Hymn: Oh, Jesus, Lord, when Thou on earth

Oh, Jesus, Lord, when Thou on earth
Accompanied Thy faithful band,
It seemed they knew, but knew Thee not,
Thyself they did not understand.

They heard Thy voice, beheld Thy form,
Thy beauteous stature unforgot;
They crowded ’round Thee, met Thy gaze,
But who Thou art, they knew it not.

As they of old we too are veiled;
We’ve known Thee long apparently;
Yet if we say we know, at best
We know Thee not transparently.

But as the Spirit now Thou art,
Another Comforter become;
Reveal Thyself within my heart,
Since to Thy temple Thou hast come.

With Thy blest Spirit, Lord, fill me,
Fill every corner of my soul;
May Thou inspire my every part,
Oh may Thou touch, renew the whole.

The Spirit then revealing make
Thyself more real within my heart,
That ear not hear, nor eye may see
How very real to me Thou art.

When Thou in mercy dost reveal
And give Thyself as Spirit thus,
What in the world can be more real,
More true than what Thou art to us?

Thy Spirit, Lord, in mine, I pray,
O’erflow my being as a flood,
That every part with glory shine
And everywhere be Thee and God.

How close we are in such a life,
In one is blended earth with heav’n;
Thy presence sweetly fills our souls;
Our hearts are to Thy praises giv’n.

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May 21 2026

Un Hermano

Another Comforter

The Promise of the Comforter

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On the last night of His three-and-a-half-year ministry, the Lord Jesus had a long discourse with His disciples, which is recorded in John 14—16 . This section was a word of farewell from the Lord Jesus to His disciples on the night of His betrayal. In this parting word He first said that He is the expression of the Father; when people see Him, they see the Father. He is in the Father, and the Father is in Him, and He and the Father are one (14:9-10). Then in verses 16 and 17 He said, “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may be with you forever, even the Spirit of reality. ” Nearly every Christian knows that what the Lord Jesus spoke of here was the promise to give us a Comforter, but they do not understand how the Father gave us the Comforter.

Another Comforter, the Son Who Would Be in Them

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The Lord went on to say that this Comforter, the Spirit of reality, would abide with the disciples and would be in them (v. 17). The Lord had been with the disciples for three and a half years, they truly enjoyed His presence, and He was their Comforter, but now He was going to leave them. When they heard this, they were very sorrowful. Therefore, the Lord wanted them to know that at that time He could only be with them outwardly, but He could not enter into them. Although the Lord in the flesh could be with the disciples and could walk, stay, and abide with them, He was not satisfied with this. He desired to enter into the believers so that He might live in them as their life. Moreover, He wanted to be their bread of life and life supply. In other words, He wanted to be the “another Comforter. ” Therefore, the “another Comforter” was Christ entering into them to be their life and life supply. Since He was to be life to them, He could not be merely outside of them but had to be inside of them. Since He was to be their bread of life and life supply, He had to be received into them so that He might minister to them. Hence, although the disciples were delighted with the Lord’s outward presence, that was not good enough; the Lord aspired to enter into them.

The Four Crucial Elements of the Bible—Christ, the Spirit, Life, and the Church

Chapter 5 The Spirit—the Holy Spirit

CWWL, 1984, (LSM)

Mar 10 2026

Michael and Andrew

United States

We want to see the Reality of the Body of Christ

Nov 20 2025

Jadan and Samuel

Love the tune, really brings out the riches of the lyrics

Sep 10 2024

Minsu

As the Spirit now He is the heavenly ladder, in one is "blended earth with heav'n". How sweet our Lord is, filling even our souls.

Nov 6 2019

Delan Pan

Jerusalem, Israel

I really love this hymn. It's so touching.

Aug 24 2015

Han Eom

Hamilton, New Zealand

This hymn was written by Watchman Nee and was released on the special conference in Hong Kong in 1954.

In John 14:7, the Lord said to the disciples, "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and henceforth you know Him and have seen HIm."

So He revealed that He is the embodiment of the Father and that He is the Father in another from being expressed. But the discipels did not, could not realized this, beucase the Spirit of reality didn't come into them yet. So Philip answered in the next verse, "Lord, show us the Father and it is sufficient for us."

So the disciples were with the Lord Jesus for the 3 and a half years and they were very much attracted by Him, accompanying Him always. But they still did not know who is the Lord Jesus.

But stanza 4 of the hymn says, "But as the Spirit now Thor art, Another Comforter become; Reveal Thyself within my heart, Since to Thy temple Thou hast come." So it shows now to us, the Spirit, the compound Spirit, the Spirit of reality has come. So this Spirit leads us to all reality and by the Spirit, we know Him, the Triune God.

We were not there with the Lord Jesus in HIs human living as disciples but actually we are closer with the Lord than them, becuase He now lives in us as the inward reality, another Comforter. So the last stanza says, "How close we are in such a life, In one is blenede earth with heav'n; Thy presence sweetly fills our sould; Our hearts are to Thy praises giv'n!

Let us look at Hymns, #489. The first stanza says, "Oh, Jesus, Lord, when Thou on earth / Accompanied Thy faithful band, / it seemed they knew, but knew Thee not, / Thyself they did not understand." This is our present condition. The second stanza says, "They heard Thy voice, beheld Thy form, / Thy beauteous stature unforgot; / They crowded 'round Thee, met Thy gaze, / But who Thou art, they knew it not." The disciples heard the Lord, saw the Lord, and pressed upon the Lord, but they did not know who the Lord was. In John 14 the Lord said to the disciples, "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also." Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father and it is sufficient for us." Jesus said to him, "Have I been so long a time with you, and you have not known Me, Philip?" (vv. 7-9). The disciples seemed to know the Lord, but they did not really know Him. Stanza 3 says, "As they of old we too are veiled; / We've known Thee long apparently; / Yet if we say we know, at best / We know Thee not transparently." If we do not emphasize that the Lord is the Spirit in our spirit, we will be in the same condition. Stanzas 4 through 9 say,

But as the Spirit now Thou art,

Another Comforter become;

Reveal Thyself within my heart,

Since to Thy temple Thou hast come.

With Thy blest Spirit, Lord, fill me.

Fill every corner of my soul;

May Thou inspire my every part,

Oh may Thou touch, renew the whole.

The Spirit then revealing make

Thyself more real within my heart,

That ear not hear, nor eye may see

How very real to me Thou art.

When Thou in mercy dost reveal

And give Thyself as Spirit thus.

What in the world can be more real,

More true than what Thou art to us?

Thy Spirit, Lord, in mine, I pray,

O'erflow my being as a flood,

That every part with glory shine

And everywhere be Thee and God.

How close we are in such a life,

In one is blended earth with heav'n;

Thy presence sweetly fills our souls;

Our hearts are to Thy praises giv'n.

CWWL, 1981, vol. 2, The History and Revelation of the Lord's Recovery, ch. 7 (LSM)

Today God is a mystery in us, and in the future this mystery will be the glory. God is in our spirit, and our spirit is full of God. The God who is in our spirit is permeating our soul daily, spreading out from our spirit day by day. He does not reason with us. When we agree, He comes; even when we disagree, He comes. He is not only permeating our whole being but is also spreading outward from our spirit. The God who indwells us does not reason with us. He is the only One who is; we are not. We must decrease, and He must increase. Not only so, after He comes, He would not let us go; He wants us to stay with Him. God is in our spirit, and every day He also works to occupy our mind, our emotion, and our will. He is within every part of our being. Therefore, we have a hymn that says, "Thy Spirit, Lord, in mine, I pray, / O'erflow my being as a flood, / That every part with glory shine / And everywhere be Thee and God" (Hymns, #489, stanza 8). This means that we have God in our spirit, and our entire soul is also occupied by God. Hence, we are God-men. What we still lack today is the transfiguration of our body. However, we have a glorious hope, that is, that one day He will come to transfigure our body so that we may enter into God fully. Then from the inside to the outside we will have the life of God, the nature of God, and the glorious expression of God. Moreover, we will be in God. This is the central revelation of the holy Scriptures.

God's Salvation in Life, chapter 4 (LSM)

Although Christ is in us and has shined into us, He has not yet made His home in our hearts. What does it mean to make home? It means that after arranging everything properly, He settles down. It is through faith and not by sight that Christ is making His home in our hearts. The result is that we are filled unto all the fullness of God. The fullness of God is the expression of the overflow of God. When Christ makes His home in us, we are filled with God and are full of the glory of God. As a result, we who are earthen vessels, vessels of clay, become vessels of glory. We are filled and saturated with all the riches of God so that we are full of God within and without. Then we will be as stanza 8 of Hymns, #489 says, "And everywhere be Thee [Christ] and God." Because the Spirit of Christ has saturated and permeated our entire being, everywhere in our being there is Christ, and everywhere there is God. In this way we become vessels of glory.

The Subjective Experience of the Indwelling Christ, chapter 4 (LSM)

Ephesians 5:18 says, "Do not be drunk with wine." Wine refers to earthly pleasures. Anything that influences us, drugs us, or affects us is wine. We should not be filled and drunk with earthly pleasures. Verse 18 also says, "But be filled in spirit," that is, be filled unto all the fullness of God (3:19). Wine fills us up physically, causing us to be filled in our body. We should not, however, be filled with wine in our body. Rather, we should be filled unto all the fullness of God in our spirit. This means that we must let go of all the desires of our soul, including our mind, emotion, and will. We should only be filled in spirit unto the fullness of God. The result of this is shown in 5:19, which says, "Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and psalming with your heart to the Lord." This is what it means to be filled in our whole being with God. This is what it means when we sing, "And everywhere be Thee and God" (Hymns, #489, stanza 8).

The Revelation of the Mystery, chapter 5 (LSM)

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