First and foremost, we need forgiveness for our sins. But that is not enough; we need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. And that is not enough either; we need to hear what the Spirit is saying to the church—we need to listen for God’s Spirit in all we do and say. One thing is sorely needed among God’s people in our days, and that is “the Spirit of wisdom and revelation” in the knowledge of God. Eph. 1:17. It is by this Spirit that a person can lead and guide in all quietness. Wisdom is created to rule, and it cannot do otherwise because it penetrates into everything that is hidden. For in her there is a spirit of discretion; a spirit that is holy, unique, manifold, sensitive, agile, clear, pure, full of light, invulnerable, loving the good, keen, uninhibited, active, benevolent, humane, steadfast, sure, free from anxiety, all-powerful, overseeing all, and penetrating every intelligent, pure, and subtle spirit. For wisdom is more mobile than any motion; because of her pureness she pervades and penetrates all things. Wisdom grants an entrance everywhere. She is a reflection of the eternal light. Christ is the wisdom of God. The condition for receiving wisdom is to live a crucified life. Sin must not gain access. When sin departs, wisdom enters. It must enter now, during this life. It is written, “The two shall become one flesh.” This “one flesh” is crucified and suffers death. But we are members of His body. We experience the fellowship of His sufferings and are being conformed to His death. Phil. 3:10. The mind of the flesh is enmity against God, and God sent His Son and condemned sin in the flesh. He did not condemn the person, but sin in the flesh. He did not even condemn the flesh, for the flesh of Christ rested in hope. Therefore we are to reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God. If you are crucified with Christ and consider yourself dead to sin, then you are one flesh with Christ, and then you are His bride. Our work consists of presenting a pure virgin to Christ. Therefore we do not seek to draw people to our own person, but to Christ, who is the Head of the church. When difficulties arise, you must ask the Head for advice, not the members. To be inordinately attached to people is angel worship. That is not divine, because then you make flesh your arm, and your heart departs from the Lord. Be free and independent. Let everything be done in the Holy Spirit. Make your own choices, but make them in the Lord.

1 Tim. 2:5. The Man, Jesus Christ, is our mediator. God is limitless. We cannot comprehend Him or all His works throughout the universe. That is why He had to give us a Man as a mediator. This Man was born of the Father from eternity. He bore the powers of eternal life within Him, but at the same time He was the Son of David and the Son of the virgin Mary—He was “the Son of Man.” He was manifested in the flesh. In this flesh He was tempted and He suffered, being tempted, but He resisted sin in all its forms and won complete victory over it, even though He was found in the flesh. And it is written that the flesh is weak. God condemned sin in the flesh. Rom. 8:3. As God’s mediator, Jesus is now able to mediate for us all the way to the Father. The mediator is not only for one, but for all. At whatever stage in Christ we now stand, He is a way and a mediator for us.

Why is it difficult to understand “Christ manifest in flesh”? It is because you do not first and foremost seek the kingdom of God in all things. As a rule God’s people are occupied with everything but this. As a rule they do not meditate on the law of the Lord day and night, and they do not walk on the way. Therefore, neither is the way through the flesh revealed to them. People say that Jesus was like Adam before the Fall. They ought to be able to comprehend that it was Adam after the Fall that needed salvation. Then some people believe that Jesus was clothed with the nature of angels. But the Scriptures say that He does not give aid to angels, but to the seed of Abraham. Heb. 2:16.

No matter how far we come on the way, Jesus is ahead of us. The new and living way goes through the veil, His flesh. If this way is hidden, it is because the veil is hiding it. Start being led by the Spirit, and then you will penetrate the veil. Jesus had to be made like His brethren in all things. The children have partaken of flesh and blood; therefore He Himself likewise had to share in the same. Heb. 2. But as far as temptations are concerned, He was tempted in all points as we are, yet without sin. That means He endured all His temptations without sinning, which no other person has been able to manage.

Is this difficult to understand? If you do not understand it, does that mean it is wrong? Or are you the standard for what is true and not true in the Scriptures? His flesh did not see corruption. It rested in hope. God raised Him from the dead, and in this way the One who was of the seed of David, who was to sit on the throne of Israel forever, came forth from the jaws of death. Acts 2. David foresaw the resurrection of the Messiah when he spoke prophetically. His flesh did not see corruption, for Satan had no part in Him; he could not contend about the body of Jesus as he did about Moses’ body. Hallelujah! He sits at the right hand of the Father and is our High Priest and Advocate. Christ has risen, and our faith is not in vain. When He was raised up from the kingdom of death, He brought the body which He had inherited from humanity with Him. That is the reason He is called “the Son of Man.”