The Dispensing Of The Triune God To Produce His Abode
THE DISPENSING OF THE TRIUNE GOD TO PRODUCE HIS ABODE
John 14 reveals mainly how the Triune God is dispensing Himself into us in order that He and we, we and He, might be built together in the mingling of divinity with humanity. This chapter unfolds that the Triune God—the Father, Son, and Spirit—is dispensing Himself into the believers in Jesus Christ; that this very God and the believers are being built together, a building of divinity with humanity; that eventually this building becomes a mutual abode; and that God dwells in man and man in God. This is the basis for the Lord's word in 15:4: "Abide in Me and I in you." This is a mutual abiding, for we abide in Him and He abides in us. For the sake of this mutual abiding, there is a mutual abode. How could we have the abiding without the abode? Although the mutual abiding is clearly revealed in chapter 15, where is the mutual abode? It is in chapter 14.
In chapter 15 we have the word abide, and in