Lord Jesus is the real and complete God, and He is also a true and perfect man.

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我们已经指出，神圣一辞指关于神并属于神的事物。事实上，这辞乃指神自己。因此，说约翰的著作启示神圣的事物，就是说这些著作启示神自己。我们来看约翰书信，目标不是仅仅要学习神的事。我们来看这些书信，乃是要看见神的事。我们要领会、接受、甚至消化神的事。这太伟大了。要切记，我们这些信息的目标不是要成立查经班。我们不是努力要学一些与宗教有关的事，或阅读一些书帮助我们改良行为，拔高我们的生活水准。在约翰书信的这些信息中，我们的目的乃是要看见神、领会神、接受神并消化神。

约翰著作中神圣事物的启示，乃是其他神圣著作之启示的补充。这指明圣经若没有约翰的著作，就会缺少一些重要的东西。譬如，约翰福音乃是对观福音书（马太福音、马可福音和路加福音）的补充。没有约翰福音，我们只能晓得主耶稣是人，作奴仆服事神，如马可福音所启示的；祂死在十字架上成了我们的救主，如路加福音所启示的；祂是君王，如马太福音所启示的。由主是奴仆，是救主和救赎主，是君王，我们看见祂的人性。然而，在主成为人以前，祂乃是神。这就是说，祂的身位有两面，神圣的一面和属人的一面。我们可以说，祂有双重身位，因为祂是神人，就是成了肉体的神。祂是神，也是人。祂是真实且完整的神，祂也是实在且完全的人。

We have pointed out that the word divine denotes things that concern God and belong to God. Actually, this word denotes God Himself. Hence, to say that the writings of John reveal divine things means that they reveal God Himself. As we come to the Epistles of John, it is not our goal merely to learn things about God. We come to these Epistles in order to see the things of God. We want to grasp, receive, and even digest the things of God. How great this is! Be impressed that it is not our aim in these messages to have a Bible study. We are not endeavoring to learn something related to religion or to study matters that will help us to improve our behavior or uplift the standard of our living. In these messages on the Epistles of John our purpose is to see God, grasp God, receive God, and digest God.

The revelation of the divine things in the writings of John is supplementary to the revelations of the other holy writings. This indicates that if the writings of John were not in the Bible, something important would be lacking. For example, the Gospel of John is a supplement to the synoptic Gospels, the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Without the Gospel of John, we could realize only that the Lord Jesus was a man who served God as a slave, as revealed in Mark, that He died on the cross to be our Savior, as revealed in Luke, and that He is the King, as revealed in Matthew. With the Lord as a slave, as the Savior and Redeemer, and as the King, we see His humanity. However, the Lord was God before He became a man. This means that in His Person He is of two aspects, a divine aspect and a human aspect. We may say that He has a twofold Person, for He is the God-man, God incarnate. He is God and also man. He is the real and complete God, and He is also a true and perfect man.