Oneness In The Holy Word
ONENESS IN THE HOLY WORD
John 17:21 is a wonderful, deep, and pro found 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 rea son why the Lord told us in chapter fourteen that He had to go in death and come in resur rection. It was through death and resurrection that His disciples were brought into the Triune God. In the Triune God is the real, genuine one ness. We must take John 17:17 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 sanctify ing 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.