CHRIST PARAMOUNT - JOHN'S GOSPEL

CHRIST PARAMOUNT — JOHN’S GOSPEL

The subject before my mind is where we have failed, and the remedy. The Corinthians failed by giving their natural mind a place. The Galatians, by attempting to correct the flesh. The Colossians’ danger was seeking to make the natural man a help to Christ. No one is really right, however much he may know, or however little he may know, when his heart is not set on Christ — when Christ is not paramount.

I trust it is of the Lord when I say that I expect a great revival now. Surely, when we enter in any degree in faith by the Spirit into the fact that we are the sons of God, and that in the life of the Son we know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent, we may expect to be arrayed in beautiful garments. May we receive more of the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him.... I am much interested in John’s gospel. The first man altogether ignored, religious or otherwise. The most degraded, religiously and morally (chapter 4), is set up in the most magnificent condition on the earth by a gift from God. Nothing from the man, but all to man from God. The most helpless of men (chapter 5),

^[p. 164] by divine power made superior to his infirmity on the earth, with the grand consummation (chapter 9) of being in the resurrection of life.... I have been enjoying much, that as risen, and in His life, we find Him as “Head” — everything; and then in the Spirit’s power we are borne up to the place where He is. Then the new and heavenly scene opens out before us, and the counsels of God.

In the evening I spoke on Matthew 27: 50.... I greatly enjoyed it. When Christ died God threw open all His secrets.