John 17:23 I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me. (26) And I have made Your name known to them and will yet make it known, that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them.
Here we see the Father's love shown toward the Son as well as toward the Son's believers. The Father has loved the Son in that He has given the Son His life, His nature, His fullness, and His glory to express Him. What love this is! In the same way, the Father has also loved the Son's believers by giving them His life, His nature, His fullness, and His glory that they might express Him in the Son. This is a story of love as well as of glory. Not many of us appreciate this love, the love in giving us the Father's life, nature, fullness, and glory to express Him. This is real love. It is much better and much higher than anything else. The world neither knows the Father nor wants to know Him, but the Son and the Son's believers do. The Father is righteous in loving the Son and His believers, giving His glory both to the Son and to His believers. The Father will reveal nothing regarding life to the worldly people because they do not know the Father. However, the Father has revealed everything concerning life to the Lord Jesus and to His believers because the Lord and His believers know the Father. Along with the Son's abiding in His believers, this love may also abide in them, and that they may always have the sense of this love by knowing the name Father.
Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry from Witness Lee, Life-Study of John, pp. 490-492. Both are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA. Please visit us at www.emanna.com. Send comments to: [email protected].
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