Section 4
end of this Gospel, He breathes out the Spirit. In 6:63 He says that the Word is the Spirit. Through the Word and the Spirit God reaches us.
If God were not the Word and the Spirit, He could not reach us. The Spirit is God reaching us. Whenever we touch the Lord or the Lord touches us, we experience a divine reaching. God reaches us as the Spirit. We may use the flow of electricity as an illustration. God is like the electricity, and the Spirit is like the electric cur rent. When electricity flows, it becomes the current. Hence, the current of electricity is elec tricity itself in motion. When the current reaches us, it is still electricity, not something apart from electricity. When the Spirit reaches us, that is God Himself reaching us.
THE ANTENNA AND THE GROUND WIRE
The Spirit is mysterious, abstract, and dif ficult to understand. But along with the Spirit, we have the Word. Once again using electricity as an example, we may speak of the antenna and the ground wire. The Spirit can be compared to the antenna, and the Word, to the ground wire. By the antenna and the ground wire we experi ence the transmission of electricity. If we have