10/20/22 NORMAL CHRISTIAN LIFE

10/20/22 NORMAL CHRISTIAN LIFE

Vance Havner said, "The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the N.T. normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

Watchman Nee wrote a book entitled, The Normal Christian Life.

My point is that "Normal" should not be confused with Average. Normal, in the sense I am using it here means, normal based on the approved standard. God's approved standard for the Church and God's approved standard for the Christian life is NORMAL; anything else is either subnormal or abnormal. 

The Normal Christian life is stated Biblically and briefly. 

Romans 8:2-11
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 

2 Corinthians 5:17
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 

Galatians 2:20
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 

Philippians 1:21
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.