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manifestation of God. God has committed to us His heavenly and divine commission, and we must do something to accomplish the Lord's pur pose—feed His sheep and shepherd His flock until all the sheep are brought together as one Body to be a spiritual house. Although we must do these things, there is still the practical matter of our living. In this chapter we see that the Lord will provide for our needs and take care of our liv ing. We must simply commit the matter of our living into His hands and leave it there. If we are under His will, the Lord will certainly maintain our living. Furthermore, we must also realize that we must suffer and sacrifice for the Lord's testimony, following Him even unto death.
The span of things covered in John 20 and 21 is very broad. It begins with the discovery of the Lord's resurrection and ends with His coming back. These two chapters show everything that will happen to us between the Lord's resurrection and His coming back. Between these two events are all the things related to the Christian life during the church age: seeking the Lord with love toward Him, especially in the personal morning watch; seeing the Lord in resurrection; receiving the revelation of the issue of the Lord's resurrection concerning the "brothers" and the "Father" by