EXTRACTS

The kingdom of God is a moral thought, the kingdom in which God is seen and felt. That was about to be inaugurated as the Spirit came down. The next thing that comes out is that the disciples wanted to know certain things, and He does not answer in the negative or the positive. He said, “It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father has placed in his own authority; but ye will receive power”. They would get the Spirit; they would be abundantly supplied for testimony.

So that it is not wise to make too much of current happenings among the nations. When God acts, things will take form very quickly, we must wait for that. It says in Mark that even the Son does not know; here it says “which the Father has placed in his own authority”. We may as well accept that; our point is testimony in connection with the assembly. Sometimes we assume to know too much! The point for us is the present testimony of God. He will not be diverted from it.

J. Taylor (Vol. 41, p.207)

In chapter 3 the great fact of the temple is treated, showing that the saints in that locality were, in virtue of having the Spirit, the temple of God. We come together in the light of the temple, so that one gets light, not only as to details, but everything is seen in its true relation.

The candlestick in the holiest gives its light over against all. You understand things in their right relations. We ought to be in the light of the temple when we come together, not as assuming to be the temple but embracing the principle. The things of God come in in such wise that you see them in their right relations, so that if one speaks, one should have exercise to speak as oracles of God. The Holy Spirit gives effect to that in one and another, so that the truth stands out, and you see it in its true relations. Here it is a question of saints being together in assembly, so that we may look for light as to how we are to act when together for edification.

J. Taylor (Vol. 10, pp.485, 486)

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