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John
  
26... and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you,27for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from the Father.28I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father."


That father who does not love his children is no father. By revealing God’s name, Jesus gave us the simplest form to realize God’s mighty love. Giving prominence to the Father’s name is the core of Christ’s aim. He who knows the Father knows God, and is changed into a child of God, abiding in His love. In that Name we find the full Gospel and hope for eternity. Christ announces to you, that henceforth there is no need for mediation, because the Father Himself loves you, and He is full of love and mercy. Since Christ died on the cross, there is no barrier between us and the Father. Faith in the Son, God’s Lamb, enables the Father to pour his love upon those who love Christ. He who is aware of Christ’s divinity, his proceeding from the Father and indwelling with Him, has approached the Holy Trinity. He abides in God’s life, and is filled with the Father’s grace rejoicing ever in the Spirit.
In one sentence, Christ depicts the miracle of redemption to his disciples. He descended from the heights of deity, and moved about the earth, that was riddled with animosities and depravity, but when he accomplished righteousness for mankind on the cross, he left the world and sped to his Father, the source of all life.