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The goal of fallen man is self-deification, to be as God (Gen. 3:5), whereas the goal of redeemed man is to be God’s covenant man. Christ’s perfect humanity is our standard, not his deity. We cannot have Christ as our God if we will not have him as our true man, as our federal head. In the first Adam, we are born into sin and death; in the last Adam, we are born into justice or righteousness and...

so that, in some way beyond our imagination, the Son is magnified and glorified in the Triune Godhead. Because the incarnation and the cross are the revelation of the very being of God, the revealor, Jesus Christ, is glorified within the Trinity and in His Kingship. Fourth, the Father “shall straightway glorify him.” The cross is the glory of Jesus, and God then glorifies Him (v. 32). Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life, the exclusive link to God (John 14:6), so that no man comes to
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