I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. John 10:10
Remember –
"In Him was life" (John 1:4).
Is He different in nature from
other men? Everyone can see that He is different from other men in His very
nature, and the difference is made by this Life that is in Him. This Life
brings with it a new and different consciousness. Look at the Lord Jesus! What
was His real consciousness? This was a thing about which He was always
speaking, and it was so very evident in His case. He said: "I and the Father are one" (John
10:30); "I do always
the things that are pleasing to Him" (the Father) (John
8:29); "The works
that I do in My Father's name" (John 10:25). Oh, this
word "Father" in John's Gospel!
The consciousness of Jesus Christ every day was of His union
with His Father, the oneness that existed between them: "As Thou, Father, art in Me, and I
in Thee" (John 17:21). The consciousness of the Lord
Jesus was of the very closest union with God as His Father, and that was
because the very life of God was in Him. His life was a God-conscious life; but
God-consciousness in the sense of perfect oneness. And that is what it means to
have this Life. Man never had that. Jesus came to bring it in His own person:
not to talk about union with God, but to live out a life of union with God and
to bring His disciples into the same union. "I came that they might have life" –
in other words: "I am come that they may have the same consciousness of
God as Father that I have and that they may have the same Divine nature in them
as I have."
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