Life’S Regenerating— The Need Of The Moral
LIFE'S REGENERATING— THE NEED OF THE MORAL
In chapter two of the Gospel of John, we see the principle of life and the purpose of life set forth. The principle of life is to change death into life, and the purpose of life is to build the house of God. From chapter three through chapter eleven the writer then relates nine cases to prove the principle of life set forth in the first sign in chap ter two. He uses these cases to signify some spir itual and meaningful points. These cases first expose the condition and need of man, and then they reveal how the Lord can deal with all the con ditions and meet all the needs of man. Life meets the need of man's every case. We must realize that life here means the Lord Himself, the Word which was God and which became flesh. Although the Lord might have dealt with thousands of human cases, John selected only nine of them to illus trate how the Lord as life could and still can meet the need of every human case.
MAN'S CONDITION AND NEED
Let us see, first of all, the condition of man in