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The glory you gave Me, I give them.” What glory is that? It’s
not His essential glory. In eternity, He is God. He was glorified.
The Father didn’t give Him that. He’s had that glory; He’s God.

Let me illustrate this. Revelation 21:23, “And the city
has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine upon it, for the
glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.” Why
doesn’t heaven need the light of the sun and of the moon? It’s
because Christ went back to heaven and got the glory that He
used to have. Let me ask this question; when Jesus lived on the
earth, did we need the sun and the moon? The answer is yes
because He set aside the manifestation of that glory. But there is
another glory and that enabled Him to live like a man.

John 17:21 explains what that glory is, “..that they may
all be one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that
they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that Thou
didst send Me.” The same truth is in John 17:23, “I in them, and
thou in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, that the world
may know that Thou didst send Me, and didst love them, even as
Thou didst love Me.” He said that the glory You have given Me
is My union with You; that we’re One and that they’ll be One as
We are One.

John 1:14, “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt
among us, and we behold His glory..” That glory, said simply,
the glory that gave Jesus the provision to live, was the Father
Himself. The Father gave Himself to the Son, so that He could
live as a man. These verses from the lips of Jesus explain the life
He lived. John 8:28&29, “Jesus therefore said, ‘When you lift
up the son of Man, then you know that I am He, and I do nothing
on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught
Me.” It’s an amazing truth that Jesus said, “I do nothing on My
own initiative.”

John 6:38, “For I have come down from heaven, not to do
My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.” He said, “I do
not seek My own will; I seek My Father’s will.” We know from
Gethsemane in Matthew 26:39, that He didn’t want His own will,