All right, brethren, John 17.
Tom, a message is the haves and the have nots. It's a big topic
in this world. I have no interest in speaking
on Bill Gates and Oprah and the little man that just can't get
ahead. Not those haves and have nots. Our Lord's praying here. He instructed the disciples how
to pray. They said, teach us to pray.
And he said, okay. And then he taught them to pray.
Here he's praying. God is praying to God and he
is telling the father all the good things he's done. I thought about telling him eight
stubborn statements. He tells him eight times, I have
done this and I have done that. I've done this. I cannot dare to tell the Lord
the good things I've done. I can't dare to tell anybody
else what good things I've done. I ain't done no good things.
He has. He has. And he told the Father,
rightfully so. Rightfully so. And we get to,
John got to listen. The Lord, because he gave him
his word, we'll see that down the list a little bit. He gave
him his word and it burned in him. And he didn't forget. And he wrote it down in Greek
on his native tongue so we could read it. That's something, isn't
it? And then he preserved it for
2,000 years through wars and hurricanes and fires when nobody
had no warning whatsoever. And let us have it today. Here's
the first thing the Lord told him he did. Christ tells the
father says in verse four, he says, I have glorified thee on
the earth. What a statement. That's true. He did. I have glorified thee
on the earth. He says that in verse one, he
says, father, thou has come glorify thy son that thy son may also
may also may glorify thee. And then in verse four, he says,
I have. Be with me, glorify me so I can glorify you. And he
said, I've glorified you. I have. I have not. Man says that a lot. We want
to worship God. People say, I got a message from
God just for you. And like old brother Nybert said,
I hate it when somebody says that because maybe you do and
maybe you don't. The Lord's the one that gives it. Not a man. I want to. You want to. But I ain't. He has. That's good
news. That offends people. That makes
a lot of people real mad. Don't you dare tell me I didn't
worship God today. If I worship God, it's because
Christ worshiped God, and I'm in Him. That's why. And whenever
we see we're in Him and He did it, you know what that's called?
That's called worshiping God. That's glorifying Him. Through
the hand of Paul, this precept was given. He said in 1 Thessalonians
5, Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort
the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient towards all
men. See that none render evil for evil unto any man, but ever
follow that which is good, both among yourselves and to all. Rejoice evermore. How have you
done it, Dad? How am I at rejoicing all the
time? It's hard, isn't it? And these
lot of afflictions. Like the hardest I showed my
weaknesses because I think the trials are so heavy God caught
him a lot of flicks didn't it? Lie lies a feather ain't nothing
pray without ceasing. Oh And in everything give thanks
for this is the will of God and cross Jesus concerning you. He said in everything give thanks
I Know I have a knowledge of what that says and sometimes
the Lord gives me a little bit of understanding what that means.
I But I understand enough to know I don't do that. Like I
want to. Like I'm required from a holy
God to. Christ has. On this earth, he says, I have
glorified thee. He has. He has. I have not. He's perfect. As God's with me, I'll never
put a sign on this church that says no perfect people allowed.
I hope to be able to tell men and women what sinners they are
against the Holy God, what worms we are. And our need of one that
glorified him. It says in Matthew 22, those
Pharisees, they heard that he put them Sadducees to silence
and they're gathered together. They say, he shut them up. Who
is this man? And one of them, which was a law, you're asking
him a question, tempting him, tempting God and saying, master,
which is the great commandment in the law called a master. That
sounds good, don't it? Jesus said, Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy
mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second's
like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these
two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. His entire life, never a cross
look, never an ill thought, only glorifying the Father 24-7. While
he's sleeping, he glorified the Father. I can say the words of
that. You don't get that, I don't get
that. We can't even imagine what that's
like. He did, I know that, you know that too. He did, that was
him. Psalmist wrote, sing praises
to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our king, sing
praises. For God is the king of all the
earth. Sing ye praises with understanding. He said, we're going to praise
God. Do you know who he is? He's the one that glorified the
father. We can't do that. In him we have. That's our only
hope. He did it. Old brother Scott
Richardson wrote this one time. He said, we have a lot to say
about what Christ's death accomplished for the believer, but very little
is said about what that death accomplished toward God. The
fact is that the death of Christ glorified God if never a single
sinner had been saved by virtue of it. What he did was right,
holy, perfect. It was glorifying to the Father.
For the joy he had set before him, he endured that cross with
a good attitude, not begrudgingly. Father said, do this. He said,
you got it. Yes, right now. Happily, happily. He has, I have. Who for the joy that was set
before him, he endured the cross, despising the same shame, and
is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. That's
the first thing he's done. He told the Father, he said,
here's what I've done. This is who mankind's gonna be
judged against if they wanna stand by their merits. Don't
recommend that. I don't recommend it. Secondly,
verse four, John 17, verse four. He says, I have glorified thee
on earth. I have finished the work which
thou gavest me to do. The work's done. The work's done. The first words ever recorded.
He spoke before this, I'm sure. The first thing he's ever wrote
down about our Lord speaking. If you got a red letter, Bible's
the first thing in red. An age, he was 12 years old and
he was at that temple and they come back to find him. He's gone
a couple of days away, his mommy and daddy. And he said, how is
it that you sought me? Wish ye not, don't you know that
I must be about my father's business? I got, I got a job to do. I got
worked. A 12 year old looked at his mom
and dad and said, I'm at work right now. Why are you bothering
me at work? I ain't done. His final words
recorded of the God man. He received the vinegar and he
said, it's finished. 21, a third years later, however
long it was. And he bowed his head and he
did something nobody's ever done. He gave up the ghost. He finished the job rightly. I gotta think about that this
week. I never done that. I gotta blow
your socks off. You ain't never finished a job
neither. Nobody has. There's always something left
to do or to do it better. And I was pacing my driveway,
trying to stay awake, just walking and walking and walking and walking.
And I thought, I cut down a tree. That's done, ain't it? And you
know what was growing up next to that tree? Branches and leaves
coming out of it. And there's another tree I cut
down one time and I dug that up. Stump grinder, ground it
up. We got the roots out. But we
didn't get all the roots out. It was on the ground, I didn't
even know about it. You know what comes out of one of them roots? A little tiny
leaf. I didn't finish the job. If I did finish the job, if that
tree was eradicated, I didn't do it with all my heart, with
all my soul, with all my mind, as unto the Lord while I did
it. That means the job wasn't done right. He finished the work. Nobody's ever done that. He did. He did it. He cursed the fig
tree, too, and it never bore fruit. He got rid of the tree. He knew where the roots was,
wasn't he? He finished the work, and that work that's finished,
and that glorifying He did of the Father, there's absolutely
nothing to add to it, absolutely nothing to add to it. It's done,
and there's absolutely nothing that can be undone about it.
If He did it, it's done. It can't be undone. I like that. I can't mess it up. Can I mess
me up? I sure can, and I'll break my
leg and get cancer and pull my own hair out for no reason or
whatever. I'll torture myself, but I can't undo that. I can't mess it up. He glorified the Father. He finished
the work. Verse six, I have, John 17, six, I have manifested
thy name. unto the men which thou gavest
me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest
them me, they have kept thy word. What a statement. Those ones
that were getting ready to, he just told them, he said, y'all
gonna deny me. Every one of you is gonna go your own way, and
you're gonna leave me plum alone. You're gonna forsake me. And
he says, Father, they've kept thy word. That's amazing too, isn't it?
But he says, I've manifested thy name unto them. You gave
them to me. They were yours, you gave them
to me. And they've kept it. He manifested. That means render
apparent. Well, that's obvious. And once you see that, know that,
you can't not know it. Some things can't unsee. Some
things can't unhear, right? Well, when He manifests the Father's
name to you, who He is, His attributes, even in parks, that's all we
see. It's apparent. It's rendered apparent. And the
root word, that's shining. It's just beaming. And you can't,
you close your eyes and you still see it. He said, I've demonstrated,
I've showed, I've established, I've manifested your name, Father. How did he do that? To give him
note cards? Paul said, for in him, in Christ
dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead bodily. The whole Godhead
is in a body. And it's the Lord Jesus Christ.
He said, you've seen me, you've seen the Father, Thomas. What's
wrong with you? I'm glad he didn't get it, because
there's stuff I don't get too. He's long suffering, isn't he?
Didn't a lot of people see him? Thousands, a million, I don't
know how many. Oh, they saw him. He walked right through them.
A bunch. Look at verse 26. We're on 1726. And I have declared
unto them thy name. I've declared thy name. I've
manifested your name and will declare. That's important too. That the love wherewith thou
hast loved me may be in them and I in them. and declaring
this name, the name of the father, he says, I've done this, that
the love where you've loved me is going to be in them. That's
not inserting. Here's something to do. Uh, he, he, he saved you. Now you
got to drive it on home. That's insane. He's manifested
the name. He's declared the name. And that
way you see what love he has, the one that first loved us.
He said over 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 will manifest his name to. Come unto
me, the next verse says, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
I'll give you rest. That's love. He said, I'm gonna
manifest that name. So of course it's love and that's
rest. That means you stop working. If you're working, you're not
resting. If you're resting, you're not working. It's pretty simple. It takes God to reveal it. It does. He's done this. He's declared
and will declare. I've not done it as He's done
it. I cannot do it as He does it. Only God can reveal God. We'll see it later on, too. I
got a job to do. I just tell people about it. He does that. That's His work. When we looked
at those names of Jehovah last year, every one of those revealed
to us a person. Revealed to us a person. He manifested
Himself. He revealed Himself as a name.
Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord will provide. That ram caught in a
thicket for Isaac as a substitute. Christ revealed himself to be
our lamb slain. He's my substitute. Jehovah Rapha,
the Lord that healeth thee. Oh, why do I need healing? I'm
sick. I have a sin sickness and his
blood, it bought us, it healed us from our sin sickness. It
washed us eternally and we're washed with the water of his
word and his daily mercies every morning. That's him. That's been revealed to us. Jehovah
Shema, the Lord's present. Oh ain't he? He truly is with
us. Jehovah Shalom, our peace. He's
our peace. Not an emotion of physical standing,
of contentment, of not having a trial, but He's manifested
that He is our peace. We know it. We forget. He reveals
that and whenever He declares it, He's declared that to you
and He will declare. Why? We're going to forget. Jehovah
Nisi, that understanding has been given, and he's the only
banner worth following, worth congregating under, and worth
declaring to the world. Follow him. Go where he is. Jehovah Raya, our shepherd, that's
made more shining, manifested. That's made readily apparent
to me more and more and more and more. Jehovah sit kinu. It's been established in my heart
in a shining way. He's all my righteousness. How
about you? Not seeking my own righteousness,
not trying to establish my own being ignorant of God's righteousness. But he's manifest that to us.
That's his name. Manifested to us not wrote ROT. There's no W R O T E not wrote
memorization where you just here now write these down You're gonna
repeat it repeat it repeat it repeat it and then you got it
one day Not that but rather it's made apparent. It's established
in us. He's built that in us That's
something John 17 verse 6. I have manifested thy name unto
the men which thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they
were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given
me are of thee. Christ and the Father, they're
one. Now they know. I've manifested it to them. I've
revealed this to them. He's glorified the Father, He's
finished the work, He's manifest His deity, His oneness with the
Father, His worth, who He is, He's our all. Verse 8, For I
have given unto them the words which thou gavest me. I've given
them your word. You gave me words, I gave them
the same word. And they have received them and
have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have
believed that thou didst send me. He says this again, look
down verse 14, I have given them thy word and the world hath hated
them because they're not of the world even as I'm not of the
world. I've gave them that word and it shines in them, they can
close their eyes all they want to, it's true and you know it.
It's apparent, it's obvious isn't it? Right there it is, that's
what it says. He's done that. He's given us his word. Our Lord
preached to thousands, didn't he? Just as he was seen physically
in a body by thousands. Does that mean something? He
didn't manifest himself. Thousands and thousands and thousands
heard him speak. Same ones that saw him probably, they heard
him talk, heard him preach the gospel. They didn't hear. Those that saw him didn't see.
Those that heard him didn't hear. Why? He didn't give them the
word. He didn't plant it in them. He didn't make it apparent in
them. Turn over to Matthew 13. Let's look there. Matthew 13. There's that parable
of the sowers here in Matthew 13. I always think of when the Lord
gave parables, he'd say, sometimes he that has ears to hear, let
him hear. And then the disciples said, what'd you mean by that?
He said, sit down, I'll tell you. Here in verse 18, he's explaining
it. The parable of the sowers explained.
Remember in our text, he said, I've given them the words which
you gave me. Gave it to them. They've received it. Matthew
13, 18. Hear ye therefore the parable
of the sower, or to command his own. Hear it. When anyone heareth
the word of the kingdom and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked
one and catcheth away that which is sown in his heart. This is
he which has received the seed by the wayside. That's a walking
path in the garden. Hard, packed ground. That seed
lands on it, and on the hard ground, it's like, what's this
seed? It can't get into me, well. And Satan comes and snatches it up
like a bird. He said, that's the wayside, verse 20. But he that
received the seed in the stony places, there's a little bit
of soil in there between rocks, ain't there? You try to mulch
something and grass comes up. He that received it in the stony
places, the same as he that heareth the word, and on and straight
away with joy receives it. Oh, this is great. I'm gonna
show up to every service, and I'm never gonna miss one. This
is all new to me, and I tell everybody, boy, it's springing
up. Boy, life's shooting up in the air. Everybody's so happy.
Fruit's coming, just wait. Verse 21, yet he hath not root
in himself. It's an outward show, but there's
no Christ in it. But isn't that the same seed?
It's all the same seed. It's broadcast. Our job is to
throw it. Scattered out there. Hath not rooted himself, but
doreth for a while, maybe a long while, maybe decades, for when
tribulation or persecution arises. Why? Why would that stuff come
up? Because of the word. By and by,
may not be offended right then, but sooner or later, he's offended. They value worldly peace rather
than God-given peace in Christ the Word. I'm gonna say it again. They value worldly peace rather
than the peace of God given in Christ the Word. Verse 22, he also that receiveth
seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word, and the care
of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and
he becometh unfruit. That's good, that's right. All them doctrines of grace,
that's right. That's correct. I read the Bible,
and that's what it says. I give mental assent. That's
right here. That's not here. That's 18 inches above that.
But you know, life just got in the way. I just got too busy. I just got a lot of stuff going
on. It's hard to get there. Well, the kids, you know, they're
grumpy and it's late for them or whatever. Life gets in the
way. Thorns and thistles. The cares
of this world. Riches. I know a couple of believers
got offered big jobs. I mean, big money. It would have
been terrible if they had took it. Old Spurgeon had that man
come into great wealth one time. He's just a normal fella, just
a blue-collar worker, and he had some uncle or something that
died, left him like $500,000 way back in the 1800s. And he
said, we need to get the men together at this church and pray
for that fella. This is bad. I said, no, this is good. He
said, no, it ain't. It's a horrible thing. Verse
23. Here's one the Lord gives this
word to. The he that receiveth received seed in the good ground.
the good ground. Who's the good ground? I'm thankful
he's going to tell us. He's told us the difference between
the pathways and stones and thorns and he said let me show you what
good ground is. Is he that heareth the word that have knowledge
and understandeth it. Who gives that? He does. He gives
wisdom and knowledge and understanding doesn't he? which also beareth
fruit, and bringeth forth some hundred, some sixty, some thirty."
We don't know how much they're going to bring forth, that's
the Lord's business, but they understand it. He's giving them
understanding. I've gave them your word, and
they believe it, and they know what it's talking about. He said,
I'll give you pastors, feed you with knowledge and understanding.
I can make people memorize, teach them how to read English, and
memorize some verses. I can't give understanding. That's
just the method, that's the pipe. I've been thankful for water,
but how often do you get down, you got copper pipes or pecks
in your house? Some people might know. It don't matter, I just
need water. I'm thirsty. He gives understanding. We understand. He's everything to us. He's the
farmer, we're the dirt. You get that? He's got the, well,
there's, I understand what stones are and thorns are and pathways,
and you gotta go from being a pathway to being good ground. No, he's
the farmer. It's his land. We're dirt. He
puts the past where he wants them. He puts a stone as mulch
or whatever, wherever he wants it. And he lets thorns grow up
where it suits him to let thorns grow up. That's his business.
And he plows the ground. Busts it up. Here, busted you
up in the heart. Made you know you ain't nothing but worm-filled
dirt. And he stuck some seeds in there, and you're like, I
don't know why I have seeds in here. Little boy was at Ashland one time,
and his mommy and daddy said, now you listen to Henry when
he's preaching. You gotta pay attention to him. And he listened to what
he said. And after the service, he said, did you pay attention?
And he said, I tried my best not to, but I did anyway. I couldn't
keep from it. I don't know what that seed's
doing in here, but it's starting to grow, and it hurts a little
bit. busting up my ground. We know he's the farmer. He's
also given us the written word. What a blessing. This New Testament
was written in Greek, Old Testament Hebrew, and we just don't understand,
and we don't have to overcome that humility. Those Jews the
Lord saved, everything was done in the Hebrew tongue. We worshiped
God in the Hebrew tongue. Yeah, well, you're gonna have
to read it in Greek. Well, I don't know Greek. I'm not equipped
to know Greek. Well, get you a dictionary and
learn it. Ask God to give you the ability to. We don't have
to do that. That's what I wrote to Ark last week. I'd have to
learn both. I don't know Hebrew or Greek.
What'd he do? Look at what the merciful Lord
did. That's in English. But what if you speak Spanish? They got one of them too. But
what about Hindu? They got that. But what about
Malawian or whatever they speak in Africa, all the different
countries? They got that too. That's abundant. He gave us his
word physically. That's a blessing. And we read
this, and we know it's about him. That's some understanding. Do you know everything? I sure
don't. Those people got a whole lot more knowledge than I do,
but he gave me understanding, and they don't understand it.
Like, Phillip told that EHO community, you understand what you're reading?
He said, how can I except a man teach me? That's humility, isn't
it? I know, I know, I know, beat it. I've been going to church
for 45 years. He didn't say that. He said, teach me something.
He glorified the Father, he finished the work, he manifested the Father's
name, he's given us a word with understanding, and like Paul
told the church at Thessalonica, we've received it in power. It
came to us in power, not in word only, in power. It shines in
us. Notice here in verse nine. He's
gonna say, instead of I have, this is present tense. John 17,
nine. I pray for them. pray not for
the world but for them which thou hast given me for they are
thine." He didn't say I have prayed for them, though he had
prayed for them. That's recorded. He's praying
right now, and he didn't say I'm going to pray for them. It's
always present. If you read it right now, that's
present tense. And six months from now, guess what? That's
going to be present tense. That word he gave us, I pray for them. I pray for them. I haven't prayed as I pray, try
to don't know much about it. I pray for as I want to, as I
ought to. I haven't prayed for those that don't love me. I haven't prayed for those enemies
that despitefully use me. He has, he said, told the father
said, I prayed for him. He's praying for those who are
about to deny him while he lays down his life for him. And he
prays for me that's liable to deny him the second I walk out
that door. And you know what that makes me think? Who's a
God like our God? This man, but this man, because
he continueth ever hath an unchangeable priesthood, wherefore he's able
to say them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing
he ever liveth to make intercession for him. I pray for him. I say that, I pray for you, and
I try to, I do. He says that that's something
I pray for. John said, my little children,
these things are right under you that you sin not, and if
any man sin, when you do, we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous, the one that glorified the Father,
that same one, that one that finished the work, the same one,
the one that manifested his name, the one that gave us his word,
the same one. He says, I pray for him. Pray
for them. He prayed for Peter and told
him about that. He said, Simon, Satan's desired to have you that
he may sift you as wheat. But I prayed for thee that thy
faith fail not. It sure gonna look like it failed,
didn't it? And when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. Of course, Peter bucked right
then. I'll die for you. I won't do
that. I'll never forsake you. I'm thankful his prayers aren't
hindered because of me. And not just the apostles. That's
good news for them disciples. It's right there with him. Remember
11, but you and I, who's God been, he's manifested himself
to look at verse 20, back in John 17, verse 20. Neither pray
I for these alone, but for them also, which thou, which shall
believe on me through their word. Who's that? You who believe that's
us. He prayed for us. He glorified the Father. He finished
the work. He manifested his name to us. He'd given us his word,
knowledge and understanding. And he has, he is, and he shall
pray for us. It gets better. Can you declare you've done all
them things to a holy God? Can he? You betcha. He has. Don't give us peace. He's kept
us. It's already done. It's signed,
sealed, delivered. Look in verse 12. While I was with them in
the world, I kept them in thy name. Those that thou gave us
to me, I have kept and none of them is lost, but the son of
perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled. He wasn't
given to him in time past, but he was with him and he looked
after him and took care of him and raised him up for this purpose
that the scriptures might be fulfilled. He's kept us. I preached on that recently,
the double kept. He's kept us and not let us go, and he's kept
us from escaping. What a thought. I was thinking,
playing guitar, I can't even keep time. My foot gets tapping
too fast or too slow. I speed up and slow down, much
less keep someone else's soul or my own. He has. I have not. He has. He has kept
it. He's keeping it and he shall
keep it forever to those that's given to him. Seven were sent
with job to declare the work of him glorifying the father
of finishing the work of manifesting God to his people by giving the
word, by keeping them and by praying for him and tell people
it's finished. What must I do to work the works
of God? And he says, this is God's work.
Natural work. I like to read it that way sometimes,
huh? It says in verse 15, I pray not
that thou shalt take them out of the world, but that thou shalt
keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth.
Thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the
world, Christ came in this world to do something, didn't he? And
he did it, and he's telling the Father, there's all the things I did.
I finished it. Even so, have I also sent them
in the world. I've sent them. I've sent them. Christ has sent out his servants
to manifest himself through his servants to his servants. It's amazing. The world calls
that foolishness. That's the same way the body
grows, isn't it? Can that finger right there grow if I didn't
have this part of the arm? No, it grows through it, doesn't
it? How does he grow his body? With the body. And we go through
these trials, and we're all hated, and we go through all this pain
and suffering in the body and the mind and the heart and outside
and inside. We go through all this, and he proves to us that
he's done it. I know no preachers that are
preaching right now and wonderful messages and it's true and they
know God and it's a miracle God says a miracle and it just it
is To the fact that somebody like me could stand up and tell
you these things God has to do that. It wouldn't me It's so he sends out broken vessels
that light shines out of the vessels that's broken cracked
clay pots What's the end to all this? Well, it's already right
now, in a way. Look here in verse 20. Neither
pray I for these alone, but for them also, which shall believe
on me through their word, that they all may be one, as thou,
Father, art in me and I in thee, that they also may be one in
us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. This is unbelievable. And the
glory which thou gavest me, I have given them. He said, glorify
me that I may glorify you. And he said, I've glorified you.
And he said, that glory that you've given me, I've given to
them, that they may be one, even as we are one. Made one with
Christ. Unity with Christ. What's that
word glory mean there? Giving a reputation. A good one,
not a bad one. We associate that with bad, don't
we? Oh, they got a reputation. He gives it. Dignity. Honor. Praise. He said, I've given them glory.
Not as he has as the lamb that sits on the throne. but to be
made one with him. And all the world's gonna know
that he was sent of the father. And I said, look at all them
people right there he loves. He loved them and he kept them. What a thought, isn't it? I thought
of Pharaoh and Joseph. And as a picture of us, I didn't
know how to word it really until now. So the Lord let me dwell
on that. It manifested, it festered a little bit. Pharaoh told Joseph,
he said, you're over everything. He said, I only am over you in
the throne. You're the prime minister. You
make the rules, do what you want. You're ruling stuff. You're judging
things. But I'm on the throne. And I
thought, that's us. We're made one with him, just like a bride.
Kimberly's name might not be on a, I don't know what car your
name's on, what it ain't, but she's married to me. If she takes
the keys to one of them cars and goes somewhere, that's right.
What am I gonna do, call the law? If I called along and told them
that, they'd say, you probably ought to apologize, too, is what they'd say. One with Him. He has given those
given to Him glory, the same glory the Father gave Christ.
What oneness. Let me tell you something, that's an honor. That's
dignified. That's praiseworthy. We're His
bride. We're given His name. We're given
His likeness. We're predestinated to be conformed
to His image. We're given His smell. I don't
know what that's going to be like. It's going to be great. And he says, I have. It's done. And that's right now. And he
told Peter, don't you call something unclean? I've called clean. That's
it. How can he call me clean? He
did. It's his doing it. What a thought. I thought of
Matthew 25 and he said, those ones with the talents and the
Lord said unto him, well done, thou good and faithful servant.
Thou hast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee
ruler over many. Enter thou into the joy of thy
Lord. Enter into oneness with your
Lord. I read through these I haves, the haves and have nots. Everything
I have not done. I could not do, or I'll be honest
with you, people want men to confess their sins, I'll confess
it, I would not have done it. He has. It says so. And it cannot be undone. The
gifts and calling of God are without repentance. I'm earnest when I say this,
I'm not being sarcastic. I mean, how could somebody not
be happy with that? How could somebody hear that
and get mad and say, I want to do something. I want to do something. I want to serve him and thank
him. And I want to glorify the father. And I actually want to
finish something. I want to stay here till the
work's done, whatever he's gave me to do. Don't be sent out by him. And
I want to pray for folks. I want to pray for you and pray
for myself and my family. I want to be kept. He's going
to keep me and I want him to keep me. What a thought, huh? And I couldn't
dare say I want to be glorified with him. Who could utter such
words if he didn't? He said it, didn't he? All right. Never mind.