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Watchman Nee: The Normal Christian Life
Published in 1977 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Chapter 11 – One body in Christ

Ephesians 5
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[c] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Genesis 2
18 The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
But for Adam[f] no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”

“. . . So we have an aspect of the death of the Lord Jesus in Ephesians which we do not have so clearly in other places. In Romans things are viewed from the standpoint of fallen man, and beginning with “Christ died for sinners, enemies, the ungodly (Rom 5) we are lead progressively to “the love of Christ” (Rom 8:35) In Ephesians, on the other hand, the standpoint is that of God “before the foundation of the world: (Eph 1:4), and the heart of the gospel is: “Christ . . . loved the church, and gave himself up for it.” Thus, in Romans it is “we sinned.” And the message is of God’s love for sinners (Rom 5:8); whereas in Ephesians it is “Christ loved.” And the love here is the love of husband for wife. That kind of love has fundamentally nothing to do with sin as such. What is in view in this passage is not atonement for sin but the creation of the Church, for which end it is said that he “gave himself.” (Nee 210)

When God lovingly put man to sleep and took woman from his side, he was thinking of how he would become a man and bring the church from his side. He would always see the Church as perfect and without blemish from sins. He would always see her as a timeless beauty, with no wrinkles or imperfections. (Nee 220)