The Redeeming And Life-Imparting Death Of Christ
THE REDEEMING AND LIFE-IMPARTING
DEATH OF CHRIST
The Gospel of John reveals the Lord as the very expression of God coming to us as life. By impart ing Himself into us, He becomes everything to us and meets all our needs that He may bring God into us and bring us into God, mingling God with us until God is one with us and we are one with Him. In other words, the Lord is the very expres sion of God, imparting Himself to us as life, meet ing all our needs, and mingling God with us as one. This is the main thought of chapters one through seventeen. All who have been regen erated by Him will be one in this divine life. In fact, we are one with one another in this divine life, even as we are one with God in this divine life. After such a revelation in these seventeen chap ters, in chapters eighteen and nineteen the Holy Spirit reveals the Lord's willingness to go into death and to deliver Himself to death that He might be sown as a grain of wheat into the earth to die in order that He might rise up to release