SEEING THE ACCOMPLISHED FACT

by Watchman Nee

"We are His masterpiece." (Ephesians 2:10) The Church is the very best God can produce. It can never be improved upon.

We look around and see breakdown everywhere and we wonder, "What is the Church coming to?" I tell you she is not coming to anything; she has arrived!

We do not look forward to discover her goal; we look back. God reached His end in Christ before the foundation of the world and we move forward with Him on the basis of what already is.

As we move in the light of that eternal fact, we witness its progressive manifestation - you advance spiritually by finding out what you already are, not by trying to become what you hope to be.

It is when you see you are dead that you die (i.e. manifest ones death in Christ);
It is when you see you are risen that you arise;
It is when your see you are holy that you become holy. Seeing the accomplished fact determines the pathway to the realizing of that fact.

The end is reached by seeing, not desiring or working. The only possibility of spiritual progress lies in us discovering the truth as God sees it; the truth concerning Christ, the truth concerning ourselves in Christ, and the truth concerning the Church, the Body of Christ."

Abide in Him!

"As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him."

The verb "abide", meno in the very rare pluperfect tense, indicates an event viewed as having been once and for all accomplished in past time!