Section 2
of the church. The Son of God being thus glori fied, the Father at that time will also be glorified in and through the Son. Therefore, the prayer, "Glorify Your Son that the Son may glorify You," includes and depends upon the matter of the church being regenerated, sanctified, crucified, and united in oneness with the Son of God.
ONENESS IN THE DIVINE LIFE
The Lord's prayer in John 17 unfolds three stages of oneness. Let us pay careful attention to the verses in John 17 that are concerned with oneness. Verse 11 says, "Holy Father, keep them in Your name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are." We see here that oneness is a matter of being kept in the Father's name. The reality of the Father's name is the Father's divine life. Hence, the first factor of genuine oneness is the Father's name with the Father's divine life. This is the life mentioned in 17:2, where the Lord said to the Father that He had given the Son "authority over all flesh, that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him." We must take care of these two verses in order to see the first main factor of genuine oneness.