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But there is another glory which 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, “And He went a
        little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, ‘My
        Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will,
        but as Thou wilt.’”  Jesus said, “I do nothing on My own.  I do not
        seek My own will.”  John 10:37&38, “If I do not do the works of
        My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do them, though you do not
        believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and understand
        that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.’”

        We say that Jesus did many miracles.  He didn’t do any miracles!
        The Father did them! Listen to John 14:10, “Do you not believe that
        I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me?  The words that I say to
        you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in
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