• The Lord's Testimony and the World Need

    by T. Austin-Sparks

    First published as a book by "Witness and Testimony" Publishers in 1935.
    (The substance of these messages is reproduced as spoken.)

    The question of too many in ministry is: Shall I be able to last out? I shall soon exhaust all the texts in the Bible, and what is going to happen then? It seems that multitudes of preachers have exhausted all the texts in the Bible, and have gone outside for their texts! Resurrection is what is needed. It brings into this realm of a new position, a new power, a new energy, a new fulness, through the Cross. That is the Testimony of the Lord for the world need. Resurrection means, first of all, a place of death, so that there can be resurrection. That is the Cross in its fulness. There must be the working of that Divine power which is all of God and not of ourselves. That must obtain and reign in vessels. There must be not doctrine, not teaching as such, not what is called "light," but there must be revelation by the Holy Spirit through the Word, so that there is a growing apprehension in a living way of the fulness of Christ.

  • Chapters
  • Chapter 1 - The World Need: "Life"
    What Do We Mean by Life? - The Lord's Testimony - The Answer: "Resurrection" - An Experimental Knowledge of the Meaning of the Cross - The Power of His Resurrection has to be made Manifest again in the World - A Holy Ghost Living Revelation of Christ
  • Chapter 2 - The Vessel of the Testimony
    A Chosen Vessel - The Previous Vessel Supplanted - A New Cruse - Divinely Apprehended - The Vessel Liberated - The Vocation of the Vessel
  • Chapter 3 - The Need - God-given Vision
    The Initiation of the Spiritual Life - The Continuance of the Spiritual Life - The Consummation of the Spiritual Life - Vision Needed for Service - Vision Emancipates - Vision Unifies - Vision Sustains - The Nature of the Vision - The Vision of Christ as Sovereign Head of the Church - The Vision of Christ in Universal Dominion - The Vision of the Church which is His Body - The Vision of the "Overcomer" Vessel