tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post5028444306946360574..comments2024-03-15T12:58:50.777-06:00Comments on High Plains Drifter: The Messenger of the Cross by Watchman NeeTim Sheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-73418566704774910772011-07-09T10:09:29.327-06:002011-07-09T10:09:29.327-06:00There are way too many head-knowledge Christians o...There are way too many head-knowledge Christians out there. They have the knowledge and the Bible verses, but they have never lived the crucified life; they have never experienced the Presence of God.<br /><br />Someone can read books and books on hockey and go to every hockey game on the planet and never be a professional hockey player. To be a professional hockey player, you have to make lots of SACRIFICES: playing in lots of hockey games, pumping iron and road work and getting physically fit while your friends are out partying and drinking beer.<br /><br />The Christian life is a SACRIFICIAL LIFE. Just because someone reads the Bible and goes to church on Sunday doesn't make them a Christian. They need to die to self and the Scriptures need to be engrafted into their spirit--then they will bear much fruit to those around them. <br /><br />Our lives should be a living, sacrificial (dead to self) sermon that preaches powerfully without saying a word before we can really preach with our mouth "Jesus and Him crucified."<br /><br />The proof is in the pudding.Tim Sheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-88862956916158712382011-07-08T19:31:24.734-06:002011-07-08T19:31:24.734-06:00Tim,
So happy you've penned a Blog. Missed you...Tim,<br />So happy you've penned a Blog. Missed your "life of the Cross".<br />Very timely and powerful stuff you've got here. I love Watchman Nee.<br />This sums up something important here for me: "We cannot give what we do not have. If all we have is thought, we can only give thought. " The church today is full of church leaders learning and sharing thoughts and all the while their preaching only feeds the soul, yet the body of Christ must be fed from the rivers of living waters and this is ONLY gained from through Christ Jesus from the Holy Spirit. Yeah, the way of the cross is either foolishness (to the Greeks;i.e., the wise worldly wisdom) or a stumbling block to the Jews (Religious people trying to play religion going around the cross).<br />Thank you dear Brother.<br />God blessTraveler Andrew Sheets https://www.blogger.com/profile/09058451876886098168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-7283697924544054472011-07-07T20:07:05.419-06:002011-07-07T20:07:05.419-06:00That's why I love to use the word "surren...That's why I love to use the word "surrender" more than "submit". "Surrender" is a more powerful word than "submit". If we are truly surrendered to Christ, then the Lord can more easily work THROUGH us. People who are not surrendered to Christ, are really doing their own selfish, little work because that is what they want to do and the Lord has nothing to do with it--and, of course, they will call it God's work. We can know a tree by its fruit.<br /><br />If someone is not truly dead to self, then Christ cannot become formed in them. They can only preach from their head--they are into the letter, not the Spirit. And as we all know, the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.<br /><br />Someone who is truly dead to self has the Holy Fire burning in him and his life IS the sermon. The sword has power; the pen is mightier than the sword . . . . and the powerful Presence of God is more powerful than words.<br /><br />"At the rebuke of His countenance they fled."Tim Sheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.com