Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-07
THE WORD MADE FLESH.
LESSON |, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, JULY 8.


Fathers heart by whom we are to know ,
the Father. BY peoples words, if they are
honest, we know their hearts, so by the
Son as the Word of God we shall know our
Heavenly Fathers heart toward us.
"And the Word was with God, and the
Word was God"
Can we for n moment wonder at His
oneness with the Father before He ever
came as man!
Q. "The same was in the beginning with
God"
The words ain the beginning" in this
verse and the last take US to Gen. i, /; but
who can tell when 1.-THE beginning" was?
8 "All things were made by Him; and
without Him was not anything made that
was made"
See how full the statement in Col. i, 16,
II, which closes with these words, "All |
things were created by Him and for Him;
and He is before all things, and by Him |
all things consist"
T. "In Him was Life, and the Life was
the Light of men,"
Apart from Him no one, however good
morally or even religiously has what the
Scriptures call Life.
s. "And the Light shineth in darkness,
and the darkness comprehended it not"
Weak eyes cannot bear natural light,
neither can sinners bear the light of God,
unless they are willing to be healed, and
then Christ, the Light of God, will first be
their healer and then their life DER xxxiii,
6: John X, TO- And they will soon learn
TO sing Behold, God is my salvation" Tor
health) lisa. xii, q.
6. "There was a man sent from God,
whose name was John"
We now turn for a few moments from
the Light to the herald of the Light Jesus
testified of him that Among them that
are born Of women there hath not risen
greater than John the Baptist Matt
M, ~.
I "The same came for a witness to bear
witness of the Light, that all men through
Him might believe"
The Shirt said through Malachi, "Be-
hold, | will send my messenger, and he
shall prepare the way before me" (Mal. Ill,
~ This is now the business OF every be
lever, to bear witness to the Light by let
ting the Light fill them and shine through
them.
8. ''He was not that Light, but was sent
TO bear witness Of that Light"
He bore witness by the Spirit in him, by
whom he was filled from his birth luke j
lD. and we can only be witnesses by the SAM
Spirit (Acts j. s..
o seThat was the true Light which light
eth every man that cOmeth into the world.
See His own oft repeated, 81 am the Ligh
of the world" John viii, -; tx, .; XII, 40
and give good heed to the fact that there
no need to walk in darkness.
10. "He was in the world, and the worl
was made by Him, and the world kne'
Him not"
Having created all things for His plea
II oh m
image as the head Of all things and to hay
dominion over all things Gen. i, q, 2
but man having by sin defaced the lmas
and lost the dominion, the Creator came
human form as n man to restore the lmai
and the dominion Yet lie was treated
a stranger in the world which lie III
made. Seek by in some faint measure p'
ting Yourself in His place, to realize som
what the state Of things here described
If "He came unto His own, and
own received Him not"
"a stranger to His brethren and an All
INTO His mothers children" US. XIX
Even Jobs experience when brethren w
far from him, acquaintance estfahe
kinsfolk failed, familiar friends lorBo'
stranger in his own house, VIE chlluI
servants, all against him (Job XIX io-l'
even this was not equal 10 tho
per;ence of God manifest in the ilesh.
70 "But as many rs received lilm'
,ba,n oaye lie power Tor the right or p
ueoel 10 become the sons Of God, even
them that believe in His name
while the nation rejected Him rev
Baved on Him. and this was their prlVll'
Each hearer has il in his or her poWe
keen Him out or let Him in, ana thus
tinue In darkness and death, or pass
death TO life. ,,,,
"a (which were born, not Of blood
Of the will of the flesh, nor OF the WI
man, but Of God"
The Jews thought that because
were of the blood Of Abraham, descei
from him, that therefore they were
viii. 33). They were full OF the WoIf
the flesh, their own doings, ana thaO
their righteousness IN Whlch Clel ="
IA "And the Word was made hesh
d,.elt smon1 us land we beheld His q
the glory as of the only begotteh Vi
Father, full Of grace and truth
As the glory of God was concealed
tho neonle in the Holy Of HOLES, vi
the veil. in the tabernacle and IN the
nile. so in the body of the Lord Jesu
within a veil Heb. X, POI the glory
concealed from natural eyes WINE III
here in humiliation. But on the Mou
TRANSPORTATION it shone iortn'
* "John bare witness of Him, and
saving, This was He Of whom spak
that cometh after me Is preferred .
me. for lie was before me-"
Not as man born of woman was ,
Son of Mary, before John, son oil
both hut as Johns creator and the CT
ts' and of His fullness have all
oeiyed. and grace for grace"
ct pleased the Father that IN
should all fullness dwell" In HIM
eth all the fullness OF the Godhead D'
0Col. l. 10; ii, 81. And we are filled Il
Him. Receiving Him (yerse ~ we
have all that He has and is.
II. "For the law was given by NOSE
Grace and Truth came by Jesus Chri
The law showed what man ought
bnt never could give life nor max
what he ought to be, because OF hls
nature, which cannot keep COD 5 nol
IS. "No man hath seen God at any
the only begotten Son which IS IN
som of the Father. He hath declared
Sec the first clause of the verso re
In I John iv, r. Jesus said TO fhilI
that hath seen Me hath seen the
CJohn xiv, 81. Wherever, IN all Scr
Won read of any manifestation Oh "
there the only begotten Son, whose
forth have been from of old, from e'
inoD mic. v, q, and your Bible wiz
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