Section 4
this is the situation, how can we be one? Once we were separated into various worldly places, but now, having come home, we may still have trou ble with the self. For this reason, we must not live by our own life but by the life of glory, the divine life. After we have been regenerated, we must be sanctified, and after we have been sanctified, we must be glorified. In other words, after we have the life of God, we must give up the world, and after we give up the world, we must forsake ourselves and live by the divine life. Then, in the glory of this life, we shall be one. Hence, there are three grounds or steps of the oneness of the be lievers: regeneration, sanctification, and glorifi cation. Having God as our Father by regeneration is the first step; coming to the Triune God by separation from the world through the holy word is the second step; and living by the divine life of glory through denying ourselves is the third step. It is in the very application and realization of the divine life of glory that we shall all be one.
THREE THINGS GIVEN BY THE SON
TO HIS BELIEVERS
In order that the believers might participate in this oneness, the Son has given them three things: the eternal life for the first aspect of