One with Thee, Thou Son eternal

ONENESS IN THE HOLY WORD

John 17:21 is a wonderful, deep, and profound verse: “That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that You have sent Me. ” The oneness in this verse is the oneness in the Triune God. When we all are in the Triune God, we have oneness. How can we be in the Triune God? Only through Christ’s death and resurrection. This is the reason why the Lord told us in chapter 14 that He had to go in death and come in resurrection. It was through death and resurrection that His disciples were brought into the Triune God. In the Triune God is the real, genuine oneness. In chapter 17 we must take verses 17 and 18 along with verse 21 : “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You have sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. ” In verse 17 we have the sanctifying word. Although we are in the Triune God, we may slip out of the Triune God into the world. Thus, we need the sanctifying word to separate us from the world back to the Triune God. Therefore, the second factor of genuine oneness is in the Triune God through sanctification by the holy word.

ONENESS IN THE DIVINE GLORY

The third factor of oneness is found in verse 22 : “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one. ” The third factor of genuine oneness is glory—in the divine glory for the expression of the Triune God. Since the glory which the Father has given to the Son has been given to us by the Son, genuine oneness is in the divine glory. What is glory? Glory is the sonship given to the Son by the Father with the Father’s divine life and nature to express the Father in His fullness. Notice that there are four aspects of glory: sonship, the Father’s life, the Father’s divine nature, and the expression of the Father in His fullness. These four things together equal the glory. This is the glory, which is a divine right and privilege, that we have in the Son. The Father has given this glory to the Son, and the Son is privileged to express the Father in this way. This is the very glory which has been given to us by the Son. Today we all have the sonship with the Father’s life and nature to express the Father in all His fullness in the Son. We need to become very familiar with these points, for it is in this divine glory that we are truly one.

Verse 23 continues, “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. ” Here we see that being perfected into oneness still pertains to being in the Father and in the Son. If we take care of all these verses, then we will be able to see real oneness.

In verse 24 the Lord said, “Father, concerning that which You have given Me, I desire that they also may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory, which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. ” The Lord was in the divine glory and prayed that all whom the Father had given Him would also be with Him in glory. We need to pay close attention to the tenses of some of the verbs in this verse. Here it does not say that they “will be with Me” or that “they will behold My glory. ” According to the natural, religious concept, glory is in the future, in “the sweet by-and-by. ” According to this concept, in “the sweet by-and-by” the glory will shine, and we all will come into that shining and be in glory. But the Lord Jesus did not use the future tense but the present tense, saying, “I desire that they also may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory. ” The Lord said “also may be” and “may behold My glory. ” Being with the Lord in glory and beholding His glory are not for “the sweet by-and-by”; we may experience them today. The Lord seemed to be telling the Father, “Father, You have given Me Your glory, the sonship with the divine life and nature to express You and Your fullness. This is the glory which You have given Me, and I am now in this glory. But those whom You have given Me are not yet in this glory. I pray that they also may be in this glory. ” When was this prayer answered? It was first answered on the day of resurrection and second on the day the church was raised up. When the church was raised up, all the disciples were brought into that same glory, into the sonship with the divine life and the divine nature to express God the Father in the Son in all His fullness. Hallelujah, we all are in glory with the Son! The Son has the sonship with the divine life and the divine nature to express the Father, and we also have this. Thus, we are now where the Son is—in glory. By this we see that real oneness is in the Triune God through the process of the death and resurrection of the Son.

The first stage of oneness is the oneness of life, the second stage is the oneness of sanctification, and the third stage is the oneness in the glorification of the Triune God. The last stage, the glorification of the Triune God, is simply the manifestation of the Triune God, that is, the glory of sonship. When we come together realizing that we have been regenerated, sanctified, and crucified, then we are one to express God, to manifest God, and to be perfected into the glorification of the Triune God.

Life-study of John

Message 41 (LSM)

ONE AS THE FATHER AND SON ARE ONE

Verses 21 through 23 are representative of the profoundness of this chapter. In verse 21 the Lord prayed, “That they all may be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us. ” What is the oneness spoken of in this verse? What does it mean for us to be one even as the Father is in the Son and the Son is in the Father? Surely this oneness is beyond our understanding. In verse 22 the Lord went on to say, “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one. ” What is the glory which the Father has given to the Son and which the Son has given to us? Furthermore, what does it mean for us to be one even as the Father and the Son are one? Some may think that this oneness is simply a matter of the three persons of the Divine Trinity having no dispute, argument, or dissension. According to this concept of oneness, to be one means to be in harmony and to have no disagreements. Those who understand verse 22 in this way would say that if a good number of believers can come together without argument or dissension, they are one just as the Father and the Son are one.

This understanding of oneness is too superficial. Surely the oneness here is not merely that of individual units coming together in harmony and agreement. Here the Lord said that He has given us the very glory the Father has given Him in order that we may be one in the Father and the Son. This points to a oneness that exists in the divine nature and the Divine Being. The three of the Triune God are one in Their nature and being.

The oneness of the believers in Christ should be essentially the same. The use of the word glory here substantiates this. Because we have received from the Son the very glory He has received from the Father, we may be one even as the Father and the Son are one. This points to a oneness that is not the mere addition of individual units but a oneness that is related to nature and being. Otherwise, the word glory would not be used in this verse. Glory is the very factor of the oneness here. The glory has been given to us in order that we may be one even as the Father and the Son are one. Hence, the glory of the Divine Being is the factor of the oneness among those who believe in Christ.

Verse 23 says, “I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one. ” Once again we see that this is not a mere oneness of addition. The believers are not simply added together to be one. Verse 23 is even stronger than verses 21 and 22 regarding oneness, for it speaks of our being perfected into one. This indicates that we may be one, but our oneness may be just at the beginning stage. It may not have yet grown or reached perfection.

The Genuine Ground of Oneness

Chapter 6 CWWL, 1979, vol. 2 (LSM)

Amen amen - Joined by faith in spirit one, Oslo conference- Lord’s Day

One with Thee, Thou Son eternal,
Joined by faith in spirit one,
Share we in Thy death inclusive
And Thy life, O God the Son.
One with Thee, Thou Son beloved,
Part of Thee become thru grace,
Heirs with Thee of our one Father,
We’re Thy Spirit’s dwelling place.

What a dear Lord we have, we are just one with Him. He is the Son eternal, the Son incarnate, the Son forsaken, and the Son ascended. Praise Him!

What a release and joy when we realise and experience we are in an organic union with our Lord!

How marvellous that every spiritual blessing that our God and Father has granted to us comes through our union / identification with Christ

Eph 2:5-6

Even when we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ and raised us up together with Him and seated us together with Him in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus.

Today, the resurrected and ascended Christ is in the heavenlies. But the wonderful mystery is that we too are with Christ in the heavenlies. We have been raised together with Him and seated together with Him. Christ is not separated from us in the heavens, but we are one with Christ today.

thank You Lord for who You are and what You have done. You passed through all the processes, and made Yourself so available to us. Now, in our spirit, we can join ourselves to be one with the Lord!! Hallelujah!!!!

Being one with the Lord is the meaning of human life.

The music touches me because it is beautiful and rich. The words touch me because it is about real love. How wonderful it is that we can be in His wonderful real beauty and we don´t have to be afraid for anything if we are in the real rich of Love. And even we can see the wonder of Watchman Nee and the talents of Mozart. God was given the human different arts as a tool to tell more in Love. He gave human His talents of real rich and Love and if we are study our talents we can brighten the world of real love in Christ.