Oneness in God with Each Other

Oneness

John

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Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

At that day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

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3306 meno Abide

1) to remain, abide

a) in reference to place

1) to sojourn, tarry

2) not to depart

a) to continue to be present

b) to be held, kept, continually

b) in reference to time

1) to continue to be, not to perish, to last, endure

a) of persons, to survive, live

c) in reference to state or condition

1) to remain as one, not to become another or different

2) to wait for, await one

25 agapao Love

1) of persons

a) to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly

2) of things

a) to be well pleased, to be contented at or with a thing

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

5384 philos Friends

1) friend, to be friendly to one, wish him well

a) a friend

b) an associate

c) he who associates familiarly with one, a companion

d) one of the bridegroom's friends who on his behalf asked the hand of the bride and rendered him various services in closing the marriage and celebrating the nuptials

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

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And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we [are]

1520 heis One

1) one

And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

2531 kathos As

1) according as

a) just as, even as

b) in proportion as, in the degree that

2) since, seeing that, agreeably to the fact that

3) when, after that

And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare [it]: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

Please read all of John 13 - 17 for the full context of these passages. The question that remains is complex. What does it mean for Jesus to be One with God, what does it mean for us to be One with Him, and what does it mean for us to be One with each other?

Jesus said to Love each other. He also said to keep His commandments. We know that the whole "law" is summed up by loving our neighbors as ourselves, and we know that the greatest commandments are to love God and love each other. So what does it mean to love each God and love each other? The "pat" answer is "the 1st 4 commandments (of 10) are about loving God, and the last 6 are about loving each other." But is that all? Not according to Paul. He gave us a number of "love chapters." I challenge you to find them all and read them through, and see what God says to you personally about that. Also, it might be fun to check out what the Bible says about the fruits of the Spirit, and instead of trying to force yourself to have them, just ask God to give them to you and then Trust that He'll do so, in His own Time and Way.