Section 8
two aspects, the personal and the corporate. For this matter, there are the morning watch in the morning and the meetings in the evening. There fore, we must neglect neither the morning watch nor the church meetings. Mary received some thing new, fresh, and firsthand in the morning, and nothing could replace it. Nevertheless, she still needed something more—the peace, the sending, the breathing, and the commission. These things can only be received in the church meetings. The commission from the Lord is to the church, not to the individual. Thus, we must be in the church before we can be sent. The com mission is a matter of the Body. Hence, we must be sent by the Lord in and through the church.
It is strange that this chapter never indicates that the Lord departed. It never tells us that He left the disciples. It is so strange that the Lord, with a physical body which could be touched, came in through the closed door. This means that, after His resurrection, the Lord was the Spirit. Because the risen Lord is now the Spirit, He can be with the disciples at any time and at every place. Since His resurrection, the Lord has no problems with time or space. The Lord can now be with us under any circumstances. Al though we may shut the door, He is still with us.