I had a message I was really
looking forward to preach to you this morning out of John
16, verse 33. And it's appropriate that that verse says,
in this world you shall have tribulation. But be of good cheer, be of good
courage. Our Lord said, I have overcome
the world. And it's interesting that I had this message to preach
from that verse, and then I had a lot of trouble with my computer. And I had to restore it back
to a few days before I had prepared my notes, and so
I lost my notes. And I probably can find them. I'll have to revisit that another
time. I got to looking at John 17 and
something really blessed my heart and it goes with that. The reason
we can be of good cheer in all our tribulation. Of course, the
Lord Jesus Christ is risen. He's at the right hand of the
Father and the scripture assures us that he ever lives to make
intercession for us. He's the great high priest of
his people. And John 17 is the Lord's prayer. This is the Lord's prayer. This
is his high priestly prayer. This is his intercession for
his people. And as we read this, we get some
idea of what it is he prays for his people, how he intercedes
for his people at God's right hand. This is what he's doing
here, interceding for his people with the Father. Verse 1 says,
These words spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said,
Father, the hour is come. Glorify thy son, that thy son
also may glorify thee. This is the hour for which the
world was made. It's that time that he goes from
the garden of Gethsemane to the cross and to the tomb. This is
the hour for which the world was made. This is the hour to
which all God's Old Testament saints looked forward to. And
this is the hour which all his saints today look back to. Because
this is the hour in which our Redeemer accomplished our redemption. This is the hour for which all
things were made. And he says, now the hour is
come. And the Lord Jesus looked up.
He lifted up his eyes to heaven and he spake to the Father. And
what did he ask? What was his prayer to the Father? This is the intercession of our
great high priest. This is what he asked that night.
This is what he continues to ask of the Father. This is why
God's people can be assured. that the joy that he's given
us in our hearts shall never be taken from us. No man shall
take it from you. This is the joy that we have,
the assurance we have. Christ said, my joy, my peace,
I leave with you. Not as the world giveth, give
I unto you. We can be sure we will have this
peace and we can be sure that in the world while you're having
your tribulation, you can be of good cheer and you will be.
By his spirit, you will be. and in Christ will be your peace
because this is his prayer continually to the Father. He prayed to the
Father and he asked the Father to glorify him. That's what he
asked the Father. He said, Father, the hour has
come. Glorify thy son that thy son
also may glorify thee. You remember whenever he came
into tribulation, his soul began to be troubled. He said, and
what should I pray? Father, save me from this hour. You know, trouble comes, and
we're so prone to start praying for the trouble to be removed.
And we see our brethren suffer trouble, and we're so quick to
want to try to get them out of the trouble. God sent the trouble.
There's a need for the trouble, a need be. And He's working His will and
by Christ praying, Father, glorify Thou me that I may glorify Thee. That's what God the Father's
going to do. That's what God the Son's going to do. And that's
why He turns all the trouble into joy. He turns your sorrow
into joy because He keeps turning you to Him to find all your comfort
and all your peace and all your salvation in Him. This is the
intercession of our Redeemer. The Father will not deny Him
this. It's for His glory. He's praying
that the Father will glorify Him that He might glorify the
Father. The Father glorifying the Son,
and the Son glorifying the Father, and in all, Christ is working
still as the mediator for his people in this world. That's
what God's going to do. He's going to glorify his name.
and continuing to save you, that's how we can be assured that he
hears his son and he gives this petition to his son and his son
works continually in his people because it's for God's glory.
He's for God's glory. Well, let's remember this now. As the son of God, he did not
need God to glorify him. He's God the Son. He's God. But He's praying as our mediator.
He's praying as the God-man who's representing His people. He asked
the Father to glorify Him. Why did He ask that? That He
might glorify the Father. He said that, Thy Son also may
glorify Thee. You think God the Father will
hear His Son when He asks this? Of course He will. That's why
He sent Him. He called Himself thy Son. He's given you hearts
to know Him, to know you're children of God. You can cry, Abba Father,
you can come to Him as a child of God, but we always come in
the name of His Son, because He hears His Son. He's gonna
glorify His Son, that His Son might glorify Him. And that's
what He asked the Father, glorify Him, that He might glorify the
Father. That's the very reason Christ came into the world. That's
the reason He went to the cross, was to glorify the Father. And
the Father is... He sent an angel in the Garden
of Gethsemane and strengthened Him. We know this. We know this. Our Lord said,
what shall I pray? Father, save me from this hour.
He said, no, I pray this. Father, glorify Thy name. Glorify
thy name. When you get to the Garden of
Gethsemane and he's in an agony and he's praying, Father, if
it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not
as I will, but as thou will. He's praying, Father, glorify
thy name. He's praying for the strength
to get through that Garden of Gethsemane and get to the cross
and bear the cross and do all that he's sent to do for his
people, for the Father. And the Lord sent an angel and
strengthened him. And by this petition that he
prays, the Lord will send the spirit and give faith to his
people, regenerate his people and give us faith. He'll send
the spirit and he'll strengthen your faith. He'll send the spirit,
he'll turn you to him. He'll continue to work in you
because it's that the son might glorify the father and the father's
continually glorifying the son. This is a God-glorifying work. Now, here's why He asked the
Father to glorify Him. And this is how He glorified
the Father in verse 2. He said, As thou hast given Him
power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as
many as thou hast given Him. God the Father has given the
Son Christ Jesus, all authority, and all dominion, and all power
over all flesh. He said, as thou hast given him
power over all flesh. He came to Nicodemus in John
3.35, the father loveth the son, and hath given all things into
his hand. He came to his disciples after
his resurrection. He said, all power is given unto
me in heaven and earth. And he says right here, as thou
has given him power over all flesh. He has all power. Now, let me ask you something.
If you know a man in this world who was just tremendously powerful. And when this man spoke, when
this man acted, it got done. He has so much power. Any need
you had, wouldn't you go to Him? Wouldn't you go to Him? Well,
Christ is the God-man mediator of His people with all power
over all flesh. He's the one with all power.
Will you go to Him? Will you go to Christ? You that
have never come to the Lord Jesus and believe Him, why aren't you?
You waiting for some experience? Are you waiting to get better? I got news for you, you're not
gonna. Are you trying to put away some sin before you come
to Him? That's not how He'll receive you. That prodigal son
came to his father. He didn't get dressed up before
he came to his father. He came to him in all the rags
of being that prodigal rebellious son. He came to him starving. He came to him in those rags.
And before he ever even was able to speak, the father went to
him. And he said, bring forth the
robe and put it on him. Bring forth the ring and put
it on his hand. Kill the fatted calf. This is my son. He's come to me. This is what
Christ says to his lost sheep. Come to me. You that are laboring
and heavy laden, down with your sin and down with the troubles
of this world and you don't have any peace in your conscience
and you constantly have this nagging knowing that you don't
have peace with God. He says you're weary, you're
heavy laden, you keep trying to work, you keep trying to do
something to get peace. He says, come to me. I will give
you rest. And you that believe Him and
are weary and are laden, He never stops commanding us, come to
Me. I'll give you rest. We are continually coming to
Christ. And to whom coming? We never
stop repenting. We never stop believing Him.
We are continually coming to Him and confessing our sin. Is
your joy gone? Do you not have any joy? David
didn't when he sinned. But he went to the Lord and he
poured out his heart to the Lord and he confessed his sin to the
Lord. Do you not think you have any
sin? Then go to him and confess that, because that's your sin.
That is. Go and ask him to give you wisdom
to see your sin. Are you cast down because of
your sin? Go to him and pour your heart
out to him. Against thee and thee only have
I sinned and committed this evil in thy sight, that you might
be just when you speak. And ask for mercy, come begging
mercy, and ask him, Lord, restore the joy of thy salvation. He
delights to show mercy. He delights to show mercy. I
guarantee you if you're in darkness as a believer and he's correcting
you, he's chasing you, I guarantee you the whole point of it is
to draw you back to him to see how he delights to show mercy.
I guarantee it. And you're not going to find
that out until you go to him. Stop listening to all the many
counselors and all the people that are trying to be in your
ear, go to Christ. Go to Him. Go to Him. Why did the Father give the Lord
Jesus all power over all flesh? He said that He should give eternal
life to as many as thou hast given Him. That He should give
eternal life to as many as thou hast given Him. God the Father
gave Christ, hey people, He gave Christ to people in eternity
before he made anything. He gave the Lord Jesus a people.
Christ declares that at least six times in this prayer. He
declares it right here. Then look at verse six. He said,
I've manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me
out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest
them me, and they've kept thy word. All those that he called
while he walked this earth, he called them because they were
men and women who the Father gave to him in eternity. Look
at verse 9. I pray for them, I pray not for
the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for they
are thine. They were the fathers, he loved
them, he chose to save them, and he gave them to Christ to
do the saving. And that's who he prays for,
that's who Christ is praying for in this psalm. Look at verse 12. While I was
with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. Those that
thou gavest me, I have kept, and none of them is lost but
the son of perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled. And look at verse 24. He not only prayed for those
that he had called, he prayed for those that he would call.
That's being you. You realize in this prayer right
here, the Lord Jesus Christ was praying for you who believe today. He was. And here was his prayer
concerning him in verse 24. Father, I will that they also
whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may
behold my glory which thou hast given me, for thou lovest me
before the foundation of the world. Do you see that? He gave
our Lord Jesus a people. He gave his son a people. He
elected a people that He would save and He gave them Christ
to do the saving. And here's what Christ said He
came to do. He gave Him all power over all
flesh that He should give eternal life. That He should give eternal
life. That Christ should give eternal
life. That He should give it to as many as the Father gave
to Him. God is sovereign. This is the
problem with us as sinners as we come into this world lost
and ignorant of who God is. We don't know God's holy and
God's sovereign. We don't know that God can do
with his own what he will. He made this world. He created
all things. He said, Can I not do with mine
own what I will? And he said, is your eye evil? Do you charge me with unrighteousness
and charge me as being unfair because I am good? We fell. We sinned. We fell in Adam. If God had not chosen a people
and given them to Christ, we wouldn't have salvation. But
he did. He gave a people to Christ to
save that Christ might give us eternal life. He chose whom he
would and he passes by whom he would. He told Moses that's his
glory. Don't we see by sin this is what
we men are trying to do is steal the glory that belongs to God?
That's what the devil was trying to do in the garden when he begot
Eve and used Eve so that Adam sinned and fell and plunged us
into death. He's trying to steal the glory
that belongs to God. And ever since we fell in Adam,
it's been our sin nature to want the glory that belongs to God.
The devil lied, but it was a half-truth. He said when you've disobeyed
God, you'll be as God's. You'll think you are. You think
you know good from evil. But His glory, God's Christ,
the Lord put Moses in a cleft of the rock, a picture of Christ,
and He made His glory pass by him. And this is what He declared.
He declared, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. And I will have compassion on
whom I will have compassion. The wages of sin is death. The
wages of sin is death. All who perish, all who leave
this world are not going to have anybody to blame but self. The
wages of sin is death. Eternal life is the gift of God. Eternal life is the gift of God. Christ said, I came to give eternal
life. I came to give it. Eternal life
is a gift. It is the gift Christ gives.
God the Father gave Christ Jesus His Son this authority and this
glory to give eternal life to as many as the Father gave Him.
It is the gift of Christ. And we go about trying to earn
it. We go about trying to earn life. What must I do to be saved? For the lost man, that's a question
of what must I do to work the works of God? And the answer
that comes to God's regenerated child is, believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Does it ever stop being
that? Never. Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved. You believe unto righteousness. The law says do all these commandments
and you shall live. But you got to do them perfectly.
You got to do them with no sin. But the righteousness which is
the faith is in the heart he gives. Christ enters in in spirit
and he says to his child, Believe on me. Believe unto righteousness. See, Christ fulfilled all righteousness.
Believing on Christ, we have the righteousness of God. Think about that. and confess
him with your mouth because those he gives faith in him will not
be ashamed to confess him publicly before men. You won't be ashamed
to confess him in water baptism. You won't be ashamed to identify
with his people. You won't be ashamed of him.
How could you be ashamed of somebody who gave you eternal life? But we're the sinner, brethren. We die by Adam's one transgression,
and that means you and I are at the mercy of God. We're at
the mercy of God. We must come to Christ asking
mercy, and He gives eternal life. To all who come to Him asking
mercy, He never turned one away. He gives eternal life. What is
eternal life? He tells us plainly. He tells
us plainly. This is His prayer. This is His
intercession. Father, glorify Thou me that
I may glorify Thee, that I might give eternal life to as many
as Thou hast given me. And He says, now this is life
eternal, verse 3, this is life eternal, that they might know
Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. How do you know your God's the
true God? Because He's given me faith.
That's all. I listen to men with their wise
arguments. It's the same old tired argument
of Satan. Oh, you can't prove it. I don't
have to prove it. Faith is the substance. Faith
is the evidence. Faith believes God. There's only
one true God. There is only one true God. If
you just, I mean, this is not faith, this is just reason, but
if you just gotta, if you just get halfway reasonable and look
at the history of this world and how it's divided into Jews,
Christians, and Muslims, you have to look back and see there's
only one true God. There's only one true God. And He saved through Christ Jesus
His Son that He sent. Why does the world have so much
animosity against the Lord Jesus Christ? Why does the Lord hate
Him so much and wants to deny His works and His person and
His works? The very fact that men do everything
they can to try to deny Him and try to say He doesn't exist and
try to say He is not the true God only proves what He said,
the enmity of the carnal mind. It only proves He is the only
true God. But we have to be made to know
Him. And you know what? It's only Christ that can make
you know the true God. Only the Lord Jesus Christ can
make you know the only true God. And He makes you know Him by
making you know Jesus Christ whom He sent. A sinner only knows
God the Father when we know the Lord Jesus Christ. You only know
God's invisible. And you only know God as he's
manifest in the man, Christ Jesus, who is God come down in human
flesh, who did this so we could actually see all the works that
he worked for us, saving us. He said in Matthew 11, 27, All
things are delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knoweth
the Son, but the Father. Neither knoweth any man the Father,
save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. It's revelation. It's revelation. We can't educate ourselves into
this knowledge. I'm not saying don't read the
Word of God, but I'm just saying it takes the Spirit of God revealing
Christ in our heart. And Christ is the one who's going
to be the revelation. Back in John 14, look back there
with me. This was what he comforted his
people with that night. He said in verse 6, I am the
way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father
but by me. If you had known me, you should
have known my Father also. If you know Christ, you know
the Father. From henceforth, you know Him and you have seen
Him. And Philip, just like us, he
said, Lord, show us the Father and it sufficeth us. Aren't you
thankful that the The Lord let the disciples say dumb things.
Aren't you thankful He let you say some dumb things? Why? Because He does for you just
what He did with them. He uses our dumb statements to
teach us the truth. And He said to him, Jesus said,
Have thou been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known
me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father. How sayest thou then, Show us
the Father? You see, the Lord Jesus Christ,
he is the only true God in human flesh. He's not the helpless
Jesus the world preaches. That's not who he is. We're at
his mercy. He's not at our mercy. The Jesus
this world preaches, that's another Jesus. He's at the mercy of the
sinner. He's begging the sinner to be
merciful to Him and let Him do something for him. That's not
the Jesus of the Bible. That's not the God of the Bible.
Christ has power over all flesh. He gives eternal life to as many
as the Father has given Him. He does it by revealing God the
Father and making us know Him and His Son. That's what He does.
And every true believer confesses it so. This is what every true
believer confesses right here. John said in 1 John 5 20, We
know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding. You know that only a broken and
contrite heart will confess that right there. He's saying we didn't
obtain this understanding by anything we did. He said He came
and He gave us an understanding. And we know Him that's true.
This is how we know Him. And we're in Him that is true. This is all our salvation. Even
in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal
life. Eternal life's a person. Eternal
life is God. Eternal life is Christ. He came
to Martha and she's weeping and He said, Martha, your brother's
gonna rise again. And the resurrection was a doctrine
to Martha. She said, Lord, I know he'll
rise again in the last day in the resurrection. And Christ
so graciously did for her what he did for Thomas, what he keeps
doing for us. Martha, I am the resurrection. He that believeth on me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live. I'm the resurrection. I'm eternal
life. You believe this? That's who
He is. Will God the Father give His
Son what He asked for? Will He give His Son what He
asked for? Indeed He will. Why? Why will
He give His Son what He asked for? Because it's to glorify
the Father. But here's why. Verse 4, it's
because He finished the work. I have glorified thee on the
earth. I have finished the work which
thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou
me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before
the world was. How is it the Lord Jesus Christ
spoke of having finished the work the Father gave him to do,
having spoken of it as finished in the past tense, before as
yet he went to the cross and cried out at the end of his suffering,
it is finished. Because he is eternal God. He's the eternal Savior. The
works were finished from the foundation of the world. He's
been the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. There's
no possibility he won't accomplish what he came to accomplish. He
had accomplished all the works that the Father sent him to accomplish
on the earth as far as calling his people and establishing his
apostles. But there's no possibility he won't finish that work at
Calvary. And before as yet he was slain, he's the lamb slain
from the foundation of the world. And he speaks of it as God. He speaks of it as it is. I finished
the work. Did he finish it? Yeah, he did. I finished the work. When did
the Lord give Christ this work to do? He said there, you glorified
me with your own self. He said, glorify thou me with
thine own self for the glory I had with you before the world
was. This is the glory that God the Father gave to him to do
this work. He was given this work before
the world was made. Why did God the Father give his
son this work to do? Here's one reason. because nobody
else could do it. Nobody. Not a single, you and
I are sinners being saved by God. We certainly couldn't do
it. And there is no other God to do it. Nobody else could do
it. He is the God. God ordained Adam
the head of the whole human race. And we died in Adam and we became
guilty in Adam. But God ordained Adam to be the
head of the human race as a type because he had made Christ already,
the last Adam, the head over all his spiritual house. And
He gave Christ this glory that God might get all the glory and
the salvation of His people. That's why He sent Christ to
work this work, that God might get all the glory and the salvation
of His people. The only way He's going to get
all the glory is if He does all the work. Did Christ do the work? He said, I finished the work
thou gavest me to do. Christ Jesus, the Son of God,
is the only man who ever loved God, and believed God, and obeyed
God, and honored the eternal holy God all the days of his
life with no sin, even unto the death of the cross. The only
one. And that was his preeminent obedience. And in his life, and by his death,
our Savior glorified God's law, he fulfilled God's will, he honored
God's justice, he manifest God's grace, he manifest his long-suffering,
he manifest God's love. And this is the glory the Father
gave to Christ, to glorify the Father. That's why Christ is
praying, Father, glorify Thou me, that I might glorify Thee. This work was, this work was
done by God the Father in His Son and His Son in the Father. This is the work God did. And He gave Christ the glory
of manifesting. This is what the whole thing
is about, brethren, right here. This is what the devil's been
trying to steal and what unregenerate religious sinners are trying
to steal. the glory of manifesting God's righteousness. He, Christ,
is the righteousness of God. I know some people say, well,
you say that every time, Clay, and we're tired of hearing that.
I hope you're not. This is all my salvation. And
if I ever am given grace to keep preaching, I pray there's never
a time I stand and preach the gospel that I do not declare
this. What is the cross? What is the
cross? What was that about? That's God
manifesting His righteousness. This is his chief attribute,
his holiness. He's holy God. He cannot receive
sinners. His law must be honored. His
justice must be satisfied. That cross is God manifesting
his righteousness, manifesting that God's a just God. You won't
serve a God and worship a God unless you worship a just God. You gotta know he's just. You
gotta know everything he promises you, he will perform. Everything
he promises you, he does in justice. Everything he does for you will
be right. That's the only way you'll trust him. And that's
what's manifest on the cross. If He's going to save you, you
had to die. And all His people died right
there. He's a just God. He said He will by no means clear
the guilty. We died right there. Our body
of sin died. All the Father gave to Him died
that day on Calvary's cross. And He manifests that. And He
manifests also He's a Savior. And there we see our salvation
in righteousness. We see the righteousness of God
there. He hath made him sin for us who
knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God
in Him. Paul said in Romans 7, Reckon
ye yourselves, impute ye yourselves to be what you are. Dead, dead, dead to sin by the
body of Christ. and alive unto God in perfect
righteousness. The only way, if you have any
communion in your heart with God, if you can approach to God
with peace in your conscience, really believe in God, there's
only one reason you can. There's only one reason a holy
God has given you that in your heart. It's because you are the
righteousness of God. He made you so. Christ did. That's what He was doing on that
cross. That's our eternal redemption.
So will God give the Lord Jesus what He asked of His Father? Listen to this statement. I thought
about this a little while. Will He give the Son what the
Son asked for? When you are lost and you did
not know the Lord, had no way of knowing Him, had no way of
being born again, you were as helpless as Ananias. You could
not make yourself be born again. Christ prayed to the Father.
He said, Father, glorify Thou me in His heart that I might
glorify Thee. in his heart. This is one I died
for. This is one I laid down my life
for. And God would have to cease being
holy God. He would have to cease being
just God to not give Christ that petition. He would have to cease
being holy and just and righteous to condemn one that he gave to
Christ because he already condemned his people in Christ Jesus and
took away the condemnation. Will he answer that petition?
That's why he sent the Spirit into your heart and gave you
life and gave you faith to see what he's done for you because
he's righteous. I am going to try to go back
to John 16.33 and preach from it another time, but let's just
think about this for a little while. In this world you shall
have tribulation. But Christ said, but in me you
have peace. Now you believer sitting here,
in your flesh, in your body of sin, in your old man of sin,
you are going to have tribulation. You're going to sin, you're going
to fall, you're going to have trouble with it all your day.
Thoughts you don't want to think, deeds you don't want to do. And
you're a new man, you love God, you delight in His commandments,
and you'd keep His law perfectly if you could. But you're going
to have trouble in your flesh all the time. And when you're
in that trouble, and you're in that captivity, Christ Jesus
praised the Father and says, Father, glorify Thou me in His
heart that I might glorify Thee in His heart. You think God's
going to give him that petition? He's your righteousness. He's
your perfection. He's your peace. He's going to
see to it you have Him for your peace in your heart. That's why
He keeps turning you. That's why Christ could say without
any shadow of a doubt, in the world you shall have tribulation.
He takes His hand off you. If He leaves it to you, when
you get to thinking you're mighty and you can prevail and you're
strong, and He does this on purpose. He takes His hand off you to
show you, you're just like a toddler. Oh, I'm holding on to God just
like a toddler is. Father's holding that child up,
and that little child's just holding on to a little finger.
Who's holding who? But He has to let you see that.
But it's by His intercession, praying to Father, Father, glorify
Thou me in His heart, that I might glorify Thee in His heart. And
the Lord turns you again, and in Him you have all your peace. He's not going to let you find
peace anywhere else. I'm thankful for these children, thankful
for the blessings He gives us in this life. But He's not going
to let that be your peace. Not if you're His. Even if He
has to strip you of every bit of it. And then one day He will. One day He will. And you know
what He makes you do? Because He makes you see He's
your peace in your heart. You know what He makes you? He
makes you resign to Him. that what he's doing for you
is best. It's right. And he makes you submit to him,
and he makes you have all your joy in him. I was talking to
a believer just the other day who has cancer, and he just has
a little while to live. And as I've talked to him, he
has just spoken of Christ how he's so thankful that Christ
is his only righteousness and that he just, he knows he has
peace with God, he knows he has just blessings to look forward
to. And I wrote to him and I wrote
to him about that passage where Christ said, I'm going to give
you joy and your joy no man's going to take from you. And he
wrote to me and he said, I don't know that I can say I've had
joy in this." He said, I've had a lot of sorrow in it. And I
wrote him back and I said, oh brother, you have joy. You have
joy. I've heard you speak about it.
You've given me joy by speaking about your joy. You see, this
is the paradox of the believer. In our flesh we have tribulation
and we sorrow. It's we don't have to be stoic
and act like we don't oh, we don't have sorry we're strong
now When you have a new man and no guy honest I'm in sorrow My
life is a mess my well everything about me is a mess But at the
same time you could be dying and you are And in your heart
Christ keeps you having joy, rejoicing. And that rejoicing
is Him. That rejoicing is Him. Why? Because
He intercedes. He keeps interceding and He keeps
praying to the Father to glorify Him in your heart, that He might
glorify the Father in your heart. And by the Spirit of God, that's
what He's going to keep doing. That's what He's going to keep
doing. You see, the love of God is not a frustrated love. It's
not a frustrated love. He loves his people in Christ.
He chose us in Christ. He gave his people to Christ.
Christ redeemed his people. The Spirit's going to regenerate
his people, and he's going to keep his people. Now, here's
what he said. You remember how he raised Joseph, and Pharaoh
gave Joseph the power over all the storehouses? And when the
people would come to Pharaoh, he said, don't come to me. Go
to Joseph. If you want life, you're starving and you can't
give yourself life, and they were in a famine. If you're in
that famine, spiritually, and you need life, God says, go to
Christ. He's your Joseph. Go to Him.
And if you're in trouble and trial, and you're in sorrow in
your flesh, and you have tribulation in this world, don't deny it,
because if you do, you're denying what Christ said is so. You shall
have tribulation in this world. And if you're His, you know it's
so. But He said, in me you'll have peace. Go to Him. Go to Him. And you'll have joy
and peace in believing because He'll give it to you. He'll give
it to you. And no man will take it from
you. No man will take it from you. And He keeps giving it,
and He keeps giving it, and He keeps giving it. How do I know
if I'm one God the Father gave to his son? This is always the
question. How do I know if I'm one God the Father gave to his
son? There's just one way to know. Just one way. He said, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. And He said, Him that comes to
Me, I will in no wise cast out. Brethren, life's short. Don't
turn your back on your brethren. And if Christ will in no wise
cast you out, in no wise cast out your brethren. And in unbelieving
family, whatever, life's short. Redeem the time. Show the grace
and compassion and love that God's shown you. He might save
them. He might save them. He said,
I came down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will
of Him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which has
sent me, that of all which He has given me, I should lose nothing,
but raise it up again at the last day. If you're His, before
this life's over, before your life's over, I guarantee you
what you're going to do. You shall come to Him. And you
shall not stop coming to Him. Let's observe the table now and
remember Him. Brother Robbie, Brother Adam.