CHAPTER THREE
THY SEED WHICH IS CHRIST
When God made His immutable covenant with Abraham, He made him to know by some very definite
promises that his seed would increase to be an innumerable multitude. They would become as the dust of the
earth, the sand of the sea, and the stars of the heaven in numbers. The dust of the earth signifies a purely
earthly seed, which was to come through Ishmael and Esau and through the offspring of Abraham’s marriage
to Keturah. None of these children were children of promise nor were they included in the Abrahamic covenant.
When the apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Romans, he revealed a truth that had hitherto been somewhat
obscure. Paul explained that the blessing of Abraham was not to come through Ishmael nor any of the sons of
Keturah nor through Esau, “For,” said he, “they are not all Israel which are of Israel; neither because they are
the seed of Abraham are they all children; Butin Isaac shall thy seed be called.” Rom. 9:6-7 See also Heb.
11:18 and Gen. 21:12 Therefore we must conclude that, though the descendants of Abraham through Ishmael
and the sons of Keturah have become as the dust of the earth for multitude, these nations are not to be
accounted as the seed through whom God’s blessing is to come upon the races and nations of the earth. I
have already pointed out that three kinds of seed came from Abraham – the dust, which represents Abraham’s
purely earthly seed who have no part in the promise, these being the children of Ishmael, Keturah, and Esau;
the sand seed, which I suggest represents the countless millions of those who have descended from the
twelve tribes of Israel, all of whom are heirs of the promise made to Abraham, for the promise was “to thee and
thy seed;” and beyond this again the promise, “Thy seed shall be as the stars of heaven.” This is a spiritual
seed and includes all those who are born again by faith in Christ Jesus whether Israelites or Gentiles or
heathen, for it is written, “If ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.”
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It was not Paul alone, of course, who signified that the blessing of God would come upon the nations through
Isaac. This truth we find very early in scripture. Though Abraham had produced a son through his handmaiden
Hagar (Gen. 16:15) and had actually pleaded with God to establish Ishmael as his heir, saying, “O that Ishmael
might live before me,” (Gen. 17:18), the Lord replied, “Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou
shall call his name Isaac: and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his
seed after him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful,
and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. But My
covenant will I establish with Isaac…” Gen. 17:18-21 This last statement is tremendously important. When
Sarah, after Isaac was born, saw Ishmael mocking her son Isaac, she said to Abraham, “Cast out this
bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even Isaac.” Gen.
21:10 This demand was very grievous to Abraham (verse 12), but the Lord said unto Abraham, “Let it not be
grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee,
hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.”
All these things are very significant. Indeed, they are an important allegory (Gal. 4:24). Ishmael, being born of a
bondwoman, is typical of those who are under the bondage of the law and have not come into the freedom of
faith and redemption in Christ Jesus. Isaac, being born of a free woman, not by works but by promise alone, is
typical of those who through faith in Christ become the children of God and thus inherit the promises to
Abraham. These of whatsoever race they be become heirs of God’s covenant with Abraham and joint heirs
with the Lord Jesus Christ. They become inheritors of every blessing of Abraham. As Abraham “believed” and
it was accounted to him for righteousness, so these also believe and inherit “all things.”
We must now notice how the Holy Spirit, speaking by Paul, spoke of the promise made to Abraham and his
seed. In a most remarkable way Paul emphasizes one particular seed, which was to become prominent above
all other. We read: “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of
many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.” Gal. 3:16
There is one particularly vital lesson that must be learned by all mankind whether they be of the seed of
Abraham according to the promise or whether they be heathen, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and
strangers according to the promise. The lesson is this: Salvation is by faith unto all and upon all who believe,
for there is no difference. The covenant made with Abraham was by promise, without any conditions attached.
Furthermore these promises were made four hundred and thirty years before the Law of Moses was given or
put into effect. Therefore the apostle gives this clear understanding of the meaning of the allegory by saying,
“And this I say, that the covenant, (that is, the Abrahamic covenant), that was confirmed before of God in
Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise
of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by
promise.” Gal. 3:17-18
The law is very necessary, for it portrays the nature of almighty God, and we sinful men, seeing our inability to
keep it, are persuaded to flee to Christ. “By the law is the knowledge of sin.” How then can a man ever come
under true conviction of sin if he does not know and heed the law? The law is the very nature of God Himself.
The scripture describes it as holy and just and good. O that in our day men knew that God has said, “Thou
shall not steal. Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not bear false witness. Thou shall not covet. Honor thy father and
thy mother.” Thus the law becomes our schoolmaster (pedagogue) to bring us to Christ. The Roman
pedagogue did not leach, but was a slave whose duty it was to escort the children to school. This is what the
law is for – to bring us to Christ. Can any among us imagine what good effect would come upon our society if
our nations and people kept even so much as one of these wonderful commands? What a tremendous drop
would come in the prices of consumer goods if America kept the law, “Thou shall not steal.” It is estimated that
two hundred and fifty million dollars worth of grocery carts are stolen from the supermarkets each year. Add
this to the other billions that are pilfered by shoplifting and open robbery and we may have found one of the
greatest reasons for the dreadful upswing in prices. Can we imagine the impact upon our nation if everyone
kept the command, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” What a revolution would take place in the homes of the
nation! What a reuniting of families, of parents and children! What an emptying of divorce courts and what
peace and tranquility would follow! Can we think how blessed it would be if in this day of rebellion children
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knew the commandment, “Honor thy father and thy mother” and were made aware of the promise that attends
this command – “that it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long in the land”? Can we begin to imagine
what tranquility would result if the commandment, “Thou shalt have no other god’s before Me,” and “Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbor as
thyself,” were obeyed? These laws, beloved, are more than the commandments of the Lord. They are a
revelation of God’s great heart, a manifestation of His very character and nature. When the kingdom of God
comes to spread its glory over all the earth in righteousness and truth, these holy laws will be the law of the
kingdom, written and engraven in the hearts of all mankind. These laws in Moses’ day were written on tables of
stone that rebellious and carnal men might read. It does much good to read the law, but the law itself has no
power to change the sinful heart. That is why Paul said,’ ‘The law was weak through the flesh.” The great
benefit comes when the law is written in our hearts. A new spirit is given to us and a new heart.
The prophet Ezekiel, even while warning of the awful calamities which were to come upon all Israel during the
terrible night of their captivity, spoke of a better day – a day when they would have learned their lesson and
repented of their sins. Therefore he says, “Thus saith the Lord God; I will even gather you from the people, and
assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. And
they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations
thereof from thence. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the
stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh: that they may walk in My statutes, and keep
Mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.” Ezek. 11:17-20 This
great change of heart comes when we repent of our sins. This change is evidence of the new birth. It was of
this that Jesus spoke when He said, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John
3:3. Jeremiah adds much to this truth by saying, “This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will
be their God, and they shall be My people.” Jer. 31:33
The crude notion propagated by many who call themselves theologians, teaching that God has done away with
the law, is not the truth or the teaching of scripture. If God ever did away with the law, He would have to do
away with His own holy nature. God has not done away with the law. He fulfilled it in Jesus Christ and we are
“in Him.” Every man in Christ joyfully fulfills every letter of the law by the power of his new nature. The Lord by
the regenerating power of the new birth transferred the law from the tables of stone to the tables of our hearts.
He has taken away the nature that rebels against and hates God and His law and has given in its place the
Spirit of Jesus Christ, who came to fulfill the law – every jot and tittle of it. The law of God brings sinners to
Christ. Paul says this is a pedagogue to bring us to the Saviour. Gal. 3:24 The law proves to the carnal man
that he can never hope to keep its precepts while he remains a natural man, unregenerate and dead in sins.
The fiery law of God points with unerring finger to Jesus Christ, our Lord, who fulfilled every jot and tittle of it,
as it is written, “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled.” Matt. 5:18 And Christ, having fulfilled all the law, bowed His head on Calvary’s cross and cried that
heaven and earth, angel and sinner might hear,’ ‘It is finished.” The law had been perfectly kept in Him. The
work of redemption from the curse was complete. Not one soul in the universe could convince Him of sin, for
he had none. And now, having bowed His head in death, He sealed the new covenant with His own blood, thus
making it an unbreakable covenant. By death He released His own Spirit that we who believe might freely
partake of His Spirit that Christ, the giver of the law, might henceforth live in the hearts of all who believe the
promise long before given to Abraham, “In thee and in thy seed shall all nations be blessed.” The first true
blessing of Abraham is justification by faith, for all who believe in Christ are justified from all things, from which
we could not be justified by the Law of Moses. Acts 13:39 Man cannot be justified by the law of Moses
because sinful man cannot keep such a holy law, but when we come to Christ in repentance and His Spirit
comes into our hearts, then the law-giver Himself has come to dwell within, filling the heart with His life and joy
and holiness, as it is written, “A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will
take away the stony heart out of their flesh and I will give them a heart of flesh.” Ezek. 36:26
“In Isaac shall thy seed by called,” He said. Not “seeds” as of many, but “thy seed, which is Christ.” Jesus
Christ is the most important of all the seed of Abraham, because from this seed comes the true church, the
sons of God, and the bride of Christ. Christ is the Redeemer of Israel and the Saviour of the world. He came
unto His own and His own received Him not, but as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become
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the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13 Jesus Christ, our Lord, is of the seed of Abraham. With
His coming into the world there comes an entirely new revelation and fresh understanding of the immutable
purposes of God. With Him begins the unfolding of the promise, “Thy seed shall be as the stars of the heaven
for the multitude.” From the Christ seed comes the church of the living God, from whose multitudes will arise
the glorified ranks of the sons of God. These in the age to come will reign with Christ in glory over all the earth.
They will sit upon thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel, from whom will come the New Jerusalem bride in
all her heavenly glory. We will consider the bride in a later article.
Do you see them coming, brother,
Thronging up the steeps of light
Clad in glorious, shining garments;
Blood-washed garments pure and white?
‘Tis a glorious church without spot or wrinkle,
Washed in the blood of the Lamb.
‘Tis a glorious church without spot or wrinkle,
Washed in the blood of the Lamb.
That Jesus Christ, who is Lord and Head of the Christ body, was of the seed of Abraham the first verse of the
New Testament is quick to point out with these inspired words:’ ‘The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the
son of David, the son of Abraham.” Matt. 1:1 This first verse of the New Testament is one of the most
important verses in the entire Bible, for if Jesus of Nazareth was not both son of David the king and son of
Abraham, with whom God’s covenant was made, then He is not the promised seed at all and could not
possibly be accepted as the Christ. The evangelist Matthew was well aware that his gospel would mean less
than nothing to his Jewish readers if the Jesus of whom he wrote with such exquisite detail should prove to be
of other than the seed of Abraham. Upon that first verse of the New Testament hangs the proof of who Jesus
actually is and even we who believe in Him would be forced to reject Him if it could be proved that He was not
that very Son who was promised to Abraham, descended not through Ishmael, but through Isaac, for in saying,
“In Isaac shall thy seed be called,” God was speaking of one special seed and that seed was Christ.
I have always found genealogies to be dull reading and so they really are, but that does not detract one iota
from their vast importance. Thus does Matthew with infinite care link by link forge the chain of Christ’s
genealogy from Abraham forward to Jesus, the Christ, while Luke with care just as infinite traces His
genealogy through His mother Mary, who was the daughter of Heli, right back to Adam in Eden’s garden, of
whom it is recorded that he was the son of God. Luke 3:23-36 We may be inclined, when reading the first
chapter of Matthew, to skip over verses one to seventeen as nothing but dry and almost meaningless
genealogy. And we may have the same feeling about the long genealogy contained in Luke, chapter three,
verses twenty-three to thirty-six, but these verses are full of inspiration and assurance. Without them we would
not have known that Jesus was the seed promised in Eden’s garden when after their transgression the Lord
said the seed of the woman should bruise the head of the serpent. “It shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt
bruise his heel.” Gen. 3:15 Nor would we have known that Jesus was the special seed promised to our father
Abraham had not both Matthew and Luke showed us in such a positive manner that Jesus the Christ was a
direct descendant of these two men, David and Abraham. To Abraham was this promise made: “In thee and
thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” To David it was promised: “There shall not fail thee a
man on the throne of Israel.” 1 Kings 2:4 It is essential that the genealogies show that the promised Christ
must come from the tribe of Judah, for the patriarch Jacob prophesied on his death bed, saying, “The scepter
shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the
gathering of the people be.” Gen. 49:10 This latter prophecy, in my opinion at least, actually declares that the
throne of David should continue to exist as a throne down through the church age until at last at the coming of
the Lord He shall come whose right it is, and God will give it to Him.
I take great exception to those unwise and unholy statements that would attempt to make Jesus Christ to be
other than an Israelite. If Jesus was not of the stock of Israel, then He must be rejected as an imposter,
because He is not the promised Messiah. Furthermore, I declare with great boldness that it was not enough
that He should be merely an Israelite, but He must come from one particular tribe in Israel and that tribe is the
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tribe of Judah. It was not sufficient that He be merely of the house of Judah, for had He been a Benjamite or a
Levite, He would not have been the promised Christ. The scepter of kingship was given to Judah and to him
alone. Therefore it is of great importance that Christ be of this tribe, as indeed He most definitely is.
In my opinion the statement that Jesus Christ may have been a Negro is not only erroneous; it is blasphemous.
Jesus could not have been a Negro, or a Chinaman or an Indian or a Frenchman or an Englishman. He must
be of the tribe of Judah and of Judah alone. Neither was Jesus a man of mixed blood, as one of America’s
most famous evangelists stated. It is a matter of great concern and tragedy that after all these years the church
system has been so slack in setting forth true priorities. Is it any wonder that thousands of people go astray
after false Christs who spring from other races and other tribes?
The promise of the ruling scepter was given to Judah. Gen. 49:10 But the tremendously important birthright
promise was given to the sons of Joseph. It is clearly written: “Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel,
for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of
Joseph, the son of Israel (that is, Ephraim and Manasseh), and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the
birthright. For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was
Joseph’s.” 1. Chron. 5:1-2 Please read Jer. 31:9 where Joseph’s son Ephraim is called “My firstborn.” In
actuality he was the youngest of them all, but God gave him the birthright. Therefore he becomes heir.
Assuring as is the record of Christ’s genealogy in the books of Matthew and Luke, it must be remembered that
Jesus was much more than a mere descendant of Adam, Abraham, Judah, and David. Paul declares that
Jesus was “made of the seed of David according to the flesh,” but that He was declared to be the Son of God
with power according to the Spirit of holiness (the Holy Spirit) and by the resurrection of the dead.” Rom. 1:3-4
Though we may prove that He is a true man of the Adamic race by showing that He is the seed of Adam and
that He is the covenant seed by showing that He is a descendant of Abraham, that He is the true possessor of
the reigning scepter promised to Judah, and that He is the promised son of David and heir to his throne who
will reign over the house of Israel, Jesus Christ is something vastly more than the descendant of men. The
Messiah, according to the promise, must be not only the Son of man, but the Son of God as well. This fact is
brought out in various ways in Old Testament scripture, a truth too extensive to deal with at this point.
Nevertheless, of the Messiah it is written: “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His
name Immanuel” (Isa. 7:14), the meaning of which is God with us. This birth of the Son of God necessitated a
virgin birth as a matter of course. Therefore it is written, “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and
shall call His name Immanuel.” Matt. 1:23. Jesus Christ was in fact and in truth both the Son of man and the
Son of God.
A favorite pastime among unbelievers of all ages and of our day in particular is to try to prove that Jesus of
Nazareth was nothing more than the healthy son of two normal parents named Joseph and Mary. Not only do
the ungodly and unbelieving present their arguments of unbelief, but an ever increasing number of church
people are willing to embrace the same error. Let the ungodly believe as they choose, but the faithful believer
should be able to see that, if Jesus was not born of a virgin, then He did not come according to the prophecy of
Isa. 7:14 – “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son.” If He was not born of a virgin as some suppose,
then the accounts given in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, declaring emphatically that Mary was a virgin, are
indeed a sordid deception, a misrepresentation, and a lie from the devil’s mouth. Nothing in the New
Testament is more definite and clear than the statement of the word of God declaring that Mary was a virgin
when she was found to be with child of the Holy Ghost. Matt. 1:18 And we are definitely assured that Joseph
knew her not until after she had brought forth her firstborn son and laid Him in a manger. Matt. 1:25 If these
things are not so, then God’s word cannot be depended upon as truth in anything, and if God’s word cannot be
trusted, then are our harbors whirlpools and all our mighty rocks are clouds.
When the apostle John wrote his gospel, he did not concern himself with the human genealogy of Jesus Christ.
Matthew and Luke had already proven that fact in great detail, but John by the wisdom of God gave us an
inkling of His existence in the eternal realm long before Adam and Eden existed. In the following words John
gives a genealogy nothing short of divine. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.” John 1:1-2 Jesus Christ was the Son of God as
well as the Son of man and the words quoted above are nothing less than His genealogy as God. The scripture
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continues. “All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was
life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it
not.” Verses 3-5 The truth continues in verse 9 “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came
unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become
the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld
His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” Verses 9-14 Nothing is more
certain than that He was the promised Son, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. He is the
promised Saviour of the world and the Redeemer of God’s people Israel.
If we require further evidence of His genealogy as the true Son of God, we will find it in verses one and two of
John’s first epistle. “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our
eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of Life; (For the life was
manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the
Father, and was manifested unto us.)” 1 John 1:1-2 I would be very remiss if I did not point out here that such
knowledge, faith, and assurance becomes an absolute necessity for true fellowship with God and with His
blessed saints. John makes this fact abundantly clear by saying, “That which we have seen and heard declare
we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His
Son Jesus Christ.” Verse 3. There is not one possibility in time or eternity that we might ever become sons of
God if Jesus, who is our Savior, was not Himself a Son, born not only of Mary but of God.
Genealogies are very necessary, but genealogy alone is not sufficient. There must be evidence more abundant
than these if we are to have full assurance that Jesus of Nazareth was the promised Son in whom all the world
would be blessed. Such evidence is convincingly given in God’s word. There came a day in the long ago when
from his prison cell John the Baptist sent a messenger to Jesus with this earnest plea: “Art Thou He that
should come, or look we for another?” The man who had borne faithful witness that Jesus was the Lamb of
God now sought new assurance in his hour of distress. In His reply to John’s question our Lord made no
reference to His genealogy. He made no reference to that long line of forefathers back through David, Judah,
Abraham and Adam, but He made reference to something even more sure than this. We may be sure that
John was aware of His genealogy, but Jesus said, “Go and tell John the blind receive their sight, and the lame
walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel
preached to them, and blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in Me.” Matt. 11:5-6 Why did our Lord
reply in this manner? The reason is simple. Peter spoke of the “more sure word of prophecy” (2 Pet. 1:19), and
the miracles being wrought by Christ were being done in fulfillment of many prophetic scriptures given
concerning Himself. The prophets long ago had spoken of the coming of the Just One, who would heal the
sick, cleanse the lepers, and preach the gospel to the poor. No other man had ever appeared on the earthly
scene who performed such mighty deeds or spoke with such authority and power. If the prophets have spoken
such things of the coming Messiah, then it is absolutely necessary that the Messiah must fulfill those
prophecies to the letter or be rejected by all. Through His life of authority and power we have abundant
evidence that He did come according to the prophecies of the Old Testament, most of which were given
hundreds of years before Jesus came to fulfill them. Though His genealogy could be proved beyond question,
yet if He came not in exact harmony with the prophecies concerning Him, He cannot be accepted as the
Messiah. Though Jesus was declared to be the Son of man by genealogy, Paul makes it plain that He was
declared to be the Son of God with power (Rom. 1:4), and this according to the Spirit of holiness, guaranteed
by the resurrection from the dead. Oh what a world of convincing truth is packed into those first four verses of
Paul’s epistle to the Romans!
Let us continue with this thought and see further how this important point is stressed by the Spirit of holiness.
Our Lord at age thirty was declared to be the Lamb of God. John the Baptist, upon seeing Him, had cried
aloud, “Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.” John 1:29 For the Lord had said to
John, “Upon whom thou shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is He which
baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I (John) saw and bear record that this is the Son of God.” John 1:33-34
Jesus also and all who stood nearby at His baptism heard the voice of the Lord from heaven, proclaiming,
“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” Then was Jesus led into the wilderness to be tempted of
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the devil, and, having overcome in all His temptations, He returned from the wilderness in the power of the
Holy Spirit and entered into the synagogue at Nazareth and stood up to read the scriptures. “And there was
delivered unto Him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when He had opened the book, He found the place
where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to
the poor; He hath sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of
sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And He
closed the book, and He gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the
synagogue were fastened on Him. And He began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your
ears.” Luke 3:16-21 See also Isaiah 61. This was the second time that Jesus had called upon the Old
Testament prophecies to confirm His sonship. Never once to my knowledge did He ever make reference to His
genealogy to prove His sonship or His Messiahship. In His one brief reference to Abraham He clearly stated,
“Before Abraham was, I AM.”
Though we may not fully know the Old Testament prophecies relating to the first coming of Jesus Christ, there
are well over two hundred such prophecies, every one of which was completely fulfilled in Him, including His
genealogy. Every Old Testament prophecy concerning His coming as a suffering Messiah was fulfilled to the
letter in His lifetime and, this being so, there is not one possibility in a trillion that Jesus was other than the
promised Redeemer or that we need to look for another. Yet had even one of those prophecies gone
unfulfilled, we could not have accepted Him as the Messiah.
Perhaps the reader may not realize the import of two hundred prophecies that must be fulfilled. Two hundred
prophecies that must be fulfilled give two hundred marks of identification. It is commonly known that our
fingerprints differ from every other person’s on earth. Yet in law six identical marks are sufficient to identify any
man, since no other man in the world has the same six identical marks. You have probably heard of the law of
compound probabilities. It works in this manner: Every probability added multiplies the possibility of error. For
instance, if the weatherman predicts, “We will have sunshine all day,” he has one chance in two of being
correct – first, we may have sunshine all day, and second, we may not. If he says,’ ‘We will have snow in the
morning and sunshiny in the afternoon,” he has only one chance in four of being right. We may have sunshine
and snow as he predicted. Then again we may have neither. Again we may have sunshine without snow or we
may have snow without sunshine. Should he add a third probability and say we will have sunshine and snow
and wind, he again multiplies his chances of being wrong, for we now have eight probabilities. (1) We may
have sun, snow and wind. (2) We may have none of these. (3) We may have sun, but not wind or snow. (4) We
may have snow, but not sun or wind. (5) We may have wind, but not sun or snow. (6) We may have sun and
wind, but no snow. (7) We may have sun and snow, but no wind, and (8) we may have wind and snow, but no
sun. Thus you see that with three probabilities there are eight possibilities of being wrong. If you add one more
condition, you will find you have sixteen possibilities of being wrong. If you add a fifth probability then you have
thirty-two possibilities. Add one more and you have sixty-four possibilities, and so on it goes. Thus, since there
were over two hundred identification marks that had to be fulfilled in the Messiah, it would take a large
computer to discover the number of possibilities of error there would be or how small would be the possibility
that anyone could qualify for Messiahship who was not in fact the Messiah. The infinitesimal possibility would
be less than one in many trillions.
To assure us fully that Jesus was He that should come and not another, God has given a vast array of
prophecies concerning Him, all of which must of necessity be fulfilled to the letter in the coming Saviour. The
Old Testament prophets, speaking by the Spirit, continued to add without hesitation one prophecy upon
another with the sure knowledge that every word that God had spoken would be fulfilled to the letter. In only
one chapter of the book of Isaiah (chapter 53) we have these twenty-seven conditions laid down as
characteristic identification marks of the coming Messiah. (1) The unbelief of the people. “Who hath
believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?” (2) He shall grow up as a tender plant and
as a root out of a dry ground. (3) He has no form or comeliness, and when we should see Him, there is no
beauty that we should desire Him. (4) He is despised and rejected of men. (5) a man of sorrows and (7)
acquainted with grief. (8) We hid as it were our faces from Him. (9) He was despised and we esteemed Him
not. (10) He hath borne our grief and (11) carried our sorrows. (12) We did esteem Him stricken of God and
afflicted. (13) He was wounded for our transgressions. (14) He was bruised for our iniquities. (15) He was
oppressed and afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth. (16) He was led as a lamb to the slaughter. (17) As a
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sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not His mouth. (18) He was taken from prison and
judgment, or He was deprived of just judgment. (19) Who shall declare His generation? (20) He was cut off
from the land of the living. (21) For the transgression of My people was He stricken. (22) He made His grave
with the wicked and (23) with the rich in His death. (24) He had done no violence, (25) neither was deceit found
in His mouth. (26) It pleased the Lord to bruise Him. (27) He hath put Him to grief.
These prophecies, found in just one chapter, are but a few of the many concerning the coming of the Just One,
all of which had to be fulfilled to the letter at His first coming. The remaining verses of this fifty-third chapter
concern themselves with the millennial day when He shall see the travail of His soul and be satisfied. All the
prophecies concerning the kingdom have yet to be fulfilled at His second coming.
There was an occasion when an Ethiopian eunuch, who had been to Jerusalem to worship, was returning
home and, sitting in his carriage, he read Isaiah the prophet. The Spirit of the Lord had said to Philip, “Go near,
and join thyself to this chariot.” And Philip ran thither to him and heard him read the prophet Esaias.
“Understandest thou what thou reddest?” Philip asked. He replied, “How can I except some man should guide
me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The place of the scripture which he read
was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before his shearer, so opened He not His
mouth: in His humiliation His judgment was taken away: and who shall declare His generation? for His life is
taken from the earth. And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet
this? of himself or of some other man? Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and
preached unto him Jesus.” Acts 8:27-35
Oh, with what heavenly assurance can the church of the living God open its mouth and preach that this man,
Jesus of Nazareth, is He who has come according to hundreds of Old Testament prophecies to redeem from
sin, save a world, and restore all things to their rightful owner! We might well fill the rest of the book with
prophecies such as these and show in greater detail that our Lord came to fulfill them one and all, but we must
turn briefly to other things.
JESUS, THE SEED OF ABRAHAM
Now this Lord Jesus Christ, who came of the seed of Abraham through his son Isaac, is Himself a seed.
Abraham was the seed from whom sprang vast multitudes as the dust of the earth, the sands of the sea, and
the stars of heaven in number. But Paul, in teaching this great truth, fastens the hope of the universe on one
particular seed, and that seed is Christ. This he does in Gal. 3:16 by saying, “He saith not seeds, as of many;
but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.” Therefore of all the millions, perhaps billions, who have sprung
from Abraham the one seed of greatest importance is Jesus Christ.
It seems a most singular thing that the word seed is used at all. Why did the Lord tell our mother Eve that the
seed of the woman (her seed) would bruise the head of the serpent? Why did He use the word seed? Why did
He not say that the man that should come from the woman should bruise the head of the serpent? But it was to
be “thy seed,” the seed of the woman. The truth is that seed is not only the product of some other life before it
but seed is also that which reproduces itself and its kind many thousand fold from generation to generation. In
the twelfth chapter of the gospel of John certain Greeks came to Jesus with the request, “Sirs, we would see
Jesus.” Philip and Andrew brought the request to Jesus, who made this strange and very remarkable reply:
“The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat
fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” John 12: 20-24 In this
passage our Lord likened Himself to a seed, a grain of wheat, which was to fall into the ground and die. He
was to be planted as a seed in the earth and be raised again. Not only was He to be raised in glorification, but
in centuries yet to come this seed, which was Jesus Christ, would produce a vast company of sons of God in
His exact image and likeness. After the seed is implanted in the ground, the process of growth is “first the
blade, then the ear, then the ear of corn in the ear.” While only one seed was planted in the earth, the
multitude that will appear in the time of harvest will be as the stars of heaven in number, every one bearing the
image and likeness of that Christ seed which was planted in death.
It may seem to be a puzzle to some that Philip and Andrew, who came bearing the earnest request of these
Greeks, “Sirs, we would see Jesus,” should be given what appears to be such an oblique reply. In fact, the
passage does not indicate that Jesus ever consented to have these Greeks interview Him, though of course
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He may have done, but in answer to their request He made this strange affirmation, “Except a corn of wheat
fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” What He really was telling
them is this: If they saw Jesus at that time, they would have seen only Jesus the Christ, but He knew there was
more, much more to Christ than what they could now see. A multitude as the stars of heaven was to follow in
His likeness, born of the same seed, raised in the same resurrection, who would at last be “sons of God” even
as He is a Son of God, and these would not be merely many sons, but many sons to form one Christ, each one
having the seed of life in himself.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, the seed of Abraham, appeared as the firstborn of many brethren. “For whom He did
foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn
among many brethren.” Rom. 8:29 Weymouth in his translation of this passage says, ‘ ‘Those He has
foreknown He has also predestined to share the likeness of His Son, that He might be the Eldest in a vast
family of brothers.” The seed that was sown in the ground that afternoon of Calvary and its cross and which
arose as a tender blade on the resurrection morning will appear in the end of the age as the full corn in the ear,
and Jesus the Christ, the Lamb of Calvary, will be heard triumphantly saying, “Here am I and the sons which
Thou hast given Me.” Heb. 2:13 This the prophet Isaiah saw in spirit in the sad and desolate hour when the
tribes of Israel were being carried away into captivity. He prophesied, saying, “Bind up the testimony, seal the
law among My disciples. And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth His face from the house of Jacob, and I will
look for Him. Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel
from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.” Isa. 8:16-18
The phrase, “Thy seed, which is Christ,” is too great and too important for the mind of man to comprehend. We
must therefore diligently seek the spirit of revelation that we may know the things that are freely given us of
God. It is when men try to understand with their natural minds that they conclude that others who see and
understand the deeper things are blasphemers and deceivers, but when the Holy Spirit takes the things of God
and reveals them unto us, then the invisible things of Him from the foundation of the world are clearly seen and
we accept them and know them and make them our own.
Though the world itself could not contain the books that should be written of all that Jesus is and all He taught,
it will be necessary for us now to leave this part of the truth to the holy minds of saints who believe that each
one may seek the mind of Christ for the revelation by the Spirit of the deep things of God to his searching
heart.
In this Chapter we have been speaking of God’s first perfected and first manifested Son, Jesus of Nazareth,
the Christ-Head. It is my hope now by God’s help to unfold the truth concerning the Christ-Body and the Christ
Bride, Christ the Head, Christ the body, and Christ the bride. These terms may be unfamiliar to almost all the
saints and I use them only with bowed head and godly fear and trembling. Holy and reverend as they are, they
are in truth God’s covenant to Abraham, “In thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blest.”
Oh, how good it is to know that in this hour of world-wide sorrow, disorder, and distress the immutable
promises and covenants of God are progressing toward their final fulfillment and from them will come that
order, interdependence, and unity for which we so earnestly pray!
CHAPTER FOUR
THY SEED WHICH IS THE BODY OF CHRIST
“Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.” 1 Cor. 12:27 All natural things have spiritual
counterparts. The visible things with which we are familiar, which we see about us every day, are all
proclaiming some great spiritual lesson. The truth of this statement is set forth in the words of inspiration found
in Rom. 1:20 “The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by
the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.”
Though our subject here concerns the body of Christ, which we will speak of as the Christ body, which is a
great mystery, we will find much truth concerning our identification with that body by observing the human
body, with which we are familiar. I have no hesitation in stating that the human physical body is the greatest
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and best visible portrait of the body of Christ that has ever been devised. Paul calls upon it on several
occasions to unfold to the hearts of believers that far greater truth concerning the body of Christ, which is the
true Christ body.
We have studied the mystery of Christ and our identification with Him, but, though we have written much
concerning this and have tried to the best of our ability to explain it, we are certain to fall short in our
understanding unless the Holy Spirit opens our spiritual minds and makes us see that the Head, which is
Christ, and the body, which we are, together form one Christ. Here we shall call upon that which is natural and
visible to explain that which is spiritual and invisible. What person among us has not seen or considered the
physical form of a man? Even the blind have an understanding of this. Looking upon the physical form of man,
we immediately perceive that he is composed of a head and a body. A head alone is not a man, but the head
and the body together form a perfect man. It is not that makes a man. It is the head and body together that
forms a man. If the body is without the head, then there is no man, and if the head is without the body, there is
no man.
With all the reverence and respect of my ransomed soul I must tell you that the fullness of God’s wonderful
Christ does not consist of the Head alone or of the body alone, but the Head and the body together make the
fullness and completeness of Christ. The saints of God have yet to discover the full spiritual meaning of the
words, “Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particular.” There has been far too much talk about the
body but far too little understanding. Christians have seen the Head, which is Jesus Christ, not as the Head of
God’s Christ, but as the fullness and completeness of Him. On the other hand they have spoken of the body of
Christ, not as an integral part of God’s Christ, but as something separate and different like the denominational
church. They have seen the body of Christ as a church full of divisions and strifes, something that God was
trying to save from hell and torment, something that He would take to heaven bye and bye, but which in reality
had little or no relationship to Him other than the fact of its salvation.
O my brethren, if you have seen the body of Christ as no more than this tormented denominational thing that
mankind is pleased to call the church, you have fallen far short in your understanding, for even nature shows
you that the body of a man and the head of a man form one man, complete and perfect in every detail. So also
the head of the Christ and the body of the Christ form one Christ, perfect and complete before God. Though I
have prayed earnestly that this mystery may be revealed to the hearts of believing saints, I well know that it is
not the grand oration or the glib tongue, breaking with eloquence and intonation upon the curious ear, that
enlightens the heart and gives understanding of spiritual things, for eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither
have entered the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love Him; but He has revealed
them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. Pray, therefore, that the
Holy Spirit, who was sent into the world to lead us into all truth, will teach us all things and bring all things to
our remembrance. May He anoint our eyes and our hearts that we may behold wondrous things out of God’s
word.
When John wrote the immortal words, “The anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you, and ye
need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no
lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him,” he well understood that it is quite impossible for a
man to teach us any spiritual truth. Certainly a teacher may unfold the words of truth and revelation, but it is
God who is light and who gives light. Only the Spirit of God can open the eyes of the blind and give them sight.
As the invisible wind makes its presence known by moving the curtains of a tent or by letting us hear the sound
thereof, so the Holy Spirit reveals Himself by shining His light into the dark recesses of our understanding,
making us see the invisible, hear the inaudible, and comprehend the incomprehensible. “Except a man be born
again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” That verse does not mean he cannot go to heaven. It means he
cannot see, he cannot understand, he cannot know or discern any spiritual thing without a spiritual birth from
above. There are many people in the world who talk incessantly about the kingdom of God, but they have
never seen it by the Spirit. Many others talk about sonship, but are devoid of the spirit of sonship. A spiritual
birth enables us to see and hear by the Spirit of God. This is a transforming thing that brings a believer into the
very image and likeness of the thing he sees.
It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing. The spirit of man may know the things of a man, but
the Spirit of God alone knows the things of God. Jesus marveled that Nicodemus was a teacher in Israel and
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yet knew not these things, and with conviction He told him that he would never know spiritual things as long as
he remained in the natural realm, striving to understand a higher realm with a natural mind. “If I have told you
of earthly things, and ye believe not,” He said, “how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things?” It is when
He, the Spirit of truth, is come that He guides us into all truth.
God’s people make a serious and fatal mistake when they cling desperately to the tradition taught them at the
beginning of their walk with God. When they do this, they shut the door for God to teach them anything. Their
tradition at best is only a fragment of the whole. Tradition makes men into unbelievers, because it refuses to
allow them to see greater light. Jesus understood this when He said, “Ye make the commandment of God of
none effect by your tradition.” Revelation modifies all tradition, delivering men from that which is in part and
bringing them out into that which is full. “When I was a child, I thought as a child; I spoke as a child; I
understood as a child: but when I became a man, i put away childish things. For now we see through a glass
darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” 1 Cor. 13:11
The life of a Christian should be a continual progression in God, but he cannot progress without spiritual
revelation, and revelation will greatly modify and often times completely break the chains of human tradition.
While the boast of some men may be that they are just the same as they always were, let us rather glory in the
fact that, as the light of His love grows brighter, we are being changed into that same image from glory to glory,
even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
I have digressed a little from the subject of the Christ body, but only that we may grasp the truth that spiritual
things must be spiritually understood. To see a spiritual truth with the natural mind leaves the beholder
unchanged and cold. Our Lord Jesus Christ was called a blasphemer when He claimed to be the Son of God,
not because He had no evidence to back His claim, but because the people that surrounded Him and opposed
Him so were blind leaders of the blind, held captive by the traditions of the elders, men and women who had
not so much as a spark of revelation or spiritual understanding. When Jesus claimed identity with His Father in
heaven, they shouted, “Ye have heard His blasphemy!” When He stated the word of truth, “Before Abraham
was, I AM,” they believed not, but railing against Him in wrath and envy, they took up stones to stone Him.
Do you think, therefore, that carnal Christians will understand when revelation teaches us that we are members
of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones? Will our faith be accepted or believed when we say we have been
made to drink of His Spirit, been baptized into His body and made partakers of the divine nature? All these
statements pass as acceptable theology except when they become a burning, transforming revelation to some
believing heart. Certainly we may affirm that we are the body of Christ, but when revelation reveals the truth
that the members of the body of Christ are in truth part of God’s Christ, then men begin to take up stones to
stone us. If they do not pick stones from the ground to throw, they certainly stone us with words of discredit
and unbelief.
My dearly beloved brethren, we have been made partakers of the divine nature. We have all been made to
drink of His Spirit. We have by one Spirit been baptized into one body, and that one body is the Christ body.
And, because by such a divine ordinance we have become members of His body, partakers of His Spirit and
His life, of a truth we are members of God’s glorious Christ, the fullness and completeness of Him who
everywhere fills the universe with Himself.
Hear now the inspired words of Paul on this great subject as again he likens the human body to the spiritual
body of Christ. “For,” says he, “as the body is one, and hath many members . . . so also is Christ.” Cor. 12:12.
We quote the text in part to show that it is the many members of the body, together with the Head that form the
complete Christ. But, to quote the entire passage, Paul says, “As the body is one, and hath many members,
and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.” God’s glorious Christ is not
one member, but many — not the Head alone, but the Head and the body inseparably joined in one Spirit.
Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ Head, but we, the members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones, are the
Christ body.
I know some will be ready to stone me for that statement; nevertheless, it is true. The age from Eden to
Calvary was occupied with the preparation and presentation of Christ the Head. The age or dispensation from
Pentecost to the resurrection of the just is occupied with one great, all-important work – the preparation and
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presentation of the Christ body. The age which we know as the millennial kingdom will be occupied by the
preparation and presentation of the bride of Christ, or the Christ bride, of which I will write more fully in the next
Chapter. I fearlessly declare that the work of this age of grace is not the salvation of the world, but the
preparation of the sons of God to form the true church or Christ body.
We have often heard of the manifestation of the sons of God. Indeed, the word of God reveals this truth with
great care and fullness, and no wonder, for the whole creation is waiting on tiptoe for their manifestation. “For I
reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be
revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature (that is, the whole creation) waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of
Him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation
groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first
fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of
our bodies. For we have been saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why
doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.” Rom. 8:18, 25
The words of the above passage, quoted below from Phillips translation, are a forceful assurance to all who
are laying hold on this great message. “In my opinion whatever we may have to go through now is less than
nothing compared with the magnificent future God has planned for us. The whole creation is on tiptoe to see
the wonderful sight of the sons of God coming into their own. The world of creation cannot as yet see reality,
not because it chooses to be blind, but because in God’s purpose it has been so limited – yet it has been given
hope. And the hope is that in the end the whole of created life will be rescued from the tyranny of change and
decay, and have its share in that magnificent liberty which can only belong to the children of God! It is plain to
anyone with eyes to see that at the present time all created life groans in a sort of universal travail. And it is
plain, too, that we who have a foretaste of the Spirit are in a state of painful tension, while we wait for that
redemption of our bodies which will mean that at last we have realized our full sonship in Him. We are saved
by this hope, but in our moments of impatience let us remember that hope always means waiting for something
we haven’t yet got. But if we hope for something wt cannot see, then we must settle down to wait for it in
patience.”
What magnificent words these are, describing as they do the awaited glory of God’s sons, men and women
who are coming into Christ’s image, the Christ likeness, to share the Christ body and the glory of Him who,
through the fullness which He shall accomplish by adding to Himself these many, many sons, will fill the
universe and we shall become the fullness of Him who filleth all in all. This, my beloved brethren, is the prize of
the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. This is that for which Jesus travailed and, having done so, saw the
travail of His soul and was satisfied, for of His fullness have we all received and grace for grace.
On a wonderful night in the long, long ago when Lot, seeing the abundant grass of the valley, had pitched his
tent toward Sodom, Abraham, turning his face toward the hills, was led by God’s hand out into the starlit
evening. As he lifted his face toward the skies, the voice of the Lord told him to behold the stars and see if he
could count them, and, knowing that Abraham could not do so, the Lord added yet one more promise to His
eternal covenant – “So shall thy seed be.” These uncounted stars of the heaven represent the sons of God,
who are being prepared for the manifestation for which all creation groans. These are members of the Christ
body, who will deliver the creation from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom they themselves
possess.
Almost two thousand years ago the apostle Paul basked in the sunshine of this very hope. Far out in the future
he saw the prize which he called the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus and, upon seeing its glory,
gladly unloaded all his religious tradition, stripping himself for the race to press irresistibly toward that high
calling in Christ of which I write today. “What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ,” he said.
“Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for
whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in
Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the
righteousness which is of God by faith: that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the
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fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the
resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if
that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to
have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto
those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Phil. 3:7-14
In Christ Jesus! What a transforming expression that is! Quoted and read by countless millions, but
understood, I fear, by practically none. Instead of seeing the boundless wonder and infinite meaning of the
words “in Christ Jesus,” we have been content to pass over them as though they were practically meaningless,
little more than nice, kind sayings that should be a comfort to the people of God. But oh, let me tell you the
expressions in Christ, in Christ Jesus, and 2/2 Him proclaim that we are members of His body, of His flesh, and
of His bones, and that we who believe are the completeness of Him who filleth all in all. We have all been
baptized into His body. We have become one with His Spirit. As He dwells in the Father, so do we dwell in
Him. These expressions, and many more like them, teach beyond a shadow of a doubt that God has but one
Christ and that Christ consists of many thousands of members, all joined, welded and knit together by one
Spirit into one body and one Christ. We said earlier that it took God four thousand years to prepare and
present that first manifested Son, Jesus Christ, who was to be the eldest Son and the Head of the whole
company of sons of God. Now the Lord has been occupied for the two thousand years of the day of grace in
preparing that vast company of sons who will form the body of God’s Christ, that the Head and the body may
be manifest at the end of this age as one Christ – “My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.”
Let the reader visualize the form of a man, standing with his feet on the earth, so tall that his head reaches the
heavens above and so broad that his form fills the universe all in all. Then let him examine the scene more
closely and his wondering eyes will see that this gigantic man, God’s anointed Christ, is a man of many
members just as the human body is one body with many members. Look closer still and you will now see that
each and every member in that mighty form is an individual man, a Son of God. The Head is the man Jesus of
Nazareth. The arms, the fingers, the toes, the heart, the nerves, the blood vessels – every member of Him that
filleth all in all is an individual man and every man is a son of God. And, if you will look still more closely, you
will see an even greater wonder, for every man, every member, every son in that whole gigantic form is in the
exact image of Jesus Christ, the Head, the first begotten Son of God. O, how I hope you can grasp the picture!
It is only when we see the plan and purpose of the Lord that we begin to be changed into the likeness of what
we see in the Spirit. We lay aside every weight and the sin, which doth so easily beset us. We strip for the
race. We put off anger, wrath, malice, jealousy, envy, pride, foolishness, and fixing our spiritual eyes on the
glory of such a goal, we run with patience the race that is set before us. Forgetting our idle traditions, we press
toward the mark. We will find ourselves delivering ourselves from hindering friends and obstructing
occupations. We will begin to lay aside lusts and passions and turn our eyes away from those troublesome
scenes of earth that force themselves upon us and crowd out the heavenly vision from our eyes. We are
changed by His Spirit from glory to glory. We see a glory afar off in truth and, believing it, we are changed into
the likeness of what we see. Our hearts grasp a revelation and it transforms us. We see a vision of Christ and
the glory of the body He is preparing. We realize the possibility of our attaining to that body and, seeing, we lay
aside everything that would hinder us from becoming one with it.
To see what I am saying you will have to go far beyond the edge of the crowd. You will need to go beyond the
circle of that tired old thing men call the church. The word church has become sorely desecrated, so much so
that the picture of what the true church really is has faded away until men can see in the church nothing but
million dollar temples standing on street corners or multitudes of people who dwell behind the high walls which
they call denominations. But this, my friend, is not the church. This has nothing to do with His mystical body.
These denominations are only man made things, little self-appointed Christs who believe that they have the
truth and wisdom will die with them. I do not believe that they are divisions in the church or divisions in the
body of Christ. They are something altogether aside from the true church and something different from the
body of Christ. The church which Jesus called “My church” has never had a division in it. It is the habitation of
God through the Spirit, the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. It is that wonderful habitation
Jesus spoke of as “My Father’s house”, saying, “In My Father’s house are many mansions.” The house, which
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the Father is building is the true church, the mystical body of Christ. This buildings rising upon the foundation of
the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ, the first Son, is the corner stone or the cap stone of it. He is the Head
of the body, the church, the head stone of the corner. All other stones are living stones (1 Pet. 2:5), built up into
a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Christ Jesus. Every
living stone in the building is a living person, a son of God, coming into the image of that first Son, who is Jesus
our Lord and Head.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims in such a high and holy calling, abstain from fleshly
lusts that war against the soul. Have your conversation and manner of life honest before all men that they may
by your exemplary conduct glorify God when He comes to be their judge. It is the will of God that by well doing
we may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. It is well pleasing in His sight if for your godly convictions
you endure grief and suffer wrongfully, “for what glory is it if, when ye be buffetted for your faults, ye shall take
it patiently? But if, when ye do well and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even
hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow in
His steps.” 1 Pet. 2:20-21
The wilderness tabernacle, built by the instruction of the Lord, was a tabernacle made with hands. It was not
intended to last forever or to be anything more than a type of the true tabernacle, which is the true church, the
body of Christ. The tabernacle in the wilderness in its most minute detail was typical of the mystical body of
Christ. Though it was a tabernacle of many parts, those many parts formed but one tabernacle. The temple,
which God is building is a temple not made with hands. The tabernacle built by Moses and the temple built by
Solomon were only temporary types of the true temple of His body, but the temple Christ is building is eternal
in the heavens. It, too, has many parts and many members, yet it is but one temple, one body and one Christ.
Likewise the human body, the most perfect and commonly known of all types of the body of Christ, is one body
with many members, each member having its own use and its own ministry. So do the members of the
mystical body of Christ. The word of God confirms this truth in these words: “For as we have many members in
one body, and all members have not the same office, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every
one members one of another.” Rom. 12:4-5. “Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular,” Paul
says. 1 Cor. 12:27 Then going into greater detail concerning the many-membered Christ, he taught the truth in
these words: “For as the body is one and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being
many, are one body: so also is Christ.” (Please notice with much care these four words: So also is Christ.) “For
by (in) one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or
free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many.” 1 Cor.
12:12-14.
O my brethren, can you not see the glory of what he is saying? Can you not see that Paul is telling us that
God’s Christ is not one member, but many? Can you not see that it is the head and the many-membered body
together that forms the man, and that man is God’s Christ?
Need we search any further for the answer to Paul’s teaching when he taught that the body, which we are is
the fullness of Him who filleth all in all? Eph. 1:23. Or, as Weymouth has so eloquently translated, that “God
has put all things under His feet, and has appointed Him universal and supreme Head of the church, which is
His body, the completeness of Him who everywhere fills the universe with Himself.” Eph. 1:23. (Weymouth).
When we consider that this great temple of His body, which is now being built during this age of grace, is the
fullness of Him who everywhere fills the universe with Himself, then surely our mental vision of a man so tall
that he reaches from earth to heaven and so wide that he fills the earth cannot be very far from the truth as
God would have us see it.
The next time we read the words “in Christ”, let us meditate deeply in the Spirit that God may reveal their true
meaning and not pass over them as a statement to be quoted and forgotten. Our spiritual walk is cleansed by
the truth we see. When we were sinners far off from God and first heard His voice calling us, little did we
realize the glory He was preparing for those who would come to know Him and love Him. The unrighteous shall
not inherit the kingdom of God. “Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind (homosexuals), nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,
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nor revilers, nor extortionists, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed,
but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” 1 Cor.
6:9-11. “Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and
make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is
one body? for two, saith He, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” Verses 15-17.
It is very wonderful to notice here how Paul, in using these rather crude illustrations, shows beyond any
question that the redeemed are in actuality and in fact members of Christ. Twice in the above quotation the
apostle distinctly declares that we are members of Christ. Then in verse 19 he crowns the glorious thought with
these forceful words of assurance: “What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is
in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and
spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord. These divine promises give us no room for pride, no room for
sin, nor do they give us room to exalt ourselves, but, as for me, they cause me to bow in utter humility before
God. As we view these awesome facts in the light of Holy Spirit, we fall as dead men before Him while our lips
hymn the gratitude that rises from our grateful hearts. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty! Blessed be He
who spoke to Abraham, saying, “In thee and thy seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed.”
When our eyes begin to behold the magnificent glory of the temple which God is building, the sons whom He is
preparing to be members of His Christ, the sons who a few short years hence He will make manifest to the
whole creation, sons who on the day of adoption will hear the voice of the Father saying of Christ, the Head
and the body joined together, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear Him,” then, seeing
these things, we begin to understand why it is that the whole creation is groaning and travailing in pain, waiting
for the adoption, which means that at last we have attained full sonship in Him. “In my opinion, whatever we
may have to go through now is less than nothing compared with the magnificent future God has planned for us.
The whole creation is on tiptoe to see the wonderful sight of the sons of God coming into their own. The world
of creation cannot as yet see reality, not because it chooses to be blind, but because in God’s purpose it has
been so limited — yet it has been given hope. And the hope is that in the end the whole of created life will be
rescued from the tyranny of change and decay, and have its share in that magnificent liberty which can only
belong to the children of God!” Rom. 8:18-20 (Phillips)
Adoption in scripture was not an act by which a family adopts a fatherless child as we know it in our day.
Adoption in scripture was a rite in which a father called his friends and neighbors together and in their
presence bestowed upon one of his Sons recognition of his mature sonship and responsibility. We have a
perfect example of such adoption given in scripture when at the baptism of Jesus the voice of God the Father
proclaimed, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” Matt. 3:17 That was God’s recognition of
Christ’s full and mature sonship. It was this adoption proclamation that began His great ministry of deliverance.
We younger sons have not as yet received our adoption, but we will do so at the time of the redemption of our
bodies, which is the hour of resurrection. This is clearly stated in Rom. 8:23: “Ourselves also, which have the
first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the
redemption of our body.” The redemption of the body occurs at the resurrection of the just when the dead are
raised and this corruptible puts on incorruption and this mortal immortality. 1 Cor. 15:52-53 This is the fullness
of the adoption for which we groan and for which all creation sighs. Following it will come the mighty
deliverance that comes after the manifestation of the sons of God. It is no wonder that we do not at present
see the full functioning of the body of Christ, for a moment’s consideration would tell us that the body is not yet
completely formed; neither has it received the word of adoption from the Father, but when that great hour is
reached, the words of Jesus will be fulfilled: “The works that I do shall ye do also; and greater works than these
shall ye do, because I go to the Father.” John 14:12
The Lord our God has not left us without Bible witness to the stupendous statements we have been making, as
we shall now see. There comes a time when all things that are far off are brought nigh. In the fullness of time
the invisible things become clearly seen. That which once we saw only by faith becomes a reality and the
things for which we hoped we hope for no more, for what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for? The time
must come when the vision of the seers, the proclamation of the prophets, and the hymns of the Psalmist are
turned into reality. The moment comes when that which was far off on the distant horizon can be touched, it is
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so nigh at hand. To Abraham God promised a seed which would come to bless the whole earth, a seed
through whom all who have ever seen the light of day would be blessed and delivered. We saw that seed
begin in the preparation of a nation, yea, a company of nations, who, as centuries passed by, spread
themselves to the north, the south, the east, and the west to shine the light of Christ and His word over all the
earth; for Simeon had prophesied that Jesus would be a light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of God’s
people, Israel. Our eyes beheld Jesus of Nazareth come to Bethlehem. God’s holy word declares Him to be
the direct seed of Abraham according to the flesh, but the Son of God with power. We saw Him proclaimed as
the Son of God, “Thy seed which is Christ.” Gal. 3:16 To Paul the revelation was given that he might reveal
how we, the redeemed of this age, are members in particular of Christ in that we are the Christ body as He is
the Christ Head, that the Head and the body together, indwelt by one Spirit, are one Christ, the temple of the
Lord and the habitation of God. Paul in spirit clearly saw the day of manifestation of these younger sons of
God, at which time the whole of creation would be lifted from the bondage and night of their corruption into the
glorious freedom of children of God. Rom. 8:18-23
How wonderful are these things! They are far beyond our expression or the ability of the most eloquent to
describe! We cannot stop here, however, for with John the beloved our eyes behold the awful fullness of these
things. To John was the blessing given to stand in spirit at the end of this present age to see the incredible
wonder of the fullness of Christ. The story is so familiar that we scarcely need to repeat it here, but because
the truth it bears is so important, we will rehearse it again that we may be the more familiar with it.
The story begins with the apostle John’s being exiled to the Isle of Patmos for the word of God and the
testimony of Jesus Christ. “I John, who also am your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom
and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and for the testimony of
Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,
I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven
churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto
Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being
turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of
man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and His
hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire; and His feet like unto fine
brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And He had in His right hand
seven stars: and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and His countenance was as the sun
shineth in his strength. And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. And He laid His right hand upon me,
saying unto me, Fear not; i am the first and the last: I am He that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive
forevermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.” Rev. 1:9-18
It is my firm conviction that, when John was lifted into the realm of the Spirit on the Lord’s day, he was actually
carried across the years to the close of the dispensation of grace to behold things as they will be at the end of
this age. He who had been so familiar with the lonely Galilean and had walked and talked with Jesus Christ
was now to behold Him in a way he had never known Him before. John, who had known Jesus as He was at
first, was now to behold Him as He will be at last. His ears would hear Him say, “l am the first and the last.”
Long he had known Jesus the Christ, the Beginning; now he was to know Him as the End. In Galilee and
Judea he had walked and talked with the lowly Alpha; now his wondering eyes were to see the Omega. Long
ago he had followed Jesus to Calvary where amid its pain and bloody sweat he had seen the single corn of
wheat fall into the ground and die; now his eyes were to behold the full corn in the ear, the fullness of Christ in
the harvest. O my brethren, can you not see it? There is a vast difference between Christ the beginning and
Christ the end. There is a universe of development between the Alpha and the Omega. The smallness of the
seed cannot be compared to the greatness of the harvest, and the voice of the lonely Galilean of the beginning
cannot be compared to the voice as of many waters that is at the end.
John had seen God’s beloved Son, Jesus Christ the Head of the body, but now at the end of the age he was
beholding the glory of the Head joined to that vast family of sons that compose the mystical body of Christ. In
spirit I seem to hear this firstborn of many brethren say, “Behold, I and the children (sons) which God hath
given Me.” Heb. 2:13 “Here am I, the eldest in a vast family of brothers.” Rom. 8:29 (Weymouth). In the midst
of the seven golden candlesticks stood one like unto the Son of man. So like Jesus was this mighty one that
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the likeness was indistinguishable, yet this one like unto the Son of man was so much greater now – so much
so that the extent of it can only be seen by comparing the harvest with the seed, greater now as the body
joined to the Head is greater than the Head.
The vision John saw displayed one clothed with a garment down to the foot with what must have been a
seamless robe of righteousness and unity, indicating as nothing else could that this vast family of sons, having
all partaken of one Spirit, are one Christ – “My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” The glorious Head,
which is Jesus the Christ, was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a flame of fire. See
also Dan. 10:6. His feet, the other extremity of His body, the sons which are last to be born, were like unto fine
brass, as if they burned in a furnace, for judgment and the gospel of peace shall be given to them. His voice
was as the sound of many waters. Many waters signify many people, for in Christ there are many sons. I know
there are at least one hundred forty-four thousand, but there may be many more than that, for these may be
only representative of a vastly greater throng. These one hundred forty-four thousand are all chosen from the
twelve tribes of Israel, who are the seed of Abraham and heirs of the covenant God made with him.
Many years ago my wife and I attended the Warrior’s Day parade in Toronto. The great grandstand held thirty
thousand people. We sat for an hour or so waiting for the parade of old warriors to begin – soldiers from the
Boer War, veterans from World War I, men from World War II, and one old warrior from the Northwest
Rebellion of 1885. As we sat waiting, the multitudes in the grandstand conversed with each other, and while
these thousands chatted, we listened. The sound of that multitude of voices was as the sound of many rushing
waters like unto the pleasant roar of the great Niagara Falls as it pours its exhaustless waters into the terrible
rapids below. We sat fascinated by the sound – a sound that could be described by nothing else than the sound
of many waters. The musical harmony as the sound of many waters, falling upon the listening ear of the
beloved John, was the myriad voices of the sons of God, all members of God’s Christ, the Head and the body
complete together, God’s beloved Son, all speaking with one mind, all speaking with one authority. “This is My
beloved Son. Hear Him!”
Our blessed Lord, when He was here on earth, gave us many beautiful illustrations of the oneness of Himself
and His body. On one occasion He likened Himself and the body to a vine with fruit-bearing branches. Where
may we find a greater unity than this? On another day He spoke of “My Father’s house”, which I am assured is
none other than the body of Christ. This He likened to a house with many rooms (mansions). Likewise Paul, by
the wisdom given unto him, likened the body to Christ to the many-membered human body, showing that,
though the body has so many members in it and all members have a different office work, the body is but one.
The hand cannot say to the foot, “I have no need of you.” Nor can the eye say to the ear, “I have no need of
you.” Thus it shall ever be with God’s glorious Christ. Though many sons form one Christ, the anointed of God,
each in ages to come shall have his own office work, all in one Spirit working with that intricate harmony so
wonderfully manifest in the human body, until at last through Abraham’s seed, which is God’s Christ, all the
nations and families of the earth will be blessed. Abraham waited long years for Isaac to be born, but when
Isaac was given a bride, then the great increase began. The blessing given to Rebecca was that she should be
the mother of thousands of millions.
In closing this fourth chapter of the message concerning the Abrahamic covenant, perhaps it would be remiss if
no mention was made of the sealing of the one hundred forty-four thousand sons of God from the twelve tribes
of the children of Israel as is recorded in Rev. 7. From each of the tribes of Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher,
Nepthalim, Manasses, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zabulon, Joseph (Ephraim), and Benjamin twelve thousand
sons were sealed. The stormy winds were restrained from hurting the earth or the sea or the trees until the
sealing of the sons of God in their foreheads was fully accomplished. Rev. 7:3. In my opinion the seal of God in
the forehead is the perfect identification of sonship. Jesus Himself was a sealed Son of God. This He revealed
by saying, “Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which
the Son of man shall give unto you: for Him hath God the Father sealed.” John 6:27 In like manner these one
hundred forty-four thousand who were sealed in their foreheads are the sons of God, members of the Christ
body. The point I wish to make in particular concerns the Abrahamic Covenant, “In thee and thy seed shall all
the families of the earth be blessed.” These one hundred forty-four thousand are all chosen from the seed of
Abraham. These who are to shine as the stars of the heaven were all chosen from that earthly seed,
numberless as the sands of the sea, who are the children of Abraham and the children of the covenant.
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I am not intending any disrespect to the present State of Israel, which at present occupies a small portion of
the land of Palestine, but we would be very misinformed, if not very ignorant, if we imagined even for a moment
that this insignificant number of people represents the twelve tribes of Israel. The present State of Israel
represents a small portion only of the house of Judah, but many among them are not Israelites at all, just as
many in England are not Anglo-Saxons. The house of Judah consists of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and
Levi, but the ten tribes of the house of Israel are not among the present inhabitants of the State of Israel.
Neither are they Jews. The word Jew comes from the name Judah just as the name Jim is an abbreviation of
James. The ten tribes of the house of Israel have become nations in the earth, even as Jacob prophesied they
would when he called his sons to him and foretold their future for the last days. Gen. 44:49
In the twelfth chapter of Revelation we read of a great wonder that appeared in heaven, “a woman clothed with
the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: and she being with child
cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.” The twelve stars represent the twelve tribes of Israel. The
sun and moon represent Jacob and his wives. This is very clear by reading Gen. 37:9,10. Joseph in this
passage had dreamed a dream in which the sun and the moon and the eleven stars (Joseph was the twelfth)
bowed down and did obeisance to him. When his father Jacob heard this dream, he understood immediately
what the meaning of it was, and with the harsh sound of rebuke in his voice he replied, “What is this dream that
thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the
earth? And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.” Here the word of God is definitely its
own interpreter, teaching us that the sun and the moon and the twelve stars represent none other than the
twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
The woman in the wilderness of Revelation, chapter twelve, is Israel – all twelve tribes of them, including the
house of Judah and the house of Israel. In her travail she brought forth a man child – first Christ the Head Son
and, secondly, the one hundred forty-four thousand sons of the Christ body. I do not say that this is the
complete number, for I do not know. In the human body there are many more than one hundred forty-four
thousand members; but we may say with certainty that the ranks of the sons of God are not less than this great
throng. These do not include the numberless throngs of the redeemed who stand before the throne with palms
in their hands. The one hundred forty-four thousand represent the sons of the Christ body.
Israel has always been a woman of the wilderness. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were all wilderness wanderers.
After Israel departed from Egypt, they wandered for forty years in a wilderness until they entered their own
land. Then the house of Israel was carried away to Assyria and were strangers in a strange land. From there
they left to wander for centuries in the desolate places of Europe, moving out to the north, the south, the east
and the west in exact accord with God’s promise to Abraham. Gen. 28:14. Then they moved out into the
uninhabited wilderness of new continents and the untamed islands of the seas, for Abraham was the heir of the
world and was to be a blessing to the many nations of the world. We will not speak more of this wilderness
aspect here except to say that during her wilderness journeys, while making the wilderness blossom as a rose,
she had been bringing forth a man child, who will rule the whole earth in the near future with a rod of iron.
“And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on Mount Sion, and with Him an hundred and forty and four thousand,
having His Father’s name written in their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many
waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers, harping with their harps: And they
sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could
learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. These are
they, which are not defiled with women (denominations); for they are virgins. These are they, which follow the
Lamb withersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to
the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile; for they are without fault before the throne of God.” Rev.
14:1-5.
“The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of
the hands of the potter?” Lam. 4:2. But “the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs
and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee
away,” (Isa. 35:10), because long centuries before the Lord had said to Abraham, “In thee and thy seed shall
all the families of the earth be blessed.”
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INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER FIVE
