Releasing The Divine Life
RELEASING THE DIVINE LIFE
It was also by His death that the Lord was glorified and glorified God the Father. In John 12:23 the Lord said, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified," and in verse 28 He prayed, "Father, glorify Your name." How was the Lord glorified? He was glorified through death and resurrection because it was through death and resurrection that His divine element was released and manifested. How was God the Father glori fied? It was by the Son's being glorified. When the Son's divine element was released and mani fested through His death and resurrection, the Father's divine life was released and manifested. Thus, the Father was glorified in the Son's glori fication through His death and resurrection. The death and resurrection of the Lord glorified God the Father because His death and resurrection released God's divine element from within Him. God's divine element was confined in His flesh, just as the life element of a grain of wheat is con fined within its shell. How is the life element of a grain glorified? The grain has to die so that the life element within it can be manifested and glo rified. It is the same with God's divine element.
To glorify the name of the Father was to cause