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express Him. What love this is! In the same way, the Father has also loved the Son's believers by giving them His life, His nature, His fullness, and His glory that they might express Him in the Son. This is a story of love as well as of glory. Not many of us appreciate this love, the love in giving us the Father's life, nature, fullness, and glory to express Him. This is real love. It is much better and much higher than anything else.

THE BELIEVERS WITH THE SON

WHERE HE IS

Verse 24 says, "Father, I desire that those whom You have given Me may also be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me, for You have loved Me before the foundation of the world." The Son is in the divine glory for the Father's expression. Therefore, if the Son's believers are to be with Him where He is, they must be with Him in the divine glory to express the Father. The fulfillment of this began with the Son's resurrection, when He brought His believers into participation in His resurrected life, and it will consummate in the New Jeru salem, when His believers will be fully brought into the divine glory for the ultimate corporate expression of the Triune God for eternity.

We are where the Son is. The Son is in the Father, and we also are in the Father. The Son is in the Father's glory, and we also are in the Father's glory. The Son went through death and resurrec tion that we might share the Father's life, nature, fullness, and glory, expressing the Father with Him in the very place where He is. This is marvelous! The Son is in glory for the Father's expression, and the believers will also be in glory for the corporate expression of the Triune God for eternity. To me, this is vastly greater than going to heaven. Even tually, the New Jerusalem will come down out of heaven (Rev. 21:2). I do not want to be in an empty heaven; I want to be in the New Jerusalem, in the glorious corporate expression of the Triune God.

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