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
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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