A Matter Of Life And The Body
A MATTER OF LIFE AND THE BODY
In the early 1940s Brother Nee gave a num ber of messages in Shanghai on the subject of the Body. He told us that spiritual warfare is not an individual matter but a Body matter. Satan is the enemy of the Body. Hence, in order to overcome him, we must stand with the Body. The Spiri tual Man, completed in 1928, presented spiritual warfare as an individual matter, not as a Body matter. For this reason, after he had come to see the Body, Brother Nee told some of us that he did not want to have it reprinted.
We have not only seen the Body, but we have also seen the place of the divine life in dealing with God's enemy. Life is nothing less than the Triune God dispensed into us to be our content. According to the book of Romans, life and the Body are one; they are inseparable. If there is no life, then there can be no Body. Life is the con tent, and the Body is the expression.
SATAN CRUSHED UNDER OUR FEET
In Romans Paul does not mention Satan by name until 16:20. In this verse Paul says, "Now the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet." The Greek word rendered "your" in