Nevertheless, how endless are the human opin
Nevertheless, how endless are the human opin ions among these free groups! Although there may be nothing like religion among them, yet how much their human opinions stand in the Lord's way! Therefore, we must learn the lesson of not only giving up the Christian religion but also of forsaking our own opinions. Then we will afford the Lord a free course to be life in our midst. Once the Lord can express Himself, then the Lord will have a living church. Let us remem ber that religion and opinion are the two main categories of frustration to the flow of the Lord as our life.
Before going further into this last case, we must discover a principle. In chapter two we saw that the first sign was that of changing the water into wine. The second sign, in chapter four, was that of making the dying son of the royal official live. The intention of the Holy Spirit throughout this Gospel is simply to make the Lord Jesus to be the life to meet all of our needs. These two signs in chapters two and four reveal the principle of life out of death. In all nine cases in John 3—11 there is the principle of life in the realm of resurrection to meet every human need. Now we can understand why the changing of water into wine was the "beginning of signs." It contains the