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Summary: Siperb, for those who want to dive deeper into the Truth.
Review: This book in mostly based around I Thes 5.23. Nee explains if a Christian wants to live a fufilling life, then he/she must learn the sutle differences between soul and spirit. Christianity has far too often gazed over this topic, and leaving most to believe we are dualistic. This is a must have for both the new Christiand and the veteran of theology.
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Summary: profound truths
Review: This book opened my eyes to a whole world of spiritual reality that I had never seen or even pondered before. Once the truths of the triune nature of man are discovered, you realize where your spiritual power comes from. You understand the mechanics of being tempted and what you must do to become an overcomer. You know what you must do in order to manifest in your outward walk the purity and grace that are communicated to your spirit from God. In short, the book teaches you how to have a victorious walk with God by showing you how your spritual being operates. The knowledge Mr. Nee imparts seems so basic once it is understood, yet without his book, we may never have discovered these profound truths. This book has had a major influence in my thinking.
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Summary: Now, This is body of church age!
Review: This is a wonderful and excellent book for us who have a pure heat to persue personal spiritual and life growth.
Now, This is a body of church age! We not need body buildings but personal truely life. This is a good guide for not noly distinguishing fresh, soul, and spirit; but reality for life.
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Summary: An eye openner. Thanks God!
Review: This is an important book. Very important indeed for it can change your Christian life for better and for good. This is a handbook on spiritual discernment so needed to His people in our times of deception. It teaches Christians to live spiritually and not carnally or soulishly. It shows the wall of the great divide between the carnal and the spiritual and how many Christians live on the carnal side deceiving themselves about own spirituality. Read it carefully, prayfully. And it will strengthen the most important relationship of your life - relationship of your regenerated spirit with the Spirit of the Holly One. It exposes complex subjects of Biblical anthropology (relationship between spirit, soul and body) in an easy to understand and exegetically sound manner. In fact, I think this is one of the best expositions available on the subject. More importantly, this is an utterly practical book. In addition to "what" (i.e. the theory) it teaches the "how" (i.e. the practice) on the areas which are the most fundamental for our Christian lives. Among them: What is my self and how to deny it? How to distinguish my own voice from the voice of God? How to put off the carnal man applying His cross and putting to death the body of sin? How to live a resurrected life of victory in Christ and walk in the Spirit.
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Summary: An eye openner. Thanks God!
Review: This is an important book. Very important indeed for it can change your Christian life for better and for good. This is a handbook on spiritual discernment so needed to His people in our times of deception. It teaches Christians to live spiritually and not carnally or soulishly. It shows the wall of the great divide between the carnal and the spiritual and how many Christians live on the carnal side deceiving themselves about own spirituality. Read it carefully, prayfully. And it will strengthen the most important relationship of your life - relationship of your regenerated spirit with the Spirit of the Holly One. It exposes complex subjects of Biblical anthropology (relationship between spirit, soul and body) in an easy to understand and exegetically sound manner. In fact, I think this is one of the best expositions available on the subject. More importantly, this is an utterly practical book. In addition to "what" (i.e. the theory) it teaches the "how" (i.e. the practice) on the areas which are the most fundamental for our Christian lives. Among them: What is my self and how to deny it? How to distinguish my own voice from the voice of God? How to put off the carnal man applying His cross and putting to death the body of sin? How to live a resurrected life of victory in Christ and walk in the Spirit.
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Summary: "YOU CAN'T READ NEE LIKE A NEWSPAPER"
Review: THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST TEACHING ON WHAT IS SPIRIT AND WHAT IS FLESH.....NEE IS A MUCH BETTER TEACHER THAN GUYON, MOLINOS, FENLON AND ALL OTHERS...YOU MUST PUT FORTH SOME EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND NEE...YOU CAN'T READ HIM AS YOU WOULD A NEWSPAPER..IF YOU WANT TO BECOME A SPIRITUAL CHRISTIAN, READ THE BIBLE AND NEE...
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Summary: An absolutely must to understand the spirit, soul, and flesh
Review: This is the best book I have ever read to help a Christian understand the theology of spirit, soul, and the flesh. This book was truly inspiried by the Holy Spirit. I never realized how soulish I was until the Lord brought this book to me.
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Summary: Hyper-spritual and unbalanced
Review: Though I usually love to read brother Nee's works, though they are Brethren-influenced and dispensational, I found that Spiritual Man was especially unbalanced and hyper-spiritual. It is based on the shaky premise that man is a tri-partite being, and builds a whole spiritual theology from that foundation. It is taken to such an extreme, that the translators had to invent the terms, "soulical" and "soulish" to help explain brother Nee's ideas. This book will most likely appeal to Charismatics, Christians interested in mysticism, and emotional people on a spiritual quest, but will not likely interest or help people seeking a plain Biblical theology. And even though some of the operations of the Holy Spirit in the believers life are well explained by brother Nee, I feel that his "insights" would do more harm than good to those Christians who are unfamiliar with the precious Word of G-d.
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Summary: Think Over Again
Review: Watchman Nee is one a great cloud of witnesses in China, and I respect him much. However, some of his teachings may not be close as what Bible says. Especially in his concept of Spirit, Soul & Body, it will easily make us to live in the world separately, and we somehow may be proud of using our own effort to please God, just like the Pharisees. 1 Thes. 5:23 not necessarily means we should be separated by three parts. I didn't see the other parts of Bible has that kind of teaching.
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Summary: What The Pulpit Should Be Teaching
Review: When we remove the fear from our lives, we are more able to look within ourselves to see the truth. Truth is the essence of what we all seek. Watchman Nee takes you to those places you do not wish to journey to show you why you must make this journey. If you don't want your life to be happier, healthier, more spiritually fulfilling then pass on this book. It is not easy; but it is not difficult once you begin the process as Nee outlines the course to follow. You just proceed one step at a time as you are able. Do the work and your life will change and people will see the change and wonder, maybe even marvel that you are transformed. But that transformation comes only through the Love and healing of Christ Jesus in the Holy Spirit. Secularists will also benefit from this book because it deals with the fundamentals of human frailty, exposing the lie of our own deceptions we play out day after day. The "process" is a life-long commitment to be the person you aspire to be. But if you are not whole within, you will not be fulfilled in life. To borrow an old Chinese proverb: If you don't like the way you're going, change direction. Watchman Nee facilitates that change in a way modern teachers have abandoned, favouring "feel good" and "prosperity" philosophy as more satisfying. The problem is, these forms of life affirmation are hollow and lose their lustre very quickly because they don't deal with core issues we all have to address if we want to be truly, genuinely happy. It's like, you can clean the outside of the cup, but the inside will still be full of filth. But if you clean the inside of the cup, the outside will also become clean. That's what this book addresses, making healthy the inner being that the outer being may also be healthy. A healthy life is truly a happier life.
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