God grows and expresses Himself. After ex
God grows and expresses Himself. After ex pounding this matter, the Lord prayed for it in chapter seventeen. After praying, He went through the process of examination, death, and resurrection. Having passed through the process and having come out of death, He is now the life in resurrection. When He is in resurrection, He is life as the Spirit, for He is the Spirit in res urrection. In this booklet we need to see how this life is now the Spirit in resurrection.
APPEARING TO HIS SEEKER
As life in resurrection, the Lord firstly appeared to His seeker (20:14-18). This was His first appearing after His resurrection. Mary, how ever, could only see Him; she could not touch Him because the freshness of His resurrection was reserved for the Father.
ASCENDING TO THE FATHER
In 20:17 the Lord Jesus said to Mary, "Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father." After He appeared in resurrection to His seeker, He secretly ascended to the Father on the day of resurrection. Many Christians have never seen this matter of the Lord's secret ascension. Before the Lord ascended publicly in the sight