Section 4
respect to our physical father, for our physical father's reality is his life. If our father had no life to impart into us, he could never have been our fa ther. My father is my father in reality because he has the life which has been imparted into me. The very life which has been imparted into me by him is the reality of his being my father. The word Father must not merely be a title; it must be a reality. The divine life, which is the eternal life, is the reality of the title Father.
THE FATHER
The Father is the source of life. This is indi cated by the Lord's word in John 5:26, which says, "The Father has life in Himself." In the entire Scripture, especially in the Gospel of John, the Father denotes the source of life. Even in a human family, the father is the source of life of that fam ily. As the father of a family is the very source and origin of life, so the name Father reveals the Father as the source of life.
The Father, the source of life, is for the prop agation and multiplication of life. The father of a human family, who is the source of the life of that family, is for the propagation of life. Al though a man may be quite young, as long as he becomes a father with a source of life, he has