January
21
The time is coming, yes,
and has already come, when true worshippers will worship in spirit and in
reality. Indeed, the Father looks for men who will worship Him like that (John
4:23 Phillips).
Jesus said to the woman,
"the hour cometh, and now is." Then He dismissed the whole system
that had existed up to that time. It was the whole system of Judaism according
to the Old Testament. In one sentence, He dismissed the whole dispensation. And
He introduced an altogether new order of things.
What did He mean?
Because when He said the hour cometh, and now is, He did not mean literally
just an hour and so many minutes. He meant that it was the first hour of the
new day. With this hour an altogether new day has come. What is the new day? If
you would have asked Jesus to put it into a short sentence, He would have said,
"Well, I am here." The hour is not just a matter of time but a matter
of PERSON. The new dispensation is the dispensation of Jesus Christ. Christ is
the new dispensation. "I am here," He said. You go through that
Gospel of John. He is centering everything in Himself. "I am the Way; I am
the Truth; I am the Life; I am the Shepherd; I am the Vine; I am the
Resurrection." It is a Person. It is that which lies
behind everything. Christianity is Christ. Christ is Christianity. That is
where it all begins and it never departs from HIM. The development of the
Christian life is only the development of Jesus Christ in the life.
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