Section 2
the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it." Accord ing to the basic truth revealed in John 14 and 15, to be in the Lord's name means to be one with the Lord, to live by the Lord, and to let the Lord live in us. The Lord came in the name of the Father and did things in the Father's name (John 5:43; 10:25). This means that He was one with the Father (John 10:30) and lived because of the Father (John 6:57), and the Father worked in Him (John 14:10). In the Gospels, the Lord as the expression of the Father did things in the Father's name. In the Acts, the disciples as the expression of the Lord did even greater things (John 14:12) in His name. Therefore, to be in the Lord's name means to be one with Him in actuality.
In John 5:43 the Lord Jesus says, "I have come in the name of My Father, and you do not receive Me." The fact that the Lord came in the name of the Father means that He came with the Father and in the Father. When He came, the Father came also. Furthermore, according to John 10:25, the Lord Jesus said, "I told you, and you do not believe; the works which I do in the name of My Father, these testify concerning Me." For the Lord to do works in the name of the Father is to be one with the Father and to do