This is Monday morning, September the 11th, 1972,
in Richmond, Virginia, ministry given through Brother Stephen
Kong.
May we look to the Lord in prayer.
O Lord, how we praise and thank Thee
that Thou didst come to this world to
give life to those who believe in Thee.
We praise and thank Thee for this life
which Thou hast given to us.
Indeed, it is the light of man.
How we praise and thank Thee because Thou
art in us and we are in Thee.
And nothing can separate us from Thy love.
For we do worship Thee together this morning.
We do ask Thee, Lord, to breathe upon
Thy Word.
Make it living to all of us as
we fellowship in Thy Word.
We just commit this time into Thy hands,
Lord.
We look to Thee for wisdom and revelation.
We want to see Thee.
In the name of our Lord Jesus.
Amen.
Last night we fellowshiped together on the writer
of the gospel according to John.
In other words, we fellowshiped on the life
of John, the evangelist.
Now this morning we would like to go
into this gospel according to John.
So will you please turn to the gospel
according to John?
Chapter 1.
We'll read the first 18 verses because the
first 18 verses serve as an introduction of
the whole gospel.
John 1.1 In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things received being through Him, and without
Him not one thing received being which has
received being.
In Him was light, and the light was
the light of man.
And the light appears in darkness, and the
darkness apprehended it not.
There was a man sent from God.
His name John.
He came for witness that he might witness
concerning the light that all might believe through
him.
He was not the light, but that he
might witness concerning the light.
The true light was that which coming into
this world lightens every man.
He was in the world, and the world
has its being through him, and the world
knew him not.
He came to his own, and his own
received him not.
But as many as received him, to them
gave him the right, gave he the right
to be children of God, to those that
believe on his name, who have been born
not of blood, nor of flesh will, nor
of man's will, but of God.
And the Word became flesh, dwelt among us,
and we have contemplated his glory, a glory
as of an only begotten with a Father,
full of grace and truth.
John bears witness of him, and he has
cried, saying, This was he of whom I
said, He that comes after me is preferred
before me, for he was before me.
For out of his fullness we all have
received, and grace upon grace.
For the law was given by Moses, grace
and truth subsist through Jesus Christ.
No one has seen God at any time,
the only begotten Son, who is in the
bosom of the Father.
He has declared him.
Then we turn to the end of the
Gospel, John chapter 20, John chapter 20, verses
31, 30 and 31.
There are many other signs, therefore, also Jesus
did before his disciples, which are not written
in this book.
But these are written, that ye may believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
God, and that believing ye might have life
in his name.
That's all we'll read for this morning.
We mentioned in the past that the Gospel
of our Lord Jesus Christ is presented to
us with four different approaches.
And some people, in order to help us
to remember these four different faces or aspects
of our Lord, they try to help us
to give us a kind of symbolic pictures.
As you remember before the throne of God,
there are four living creatures.
You'll find that in the fourth chapter of
the book of Revelation.
There are four living creatures before the throne
of God.
The first living creature is like a lion.
The second one is like a cow, an
ox.
The third one is like a man.
And the fourth one is like an eagle.
Now brothers and sisters, just to help us
to remember, the first living creature that has
the resemblance of a lion represents or helps
us to remember the Gospel according to Matthew.
Because in Matthew you'll find that our Lord
Jesus is presented to us as the king,
the lion of the tribe of Judah.
Majestic, glorious, mighty, powerful.
Now the Gospel according to Mark we find
our Lord is presented to us as the
servant of God.
Most humble and giving his life for the
ransom of men.
It's like the cow, the ox that always
serves.
Then in the Gospel according to Luke you'll
find the Lord is presented to us as
the son of man.
A new mankind.
The beginning of a new race.
The man at the God's own heart.
So here you'll find the third living creature
has the resemblance of a man.
And finally the last living creature is like
an eagle.
And this is what we find in the
Gospel according to John.
John presents to us Christ as the son
of God.
As God.
Like an eagle in heaven.
Now brothers and sisters I do believe that
everyone who reads the Gospel according to John
will come to this conclusion that in the
Gospel of John he presents Christ to us
as the son of God.
Because he himself says explicitly at the very
end of the Gospel that he writes these
things in order that we may see that
Jesus is the Christ the son of God.
And in believing him we will receive eternal
life.
But I wonder brothers and sisters do we
know what is the meaning of our Lord
Jesus being the son.
Now we know that he is the son
of man.
As the son of man there is a
peculiar meaning to it.
In other words as the son of man
you do not think of him just in
terms of a man's son.
Rather you think in terms of he is
the beginning of a new mankind.
Now that is the peculiar meaning of his
being the son of man.
He is different from the first man.
He is the second man.
A new mankind.
That's the reason why he is called the
son of man.
And out of him comes a new mankind.
When you think of our Lord Jesus as
the son of God what do you mean
by his being the son of God?
Of course he is God's son.
That's right.
But then you probably will ask the question
when was he born?
And you know this is a theological question.
When we tell people that Jesus Christ is
the son of God immediately their question will
be now when was he born?
And theologically the theologians try to solve that
mystery and said he was eternally generated.
Now still we do not understand what it
means.
It is true that his generation is different
from our generation that is clear.
But it is still a mystery to us.
But dear brothers and sisters when we think
of the Lord Jesus as the son of
God what really does it mean?
What does God try to tell us?
I believe the Lord does not want us
to think more in the theological terms.
That is when was he born?
Whether he was eternally generated or not.
I think probably God does not want us
to think of these things because it is
a mystery.
No matter how we explain it is still
a mystery.
We do not understand.
But I do believe that when Christ is
presented to us as the son of God
there is a special significance to it.
And this you will find in the gospel
according to John.
What do you mean by being the son
of God?
Christ the son is simply meaning he is
the revelation.
No one has ever seen God.
But the one who is in the bosom
of the father he has declared him.
Now that is the meaning of the son.
And I think if you see this it
is very clear.
You do not need to delve into the
mystery of God.
You simply accept what the scripture has told
us.
Christ is the son of God.
Why?
Because he declares God.
He reveals God.
He is the revelation of God.
No one has ever seen God.
No one has ever known God.
God was the great unknown.
But this great unknown is now being made
known to us by our Lord Jesus Christ.
Why?
Because he is.
Again and again in the gospel according to
John you'll find he says when you see
my works you know that the father is
in me and I am in the father.
He said if you see me you see
the father.
If you honour me you honour the one
who has thanked me.
And towards the very last you see even
Philip as the Lord cured the father.
And the Lord said Philip have I been
so long with you and you still ask
show us the father?
Don't you know that the father is in
me and I am in the father?
If you see me you see the father.
I have declared him.
I am the son.
And this is the meaning of Christ being
the son.
But in order to reveal or declare the
father two things are necessary.
One he has to be the fullness of
the Godhead.
In order to declare God all that the
father is and all that the father has
must be in him.
Probably we'll sing a chorus while we are
waiting.
All right?
I think no, that's all right.
We have just mentioned that the gospel according
to John presents Christ to us as the
son of God.
The special meaning of the term the son
of God is that he is the one
who has declared the father.
No one has ever seen God.
No one has ever known God.
But the son who is in the bosom
of the father he has declared him in
fullness.
Now that is the scriptural meaning of the
term the son.
But in order to reveal the father in
order to declare the father to us as
the son two things are necessary.
One all that the father is all that
God is and has must be in the
son.
Otherwise he will not be able to fully
declare the father.
Otherwise there will be something missing.
And it will not be a full revelation.
And he will not be able to be
the son of God as he is.
Therefore you'll find in the gospel according to
John again and again he says the father
loved the son and has given to him
all things.
The father loves the son and has shown
him all things.
Whatever the father has shown me this I
do.
Why?
Because unless all the fullness of the Godhead
dwells in him bodily he will not be
able to be that revelation.
So dear brothers and sisters we will see
here as the son of God he is
also the fullness of the Godhead.
There is nothing that belongs to the Godhead.
There is nothing that belongs to the father.
There is nothing that what the father is
is not in him.
Everything all things are in him.
He is the fullness of the Godhead.
So you see how rich is the son.
He is as rich as the Godhead.
Then secondly he must not only be the
fullness of the Godhead and he is but
he has to empty himself completely in order
that he may be a pure representation decoration
of the father.
In other words there cannot be anything that
is of him remain.
If there is anything that is himself remain
it will distort the picture.
It will distort the testimony of God.
Now of course this refers especially to our
Lord Jesus as a man.
That's the reason why you find he has
to empty himself of his glory of his
honor of his position of his power and
to become a man submit himself completely under
God under the father.
And again again in the gospel according to
John you find he said I can do
nothing by myself.
I do it because the father has done
it and I have seen him doing it.
I can say nothing by myself.
Whatever I say is because I have heard
my father has said it.
Now dear brothers and sisters why is it
that this is necessary?
Because he is the son.
You know as God as God he has
all the glory all the honor all the
position and all the power that are his
duty.
But in order to be the son of
God he has to put himself under the
father.
Now to put himself under the father he
has to empty himself.
And that's what you find in the life
of our Lord Jesus.
So brothers and sisters this is what you
find in the gospel according to John.
He is the son of God.
On the one hand he has the fullness
of God in him.
Yet on the other hand he seems to
empty himself of everything.
And with these two conditions in him he
presents he is presented to us as the
son of God came to this world to
declare the father.
There is a great difference here between the
Old Testament and the New Testament.
In the Old Testament time God as he
is presented to the children of Israel as
he is presented to the world he is
the God transcendent.
In other words he is the God who
lives in the third heaven.
He lives in glory.
Even though he reveals somehow in part to
the children of Israel and to the world.
And yet you find when he reveals himself
partially he always reveals himself with such majesty
with such glory that the people was just
put in fear and tremble.
You know when God gave the law through
Moses to the children of Israel on Mount
Sinai the children of Israel were in such
fear they pleaded with Moses and said now
don't let God speak to us directly.
Just speak to you and you pass it
on to us that will be enough.
Why?
They were afraid.
They saw God transcendent.
He was the God who was high above
full of glory and majesty.
He was not one that you could approach.
He was one that you worship at the
distance.
The more you fear God the more you
retreated.
Why?
He was so full of majesty and glory.
So in the Old Testament you'll find God
was presented to us as God the transcendent
far above all.
And under the Old Covenant the highest spiritual
life you can ever achieve is the fear
of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
In other words the more you are afraid
of Him the better you are.
The more you worship Him at a distance
with fear and trembling that's all you can
do because He is the God transcendent far
above all.
But dear brothers and sisters when the Son
of God came to this world He has
brought God.
God is still the God transcendent He is
still the God who lives in the third
heaven and yet He is also God who
is so near to us.
Not only so near but He is near.
God imminent.
Not only transcendent but imminent.
And this is the meaning of incarnation.
The Word became the Word.
Why the Word?
Because He was the utterance the expression of
the Godhead.
But the Word became flesh.
Now the Word has become flesh.
He has tabernacled among men and as John
the apostle says we see Him we hear
Him we touch Him we contemplate Him.
He is no longer the God that is
far, far away.
He is the God who can be seen
can be heard can be touched can be
contemplated.
God is now here.
God is now present.
And now you'll find it is no longer
a matter of the fear of the Lord
is the beginning of wisdom.
Here you'll find it is the love of
Christ through the Son of God.
God has come.
God is now with us.
And God is now and this is quite
Christ as the Son of God has brought
to us.
Therefore John said the Word became flesh and
tabernacle among men and we have beheld His
glory even the glory of the only begotten
Son with the Father.
Here you'll find our Lord Jesus in our
midst.
The Son of God when we see the
Lord Jesus we see the Father.
When we hear Him we hear the Father.
When we touch Him we touch the Father
full of grace and truth.
Now why is it He is full of
grace and truth?
You know in 1st Epistle of John you'll
find John shows us that God is light.
God is love.
The very qualities of God the very nature
of God He is love He is light.
This is what God is.
And then in the Gospel according to John
you'll find Christ is full of grace.
In God is love.
But when the love of God comes to
us it is grace.
The grace of our Lord Jesus.
In God is light.
God is light.
But when God's light comes to us it
is truth.
It is reality.
It is truth.
Therefore you'll find our Lord Jesus being the
Son of God being the one who reveals
to us what God is.
God is love.
Therefore all the grace that our Lord Jesus
has shown us are but the expression of
the love.
It is not just grace.
It is love.
But when we receive it it is grace.
What is grace?
Something undeserved.
We do not deserve it.
It is free.
Freely given to us.
We who are unworthy.
Why?
Why such grace?
Because of love.
God is love.
And brothers and sisters today we find truth.
Not in the sense of cold truth.
In the sense of reality.
How do we enter into the reality of
all spiritual things?
It is because God is love.
There is no doubt.
And in the whole Gospel according to John
you'll find this book is written in that
way.
I believe you must have noticed in the
Gospel according to John the way that John
writes his Gospel.
Usually he will give us an incident.
Something happened.
Something that our Lord Jesus has done.
And after that incident or story he will
enter into a kind of discourse of teaching.
Telling us what that story really means.
You know it simply is when John writes
his Gospel you'll find he always presents to
us a story of grace.
Then followed by a teaching of truth.
The story is the story of grace.
What the Lord has done to us who
are so undeserved.
But after we have received such grace then
the Holy Spirit begins to teach us what
that grace really means.
It brings us for instance for an example
here was a man who was sick for
38 years.
And the Lord Jesus came and said do
you want to be made whole?
And he said nobody put me in the
pool.
The Lord said rise up and go.
And he did.
And afterwards the Lord met him in the
temple and the Lord said now you're healed
say no more.
Otherwise something worse will happen.
And now this is the story.
This is the story of grace.
But after the story you'll find in chapter
5 of the gospel according to John the
Lord began a discourse.
And during his discourse he said the Father
does not judge anyone.
Because he has given judgment to the Son.
So that people will honor the Son as
they honor the Father.
But anyone who has heard the voice of
the Son and believed in him he shall
not be judged.
He has passed out of death into life.
Hear the Lord say that he is the
judge.
The Father has given to him judgment.
And he judges according to the Father.
And his judgment is true.
But he is able to dispense grace to
us while he himself take upon our judgment.
Therefore anyone who believes in him will not
be judged.
So you'll find here first the story of
grace and then it is followed by a
teaching.
Now that is the whole method we may
say that the gospel according to John is
written.
But this grace and this truth are not
something that are apart from the Lord Jesus.
Why?
Because the Bible says the law came through
Moses.
But grace and truth survived through our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Now there is a great difference here.
The law came by Moses.
Moses was the law giver.
Through him the law was given to the
children of Israel.
But he was not.
Moses was the law giver but he was
not the law.
And you'll find even in the lifetime of
Moses he himself had violated, offended the law.
And because he had offended the law he
was not allowed to enter into.
He was put.
But with Christ Jesus it is different.
It is that grace and truth subsist through
Christ Jesus.
Now what do you mean by subsist?
It means that grace and truth are in
him.
They are maintained by him and they are
only real in him.
He is not only the one who dispenses
grace.
He is not only the one who teaches
truth but he is grace and he is
truth.
Now this is something we have to remember.
Grace is not something that Christ dispenses to
you as if you have a need.
You ask the Lord for that need and
the Lord said alright I will give you
grace that you may have your need met.
Then you take the grace and you go
away.
The Lord said I am the grace.
I am the grace.
Now this is why you find in 2
Corinthians chapter 13 here was a man a
man of God.
This man of God had a problem.
He had a thorn upon his flesh and
the reason why he had the thorn was
not because he had sinned but because he
had received much revelation.
You know isn't that strange?
Not because he had sinned but because he
had received so great revelation and because he
received so much revelation God allowed Satan to
attack him.
Why did God allow Satan to attack him?
That he may be humble and not exhausted.
So here you find he had a problem
a thorn upon his flesh and it was
very painful.
I don't know if you are touched by
a thorn.
Now this morning our brother and I we
were walking and our brother picked up a
thistle.
I have never seen a thistle before.
I mean I read it in the Bible
thorn and thistle thorn and thistle but I
never knew what a thistle was.
So he showed me a thistle and when
I took it from my brother's hand I
was pricked only a little bit of course
but I was I was pricked.
A thorn in the flesh.
Not only just a touch of the thorn
but the thorn is in the flesh is
there all the time.
It's so irritating it's so painful and because
of that poor praise three times Lord removed
it removed it but the Lord said my
grace is sufficient for thee for my power
is made perfect in your witness.
Now what is this grace that the Lord
is talking about?
My grace is sufficient for thee.
Is it that the Lord gave him some
kind of numbness that he wouldn't feel the
pain of the thorn or is it some
kind of a strength an insensitivity or what
is it that he may not feel that
much or he may overcome that?
The Lord said my grace is sufficient for
thee.
In other words I am your grace I
am with you even though you feel the
pain of that thorn and yet you can
overcome it.
My power will be manifested in your witness.
You are weak you will continue to be
weak you are not made strong you will
not come to a point and say now
I am strong you will never.
You will remain in weakness but at the
same time you will find the power of
God is strong.
You can overcome the thorn and turn the
thorn into a crown.
Why?
Because the Lord is your grace.
Brothers and sisters that is John.
John is such a subjective person.
His knowledge of the Lord is so intimate.
You remember when he first met the Lord
the Lord said what do you want?
His answer is where do you live?
And you remember at the last supper how
he leaned upon the breast of the Lord.
In other words with John it is not
a matter of things.
With John it is a matter of what
is grace.
He is the Son of God full of
grace.
But what is grace?
It is not something that he dispenses.
You need one thing and say all right
I'll give you one grace.
Now you need another thing I'll give you
another grace.
When you are sick I will give you
a grace called healing.
When you are in lack I'll give you
a grace called food.
He is that grace.
He gave himself.
And as he gave himself to us as
we experience his life we receive grace.
In other words there is no such thing
as a grace apart from the life.
The same thing is true with truth.
Now often times we take a truth well
as a teaching.
We say this truth and that truth.
The truth of sanctification the truth of redemption
the truth of transformation or the truth of
death and the truth of death the truth
of second coming and all these things.
Now we think of truth in terms of
objective teachings.
But according to the gospel of John truth
subsists in Christ.
In other words when you take a truth
away from Christ it no longer is truth.
And how you experience it in your life.
We said we were crucified with Christ.
No longer we but Christ who lives in
us is it truth?
It is truth.
Do you believe in the truth?
You do.
But sometimes it doesn't work.
Why is it that sometimes it works and
sometimes it doesn't work?
The reason is sometimes you abide in Christ
sometimes you are away from Christ.
When you abide in Christ it is truth.
It is reality.
It works.
But when you are not abiding in Christ
no matter how true the whole thing is
it is still truth.
But it is not real.
It has subsisted in Christ.
Full of grace and truth.
But all subsist in Christ.
There is one word that John uses very
much and that's the word life.
You know in the gospel according to John
he uses the word life or to live
52 times.
There is only another word that uses more
than that that is belief.
Belief is used 98 times.
But here you'll find the word life.
Now what is life?
The whole gospel according to John emphasized a
great deal upon life.
Now what is life?
It is just the combination of grace and
truth.
In other words how does Christ dispense His
grace to us?
How does Christ teach His truth to us?
It is it is all in this life.
God has come to us in the person
of His Son.
And His Son gives us His life.
May be imparted to us that grain of
wheat must fall upon the ground and die.
If it doesn't die it abides alone.
That speaks of our Lord Jesus.
When He was on this earth before His
death He was that grain of wheat among
a field of pears.
And as you read the gospel of John
and the full gospel you will find what
a life that grain of wheat.
How does He speak?
How does He walk?
How does He act?
How does He react?
And everything you'll find He is totally different.
He is heavenly.
He is spiritual.
He is eternal.
You look at the life of the Lord
Jesus and you cannot but say now here
is a life full of grace and truth
so totally different from everybody.
But He abides alone.
He abides alone.
I was told somebody discovered a grain of
wheat or something after a hundred years it
is still one grain but after a hundred
years they put it in the ground and
it bears fruit.
The life is still there.
Now our Lord Jesus outside you'll find a
shield the form of a man but within
Him is the divine life.
In Him was life.
And this divine life is full of love
and light.
And when this divine life walk upon this
earth you'll find it is expressed in grace
and truth.
And this is what we see the life
of our Lord Jesus.
Oh we admire that life if He remains
and does not die He will be alone.
All together alone.
He is just beyond human imitation.
You can admire Him but you cannot copy
Him.
It's impossible.
And on the cross when He died when
His outward shield as it were was broken
then the life within is relieved.
You know with John he emphasizes very much
on this life.
God has come to this world in the
Son.
But how can the Son share God with
us?
How can the Son give us His life?
Death is the only way for the relief.
And because of His death on the cross
dear brothers and sisters now we have received
eternal life.
Eternal life simply means His life.
God's life by His death and resurrection and
by the Holy Spirit.
Today we who believe in the Lord Jesus
we have now His life.
To put it in another way we are
now united with God.
God is no longer the God who is
far, far away from us.
God is now and we are in Him.
As the Lord said my Father is in
me and I am in the Father.
But now you are in me and we
are.
That you'll find in John chapter 14 through
chapter 15.
So dear brothers and sisters the whole emphasis
of the Gospel of John is not that
we may see God.
But the whole approach is God has now
come in the Son and the Son by
His death and resurrection is now able to
bring God to us.
There is now a union.
As the Father is in the Son and
the Son is in the Father so we
are now in Him and He is now
with us.
It is very, very subjective.
Having received this life brothers and sisters the
thing is what is the nature of this
life?
Or before we say that let us say
how do we know God?
Today we do not know God just as
an objective object of worship.
He is still there no doubt about it.
But we know God more as our Father.
You know in the Old Testament times people
know God as God the Maker the Creator
but they do not know God as even
though sometimes in the Old Testament you do
find such expression.
God is like a Father to the children
of Israel to the nation of Israel but
they do not have that personal relationship.
It is only through the Son that God
has become our Father.
It is the Son who has brought the
Father to us.
So now we know God not only as
our Maker as one that we should worship
in the distance with fear and trembling but
we know Him as our Father so near
so dear even in us.
And we are in Him.
Now that is what the Son has.
Now we have that life of the Son
in us.
He that has the Son has life.
But brothers and sisters do you know what
that light is?
Do you know what is the nature of
that light?
The nature of that light is light and
love.
So we have in us a light.
The light of the Son of God.
And the nature of that light is light
and love.
And because this is the nature of this
light what will be its expression?
If we allow this light to take control
of our life it will be great.
So our problem today is in principle we
have to follow the footsteps of our Lord.
The Lord said a grain of wheat except
a grain of wheat fall into the ground
and die it abides alone.
But if it dies it bears much fruit.
And then the Lord continued he who loves
me should follow me.
Wherever I am there he should be.
If you lose your life for my sake
you are doomed.
So brothers and sisters you find the same
principle is now working in us.
In a sense the Word has become flesh
in us.
Christ is now in us.
God is now in us.
His life is now in us.
Now how can that light be released?
And multiplied?
The same principle.
As the Lord has to go to the
cross through death in order that His life
may be released to us.
So if we want to see the life
of Christ multiplied increased in us we have
to deny ourselves take about the reason
why the life of Christ is not more
manifested through us is not because the life
is not there.
The reason why we are not so gracious
and so truthful we do not seem to
express Christ in His grace and in His
truth.
It is because not because the life is
not there.
We have already had that life in us.
It is because we try to preserve our
share that is our outward man.
And if we try to preserve our outward
man intact the result is life is being
increased.
So here you'll find the same principle.
We have to break through.
Life has to break through the share.
And if we are willing to deny our
soul life let our outward man be broken
then you'll find the life of Christ will
be revealed.
And what do you find there?
You will find within you love.
And people will find without you grace and
truth.
Therefore the gospel of John is not just
presenting Christ to us as the Son of
God in an objective way.
John presents Christ as the Son of God
in a most subjective fashion.
In other words John says now the Lord
Jesus comes the Son of God.
Now why does he come?
Because he comes that he may have many
sons.
He is to lead many sons into glory.
He is to be the firstborn among his
brethren.
He is the Son of God the Son
of God.
But by sharing his life that we too
may be many sons just.
And he is to lead many sons into
glory.
To put it in just another way he
is the bridegroom who came to this world
to seek for his bride.
That's the whole outlook of the gospel according
to John.
In the beginning you see the Son of
God and towards the end you see many
sons into glory.
So dear brothers and sisters as we read
the gospel according to John we should not
read it just objectively you know knowing Christ
as the Son of God in an objective
way and knowing that he gives grace and
truth in an objective way that is not
John's approach.
John's approach is he presents Christ as the
Son of God that we may receive him
and as we receive him we allow his
life to take control of us and to
live out.
That as he is so shall we be.
Why?
Because he is in us.
And that is the whole approach of the
gospel according to John.
Let us pray.
Oh Lord we do ask thee that as
we read the gospel according to John that
we may truly see Christ the Son of
God full of grace and truth imparting himself
to us that we in turn may manifest
him as he has manifested the Father.
Oh Lord do let us see this union
this mystery and do allow this mystery of
the union be expressed and manifested that Christ
may be exalted in our lives.
We ask all in the name of our
Lord Jesus and for his glory.
Amen.