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(Jn. 17:21-23) 21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. 22 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; 23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

Lo! Father is in Christ, and Christ is in Father. This means that Christ fully expresses Father and Father fully expresses Christ. Christ and Father are two different forms of the same one God.

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And what He want from us? That we also to be in each other.

I Bob knows much (and well) about John, then Bob can replace John i.e. speak from the name of John instead of John himself. It could be said that a part of John is in Bob. If Bob would know all about John then it could be said that Join is Bob.

If John and Bob know each other very well, it could be said that they are in each other (if they would know each other completely). Then they being two different persons indeed could be always able to replace each other in any situation.

Christ has preached that we should be one that is to be in each other. This means in simple practice that we should know anybody of each other so well, than anybody of us could replace anybody other.

It is what God is going to do with the glorified church. Accordingly Jn. 17:22 it is possible in God's glory.

The more glory of God acts the more we become one like as Christ and Father are one.

And this is accomplished as it is revealed that Christ is in us, that is when we really act from the name of Christ, that is He doing His deals through us, as He Himself could do it.

Accordingly Jn. 17:23 this is called love when two (or more) are one being in each other.

Accordingly Jn. 17:23 if anybody of us will become able to replace anybody other, truly understanding him and truly speaking from his name as if it would be he; then the world will seeing this wonder believe that God the Father really has sent Christ into the world. This is too wonderful when one man can replace an other and even vice verse.