The Holy One

“Father.”
“Now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.”
“And all Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine.”
“And now come I to Thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves.”
“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.
“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.”
“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.” (Jn. 17:1,5,10,13,21-23,24,25,26). Do you sense the tenderest intimacy Christ had with His Father?

Jesus was the Most Holy One, the Messiah. (Dan. 9:24,25). He was the Prince of peace, “My Servant, whom I uphold; Mine Elect, in whom My soul delighteth; I have put My Spirit upon Him: He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
“He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His voice to be heard in the street.
“A bruised reed shall He not break, and the smoking flax shall He not quench: He shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
“He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till He have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for His law.” (Is. 42:1-4).

There have been sons of Adam who walked closely with God—Enoch, whose association with His God was so close that “God took him” to Himself; Abraham, who was “called the Friend of God”; Moses, of whom there was not another “whom the Lord knew face to face”; David, a man after God’s own heart; Daniel, a “man greatly beloved”; Paul, who the love of Christ constrained to go everywhere preaching it, etc. and all of them had known a peace that passed all human comprehension.

But none come near the oneness Christ had with His Father. These men were faithful as stewards in all their house; “but Christ as a Son over His own house.” (Heb. 4:6).

Jesus was God’s little boy, His dear Son (Col 1:13); and Christ knew it. He was the “tender plant” who would grow up under His Father’s purview. Though burdened down with the government upon His shoulders, from the dawning of His intelligence, it rejoiced Him in knowing that the full attention of God, His Father, was continually upon Him. No earthly parent could love Him deeper and yearn for Him more profoundly.

No other relationship in the entire universe is so deep and full. The 40 days Moses spent on Mt. Sinai needing nothing to eat or drink was a type of the relationship the Son of God has had with His King since the days of eternity.

When Jesus prayed in verse 5, “O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was,” He was stating the happiness He had had, His soul knit with His Father’s, since before time began.

In the eons before intelligent creation came into existence, the tight bond was known between divine Father and His only divine Son, “whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.” (Mic. 5:2). From the deep timelessness before time, the mutual love of the heavenly Duo was compact more tightly than the covalent bonds in each atom They have created.

From the beginning was the Word, God’s thoughts and wisdom made audible. “The Lord possessed Me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old.
“I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
“When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
“Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
“While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
“When He prepared the heavens, I was there: when He set a compass upon the face of the depth: he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
“When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment: when He appointed the foundations of the earth:
“Then I was by Him, as One brought up with Him: and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him.” (Prov. 8:22-30).

Laying down His glory—His reflection of that close proximity to the God of His life—“the holy One of God,” as even the devils knew Him in fear, retained the core of His divine union with His Father, the surrender and attachment that had ever been characteristic of His being. Christ, from conception, was one with His Father, even as He had been in primordial antiquity, since the misty beginnings of time immemorial.

His garment of heavenly brilliance and rainbows, like Joseph’s coat of many colors, was removed—forever—and He donned the nature of the fallen human race, weakened by thousands of years of sin. But one element of His divine status remained unremoved—that His original connection with His Father and the divine nature that resulted from His contact.

This union and communion with His forever Father wouldn’t be denied Him. No complaint Satan could drum up made this holy alliance unfair in the contest of the great controversy. Let the devil and his hosts bring all their charges against this divine arrangement. “Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob…. Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you…. Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing,” their lofty sophistries “are wind and confusion.” (Is. 41:21,24,29).

No argument could he level against relationship, after all, isn’t that what he claimed to have with his demonic band of rabble-rousers? God challenged him on the fruits of his relationship. Which would overcome the other, Satan’s or God’s?

So, Jesus came walking in the light of His Father’s love. His meditations were of His Father’s divinely inspired scriptures of sacred history and holy principles of His Law and the righteous examples of holy men of old. His constant musings were upon every word that proceeded from the mouth of God as He peered ever deeper into the Holy Writ. In the purity of its righteousness He found the most solid bedrock for long life here and now, and eternal life beyond.

By the age of twelve, He had had many years of this kind of education and training. He knew by experience even more that David, “Thou through Thy commandments hast made Me wiser than Mine enemies: for they are ever with Me. I have more understanding than all My teachers: for Thy testimonies are My meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Thy precepts.” (Ps. 119:98-100).

Jesus held converse with animal and plant. He studied their chemistry and understood their mechanics; and as He did, ideas flashed into His mind concerning ways and means of uplifting those around Him.

Born in perfect acceptance with God and daily living in the light of His love, young Jesus’ character developed into perfect balance and unwavering firmness to principle. Love was the classroom in which He learned all His lessons. It was thus that He put on the robe of His Father’s righteousness and wore it gladly.

Christ did have an advantage over the rest of us. His birth and life from day one was different from ours. But that is an advantage our father Adam lost, which we may regain through beholding Him, by faith, in His privileged birth and His advantaged holy development and training.

We can be partakers of His birth by receiving another one like His, through the touch of His grace. And we can have His perfect childhood and sanctification, too; by retaining that new birth from God we will naturally “grow up into Him in all things.” (Eph. 4:15). Both our first birth and first life disappear and are blotted out when God forgives us. God will say of us, “All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him.” “The former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” (Ez. 18:22;Is. 65:17). Under God’s grace, we start with a whole new record.

And if it happens that we stumble, for whatever reason, if we turned against God’s will for us, even knowingly, and we reap the consequences of that negligence; if we turn again to Jesus, the true Jesus shining in all His righteousness and holiness; if we hope in His mercy and love, and repent of our gross rebellion, then we are restored wholly to our second birth relationship and begin again in the same sanctification Jesus knew as He grew up as a tender plant. Walking in the light of His Father’s love and holiness, our Father’s love and holiness, “we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (1Jn. 1:7).

We can walk in the same fellowship Jesus continually had. The “daily” at-one-ment (Dan. 8:11) can be ours as it was His. His experience can be ours; we can be able to say, “I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And He that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please Him.” (Jn. 8:28,29). Imagine it!

“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with Him an hundred forty and four thousand, having His Father's name written in their foreheads.
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
“And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
“These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
“And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.” (Rev. 14:1-5).

“And they shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads.” (Rev. 22:4).