Come Follow To You, Vol 1
Reflections on Jesus of Nazareth
Talks given from 21/10/75 am to 30/10/75 am
English Discourse series
10 Chapters
Year published:
Originally the series was published as "Come Follow Me, Vols 1 + 2". Later to be republished as
four volumes under the title "Come Follow To You".
Come Follow To You, Vol 1
Chapter #1
Chapter title: And the Word was Made Flesh
21 October 1975 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7510210
ShortTitle: FOLL101
Audio:
Yes
Video:
No
Length: 97 mins
JOHN 1
1 IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD
3 ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANYTHING MADE THAT WAS MADE.
4 IN HIM WAS LIFE; AND LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN.
5 AND THE LIGHT SHINETH IN DARKNESS; AND THE DARKNESS COMPREHENDED IT NOT.
6 THERE WAS A MAN SENT FROM GOD, WHOSE NAME WAS JOHN.
7 THE SAME CAME FOR A WITNESS, TO BEAR WITNESS OF THE LIGHT, THAT ALL MEN THROUGH
HIM MIGHT BELIEVE.
8 HE WAS NOT THAT LIGHT, BUT WAS SENT TO BEAR WITNESS OF THAT LIGHT.
11 HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN,AND HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT.
12 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:
14 AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, AND DWELT AMONG US, (AND WE BEHELD HIS GLORY, THE
GLORY AS OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER), FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH.
16 AND OF HIS FULLNESS HAVE ALL WE RECEIVED, AND GRACE FOR GRACE.
17 FOR THE LAW WAS GIVEN BY MOSES, BUT GRACE AND TRUTH CAME BY JESUS CHRIST.
I WILL SPEAK ON CHRIST, but not on Christianity. Christianity has nothing to do with Christ. In fact,
Christianity is anti-Christ -- just as Buddhism is anti-Buddha and Jainism anti-Mahavir. Christ has
something in him which cannot be organized: the very nature of it is rebellion and a rebel]ion cannot be
organized. The moment you organize it, you kill it. Then the dead corpse remains. You can worship it, but
you cannot be transformed by it. You can carry the load for centuries and centuries, but it will only burden
you, it will not liberate you. That's w