commend him to a righteous God ASK: So does that mean Man is TOTALLY WITHOUT WORTH? Affects your view of Sanctification. Nee’s “Ascetecism” Application: Make room for Tensions & growth.

Nee, on Sin: We are all sinners by nature. If God asks nothing of us, all seems to go well, but as soon as he demands something of us, the occasion is provided for a grand display of our sinfulness. The Law makes our weakness manifest. While you let me sit still I appear to be all right, but when you ask me to do anything I am sure to spoil it, and if you trust me with a second thing I will as surely spoil that also. When a holy law is applied to a sinful, man, then it is that his sinfulness comes out in full display. God knows who I am: he knows that from head to foot I am full of sin; he knows that I am weakness incarnate; that I can do nothing. The trouble is that I do not know it. I admit that all men are sinners, and that therefore I am a sinner; but I imagine that I am not such a hopeless sinner as some. God must bring us all to the place where we see that we are utterly weak and helpless. While we say so, we do not wholly believe it, and God has to do something to convince us of the fact." Therefore, if we want to be deeply fruitful, we're going to need to develop an appreciation for just how deeply sinful we really are. This can be a very sobering week of study Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, 1986), pp. 157,158

The corruption of sin extends to every part of man’s nature, including all the faculties of his being. There is nothing in man that can commend him to a righteous God ASK: So does that mean Man is TOTALLY WITHOUT MERIT?

Romans 5:12-14 [12] Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned— Pellagius: “All Sinned” means EACH INDIVIDUAL has sinned. [13] for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Sin existed, but guilt wasn’t imputed. [14] Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. “those who had not sinned” – an anti-Pallagean view.

Romans 5:15-17  [15] But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.  [16] The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.  [17] For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:18-19 [18] So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. [19] For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

Romans 5:18-19  Sin Nature: v.19a the many were made sinners v.19a the many were made sinners  Physical Death v.12 so death spread to all men, because all sinned v.12 so death spread to all men, because all sinned  Separation from God (Spiritual Death) v.17 death reigned through the one v.17 death reigned through the one