Section 5
the fact, but they lacked the experience of the Lord's resurrection. Mary had both the fact and the experience. For example, you may have the fact of the Lord's crucifixion but fail to experi ence the cross. In the same principle, you may have the fact of the Lord's resurrection but fail to experience the resurrected Lord. We need both the fact and the experience. Mary firstly saw the revelation of the fact, but she was not satisfied merely with the fact. She went further and re ceived the experience of the resurrected Lord.
As a rule, the brothers are usually very objec tive and the sisters very subjective. According to the scriptural principle, the man always repre sents the objective truth while the woman always represents the subjective experience. As an illus tration, Abraham represents the doctrine of faith or the truth of faith, but Sarah represents the experience of obedience. Faith is related to truth and is objective; obedience is related to experi ence and is subjective. Likewise, Peter and John believed in the fact of the Lord's resurrection objectively, but Mary experienced it subjectively. Many Christians today have never seen the fact of the Lord's resurrection. While a few definitely have the revelation of the Lord's resurrection, they only have the revelation, not the experience.