The Gospel of John

We are keeping before us the ultimate object of God. We can only understand any part of His Word and get the full value from it, as we see it in the light of God's eternal intention, and so once more we remind ourselves that God sets forth His full thought in a representative way, and demands that that thought presented shall be a governing one for all generations. The full intention or thought of God is the manifestation of Himself, and to give Himself an expression throughout the universe, and He has chosen to do that through a vessel which shall be the instrument of the manifestation of God, and therefore that vessel must take its character from Him. It is not just a reflection of God, but a living expression of Him.