the blood of His dear Son. And there is not a fulness of blessing that is not deposited for us in Christ; and there is not a blessing or a fulness of blessing in Christ but what the Holy Ghost has come to communicate to our emptiness. Mind you, the Holy Ghost has come to communicate nothing but what He finds in Christ. (This is a much-forgotten fact in our time.) "He shall not speak of Himself"-He has plenty to speak of. But it is all about Christ. "What He shall hear, that He shall speak, and He shall show you things to come." And there is not a blessing the Holy Ghost has been sent to reveal but what the faith He bestows on the soul is adequate to receive. For all God's fulness is as truly bestowed in Christ on His people to make them blessed and happy, as its possession by Himself is truly for His own glory. Believest thou this? Oh, never forget this, there is no fulness contained in Christ; no fulness revealed and communicated by the Holy Ghost, but what there is an adequateness in God-given faith to receive. Where is your faith? That is the point.

We have been hearing of the reality of the indwelling of Christ in the children of God. Brethren, it is an awful thing to hear these things and not receive them, to hear of them and profess to thank and praise God for them, yet in fact not believe them. Better you never heard—a thousand times better. There is a tremendous responsibility involved in being assured that all the fulness of God is laid up in Christ for you. If you, nevertheless, turn again aside to the follies, and trifles, and fancies, and vanities of this life in the unbelief and sinfulness of the world, the flesh, and the devil, I repeat it, brethren, God's fulness is as truly and fully bestowed in Christ on His believing people

for their happiness and their usefulness here as its possession by Him is truly for His own unspeakable glory. We are speaking of what is unspeakable-the fulness of Christ. I give you all I know about it, and I trust that those who may follow me may tell you more. I cannot go beyond what I believe and know. The fulness of Christ is the manifestation of the glory of God!

When Moses, amazed at the communications that God had given him of His mercy, said, "Show me Thy glory," the Lord answered by causing the fulness of Christ to pass before him. Read Exodus xxxiv. 5-9, “And Moses made haste and bowed his head towards the earth and worshipped." And when he came down from the mountain his face shone so that the children of Israel could not look at him for its brightness. When he returned to them with the tables of the law in his hands the first time (Exodus xxxi. 18) we do not hear of any shining in Moses's face. He came down with the law, which they had already broken. He came the second time with the gospel of Him who "is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." And his face shone so that he had to put a veil upon it, for the people could not look upon him! Brethren, the fulness of God is not self-contained. I cannot look at the sun-beautiful emblem of Christ in the heavens manifesting His fulness. I cannot look at the sun; if I try to do so it pains my eyes and almost blinds me; but I look round upon his fulnes in creation, I see the sparkling waters, I see the lovely foliage, I feel the genial warmth, and I gather the flowers and the fruits of the fields, and I see the fulness of the sun and the happiness of the earth. I look at the ocean. What is the fulness thereof? I cannot go down into its

depth, and I have no means of measuring its waters, or reaching its distant shores, but I look at the rain and the dew refreshing the land, gladdening, fructifying, and beautifying everything. Oh! you have the fulness of the ocean in the showers that water the earth, and so, brethren, the fulness of God is not contained in Himself. If I would see and enjoy that fulness, and know anything practically about it, I must see it in the life He has bestowed, in the salvation He has accomplished, in the perfection, the beauty, the fulness, and the capacity for happiness in those in earth and heaven created for His glory, whom He so loved that He gave His only begotten Son to die for them.

I said the glory of God is in the display and communication of His fulness. "His glory is great in our salvation." We are lost when we come to look at the glory of God; but listen, listen! He is "coming to be glorified," and where do you think-in heaven? Nay, but in His saints. Are you among them? He comes, and comes quickly, to "be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe." Do you take that in? God's beauty will be seen, God's glory will be manifested in those He has loved and redeemed with His precious blood. I said God's fulness is not selfcontained. See its manifestation and bestowal in Christ. Is God the living God? Listen! Christ says, "I am come that they might have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." Is our God love? Listen! "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, in that He sent His Son into the world that we might live through Him." Is God rich in grace, and in truth, and in glory? Remember the verse we read (John i. 14-16)

"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." Is God righteousness? Christ is made to us the righteousness of God." Is God holy? In Christ "He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one." Is God just? If we confess our sins, "He is faithful and just to forgive the sins of them that plead Christ's blood." Is God mighty? "He has laid help upon one that is mighty for us." Has God fulness? Why, brethren, that fulness dwelleth in Christ for you and for me. All the happiness that is in heaven, and all that ever shall be, has its source in Christ. Oh, we have poor, small views of what the gift of God has been when He gave us His dear Son, and let me tell you that what we want in our day is not some new truth. We hear a great deal of new things which I do not believe are true, and many of them are questionable. Whatever is true is not new, and whatever is new is not true. What we do need is to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest the truth that God has given us. You will find the Bible is not superannuated, for it has still its heights, and lengths, and breadths, and depths of truths we have never fathomed or explored. We speak of the fulness and "the love of Christ which passeth knowledge." Look at its effects upon Himself. I think that is a point we might well study most profitably-this knowledgesurpassing love of Christ. Look at its effects upon Himself. Why, brethren, it brought Him down from His throne. It brought Him down lower than the lowest here below, to take upon Him the form of a servant, and being found in fashion as a man He humbled Himself, even to death in that low estate; yes, even to the death

of the Cross. He gave Himself for us. Look at its effects in the fruit it bears for His people. There is one prayer of His in John xvii.—His last prayer before He died for His people—and, oh, brethren! may God the Holy Ghost for Christ's sake open our understanding to take it in! This is His prayer: "I in them, and Thou in Me, they in Us." "I," in whom all fulness dwells; "I," the brightness of Thy glory, Father, and the express image of Thy person; "I," Thy delight from all eternity; "I," in whom Thou art always well pleased, in whom all Thy fulness is contained, and from whom all Thy glory is to shine forth; "I"-" in them." In whom? He "prays for all them that shall believe upon Him through His word." There is fulness if I would dwell in the fulness of Him that filleth all in all. "I in them, and Thou, Father, in Me." All the fulness of the immensity God-"Thou in Me." See how He brings God into us. He brings Father, Son, and Holy Ghost into manhood. "I in them." That could not have been in the sense in which He speaks if He had not become man, “and Thou in Me," and "they one in Us." Do you take in that "Us"? Not that they may be united to Us; for oneness is more than union, but one" one in Us."

Brethren, see how the love of Christ brings down the fulness of God unto Himself for us. "We have no blessings from Christ apart from Himself." God forbid we should have. I do not want any blessing apart from Christ. I hope you have all learned to say so. Oh, that we may learn it! It were a poor blessing enjoyed apart from Christ, and sure to disappoint. There is no blessing worth taking from Almighty God apart from His gift in Christ. He never separates Christ from His gifts in