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Scripture Reading: John 15:4-5; 14:23; Rom. 8:9-10; 2 Tim. 4:22
The most mysterious matter in the Bible, something which we could never imagine or dream up, is that the Lord Jesus personally told His disciples that He wanted them to abide in Him and that He also wanted to abide in them. Since we have become accustomed to reading such a word, we are not amazed by it. However, if you were there on that day hearing this word, would you not have been astonished? You would wonder, “Is the Lord speaking something true? Is this an allegory, or is it only an illustration? What does this word really mean? How can we abide in the Lord? And how can the Lord abide in us? This is truly difficult to understand.”
When the Lord Jesus spoke this word, He had already been living on earth for over thirty years. Formerly, He had been a carpenter at home, but when He became thirty years of age, He came out to speak for God to do the work of preaching. After doing this work for nearly three and a half years, one day He told the disciples that He would be leaving them. They had been with Him for three and a half years, and no one could help but love Him and be attracted to Him because He was such a marvelous, real, great, yet meek God-man. Every one of them liked Him. Therefore, in John 12, when the Lord came to the home of one of the disciples, the atmosphere of loving, appreciating, admiring, and adoring Him reached such a high peak that a sister poured ointment upon Him from her most treasured alabaster flask. The people’s adoration for the Lord had reached the ultimate. He was very lovable. Moreover, His believers and followers anointed Him not only once. According to the record in the four Gospels, they anointed Him twice. In Luke 7 there was the other occasion when He was anointed. He was truly lovable and attractive.
Nevertheless, one day all of a sudden He told those who loved Him that He would be leaving them. When the disciples heard this, they became sorrowful. While they were in sorrow, He said to them, “Do not let your heart be troubled” (John 14:1, 27b). He also told them that He would go away and would come again (v. 28). Today there are Bible interpreters in Christianity who say that His going was His ascension, and His coming again will be His second coming at the end of the age. They say that the wait has been almost two thousand years, yet He has not come. However, this is not the meaning of the word the Lord Jesus spoke at that time. What He meant by His going was that He was going to the cross to die and that after His death He would be resurrected. His going was His death; His coming would be His resurrection. What the Lord meant by His word was, “Do not let your heart be troubled. My going is for your benefit, because if I do not go, I can only be among you. You love Me, and I also love you. However, My intention is not only to be among you but also to enter into you. I want to be not only among you as your gain, your enjoyment, and your Lord. More than this I want to enter into you to be your life. If I remain outside of you, I cannot be your life. For Me to be your life, I must enter into you.”
If food does not enter into us, it has nothing to do with our life. For food to become our life, it must enter into us. Furthermore, it must not only enter into us but also become part of us. In this way the food that we eat becomes our life and life supply. Therefore, in John 6 the Lord Jesus said that He is our bread of life, that he who comes to Him shall by no means hunger, and that he who eats Him shall live because of Him (vv. 35, 57b). It is a pity that at that time the disciples did not understand the Lord’s word because what He told them was new; this was a new utterance, a new concept. This word had never been uttered since the creation of the world. If someone today were to say that he is our food and that we must eat him, we would find this word hard to accept. We would definitely say that this man is crazy, that he is sick in his mind, and that he ought to be sent to the mental hospital. However, in John 6 the Lord repeatedly said that He is the bread of life. Those who eat Him shall live because of Him. Although the Lord said this repeatedly, not one of His disciples could receive His word. At the end of John 6, many of the disciples, after hearing this word, said, “This word is hard; who can hear it?” (v. 60). Then they went back and no longer walked with the Lord. Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” Simon Peter answered Him, saying, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life” (vv. 67-68). Although this was the reply at this time, they were all confused again in chapter 14.
In John 14 the Lord told the disciples that He was going, but He also said that after going He would come again. It was not that He would be gone for two thousand years and still not return. What the Lord meant in 14:19 was that in a little while He would return. The Lord went to die and to be buried. Shortly afterward He returned. Furthermore, the Lord assured His disciples that He would not leave them as orphans and that after going He would come again. However, when the Lord came back, He would be another Comforter. He would come back as the Spirit of reality. John 14:16-20 describes this matter in a very clear way. The Lord Jesus was originally in the flesh and could be only among the disciples. Then this Lord in the flesh, who was the last Adam, went through death and resurrection and was transfigured to be the life-giving Spirit. This is just like a grain of wheat; after being put into the ground, it grows into a different shape. Originally, it was just a grain; but when it grows, it is a vibrant, lively, tender green sprout that is entirely different from its original shape. This tender green sprout continues to dispense life, gradually grows up to bring forth the stem, branches, and leaves, and eventually blossoms and bears fruit. This is altogether a matter of the dispensing of life.
People in Christianity today have not seen this matter clearly. They see the Lord Jesus only as the almighty Lord, who could rise from the dead even though He was killed. Furthermore, after resurrection He ascended into the heavens to be seated on the throne, where no one could touch Him. This is the great Christ whom they know. On the one hand, the Bible tells us that He truly is great — He is the King of kings and Lord of lords. On the other hand, however, the Bible tells us that Christ wants to be our life. The aspect of Christ being great can easily be seen. Everyone who reads the Bible can see it. However, the aspect of Christ being life is rarely seen. Almost everybody in Christianity is in darkness with respect to this matter of God being man’s life; there is no one who speaks about this. I was born into Christianity, grew up in Christianity, was educated in Christianity, and was nurtured in Christianity. I do not know how many sermons I heard, yet I never heard the matter of Christ being man’s life.
First Corinthians 15:45b says, “The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.” The Lord Jesus was God, the Word who was God from the beginning. This Word became flesh to be the last Adam. He was incarnated and had blood and flesh to be our redeeming Lord. If He had not been incarnated, being without blood and flesh, He could not die for us, and even more He could not shed His blood for us. Praise the Lord, He had flesh and blood so that He could die for us and shed real human blood to redeem us from sin! Praise the Lord, this is what the last Adam accomplished for us! Then He rested, and people buried Him in a new tomb hewn in the rock. After God finished the work of creation, He rested. Now again the Lord rested after accomplishing the work of redemption on the cross.
Not long after His death on the cross, the Lord resurrected. At the time He was raised from the dead, He was like a grain that had died in the earth and grown up in a different shape. This shape is a life shape, a life-giving shape. First Corinthians 15, which is a chapter on resurrection, speaks of a grain being sown into the ground and growing into another shape. Then it speaks of the last Adam as such a grain resurrecting from the dead to become a “tender sprout,” which is the life-giving Spirit. After a grain is sown into the earth, it dies and then grows up to be a tender sprout. This tender sprout supplies life so that the wheat can become fully grown and bear fruit a hundredfold.
The Lord said, “Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (John 12:24). We are the “much fruit,” the many grains. He became the life-giving Spirit to impart life into us as the many grains. When we as the many grains are joined together, we become one bread, one Body, which is the church. Therefore, the issue of His death and resurrection as the one grain is the church. The church is produced by Christ in His becoming the life-giving Spirit. This life-giving Spirit is signified by the tender sprout. Once the tender sprout grows up, it begins to impart life. As a result, many grains are brought forth to become the Body of Christ, the church. If you see this light, you will then realize that the theology taught in Christianity concerning the Trinity is very shallow. Christian teachers speak about the Lord and the Holy Spirit as if the two were unrelated. However, if you see the light in 1 Corinthians 15, you will realize that Christ and the Spirit are related and that They are two yet one. When Christ was the last Adam, He walked, stayed, and lived with the disciples. After passing through death and resurrection, He became the life-giving Spirit. This life-giving Spirit is “the Spirit” in the New Testament. Before Christ’s death and resurrection the Spirit was not yet, as mentioned in John 7:39. However, after His death and resurrection there was the Spirit. Today the fact that we can be regenerated and become the many grains to be the Body of Christ is a result of the dispensing of life by the life-giving Spirit.
In John 14 the Lord Jesus told the disciples not to be troubled by His going; rather, they should rejoice because in not more than seventy-two hours, He would come again. However, when the Lord came back, He was no longer that seed. When He came again, He had become the tender sprout, which is the life-giving Spirit. When He came back, He entered into the disciples. At this time He was not only among them but was even in them. However, whether the Lord could spread in them, whether He could abide and expand in them, depended on whether they were willing to abide in the Lord. Therefore, in the next chapter He said, “Abide in Me and I in you” (15:4).
It is by our abiding in the Lord that we give the Lord the opportunity to spread Himself within us. When we abide in the Lord, the Lord abides in us. For example, if someone brings me to his house, when I go in, I can only say that I am “in” his house. Whether I can remain there hinges totally on whether he welcomes me. If you invite me over for a meal, it will take two and a half hours at the most to finish the meal. Afterward you can rightfully say, “It is late; please go home to rest.” Whether or not I stay depends on your attitude. Therefore, in John 14:23 the Lord said, “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.”
In John 14 it is first “in” and then “abide.” Verse 20 says, “In that day [that is, the day of the Lord’s resurrection] you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.” Here the word is only “in” and not “abide.” But in verse 23 there is the thought of abiding — to “make an abode.” Today Christians often speak about the Lord being in them. They treasure His being in them. However, the Bible shows us that the Lord’s being in them is the initial stage; first it is “in” and then “abide.” First, He is in you, and then if you love Him, He will abide in you. The Lord has come, and He is in you to be with you. However, if you do not love Him, how can He abide in you? If you love Him and keep His word, then His Father and He will come to you to abide with you. Whether or not the Lord abides with you depends upon your attitude and response. You should have the response that you love Him and keep His word. The One you love is the Lord Jesus, and the words that you obey are His words, but it is amazing that eventually the Father comes because of your love. Are They — the Father and the Son — two or one? The Lord Jesus never said that He and the Father are two. He said, “I and the Father are one” (10:30). Here it does not say that the Lord and the Father are united to be one. In the Gospel of John we cannot see that the Lord and the Father are joined, united, to be one. Rather, the Gospel of John shows us again and again that the Lord and the Father are one.
John 14 shows us that first there is “in,” and then there is “abide.” In chapter 15 the Lord Jesus explained this with an illustration. He said, “I am the vine; you are the branches” (v. 5). With respect to the life within, the branches are abiding in the vine. The branches’ abiding in the vine is the condition for the vine’s abiding in the branches. It is not that the vine abides in the branches and then the branches can abide in the vine. The vine’s abiding in the branches is not the requirement for the branches’ abiding in the vine. Rather, the branches’ abiding in the vine is the requirement for the vine’s abiding in the branches. After His death and resurrection the Lord became the life-giving Spirit, and in John 20 He came to breathe into the disciples, saying, “Receive the Holy Spirit” (v. 22). From that time on, the Lord was in them.
Today the Lord is truly in us. However, whether the Lord can abide in us depends on our response. Do we love Him? Do we cooperate with Him? Is it what He says that counts, or what we say? If what we say counts, then it is finished. If what He says counts, then it is wonderful. If we love Him and keep His word, His Father will come with Him not only to be in us but also to abide in us.
To be “in” is different from to “abide.” In John 15 the Lord said, “Abide in Me and I in you” (v. 4). This is a mutual abiding. However, most of us Christians understand this mutual abiding as dwelling together. Husbands and wives dwell together, but we are mutually abiding with the Lord. It is not enough to dwell with the Lord; what God wants is mutual abiding. This is something many Christians have not seen. In our concept it is either walking with the Lord or being with the Lord, while dwelling with the Lord is somewhat better, and living with the Lord is even better. What Christians have seen are walking with, being with, dwelling with, and living with. Our natural concept does not exceed “with.” However, what the Bible tells us is not only walking with, being with, dwelling with, or living with, but even more it is mutually abiding in. If we walk with the Lord, we are with Him; if we are with Him, we dwell with Him; if we dwell with Him, we live with Him; and if we live with Him, we have the mutual abiding with Him. Our living with the Lord depends on our dwelling with Him; our dwelling with Him follows our being with Him, and our being with Him requires our walking with Him. In the Old Testament there is walking with God. In the New Testament we see that there is being with the Lord. First, there is being with the Lord; then there is dwelling with the Lord. This dwelling with the Lord must reach the point of mutual abiding.
Mutual abiding means that we abide in the Lord and the Lord abides in us. The Lord Jesus wants to mutually abide with us. Without the mutual abiding, the Lord is not satisfied. How then can we abide in the Lord, and how can He abide in us? This is the most central and mysterious teaching in the Bible, yet it has been the most neglected by Christians. The Bible contains many words on the surface. We often illustrate this with chicken feathers and garlic husks. Chicken feathers are not good to eat, and garlic husks are undesirable. However, without feathers the chicken cannot survive, and without husks the garlic cannot grow. The garlic must have husks to grow properly, and for the chicken to grow well, it must have full feathers. When you buy a chicken, you must first examine the feathers. If the feathers are scraggly, do not buy the chicken, because it will not be a good one. A chicken can be good only if it has good feathers; good feathers are a guarantee of a good chicken. Eventually, however, no one will eat the chicken feathers. If you invite me to eat chicken, you would not give me a plate of chicken feathers to eat. We northerners love to eat garlic, but you would not give me a pile of garlic husks to eat. That would be an insult to me. Similarly, the vine spoken of in the Bible has a main stalk and supplementary branches and leaves.
Ephesians 5 says that we must be filled in spirit (v. 18) and not just filled but even overflowing with all the fullness of God. When we are filled unto all the fullness of God, what overflows may be a “chicken feather,” such as wives submitting to their husbands, or it may be a layer of “garlic husks,” such as husbands loving their wives. However, in reality it is the fullness of God that has filled us and has saturated our entire being so that we overflow God. As a result, the wives spontaneously submit to their husbands, and the husbands spontaneously love their wives. How can garlic grow without a husk? Christianity has concentrated on details but has forgotten the main objective. Instead of speaking about God’s filling, their talk is about loving the wives and submitting to the husbands. This is the condition of many Christians today. They do not know the truth, nor do they know the reality of the Spirit; they teach people religion with the husks and feathers of the Bible.
The Lord’s economy, which is entirely different from Christianity, is to dispense the Lord Himself into us not only to be our life but also to be our everything, thereby causing us to be filled with Him. After we are filled, what flows out from within us is God Himself. If you are a wife, then what flows out is submission to your husband. If you submit to your husband, it is not your virtue but the expression of God, the flowing out of God. If you are a husband, what flows out is love for your wife. Your love for your wife is not your characteristic but the overflow of God, the flowing out of God. What the wife overflows is submission; what the husband overflows is love. Whether submission or love, they are the overflow of God Himself.
What is it to abide in the Lord? Our Lord was God, who became man to be the last Adam. Since Adam sinned, there was the need of another Adam to accomplish redemption. The first Adam sinned, but the last Adam came to redeem. Only the last Adam could redeem us, because we are all descendants of Adam. The first Adam sinned, causing all of us little Adams to fall into sin. Hence, the last Adam came to redeem us. However, there are those who do not wish to receive Jesus, but whoever is willing to receive Him will be redeemed. We thank and praise the Lord that here today we all are willing and we have received Him; thus, we have been saved. As our last Adam, He has redeemed us.
In this respect Christianity is right. However, Christianity is not willing to go on and see that this last Adam has now become the life-giving Spirit. He is not only the last Adam; even more He has become the life-giving Spirit. The last Adam is for redemption, whereas the life-giving Spirit is for dispensing life. His redemption on the cross is objective to us, but His dispensing of life must be subjective to us. Thus, as the life-giving Spirit, He entered into us. Second Timothy 4:22 says, “The Lord be with your spirit.” Today the Lord is in our spirit. Romans 8:9 says, “If indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.” Then it goes on to say, “Yet if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him.” We have Christ; therefore, we belong to Christ and we are joined to Christ. Then verse 10 says, “But if Christ is in you.” These few verses first mention the Spirit of God, then the Spirit of Christ, and then Christ. Never think that these three are three different ones. Rather, these three all refer to the same One. The Spirit of God is the Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of Christ is Christ. After reading the entire context, you will see that today our God, our Savior Christ, is the consummated Spirit.
If the Lord Jesus had not gone through death and resurrection, there would not be the “story” of the life-giving Spirit. If He had not gone through death and resurrection, there would only be the story of the last Adam. If God had not become flesh, there would not be the story of the last Adam; there would only be the story of God. God is in three stages: before His incarnation He was the story of God; after He was incarnated to be a man, He was the story of the last Adam; and after His death and resurrection He became the story of the Spirit.
However, it is sad that today Christianity receives Christ only in certain aspects. One is the aspect of His being God before He became flesh. Another is the aspect of His being the last Adam in His becoming flesh to be a man. They also receive Christ in the aspects of His being our Savior in His death and resurrection, in His ascension to the heavens, and in His being seated on the throne. However, Christ did not stop there. Through death and resurrection He became the life-giving Spirit. Today our Savior has been consummated to be the Spirit. After His resurrection He remains in resurrection and has entered into us. He is in resurrection and is living in us. This is altogether a story of the Spirit. Today He is the Spirit. This is not another Spirit that is apart from God. God is Spirit, and the Lord Jesus became the life-giving Spirit, but this is not to say that the Spirit of God and the life-giving Spirit are two different Spirits. The two Spirits are one Spirit. Not only so, the Triune God has the aspect of being the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but this is not to say that God is Spirit and that the Holy Spirit is another Spirit.
God is Spirit, and from eternity He is Spirit. The title the Spirit of God appears as early as Genesis 1:2. There it says that the Spirit of God was brooding upon the surface of the waters. According to essence, God is Spirit. However, although God was Spirit before His incarnation, He had no relationship with man and had no story of man. First of all, one day God was born into Mary through the Holy Spirit. After the conception was completed, He with the human nature was born to be a God-man, possessing both divinity and humanity. At that time the Bible began to use the title the Holy Spirit for the Spirit of God. The title the Holy Spirit was not used until the Lord Jesus was conceived to be born. This title was not used in the Old Testament. The first record of the Spirit of God is in Genesis 1; the first record of the Holy Spirit is in Matthew 1. Matthew 1 shows us that this One who was conceived in the womb of Mary and born of her was of the Holy Spirit. He is sinless and holy; He is the Holy One. From this time the Spirit of God began to have a relationship with man.
The Lord lived and worked on earth for thirty-three and a half years, and eventually He died on the cross to accomplish redemption. Then He was resurrected from the dead to become the life-giving Spirit. Before God was incarnated, He was Spirit. Even after He became flesh, He still could not be reckoned as the life-giving Spirit. For God to dispense life into man is not simple. He needed to go through many processes. As the divine Spirit, He could not directly and suddenly come into man to give man life. There were still many problems in man, many problems that had not been solved. God had to first become man, pass through human living, and go to the cross to deal with all of man’s problems, such as sin, the world, Satan, the flesh, and the old creation. If these problems were not dealt with and terminated, God could not dispense life into man. Suppose you want to put something into a vessel. If the vessel is dirty, you must first wash and even sterilize it; otherwise, the contents placed in the vessel will be contaminated. If God did not deal with all our problems, He could not dispense Himself as life into us. Even though God is Spirit, without going through incarnation, death, and resurrection He would have no way of dispensing life into us. It was only through His incarnation, death, and resurrection that He could deal with all the problems. Hence, it was at the completion of all these processes that He became the life-giving Spirit. He is not merely the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit but the life-giving Spirit. He advanced from being the Spirit of God to being the Holy Spirit, and then from being the Holy Spirit to being the life-giving Spirit. These are not three Spirits but one Spirit. By this time He had not only accomplished creation as the Spirit of God, He had not only accomplished redemption through the Holy Spirit, but even more He as the life-giving Spirit had consummated God’s new creation, which is the church.
In this consummation God is the life-giving Spirit. Today we are all in God’s new creation, which is the church. This does not mean that we are not the created ones, nor does it mean that we have not been redeemed. Rather, it means that we have gone through creation and redemption and are now in the new creation, which is the church. What we need here is the life-giving Spirit. This life-giving Spirit is the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. Today this life-giving Spirit is the Triune God. Romans 8:10 says, “Christ is in you,” and 2 Timothy 4:22 says, “The Lord be with your spirit.” The Lord who is in us is the life-giving Spirit. This life-giving Spirit is the Triune God Himself, but this is not the God who had not gone through incarnation, death, and resurrection. Because He has gone through incarnation, death, and resurrection, He is now in us as the One who has been processed. In Genesis 1 He had not gone through the process, but today in the Epistles in the New Testament, He is a processed God. He is the Triune God who has passed through incarnation, death, and resurrection. Today He is the life-giving Spirit dwelling in our spirit.
The Triune God was incarnated, passed through human living, died on the cross to accomplish redemption, and entered into resurrection to become the life-giving Spirit. Today He enters into us to abide in our spirit with all that He has, all that He has gone through, all that He has accomplished, and all that He is. We must remember that He abides in us and that He very much desires that we abide in Him. Therefore, every day from morning to evening, in big things or in small things, in our home or outside our home, and in all our living and actions we must abide in Him. When we want to speak to others, unless we have the assurance that we are abiding in Him, we should not speak. We speak only when we have the assurance that we are abiding in Him. We speak from within Him, not outside of Him. Before we argue with others, we must examine to see if we are abiding in the Lord. We must first abide in the Lord and then argue. The Lord is already abiding in us; so before we do anything, we must first abide in the Lord. We act after we are abiding securely. It is easy to speak about abiding in the Lord, but it is not easy to live this out. Therefore, we must learn to practice abiding in the Lord in our daily life.
The secret to abiding in the Lord is first to see that our Lord was God and therefore had the stories of God. Then He became flesh to be the last Adam and thereby had the stories of the last Adam. After this, He accomplished redemption through death and resurrection to become the life-giving Spirit, so He has the stories of the life-giving Spirit. Today He is abiding in our spirit. At this time He abides in us not only as God but also as man, as One who passed through all the experiences of human living and who died and resurrected. Not only so, He is also the Spirit. In this Spirit there are the element of man, the element of God, and the elements of incarnation, human living, death, and resurrection. Now He wants us also to abide in Him. Before we do anything in our daily living and walk, we must first abide in Him. We abide and then live; we abide and then walk. All our living and our walk must be expressed in this abiding, in which all our problems are gone. In this abiding, He as the indwelling, all-inclusive Spirit solves all our problems, eliminates our preferences, and kills our lusts.
Prior to 1958 I preached very much about the cross and also about resurrection. Then in 1958 I saw further that although there is nothing wrong with preaching the cross, without the Spirit it is vain. Resurrection also is real, but without the Spirit, even the preaching of resurrection is vain. I am not saying that we do not want the preaching of the cross or that we do not want the cross; nor am I saying that we do not want the preaching of resurrection or that we do not want resurrection. Rather, I am saying that it is useless to preach the empty word of the cross. Many people know the word of the cross yet live a defeated life. They even lie and do harm to others. Where is the cross? Where is resurrection? Dear brothers and sisters, what we need is this all-inclusive Spirit, the One who has gone through death and resurrection to become the life-giving Spirit. In Him is God; in Him is our Savior; in Him is the killing effect of the cross; and, even more, in Him is the power of resurrection.
Hence, we must abide in this Spirit. This Spirit today is in our spirit, and in Him there are different elements, including the killing effect of the cross and the power of resurrection. Thus, when we abide in Him, He kills our natural being, our flesh, our lusts, and our desires. As an illustration, your hands are covered with germs, but you may have a bottle of antiseptic solution. If you put your hands in the solution and allow them to abide there for five minutes, your hands will be clean. The preaching of disinfectants cannot kill the germs, nor can you shake off the germs from your hands. Only one thing will work, which is to let your hands abide for a while in the antiseptic solution. Before you do anything, you must abide for a while in your spirit. After you abide there for half a minute, all the “poison” will be killed.
If you are not in the Spirit, the word of the cross and of resurrection will be useless. It is this all-inclusive Spirit that contains the all-killing effect of the cross. It is this powerful Spirit that contains the power of resurrection. You must abide in Him for a while. If you abide for half an hour, you will be soaked with the Lord. If you abide for half an hour and then go to reason with others, your reasoning will be gone. The power of the Lord’s resurrection and also the effect of His death will have killed your natural reasoning. Having been saturated with the power of resurrection, you will have the ability to humble yourself and apologize to others instead. This is the Lord’s salvation. This is what Philippians 1:19 says: “This will turn out to salvation through...the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.” This is the bountiful supply of God as the all-inclusive Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus Christ. When you abide in Him, you are soaked with Him. When you abide in Him, you give Him the condition to abide in you. Thus, you will enjoy all His riches.
In summary, first, you must know that today your Savior is this Spirit abiding in you. Second, before you do anything in your daily living and walk, you must abide in Him. The Lord said that He will abide in the one who abides in Him. If you abide in Him, you will enjoy His salvation and all His riches.
