Grace as the Foretaste and the Coming Full Taste
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bible Verses~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 Pet 1: 13 Therefore girding up the loins of your mind and
being sober, set your hope perfectly on the grace being brought
to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
John 1: 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and
reality came through Jesus Christ.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Words of Ministry~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The grace has been brought to us by the Lord's first coming
(John 1:17). It will be consummated by His second coming. On
such grace we should set our hope. Whatever we enjoy of the
Lord today is, comparatively speaking, a small portion. In the
Bible this is called the foretaste; it is not yet the full
taste. This age is an age of foretaste. But when the Lord Jesus
comes back, we shall enjoy the full taste. While we are
enjoying the foretaste, we set our hope on the coming full
taste.
The nature, the essence, and the reality of the foretaste are
the same as that of the full taste. The difference is one of
quantity. Today we are enjoying a small portion as a sample, a
foretaste. Eventually we shall enjoy the full portion and
experience the full taste. Therefore, on the one hand, we are
now enjoying grace; on the other hand, we are expecting the
coming full taste. This means that as we are enjoying the
foretaste, we are expecting to have the full taste. This causes
us to set our hope on the coming full taste. The coming full
taste will be the consummation of this unique grace.
This grace is not merely unmerited favor. It is the Triune God
as our full salvation for our full enjoyment. Today we have
only the foretaste, the enjoyment of a small portion, but the
full taste is coming. Let us set our hope on this coming full
taste, which will be the consummation of grace.
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(c) 2007 Living Stream Ministry. Bible verses are taken from
the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry, from
Witness Lee, Life-study of First Peter, pp. 89-90. Both are
published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA.
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