Yet a time
is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in
spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and
in truth." John 4:23-24
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.
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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