another, as Christ also received US to the glory of God" (15: 7). This is connected with

verse 6, "with one mind and one mouth glorify God".

Chapters 14: - 16: 7 are occupied with the practical application of "no difference".

The chapter opens with the words, "him that is weak in the faith RECEIVE YE": even

though some have scruples about certain ceremonial observances, receive them, for the

strong and the weak differ nothing in this respect--that they were originally, whether Jew

or Gentile, coming short of the glory of God. In chapter 15: 1-7 the apostle is seeking to

prevent the Jewish believer and the Gentile believer from making a "difference" between

each other. Christ had received them both, and had saved them both; let them now with

one mind and one mouth glorify God.

The universality of sin, the free grace of salvation, and the lowly spirit of the

redeemed, can be made clear from these passages. Rom. 10: 1-13 may be learned, and

other references to the "glory of God" in the Scriptures collected, and their contexts

It will be necessary, as the little learner grows in grace and in years, to draw attention

to the rightly-divided Word, and some of the items of John 3: will then be seen to apply

primarily to others than the church of the one body. There are some doctrines that are

true for all time, whether to Jew, Gentile, or church of God, and one of them is the

supreme necessity of new life. If every Christian, of whatever denomination, really

grasped the simple fact that the church is LIVING and the world is DEAD, the awful

mixture and dangerous drift to-day could not be tolerated.

In John 3: 1-13 we read how a ruler of the Jews came to the Lord Jesus and began to

speak concerning the Lord, viz., (1) being a teacher, (2) being sent from God, (3) being

attested by miracles, and (4) being one of whom it could be said "God was with Him".

Each one of these four statements is perfectly true, yet neither was the truth of

Nicodemus at the time. The Lord's answer shows us that Nicodemus was without life.

"Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." The word "born" is

better rendered "begotten", and "again" is better rendered "from above". In the spiritual

sense Nicodemus was without life, sight or father; all three were his upon re-birth. We

must remember that this re-birth does not mean starting all over again as a little baby and

growing up all over again, this time avoiding the errors of the previous life. No, it is a

new kind of life that is here given. This will be seen first by the Lord's own words to

Nicodemus, where He corrects the idea of making a new start: "That which hath been

born of the flesh is flesh". Notice the words "hath been", "is". There is never any