Section 4
Body (1 Cor. 10:17). Before His death, He was only one, unique grain. But after His resurrec tion that one, unique grain became the many grains. This is the multiplication of life through the death and resurrection of Christ.
In His resurrection, the Only Begotten Son became "the Firstborn among many brothers" (Rom. 8:29). The "many brothers" are those who have been regenerated through His resurrection with the divine life released by His life-imparting death. Through His resurrection, the divine life of the Father has been imparted into us. Thus we all have become sons of God. In this way the unique Son of God has become the "Firstborn among many brothers." Therefore, the Lord did not tell Mary, "Go to My friends"; He said, "Go to My brothers."
Before His resurrection, Christ, as the Father's Only Begotten Son, was the Father's individual expression. Now, through His death and resur rection, the individual expression of the Father has become the corporate expression of God the Father in the Son.
Christ's many brothers as the "many sons" of the Father are the "church" (Heb. 2:10-12) to be a corporate expression of God the Father in the Son. This is God's ultimate intention. Therefore,