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all the obstacles between man and God, that He might open the way and make a standing for man to get into God. The standing in God, being en larged, becomes the standing in the Body of Christ. Anyone who does not have the standing, a place in God, does not have a place in the Body of Christ, which is God's habitation. Hence, the Lord's going to accomplish redemption was to prepare a place in His Body for the disciples.
THE LORD'S GOING BEING HIS COMING
In verse 3 the Lord said, "If I go…I am com ing." I like this sentence very much. This word proves that the Lord's going (through His death and resurrection) is His coming (to His disci ples—vv. 18, 28). The tense here is very strange to the English language. It means that His going was His coming, that He was coming by going. The Lord's going was not His departure but actu ally another step of His coming. The Lord's death and resurrection was a further step of His com ing. His going to die was His coming into us. The Lord's intention was to get into His disciples. He came in the flesh (1:14) and was among His disci ples, but while He was in the flesh He could not get into them. He had to take the further step of passing through death and resurrection that He