Firm Foundation Focus

In this In the Field episode, Alex sits down with Natan Jaszek from Kamienna Góra, Poland, one of the youngest voices at the Polish School of the 70.

Natan shares some of his story and powerful testimony of what God revealed to him during this year’s school — from discovering the reality of Christ living in him to the importance of community and multi-generational family.

**NEW WEBSITE** - check out the new Firm Foundation website, where you'll find out a lot more information!

⁠⁠www.ffdisicipleship.co.uk

The Cross created a whole new man. Righteousness is about being birthed into an entirely new life in Christ. To be skilled in righteousness is to live from the acceptance already given rather than striving to earn it.

In this second episode, Alex unfolds how DeVern Fromke’s four themes (from chapter 6 of Ultimate Intention, NOT chapter 7) — redemption, sanctification, righteousness, and wisdom — shape the daily framework of the new man. Redemption gives us a new viewpoint: I belong to Him. Sanctification brings a new relatedness: I am set apart unto Him. Righteousness is a new occupation: I am occupied with Him and His working through me. And wisdom brings a new philosophy: I live from heaven’s pattern and purpose.

📘 Core Truths from this episode: 

1️⃣ Redemption is more than forgiveness — it is ownership. He has redeemed me for Himself.

2️⃣ Sanctification is about belonging — I am wholly His.

3️⃣ Righteousness means being occupied with Him rather than working for Him.

4️⃣ Wisdom centres life on God’s eternal purpose.

Tent Talk Podcast - chapter 6 of Ultimate Intention

https://youtu.be/KTxzRfIpPKs?si=Cak2dnynvgwFn-Eo

❓ Ask Yourself:

→ Am I living as one who truly belongs to Him? 

→ Is my life marked out by being wholly His, in every relationship and situation? 

→ Do I live each day occupied with Him rather than my own performance? 

→ Is my outlook on life centred around God’s purpose, or is it still orbiting around me?

📘Listener's Guide Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing

**NEW WEBSITE** - check out the new Firm Foundation website, where you'll find out a lot more information!

⁠www.ffdisicipleship.co.uk

Milk or meat? That’s the question Hebrews 5 throws at us. “Everyone who continues to feed on milk is inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness.” (Hebrews 5:13 AMPC).

In this opening episode, Alex lays the foundation of the whole series. Righteousness is not a goal you strive toward — it is a Person you live from. The Father’s eternal initiative was fulfilled in the exchange of the Cross, where Christ became what you were so you could become what He is.

We’ll unpack three core truths that move us from infancy to the maturing son:

1️⃣ Righteousness is the Father’s initiative — it began in Him, not in you.

2️⃣ The Cross was an exchange — Christ became sin so you could become His righteousness.

3️⃣ Righteousness is a Person — Christ Himself, your wisdom, sanctification, redemption, and life.

Ask Yourself:

→ What was in your milk bottle when you were first born again — self-effort, or the revelation of Christ as your righteousness?

→ Am I still circling forgiveness and reassurance, or have I begun to eat the solid food of sonship?

📘Listener's Guide Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing

This closing episode draws the series to its sharpest point. Alex reads the final section of Knowing the Self from Watchman Nee’s The Messenger of the Cross and uncovers three final realities: that even prayer can be driven by self-good; that confession without crucifixion is vanity; and that knowing the self is a lifelong lesson without which there is no true spiritual life. The series ends where the Cross always leads us — the end of self, and the daily expression of Christ’s Life.

📘 Core Truths from this episode:

1⃣ “Much seeking, prayers and faith appear to be directed towards God, yet within all these endeavors is most likely the anticipation of self-good.” Spiritual activity can look sincere, yet still hide self at the center. The Father allows defeat so that every false motive is exposed.

2⃣ “How vain it is for anyone to confess with the lips and even cry out for help if he fails to accept the principle of the cross in judging self.” Tears and words mean nothing if self is spared. Freedom comes only by agreeing with the Cross’s verdict.

3⃣ “Knowing the self is a lifelong lesson for a believer… outside of self-knowledge, self-examination and self-denial, there is really no way to spiritual life.” This is no one-time revelation. It is the ongoing mercy of God — exposing, judging, and stripping self until only Christ remains.

🧭 Ask Yourself: 

→ Is my seeking really for Christ, or still for myself?

→ Am I just confessing, or am I letting the Cross deal with self?

→ Am I willing to keep learning this lesson every day so that Christ lives through me?

📘 Free PDF of The Messenger of the Cross: https://issacharpropheticcity.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/the-messenger-of-the-cross.pdf

📘 Listener’s Guide: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing

📘 Toxic Love by Malcolm Smith: https://amzn.eu/d/3MyQTmz

**NEW AUDIO - 28 August 2025**

[It was brought to my attention that the original audio was in fact, the audio for episode 1 - so with huge apologies, HERE is the final episode of this series!]

This closing episode draws the series to its sharpest point. Alex reads the final section of Knowing the Self from Watchman Nee’s The Messenger of the Cross and uncovers three final realities: that even prayer can be driven by self-good; that confession without crucifixion is vanity; and that knowing the self is a lifelong lesson without which there is no true spiritual life. The series ends where the Cross always leads us — the end of self, and the daily expression of Christ’s Life.

📘 Core Truths from this episode:

1⃣ “Much seeking, prayers and faith appear to be directed towards God, yet within all these endeavors is most likely the anticipation of self-good.” Spiritual activity can look sincere, yet still hide self at the center. The Father allows defeat so that every false motive is exposed.

2⃣ “How vain it is for anyone to confess with the lips and even cry out for help if he fails to accept the principle of the cross in judging self.” Tears and words mean nothing if self is spared. Freedom comes only by agreeing with the Cross’s verdict.

3⃣ “Knowing the self is a lifelong lesson for a believer… outside of self-knowledge, self-examination and self-denial, there is really no way to spiritual life.” This is no one-time revelation. It is the ongoing mercy of God — exposing, judging, and stripping self until only Christ remains.

🧭 Ask Yourself: 

→ Is my seeking really for Christ, or still for myself?

→ Am I just confessing, or am I letting the Cross deal with self?

→ Am I willing to keep learning this lesson every day so that Christ lives through me?

📘 Free PDF of The Messenger of the Cross:⁠ https://issacharpropheticcity.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/the-messenger-of-the-cross.pdf⁠

📘 Listener’s Guide:⁠ https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing⁠

📘 Toxic Love by Malcolm Smith:⁠ https://amzn.eu/d/3MyQTmz⁠

Alex is joined by first time students Grace and Connor who share there experience of the Polish School. Listen in as they discuss the revelations that are transforming them from the inside out, and how they are maturing as the new man!

Recorded from the historic castle in Lwówek, Poland, this special In the Field episode of Firm Foundation Focus brings you into the heart of what God is doing in the nations. Alex is joined by friends Joe and Regan, as we share fresh stories, moments, and lessons from The Polish School of the 70.

SOAP Bible Study

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFHGnmXl-xUwsVNC54TRomuUZmDQaEF0N&si=r-r20a_RsCNAiXbr

This episode goes to the root: the refined self-life that still governs spiritual hunger, revelation, and even surrender. Alex reads from Watchman Nee’s Knowing the Self and uncovers how Holy Spirit applies the Cross—not as a distant truth, but as an inwrought work within. It is about the death of self. The pursuit of breakthrough, the wilderness of delay, and the daily denial of independence all come under one spotlight: the blade of the Cross.

📘 Core Truths from this episode:

1⃣ “If they learn to know one more thing, it is for the sake of glorifying self.”  Even revelation can become fuel for pride when self is still the source. Every hunger must be handed over to the Cross.

2⃣ “God is compelled to keep you in the wilderness longer…”  The wilderness doesn’t end until self is exposed. Delay is not discipline—it is the mercy of God confronting what still draws from the old man.

3⃣ “The cross is a principle… to deny self and depend on God.”  The Cross is not a crisis moment—it is a way of life. Holy Spirit applies it precisely, habitually, and deeply to every place where self still rules.

🧭 Ask Yourself:

→ Where am I still seeking revelation for self’s validation? Does my hunger for truth serve Christ—or is it a quiet attempt to prove that I’m worth listening to?

→ How do I respond when the wilderness drags on?  Do I view the delay as failure—or as the Father’s mercy, exposing every place where self still holds the reins?

→ Where is Holy Spirit applying the Cross right now?  What part of me is being pierced—brought to death so that Christ can finally live through me?

📘 Free PDF of The Messenger of the Cross: https://issacharpropheticcity.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/the-messenger-of-the-cross.pdf

📘 Listener’s Guide: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing

📘 Toxic Love by Malcolm Smith: https://amzn.eu/d/3MyQTmz

Some of the most spiritual-sounding forms of ministry today are keeping self alive. Inner healing, prophetic processing, even prayer ministry — when fueled by the wrong source — can preserve the very thing God has already judged. In this fifth episode of Knowing the Self, Alex exposes the hidden motive behind much of our ‘healing’ language: self still trying to stay in control.

This episode calls time on the version of ministry that comforts what God wants to crucify. It speaks to those who are still striving, still performing, still asking Jesus to walk with them into their pain — but who haven’t yet agreed with the Father’s verdict on self.

📘 In this reading from The Messenger of the Cross, Watchman Nee pulls back the curtain with three devastating truths:

1⃣ “God has one aim — to bring you to the end of yourself so that you may know yourself.”

2⃣ “You were the one active, and it was all for your own self.”

3⃣ “When a believer ceases to trust in himself, God saves him completely in that moment.”

🧭 Ask Yourself: → Am I asking God to heal what He wants to kill? → Is my pursuit of breakthrough really just a way to keep control? → What would it mean to stop expecting anything from self — and fall fully into Christ?

📘 Free PDF of The Messenger of the Cross: https://issacharpropheticcity.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/the-messenger-of-the-cross.pdf

📘 Listener’s Guide: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing

📘 Toxic Love by Malcolm Smith: https://amzn.eu/d/3MyQTmz

This episode focuses on the deeper danger: doing good in the strength of self. Alex reads from Watchman Nee’s Knowing the Self and explores how success—when sourced in self—reinforces resistance to the Life of Christ.

Barna’s national research shows that 92% of professing Christians operate from a syncretistic worldview—a blend of spiritual effort, cultural values, and religious performance. In that climate, self thrives. It builds fruit, gains applause, and takes the credit.

This episode confronts the form of spirituality that looks mature but flows from independence. When the source is self, it can never carry the life of Christ.

📘 Core Truths from this episode:

1⃣ “God would rather have His children sin than do good.”

2⃣ “Each time they do a good deed, they drift a step further from the life of God.”

3⃣ “More success results in more glory to self, hence prolonging the evil life of self.”

📘 Free PDF of The Messenger of the Cross: https://issacharpropheticcity.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/the-messenger-of-the-cross.pdf

📘 Listener’s Guide Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CghKe2NP9ZMslL3fq12ijjq6DhciUFuh?usp=sharing

📘 ‘Toxic Love’ by Malcolm Smith: https://amzn.eu/d/3MyQTmz