| › Chapter 1 - The Purpose of the Ages - First published in A Witness and A Testimony magazines, 1937-1939
"...no one knoweth the Son, save the Father..." Matthew 11:27.
"...it was the g ...read |
| › Chapter 2 - The Manifestation of the Glory of God - Reading: Hebrews 1.
As the first thing in this meditation upon Christ, we have been occupied with the ever-growing conception of Him that marked th ...read |
| › Chapter 3 - A Man after God's Heart - Reading: Psalm 89:19-20; Acts 13:22; Heb. 1:9; 1 Samuel 13:14.
The Bible abounds with men. It abounds with many other things; with doctrine, with p ...read |
| › Chapter 4 - Putting on the New Man - Reading: Rom. 5:12,15-19; Ephes. 4:13,20-24; Col. 3:9-11.
Here the Word says we have put off the old man, or more literally, that we have laid down ...read |
| › Chapter 5 - His Excellent Greatness - Reading: 1 Kings 4:1,7,20-34; 10:1-9; Matthew 12:42.
Some of the passages which have provided the background for our meditations have referred very ...read |
| › Chapter 6 - The Heavenly Man - The Inclusiveness and Exclusiveness of Jesus Christ - We have under consideration a phrase from the letter to the Ephesians, "ALL THINGS IN CHRIST": "...unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to ...read |
| › Chapter 7 - The Heavenly Man as the Instrument of the Eternal Purpose - The Heavenly Man personally is presented to us by the Apostle John in a fuller way than by any other of the New Testament writers. Paul advances to th ...read |
| › Chapter 8 - The Heavenly Man as the Source and Sphere of Corporate Unity - Reading: Ephes. 4:1-16; 30-32; Psalm 133.
Here we have a Psalm which, on the one hand, presents an imperfect or partial entering into the Spirit of ...read |
| › Chapter 9 - The Heavenly Man and Eternal Life - It is Christ as the Heavenly Man that is our consideration at this time, and we have been seeing that the main spring of the being of the Heavenly Man ...read |
| › Chapter 10 - The Heavenly Man and the Word of God - Reading: Matt. 4:4; John 6:63,68; 8:47; 14:10; 1 Peter 1:23,25; Heb. 4:12-13; 1 John 4:17.
You will notice that what is said in the first four of t ...read |
| › Chapter 11 - The Heavenly Man and the Word of God (continued) - Reading: John 1:14; 14:10; Col. 3:16-17; Rev. 19:13.
In the course of our previous meditation we noted the relationship of the Holy Spirit to the W ...read |
| › Chapter 12 - Taking the Ground of the Heavenly Man - Reading: Col. 2:16-23; 3:1-11; Ephes. 4:13-15.
There is one particular application of this whole vast, comprehensive truth which we feel we should ...read |
| › Chapter 13 - The Corporate Expression of the Heavenly Man - Reading: Ephes. 3:17-21; 4:1-10.
The fact that the Lord Jesus is the Heavenly Man is touched upon at various points in this reading. Here in chapte ...read |
| › Chapter 14 - The Heavenly Man - The Indwelling of God - Reading: John 13:21-33; Ephes. 3:17-19; Col. 1:25-27.
We are to view the Lord Jesus in relation to the first Adam, and all that came in through tha ...read |
| › Chapter 15 - The Man Whom He Hath Ordained - Reading: Romans 8:29; Gal. 4:19; Ephes. 2:15-16; 1 Cor. 1:24-30, 12:13; Gal. 3:27-28; Acts 17:31.
"Inasmuch as he hath appointed a day, in which he ...read |
