God’s word on the hips of Jesus creates saving knowledge to transform corrupt lives. Jesus lived out his own message and carried out his works by the power of that WORD. All his energies and blessings come to us in the Word of the Father. The Son claimed no private knowledge, but ascribed his authority, might, wisdom and love to God bestowed on him.
Christ offered his most precious possession: his words. This was from his Father, so that the Son became God’s Word incarnate. In that word is our power. We thus experience the power of that word and are enlightened by it. We received these signs and words gladly. The passages of the gospel enable us to discern the reality of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We find here Christ revealing in prayer the insight of his disciples and their grasp of his words, because he had sown the seeds of faith in their hearts. They took in his words with joy, even though not instantly. Then he poured his Spirit on them; the word grew and brought fruit in God’s time. Christ prophesied this beforehand by faith that the events would surely take place.
Christ’s words generated faith with knowledge in the disciples. What was that faith? The procession of the Son from the Father, the presence of the Eternal in time, his divine glory in human form, his love despite hatred, his power in weakness, his deity despite his separation from God on the cross, and his life beyond death. The Holy Spirit established them in their Redeemer, and they became members in his body. They did not languish long in the stage of mere credence intellectually, but clang to him whole-heartedly, while he was abiding in them spiritually. They thus became conscious by the Spirit’s workings of Christ’s deity made incarnate.
In Christ’s being, the disciples found the parallel to their peculiar birth, experiencing Jesus’ epigram "He that is born of the Spirit is Spirit." This blessed Spirit is the divine power in the bodies of the disciples. He comes through the words of Jesus.