Oneness In The Divine Glory
ONENESS IN THE DIVINE GLORY
In the prayer recorded in John seventeen the Lord prayed regarding the three factors of the genuine oneness of the believers for their build ing up. The first ground of oneness is regenera tion, receiving the life of the Father (vv. 6-13), and the second ground is sanctification, being sepa rated from everything other than God (vv. 14-21). The world is simply everything outside of God. When we have been separated from everything outside of God to God Himself, then we are on the ground of sanctification, being separated from all worldly places and worldly things unto one center. This one center is the Triune God, the Father in the Son as the Spirit. We have been sanctified unto this very center, and herein is one ness. The third ground of this oneness is even deeper and higher than this. It is the oneness in the manifestation of the divine glory (vv. 22-24). After we have been regenerated, we must be sanc tified by giving up the world, and after being sep arated from the world, we must live, through the