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the Father (10:30), so He came and worked in the Father's name, that is, in the Father's reality.
As the Son is one with the Father, so, when He was with the believers, He manifested the Father to them in what the Father is. When they saw Him, they saw the Father (14:9). The Father is expressed in Him.
In 17:26 the Lord said, "And I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known." In what way did the Son make the Father's name known to the believers? It was not by teaching but by imparting life into the disciples. The best way to make a father known to a little boy is to impart that father's life into the boy. It is much more dif ficult for an adopted son to know his father than it is for a son who is actually born with a certain man's life. We have the Father's life. Because we are the same in life and nature as the Father is, it is easy for us to know Him. As the Son of the Fa ther, the Lord Jesus came to impart life into us. Since the Father's life has been imparted into us, spontaneously the Father is made known to us by life, not by teaching. In life we know the Father.
THE FATHER'S WORD AND THE FATHER'S WORDS
Verse 6 says, "They have kept Your word," and