Life Study Of John

Question 1

In John 14:2, the Lord said, “I go to prepare a place for you.” Where was He going and where is the place He was preparing for us?

Answer 1

He was going to the father, and to prepare a place in his Body for us.

Question 2

According to John 14:6, how is the Lord Jesus the way, reality and life? He is our way to where?

Answer 2

He is the life to get inside of us to bring us into reality, as the reality he is the way for us to enter into God the Father. Without him as life we can never have reality and if we do not have reality we do not have the way to enter into God.

Question 3

What are the two sections of the Gospel of John and what two important points in the second section are revealed in John 14?

Answer 3

The Lord’s coming (bring God into man) to be the life supply of man to produce the church (1-13), the Lords going to bring man into God (14-21) trough his death and resurrection. The two important points; The dispensing of the Triune God and the producing of his abode.

Question 4

What is the “Father’s house” referred to in John 14:2 and how does interpreting the Scripture with the Scripture lead us to believe that this “house” is not heaven?

Answer 4

The fathers house refers to the Lord body as the tabernacle, and the Lords mystical Body; the Body of Christ.

In 2:16, “My Father’s house” is the temple on earth. It does not denote a place in the heavens but God’s temple on earth. Since the temple is the type of the body of Jesus, the body of Jesus is the tabernacle (1:14), the temple, for God’s dwelling place on earth. This interpretation of the phrase “My Father’s house” is clearly shown in chapter two. We must apply this definition to 14:2, where we have the same phrase. We should not take this phrase in 14:2 to have a different meaning from the same phrase found in 2:16, for that would be illogical. The second time that this phrase is used in the same Gospel it must have the same definition as the first time it is used. Thus, the Father’s house in chapter fourteen must also mean God’s dwelling place on earth

Timothy 3:15 discloses that the church is the house of the living God. Hence, the Father’s house must mean the house of the living God on earth and not heaven.

First Corinthians 3:16 tells us that the believers, as a whole entity, are the temple of God. Peter 2:5 says that we, as living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house.

Hebrews 3:6 says that we are the house of God, and Ephesians 2:21-22 says that the believers are being built together as God’s habitation, not in the heavens but in the spirit. Thus, the whole New Testament supports the interpretation that the Father’s house is eventually the Body of Christ as found in the Gospel of John itself. The Father’s house in the Gospel of John and in the whole New Testament is not heaven but the Body of Christ, which is the church as the habitation of God on earth.

Question 5

What four points indicate the relationship between the Father and the Son? Give supporting verses. (MS 31)

Answer 5

1. The Son Being the Embodiment and Expression of the Father (John 14: 9-10) - embodied
2. The Son Being in the Father and the Father Being in the Son (14:10-11) - Incorporation
3. The Son and the Father Being One (John 10:30)- Union.
4. The Son Even Being Called the Father (John 10:30)- Equal

(MS 31)

Question 6

How does the Triune God make His abode with us, His believers? Relate this practically to our loving the Son, keeping His commandments and enjoying His presence.

(MS 32)

Answer 6

He makes his abode by his dispensing himself as the Spirit into us. When we Love the Lord jesus, we are obedient to his speaking, and we have his presence filling us and saturating us. We have the Triune God in reality :)

Question 7

What does it mean for the Comforter, the Holy Spirit to be sent in the Son’s name? How does this uplift our appreciation of calling on the Lord?

(MS 32)

Answer 7

To be sent in the son name is to come with the Father as the Son. The Spirit brings that reality of the Son to us…the Spirit is the totality of the triune God coming into us for our enjoyment. When we call on the Lord we get the Spirit who is the reality of the Lord. We get the person of that name; the Spirit.

Question 8

What is the vine, the husbandman, the branches and fruit-bearing in John 15?

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Answer 8

The vine is the son embodiment of the father as the centre, the husband man is the father as source and the founder. The branches are the believers as the the Body of Christ, the expression of the vine and the fruit is the overflow of the life within the vine which Glorifies the Father.

Question 9

What is the divine dispensation? Give three aspects and three verses concerning it.

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Answer 9

The divine dispensation; To have the vine and the branches as an organism to glorify the Father is the divine dispensation. It is simply Gods economy (1 Tim 1:4), Gods eternal purpose ( Ephesians 3:10-11), the Body, the church (Gen 1:26, Rev 21)

Question 10

Explain how we must deal with two kinds of words in order to abide in Christ

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Answer 10

We need to deal with the Logos and the rhema word; the logos is the written word of God for us to read and enjoy, the then a word is the instant word of God, the living word of God for us to heed and obey. Without these two it will be difficult for us to abide. The former is practical, the latter is mysterious

Question 11

How is the divine prayer the normal continuation of abiding in the Lord and having His words abiding in us? Relate this to fruit-bearing and glorifying the Father.

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Answer 11

The divine prayer is the issue of us keeping the rhema word, and abiding in the Lord and in his love. When we abide in such a way we spontaneously have a life of divine prayer. This kind of living will issue in divine prayer for fruit and will surely be answered thus Glorifying the father. Fruit is the issue of the divine life, the expression of the divine life. When we bear fruit the divine life is expressed in that fruit and the Father who is the source of that life is Glorified.

Question 12

What is the relationship between the branches and the religious world, as revealed in John chapter 15?

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Answer 12

The branches are the organism of the truine God. The religious branches are the enemy of the organism of the Triune God; they are lifeless organization. The religious world is against life and is against the vine. Thus, they persecute the believers who seek the Lord in the way of life.

Question 13

What are the four aspects of the Comforter’s testifying in John chapter 15?

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Answer 13

1. Spirit of reality
2. Sent by the son
3. With the Father
4. The son is the vine through the believers.

Question 14

How are the three items of the Spirit’s convicting related to three persons, and how should these items be applied to our gospel preaching?

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Answer 14

Concerning sin, referring to Adam, righteousness, referring to Christ, and judgement, refereeing to Satan. Fallen man was born and conceived in sin, in Adam. As longs you are a man born of flesh and blood you are already condemned in Adam. In Adams fall we sinned all!. However if we believe in the resurrected christ we will be automatically be transferred into Christ, and have him as our righteousness before God. We will be justified. If we do not believe then we will join in on Satans judgment which is an eternal Judgement in the Lake of fire. We all have something to do I with these 3 persons. Where are you?

Question 15

What is the proof that the Father is satisfied with Christ’s redemption and how is this related to our justification?

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Answer 15

The proof is the resurrection of christ from the dead. This proves that God fully accepted his redemptive work and was satisfied with him persona and work. Romans 4:25

Question 16

How does the Spirit disclose the Son with the Father to the believers and glorify the Son?

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Answer 16

The Spirit as the reality of what the father is and has, and as what the son is and has comes and brings all that the Triune God is and has into us, and also bring us into the truine.

The Spirit glorifies the Son by revealing Him with all the fullness of the Father. Let us take the example of humility. No one is born humble. People wrongly say that children are humble, but every little child is proud. We are proud by birth and by nature. Moreover, we are proud in our living. What is humility? Humility is Christ. Christ is the reality of every human virtue and every divine attribute. All the human virtues and all the divine attributes are simply Christ Himself. In a good and positive sense, Christ is everything. He is humility, love, patience, and submission. Outside of Him, nothing, including us, is good. Every virtue and every attribute is Christ. How does the Spirit glorify Christ? He glorifies Christ by revealing Him item by item. For instance, in all that Christ is, there is an item called humility. One day the Spirit reveals Christ to you as your humility. This is not a doctrine of humility; it is the living Person of Christ revealed to you as humility. Spontaneously, a living humility will come out of you. That is the glorification of Christ. The Spirit glorifies Christ, the Son of God, in this way. He does not do it by teaching you about Christ as humility, but by directly revealing Christ as humility to you. This humility then comes out of your very being, and this coming out of humility is the glorification of the Son.

Question 17

Explain the meaning of the woman, the child, and the birth mentioned in John 16:21.

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Answer 17

At the time the Lord spoke this to the disciples, He was one with them like a child conceived within its mother, waiting to be delivered in birth that He might be a newborn child. In this sense, His disciples were the delivering woman in travail. In those three days, the disciples did suffer the travail of the birth of Christ in resurrection to be born as the Son of God. After the Lord’s resurrection, this woman had a newborn child and she rejoiced.

This birth was the birth of the son of God in resurrection. Acts 13:33 proves this: “God has fully fulfilled this promise… in raising up Jesus, as it is also written in the second psalm, You are My Son; today I have begotten You.” On what day was Christ begotten as the Son of God? On the day of resurrection. His resurrection was a birth. through His death and resurrection, His human part was processed into sonship. Now, after His resurrection, no one would have any questions about His being the Son of God. Everyone would say, “This is the Son of God!” This is the reason He needed to be born in His resurrection and designated as the Son of God. In this sense, He was a child born in resurrection.

Question 18

What is the basic concept of the Lord’s prayer in John 17, and what are the three stages of the fulfillment of this prayer.

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Answer 18

1. The Lord resurrection - the divine life was fully released
2. The church - The expression of the divine life
3. The NJ, the totality of the expression of the divine life

Question 19

What is the Son’s work and what is eternal life as revealed in John 17?

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Answer 19

The Lords work includes creating, governing, redeeming and imparting life. In other words, the Lord must first create, then rule over, redeem, and finally give life to a chosen group of people.

And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Him Whom You have sent, Jesus Christ.” What is eternal life? When I was young, I was told that eternal life was just a blessing in the future. Eternal life is divine life with a special function–to know God (cf. Matt. 11:27) and Christ. Every life has its function. The function of a dog’s life is barking, the function of a bird’s life is flying, the function of a cat’s life is catching mice, and the function of a chicken’s life is laying eggs. The function of the divine life is to know God.

Question 20

What is the relationship between oneness and building up, and what are the three stages of oneness mentioned in John 17?

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Answer 20

In order to have oneness, there must be the building up. Without the building up, there is no oneness. Do not think that a piling up of materials is oneness. No, that is not oneness. Consider a house. There is a genuine oneness among all the materials in the house, and that oneness is the building up. Every piece of material has been fitly framed together. This is oneness. The oneness that many Christians are talking about today is just a piling up.

1. The first aspect of oneness is the oneness in the Father’s name by His divine life.
2. The holy word is the sanctifying word. The second stage, or the second ground, of oneness is separation from the world by the word.
3. we must live, through the denying of ourselves, by Christ as our life who is the hope of glory within

Question 21

How are the believers one in the Father’s name by the eternal life?

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Answer 21

Because we share the same life of the father, this life unites us inwardly. Eternal life is the reality of the Father’s name. The Father’s name is Father, and the reality of the Father is the divine life. This is even true with respect to our physical father, for our physical father’s reality is his life. If our father had no life to impart into us, he could never have been our father (you cannot be a father without life).

Question 22

What does it mean to be sanctified by the Lord’s word as the truth, the reality?

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Answer 22

When the word says, “God is light,” it conveys God as light. Hence, it is the reality, the truth, unlike Satan’s word, which is vanity, a lie (8:44). The word, being the truth, works as reality in the believers to sanctify them.
God’s living word works in the believers to separate them from anything worldly, separating them from the world and its occupation unto God and His purpose, not only positionally (Matt. 23:17, 19) but also dispositionally (Rom. 6:19, 22). This is what it means to be sanctified by the Lord’s word as the truth, the reality.

Question 23

What is glory and what must we forsake to be one in the divine glory?

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Answer 23

Glory is the sonship with the divine life and nature to express the Father in all His fullness.

If we would be one in the divine glory, we must forsake and forget ourselves. It must be no longer I, but Christ who lives in me (Gal. 2:20). The “I” has been crucified

Question 24

What main verses in John 17 show the three stages of oneness, and describe how we progress from the first stage to the third stage?

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Answer 24

John 17:2 & 11 - In thy Life
John 17: 14 - Through thy word
John 17:22 - in thy Glory

We progress by the been regenerated and by enjoying this life through the word we grow and are separated all the more unto God and from everything other than God. Finally through the utter denial of the self by the cross we enter into Glory, that is we express the father life in a richer and fuller way.

Question 25

How does the type of the tabernacle in the Old Testament show us that oneness is the building?

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Answer 25

In exodus 26, the tabernacle was build with 48 boards which signify humanity in resurrection (6 is man, 8 is resurrection), which is a symbol of the church. The boards were joined together by gold which overlaid it with typify the life, nature and the glory of God. The oneness of the boards was not with the acacia but with the gold that untied them. Without the gold the can be no oneness; thus just a pile of boards scattered without nay building.

Question 26

What is the purpose of John’s record of the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus, and what are five proofs that the Lord went into death willingly?

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Answer 26

The purpose of his crucifixion was to release his life

1. He went to the garden
2. Gave himself to Judas (18 vs 4)
3. Willing to be arrested
4. Took care of his disciples (peter, John and Mary)
5. Poise when being tested (pilate and chief priest)

Question 27

Why was it that in Luke the Lord spoke to the thief and in John the Lord spoke to His mother and disciple?

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Answer 27

In Luke the emphasis is that jesus as the man savior came to die to redeem sinners like us (Thieves). In john the emphasis is on life. It shows that Christ came as the very God incarnated to be processed to become life to us, regenerating us with his life to make us one with him in life. Thus, Mary and John became one in this life.

Question 28

What were the two substances that came out of the Lord’s pierced side? Describe the two aspects of the Lord’s death that they represent.

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Answer 28

Blood and Water. The redemptive aspect and the life imparting aspect. The former is to take care of our sins and all the negative things that separated us from God. The latter is for life and unto life. The former is for the latter. In his death we were redeemed and cleansed and his life was released to regenerate us and transform us.

Question 29

What is the significance of not one of the Lord’s bones being broken in His death? Relate this to the rib taken from Adam’s side in Gen. 2:21-23.

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Answer 29

The Lord yielded up his soul life willingly. The bone here signifies the indestructible, uncreated life of God which can never be broken or affected by a kind of death. It is the death conquering life. It is by this bone that the church is produced and built in resurrection. Just as a bone was taken out of Adam to form eve so also in reality the resurrection life was released to form the church, the bride of Christ. The church thus can never be defeated. We will see in the NJ

Question 30

What is the significance of the Lord being resurrected on the first day of the week?

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Answer 30

The first day is the 8th day, the day of resurrection which marked a new beginning, a new age through the resurrection of the Lord jesus.

This day is the greatest day in the Bible. That it is called “the first day of the week” means that it is a new beginning. A week is a period of seven days, and the first day denotes a new start. Why did the Lord not rise up on the sixth or seventh day, or on any other day of the week? Because His resurrection ushered in a new period, a new age, a new generation. In the old creation there were seven days. God created for six days and rested on the seventh. These seven days were the generation of the old creation. By the resurrection of the Lord Jesus another generation was newly started. The old creation belonged to the seven days. Now, after the seven days, there is a new start with another first day. In other words, by the resurrection of the Lord, the old creation has passed away and a new creation has begun; the old generation is over and the new generation has started. Thus, the first day of another week signifies the beginning of a new creation, a new generation, and a new age.

Question 31

What was the significance of the Lord leaving his linen grave cloths and handkerchief in a good order in the tomb when He resurrected?

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Answer 31

The Lord left that as a testimony that he had resurrected and had left the old creation in the tomb. It was a testimony also that death could not hold him as the resurrecting one.

In the eyes of God, the entire old creation was buried in that tomb. This is a wonderful fact, whether you believe it or not. The old creation, including your old man and your old self, was buried in the tomb with Jesus and left there. When the all-inclusive Christ went into the tomb, we went there with Him. When He resurrected, He left us there. In this universe there is such a wonderful, all-inclusive tomb where our old man has been buried and still remains. Now our old man is in the tomb, and our resurrected new man is in the church.

Question 32

What are the two aspects of the discovery of the Lord’s resurrection revealed in John 20? What aspects do see in the Peter and John? In Mary?

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Answer 32

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Question 33

What is the significance of the Lord calling the disciples His “brothers” in John 20:17?

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Answer 33

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