Friday

Related Verses
John 12:23-24
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24 Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

John 14:16-18
16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may be with you forever,
17 Even the Spirit of reality, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him; but you know Him, because He abides with you and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.

Rom. 8:28-30
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
29 Because those whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers;
30 And those whom He predestinated, these He also called; and those whom He called, these He also justified; and those whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Related Reading
Christ’s humanity through His incarnation became a shell to conceal the glory of His divinity. Instead of the words His humanity, it is perhaps better to use the expression His flesh, for John 1:14 tells us that the very God became flesh…Christ’s divinity is itself the divine glory. Just as God is light, divinity is glory. When Christ was in the flesh, in His humanity, His flesh was a shell that concealed His divinity and thereby concealed His glory.

Because the divine glory was concealed within the shell of His flesh, it was necessary for Him to be glorified. In John 12:23 He said, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.” In 17:1 He prayed, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son that the Son may glorify You.” In verse 5 He went on to say, “Now, glorify Me along with Yourself, Father, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.” (CWWL, 1994–1997, vol. 5, “The Issue of Christ Being Glorified by the Father with the Divine Glory,” pp. 318-319)

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While the glory of His divinity was concealed by the shell of His flesh or humanity, the Lord Jesus was pressed and constrained, longing to be baptized with the baptism of His death for the release of the glory of His divinity…If the Lord Jesus as a grain of wheat had not died, He would have remained the same…His incarnation caused His divine glory to be concealed in His flesh, but through His death His glory was released for the producing in His resurrection of the many grains, which become His increase as the expression of His glory.

Just before He was about to be crucified, the Lord Jesus prayed not that the Father would resurrect Him but that the Father would glorify Him…The Father answered this prayer for glorification by resurrecting the Lord Jesus…Resurrection is for glorification. Resurrection is the cause, and glorification is the effect, the result…Such a glorification is a transfer, transferring Christ from the stage of His incarnation into the stage of His inclusion, in which He, as the last Adam, became the life-giving Spirit in resurrection.

God’s glorification of Christ transferred Christ from one stage to another stage. He was in the first stage, the stage of incarnation, but He was transferred out of that stage into the second stage, the stage of inclusion. In the stage of inclusion He, as the last Adam, became the life-giving Spirit in resurrection.

Christ’s glorification produced an issue—an incorporation…God’s desire in His economy is to have a unique incorporation. This is His universal concern…God’s intention is to incorporate Himself with all the believers of Christ into one incorporation. The three of the Divine Trinity are an incorporation by coinhering mutually and by working together as one. This means that the three of the Divine Trinity are an incorporation by what They are and by what They do. This is the beginning of the universal incorporation, an incorporation that started with God Himself. God’s intention is that all the believers of Christ would be incorporated into His incorporation to be an enlarged incorporation. This enlarged incorporation is unveiled in John 14:16-20…This incorporation is the issue of Christ’s glorification.

In John 14 we have the Father’s house; in John 15, the Son’s vine; and in John 16, the child born of the Spirit. The house of the Father, the true vine of the Son, and the child of the Spirit are the three different aspects of the universal incorporation as the issue of Christ’s glorification. (CWWL, 1994–1997, vol. 5, “The Issue of Christ Being Glorified by the Father with the Divine Glory,” pp. 320-321, 327, 335-336, 341-342)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1994–1997, vol. 5, “The Issue of Christ Being Glorified by the Father with the Divine Glory,” chs. 1—6