Section 8
understand verse 20, which says, "In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you." This is the mingling of divinity with humanity. This mingling of divinity with humanity is the mutual abode. God abides in man, and man abides in God. This is the mutual abode, the mutual abiding. This is the central thought of John 14.
In John 14 we see that the Father is the source, origin, essence, and element. The Son is the expression, manifestation, and embodi ment of all that the Father is. Without the Son, the Father cannot be seen, but with the Son, the Father is embodied, manifested, expressed, and seen among men (Col. 2:9; John 1:18). Men can see the Son. As long as they see the Son, they see the Father, for the Father is embodied in the Son. But before His death and resurrection, the Son still could not get into man. He could be among men and be seen by them, but He could not enter into them. Therefore, the Son had to go to the cross and pass through the process of death and resurrection. By being processed through death and resurrection, the Son has been transfigured in His form. He has been transfigured from the form of the flesh into the form of the Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b).