True, beholding this glory, and being manifested with Him in glory, having this body

of humiliation fashioned like unto the body of His glory (Col. 3: 4 and Phil. 3: 21) are

very different; yet if there is a circle of believers, called into blessing during this

parenthetical period, but not constituting the body, it is appropriate that their blessings

should in some way be associated with the ascended Christ, and the glory that was His

before the world was. The distinction to be observed between the glory of John 17: 24

and that of the epistles of the mystery must be considered in some future article, for it is

too great a subject for the present survey.

If the standpoint of John's Gospel be as we have indicated, we can understand the

burden of the Lord's prayer in John 17:, in which He asks that though "His own"

refused Him as the Sent One, yet that the world might believe and that the world might

know that the Father had sent Him.

The word usually translated "miracle" (dunamis) is entirely absent from John's

Gospel, and in its place we have a series of "signs".

While the unity of the body is not mentioned in John, there is a unity which is very

close. This and many other items of importance must now be reviewed, and we trust that

the result of these studies will be not only a deeper appreciation of the supreme

blessedness of the calling that places us "far above all" at the right hand of God, but

further ability to speak with no uncertain sound to saints and sinners who while giving no

evidence of being destined to this high calling, yet cannot, by reason of the dispensational

conditions in which they find themselves, yield faith or obedience to Pentecostal and new

covenant messages.