I would like to spend the time with
you tonight in the Gospel according to John.
Now, as for me, I thoroughly enjoy my
readings in John's Gospel, and I want to
share with you something of the wonder of
what God really has already been saying to
us through the ministry of the Gifts, and
to move on, to let us see from
the Word of God just exactly what He
has for each one of us, individually.
Now, it's great to know what God can
do for us collectively, but it's important for
you and me to see exactly what God
proposes to do in you and me as
individuals, so that we're not left trying to
sort of fit into somebody else.
This is one of the great tragedies, really,
in that people are struggling to fit into
other people, often, instead of knowing what God
can do in them, and then when the
Lord has done this, then all the rest
sort of just follows as sweetly and as
simply as is possible, and here, then, we're
relieved of much striving, for you know that
oil and water just don't mix.
You may struggle to synthesize them as much
as you want, and get them to become
one, and things like that, but you just
cannot do it, but let oil meet with
oil, and it will mix, and let water
meet with water, and it will become one,
so much so that you won't be able
to tell which is which, and this is
really what God wants of every one of
us, and you will know, I hope you
will know in your own individual experiences in
your reading, and from times we've spent together
in this room, in the writings of John,
how blessedly John gets to the heart of
the matter, and how he seemed, from his
great revelations in the Spirit, to be able
to transfer in words the very deepest thoughts
of the heart of God.
So then, it's what must really be in
each one of us.
We will take it quite plainly from the
statements of Jesus.
I love to do that, as though, you
know, we can sort of spend lots and
lots of times, and epistles, and find out
what Paul says, and what somebody else says,
and what someone else says.
It's gorgeous to have the exact words that
Jesus spoke, and to know in the utter
simplicity and sincerity of his heart, he is
saying this thing to you, and mark it
what he says is the word.
Nothing can get round it, nothing can avoid
it, it is it.
Amen.
And of course you will know that this
Gospel is full of the things that Jesus
says, much more than the other Gospels, in
that they tell us so much of what
Jesus did.
They record miracles and marvellous things, very few
of them in John's Gospel.
But he opens up on the great things
that Jesus said.
By the Spirit tonight, he wants to move
into our midst, and talk to us just
as though we were with him on the
earth in those years ago, and in a
much more blessed position, because he has gone
home to his Father, and the Holy Spirit
has come.
And seeing that he said himself that the
words I speak to you are Spirit and
life, then the Spirit having come, how much
more shall these spoken words be real unto
us.
Amen.
They were the utterances of his Spirit.
They were Spirit words.
Praise the name of the Lord.
He never talked nonsense.
I never saw that Jesus cracked jokes.
I never saw that Jesus ever did that.
He was not a comedian.
Praise his name.
He spoke the utter sincere truth from God.
If you don't take what he says, you'll
go to hell.
And there's no avoiding it.
If you don't believe what he says exactly,
and move on what he says, you will
be eternally lost.
All right then, in this precious Gospel of
John, and surprisingly enough, seeing that I have
already mentioned that the things I am going
to speak about are the things that must
be in you.
They must be in you.
Yourself.
You must know them there.
I'm going to start off with something just
briefly, which of course you can't do for
yourself in the glorious and famous third chapter.
Perhaps you'd be surprised if at some point
during these days together I didn't touch on
this subject.
There was a man of the Pharisees named
Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
The same came to Jesus by night and
said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou
art a teacher come from God.
For no man can do these miracles that
thou doest except God be with him.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily,
I say unto thee, except a man be
born again, he cannot see the kingdom of
God.
And you know that it's quite impossible for
you to give birth to yourself.
You know that when you're born, you've got
to be born someone else.
And this is the glorious miracle and precious
truth.
In this same chapter, for instance, you read
in the 16th verse that God so loved
the world, the whole wide world, that he
gave his only begotten son.
And so we can, without any reservation, go
anywhere in this world.
And we can tell of the love of
God.
His great worldwide love.
He loves them all.
Praise God.
You can go and tell them this, and
if you like, you can be a complete
Arminian.
But when you come in the same chapter,
and this is the strange thing, you'll find
this paradox all the way through the Bible,
if you've got eyes and not prejudice.
You will find that it's in this same
chapter that you're told of that which, which
is absolutely an elective, determined choice of God,
that he gives birth to children.
And he doesn't give birth to them by
the thousand and by the million and by
the world.
He does it one at a time.
Amen.
What a truth this is, beloved, to know
that you have come forth from God.
That God chose in his love to send
the Holy Spirit into this world, having taken
Jesus out of it.
That he should come upon you, this blessed
Spirit, and you should know the glorious inward
experience, something which at last resolves itself into
your consciousness, so that you know what's taking
place, the long before you knew anything about
it consciously, the Holy Spirit had started to
work in your case and upon you.
And then you were born of God.
Amen.
That's selective enough.
Amen.
That's a marvellous thing.
That isn't something so much in yourself as
in God, that God begat through himself, of
himself, unto himself a son.
Amen.
That's the sovereign grace of God.
Praise his marvellous name.
Amen.
That's an exercise in God.
That's something that God felt.
That's something that God did.
It's something that God knew.
Amen.
I wish we'd stop almost dehumanising God, if
I may use that word.
When children are born on earth, everybody knows
about it, and there are the feelings of
it, and there's the wonder of it, and
there's the experience of it.
And God, oh beloved, he begets children.
These things we know are not the faint
pictures of the things.
Somehow God's got it over to our poor
human estate and mind, the thing that was
ever eternally real in him, that he brings
forth children.
Think of it.
Amen.
Oh, the wonder of it all.
That's something that God does.
Amen.
But having been born of God, having been
born, you and I have to see what
Jesus says, and he's the only one qualified
to speak, and those who latterly born of
him and taken over by the Spirit speak
from him and for him.
He's the only one qualified to say what
goes on in the Son of God.
He's the only one.
You don't need theologians to tell us, or
even Bible teachers, as far as that goes.
You've got a Bible.
You can read it.
You can spend time over it.
That's what I do.
And you can see exactly what Jesus says.
You sit there and you say, well, what
shall I feel like?
What should it be like to be a
real true child of God?
What does it really mean?
Don't you ever ask yourself those questions?
Or do you consider that's dangerous introspection and
run out somewhere and shove your head in
the sand and do the ostrich act because
of fear?
But to come to this blessed book, which
is the publication of the true signs of
the children of God, this unavoidable thing as
surely beloved as it's true in heaven, even
God took the trouble to write it in
this book so that you should have no
shock when you meet the Lord and have
to be taught certain things when they're in
the book.
You say, well, I didn't know that.
When he's put them in the book for
you to read, now because of our notorious
laziness, tonight we're going to take up this
Gospel of John and we're going through it
leisurely.
I've already spent nearly 20 minutes on the
introduction.
And we're going to have a nice hour
or so and see what God says about
these great truths.
Firstly, and I don't suppose that I'm saying
any new things to some of you, I
want you to turn with me into the
fourth chapter where you will remember that Jesus
is speaking to the woman of the well.
She has come with her pitcher to the
water and she has come to get the
water which still to this day out in
there they call the water of life.
It's quite normal water because they've got common
sense enough to know that if they haven't
got any water they'll die.
I mean normal water, so would you.
It's really water of life to you.
And so she'd come to get a drink
of the water and she meets Jesus who
says to her in verse 13 Whosoever drinketh
of this water shall thirst again.
And you could say and again and again
and again.
When I get back from this meeting tonight
they'll say what will you have, fizzy or
milk?
You see, they'll know I'm thirsty again and
I should probably have a drink before I'm
through tonight.
You get thirsty and then you get thirsty
again and you get thirsty again.
But here, beloved, Jesus says Whosoever drinketh of
the water that I shall give him shall
never thirst.
Never know what thirst is.
Think of that.
You know what thirst is in the natural
realm.
And Jesus knows that you know what thirst
is in the spiritual realm.
Deep inward thirst.
And he says that if you drink of
the water that I'll give you the water
that I shall give him shall be in
him.
Praise God.
Now do you know that the water is
in you?
You've got to know it if you're a
child of God.
The child of God, when he's born of
God is born with the well in him
springing up unto everlasting life.
Born with it.
Amen.
Do you know that the water's in you?
Springing up in you.
Now do you know that?
Jesus is just giving a description of spiritual
life.
That's what's happening in him.
You say really?
Yes, that's what's happening in him.
This is the way it was going on
in him on the earth.
That's why he said I can give it
to you.
Simple as that.
Praise God.
He said you ask of me I'll give
you living water.
The water that I'll give you will so
live in you that it'll rise and spring
and spring up unto everlasting life in you.
Your everlasting life is assured and you never
have any more doubts about it and you
don't have to go to the experts to
get prayed with after every meeting or something
like that because you know it's in you.
It's all springing up all the time.
It isn't out there.
It isn't in the book.
It isn't in the piano.
It isn't in the wait list.
It isn't anywhere else.
It's either in you or out of you.
It's in you like it is in Jesus.
Is it there?
If it's not springing up in you then
it's not there because when it's there it
springs up.
There you are.
Take the words of Jesus.
The water that I shall give him shall
be in him.
A well of water springing up unto everlasting
life.
You don't have to even go with a
nice golden pitcher and shove in the well
and get it out and get a drink.
It's springing up.
Hallelujah.
Oh, to think that in you there's a
deep living well of water profound and pure
and clear and you're drinking the water that's
springing up in you.
You're so pure.
Think of it.
You say, Jesus, you're so pure.
Let me drink of you.
He says, if you do it's destined to
make you pure so the water's springing up
in you.
That's what he's saying.
My, I'm taking deep draughts right now.
It's springing up in me.
And you know, the more you talk to
it it's like a volley.
Spring up, oh well.
The more you talk about it the more
it springs up.
That's right.
I read it in Deuteronomy.
They sang to the well, it says.
Spring up, oh well.
Glory be to God.
That's why we nearly take off when we
sing these hymns.
We're singing to the well.
Springs up.
The life inside.
Is it there?
Now, I want to suggest to you that
all these notions is that you get a
little trickle.
It's anti-biblical.
It's just not true.
It's rubbish.
You see.
That's the old system.
Down she went to a well with her
jug.
Got a nice jugful.
Back she came again.
See, and people think that this is the
Christian life.
And I want to deny it.
And every time you go to Sherbourne Road
you get your pitcher full and then you
come back the next week and you get
it more.
I want to tell you you're deceiving yourselves.
Or wherever you go.
Amen.
It's there.
It's in you.
It's marvellous.
It's wonderful.
And I want to tell you that God
so ordains that he can put you down
in the midst of a desert and you'll
be springing up with living water.
That's what it's all about.
If you've not got that in the barren
desert of your home or your circumstances you
haven't got the living water.
You haven't got it.
This is self-assertive.
This is springing up.
This is inside.
This never stops.
It springs up.
It's the only way God knows to let
you live.
Springing up inside you.
Amen.
So the Lord wants us to pass on.
Now let's go into the sixth chapter.
And we'll see what the Lord says here.
And in the sixth chapter we go from
water to bread.
And this is what the Scripture says.
The order in the psalm.
You remember the psalm.
It says of the child of God that
his bread shall be given him and his
water shall be sure.
Do you remember that?
Plays the name of the Lord.
Now we've had the water dealt with first.
Now we're coming on to the bread.
I love John.
He's a simple basic sort of a chap.
He doesn't get as complicated.
Just bread and water.
Prison diet.
So you see how you can live.
If you're in prison it's all the same.
Doesn't make any difference.
You ask Paul.
He had it when he was in prison.
I had it when I was.
And the whole truth in the sixth chapter
of John is this.
Jesus is speaking.
In 53 he speaks to these people and
he says, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
except you eat the flesh of the Son
of Man and drink his blood, you have
no life in you.
You've got to have life in you.
Praise God.
You've got to have life in you.
You know, a man's beside himself to talk
about this.
How can you explain to people Jesus was
beside himself.
In fact, in the end, to give it
to you he had to get beside himself
and hang on a cross and let his
blood run out beside him on the floor.
Let his water gush out of him onto
the floor.
Under the ground.
To bring you to the consciousness of the
wonder of this blessed thing.
That you've got to have life in you,
brother and sister.
Life in you.
And you, this will tell you, if you
don't eat his flesh and drink his blood,
you haven't got that life in you.
You haven't.
If your spiritual life depends on meetings and
somebody operating gifts and talking about the body
or whatever subject you love to hear people
talking about, if it depends on that, then
you haven't got life.
You haven't got it.
It's a beautiful thing to you and a
wonderful idea and you love to have it
and your ears itch to hear it preached
to you.
But oh, to have it inside you, the
life in yourself.
In yourself.
Dependent on nobody for this, only yourself.
In this, you don't need another's prayers, you
don't need another's ministry, you don't need another's
book, you don't need anything.
Not in this.
We do in other things, but not in
this.
You have it in yourself.
Amen.
Glory be to God.
It's a marvelous thing when Jesus stands and
talks to a man as one individual as
Jesus was one man on the earth.
And he had it in himself.
Desperately concerned that you should come into this
experience having it right there.
Where you cease to feed on your own
flesh.
Or on your husband's flesh or on your
wife's flesh.
And you're eating his flesh.
And you're drinking his blood.
Glory be to God.
I tell you, the cross has really got
to work here.
Cut you off from everybody and everything else.
The cross has really worked here and supplied
the flesh and the blood of Jesus Christ
in available form to you.
So that you can eat his flesh, drink
his blood.
Amen.
You don't have to chew anything and you
don't have to pick out the bones.
That may sound funny, but it's right.
It's a blessed, glorious feeling on Jesus Christ.
And I tell you, if you were set
down in the midst of Sahara, you might
not last more than four or five days
in the physical, but the water would spring
up in you and you'd have more food
in the inner man than the abundance of
the veil of Eden could supply to you.
That's right.
This is it.
To feed on him in the midst of
rottenness and vileness.
In the midst of temptation.
In the midst of the floods of wickedness
outside.
In the midst of absolute putrefaction and filth.
You can sit down and eat the flesh
and drink the blood of Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Got life in you.
Life in you.
Amen.
Life.
If it's there, it's strong, it's vigorous.
Eat his flesh and drink his blood.
That's man's need.
Now, this is it.
It's got to be in you.
God will be in you.
Oh dear, I've left my Bible, I tell
you.
Jesus Christ isn't the Bible.
Praise God.
It's Him.
Him.
Don't you see that God refrained from pouring
out the Holy Spirit upon all flesh until
He had the real flesh and the real
blood to bring to you?
Don't you see that you might feed on
Him?
Oh, blessed, blessed life.
To be in this experience.
It's got to be in you.
In you.
Got to be able to walk about.
Feed on the Lord.
You see, this doesn't depend on sitting down
at a table or set meal times, you
know, like we were told this morning, one
o'clock.
You see, it's got to be at one
o'clock.
Nothing like that.
All the time.
You just don't have a square meal now
and again.
This is the glory of the inward life
now in permanent communion with God.
Jesus Christ accessible.
Jesus Christ available.
Jesus Christ in a form that you can
eat Him and drink Him in the Spirit,
suited to your need.
Amen.
When He was on earth, when He said
this, how can we eat Him?
He wasn't in the form that they could
eat Him.
How can He give us His flesh to
eat?
How can He?
I'm really speaking to you Spirit.
This is spiritual flesh and spiritual blood.
This is spiritual food.
If you're alive in the Spirit, you must
have it.
The Holy Ghost has come because God knows
you can't live without it.
Isn't it precious?
All inside.
Amen.
Glory.
Amen.
And when you eat His flesh, and you
know what you'll do, if you'll really eat
His flesh, you won't reject, we won't react
to fleshy situations in your own fleshy responses.
You will react as His flesh would have
responded in a promiscuous age.
When you're drinking His blood, beloved, your blood
won't boil and seethe with passions on a
natural level.
It will react as His blood reacted.
That's what it's all about.
That's the fundament of your spiritual life.
It isn't in gifts.
They're wonderful things.
It's in Him.
As we shall presently see, we're passing on.
It isn't in powers.
God knows the church needs them.
Don't let's misunderstand this.
But all above all this talk we're hearing,
it's Him.
Amen.
That wonderful life.
How do you live on this earth?
How do you live?
That's the thing that counts.
That's the crux of the matter.
Because Jesus lived as He lived, He could
say what He said and He could do
what He did.
And isn't it a marvelous thing?
Now let's go into the 7th chapter.
And you will know in this 7th chapter
there was a feast of the Jews and
Jesus goes up in the middle of the
feast and He stands in the temple and
on the last day of the temple, 37,
the great day of the feast, Jesus stood
and cried saying, If any man thirst, let
him come unto me and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture
has said, out of his belly shall flow
rivers of living water.
Out of your belly.
I don't know whether you like the word.
I'm not apologizing for it.
That's right.
Out of you.
Not out of Him in you.
Now notice it.
That's not what He said.
He says, Out of you.
Out of your, shall I say the belly
or the heart of the inward man.
If it's really living this flesh and blood
life that we've been talking about in the
6th chapter.
Out of you can flow the glorious rivers.
Out of you man.
Not out of your sort of theological setup
of what it should mean.
You.
Have you got it?
That's right.
Out of you.
The you.
That you've known for this last 30, 40,
20.
How many years it is?
You.
Out of you man.
Really.
What do you think of that?
Out of you.
You.
You try and turn that straight.
Oh you mean Jesus didn't.
No, no.
That's not what He said.
Don't you act to scripture.
Out of you.
What is flowing out of you precious Lord?
You've got to have real, the proper flesh
and blood for this to flow out of
you.
That's why you've got to eat it.
That's why you've got to eat this flesh
and blood.
Because of the water that flows out of
you.
What's flowing out of you?
Is it a marvellous thing?
Out of yourself.
You know.
It's, you couldn't believe this if it wasn't
true, could you?
But don't hesitate to believe it when it
is true.
What Jesus says.
In other words beloved, and this is what
we're coming to.
We're going to see this glorious build up
of the eternal spiritual life that you should
have and be enjoying.
In fact the only one there is.
The rest is a deception.
We're going to see it building up into
it's great fullness and climax as we go
through this great gospel of John.
Oh it's a marvellous thing.
That out of the very deep vital places
of you.
Out of the hidden secret places of you.
It's you.
Because God has sold out something in you.
Because you've been born again from heaven for
this.
The living water supply of the earth.
This is what God has designed.
Men and women who are fountains and rivers
and flowings of eternal life.
That's what God's determined for you.
Oh hallelujah.
What's, I'm glad God gets down to this
real basic thing.
I don't, and then he doesn't come up
meaty mouth and namby pamby.
I'm glad he talks down on the basic
things that have to do with life.
They're rugged and they're real.
And these are the eternal things.
And make no mistake when you were fashioned
in the beginning by God from dust and
have come down through he patterns your reproductive
and giving organs upon this eternal truth.
That's why in John he talks this basic
way.
And everything you are and can do in
the natural man, woman, in public and in
private should speak to you of the functioning
of the true spiritual.
The spiritual man.
Let it talk to you.
For he came, this one at last was
expressed in flesh and blood that you might
see and you might hear and you might
know what you should be and what God
has determined for you and how by his
grace he will make you to be a
reproduction of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Out of your belly flowing.
Yours.
This isn't some highfaluting hypothetical idea.
It's basic down to earth living.
Nothing dead coming out of you.
Everything living.
Vital.
Life giving.
Praise God.
God let it seep in.
There's nothing unclean.
There's nothing dead.
There are no waste products in the spiritual
life.
Nothing.
Everything that rises in you must pass through
you.
And it must run out of you.
This is the life upon which you've been
formed in flesh and blood.
The human is an analogy of the spiritual.
And God wants you to see this.
He stands and cries right in the midst
of it all.
In the last day he gave them their
final chance on that occasion.
Come to me he said.
Come to me.
They were going through all their paraphernalia of
worship.
What's flowing out of your belly now Jesus?
Rivers of living water.
Praise his marvelous name.
Glory to God.
So vitally alive.
So gloriously full.
So vitally overflowing.
Amen.
Oh let's go on.
This is a great, great thing.
Not only must you have these things in
you.
But I come to the great eleventh chapter.
And you know that it's the story of
the raising of Lazarus from the dead.
And he's expected to go down and raise
Lazarus from the dead.
Everybody's expecting him to do it.
At least I'm sorry.
Go down and stop Lazarus dying.
Everybody's expecting him to do it.
Except his father.
He's expecting him to raise him from the
dead.
That's right.
Praise the Lord.
There are times when Jesus doesn't bother about
minor things.
But he deals with major things.
There are times.
There are times when he delights to go
into the minor things as well.
He can do them.
Such as giving you a bit of food
if you're hungry.
That.
Don't ask for jam and don't ask for
caviar.
Understand it.
He doesn't teach you to live extravagantly so
don't you do it.
Understand Jesus.
Understand the basic lessons of even a miracle.
The things he's saying that are never said.
The things he's meaning that are never put
into words.
The way he's pointing out I'm the way
he said.
Even though he's not referring to it.
But all his miracles he did in a
way.
And in truth.
And from that eternal life.
To show you how to live.
And in this 11th chapter.
He goes down at last to Bethany.
The house of ripe figs as we were
speaking the other night.
And Lazarus is quite dead.
At this time.
But when he decides to go.
The disciples say to him in verse 8.
Master.
The Jews of late sought to stone thee.
And goest thou thither again.
They were very unripe figs that they would
have stoned Jesus with.
A fig before it's ripe is as hard
as a stone.
A green hard rock like thing.
Understand.
He goes down to the house of ripe
figs.
Now there's a moment of maturity coming.
Ripeness.
Hallelujah.
He doesn't care about what they've done to
him before.
He goes down.
Jesus said.
Are there not 12 hours in the day?
If any man walk in the day.
He stumbleth not because he seeth the light
of this world.
But if a man walk in the night.
He stumbleth not because he sees the light
of the other world.
Oh no.
That's not what it says.
It says it's because.
Because.
Did you read it?
There's no light in him.
He's looking for the light of the other
world.
But he hasn't got light in him.
He's gone.
You've got to have light in you.
In you.
You know.
When I was a boy.
I used to read the scripture union portion.
And we used to pray the scripture union
prayer.
My word is a lamp unto my feet.
And a light unto my path.
And we were exhorted to read the bible.
To be a lamp unto our feet.
The light unto our path.
But you see we were brought up under
the old testament.
They're all old testament.
All the lot of them.
Nearly all of them.
Jesus says.
You've got to have the light in you.
That's right.
You see.
What I mean when I say.
Nearly everybody's living in the old testament.
Nearly everybody.
They preach it like anything.
We all sit there and say.
Yeah that's right.
Read your portion every day.
Well so you should.
Don't stop at a portion.
Read a book.
But the whole tremendousness about it.
Is that Jesus didn't teach what the writer
of the 119th Psalm taught.
He comes and he teaches.
That you've got to have the light in
you.
Not in this book.
Amen.
You've got to have the light in you.
In you.
I hope it's going in.
All this great truth.
What Jesus is saying.
Do you believe what Jesus says?
Do you know he never did say.
Now this will surprise you.
Don't get shocked at me.
You won't face truth.
Jesus never did say.
Read the bible every day.
I never wrote it.
Did he?
Now did you realise that?
Did you realise that?
Mind you it's a good thing to read
the bible every day.
You need to read it every night too.
Let's get mixed up about this.
But he knew the superstitious value.
The intents of men's hearts.
And the way they can get off the
thing he really said.
And start trusting in other things.
Amen.
He said you must have the light in
you.
They could look at him and say.
But Lord you've got the light in you.
Well you really mean that I've got to
have the light in me.
Like the light's in you.
Yeah that's what I'm saying.
You've not only got to have light in
you.
You've got to have the light in you.
For it's the life that is the light
of men.
There you are.
Quoting John 1 to you now.
That's the truth.
In him was life.
And the life was the light of men.
The life's the light of men.
The life is the light of men.
The life will be your light.
If the life's in you it'll be all
light.
And then it will shine through you.
Like the water that's in you springing up.
Flows from you.
So the light will shine out of you.
Simple isn't it?
You see I love old John.
Nothing complicated about John.
All you need is a spiritual mind.
That's all you need.
There's no complication.
Isn't it simple?
Everybody makes it difficult.
Jesus never made it difficult.
They all say do this, do that, do
that.
They'd all got light on miracles.
Mark, Martha and Mary got light on miracles.
All kinds of people make a better book.
See?
They all got light on miracles.
They read all the nice books.
If there were any.
Well after all the Old Testament had been
written.
There's healings there.
Can't write a better book than that.
The Bible can you?
On all these subjects.
Set for him, set for him.
You see?
God.
Jesus.
The light was in him.
You see?
This is the.
Let's just go forward one chapter into the
twelfth chapter.
And we'll see this thing.
In the twelfth chapter.
He says in the thirty-fifth verse.
Yet a little while is the light with
you.
Walk while you have light.
See there are lots of people who are
walking in the light.
That's with them.
That's what they were doing.
They thought they were in the light.
You see?
But they didn't understand the light had got
to be in them.
Not them just in the light.
That's what they didn't understand.
Well he said.
John Baptist said.
You were all willing for a season to
rejoice in his light.
You walked in his light.
Now you're all walking in my light.
It's a better light.
It's the real light of eternity.
But you're only walking in it.
It's with you.
But he said.
You've got to have the light in you.
Amen.
Then you're really walking in the light.
You're shedding your own light on your own
pathway.
Aren't you?
You're walking in the light.
You know where you're going.
You can see when others can't.
Because it's night time you see.
And they're looking for the light.
To walk in the light of the other
world.
Or the light of the other person.
Or the light of the book.
Or the light of a preacher.
Or the light of this or that and
the other.
And you always see these people.
They look almost as though they've got sight.
But they're not.
They're really groping about.
And here's the man.
He's got the light in him.
And he just keeps walking when other people
can't even see the path.
They don't know where he's going.
And sometimes if he preaches.
They don't understand what he's preaching.
And they misreport him.
And they did it with Jesus because he
had the light in him.
Don't you see?
You do see, don't you?
That's why in the logic of John.
Before he started talking about the light in
the 11th chapter.
He talked about having your eyesight given to
you in the 9th chapter.
It's ever so logical.
It's ever so simple.
You've got to be born firstly in the
3rd chapter.
And then we keep on going.
Now we're seeing what this life is.
It's an in life.
Praise God.
It's not just a life in.
It's an in life.
Amen.
And he shines.
And all the disciples.
They were all apostles.
Do you know?
They'd all cast out devils.
They'd all raised.
They'd all seen the dead raised.
They'd all helped feed the 5,000.
They'd all healed lepers.
Cleansed lepers.
All the lot of them.
They were walking in the dark.
What do you think of that?
That'll explain a lot to you.
Explain a lot to you.
If you'll just think.
Amen.
Is the light in you?
The light's in you.
Glory to God.
When everybody finds it dark.
You can't see any darkness.
What are people worrying about?
When they don't know what to do.
And can't see where to go.
And are groping around.
I don't know what's the matter.
It's all plain to you.
It's all broad daylight.
It's marvellous.
This is what gives a man poise.
This is what gives a man assurance.
This is what gives a man authority.
People are looking for authority everywhere.
It's this that comes in the life.
They're looking for somebody to put their hands
on them.
And give it to them.
Because of the stupid noxious ideas that are
being promoted.
Hallelujah.
Praise his name.
We're moving beloved.
It's all logical.
The light's in you.
Praise God.
You can walk in the darkness.
To everybody else.
But light to yourself.
Amen.
You say how can there be darkness and
light at the same time?
Well I'll ask you.
How in the world seeing that we're all
living on the same earth.
Will it be dark here at half past
ten.
And be broad daylight in New Zealand.
How can you have it at the same
time?
We're all the same individuals.
We're all living on the same earth.
We're all in the same clothes.
Breathe the same air.
Wear the same kinds of clothes more or
less.
Do the same things.
How is it that some are in the
dark and some are in the night.
The light.
Oh wow wow.
You could explain that.
That's a scientific thing.
Nothing's as scientific as this.
Whilst millions are in the dark.
A man can be in the middle of
them like I told you.
A man can sit in the middle of
Sahara and feed on Jesus Christ.
And sit in the filth of an awful
office.
And feed on Jesus Christ.
And pure water can run out on him.
That's right.
Same way.
When everything's dark.
Glory be to God.
It's broad daylight to him.
Mine too.
It's come.
Amen.
The son of righteousness is risen brother and
everything's healed.
That's right.
Amen.
Now then.
Let's go on one more step.
Or at least.
Let's take another step.
I know we're nearly finished yet.
This time into the 14th chapter.
In this wonderful chapter.
Jesus said some precious things.
Look at it like this.
He's really speaking.
And.
In this.
Verse 18.
Let's start there shall we.
I will not leave you comfortless.
I will come to you.
Amen.
Yet a little while.
And the world seeth me no more.
But you see me.
Because I will live.
You shall live.
Also.
I want you to understand.
He didn't say.
You are alive.
It was yet future for them.
They were going to.
They were still quite dead.
But they.
At last they'd seen him.
They hadn't seen him really.
Until about this time.
You're going to live.
Because I live.
They were still dead.
And they'd cast out devils.
And they healed the sick.
And they cleansed the leper.
And they'd been with him in his great
miracle ministry.
What do you think of that?
It'll explain a lot to you.
If you'll allow it to.
Amen.
And so that he goes on.
He says.
You shall live.
At that day.
That is when you're alive.
When I've come to you.
And you're really living.
At that day.
You shall know.
That I am in my father.
And you're in me.
And I in you.
Amen.
He then hath my commandments.
And keepeth them.
He it is that loveth me.
And he that loveth me.
He shall be loved of my father.
And I will love him.
And manifest myself to him.
This is the thing I really want to
talk about.
Here's the great next thing of this spiritual
life.
Jesus Christ.
Manifests to you.
Where?
On the cross?
No.
In the Bible?
No.
On the throne?
No.
Where then?
In me.
That's right.
Amen.
Praise God.
He says you can see me now but
listen.
I'm going to manifest myself to you.
When you're really alive.
Praise God.
I'm going to manifest myself to you.
They just sort of blinked and rubbed their
eyes open.
They began to see him for the first
time in this upper room.
Before he's going down.
And they're only just going to have about
one week of knowing they've seen him.
At last.
He's going this way.
And there.
And all this that we've been talking about
is going to be in there.
Marvelous.
And they're going to have Jesus manifest to
them.
As he is now in all his glory.
Is that right?
Am I talking to you about your life?
If I'm not.
I'm sorry for you.
You've got to quit stalling and trying to
make out that you are this and that.
And you've got to come and get it.
Yes.
This is what it is.
Wish somebody had told me this when I
was some of your ages.
Yeah.
I wish somebody had told me this.
When I discovered this, I let everything else
go for it.
I admit it.
Oh.
Praise God.
I can remember the days when he just
manifested himself to me.
I can remember the glory.
The beauty.
The sweetness.
The making himself known to me.
On the inward parts.
The display of himself.
This glorious one.
Unto all my alive, quick and conscious being.
Vividly alive.
Have you ever come alive like that?
Surely this is only for special people.
Yes.
Like you.
God so loved you.
That's what it's all about.
To bring you through a process of birth
through his own womb.
And beget you unto himself.
Glory.
Oh.
He says that.
Precious Jesus.
Glory.
You'll know.
He says you'll know.
You'll see the confidence.
He says you'll know.
At that day, you'll know.
You won't need a chap named Lord to
come and talk to you really.
Except that as they're talked out in your
ears, your heart can say amen.
Yes.
Praise the Lord.
Let's ask him again.
You might have thought that.
That's really what it boils down to.
To manifest himself to you.
So glorious.
So full.
So wonderful.
Oh, so much what I wanted.
So much what I need.
So much God.
So much my savior.
So much life itself.
That's right.
That's what it is.
Amen.
This is only eternal life I'm describing to
you.
It's the antipast of heaven to use a
famous phrase.
It is the glory of the realization of
the eternal destiny.
It's called predestination.
You have it in your heart.
It's in your life.
It makes you see how shabby and rotten
and wanton the world is.
It makes you want to finish with a
whole claptrap of it.
It makes you just want to live and
live and live and live.
In fact, if you had your choice for
six months of the year, you'd go and
shut yourself up on Bailden Moor in the
shack up there.
Or somewhere better.
And just love the Lord.
Just a talk like this reminds me.
Oh, it comes back gushing over me.
In ways when I remember the days when
I first entered this.
I'd go up in our bedroom and I'd
shut the door.
And I'd get there before God.
And I'd lie across the bed and I'd
love him.
And I'd open up and I'd look around.
And I'd enter into realms of knowledge and
things.
Of personal introduction and experience that needed no
man to tell me anything.
As the scripture says.
I was alive.
I've had no second experience from that to
make me talk.
What we call a baptism in the spirit.
Now.
So, blessing God.
Amen.
Manifest myself.
Think of it.
If he just walked in this room now.
We all got down there on our knees
and he just displayed himself.
There.
And you want me to stop talking instantly.
That's right.
Now that's what it is.
On the inside.
You're not always consciously engaged there.
But you're always spiritually involved there.
Is that right?
That's what keeps you fresh and sweet and
glorious.
That's what takes the frowns off your face
and the bullying out of your voice.
The edge out of your tones and the
nastiness and the snarls out of you.
How can you snarl at Jesus manifest to
you?
How can you do that?
It's what makes you shut your mouth and
take the strokes on your back.
Stop whining and complaining.
Most people's prayers have a long list of
complaints.
They call it prayer.
Prayer.
Whining a moment.
Speak to my husband.
Speak to her.
I'll do this for you.
That's one long whine out of the pit
inside you.
Instead of a marvelous engagement with God.
Praise God.
It shuts your mouth and opens your heart.
Let's go on.
This time into the 15th chapter.
This precious, precious truth.
You know I am God.
The true God.
And my father is the husband.
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit,
he taketh away.
Blessed father.
Praise God.
Isn't it lovely, father?
That's how Jesus trusted his father.
See, you never whined and moaned.
Oh, take this horrible person away.
See, my father takes it away.
I don't have to bother about these things.
I'm just the vine.
I'm growing.
I'm living.
Father.
See, this is what.
If you only understood this, beloved.
If you only understood.
You see.
You wouldn't have to keep asking God to
do this and that and the other.
Your prayer life would be 95% gone.
And the real prayer life would start.
Amen.
My father takes the branches away.
My father.
Let's be honest.
You know, I could sit down, I could
have an hour on that.
Just let that soak in.
I don't even bother to think.
Once I've read it, I sort of let
it go.
But.
In about six months time, it comes out
as ministry.
Do you understand the ways of God?
If not, begin to learn them.
Every branch that bear a fruit.
He purged it.
That it may bring forth more fruit.
Now you're clean.
Through the word which I have spoken unto
you.
Abide in me.
And I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself.
Except it abide in the vine.
No more can ye.
Except ye abide in me.
And he goes on to say.
First abide in.
Without me.
You can do nothing.
Now what this verse says.
Is not what you may think it says.
You may think it says.
That the branch cannot bear fruit of itself.
But it doesn't say that.
It says the exact opposite.
The branch is expected to bear fruit of
itself.
When it's abiding in the vine.
It says it cannot bear fruit of itself.
Except it abide in the vine.
It has to bear fruit of itself.
But not from itself.
You got that?
Amen.
Yeah.
Let us think here.
Because you probably thought it says.
That no branch can bear fruit of itself.
That's a distinct lie.
It's opposite to what Jesus said.
This is what it means.
When you hear people say.
People don't read the Bible.
They don't.
They read their ideas.
The whole truth about it.
Is he says.
You've got to bear fruit of yourself sister.
Brother.
That's what you've got to do.
And for this.
You've got to abide in the vine.
That's what you've got to do.
And you've got to produce the fruit.
So all the Bible.
Yes that's right.
He's the vine.
You're only a branch in him.
He's the vine.
He'll produce the fruit alright.
But it's got to be of yourself.
Amen.
None of your own efforts.
There aren't any efforts.
If you're cut off from the vine.
You're dead.
So that's it.
No efforts about this.
Don't get mixed up.
Don't try and correct me.
In case somebody gets me wrong.
Make sure you haven't got it wrong.
You've got to bear it of yourself.
Now this is the spiritual life.
Of yourself.
It's no good you say.
Oh Jim support me.
I want to bear it of you.
You see.
Stop your nonsense.
If you prefer Jim to Jesus.
You'll go to hell.
Hallelujah.
So every branch.
Has got to bear fruit of itself.
Of yourself brother.
Unaided.
Just abide and abide.
Father of purges.
Okay.
Don't worry.
It's alright.
Just abide and abide.
Hallelujah.
I know some men that can't do anything
without their wives to lean on.
I know wives that can't do it.
Or we have to work together.
Dear oh dear.
Well it is work too.
This is fruit bearing.
This is the whole glorious thing.
You produce the fruit of yourself.
A marvelous thing.
To see the fruit hanging on the branch.
There it is.
Of yourself.
Not by yourself.
Not from yourself.
Not unto yourself.
Or for yourself.
But through yourself.
Of yourself.
Isn't this a precious thing?
This is what Jesus is expecting of you.
This is the spiritual life.
This is what that new birth is.
In it's outcome.
In it's growth.
In it's development.
In it's purpose.
In the heart of God.
That's what it is.
Died in me.
I'm the vine.
But if he's the whole vine he's saying
well I'm you.
You're a branch of me.
That's all you are.
I'm you.
I'm the whole vine.
I am.
The whole of it.
All the branches.
I'm it.
Praise God.
That's it.
That's what he's saying.
And once this truth really grips your heart.
That it really is Jesus in you.
In yourself.
It's Jesus in yourself.
That now the complete takeover has happened.
In your emotions.
In your character.
In your makeup.
In your expressions.
In your issuings.
In your walkings.
In your comings.
In your goings.
In your talkings.
In everything.
It's him.
Yourself.
That's it.
The real self of it.
About which people used to speak and say
he's selfish.
She's self centered.
You've got to be vine centered.
Amen.
Abiding in the vine.
That self.
About which they used to say he's stubborn.
She's obstinate.
He's full of pride.
And she's as jealous as they come.
That's it.
Him he's hard.
She's petty.
Catty.
That's right.
That self.
Amen.
She's weak.
He's strong.
Of that self.
That.
Well how can that happen?
Be born again.
That's right.
God does that.
You have and do or produce all the
rest.
I've been telling the tale of your spiritual
life.
Have I?
It's told from the lips of Jesus.
It's recorded in the book.
It's the precious eternal truths that angels desire
to look into.
It's the wonder of the ages.
It's the glory of eternity.
This Christ in me.
You've got to bear fruit of yourself with
the sum total of your makeup.
You have to produce fruit of God.
It's got to come of you.
As you abide in the vine.
Yes.
That's what you're here for.
For the Father.
Amen.
Bless God.
You know don't you?
That grapes are the abundant life of the
vine.
Got so much sap it starts to push
out in little skins.
It's the abundant life of the vine.
That's what grapes are.
The fruit.
You've got to produce it.
Have life.
Be joined to the vine.
Have it abundantly for important fruit.
Amen.
Have a drink.
That's life springing up in you.
Have it abundantly.
Water's flowing out of your belly.
Alright?
That's John.
That's the Holy Ghost through John.
Against the spirit of the law according to
you.
This is the fruit of a man's lips
and of his life and of his pen.
The husband that has garnered it.
This book.
This John.
His fruit.
The abundance of his own life.
And he got in it.
It was in him.
Every scripture is life abundant.
Flowing from some man.
Precious isn't it?
Hallelujah.
What scripture flows from you?
Or at least what script shall we put
it that way?
We'll move off the U.R.R.E.
In case somebody gets bogged.
What script flows from you?
Oh God.
This is it.
I turn over.
And I think probably you'll make this final.
If you have to go, good night.
Don't be uncomfortable.
And in the 17th chapter.
Couldn't finish on a better note could we?
Couldn't finish better.
And you remember that I said that it
all moves through from that glorious new birth.
To Christ.
Just Christ.
You remember I said that?
Now here we see it.
Here's Jesus.
Father.
Verse 24.
Father.
I will that they also.
Not just me.
They also.
Whom thou hast given me.
Be with me.
Where I am.
That they may behold my glory.
Which thou hast given me.
For thou lovest me.
Before the foundation of the world.
Oh righteous father.
The world hath not known thee.
But I have known thee.
In the world.
And these have known.
That thou hast sent me.
I bring something from that.
That if you don't know him in this
world.
Nobody will know.
That anybody sent you.
Nobody will know.
Knowledge springs from knowledge.
Like water flows from water.
Nobody will know that God sent you.
You may put the trumpet to your lips
and blow it well for yourself.
But nobody will know.
If you don't know him.
In this world.
Where the world doesn't know him.
These are spiritual laws and principles coming out.
In the utterances of the lips of Jesus.
You've got to talk like that.
Everything's got to be spiritual law.
And principle.
Everything.
It's got to govern everything you say.
You've got to come out with nice ideas.
You've got to be able to utter the
truth of spiritual life and principle.
On this earth.
God.
God help us.
For the words of your lips have got
to be the abundance of the life of
your heart.
If you want abundant life.
It's not only in script.
It's in speech.
We'll go on.
And he says.
These have known that thou hast sent me.
And I have declared unto them thine name.
Do you know what it is?
The name.
Father.
Where does that name come from?
Because he begets children.
So you're back again.
That's the only way you can be a
father.
We are right back again.
We're at the beginning.
I've declared unto them thine name.
Listen.
And we'll declare it.
Praise God.
You only have one message.
New verse.
Father.
I'm going to declare it.
Sonship with the father.
That was his message.
You read the whole of this prayer.
And the outpourings of the sacred heart of
Jesus.
And that's all it is.
One with the father.
That's all it is.
And let's finish up.
That the love wherewith thou hast loved me.
May be in them.
And I.
In them.
That's where it finishes.
It's all finished now.
The next is unto the cross.
He has brought his statements to an end.
He finished his statements.
Talking to his father.
In the ears of his disciples.
And I know what it's all about.
I.
In.
In you.
Not sort of inside like I might tuck
this inside my shirt there now.
I've got a Bible inside my shirt.
It's not there.
It's in you by.
Not by affinity but by identity.
It's in you.
This Jesus in you is being identified with
you.
So that people can identify Jesus Christ in
you and with you.
That's right.
That beloved is a Christian.
That's all I've told you what a Christian
is.
The love wherewith thou hast loved me.
In them.
That's it.
It's almost beyond believing.
Of course it's beyond believing.
It's that which lies beyond believing.
It's the receiving.
It's the actual knowledge.
The love wherewith father loves Jesus.
In your own self.
Oh.
Praise God.
And I because of this.
I'm in that man's character.
I'm in that man's life.
I'm in that woman's responses, principles.
I'm in the basic laws of her being.
Christ by the spirit.
I'm in her thinking.
I'm in her speaking.
Did Christ come and talk to me then?
When you spoke to me?
I'm in them.
I am.
It's finished.
You may go on and read through the
other chapters but he's brought it all to
conclusion.
It's what Paul says.
Christ liveth in me.
And the life that I now live.
In the flesh.
I live by the faith of the Son
of God.
Who loved me.
And gave himself for me.
Not just on the cross but through the
cross.
For me.
The cross enabled him to bring all that
manhood that he lived in the flesh.
Right into the spirit.
And in the spirit bring it into me.
And let it out in my flesh.
Amen.
Now that's what it all is.
So you see that when Wesley has a
sea.
All the struggle then is o'er.
Then war and fight will cease.
Israel then shall sin no more.
But dwell in perfect peace.
All his enemies are gone.
Sin shall have him no part.
See?
Israel now shall dwell alone.
With Jesus in his heart.
That's right.
That's the truth.
That's the glory.
I.
In.
That's what he gave himself to death for.
Gave himself to death.
To come into you.
The spirit.
Will resolve you into Christ.
And you will be resolved then as a
human being.
The problems will be gone for you.
Your sin will have departed.
Your life will have gone.
And there.
He's here.
Oh, I could talk to you about it
all night.
Are you there?
Come on, let's pray.
Just believe it.
That it hasn't happened.
There are many people.
Who.
You, you have to live in terrible circumstances.
You have to live out in the vileness
of the world.
I live an artificial life.
I always tell people that.
That we live artificial lives.
We can't help it.
If God sets us aside.
And calls us out of rotten factories.
And filthy offices.
And terrible hospitals.
That's not our fault.
That's God.
He does it.
That's entirely up to him.
But we're not living out in the world.
Our temptations are different from yours.
Nevertheless they're real.
Now, because you live in these circumstances.
The devil is very persistent.
He doesn't give up as easily as Christians
do.
He'll lie to you insistently for days.
And if he thinks he's getting in, he'll
do it for weeks.
And if you let him, he'll bind you
up in it for years.
He'll lie to you insistently, persistently and consistently.
And the father allows it.
Because it's the only way for you to
taste blood.
The devil's blood.
If he's got any.
It came out.
You see, you've got to stand when he's
actually convinced you.
The devil's convinced you that it's not happened.
Hmm.
You've got to stand when the devil's convinced
you.
That you're still unclean and you're not being
washed.
Or you're not born again.
You've still got to stand.
That's all.
The secret of your salvation lies in one
man.
Who when he was plunged into darkness.
In extremity on the cross.
Still believed.
Amen.
To redeem you.
Amen.
The author of your faith.
Yes, Amen.
Amen.
Now you've got to believe the Lord.
I've been through what many of you are
going through.
I lived all out there once upon a
time.
You see.
I know what it's like.
I know that as the days get shorter
towards the coming of the Lord.
It's going to get worse.
But praise the name of the Lord.
The darker the night the clearer the shining
of the light.
Glory.
And you are to resist and believe the
exact opposite.
To what the devil says.
You are to believe even if you get
a sort of sense of a feeling that
it's right.
You see.
You are to believe God.
And declare the truth.
You see.
Amen.
And the Holy Spirit will confirm the work
in your heart.
Because you believe God.
In the end God will get you off
all kinds of thrills and exaltations and ecstasies.
On to the naked word of God.
Amen.
And then you will be the word manifest
in the flesh.
When you believe it.
And you will be a demonstration of what
God says.
I will believe God.
And you've lost nothing save a childish disposition
to believe Satan.
Amen.
You will have lost nothing.
You see that.
And you will come through strong men and
women in Jesus Christ.