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to be. God is back in the man! He’s the God-man. The Lord Jesus
is God with us!

So, now God says, “Let me show you what it looks like to be a man
as I planned man to be.” Man had lost his connection, his union
with God. So, God sent His Son to live as a man as God intended
man to be. I want to show you what that looks like from the lips of
Jesus; His own testimony. This is what it looked like when Christ
lived as God intended man to live.

I want to start with John 17:22&23, “And the glory which Thou hast
given Me I have given to them; that they may be one, just as We are
one; 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.” When He prayed that prayer,
He was only hours from going to the cross. He’s thanking His
Father for the provision that He had to live on earth. He describes
it saying, “You gave me glory. 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 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