“We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” All the other names of God — Almighty, Jehovah, Most High, Adonai — have to do with this world, and God shines but through the cloud. But the Father is seen in the Son; this is not dispensational — it is the sun breaking through them and God known in His ways of perfect grace, Himself known. Christ, the only begotten Son, has declared Him — what a blessing! — and brought us into His own place with the Father, soon in the glory itself. In that name of “Holy Father” we are kept, and this is what we have to seek — to walk according to this place as dear children, as sons. May we remember that we are set in Christ before God — that is, perfect — but, if so, He is in us, and we are set before the world to represent Him. (See John 14 and Romans 8). And to do it, “of His fullness have all we received.”
J. N. Darby