Section 13
to recreate you and resurrect you out of that death into Himself as life in resurrection.
The principle of the Gospel of John is Christ as life in resurrection. The intention of this Gos pel is not to improve or reform us by regulating our behavior. The Lord's only intention is to bring life into us. This life will enliven, regener ate, resurrect, and recreate us. If we can appre hend the principle of this Gospel, our thirst will be quenched, our hunger satisfied, our darkness enlightened, our bondage in sin broken, and our death swallowed up by resurrection—all by ex periencing Christ as our resurrection life in the Spirit and through the Word. We can never expe rience the living Christ by anything of ourselves or by any of our doings. The living Christ is only experienced in the Spirit and through the Word. The Spirit and the Word will bring us into the principle of life in resurrection. If we take Him in the Spirit and through the Word, we shall then be satisfied, enlightened, freed, and resurrected. When we are resurrected from the dead, we are delivered from all aspects of death. Nothing can suppress us, nothing can restrict us, and nothing can imprison us because we are living in resur rection.