Section 3
expression of God. Then we see the Lord coming to be our life, coming that we might take Him in as our life to meet all our needs. The nine cases selected in chapters three through eleven show that the Lord as life can meet all of our needs. Then chapter twelve reveals that the Lord, as a grain of wheat, has to pass through death and resurrection to produce us, the many grains, who are being blended together as one loaf, which is His Body, the church.
The central point of the second part is that the Lord who was incarnated, crucified, and res urrected was transfigured from the flesh into the Spirit. He was transfigured from the expres sion of God in the flesh into the Spirit so that He could come into us as life. Please notice that I use the word "transfigured." The Lord was transfig ured from the flesh into the Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45) so that He might be able to come into our spirit, to be our life in our spirit, and to be one with us in our spirit. As the Spirit, He is in us, and we are in Him. Now He and we, we and He, can be mingled together as one (1 Cor. 6:17).
In the first part of John's Gospel the Lord comes to bring God into us, and in the last part the Lord goes to bring us into God. In the first twelve chapters the Lord comes by incarnation