Section 2
was by incarnation that He might be able to be with us and among us. But at that time He was still unable to come into us. His first step of in carnation was the means by which the eternal God became a man in order to contact us. But a second step was necessary before He was able to come into us and be mingled with us. That step was His death and resurrection. It was by His death and resurrection that He was trans figured from the flesh into the Spirit. His flesh was the form by which He came to be with and among us, but the Spirit is His other form by which He comes into us and is mingled with us. This is the first main point that the Lord dealt with in chapters fourteen and fifteen.
The second main principle is that the Lord went through death that He might return in res urrection as the Spirit of reality. All the Lord is can be realized by the Spirit. If we only have the teachings, doctrines, and letters about the Lord without the Spirit, we do not have the reality. Doc trinal teaching about the Lord is not reality. The reality of the Lord is the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is the reality of the Lord. For exam ple, we know that the Lord is life. But if we do not have the Holy Spirit, we can never have life. Since the Holy Spirit is the reality of Christ, we