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also His disciples' Father, and His God is also their God. Through His resurrection, they have received both the Father's life and God's divine nature. By making them His brothers, He has imparted the Father's life and God's divine na ture into them. By making His Father and His God theirs, He has brought them into His posi tion—the Son's position—before the Father and God that they might participate in His Father and God in resurrection. Thus, in life and nature inwardly and in position outwardly, His broth ers are the same as He is. Inwardly we have the reality, and outwardly we have the position. The Father is not only the Father of the Lord Him self; He is also the Father of the disciples. Hence forth, all the disciples are sons of God. We are the same as the Firstborn, and He is the same as we are. This is the church in His resurrection. Praise Him!

Why did the Lord tell Mary that He was ascending to the Father and to God? On the one hand, the Lord is the Son of God; therefore, He will see the Father in the Person of the Son. On the other hand, He is still the Son of Man; there fore, He will see God in the person of man. We also are men on one hand and sons of God on the other. Since we are men, God is God to us;

since we are the sons of God, God is also the Father to us. At this very moment, because we are both men and sons of God, we have both God and the Father. All the disciples, as human beings, have become brothers to the Lord and sons to the Father because they have received the same life as the Lord. This is the revelation which Mary brought to the Lord's brothers.

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