Section 17
Father in spirit and reality; for the Father seeks such to worship Him" (John 4:23). The Lord Jesus seemed to be saying, "Worshipping God is a matter of life, and life is in the spirit. It is not a question of worshipping God on this mountain or in Jerusalem. The hour has come to worship God in the spirit."
We find another example in John 9. Seeing a man blind from birth, the Lord's disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his par ents, that he should be born blind?" (John 9:2). The Lord replied, "Neither has this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God might be manifested in him" (v. 3). In John, the book of life, there are no yes-or-no answers; instead, there is life.
In John 7 the Lord's brothers in the flesh sug gested that He go up to Jerusalem (vv. 3-4). The Lord said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready…You go up to the feast; I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet fully come" (vv. 6, 8). However, verse 10 says, "But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He also went up, not pub licly, but as in secret." Here we see that the Lord answered and acted according to life.
We are all familiar with the record of Lazarus