Thou art love and Thou art light, Lord

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Thou art love and Thou art light, Lord,
  In the Son as life Thou art;
Love expressing, light illum’ning,
  Thou dost life to us impart.
 
Thou art love! Thou art light!
  In the Son as life Thou art;
Love expressing, light illum’ning
    Thou dost life to us impart.
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Love bespeaks Thy very being,
  What Thou dost is shown by light;
Love is inward, light is outward,
  Love accompanies the light.
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Love by grace is manifested,
  And the light by truth is shown;
By Thy love we may enjoy Thee;
  By Thy light Thou, Lord, art known.
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Thru Thy love, which led to Calvary,
  We receive the life of God;
Light our understanding opens,
  That we may apply the blood.
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Thru Thy love, as life Thou enter’st
  Fellowship with Thee to give;
Thru Thy light we take Thy cleansing
  And in fellowship may live.
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By the light and blood which cleanses,
  The anointing we shall know;
Then the life of love Thine essence,
  More and more in us will flow.
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By Thy love we are Thy children,
  Abba Father calling Thee;
Light disperses all our darkness,
  Till, like Him, Thy Son, we see.
 
O what grace! O what truth!
  Love is seen and light is shown!
We would praise Thee never ceasing,
  Thou by love and light art known!

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Un Hermano

c. Because We Have Become Sons, God Having Sent Forth the Spirit of His Soninto Our Hearts, Crying, Abba, Father!

2) The Spirit of His Son in Our Hearts, Crying, Abba, Father

The inner sense we have as we call on the Lord from our spirit through our heart is mainly in the heart, not in the spirit. This implies that to be genuinely spiritual we need to be emotional in a proper way. We are not senseless statues; we are human beings with feelings. Therefore, the more we cry “Abba, Father” in the spirit, the deeper the sweet and intimate sense will be in our heart.

The sense we have when calling in this way is sweet and intimate. Although the Spirit of sonship has come into our spirit, the Spirit cries in our hearts, “Abba, Father! ” This indicates that our relationship with our Father in the sonship is sweet and very intimate. How tender and sweet it is to call God, “Abba, Father”! Such an intimate calling involves our emotion as well as our spirit. The Spirit of sonship in our spirit cries “Abba, Father” from our heart. This proves that we have a genuine, bona fide relationship in life with our Father. We are His real sons.

The Conclusion of the

New Testament

Message 329 (LSM)


Un Hermano

THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION

RESURRECTION IN THE SPIRIT

After His resurrection, the Lord came into His disciples and breathed into them, saying, “Receive the Holy Spirit” (20:22). What is the Holy Spirit? The Spirit is just God reaching man. God the Father is the source, God the Son is the expression, and God the Spirit is God’s entering into man. The Spirit as God entering into us is for our enjoyment. If God were only the Father and not the Son and the Spirit, we could never experience Him. But God is in the Son as life, and God is the Spirit as resurrection. By resurrection God releases Himself and imparts Himself into us. Therefore, the Lord told the disciples to receive the Holy Spirit. To receive the Holy Spirit is to receive God Himself. It is only in resurrection and by resurrection that God can be within us and be one with us.

Life-study of John

Message 50 (LSM)


Vcarire

Tampa, FL, United States

Thou art love! Thou art light!

In the Son as life Thou art;

Love expressing, light illum’ning

Thou dost life to us impart.


Funsho

Ota, Ogun, Nigeria

Lord we will praise You, never ceasing. We will praise You as our Light Life and Love


0Luwseun

Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigeria

Abba father we worship you Amen...


Linny

By Thy love we are Thy children,

Abba Father calling Thee;

Light disperses all our darkness,

Till, like Him, Thy Son, we see.

O what grace! O what truth!

Love is seen and light is shown!

We would praise Thee never ceasing,

Thou by love and light art known! ~


Vanessa

Tampa, FL, United States

Praise the Lord!


Osaeloka A. Daniels

Victoria Island, Alabama, Nigeria

"Love bespeaks Thy very being." No God, no love. Know God, know love.


Sanjay Maisi

Delhi, India

By Thy love we are Thy children,

Abba Father calling Thee;

Light disperses all our darkness,

Till, like Him, Thy Son, we see. Thou art love!

Thou art light!

In the Son as life Thou art;

Love expressing, light illumining

Thou dost life to us impart.


Mona Cortez

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

By Thy love , we are Thy Children, ABBA Father calling Thee… what grace , O what truth love is seen and love is shown!!

Concerning the Father Dying in the Son in Stanza 4 of Hymn #6 in Chinese

The first two lines of stanza 4 in hymn #6 in Chinese read, "Love has caused Thee to die in the Son / That through Him I may receive life." In the earlier section concerning the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, it was pointed out that Isaiah 9:6 proves that the Son is the Father. Furthermore, in John 14:10 the Lord said, "Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak from Myself, but the Father who abides in Me does His works." This is because the Lord and the Father are one (10:30). If the Lord's speaking to the disciples was the Father who abides in Him doing His works, why can it not be said that the Lord's dying on the cross was the Father's dying in the Son? In 1932 I personally heard Brother Nee speak in a gospel message, "Truly, the Father loves us, and He came and died for us in the Son." If we accept the revelation from the plain words in the Bible that the Son is the Father, we will not think that this is wrong.

The criticizers ask, "If the Father died in the Son, why did the Lord cry on the cross, 'My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? ' And if the Father died in the Son when the Son died, who raised the Son from the dead?" This deduction seems logical, but we must remember that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are three yet one and one yet three. From the perspective of three yet one, the Father died in the Son, but from the perspective of one yet three, the Father raised the Son from the dead. Similarly, from the perspective of the Father being one with the Son, the Father died in the Son. From the perspective of the Father being the Father and the Son being the Son, the Father raised the Son from the dead. What a glorious mystery this is! And what a glorious fact! How can it be disputed?

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