Turn with me in your Bibles to
the Gospel of John, again chapter 12. And here we have this precious
question. Sir, we would see Jesus, verse
21 of John chapter 12. And here in verse 23, the Lord
Jesus Christ, as we read earlier, gave them the answer. the answer from God about seeing
God. Eternal life is seeing God in
the Lord Jesus Christ here before you see him when you leave this
world. The very first thing that happens
to someone who leaves this world is they're in the very presence
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And they're in the presence of
the Lord Jesus Christ as he describes himself here. So salvation is
knowing Him. This is eternal life, that you
know Him. You know the Father, who speaks
in these verses, and you know the Son. To know Him is to see
Him. Salvation is in a look. Let's pray. Heavenly Father,
we pray that the Lord would just give us the answer
yet again to this most searching of questions, Heavenly Father.
Place it on our hearts and cause us to be burdened, Heavenly Father,
until we hear you answer from your Word. Who is the Lord Jesus
Christ? May we see him, Heavenly Father,
through the eyes of faith yet again this morning and may we
see him as the Blessed Holy Spirit describes him here and reveals
him, causes him to be revealed. We thank you, Heavenly Father,
that you are a God. who reveals Yourself in Your
Word, in Your Word made flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ, that we
might know, we might know Him who is true, and that we might
have eternal life, and know that we have eternal life right now,
Heavenly Father. So bless Your words, Heavenly
Father, to the hearts of Your people, and cause us, by Your
grace, to see the Lord Jesus Christ. in a look that's that glorious
verse in Isaiah chapter 25 I'll just read it to you, you don't
have to turn there, but this is a glorious verse, isn't it?
He says, look unto me. Don't look at the world and don't
look at other people and don't look at religion, don't look
at denominations, don't look at anything else. Look unto me
and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God. There is none else. There is none else. Salvation in a look. So what
a great question. What a great question these Greeks
brought to the Lord Jesus Christ and If you read the gospel accounts
in the account of Acts, you will see that the Pharisees and the
religious leaders of Jerusalem had their mission organizations
and their Bible colleges, and they had all of the machinery
of religion that exists today, and they had sent their missionaries
out over land and sea and gathered these people out of the cesspools
of Corinth and Turkey and Africa and places and brought them back.
And you can read the list of all those countries in Acts chapter
Two, as Pope Peter spoke to those people, and that's why these
Greeks are here. The Jews divided the world into
two groups of people, of course. There were just the Jews, who
were the chosen people and the special ones of God, and were
expecting a great king to come and make them kings. and to reign
on this earth. And the rest of them were called,
the rest of humanity including us, were called Gentiles or Greeks. And the Lord Jesus Christ came
to undo all of what man thinks about God and all of what man
does in religion which he thinks to honour God. And so I just
wanted to go through these verses. I want us to see that salvation
is a heart desire to see the Lord Jesus Christ. And everyone
who has seen Him through the eyes of faith, has seen Him in
His Word, has a desire in their heart that they will see more
of Him. That's all the testimony of Scripture. They just want
to see more and more. They want to see more of His
glory. They want to see more of the glory of His attributes.
If you've seen Him, you'll never get enough of Him. You'll never
get enough of him and that's why eternity goes on for so long,
because that's how glorious the Lord Jesus Christ is. So salvation
is a heart desire to see him. As I said earlier, Philip comes to
verse 22 and tells Andrew, and Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.
It's a glorious picture of the Lord's people bringing someone
who is inquiring about who the Lord Jesus Christ is. Who is
God? What is God like? What is God
doing in this world? How can I know that I know God? How can I know that the God that
I'm talking about is the real God? Well, here is the glorious
answer, isn't it? Jesus, verse 22, Jesus answered
them. And I want us to go through these
verses fairly quickly and I want to return back to looking at
what it is to him to be the very seed of God and for all of God's
children to be a seed in him. But the first thing he says is
the hour is come. He speaks of his absolute sovereignty. There is a purpose in him coming. For this cause came I under this
hour, verse 27. This is the reason the Lord Jesus
Christ came, for this particular hour. And the hour, we have no
doubt about what the hour is, He says it several times, the
hour is the hour of His death. But here we see the absolute
sovereignty of God. Everything that is done, is all
according to the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God. So this hour is the hour appointed
by God Almighty, the hour appointed by God the Son, the hour described
by God the Holy Spirit. It's the hour that is described
in so much of the Old Testament as this particular day. In one
day all of the sins of Israel will be taken away. Just one
day. And this is the hour of that day. And so this is, in
God's answer, is a really, really critical event, isn't it? What
happened in that hour? He goes on to say, The hour is
come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Now God Almighty is all-glorious,
and His glories cover all of this world. But the Son of Man
came in humility. He was born as a baby in Bethlehem. He spent some time having had
to flee from Herod and the persecution of those satanic religious people
into Egypt. Then he went back to Nazareth
from Egypt, and he spent those nearly 30 years in Nazareth in
absolute obscurity. And the only record of all of
those 30 years is him being in Jerusalem and down there he says,
I must be about. I must be about my father's business. And then at his baptism he became
this public figure and the Lord began his public ministry and
it lasted for three and a half years. And He is, and He's come as the
Son of Man. He's come as the Son of Man to
be united to His bride. He's come as the Son of Man to
be one born under the law, to be a man who lived on this earth
and perfectly obeyed the law of God. A man who perfectly loved
God with all of his heart, all of his soul, all of his mind
and all of his strength. and loved his neighbour as himself.
People say, well there's no one perfect. Hold on a second. Hold
on a second. There's none perfect among men,
but there is this man. There is one perfect man in all
of his life. He was just perfect, perfectly
obedient to his father. He's the Son of Man, should be
glorified. And this is the reason that He
came. He should be glorified. And how is He going to be glorified?
Verse 24, you read it with me. Verily, verily, this is serious. When God Almighty is saying,
Amen, truly, truly, this is a faithful saying. I say unto you, this
is His answer. Isn't it lovely how he takes
the simplest thing that any farmer has ever done and uses that as
a description of who he is. Religion makes things complicated
and God makes things profound and the simplicity of it is beautiful.
Listen to what he says. He said, except or unless a corn,
a grain of wheat, fall into the ground and die, it abides alone. The bearded wheat that we have
today came from a discovery of a handful of wheat in a pharaoh,
a mummy of a pharaoh. It had been in that pyramid for
thousands of years. And while it was in the mummy's
hand, it just sat there. It still had life in it because
of the extraordinary circumstances. And they took that wheat and
they planted it. And how many billions and billions were in that one grain. What was the issue? Life was
in the grain of wheat. And while the grain of wheat
is in the mummy's hand, in the dead man's hand, there's no life.
It has to be buried. The son of man has to be buried. Accept the corn of wheat, fall
into the ground and die. It abideth alone. That wheat
was alone in the mummy's hand for all those thousands of years.
But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. It bringeth forth much food.
It has to be sown in the ground. It has to be buried and dead.
And out of that life that comes from that death, there is this
multitude of life, isn't it? And what does the grain do? You
bury it. It's springtime now. People are
gonna start, if you've got a garden, you start planting things. And
I'll be planting some seeds in the not-too-distant future. Daisy's
dad's corn seeds. And what will happen? In that
darkness of that soil with that moisture, that shoot will spring
up and what's the first thing it does? What does it do? It reaches for the light, doesn't
it? What a glorious picture of the
death of the Lord Jesus Christ and his resurrection and the
resurrection, the death and resurrection of all who are in him. It bringeth
forth much fruit. What's the fruit? That's the fruit that brings
forth. I'm going to plant these corn
seeds. Do you know what's going to come when those corn plants
grow nice and big and tall in that special soil of ours down
there? Do you know what's going to come out of that? When they're
fully ripe, what will they be? Corn seeds. Now that is the picture. That is the picture that the
Lord Jesus Christ is painting for us here, isn't it? He says,
when we arise, when all of his fruit arise in that resurrection
day, what are we going to be like? Just like him. Just like him. That's the glory of it. The seed
of God must die. God just has one seed, and all
of his seeds are in that one seed. The seed of God brings
forth much fruit because there's a union of life, isn't there?
There's a union of life in them. Each of those grains of corn
that I'll be harvesting next January will have life in them,
just like those grains in the mummy's hand had life in them.
There is life in the Lord Jesus Christ. It's such a beautiful
and simple picture, isn't it? And then he says what this life
will do in the lives of people. This is the answer of the Lord
Jesus Christ to seeing him. Just read on with me in verse
25. He that loveth his life, he that
loveth his life shall lose it. He that approves of his life,
he that thinks himself worthy and thinks himself righteous
and thinks that there's something in his life to commend himself
to God by his activities, will lose it. It means to perish eternally. He that hateth his life in this
world shall keep it shall keep it unto eternal life. If you've met God, if you've
seen the Lord Jesus Christ, you have seen yourself. It is as
simple as that. The people who are in this world,
who see themselves as righteous, have one fundamental problem.
they just haven't seen him. As soon as people see him they
will say like Job, I am vile. They will say like Isaiah when
he saw the Lord Jesus Christ in the temple and he saw him
high and lifted up and he saw the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Immediately he says, woe is me. Basically all of what I thought
held me together and he was a priest and he was in the temple of God
and all of his religion and all of his heritage and all of those
things. He's basically saying, I'm unraveled completely. Woe
is me. I can't pronounce woe on anyone
else any longer. There is woe in me. And the Lord
Jesus Christ comes and he takes away his sin and that's what
it is. In meeting him, in seeing him,
you see, How do you follow the Lord Jesus
Christ? How do you follow anyone? You look at them. It's as simple
as that, isn't it? It's a grain of wheat and a look.
You just look at them and you fix your eyes on Him. That's
what Hebrews 12 says, isn't it? Looking unto Jesus. We fix our
eyes upon the Lord Jesus Christ and He is... I just love these
words in Hebrews 12. He's just given us the story
of all the people of faith. And we are surrounded by so great
a cloud of witnesses. Let's lay aside every weight
and the sin much so does easily beset us. What's the sin that
besets you? Unbelief. Unbelief. I read what God says,
and I hear what He says, and then I go away and in an instant
I've forgotten it. And then I'm more concerned about
the things of this world than I am about Him. Unbelief is the
sin that easily besets us, isn't it? Let us run with patience
the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the Author. Don't you love that? He wrote
the book of your life, brothers and sisters in Christ. He's the
author. He wrote every single word and
he wrote every single experience. He's the author and the finisher,
the perfecter of faith. He's the faithful one. We look
to him and his faithfulness. We don't look to ourselves. We
look to him. Who for the joy, we keep forgetting, don't we,
that God is a joyful God. For the joy that was set before
him. He is joyful and he is satisfied. He's satisfied for the joy that
was set before him. What's the joy that's set before
him? The glory of his father's name. in a marriage which is consummated
in eternal glory and bliss forever. That's the inheritance that we
have, brothers and sisters in Christ. It's not an inheritance
in this world. Our God owns the universe. We
are co-heirs with him. For the joy that was set before
him, he endured the cross, despising the shame that is set down at
the right hand of the throne of God. You follow him. You follow him by a look. Salvation's
in a look. Living the Christian life is
in a look. It's just looking to Jesus. We look to him. He's
written it all, and he's finished it all. And then he says these
remarkable words. For those who see him, if you've
seen him in his word, and where I am, there shall also my servant
be, don't you love that? We think, don't we, that we go
along and the Lord Jesus Christ comes along and picks up the
pieces of our lives. It's exactly the opposite to
it, isn't it? That's what he's saying, where
I am, and that's his prayer and his high priestly prayer at the
In his last words to his disciples he says, Father, I will, this
is his will, the Lord Jesus Christ, on the night before he was crucified,
that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am. It speaks of the glorious union
between the Lord Jesus Christ and his people. When he walked this earth 2000
years ago, I walked this earth before God in perfect holiness
and perfect obedience and perfect faithfulness. And I kept the
law of God in him. And when he went to the cross,
I was with him. I was crucified with him. All
of the wrath of God that so rightly should fall on me for the sin
that I am right now and the sin that I have done and the sin
that I will be, all of the infinite wrath of God fell on the Lord
Jesus Christ and I was in him. That's why he suffered and died
because all of the sins of all of God's people were in him.
We're with him and we're with him when he was buried. And we're
with Him when He's raised and we're with Him now, according
to Him, seated in the heavenlies. And then when He comes back,
we're going to come back with Him. And He'll wrap up this universe
and there will be a new creation. This is all the cause of Him
coming, isn't it? Father, I will that they also
whom Thou hast given me be with me where I am. And what's the
reason for being with Him? Listen to it in John. This is
his prayer in John 24. When did he love his people?
From before the foundation of the world. To be with him where
he is. That's his prayer. This is what it is to Is this how you've seen him?
This is how he describes and how he answers that call. They'll
serve me, they'll follow me, and where I am, there shall also
my servant be, and my Father will honour him. The Father will
honour him. Is it a right thing for God the
Father to honour people like us? In the Lord Jesus Christ,
it's a perfectly right and just thing for God the Father to do.
Perfectly right and perfectly just. Listen to what he says in John
27. If we think there's anything less than an extraordinary thing
that happened on the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ, God Almighty
in human flesh, but the Son of Man says now, verse 27, now is
my soul troubled and what shall I say? So horrifying was the
thought of him bearing the sins of his people in his own body
on the tree when he looked into that cup that the Father gave
him. And in that cup were all the sins of all of God's children. He looked into that cup and his
heart broke within him and great drops of blood poured out from
his forehead and stained the ground of the Garden of Gethsemane. We think lightly of sin. God
doesn't. God doesn't. God doesn't. My soul is troubled. What shall
I say? Father, save me from this hour. If there was any other way, if
there was any other way of salvation other than God the Father putting
God the Son to death on the cross of Calvary, God would have done
it. Such is sin that when the Lord
Jesus Christ was beaten so badly that he was nearly dead at the
hands of the Romans and the Jews. And a strong young man in his
30s couldn't carry a piece of wood up the hill of Calvary because
he was so weak. And he was sustained by the power
of God Almighty to go to that cross. And if you think that
God was ever going to be sympathetic to someone, you'd be sympathetic
to someone who was suffering in such a way. And such is the
holiness of God, and such is the price of this precious blood
that God the Father crushed his son because of the sins, because
of my sins, my sins. All of my hope and all of my
salvation is in the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, that precious
blood that was shed. My soul is troubled, save me
from it. But this cause, for this cause,
the Lord Jesus Christ came into this world with a cause, with
a purpose, Everything that happens, happens according to His will
and according to His purpose. Nothing wriggles in this universe
outside of His purpose. Why are you here today? The purpose
of God. It's as simple as that. God has gathered His people.
For this cause came I unto this hour. If you've seen Him, you've
seen Him in the travail and the trouble of His soul. in the Garden
of Gethsemane in these events. Then he says in verse 28, Father,
glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from
heaven saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again. The name of God the Father is
going to be glorified and has been glorified throughout all
time and eternity, but there's going to be a particular glory
to God in the death of the Lord Jesus Christ. There's a particular
glory to God in the death of the Lord Jesus Christ and we'll
look at it in a few minutes. The people therefore that stood
by heard it and said, thundered others, said, an angel spake
to him, Jesus answered and said, this voice came not because of
me, but for your sakes. The Lord Jesus Christ interprets
the words of God and brings them to us. If you've seen him, This
is still the answer, isn't it? If you've seen him, you've seen
God Almighty speak. God Almighty speaks in this day
and age through men. And Paul went to the Corinthians
and he was there in weakness and fear and much trembling,
and so is every servant of God. But God will speak if you see
the Lord Jesus Christ used to hear God speak. And then he says,
Verse 31, now is the judgment of this world. Now shall the
prince of this world be cast out. And if I be lifted up from
the earth will draw all unto me. Have you been drawn? If you've
seen him and he's revealed himself, you've been drawn by God Almighty. No man can come to me unless
the Father who sent me draw him. It's not the will of man, it's
the will of God that draws you to the Lord Jesus Christ. So
if you've seen Him, you've seen Him in all of those glorious
attributes, and He has more to say. But nevertheless, if you've
seen Him, you've seen Him in His absolute sovereignty, you've
seen Him in the cause of His coming, you've seen Him in the
faithfulness to His word, you've seen Him as the Son of Man to
be glorified, you've seen Him as the Son of Man that must die. You've seen him as the son of
man, who in his death brings forth much fruit for the glory
of God. If you've seen him, you've seen
yourself. This is his answer, isn't it? If you've seen him,
you've seen yourself. And you'll say, like Isaiah,
I'm a man undone, or like Daniel and the other people who met
him. John met him, the same John met him as the resurrected Lord
in heaven. He fell down before him as a
dead man. Those who fall down before Him
as a dead man, the Lord comes and picks them up and stands
them on their feet. It's to see Him, isn't it? It's to see Him. It's to serve Him. The one desire
of all those who have seen Him is that I want to serve Him. There is no other cause in this
world, brothers and sisters. I want, if God would allow it,
for me and for us to live in this world for His glory. people in this world. We preach the gospel to them. We do what Andrew and Philip
did. We bring the requests and the needs of those around us.
We bring them to the Lord Jesus Christ and we proclaim him and
we gather together to bear witness to his glory. We draw them by
him. I want to just finish briefly
by looking at this seed. This corn of wheat fall into
the ground. One of the things that's glorious
in Genesis chapter 1 is that you are alive today because of
a seed that God created thousands of years ago that had life in
it. Your life. The life of everything you eat.
has been maintained by God Almighty through all of that time, isn't
it? Every time you eat a loaf of bread, you're eating that
because of the life that was in the bread. The life that was
in it. throughout the scriptures the
Lord Jesus Christ is spoken of as the seed and the Lord Jesus
Christ's people are spoken of as the seed. The first proclamation,
one of the first proclamations of the gospel is in Genesis chapter
3 verse 15 where God declares that there will be enmity between
Satan and her seed his seed and her seed and he will bruise Satan's
head and in that bruising he will have his heel bruised exactly
what happened on Calvary's cross it's a seed the seed of God is
the Lord Jesus Christ There is just one seed and the one seed
speaks of this everlasting and eternal covenant which is the
covenant of grace. I'll just let me read. some verses out of Galatians
chapter 3 verse 16. Now to Abraham and his seed were
the promises made. God's people are saved because
of an eternal covenant, an eternal promise. And that promise is
in the seed of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the seed that's
in the seed of the Lord Jesus Christ. Abraham's covenant was
a covenant where God says, I will God acts as an absolute sovereign
in the eternal covenant of grace. He's not looking And that's exactly what he says
of Abraham. He says, Now to Abraham and his
seed were the promises made. What are the promises? The promises
are the promises of eternal life, the promise of being in the presence
of God, the promise of being blessed by God in this world
and blessed by God eternally. The promises are all wrapped
up in knowing who he is, being in his presence. The promises
are all wrapped up in seeing him. We see him. He say not unto
seeds of many, but as of one, and to thy seed which is Christ. And this I say, that the covenant
which was confirmed of God in Christ, the law which was 430
years after, cannot disannul that it should make the promise
of none effect. The promise comes before the
law. The promise comes above the law. It's that promise where
life is. There is no life in the law.
There is no life in looking to yourself and looking to your
beings and looking to you to clean up your life and make things
better. The Lord Jesus Christ is that seed. I'll just read
some of these verses to you. In Isaiah 53, that famous passage
of scripture where the Lord Jesus' death is so clearly laid out
before us, and it speaks of us. We're all like sheep when we've
gone astray, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us
all. But in verse 10 it says, Yet
it pleased the Lord to bruise him, to bruise his father. He pleased His holiness. He pleased
His justice. He pleased Him. He has put Him
to grief. So the transaction on the cross,
as much as it is a transaction between men and God, and it reveals
the wickedness of men and it reveals men's natural hatred
of God Almighty when He's revealed, The great transaction of the
cross is a transaction between God the Father and God the Son,
as recorded by God the Holy Spirit. And that's where all of our salvation
is, that's this covenant. He shall put him to grief when
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. He shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his hand. He shall see the travail of his
soul, we've just read about the travail of his soul, and shall
be satisfied by his knowledge. Shall my righteous servant justify
many, for he shall bear their iniquities. He's justified the
many, which means that he's taken all of their sins and they no
longer exist. In the court of God, sin can
only be punished once. In the court of God, sin can
only be in one place. It cannot be on the Lord Jesus
Christ and on me at the same time. That's exactly what it
is to be justified, is to be declared by God to have never
sinned, because the Lord Jesus Christ and took responsibility
for all of my sin, and Abraham's sin, and Moses' sin, and Peter,
and James, and John's sin. He'll justify many, for he shall
bear their iniquities. If he's bearing them, I can't
bear them, brothers and sisters. This is the covenant in which
all the seed, that fruit that is going to come, is coming.
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall
divide the spoiled with the strong. Because He has poured out His
soul unto death, He was numbered with the transgressors. That's
why He was the Son of Man, to be numbered with the likes of
us, transgressors. And He bared the sin of many
and made intercession for the transgressors. You know the next
word is in the scriptures? Sing. Sing. If you've seen Him, you'll be
singing. Sing. Sing. And so many of the references
to the seed of the Lord Jesus Christ are references to his
death in Psalm 22, which is a description of what exactly was happening
on Calvary's tree. If you read Psalm 22 and read
the gospel accounts, you would see that these people had a script
before them written by God, and they were just acting out exactly
as he said. But he says, a seed shall serve
him. This is the fruit, isn't it?
The seed shall serve him. He says in Psalm 89 verse 4,
Thy seed will I establish forever. He will establish his seed forever.
His seed also will I make to endure forever. Psalm 89 verse
29. His throne is the days of heaven. The Seed's fruitfulness is His
glory. The Seed's fruitfulness is His
salvation. The Seed's fruitfulness is Him being one with His Bride,
having made His Bride so perfectly fit that God Almighty can dwell
in her and with her and has no reason whatsoever not to love
her infinitely and draw her to himself and guard her and protect
her as a faithful and loving husband. Glory, if you've seen him, you've
seen glory in his death. If you've seen him, you've seen
glory in his obedience unto death. He was faithful unto death. If
you've seen him, you've seen his faithfulness. If you've seen
him, you've seen the justice of God. If you've seen him, you've
seen the love of God. Here in his love, not that we
love God. Don't talk about your love of
God. I can't talk about mine without
being embarrassed about it. hearing his love, not that we
love God, but he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation
for our sins. sins, so that they're gone forever. He says on the cross, he says,
Father, forgive them. And every single person he prayed
for was completely and utterly forgiven. We see power in his
blood, in his death, and all of the sins of all of God's seed
are gone. As the song of Solomon says,
there's no spot in me. I'm unblameable, unreprovable
in his sight. All of God's children, as I said,
are justified. The seed's fruitfulness comes
from His death. Everyone that He died for is
saved, will be saved, must be saved, and will be kept saved. Otherwise there is no glory. glory for God if he tries and
fails. There's no glory for God if his
love doesn't get people into heaven. There's no glory for
God if his precious blood is spilt by God Almighty, his Father,
and someone is lost. It's impossible for there to
be any glory. His glory is great in thy salvation. He says, all that the Father,
John 6, 39, all that the Father gave me shall come and I shall
lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day and
this is the will of Him that sent me. Don't you love the will
of God? Listen to what he says. This
is the will of God that sent me, the Father that sent me,
that everyone that seeth the Son To see Him is to see Him as the
object of faith. To see Him is to see Him as the
faithful one. The life I now live in the flesh,
I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God who loved me and
gave Himself for me. He that believeth on him may
have everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
This is the fruit, that glorious fruit that we're expecting to
see at any moment. It's the glorious fruit that
the children of God experience in the most amazing way when
they leave this world and they see Him. They'll see Him. It's
the first glimpse, isn't it? Imagine what it is to be in the
presence of God Almighty and not be consumed by Forever. Forever. Salvation is a look. Sanctification, your walk in
this world, is a look, a looking unto Jesus. Glorification is
in a look. The comfort of God's children
is in a look. I do love how the psalmist says
in Psalm 17, and I'll close here, as for me, may this be your prayer. and you've told me who you are
in your answer. As for me, may it be yours as
well, Psalm 17, verse 15. As for me, I will behold thy
face in righteousness. holy child can have communion. I shall be satisfied when I awake
with thy likeness. When the seed is planted forth seed exactly like itself
that's the glory of the gospel brothers and sisters let's pray
our Heavenly Father the request of these Gentiles,
Heavenly Father, and we pray that that would be a prayer that
you'd put on our hearts again and again and again, that we
would see the Lord Jesus Christ, we would see him afresh, we would
see him as God Almighty, we would see him as the saviour of sinners. the Saviour, the friend of sinners. We would see him, Heavenly Father,
high and lifted up on the cross of Calvary, suspended between
heaven and earth to make reconciliation for sinners like us. Oh, our
Father, we pray that when we see him, you would cause his
blood to be precious and his life, his resurrected life, to
be precious to us, Heavenly Father, and may you grant us the joy
and peace of simply believing. Give us childlike faith, our
Father, in your dear and precious Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And
Heavenly Father, for those of us who know him, we take these
emblems of his body that was broken and his blood that was
shed, and we proclaim his death until he comes back again. His
death by which all of our sins are gone, Heavenly Father, and
we have a right to be in your presence now without any condemnation
for His Christ that died. Heavenly Father, if we've seen
Him, cause us to remember Him again. and to find ourselves coming
and asking, Sir, we would see Jesus yet again. We pray in his
name and for his glory. Amen.