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Contents - Spirit of the Word - Covenant Eschatology - Introductory Note - New Stuff
Whispers of the New Covenant
by Ray Prinzing
5 - JESUS, THE NEW COVENANT - 'YES'"For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us... was not yes and no, but in Him was YES. For all the promises of God in Him are YES, and in Him AMEN, unto the glory of God by (through) us. Now He which establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God; Who has also sealed us, and given us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." (2 Corinthians 1:19-22).
There are three outstanding themes in the New Testament which pertain to the NEW COVENANT, they are:1) HIS WORD-- which is the Substance, the good news proclamation, indeed, the embodiment of the new covenant.
2) HIS SPIRIT-- which is the power, the energy, the ability for the fulfillment of the covenant.
3) HIS NAME-- which is the authority of the covenant.
That Jesus Christ is THE WORD of the new covenant, we know. For "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1). It is because HE IS THE LIVING WORD of the covenant, that we find that all His commandments are promises-- promises which are guaranteed of fulfillment. HE is the YES, and the AMEN, of every promise. And it is IN HIM, in Christ, that we are established, anointed, and sealed-- which effectually guarantees us the victory of fulfillment.
STABLISHED-- from the Greek "bebaioo" meaning: stabilize, make firm and stable, sure. It comes from the root "baino" meaning: to walk. Thus it implies PROGRESS IN BALANCE. And God purposes to make us STABLE-- firm and sure, that we may be unreproveable before Him.
Truly this is the heart prayer of every believer in Christ, that we might be stablished-- made firm and stable in a progressive walk that is in balance. This we have IN CHRIST! You cannot find in Him one characteristic that stands out above all others. In Him everything is in complete balance. He is perfect in all His ways. There are no high points and low points in Him. He is complete, He is THE ALL. And He is for us, "The Way, and The Truth, and The Life," (John 14:6), so that He makes our way perfect, as He steadily draws us onward and fills us with Himself.
In Him we will not get swampy with a distorted love message, hung up on a few points about love that we over-emphasize, and which the carnal mind then misinterprets and lowers for occasions of fleshly indulgence. We will not become enshrouded with a death-gloom- consciousness, with tunnel vision only of the cross and death to self. We will not become overly blessing-conscious, giddy with emotional feelings of joy because we are thinking primarily of all the riches promised us in Christ. We will not become hard and vindictive in judgment and wrath because that is all we see in store for evil. Praise God, we will not take any of these elements and pervert them into gross distortions, because all of the facets of His character will be blended into one beautiful harmonious expression of Him. He will stabilize us, bring us into His balance, that we might be a praise unto Him.
Colossians 2:6-7, "As you have therefore received Jesus Christ the Lord, so walk in Him: rooted and built up in Him, and STABLISHED in the faith."
"SO WALK IN HIM..." HE is the sphere of our walk, progressively and in balance. And He will stablish us IN THE FAITH. Not in man's doctrine, not in a system of man's works, not in religious Babylon's theology, not in some "our, I, my" ministry, but STABLISHED IN THE FAITH, HIS, which is of the new covenant.
Hebrews 13:8-10, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for the age. Be not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be ESTABLISHED WITH GRACE; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle."
Interesting contrast here-- the need to be "established with grace; not with meats." Meats signifies a whole system of WORKS, doing, self-efforts that did not, could not profit those occupied therein. Externalism, the system of ceremonial observances, "could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience." (Hebrews 9:9).
But, the writer goes on, there is another realm beyond all the works of the flesh, and so "WE HAVE AN ALTAR..." it is a partaking at HIS ALTAR, to minister unto Him, to "worship Him in spirit and in truth." It is not a realm of self-works, nor a realm of self-indulgence, but of offering up everything to Him, that He might become in us "the fullness of Him that fills all in all." (Ephesians 1:23). It is the realm of the heart, it is BY GRACE, for it is IN CHRIST. By His Spirit He purifies our mind, our conscience, and establishes us in His grace.
Not only are we to be stablished, but also ANOINTED. Here the Greek word is "chrio" meaning: to rub. It does not speak of an anointing that is poured on and runs off. This may give a momentary exhilaration, causing a re-action, as the flesh re-acts to that which it feels of the Spirit. But we need far more than an external excitement, we need the reality of His indwelling life. Nor is it an anointing that is smeared around just so that all the surface is covered. But it speaks of that which is rubbed in, to penetrate to inmost core to work its transformation.
It is not a self-anointing, for either God rubs it in, or we have not been thus anointed. "HE WHICH... anointed us, IS GOD." The anointing is applied by the Anointer. This is God's doing. "We are His workmanship." (Ephesians 2:10). We can seek, Him, wait before Him, surrender our all to Him, but HE is the GIVER of the gift, and we can only receive what He gives. Thank God, "The Lord will give grace and glory: no good will He withhold from them that walk uprightly." (Psalm 84: 11).
Stablished, anointed, and next, "Who also has sealed us." SEALED-- from the Greek "sphragizo" meaning: to seal, impress, to stamp (as with a signet or private mark) for security or protection; also, as a mark of privacy, or genuineness.
When a seal has been placed upon a certain manufactured piece of goods, it is a guarantee that product has met the required specifications, is a genuine article, etc. It also lets you know that the product was specifically made by the company that placed the seal thereon. Anything without that seal would not be of that original order. Some might copy, duplicate, counterfeit, but they have no right to the seal.
GOD PLACES HIS SEAL UPON US BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. Marked, recognized by God as His; plus being a perpetual reminder to us that we are His. Indeed, it guarantees both our security and our purity. The purity is indispensable to the security, so HE who dwells within is prepared to reprove us of sin, righteousness, and judgment to come. And He works out every needed process to maintain a purity that redounds to His praise. While no chastening is a particularly joyful experience, yet HE DOES SO "for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness." (Hebrews 12:10).
Praise God, He has "given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts," and this INDWELLING SPIRIT bespeaks a guarantee that He is going to make of us a genuine product of His grace--we will be ALL HIS, and will be found to His praise. For His Spirit, having taken up permanent residence within us, has a passionate desire for our holiness.
So strongly does the Spirit of Christ dwelling within us yearn for the holiness of His own, that He literally becomes the guarantee that we will become pure. The ministration of the first covenant could not do this. It was an external working, and much dependent upon man's own doing. That ministration was a failure, and needed replacing with a better. Now, IN CHRIST, we have this better, for He personally comes to dwell within us, to be the fulfiller of the standard for righteousness. Indeed, HE IS our righteousness! He has this GREAT DESIRE for our holiness.
The word "lust" literally means: in a negative sense, an over-desire; in a positive sense, an intense desire. He has this tremendous desire that we be brought to the full stature of the perfection of Christ, and He will not be satisfied until He has accomplished His purpose. Knowing that we cannot accomplish this in ourselves, by our own strength, etc. He has come to abide within and accomplish it within us. "Faithful is He that calls you, who also will do it." (1 Thessalonians 5:24).
There are times when He shares with us of His INTENSE DESIRE, and we are moved with deep yearnings for His holiness, His reality, even to the point of envy, not in a sinful sense, but in a positive working for our good. Paul also brings out this working in both realms, negative, and positive, saying, "For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other." (Galatians 5:17).
James writes, "Know not that friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do you think that the scripture says in vain, The Spirit that dwells within us lusts to envy." (James 4:4-5).
If it be the spirit of the world, and self that rules within us, then our desires are contrary to, in opposition to the righteousness of God. But when it is the holy Spirit dwelling within, then it is equally true that His desires are contrary to, in opposition to the flesh. And He calls for the operation of the cross within us to bring an end to things of the flesh, self, love of the world, etc. until we are fully joined unto Christ IN ONE SPIRIT, the Spirit of holiness. So while the over-desires of the flesh work against the purity of the Spirit, praise God, the intense desires of the Spirit will work to deliver us from the flesh. Furthermore, "He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him... " (Hebrews 7:25). And He will not be satisfied with anything less than this divine perfection of His own image and nature.
Now, Paul writes of how "the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall also confirm you unto the end, so that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by Whom you were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord." (1 Corinthians 1:6-9).
CONFIRMED-- this is the same Greek word "bebaioo" that we previously noted as "stablish." The testimony of Christ is to be CONFIRMED IN US, and we are to be CONFIRMED IN HIM, with the result that we shall be found blameless before Him. It means that His testimony is PERSONIFIED in us, that we BECOME the witness of His righteousness. Indeed, to this end, "He was made (became) a SIN-OFFERING for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made (become) the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Corinthians 5:21).
First of all, the testimony has been given about Christ, by men. Those who have encountered Him can give a direct witness concerning Him. Jesus asked His disciples, "Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?" (Matthew 16:13). So they told Him that some said He was John the Baptist, some said Elias, others that He was either Jeremias, or one of the prophets. Then He asked them directly, "But whom do you say that I am?" And Peter, having received a direct revelation from God, said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." (verse 16).
Here is THE WORD, clothed in the creaturely form of His own creation, found in fashion as a man, "Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory." (1 Corinthians 2:8). Thus, "He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not." (John 1:10-11). Only as the Spirit revealed Him, could men know who He really was. Flesh and blood cannot reveal Him! No wonder so many preachers cannot truly bear witness of Him-- they do not intimately KNOW Him. All they have are the reasonings of their own carnal mind, and so they fabricate gross caricatures of Him. HE is the FATHER'S SECRET, which only He can reveal, to, and IN those whom He calls unto Himself.
The reason there is such gross ignorance in Christendom today, as concerning the NEW COVENANT IN CHRIST, is because they have not yet received a revelation FROM THE FATHER concerning Him. One might hear about Him, what others speak of Him, and memorize what you hear so that you can recite it by rote, but there is no personal quickening INTO LIFE until the Father imparts of His Spirit to illuminate us. "No man can come to Me, except the Father which has sent Me draw him." (John 6:44). We might claim and demand, confess and profess, but until He sovereignly works within us, it is but the futile exercise of trying to appropriate that which has not yet been given to us.
THE NEW COVENANT IS MINISTERED BY GOD! It is initiated by Him, revealed to us by Him, and then this "testimony of Christ" is confirmed in us by Him, as He stablishes, anoints, and seals us to His Way.
We have often stated, no man can live on a borrowed revelation. Nor is it just some form of head-knowledge, or mental assent to a doctrine. IT IS BY THE DIRECT REVELATION, quickening of the holy Spirit, that we are being enriched with His goodness. Betimes we may be privileged to offer confirmation to others of these things, but only to the degree that He has first implanted them within their spirit, for only HE can cause truth to become LIFE in us.
So, while we appreciate the witness of other men, especially if they have actually encountered Him, and so know whereof they speak, yet we realize the necessity of that direct witness of Christ Himself to us. For, "The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy." (Revelation 19:10). Oh, wonder of wonders! Here is the blessing of His direct witness to us. Men can witness to us about Him, but they cannot change our life. "The law was a shadow of good things to come, but not the very image of those things." (Hebrews 10:1). It could bear witness of Him in type and shadow, but it could not change us. But when HE CONFIRMS HIS TESTIMONY IN US, it is a prophecy of what we are to become in Him, and it is guaranteed of fulfillment, because He is both "the Author and the Finisher of our faith."
Acts 3:26 reminds us that "God, having raised up His Son Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities."
The Greek word for "bless" is "eulogeo" meaning: to speak well of. The Spirit of God is able to prophetically bear witness of what you are going to become, and then bring it to pass by turning you away from sin, into the righteousness of Christ.
When, as men, we eulogize a person-- it is either at a special banquet to honor one for all the works they have already done; or, at their funeral, when they have finished their course, and so we rehearse their good deeds, we speak well of them, based upon the life they have lived. I cannot speak good things about you, except in the measure I know good things about you, which knowledge I have gained by observing how you have lived. Thus my report of you is historical. I can recite the past. But the TESTIMONY OF JESUS is far different. He declares the good things that we shall do, what we shall become, even while we are currently steeped in trespasses and sins. We may presently appear to be the most unlovely of the unlovely, yet He comes and SPEAKS WELL OF US, BLESSES US, witnessing to that which we shall become-- a child of God, to partake of His nature, be conformed to His image, and be an expression of righteousness. And then, TO CONFIRM THIS TESTIMONY, that it shall be fulfilled, He takes up residence within us by His Spirit, to bring to pass that which He has spoken, for He is the Fulfiller of the testimony. He is the Guarantee of His own Word!
He stablishes, He anoints, He seals-- He confirms the good news, and becomes for us both "The Author and the Finisher of our faith." In due time the process will end, and the product IS, manifested in a state of being. I dare say, seems like we have been in the processing for so long, we wonder if it will ever end. Yes, for "Christ IS THE END... for righteousness to every one that believes." (Romans 10:4).
I know we omitted the words "of the law" in this verse quoted, but we did so for a reason, to emphasize that HE IS THE END, the FULFILLMENT, the PERFECTER. And He who is "the end of the law," is certainly the end of all our processing, when He has filled us to overflowing with Himself.
There is a UNION with His fullness, a oneness with THE ALL. It is not a fenced in portion here, a qualified ministry there, a limited position appointed us, etc. but it is CHRIST, being brought into HIS GLORY. He is the End, the Omega. The end is not a date, a time, an event, a happening, THE END IS A PERSON, CHRIST, AND WE ARE TO BE FOUND IN HIM.
"He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth: He that comes from heaven is above all. And what He has seen and heard, that He testifies; and no man receives His testimony. He that has received his testimony has set to his seal that God is true. For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God." (John 3:31-34).
What witness are we listening to? Of men, or of Christ? All that man, without a revelation from God, can bear witness of is of the earth, for he is earthly. But there is One who is from above, (original editor's note: "from above" or One who is of a higher understanding, a Perfect Everything) and He is able to reveal "WHAT HE HAS SEEN AND HEARD." He is qualified to bear witness of that which is FROM ABOVE. No wonder we are admonished, "He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches." (Revelation 3:6).
"If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son. He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself... he that has the Son has life." (1 John 5:9-10, 12).
So much of religious creed and dogma is earthy. Listen for an hour to a man bear witness, it is filled with the "I" of self, and of his own ideas of what God might be like. When you closely examine his portrait of God, you find that God has taken on the image of man, for, verily, "You thought that I was altogether such an one as yourself." (Psalm 50:21). Man attributes to God all of his own base emotions, and thus over and over again they fulfill the Word, "His visage was so marred more than any man, and His form more than the sons of men." (Isaiah 52:14). Not until HE is revealed to us by the Spirit, and through us as we become ONE IN HIM, will men have a true witness of the Christ. Then "the kings shall shut their mouths at Him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider." (verse 15).
Men have borne witness to condemnation and death, but very little witness to His life and righteousness. Jesus said, "The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10:10). The earth gives a witness of death and damnation. But He gives afar different witness, and confirms it within, saying, "THERE IS LIFE," and then HE becomes that life in us.
"This is the promise that He has promised us, even eternal life. -The anointing which you have received of Him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in Him." (1 John 2:25,27).
It is no lie, it is not as earth's witness, it is truth which abides all processings and shall become fulfilled reality. Therefore we add our earnest prayer to that which Paul uttered. "How I long for you to grow more certain in your knowledge and more sure in your grasp of God Himself May your spiritual experience become richer as you see more and more fully God's great secret, Christ Himself. For it is in Him, and in Him alone, that men will find all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." (Colossians 2:2-3, Phillips).
Revelation 3:14 speaks of Him as "THE AMEN; the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God." What He has seen and heard, that He testifies-- bears witness, even by His very STATE OF BEING. Well He could say, "I AM." He is LOVE personified, He is the Way, the Truth, the Life, the Door, the Good Shepherd, the Bread come down from heaven, etc. All that HE WAS IN PERSON testified to these blessed realities.
And then He said, "The Father which sent Me gave Me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that His commandment is LIFE EVERLASTING: what-soever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto Me, so I speak."
(John 12:49-50).May God deliver us from the witness of men which is earthy. Then may He open our hearts and minds and ears to hear the witness from above, for Jesus Christ had a DIRECT COMMANDMENT FROM THE FATHER-- what to speak, and when to speak it. That commandment was of LIFE EVERLASTING! Life that would abide throughout all ages, through all the processings, through all the vanity and corruption of present time; until total victory was obtained, and God is "ALL IN ALL."
Furthermore, "The Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us... was not yes and no, but in Him was YES. For all the promises of God in Him are yes, and in Him, amen, unto the glory of God by us." (2 Corinthians 1:19-20).
To secure the fulfillment, He stabilizes, He anoints, He seals US. For it is BY US that the fulfilled promise redounds to the glory of God. When God gave the promise it was TO US, "For God so loved the world..." THAT'S US! Therefore the promise can only glorify God when it is fulfilled in us. What an amazing revelation of His grace, that links together "the glory of God," and this, "BY US." Especially when we "All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23). But IN CHRIST all of this "come short" is made up, and it is "the fullness of Him that fills all in all."
Jesus Christ, the Mediator of the New Covenant, declaring a witness of LIFE, was never "a maybe, a hope-so, or just a wishful possibility." He was not a NO and a YES-- a no if... or a yes if... There were no conditional clauses inserted in the promise. IN HIM ALL THE PROMISES ARE YES, plainly asserted, and AMEN, faithfully fulfilled.
That's why in Jesus Christ all the commandments are promises, and all the promises are guaranteed of fulfillment, for HE IS THE ETERNAL YES. Through Him they are always YES! Why? Because "It is God who makes us as well as you SECURE THROUGH OUR UNION WITH CHRIST: and has anointed us, put His seal upon us, given us His Spirit as a first installment of future rewards." (2 Corinthians 1:21-22, Williams).
Yes, His testimony is the Spirit of prophecy. "He called those things which be not as though they were." (Romans 4:17). He prophesies of the victory-- plainly asserts it! Then He becomes the AMEN, the YES, the Fulfiller of all that He prophesied. He is the AMEN, the SO BE IT, the I WILL DO IT!
"Having forgiven you all trespasses; blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross." (Colossians 2:13-14).
It has been well stated that, "The law was against us because it comes like a taskmaster, bidding us do, but neither putting the inclination into our hearts nor the power in our hands. It was against us, because the revelation of unfulfilled duty is the accusation of the defaulter, a revelation to him of his guilt. It was against us, because it comes with threatenings and foretastes of penalty and pain. Thus, as STANDARD, ACCUSER, AVENGER, it is against us."
In glorious contra-distinction to this, in the new covenant, with Christ as the YES and AMEN, He says, "I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts." (Hebrews 8:10). Thus confirming also Paul's word, "For it is God Himself whose power creates within you both the desire and the power to execute His gracious will." (Philippians 2:13, Weymouth). And, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies." (Romans 8:33). This is the absolute surety of the New Covenant!
The Mosaic ritual system was to the Gospel Truth what the shadow is to the man, "a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things." The substance belongs to Christ, can only be derived from Him, and can only be realized through union with Him. HE is the YES! "Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me." (Galatians 2:20).
There was no seal of victory in the first covenant. No guarantee provided which assured us that it would be fulfilled. It was conditional upon man's doings, and MAN COULD NOT DO IT. In the New Covenant HE stablishes, anoints, seals, imparting His life, that we might live it out to His glory and praise. He makes promise for both Himself, and for us, saying, "I will, and you shall... " Then He secures the whole by becoming the INDWELLING YES!
So while the ministration of the first covenant was of condemnation unto death, "The soul that sins, it shall die." Now we find the ministration of the New Covenant far excels, for it is a COMMANDMENT UNTO LIFE EVERLASTING. He says, "We will come unto him, and make our abode with Him" (John 14:23). It is because HE DWELLS WITHIN, to be that life, that we find this to be an unconditional YES that verifies the covenant of God. Never a maybe, never a no. Without any negativism whatsoever, He interposes Himself, places Himself as totally responsible for the fulfillment of the covenant, both His part and ours. Certainly there is no doubt that God can keep His part of any covenant. There is great doubt on man's part, indeed, it has already been thoroughly proven by the first covenant of the weakness of the flesh; it was evident right from the beginning, and only grew worse with time. But when HE takes on the responsibility for our part, then the entire covenant is secured on a YES. Yes on God's part, yes on our part, for HE IS THAT ETERNAL YES which guarantees it all. Bless His wonderful name!
The promise is given, "And it shall come to pass... I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh..." (Joel 2:28). When His Spirit has been poured out upon every man, "All flesh shall see the salvation of God." (Luke 3:6). For as His Spirit comes to dwell within every creature, He shall change that creature into His own image, transform them into that new creation species that HE IS, and thus bring His covenant to fulfillment for every man.
"I have sworn by Myself the Word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Surely, shall one say, IN THE LORD HAVE I RIGHTEOUSNESS and strength." (Isaiah 45:23-24).
When every man confesses that his righteousness is IN THE LORD, then of a truth, "The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." (Habakkuk 2:14). For this victory Jesus Christ is the YES! amen!
The witness of man is so earthy,
Of feelings, of passion, of pride.
The physical senses declaring--
Yet oft' in confusion mis-guide.The witness of Law was against us,
Accusing, for we could not do
The things that its standard required.
The law had no power to endue.Praise God for His witness, far greater
Than anything spoken by man.
The New Covenant revelation--
Good news of His redemption plan.For there is a witness of vict'ry,
A witness that comes from above.
Commandment of life and salvation,
How precious this word of His love!Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Amen,
And all that He says He will do.
The pow'r of His Spirit indwelling,
Guarantees the making anew.Prophetic-- this word of His promise,
He blesses, yea, speaks well of thee,
A truth He shall bring to fulfillment.
Personified reality!Our Christ is the YES of the gospel,
The Yea and Amen of all time,
The seal of our vict'ry for ever,
The Positive One of our rhyme.Contents - Part 6 - Spirit of the Word -
Covenant Eschatology - Introductory Note - New Stuff
Preface
1 - He Takes Away The First
2 - God Was In Christ
3 - Ending The Stone Age
4 - God's Commandments Are Promises
5 - Jesus, The New Covenant 'Yes'
6 - With Shoutings Of Grace
7 - A New Covenant Spirit
8 - A New Covenant Generation
9 - New Covenant Security
10 - A New Covenant Name
11 - Embracing The Choice Vine
12 - New Wine In The Cluster
13 - In That Day
14 - Kingdom Of The New Covenant
15 - Beholding--Near And Afar Off
16 - Summary