BEARING HIS WITNESS 
 
                               by 
                                 Henry Stanley 
 
 
Christ - He that is the firstborn is He who is come out from among the 
dead. That means He has nothing to do with the dead! Glory to God! That 
Son that has come forth to bring us unto Himself. How glorious it is! 
Looking upon His face - for He has come! I tell you, when we behold His 
face, the things of the world just grow dim. Face to face with Him, 
beholding Him who is in the heavens. I am coming to a realization that 
out of the heavens, the open heavens - that which is of Himself is coming 
forth! The scripture says that nations shall flow into it. You see, when 
it is nothing but Christ, the purity of the Word, the nature of 
Christ...nations will come unto it. Isaiah declares "Arise and shine, for 
thy light is come." It's not just coming, but thy light is come, and the 
glory of the Lord is risen upon you! The Amplified Bible says there that 
it brings us into a place that we arise above our circumstances and our 
situations. And that light is Him, and He is come, and He is come to 
lighten the eyes of our understanding, to illuminate our hearts, to see 
Him, to know Him, to behold Him face to face! That we, as His people 
today can come into this union, this relationship, that He has brought 
forth in Himself. He has brought us into Himself - the City - everything 
about Him is because of Him - the light, the glory of it is HIM! 
 
I have been thinking about the Only Begotten Son. In Hebrews 1 it 
declares the Only Begotten Son, that One that the Father Himself gives 
recognition to. And in return that Son gives glory, and honor unto the 
Father. We are headed for something that is mighty and great and precious 
because it is the increase of Himself that is coming forth! The Holy 
Spirit is making us ONE with that Eternal Son! That is the purpose of God 
- bringing forth, building together a people as a habitation - lively 
stones built up as a spiritual house - for the expression of Himself! 
 
Turn now to John 1. We will look into that Light and that Life and that 
Glory that He is. Verse 4, "In him was life; and the life was the light 
of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended 
it not." He shines out of darkness, and that darkness is the lack of 
understanding, and ignorance of Him. And therefore, He who is that light 
and that life that is within us, is shining, and that darkness is not 
going to be able to hinder that which He is. HE IS GOING TO SHINE FORTH! 
I see this in the Judgment Seat of Christ. We've looked at that as if 
we're walking up to Him to stand before Him, but we are ever standing 
before the Judgment Seat of Christ, because that Judgment is HIM! In the 
light of Him, in the light of the Truth, in the light of that which He is 
- the Son of God stands as the Judgment to judge all that is not the 
nature and character of Himself. 
 
So John says "In Him was life...and the light shineth...and the darkness 
comprehended it not." Verse 6. " There was a man sent from God, whose 
name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, 
that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was 
sent to bear witness of that Light." John said that by bearing that 
witness of the Light that He is, of the Life that He is - that glory of 
Himself - that by that witness all men might believe. You talk about 
touching nations - nations shall turn unto that which comes of only Him! 
For so long it has been such a mixture that has been declared. But God 
has been dealing with me. We don't have time to get up and begin to 
preach what is not Christ or what is not right - but the issue is that we 
declare that which is Him! I don't have time just to fight against the 
Church and tell how wrong it is - but I have to declare that which is 
Him! What people need to see and to hear is that which is Truth - they 
can know the Truth and they can walk in that Truth, and they can walk in 
the Light and the understanding of Him! We don't need to have our minds 
all clogged up with what is not Christ. What is the important thing is 
what is Christ! Begin to present HIM AS HE IS! And He is coming forth in 
a Body, He is coming forth in a building that is not being built with the 
hands of men, but it is the working of His Spirit that is bringing about 
a House for the habitation of Himself! The book of Psalms declares that 
He inhabits a people, and He places His habitation in Zion.  
 
John said 'I'm not that Light, but I've come to bear witness of that 
Light.' John recognized that he was one with Him, and because of Him who 
was that Light and that Life, that was the thing that was going to come 
forth in John's life. That was going to be the manifestation of that. The 
hour is truly upon us when that day star that He is, is ready to arise in 
our hearts as never before. Even greater than in Deuteronomy 6, we're 
going to rise up with Him, we're going to go to bed with Him - everything 
that pertains unto our life is going to be Him! John said he was not that 
Light, but he was to bear witness of that Light - that all men through 
him might believe. This is the Begotten Son - that isn't speaking just of 
Jesus alone, but it is speaking of Jesus in the Body, in that Corporate 
Body. And everything that Corporate Body is and would ever be is because 
of Him, who is the Head and the Life of that Body! There is no Life 
outside of Him! We don't even have time to talk about death anymore. 
 
I remember when I began to hear some of the truth that is in Christ I 
began to minister that the only way that you will be able to identify 
with His Life, is you first must identify with His death. And I began 
teaching on that, and the Lord stopped me and said, 'Son, the only way 
that you will ever be able to identify with my death, is first of all the 
identification of my Life, because it is My Life that brings the Light 
and the understanding that you have been crucified with Me!' Romans 5 
declares that by Him we have been reconciled by His death, but we are 
saved by His Life! And the light, the revelation, the unveiling of 
Himself is what brings us into the comprehension of His death. His death 
is a far greater death than we ever experienced in Adam! Yes - we were 
dead in sin. But I'm telling you that the death of Jesus Christ, that 
Crucified One, brought us to an end of ourselves in Adam - and that death 
was a far greater death - because it brought forth that life of Himself. 
It brought forth the Life of Himself! 
 
Many of us were raised in Baptism and Pentecost, and we have a real 
problem with the truth that we are seated in heavenly places, and we need 
to see that much of the teaching of heaven is just a myth. Some will say, 
doesn't the Bible say that the dead in Christ shall rise first? But the 
dead in Christ is the death, the crucifixion of that One that has brought 
us into that death - therefore we are dead in Christ! And when we are 
dead in Christ, we come forth in His Life! He is the Crucified One! We're 
not just dealing with being dead to Adam, but there One appears as the 
Crucified One, and in that Crucified One there appears a people that come 
forth in that glory and fulness of Himself!  
 
His fulness - there are many places in the Word of God that declare that 
He is the fulness of His Body - Ephesians 1:22-23, "And hath put all 
things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the 
church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." 
We say we're waiting for His fulness - but He is the fulness of His Body. 
The fulness of the Godhead bodily dwelleth in Him. Jesus Christ was 
absolutely the fulness of the Father. God said He came without measure - 
it was the fulness. And the reason we think His fulness is yet to come is 
because we haven't been able to comprehend by the Spirit that it is HIM 
who is the fulness! We think it's based on what we're doing.  
 
And don't misunderstand me. I believe there's a walk, I believe there's 
an act of obedience in the things of God in order to be pleasing to the 
Lord. It is all through the Word of God - do this, do ye... do something. 
I don't think God is saying we sit back and we fold our hands and God is 
going to do it. I think He's going to do it if there is a people who have 
a hungry heart. "As the deer panteth after the water brook, so doth my 
soul pant after thee." You see we are to bear this. I'm getting to the 
point where I don't have a big desire to preach. God isn't looking for 
someone just to stand up and preach this, He's looking for somebody that 
will become a manifestation of it! And you and I don't bring Him 
manifestation or expression, but you and I are the vessels in which He 
brings forth Himself as the expression and it is the manifestation of 
Himself that comes forth. IT IS HIM WHO IS BEING REVEALED!  It is HIM who 
is coming forth! 
In 1 Samuel 3:21, "And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh..." Genesis 
49:10 says, "The scepter shall not depart from Judah ...until Shiloh 
come; and then unto him shall the gathering of the people be." Here 
Samuel experienced this. "And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh; for the 
Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord." John 
heard the voice of God in the book of Revelation. He said when I heard 
that voice I turned to see the voice. And when he turned and looked, he 
saw One like unto the Son of Man in the very midst. That is talking about 
a corporate gathering that is coming forth in One who is standing in the 
midst of that corporate Body - it is that Living Son of God! 
 
So John said I came to bear witness of that Light that all men through 
him might believe. He was not the Light, but was sent to bear witness of 
that Light. In 1 John 1 there is a glorious truth, because John was not 
only speaking of walking side by side with the Lord in the earth, but 
John had a continuous relationship with Him. And he said it was that 
which was from the beginning. The One that was the creator, that created 
heaven and earth and all things that are therein - then He brings forth 
that creation of Himself, and brings a people into Himself for the 
expression of Himself. You and I must come to realize that it is to be 
the increase of Him, the fruit of Him that comes forth! It's like a 
vineyard and He looks into the garden. And the Father sees a husbandman 
and He looks to see the fruit. 
 
We talk about the former rain and the latter rain. You see, some of the 
experiences we've had in the Lord in our early life as a "born-one" in 
Christ were good, but what God is doing now is bringing forth the 
increase of Himself! The Old Testament speaks of the former house and the 
latter house - and there was no comparison. The former house there is we 
have seen ourselves, we have preached ourselves - it has been such a 
mixture. But the latter house is going to be NONE BUT HIM! Filling it up 
- yes, beloved, we are the temple of God. But in Revelation 21 John said, 
'I looked and I saw no temple save God Almighty and the Lamb.' And He is 
the Light of that glorious City! The City is Him - it is a people with 
the nature, the character, the exactness of that which He is, but I'm 
telling you - He is the temple therein! This thing all gives way to Him! 
 
And the expression of Himself comes in abundance because it is that which 
shall fill up the earth. "Greater works than I do ye shall do because I 
go to my Father." That doesn't mean that we're going to perform greater 
miracles, but it means that greater is Him that is coming forth, and 
there will be a multiplication of Him - of that seed that we are found 
in. That seed, that fruit of Himself is multiplied, that increase of 
Himself comes forth. The Word declares that it will be like the waters 
cover the seas; that the glory of the Lord shall fill all the earth even 
as the waters cover the sea. This is not some small thing that the Lord 
is doing, and what the Father has purposed in Himself is that all of it 
would come to the finality that God Himself would be all and in all. And 
the expression of that which He is coming forth in that Body that He has 
prepared for Himself! It's becoming so that sometimes we don't have the 
words to say it, because there is nothing like that divine revelation of 
Christ Jesus that comes forth in our hearts, and it captivates our souls 
to the place that we have no vocabulary to speak it. 
 
You know I was thinking, when that Ark was captured by the Philistines; 
and that Ark was the very divine glory and presence of God that was in 
the midst of Israel; when that Ark was captured there was great sorrow in 
the hearts of the people. But when it came back into Jerusalem, the Word 
of God says David danced before the Lord, and his wife thought he was a 
foolish man for what he was doing. But I want to tell you, when this 
thing becomes more than just preaching and teaching; when it becomes more 
than just going to church; but when it becomes a living organism, 
energized by the Holy Spirit into our hearts and our lives - we will 
recognize that it is Him who is our Life! And there will be joy 
unspeakable! He said when the Holy Ghost is come it will be like a woman 
that is with child and she will travail. But as soon as that child is 
born, great joy comes, and no man can take it away! God is building 
something within this Body that is to bear, to bring forth a Covenant, a 
relationship that is going to reveal and manifest that which He is, 
because that's the House. That's the building, the place of His 
expression, that is the purpose of the Father from the beginning.  
 
"That which was from the beginning" came. The Word was made flesh and 
dwelt among us. It is the Word of the Lord, it is the Voice of God that 
comes and in that Voice is an appearing; there's a revealing of Him! 
There's a revelation, and that revelation is absolutely a Person! It is a 
Person who once again is walking in flesh - in a new humanity so that the 
world may know. He said through you the world will know that I have been 
sent from God! The world will know this, people. The reason many times it 
hasn't been effective is there's been too much mixture. We are still 
preaching ourselves and coming to a knowledge of the Word, but yet Christ 
never being in the picture of it, but it's "we" being Christ and "we" 
being this or that. But I want to tell you, when you see Him, when He is 
revealed as the One that He is, you'll not be able to preach yourself! IT 
IS HIM! Even the workings of Him is by the faith of the operation of God 
Himself - it is not you and I that does it - it is His Spirit! 
 
John says, I come to bear witness of This One, This One that is from 
heaven. Oh, the Lord appeared to Samuel! I tell you something, the 
appearing of the Lord isn't just one time. Every time Abraham built an 
altar unto the Lord, he was being directed by the Lord. "Abraham, get out 
of your country, from your kindred, to a land I'll show you." He never 
did designate a certain natural place for him to go to, He didn't name 
any city for him to go to. Abraham continually walked with God and as he 
heard the voice of God and as he built the altar unto the Lord - every 
time that he did - the Lord appeared unto Abraham! We have to take the 
Word for what it says. If the Word says He is the fulness of His Body, 
the Church - I have to believe it. I'm not saying I understand all of 
that, but I have to believe that. He is the only fulness that His Body 
has, whether I have an understanding of it or not! If people are born 
again of the Spirit, they are IN CHRIST whether they have a comprehension 
of it, or not.    
 
I spoke to a sister who I knew from my days in "Pentecost", and she said, 
'What happened to you? You used to believe like we do.' I said, 'I saw 
the Lord!' I didn't mean that in a derogatory way, but I began to tell 
her how we were seated in heavenly places. We are seated there! Heaven is 
the eternal, abiding presence of Jesus Christ the Lord! We're seated 
there, in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus! John said I came to bear 
witness of this Light! John said the One that cometh after me yet was 
preferred before me, because John saw that this was the One that came out 
of the heavens. "I came from my Father into the earth. I leave the world 
and I go back unto My Father, and the world doesn't know me." The Word 
declares that the world didn't know Him, and He came to His own and His 
own didn't know Him!  
 
The thing that captured Saul's heart on the road of Damascus was the 
Voice of God, it was that great Light that He was. "Saul, Saul, why 
persecutest thou me? Why kick against the pricks?" "Who art thou, Lord?" 
"I AM JESUS, whom thou persecutest." Persecuting Jesus? Who was he 
persecuting? The Body! And I'm telling you, he had an encounter with the 
Lord, and from then on, there was a pursuing in his heart, to the extent 
that it took him out to the Arabian desert for three years. And oh, what 
he beheld! Paul beheld things that he could not utter! Caught up into the 
third heaven! Uttering things, so a thorn had to be put into his flesh 
that he wouldn't be exalted; that Paul wouldn't come to a place that he 
would exalt himself.  
 
Oh - but that revelation that Paul had beheld in the heavens, that he 
might declare the Only One that was of the heavens! God has been dealing 
in my heart, even concerning this message. Because there was a time in 
which I walked in what we call "Kingdom" and "Sonship" and we just 
exalted ourselves, as if we were an elite people, and we seemed to forget 
everybody else. And there's been a real concern with me that this never 
happen to us. The Lord has been showing me about charity - and that word 
leaped off the page to me. Paul said, "Though I speak with the tongues of 
men and with angels, and I have not charity, I am as a tinkling cymbal 
and a sounding brass. Though I prophesy and though I understand all 
mysteries and all knowledge and all faith, and though I give my body to 
be burned, it profits me nothing if I have not charity." And when I went 
to the eighth verse of 1 Corinthians 13 it was just like a flash of 
lightning came off the page, and I went back to verse 1 and 2. He said, 
"Charity never faileth; but whether there be prophesies, they shall fail; 
whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, 
it shall vanish away." And the Lord said, 'Son, the reason that is, is 
that it is without charity. Charity is what makes it effective.' And I 
pray that you and I will never come to that place.  
 
Oh yes, it is for the growing up, the full manifestation of Christ in a 
people. But let us not forget that there are those that this message must 
be presented as a witness to, because this is what will cause people to 
see and to know Him. It has happened with every revelation - people come 
to this thing and get high and mighty; they get exalted because they have 
the revelation of Christ, and they have the knowledge of God in them. But 
it is still important that we be able to minister to those who are weak. 
Paul said I am in debt (Romans 1:14). I am a debtor to the forbearers and 
I am in debt to those who are unwise. See, we must never come to the 
place that we say they are unwise or foolish - My God, we were too! And I 
still am in a lot of understandings of God. But oh, it's Him who is that 
Light! And the darkness can't comprehend the Light. This is the reality 
that John was speaking of. John was born before Him in the flesh, but 
John preferred Him. John said it is Him that I must bear witness to! 
 
John 1:9, "That was the true Light, which ligheth every man that cometh 
into the world. 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. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the 
sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. (Those that will come 
to bear His Name!) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the 
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." 1 Peter tells us the very 
same thing. "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of 
incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." 
Born by that Word that He is! No wonder that in the beginning was the 
Word, the Word was with God and the Word was God! And that is the same 
Word which the Body of Christ today must hear - it is that Word that is 
made flesh, that is coming forth, being revealed in a people; His Body, 
the Building, and He is so fitly joining it together. He says in 
Ephesians 4 that He is fitly joining this Body together to the extent 
that it is compacted together, by a working of the Spirit, and every 
joint will supply and cause it to grow up into the Head. That doesn't 
mean they become God, it just means they become that Oneness, that union, 
that relationship with Him, and present Him - who HE IS! And this is what 
the Lord is doing. He's bringing forth a people who are going to bear 
this thing! 
 
When the priests were standing in the Jordan, the Word says, "When you 
see the priests that bear the Ark, go after it." I'm telling you, people 
have to see somebody that's bearing the Ark; they've got to see somebody 
that's bearing the identification of that Name, and not just saying 
"Jesus", but bearing a nature and a character of that One, of that Life 
that He is! That Life that He is, is to be a manifestation to lighten the 
world. And this was John's description of Christ - Christ the Light, He's 
the Light of the world! No other light. Even in the creation in Genesis, 
He said, 
"Let there be light, and there was light!" He did create the light that 
we know as day, but it extended far greater than that, because I'm 
talking about a creation of Himself, and when the scripture talks about 
light, it's talking about HIM! So He's talking about that Light that was 
brought forth, so there may come forth a people in that New Creation, in 
that New World that He is, for the manifestation of the very fulness of 
that which He is.  
 
That's not you and I trying to make ourselves be that. You will work 
until you don't have any fingernails, and you won't accomplish that. But 
when you come to a place where you rest in God, there is that true faith 
of the Son of God that begins to work in your heart, and you begin to act 
by that. You see, faith is a verb, and it means that it takes action. 
There's an activity that goes on with the faith of the Son of God. And in 
that activity of the Son of God, that faith begins to activate in your 
heart and in my heart, and it begins to bring forth the works of Him! 
Philippians 2:13 says, "For it is God which worketh in you both to will 
and to do of his good pleasure." The working of Him! And when I have a 
tendency to go off and do things on my own, I hear His voice saying 
"Stand still and know that I am God!" You see, I've tried to work things 
for God, I've tried to make it happen, and I've learned that in Him, it 
is Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will. As the 
Father has purposed in the Son - I'm telling you, that will never fail, 
whether you and I are ever joined into it or not - I'm telling you, it 
will never fail. The Eternal Purpose of the Father will never fail, 
because it's been purposed in that Son, to bring forth and gather up all 
things unto Himself, and to bring back all to the Father and say, 
'Father, these are yours. I kept them in Thy name, they are yours, 
Father.' 
 
The Light of the world! I'm not talking about Jesus of Nazareth, and I 
would never disgrace Him. But I'm telling you the purpose of the Father 
was that through the death of Christ, and by the Resurrection, that He 
would bring forth the exactness of Himself in a many-membered, corporate 
Body. This is the Lord, this is the Christ, this is the whole Seed, the 
whole Light, the whole Life, the Glory - everything of it is HIM! That's 
the very center of it; that's what makes it be. And that's the joy of it 
today. That as the four and twenty elders in the book of Revelation stood 
as they cried, 'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty! Thou has created all 
things for your pleasure!" This is what God is working in a people today, 
not to exalt self, not even to be exalted in. But the more it works in 
your heart and in your spirit there is a humility of that One that Isaiah 
saw in Chapter 66, and I'm not talking about putting on a show of 
humbleness. "Who is it that will build a house for me? Look - heaven is 
my throne, earth is my footstool. What are you going to build for me?" 
Brother, I'm talking about something of the Holy Spirit, the Living 
Christ. He walked among them. Yes, there were people who didn't hear Him, 
but there was a compassion in His heart. He said "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 
how often I would have gathered you as a hen gathers her chicks, but you 
would not. You stoned the prophets. You would not." I believe that God 
with the greater revelation and comprehension of this Christ, will bring 
forth a greater humbleness and more compassion, the more lowliness of 
mind - all of that is Christ that works in us. What happened to Paul when 
he came to see and to know the Lord? He said my heart and my prayer and 
my desire for Israel is that they might be saved, for they have a zeal 
for God, but not according to knowledge. For they go about to establish 
their own righteousness, and not the righteousness of God. Why did Paul 
carry such a burden? Because he was there, he was captivated in the 
Jewish religion, in his mother's womb. And when God delivered him from 
that womb, and revealed His Son in Paul, his heart went out to them - 
'that's my desire and prayer, that they would come to know the 
righteousness of Him!' 
 
I've had preachers tell me, 'you're too long suffering, you just allow 
this, and you let people go. You need to deal with it, you need to do 
this or that.' And every time I hear that, Galatians 5 comes to my heart 
concerning the fruit of the Spirit, where he says, "against such there is 
no law." There's no limitations - a law brings a limitation, but that 
working of the Spirit doesn't! Come to bear - to be a witness. John said 
I bear witness that He's resurrected. Not only me, but over five hundred 
brethren came to bear that He's raised from the dead. That's the witness 
of Himself that He's looking for in the earth - to bear witness of the 
Resurrection. That there is a people who is truly resurrected, and that 
Resurrected Life that He is, is Him coming forth in manifestation! That 
the world can look on you and me and see Him and know Him and that He is 
being revealed. I'm telling you that when He was in the form of flesh, He 
manifested God. The vessel manifested God! The Word of God says we take 
the members of our body and yielded them to all uncleanness. Now those 
same members are to be yielded to Christ! The body is dead because of 
sin, but is made alive because of righteousness, Romans 8 says. You've 
got the same body which must be yielded to something. 
 
Now I know the Body of Christ is a greater Body than this flesh body, but 
I'm telling you something. How can the world see and know if the Living 
Father was not being manifested in the vessel of clay? I think we only 
fool ourselves to think that we're going to go around and proclaim we're 
in Christ, and then the members of our body are not manifesting Christ. 
If any man has the Spirit of Christ, he is going to produce Christ - not 
flesh, not myself, he's going to produce Christ! John said, I come to 
bear witness. I'm not that Light, but I come to bear witness of that 
Light, and that the world may see and the world may know that I live by 
Him and that I really have no other life than HIS LIFE! 
 
The Lord is bringing us to the Truth of His Word, like in Colossians 3. 
"Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." I'm telling you, 
that is an absolute in what the finished work of Christ has done! But the 
next verse says, "when...when... when Christ who is our life shall 
appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." I'm telling you 
nothing shall be taken into the glory except that which is HIM! And 
that's what brings glory unto the Father.  
 
Look at John 1:15, "John bore witness of him and cried saying, This was 
he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me; for 
he was before me." See, that which was from the beginning! " And of his 
fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given 
by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God 
at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, 
he hath declared him." Beloved, That Son declares the Father! Now John 
3:27-36, I'll just read a portion of it. "John answered and said, A man 
can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven." He can't even 
work enough to get it. He can't pray enough to get it. Except it comes 
from heaven. I'm telling you, the Spirit is who reveals Christ. "He shall 
take of mine and show it unto you. He shall testify of me, He shall 
glorify me." (John 16:13-15) The true Spirit of Christ will testify only 
of HIM! John 5:43 says "I am come in my Father's name and ye receive me 
not; (if I would come in another name, you would receive me)." 
 
I'm telling you, this is the thing that the Lord is working in our 
hearts; that the only Name that is going to be glorified and praised and 
ministered is that Name that He is! And it's true - people can come in 
the name of a prophet, in the name of a bishop or all kinds of names, and 
so many things will take place there. They will begin to be honored and 
praised and looked up to. But I'm telling you - if you declare none but 
Him, for some reason it seems like they don't want to be around! John 
tells you that. John 7:16-18, "Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine 
is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall 
know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 
He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory; but he that seeketh 
his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in 
him." 
 
Glory to God! BEARING THE WITNESS! One that was before me - yes. One 
that I preferred before me. It is Him, the Light. In closing, the Word of 
God says that if our eye...that's a vision, folks. That's an illumination 
of the Spirit. If our eye become singular - NONE BUT HIM! Nothing but 
Him! If our eye become singular, then the whole Body will become full of 
Light! That's the reality of what the Holy Spirit is working in the 
members of the Body of Christ today. That He may absolutely bring forth 
the Living Witness and a Testimony in the earth before all the world! The 
scripture says that we are to be blameless before the world. I'm not sure 
what world that is. I've always looked at it as the natural world; those 
that don't even know God. That when they look at you or me, they see the 
Corporate Body of Christ and they will see nothing but Him! ACTIONS - 
WORDS - DEEDS - THOUGHTS. Only God can do this! But that is the purpose 
of the Father - to bring forth the exactness of Himself. Never to have a 
mixture, but to have the exactness of Himself! May the Lord bless you. 
Amen!