Section 16
(2 Cor. 3:17). The Lord has taken two steps in order to become our experience. In the first step of incarnation, He took the form of the flesh with the blood for accomplishing redemption for us. In the second step of resurrection, He was transfigured into the form of the Spirit for im parting Himself into us as our life. Through all these, we have been redeemed and regenerated to partake of Him as our life and our everything.
THE SPIRIT OF LIFE
Romans 8:2 says that the Spirit is the Spirit of life. The Spirit of life is the breath of life breathed into and abiding in the disciples (John 14:16-17). This is for the life in John's line. For the power in Luke's line, the Spirit is likened to a mighty wind (Acts 2:2-4) blowing upon the disciples. In John's line, the Spirit is likened to the breath of life breathed on the disciples (20:22) and abiding in them as their life. This Spirit of life is nothing less than the resurrected Christ who is now the life-giving Spirit.
As the falling into the ground to die and the growing out of the ground transforms the grain of wheat into another new and lively form, so the death and resurrection of the Lord transfig ured Him from the flesh into the Spirit. As "the