Section 5
reality. Then, referring to the day of His resur rection, the Lord says in John 14:20, "In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you." Here the Lord clearly says "I in you," revealing that He Himself will be in us.
As the Lord lives in us, He does not cease to be in the Father. On the one hand, in John 14:20 He says, "I am in My Father"; on the other hand, He says, "I in you." The Lord certainly is not saying, "When I come into you, I shall cease to be in the Father." On the contrary, here the Lord seems to be saying, "When I come into you, I shall come into you with the Father. Not only am I in the Father, but the Father also is in Me. Therefore, when I am in you, the Father who is in Me is also in you."
This understanding of verse 20 is proved by the Lord's word in verse 23: "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him." Here the Father and the Son making an abode with us is equal to the phrase "I in you" in verse 20. Who is in us? The "I" who is in us is not only the Son, but the Son with the Father. But what about the Spirit? In John 14:26 the Lord Jesus speaks of "the Comforter, the Holy