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"Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves." (John 14:11, NASB)When Christ deprived Himself of being God, He entered the humble state of "being" man. There was something He possessed, making it proper to say that He was "in the form of God," which He laid aside when appearing in the form of a servant and in the likeness of human beings. This "something" was the Father; the Father was in Him. The Greek definition of "in" is "one" or same "being." Jesus said in John 14:11, "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves" (NASB).
In any case, be assured that His ability to perform "acts of the Father" is not of His moral qualities. Nor, is there any conceivable sense that He deprived Himself of the power of working miracles, so that He might take upon Himself the "form of a servant." He maintained both elements of His humble state. All the miracles He performed when He maintained the form of a servant, or in His lowly and humble condition, were performed by the power of God (Life of God), which was in Him.
Once we accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, He implants the Holy Spirit (Life of God) inside of us, then places us in Him, and hides Himself in the Father (Col. 3:3). John 14:20 reveals this: "In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you."
This is why, after Salvation, we believing human beings are able to accomplish supernatural acts such as "casting out demons," and "healing the sick." By going through the process in John 14:20, we inherit all the same attributes of Christ Himself, except one important quality -- being God.
We, of course, cannot fully understand the manifestation of God's glory that He may generate in the heavenly world -- at least on this side of Salvation. Nothing forbids us, however, to suppose that we are given partial visibility to the manifestations, i.e. some splendor and magnificence of God in the view of the Great Sovereign of the universe.
"He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen." (1 Tim. 6:15-16. NASB).
The Lord Jesus possessed God's glory (visible manifestation or splendor), indicating the nature of God, before his incarnation, and maintained it throughout His divine earthly ministry. This is truly worthy of an Amen!
Dr. Stephen R. Phinney
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