counterpart in human experience. Apart from this condescending interpretation the spiritual realities behind the

interpretation would remain for ever unknown. What the written Word has done by figures of speech, the Lord

Jesus has done in Person. He Himself is the Word. He, as the Word, became flesh, and revealed the invisible

Father, and as He sat weary upon the well, knew more fully than we can appreciate the gulf that exists between God,

Who is Spirit, and His creatures, who are flesh and blood. The Lord Who spoke to Philip revealed the only way

whereby God, Who is Spirit, can ever be known:

`Philip saith unto Him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long

time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? he that hath seen Me hath seen the Father; and how

sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me?' (John

The following statement quoted from another source bears on our theme:

`Communists, materialists and evolutionists are fellow travellers and rule out God and all miracle. Their creed is

impersonal atheistic evolution. They claim God is not the creator. Blind impersonal force created the universe, and

that by chance, purposeless and meaningless. Read Psalm 14:1. From nothing only nothing can come. Our

universe is an infinite complexity wherein myriads of orderly laws co-ordinate, harmonize and synchronize with

each other, attesting and certifying an intelligence that even the thinking brain of man cannot understand. The

sciences of biology, chemistry, mathematics, philosophy, physics, the individualistic thinking brain of man, his

religion, his moral and spiritual qualities can never come out of the bag of impersonal blind evolution. If so, that in

itself, would constitute the greatest miracle ever imagined. God never attempts to prove His existence (Psa. 19:1).

Why should He?' (The Lansdowne Bible School, Lansdowne Baptist Church, Bournemouth, England).

We take a step forward in our study when we learn from John 4:24 that `God is Spirit', and from the first epistle

of John that this God is both `light' and `love'. We now go back to the Hebrew revelation of God to see how all fits

together. The two great names of God revealed in the Old Testament generally translated `God' and `LORD' are

Elohim and Jehovah. The relationship of these titles to the invisible God Who is Spirit, and to the Lord Jesus Christ,

God manifest in the flesh, we seek to show in this chapter, and first of all by means of the following diagrammatic

disposition of the subject.

God is Spirit

Elohim