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Life and Building in the Gospel of John

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

This book is composed of messages given by Brother Witness Lee on the Gospel of John to the church in Taipei, Taiwan, in midweek meetings held in October 1959 through January 1960. They were originally published in The Ministry of the Word in 1962 and 1963.

The word being in the beginning _ch.1

Life issuing in building
The ministry of John being on life and building
Life and building being the central message of the Bible
Crucial points concerning life and building in the Gospel of John
The beginning
The Word
The Word being with God, and the Word being God
All things coming into being through Him
Life being in the Word

The Word being with God and being God _ch.2

The relationship between the Word and God
Man’s relationship with God being in one of three categories
Needing the Word in order to receive God
Life being in the Word

Life being in the Word _ch.3

The Word being the expression of God
God being the Word that man may have life
The Gospel of John revealing the Lord as the Word so that man may have life
The case in John 3
The case in John 4
The case in John 5
The case in John 6
Man being made alive when he touches life in the Word

Life being the light of men _ch.4

God being the Word to be contacted and obtained by us
God being light to shine in us
Outward worship and service to God being a natural concept
God desiring that man receive Him as life
Man being filled with light when God speaks
Light giving man a sense of life
Receiving light

The light shining in the darkness _ch.5

The Word being the light
Light coming to shine
Light shining in the darkness
Darkness being to feel nothing
Darkness being related to death
Darkness not overcoming the light
Darkness not seizing the light
Darkness not conquering the light

As many as received Him _ch.6

Him
Received
Believing into His name
Being given the authority to become children of God
Being begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God
A glorious matter

Begotten of God _ch.7

Being begotten of God by receiving the Lord
“not...nor...nor”

The Word becoming flesh _ch.8

The Word becoming flesh being God becoming man
The Word becoming flesh being God expressing himself through the flesh
Three aspects of incarnation

Tabernacled _ch.9

The mingling of God and man being God’s great delight
The mingling of God and man being for God to gain a dwelling place
The mingling of God and man being for man to take God as life
The Lord Jesus living by God and living out God
Not working for God but letting God work
The issue of the Word becoming flesh being a tabernacle
The ministry of John being on life and building
Conclusion

Grace and reality _ch.10

Man’s shallow concept concerning grace
Both grace and reality being God Himself
God being also light and love
Obtaining grace by obtaining God
Touching reality by touching God
The contrast between Moses and Jesus Christ
The sequence of grace and reality and of light and love

Beholding His glory _ch.11

Glory being God expressed
Expressing the glory of God
Expressing God’s glory
People receiving grace and touching reality when they see glory

Receiving of His fullness _ch.12

The fullness of the Lord being the content of God
Receiving grace according to His fullness
Receiving grace upon grace
Being delivered from the flesh by receiving of the Lord’s fullness
All receiving of His fullness

The declaration of the only begotten Son _ch.13

God being triune — three yet one
The declaration of the only begotten in the bosom of the Father
Examples in the Gospel of John
Declaring the Father by living according to the Father

The Lamb and the dove (1) _ch.14

A general idea of the introduction of the Gospel of John
The unique writing style of the Gospel of John
The background of the Jewish religion
Having religious concepts
The testimony of John the Baptist
God’s work depending upon the Lamb and the dove

The Lamb and the dove (2) _ch.15

John’s testimony being a revelation of the Lamb and the dove
The Lamb and the dove covering the entire revelation of the New Testament
The Lord’s coming to be the Lamb with the dove being beyond man’s religious concepts
The Lord turning His disciples’ concepts so that they would know Him as the Lamb with the dove
The Lord being the Lamb with the dove

Heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man _ch.16

The ladder and the Son of Man
The spiritual significance of John 1
The Son of God and the Son of Man
The Lord as the Son of Man building up the house of God
Being delivered from religious concepts

The first sign _ch.17

The Gospel of John being not according to history but according to doctrine
John 1 being an introduction to life and building
The Lord being life and resurrection in John 2 through 11
Changing water into wine being the first sign
On the third day
Cana of Galilee
The wine in the wedding feast
Listening to the Lord’s command
Filling six stone waterpots with water
Drawing some water out and the water becoming wine
The Lord’s work being to resurrect, not to heal

Building up in three days _ch.18

The central thought of the Gospel of John being life and building
The purpose of changing death into life being to build up the house of God
The Lord’s body being the temple of God
The Lord’s physical body being destroyed but an enlarged mystical body being built up
The church passing through the process of being torn down and built up
A word of comfort and warning

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