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their hearts did not need to be troubled by His going. He is the same as the God in whom they believed. If they believed in God, they also had to believe in Him because He is the same as the God who is always present. The Lord seemed to be telling His disciples, "Do not be troubled by My going. Do not let your hearts be perplexed. If you believe in God, you must also believe in Me. God is omnipresent. With Him, there is no time or space limitation. It is the same with Me. I shall go, but I shall still remain with you. And while I remain with you, I shall go. I am omni present. If you believe in God, you must also believe in Me, for I am the same as God."
The second important point in verse 1 is that to believe God is different from believing into God. You may say that you believe God, but do you believe into God? In Greek, the preposition in means into, that is, to believe into God. In other words, this is not an objective believing; it is a subjective believing. The basic thought of this chapter is that the Lord intends to help or instruct the disciples to be in God. We must remember that to believe God is objective but to believe into God is subjective. It is this kind of subjective believing that brings us into God. In effect, the Lord was saying, "If you believe into