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Life-Study of John

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A foreword    msg. 1
I. The central thought of the Scripture — life and building
A. Life
B. Building
The building of Enoch’s city
The building of Noah’s ark
The building of Noah’s altar and tent
The building of the tower and city of Babel
The building of Abraham’s altar and tent
The building of Sodom
The building in Jacob’s dream — Bethel
The building of Pharaoh’s treasure cities
The building of the tabernacle
The building of the temple
The building of Babylon
The rebuilding of the temple and Jerusalem
The building of the church
The building of the local churches
The building of religious and political Babylon
The building of the New Jerusalem
II. The position of John’s writings in the Scripture
A. John’s ministry, a mending ministry by life
B. John’s writings, the final words of the divine revelation
III. The contents of the Gospel of John
A. An Extract of the whole Bible
1. Life
2. Building
B. Of two sections
1. The first section: the Lord’s coming
2. The second section: the Lord’s going in death and coming back in resurrection
An introduction to life and building (1)    msg. 2
I. The Word, who was God, coming as life and light to bring forth the children of God
A. In the beginning the Word
1. The beginning — the eternity past
2. The Word — the definition, explanation, and expression of God
B. The Word with God
C. The Word being God
D. The creation through the Word
E. Life in the Word
F. Life being the light of man
An introduction to life and building (2)    msg. 3
II. The Word incarnated to declare God
A. Becoming flesh
B. To tabernacle among men
C. With grace
D. With reality
E. In the only begotten Son of God
F. To declare God
An introduction to life and building (3)    msg. 4
III. Jesus as the Lamb of God with the Spirit as the dove to produce stones for God’s building
A. The religious people expecting a great leader
B. Jesus recommended as the Lamb with the dove
1. The Lamb taking sin away from man
2. The dove bringing God to man
C. To produce stones for God’s building
1. The followers of Jesus to be transformed into stones
2. For the building of the house of God
An introduction to life and building (4)    msg. 5
IV. Two sections of eternity with the bridge of time
A. In the first section of eternity — eternity in the past
B. In the second section of eternity — eternity in the future
C. On the bridge of time
1. Creation
2. Incarnation
a. To bring God into His creation — man
b. To declare God
3. Redemption
4. Anointing
5. Building
Life’s principle    msg. 6
I. Life’s principle — to change death into life
A. Jesus coming in resurrection to weak and fragile people in the enjoyment of their human life
1. “The third day,” signifying in resurrection
2. “Cana,” a land of reeds, signifying the place of weak and fragile people
3. “Galilee,” a despised place
4. Marriage, signifying the continuation of human life, and a wedding feast, signifying the enjoyment of human life
5. Wine, as the human life, signifying the basic factor of this enjoyment
B. Their human life running out and their being filled with death
1. “The wine ran out”
2. “Six stone waterpots”
3. “The Jewish rites of purification” with water
4. “Fill the waterpots with water”
C. Jesus changing their death into life eternal
1. Water, signifying death
2. Wine as the life-juice of the grape, signifying life
D. The beginning of signs
1. All miracles in this Gospel called signs
2. The principle of the first mention
3. Manifesting His glory
E. The mother of Jesus signifying the natural man
Life’s purpose    msg. 7
II. Life’s purpose — to build the house of God
A. Jesus cleansing the temple
1. “The Passover was near”
2. The cleansing of the temple
a. With a whip of cords made of rushes
b. The heart’s desire of the Lord for the house of God
B. The body of Jesus being the temple destroyed and raised up again in resurrection
1. The physical body of Jesus being destroyed by the Jews on the cross
2. Jesus raising up His physical body in resurrection to be the house of God
3. The resurrection of Jesus being the unique sign
4. The house of God still increasing in resurrection with the Body of Christ
C. The changing of death into life being for the building of God’s house
The need of the moral people — life’s regenerating (1)    msg. 8
Man’s condition and need
Each individual’s condition and need
The Lord’s sufficiency in meeting man’s need
Regeneration prerequisite to full salvation
I. The Lord’s commitment
II. Regeneration
A. Man’s and religion’s false concept — the need of better teaching to improve man
B. Man’s Real Need — to Be Born Anew
1. Not to enter the mother’s womb and be born again
2. But to be born of water and the Spirit
The need of the moral people — life’s regenerating (2)    msg. 9
3. The flesh begetting flesh
4. The Spirit begetting spirit
5. The one born of the Spirit being like the wind
6. Regeneration, a matter which transpires on earth
7. For the entry into the kingdom of God
C. Man’s real condition
1. Poisoned by the “serpent,” with a serpentine nature
a. Poisoned to die like the Israelites in the wilderness
b. Christ lifted up on the cross in the form of a serpent
c. The “old serpent,” the devil, Satan, being judged through this
d. Man believing in this Christ and having life eternal
2. Condemned in Adam through his sin
a. The Son of God coming to save man from this condemnation
b. Man being saved from this condemnation by believing in the Son of God
c. The Son of God coming as light
The increase of Christ and the immeasurable Christ    msg. 10
I. The increase of Christ
A. Christ coming as the bridegroom for the bride
B. All the regenerated ones becoming one as the bride of Christ given Him by God
C. The bride of Christ being His increase
D. The worker for Christ decreasing
II. The immeasurable Christ
A. Coming from above
B. Coming from heaven
C. Being above all
D. Being from heaven yet still in heaven
E. Ministering the words of God and dispensing the Spirit without measure
F. Loved of the Father
G. With all given by the Father
H. Believing in this Christ to have eternal life
I. Disobeying this Christ to be under the wrath of God
The need of the immoral — life’s satisfying (1)    msg. 11
I. A thirsty Savior and a thirsty sinner
A. The Savior “had to pass through” the sinner’s place
B. The Savior came to the sinner’s traditional religious inheritance — Jacob’s well
C. The sinner came to her religious inheritance
II. The emptiness of religion’s tradition and the fullness of life’s living water
The need of the immoral — life’s satisfying (2)    msg. 12
III. The way to take the living water
A. The sinner asked for the living water
B. The Savior told her the way to take it
1. To repent of and confess her sins — “husbands”
2. To contact God the Spirit
3. To believe that Jesus is the Christ that she may have life eternal
IV. A living testimony with a marvelous harvest
A. The sinner believed, was satisfied, left her preoccupation, and testified
B. The Savior satisfied with God’s will in satisfying the sinner
C. A Marvelous harvest was reaped
The need of the dying — life’s healing    msg. 13
I. Jesus coming back to the place of the weak and fragile people
II. The weak and fragile people dying
III. Healing by the life-giving word through believing
The need of the impotent — life’s enlivening    msg. 14
I. The inadequacy of religion’s law-keeping and the sufficiency of the Son’s life-giving
A. The inadequacy of religion’s law-keeping
1. The good things of the typical religion
2. The practice of the law-keeping
3. The impossibility of the law-keeping
4. The sick people under the law-keeping shelter, in religion’s fold
B. The sufficiency of the Son’s life-giving
II. Religion’s opposition to life
A. Life’s enlivening breaking religion’s ritual
B. Religion trying to quench life
III. The Son equal with the Father in giving life and executing judgment
A. The Son being equal with the Father
B. Both the Father and the Son working for redemption and building
C. The Son of God giving life to the dead
D. The Son of Man executing judgment over the unbelieving ones
E. Two kinds of resurrection
IV. The Son’s fourfold testimony
The need of the hungry — life’s feeding (1)    msg. 15
I. The hungry world and the feeding Christ
A. A contrast to the foregoing case in chapter five
B. The sea signifying the Satan-corrupted world
C. The mountain signifying the transcendent position
D. The Passover signifying Christ as the redeeming Lamb of God
E. Five barley loaves signifying the generating aspect of Christ’s life
1. Barley signifying Christ resurrected
2. Five signifying responsibility
F. Two fishes signifying the redeeming aspect of Christ’s life
G. Both loaves and fishes signifying the smallness of Christ being the life supply to us
H. Twelve baskets signifying the overflow of the riches of Christ’s life supply
The need of the hungry — life’s feeding (2)    msg. 16
II. The troubled world and the peace-giving Christ
A. The stirred-up sea and the blowing wind signifying the troubles in human life
B. Jesus walking on the sea signifying His overruling all the troubles of human life
III. The bread of life
A. Seekers after the perishing food
B. Food abiding to eternal life
1. Coming to man by being incarnated to give life to man
2. Being slain to be eaten by man
3. Resurrected to indwell
4. Ascended
5. Becoming the life-giving Spirit
6. Embodied in the Word of life
The need of the thirsty — life’s quenching (1)    msg. 17
I. The scene of the feast of Tabernacles
A. In contrast with the scene of the feast of the Passover in chapter six
B. Signifying the completion and success of life with its enjoyment in a religious way
C. A reminder of the need of the eternal tabernacle with the water of life flowing in it
The need of the thirsty — life’s quenching (2)    msg. 18
II. Life under the persecution of religion
A. Religion’s plot and religion’s feast
B. Life’s suffering of people’s unbelief
C. Life’s limitation in time
D. Life’s seeking of God’s glory
E. Life’s source and origin — God the Father
III. Life’s cry to the thirsty ones
A. The last day signifying the ending of all the enjoyment of any success of human life
B. The cry to come and drink
C. The flow of rivers of living water
D. The Spirit was not yet
IV. Division caused by life’s appearance
The need of those under the bondage of sin — life’s setting free (1)    msg. 19
I. The religion of law versus the great I am
A. Becoming the Son of Man
B. Lifted up on the cross for man to cast out the devil
II. The aspects related to sin
A. No man without sin
B. The source of sin — the devil
C. The slaves of sin
D. The result of sin — death
E. The main items of sin
III. How to solve the problem of sin
A. Only One man without sin
B. Only Jesus being qualified to condemn sin but He would not
C. Lifted up for sinners’ sin
D. Qualified to forgive man’s sin and able to set man free from the slavery of sin
E. Able to save man from the result of sin — death
The need of those under the bondage of sin — life’s setting free (2)    msg. 20
F. The way of setting free
1. By the light of life
2. By the Son as reality
IV. The person of the Lord
A. The great I am
B. Before Abraham and greater than Abraham
C. The Son as reality
D. The Son of Man
The need of the blind in religion — life’s sight and life’s shepherding (1)    msg. 21
I. Life’s sight for the blind
A. Born blind
B. Receiving light
1. By the light of life
2. By the anointing of the word of life mingled with humanity
3. By the obedience to life’s word and the washing away of the old humanity
C. Persecuted by religion
D. Believing in the Son of God
E. Judged by life
The need of the blind in religion — life’s sight and life’s shepherding (2)    msg. 22
II. Life’s shepherding for the believers outside of religion
A. The sheepfold, the door, and the pasture for the sheep
1. The sheepfold signifying the law, or Judaism, the religion of the law
2. The sheep signifying God’s chosen people
3. The door signifying Christ for “going in” and “going out”
4. The pasture signifying Christ as the feeding place for the sheep
B. The shepherd, the divine life, and the soulish life for the flock
1. Christ being the shepherd
2. Christ laying down His soulish life that the sheep may have the divine life
3. To be formed into one flock by life under one shepherd
C. The eternal life, the Son’s hand, and the Father’s hand for the security of the sheep
D. The persecution of religion
E. Life’s desertion of religion and life’s new standing
The need of the dead — life’s resurrecting (1)    msg. 23
I. The dead and his need
II. Frustration of human opinions
A. The disciples’ opinion
B. Martha’s opinion
C. Mary’s opinion
D. The Jews’ Opinion
E. Martha’s opinion again
F. Opinions belonging to the tree of knowledge vs. the tree of life
III. Life’s resurrecting
A. Giving life to the dead
B. Needing man’s submission and cooperation
C. The actual changing of death into life
The need of the dead — life’s resurrecting (2)    msg. 24
IV. The conspiracy of religion and the gathering of God’s children
A. Religion’s conspiracy fulfilling God’s purpose
B. The gathering of God’s children through the death and resurrection life of the Lord
Life’s issue and multiplication (1)    msg. 25
I. Life’s issue
A. A house of feasting
1. Outside of religion
2. A place for feasting, rest, and satisfaction for the Lord and His believers
B. A miniature of the church life
1. Produced by the resurrection life
2. Composed of cleansed sinners
3. Outwardly poor and afflicted
4. Inwardly feasting in and with the presence of the Lord
5. Having more sisters than brothers
6. With different functions
a. Serving
b. Testifying
c. Loving
7. Spotted by the false one
8. Persecuted by religion
9. Being a test and exposing people
10. Bringing in many believers
C. The Lord being a test to people
Life’s issue and multiplication (2)    msg. 26
II. Life’s multiplication through death and resurrection
A. The golden time for Jesus
B. As a grain of wheat to fall into the ground
1. To produce many grains — to draw all men
2. To release the divine life, the divine element — to be glorified and to glorify the Father
3. To judge the world and to cast out its ruler, Satan
III. Religion’s unbelief and blindness
A. Prophesied by Isaiah
B. Judged by God
C. The glory of the Lord seen, but not loved
IV. Life’s declaration to the unbelieving religion
A. Being God manifested to man
B. Coming as light into the world
C. Coming to man with living words
Life’s washing in love to maintain fellowship (1)    msg. 27
I. Washing by the Lord himself
A. Loving to the uttermost
B. Knowing all had been given to Him
C. Laying aside His garments
D. Girding Himself
E. Washing the disciples’ feet with water
1. Water signifying the Holy Spirit, the Word, and the life
2. Washing away the dirt of the earthly touch
3. To maintain fellowship with the Lord and with one another
4. Different from the washing away of sin by the blood
5. Not merely physically, but rather spiritually
Life’s washing in love to maintain fellowship (2)    msg. 28
II. Washing by one another among the believers
A. Following the example of the Lord
B. By loving one another
III. Washed but not in the fellowship
IV. Washed and willing to remain in the fellowship, but failing
A. The Son of Man being glorified
B. God being glorified in the Son
C. Peter being unable to follow the Lord in His suffering at that time
D. Peter being about to fail
The dispensing of the Triune God for the producing of His abode (1)    msg. 29
I. Jesus going through death and Christ coming in resurrection to bring the believers into the Father
A. The Son being the same as God, omnipresent, without the limitation of time and space
B. “My Father’s house” being the Body of Christ, the church as the house of God
The dispensing of the Triune God for the producing of His abode (2)    msg. 30
C. Many abodes being many members of the Body of Christ, which is the church
D. Going through death and resurrection to bring man into God for the building of God’s habitation
E. “To prepare a place” — to open up the way for man to get into God
F. The Lord’s going being His coming
G. “Receive you to Myself”
H. “Where I am you also may be”
I. “The way” being the Son Himself
J. “The reality” becoming the way
K. “The life” bringing the reality
L. “To the Father”
The dispensing of the Triune God for the producing of His abode (3)    msg. 31
II. The Triune God dispensing Himself into the believers
A. The Father embodied in the Son seen among the believers
1. The Son being the embodiment and expression of the Father
2. The Son being in the Father and the Father being in the Son
3. The Son and the Father being one
4. The Son even being called the Father
5. The Son being able to be among the believers, but unable to be in them
B. The Son realized as the Spirit abiding in the believers
1. Another Comforter
2. The Spirit of reality
3. The Spirit of the glorified Jesus
4. The Spirit of life as the breath
5. The Spirit of Jesus Christ, the Spirit of Christ
6. The last Adam being made the life-giving Spirit
7. The Lord being the Spirit
8. The Spirit abiding with and in the believers
9. The Son in the Father, the believers in the Son, and the Son in the believers
10. The dispensing of the Triune God into the believers
11. The indwelling of the Spirit fully developed in the Epistles
12. The Lord’s promise of the Spirit of life being different from the Father’s promise of the Spirit of power
The dispensing of the Triune God for the producing of His abode (4)    msg. 32
III. The Triune God making His abode with the believers
A. The Son having come and lived by the Father and having done things in the Father’s name
B. The believers living by the Son and doing greater things in the name of the Son
C. The Son living and speaking in the believer
D. The believer loving the Son, keeping His commandments, being loved by the Father and the Son, and having the Son’s manifestation
E. The Father and the Son as the Spirit coming to the believer
F. The Triune God making a mutual abode with the believer
G. The abode being one of the many
H. This being for the building of God’s habitation
IV. The Comforter’s reminding and life’s peace
A. The Comforter, the Holy Spirit, being sent by the Father in the Son’s name
B. Life’s peace
1. Different from the world’s peace
2. Overcoming all troubles and fears
3. The ruler of the world having nothing in the Giver of this peace
The organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensation (1)    msg. 33
I. The vine and the branches being an organism to glorify the Father by expressing the riches of the divine life
A. The divine dispensation
1. God’s economy
2. The eternal purpose (plan)
3. To express God the Father in the Son through His Body, the church
B. The vine, God the Son
1. The center of God’s economy
2. The embodiment and the manifestation of the Godhead
3. An organism full of life, like the tree of life
4. To propagate life and to multiply life
5. To express life for the glorification of the Father
6. Not for blossoms, not for materials
C. The husbandman, God the Father
D. The branches, the believers in the Son
E. The fruit-bearing
1. The overflow of the riches of the inner life
2. To express the Father in the Son
3. To satisfy man’s thirst
4. By abiding in the vine and letting the vine abide in the branches
5. In a corporate way
F. The Pruning
G. The Casting out
1. To cut off a branch from the enjoyment of the riches of the life of the vine
2. To cut off a branch from the fellowship of the branches
3. To cut off a branch from the expression of the Son with the Father
4. To cut off a branch from the divine purpose
The organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensation (2)    msg. 34
H. The abiding
1. To see the fact that we are the branches in the vine
2. To abide, to remain, in the Son
3. To let the Son abide in us
4. Apart from the Son we can do nothing
5. To let the Son’s instant words abide in us
6. To pray for much fruit-bearing that the Father may be glorified
7. To keep the Son’s commandments by obeying His instant words that we may abide in His love
8. With full joy
The organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensation (3)    msg. 35
II. The branches loving one another to express the divine life in fruit-bearing
A. The branches being one
B. The branches being in an intimate relationship with the vine
C. The branches being chosen and appointed to bear remaining fruit
1. Through praying in the Son’s name
2. By being one with the Son, living by Him, and letting Him live in them
D. The branches loving one another
III. The vine and the branches separated from the world being hated and persecuted by the religious world
A. The world here being mainly the religious world
B. Religion, as a part of Satan’s worldly system, hating the branches of the divine organism for the expression of the Triune God
C. The branches being chosen, not being of the world, and having nothing to do with the satanic system of religion
D. The religious world, having persecuted the vine, persecuting the branches
E. The comforter testifying
1. Being the Spirit of reality
2. Sent by the Son
3. Not only from the Father but with the Father
4. Testifying
F. Religion’s persecution foretold
The work of the Spirit unto the mingling of divinity with humanity (1)    msg. 36
I. The Son’s going for the Spirit’s coming
A. The Son going in the flesh
B. The Son coming as the Spirit to be another Comforter
C. The Son’s sending of the Comforter being the Son’s coming as the Comforter
II. The work of the Spirit
A. To convict the world
1. Concerning sin
a. The source of sin
b. All born of the devil, the old serpent
c. All born with the poison of the serpent
d. All born in sin in Adam
e. All born condemned
f. All born to die in sin
g. All being under the slavery of sin
h. Believing in the Son being the unique way to be freed from sin
I. Not to believe in the Son being the unique sin for perishing
2. Concerning righteousness
a. The Son having come and died to fulfill God’s righteous requirements
b. The Son having resurrected and gone to the Father as a proof of the Father’s satisfaction
c. The Son as righteousness given to the believers
d. The believers being justified in the Son
e. The believers being freed from the source of sin, the devil
3. Concerning judgment
a. The judgment being for the devil, the author of sin, the origin of death, the father of all sinners, and the ruler of the world
b. This ruler being judged in the flesh of Christ on the cross
c. Any sinner not believing in the Son will remain with the devil and share his judgment
The work of the Spirit unto the mingling of divinity with humanity (2)    msg. 37
B. To glorify the Son by revealing Him with the fullness of the Father
1. The Spirit of reality being the full realization of the Son
2. Guiding the believers into all the reality of the Son
a. All that the Father is and has being the Son’s
b. All that the Son is and has being received by the Spirit
c. The Spirit disclosing the Son with the Father to the believers
d. The mingling of divinity with humanity
C. To disclose what is to come
III. The Son to be born in resurrection as a newborn child
A. The disciples being the delivering woman in travail
B. The Son to be born
C. Christ coming in resurrection to the believers
D. The believers being one with the Son and praying in His name
IV. Peace in the Son in spite of persecutions
A. The Son having come from the Father
B. The Son going back to the Father
C. The Son declaring the Father to the believers
D. The believers being one with the Son and praying in His name
E. The believers being scattered during the Son’s suffering
F. The believers having peace in the overcoming Son
Life’s prayer (1)    msg. 38
I. The Son to be glorified that the Father may be glorified
A. The Son to be glorified
B. That the Father may be glorified
1. In the Son’s glorification
2. Through the Son’s believers
C. The Son’s person
D. The Son’s work
E. The eternal life
Life’s prayer (2)    msg. 39
II. The believers to be built up into one
A. In the Father’s name by the eternal life
1. The Father
a. The source of life
b. For the propagation and multiplication of life
c. Of whom many sons are born to express Him
d. The name “Father” being related to the divine life
2. The Father’s name
a. The names “God” and “Jehovah” adequately revealed in the Old Testament
b. The name “Father” slightly mentioned in the Old Testament
c. The Son having come and worked in the Father’s name
d. The Son manifesting the Father to His believers
e. The Son making the name Father known to the believers
3. The Father’s word and the Father’s words
4. To be kept in the Father’s name
a. By the Father’s life
b. In the world
c. By the Holy Father
5. One in the Father’s name
a. As the Three of the Triune God are
b. By the eternal life
c. Enjoying the Father’s name, the Father Himself
d. The first aspect of oneness
e. Full of joy
Life’s prayer (3)    msg. 40
B. In the Triune God through sanctification by the holy word
1. Two kinds of words given by the Son to His believers
2. The world
3. The believers with the world
4. The words being the truth
5. The Son sanctifying Himself
6. One in the Triune God
C. In the divine glory for the expression of the Triune God
1. The glory
2. Three things given by the Son to His believers
3. Perfected into one
4. Six things given by the Father to the Son for accomplishing the oneness, the building up of the believers
5. The Father’s love
6. The believers to be with the Son where He is
III. The Father being righteous in loving the Son and His believers
Life’s prayer (4)    msg. 41
Oneness in the divine life
Oneness in the holy word
Oneness in the divine glory
Oneness being the building
Life processed for multiplication (1)    msg. 42
I. Delivering Himself in voluntary boldness to be processed
A. Going to the garden
B. Betrayed by the false disciple
C. The “I Am” willing to be arrested
D. Taking care of the disciples in an easy manner
E. Without any resistance
II. Examined in His dignity by mankind
A. As the passover lamb examined
B. By the Jews according to the law of God in their religion
1. In front of the denial of one of the closest disciples
2. The judging one being judged
C. By the gentiles according to the law of man in their politics
1. Under the sovereignty of God
2. The judging one being judged
III. Sentenced in man’s injustice
IV. Tested in God’s sovereignty by death
A. Crucified at Golgotha
B. “Numbered with the transgressors”
C. Killed by mankind represented by hebrew religion, latin (roman) politics, and greek culture
D. The soldiers parting His garments
E. Taking care of His mother by imparting His life to His disciple
F. Mocked by being offered vinegar
G. The work of His all-inclusive death finished
Life processed for multiplication (2)    msg. 43
V. Issuing in blood and water
A. Not one of His bones being broken
B. His side being pierced
1. Typified by Adam’s opened side
2. Flowing out blood for redemption
3. Flowing out water for the imparting of life
VI. Resting in human honor
Life processed for multiplication (3)    msg. 44
VII. Resurrecting in divine glory
A. “On the first day of the week”
B. As “the firstfruit” of “resurrection”
C. Leaving the old creation in the tomb
Life processed for multiplication (4)    msg. 45
D. Discovered by the seeking ones
E. Testified to by the angels sent by God
F. Bringing forth many “brothers”
G. Making His Father and God theirs
Life in resurrection (1)    msg. 46
I. Appearing to His seeker
II. Ascending to the Father
III. Coming as the Spirit to be breathed into the believers
A. With the resurrected body
B. Fulfilling the promise to meet with the disciples for their joy
C. Bringing peace to the disciples
D. Commissioning the disciples
E. Breathing the Holy Spirit into the disciples
1. The fulfillment of His promise
2. Different from the fulfillment in Acts 2
Life in resurrection (2)    msg. 47
3. The Comforter
4. The Spirit of reality
5. The Spirit of the glorified Jesus
6. “The Spirit of Jesus,” “the Spirit of Christ,” “the Spirit of Jesus Christ”
7. “The last Adam” becoming the “life-giving Spirit”
8. The Spirit of life
F. Authorizing the disciples
G. The first meeting of the church before Pentecost
IV. Meeting with the believers
A. “After eight days”
B. His coming being His appearing
C. Dealing with the unbelieving of the disciple by the prints of His death remaining in His resurrected body
D. Training the disciples
E. The purpose of the Gospel of John
Life in resurrection (3)    msg. 48
V. Moving and living with the believers
A. Moving with the disciples to the sea
1. Appearing again to train the disciples to realize His invisible presence
2. Training the disciples to live by faith in Him
a. Peter and other disciples backsliding to their old occupation from the Lord’s call
b. The miracle of professional fishermen catching no fish
c. The disciples having fish when they were in the right position
d. The miracle of catching an abundance of fishes at the Lord’s word
e. Calling and recovering Peter by miracles in fishing
f. The miracle of having fish prepared on the land
B. Living with the disciples
Life in resurrection (4)    msg. 49
VI. Working and walking with the believers
A. Working as the good Shepherd, the great Shepherd, and the chief Shepherd
1. Stirring up the disciples’ love toward Him
2. Charging them with lamb-feeding and sheep-shepherding
B. Walking with the disciples as His followers
1. Instructing them to follow Him to death
2. Indicating that some of His followers will live until He comes
3. The disciples following Him and living with Him in His invisible presence and waiting for Him to come in His visible presence
The ultimate conclusion    msg. 50
His coming and His going
God in man
Life in death
Resurrection in the Spirit
The mutual abiding in John’s Epistle
The building in revelation
The practical experience
Bearing fruit by the overflow of the inner life    msg. 51
Being parts of Christ
The organism of the Triune God in the divine dispensation
The Triune God in the Gospel of John
God as life growing in an organic body
God’s steps to produce the organism
An all-inclusive picture of the Gospel of John
Christ’s indwelling making us a part of the organism of the Triune God
The entrance into the organism
The way to experience the organism
The overflow
The overflow of life being our fruit-bearing

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