Section 4
carry out a certain purpose. He is the source, the founder, and the first one to accomplish cer tain things according to His mind and purpose. Furthermore, as the details found in other parts of the Scriptures disclose, it is the Father's pleas ure that all that He is, all the riches of His divine nature, and all the fullness of the Godhead be the riches of the vine. All that the Father is, all that the Father has, all the riches of the Father's divine life, and all the fullness of the Godhead are in the vine. This is all for the vine which is the embodiment of it all. The vine is the embod iment of the fullness of the riches of divinity and of the Godhead. All that God the Father is and has is embodied in the vine.
This chapter not only reveals the Father but also the Son as the vine. As the vine, the Son is the center. The whole universe is pictured as a vine yard, and centered in this vineyard is the vine who is the Son. God the Son is the center. Everything is centralized in Him. He, as the vine, is the cen ter of the vineyard. We have seen that God the Father is the source and founder, and now we see that God the Son is the center. Everything that God the Father is and has is for the center, is embodied in the center, and is expressed through the center. God the Father is expressed,