John 17, we looked last time
at the first few verses here, and we'll look at them briefly
just again real quick, make a couple comments. John 17 verse 1 says,
These words spake Jesus and lifted up His eyes to heaven. He prayed
to the Father, this high priestly prayer for His people. He said,
Father, the hour has come. Glorify Thy Son that Thy Son
may also may glorify Thee. as thou hast given him power
over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many
as thou hast given him." God elected the people. Christ came
and was conceived and born and lived and breathed and died and
rose again for those people. and He will lose none. And He
has all power. This is a sovereign, almighty
God that's praying this. I love that. I love that. You start telling unregenerated
people about a sovereign God on His throne, ruling and reigning
and doing all things to save a people and make them just like
Christ, and people get mad. They get mad. Every one of y'all
know we've been here for five years. We've been coming here
for five years. Kimberly has a genetic disorder. And she's
in a lot worse shape than most people her age right now. And
it's going to get a lot worse when she does get older. And
people say, that's not fair. You're too young. And she said,
no, is God wrong? I don't like that. Leave you
alone, won't they? A sovereign God's on His throne.
He did what He saw fit. Right? Or do you not know Him? He did that. She knows it. I
thought of Revelations 11. It says, We give thanks, O Lord,
God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come. You always
have been. You're the everlasting God. Because
Thou hast taken to Thee Thy great power and hast reigned. You've done anything you saw
fit for the salvation of your people and your glory. Revelation
11, 18 begins, and the nations were angry. Don't you tell me
something like that. I know what's best. They screamed,
No, God. No, God. Not there is no God. No, God. There is. It's in italics
or in the Psalms. No. No, that can't be. No. All power over all flesh that
he should give eternal life however he sees fit and the means that
he wants to do it. As many as thou the Father has
given him. This is the one prayer. Who's
this for? This is for the disciples then and it's for his disciples
now. Do you follow him? I know there's
so many followers. in our generation. Everybody
has followers, don't they? Y'all better be careful with
them words, that's the Lord's language. He had disciples then,
walked this earth, those apostles that were standing next to him.
He has disciples now, you are. And if this world keeps going,
he's going to have his children then. It says in verse 9, I pray
for them, for those apostles standing there with him. I pray
not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for
they are thine. Then down in verse 20, he says, neither pray
I for these alone, for these apostles alone, but for them
also which shall believe on me through their word. Two thousand
years later, we're going to sit down and we're going to read
John's word that he wrote down right here and say, I believe
him. I believe the Lord. You who believe on Christ, you
hath everlasting life. You got right now and ever going
away. You're alive in Him. You that believe on Him. How?
We were the fathers. He owns everything, everybody,
a thousand on the cattle heels. In an aspect, all men serve Him. Those that hate Him serve Him.
His enemies serve Him for His glory. We were the fathers and
the Father gave us to Christ. You have eternal life, you that
believe on Him. He's your whole basis, foundation. You stand on Him, you kneel on
Him, you lay on Him. You're on Him. You have eternal
life because Christ, who is life, has us. You get that? The Father gave us to Him and
we have life because He has us. Where He is. Verse 2. as thou hast given him power
over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many
as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that
they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom
thou hast sent." Know Him. Life is to know God, not just
know about Him. Everybody can tell you something
about Him. Everybody tells you some facts about the Bible, but
to adore Him. To love Him. Love Him. To need Him. Who He is. Not who we think He is. Everybody
loves somebody, a God they've imagined up in their minds. But
according to this Word, the true and living God of this Bible,
to adore Him. and turn yourself over to him
lock, stock and barrel and he's your life. I have a what we call
life in this world and I want those things to be nice. I want
a family and children get along and everybody come over for Thanksgiving,
have a cookout every now and then. I want those things. Go
on vacation every now and then. He's my life. He doesn't come
first in my life. He is my life. It's him. Hopefully we'll see tonight what
he did. We used to look at the person and the work of the Lord
Jesus Christ, but that work was only for those that are made
to know him, to adore him, to need him. After Moses, he asked
to see the Lord's glory. He said, I beseech thee, show
me your glory. Show it to me. And the Lord said
he would. He said, I'm going to reveal my name to you, Moses.
You reckon that's important? I'm going to reveal my name to
you." That's who He is, isn't it? Then, I'm going to be gracious
to whom I'll be gracious, and I'll show mercy on whom I'll
show mercy. He said, I'm going to put you in the cleft of the
rock, and I'm going to pass by you, keep you covered in there
so you don't die. And in chapter 34 it happened,
in Exodus 34. And God said what He was going
to do, and then He did it. That simple. God can do that,
we can't. He said what he's going to do
and it happened. And the Lord passed by before him and he proclaimed,
the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. That's what it
says. Is that what you read whenever
you read Exodus? That's what it says, isn't it? What is it
to know him? He's merciful and gracious to
me. To me. Long-suffering, that's
what he is, that's a fact, to me. Is it to you? Has he been
long-suffering to you? Has he suffered you a long time? Are you insufferable to anybody
else but Him? An abundant in goodness and truth
to me. Keeping mercy for thousands.
Even this fellow. One that needs mercy. Forgiving
iniquity and transgression and sin. Singular. My sin. That's to know Him. My sin. That's what I am. And
that will by no means clear the guilty. What's that mean? Christ died on a cross at Calvary.
Who put him there? I did. I was so wretched and vile that
when he became me, the father killed him. He saw my face on
his face and he killed him. Visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children upon the children's children unto
the third and to the fourth generation. If you know the God, if He's
revealed Himself to you, the Lord Jesus Christ in whom God,
the Godhead dwells in a body, what do you do? He revealed Himself
to Moses personally, right? This ain't, don't go study it
in a seminary. God talked to him. He revealed
Himself to him. One-on-one. That's life. He revealed
Himself to him. Do you go up in a school? I know
a fellow one time who was going to be an evangelist or a missionary. And he got down there and he
realized that wasn't panning out the way he thought it was
going to. And he said, well, these people ain't got drinking water and I know how
to run a well driller, and so I'm going to start drilling wells
for Jesus. And it just so happened, I know another fellow that went
to the preacher school there in Asheville, and he said, I just feel that
the Lord's called me for a ministry in Hawaii. And I said, look,
you don't say. Me too. How about all you, huh?
Let's pack up and move. That's awful convenient, isn't
it? That's shameful is what that is. You don't go up to school,
you don't donate a portion of your time, you don't donate a
portion of your money, you don't donate a portion of your property.
Well, I can open that room up to somebody that's coming through
town. You don't tell everyone in town that you agree with these
doctrinal principles. That's not what you do when the
Lord reveals himself to you. Moses did this in Exodus 34 verse
8. Moses made haste. That means
he did it right then. In a hurry. And he bowed his
head toward the earth and he worshipped. His heart burned within him and
he worshipped God. What did he say? He must be my
prophet. He's the prophet, priest, and
king, isn't he? He's got to be my prophet. Mine. I have no wisdom
apart from him revealing himself to me or revealing anything to
me. He must be my priest. Is He your priest? He's got to
be my priest. I can't approach a holy God that
I did nothing but sin against. He's the only one I sinned against.
You may have saw it. I've sinned against the holy
God. He must be my priest. He must intercede for me. And
He must be my king. My King, I must be His subject.
He must be my King. He must rule and reign. He must
decide all things. He must protect me from all of
my enemies. He's going to have to provide
all the food. He's going to have to provide all the jobs, all
the clothing. He must do it. It's got to be
Him. That's falling on your face with
more. I can't do those things. He must. Do you know Him as those
things? Do you need him more than your
daily bread and water? John 17, verse 1. These words
speak Jesus and lift up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the
hour has come. Glorify thy son, that thy son
also may glorify thee. As thou hast given him power
over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many
as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal. that
they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom
Thou hast sent. I have glorified Thee on the
earth." And what does it say next after that quote? Read with
me. finished the work which thou gavest me to do." That's the
first two I have's of the nine I have's in this chapter, in
this prayer. We're going to look at that another
time. The nine I have's. He tells what he's done. I have,
I have. He says, I have glorified thee
on the earth, colon, He's going to tell us the means by which
He glorified the Father on this earth. I have finished the work
that which thou gavest me to do. He finished the work that
the Lord gave Him to do, the Father gave Him to do. Everybody
knows about a man named Jesus, don't they? What'd He do? Well,
he was here. Well, yeah, he was here. What'd
he do while he was here? Well, he was born in Nazareth.
Yeah, that's where he was born. What'd he do? Well, he ended up being
on a cross. What'd that do? There's a bunch
of people died on crosses. A Roman cross. Why? What'd he
do? We know about the person. That's
what we've been looking at the last 12 minutes. That's who. That's the person,
the Lord Jesus Christ and his work. He said, I finished the
work that you gave me to do. What was his first recorded words?
I don't know. He said a lot of words. He had
learned to talk. Doesn't that just blow your mind? Theologians ought
to get their big heads wrapped around that. He grew in wisdom
and stature in favor of God and men. How is that possible? I
don't know. He learned to talk, didn't he?
But his first words were recorded. in the scriptures. He said a
lot of words before that. The first one's recorded. He was 12 years
old and the Lord Jesus Christ, the Almighty God in a human body,
stood on this earth and his mommy and daddy couldn't find him.
They went to services and they're heading back home and a couple
days into it, they said, where's he at? I thought he was with
you. And they went back to the temple
because that's where he liked to be. He's asking them questions. I don't want to... compared to
the questions he asked, They got a billboard up the road here,
said, you asked for it and you got it. Text your hard questions. Got an app. Everything's an app
now, isn't it? What would the Queen of Sheba
do? She wouldn't ask some hard questions if she got her mouth
shut. She got some answers, hard answers, didn't she? He come
and asked, he was asking them questions and his mom and daddy
come back and said, what are you doing? He said, how is it that you sought
from me? Don't you know that I must be about my father's business?
I've got to do his work. What's wrong with you? Twelve
years old. That's his first recorded words in the scripture. I've
got to do the work the Father gave me to do. Hard to be eleven
or twelve years old, isn't it? Those first adult responsibilities
start coming in. If you're partly a child and
partly a man and you've got to do things that's hard but you
still want to play and be a kid, that's a hard time. This is a
side note, but it needs said. You know what Henry used to say?
How did Henry say it? Well, he had to say it for people
to hear it, didn't he? Maybe some of those people said, Kevin
used to say. Adolescence is a manufactured concept in the last 75 years.
That never existed before 100 years ago, ever. That's just
a reason for parents to not raise their children according to the
Word of God because they ain't no good. That's it. What did Paul say? The Word of
God says, he said, I was a child, I thought like a child, I acted
like a child. When I was a man, I talked like a man, I acted
like a man, I thought like a man. That's it. At 12 years old, this
man, the God-man, was about his father's business. Every thought
he had, every facial... Hang with me, now this is good.
We'll learn something tonight. Every facial expression he had,
any act of any kind, it was for the glory of God. Is that our motivation? I thought of this. You want a
diet plan? The Lord ate figs. I was working on a fig tree the
other day. He ate figs. Did He like figs? He did. He
went and ate them. Every bite He ever took was for
the glory of God. I couldn't imagine that. Every fig He ate, that was for
the Father's glory. I don't even know what that would
be like to consider such things 24-7. What are you going to have
for dinner? What would most glorify the Father? That's what's required of us,
to love the Father with all our heart, soul, mind, body, and
spirit. He did. I like what Brother Paul made.
Does somebody want to clap and jump up and down and say amen? Not for his own benefit. Not
for our benefit. He lived that perfect, that's
who He was, but He did it for us. He glorified the Father and
lived on our behalf, our substitute. He was always about the Father's
business. Accomplishing the work that the Father gave Him to do.
What is that? You know the who. You know the
person that this was. What was His finished work? The
scriptures tell us abundantly, don't they? They're filled with
His person and His work. His person is the names of the
Lord. I love Him. He declares who He is. There's
175 or I don't know, lots. It's not just seven. He has a
lot of names. They're magnificent. And the
work the Father gave Him to do, that would be a long list if
you had to write it out. To glorify Him, keep His law,
make a payment for sin, intercede for that purchased people that
He bled for, keep them, Keep them in His hand. Like I read
to you out of Exodus 34, this is the person. It's not just
facts. All that happened for me. Did that happen for you? Or did we just give mental ascent
to the facts and we found the correct gospel? Or did God do
all these things for us? That's 18 inches. I want to hear. I need it here. I might have
believed on Him yesterday, I need to believe on Him today, do you?
I have it here. I read an article today about
11 things people think are in the Bible and they're not, and
they got it right. They can determine what's said
in this text. Those things, I'll just give
you a couple of them. God won't give you more than you can handle.
They said that ain't in the Scriptures nowhere, and it ain't. You can't handle nothing. If
a fly landed on you, it'd kill you instantly. You can handle
nothing without His power. They didn't say that, but...
Apple in the garden. It wasn't an apple. It was the
fruit of the tree. Money is the root of all evil. No, it's not.
That's an inanimate object. The love of money is the root
of all evil. This too shall pass. Now, there's some scripture that's
loosely based. Those words aren't in the scriptures.
Cleanliness is next to godliness. God helps those who help themselves.
I wish they'd have kept going. I'd say, y'all ought to roll
now if you had about ten more points. God loves everybody. What? Christ died for everybody
and the Holy Spirit is trying to save everybody. Lies! Turn over to Daniel 9. I want
to see what the scriptures say. Not what I think the work was
that he did. I want to tell you what God said
he's going to do. Because he said he's going to
do it and he did it. Didn't he? Daniel chapter 9. Daniel 9. If you get to Hosea,
you went too far. Daniel was praying for himself
and for Israel. He was confessing his sin. He said, Israel's sin.
He was making supplication. And while he was praying, Gabriel
come to him. He flew swiftly. He was on a
mission and he touched him. And he said, O Daniel, I am now
come forth to give thee skill and understanding. He's going
to preach to him. I'm going to give you knowledge
and understanding. Do you want some knowledge and understanding?
What did Christ do? Everybody knows about this fella.
He came here, what'd he do? Here in verse 25, Daniel 9, 25. Gabriel's
telling Daniel about the hour. Our Lord said, the hour has come.
Here's what he's speaking of. Daniel 9, 25. Know therefore
and understand that from the going forth of the commandment
to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah, the prince
shall be seven weeks and three score and two weeks. The street
shall be built again in the wall, even in troublous times. And
after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off." That's
the hour. He's going to die. This is beautiful. But not for himself. Not doing
the work of the Father. That's for us. And the people
of the prince shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary,
and the end thereof shall be it with a flood. And unto the
end of the war, desolations are determined. This is speaking
of the Messiah. This is speaking of the Anointed
One. You know, the Greek and the Hebrew, Messiah and Christ,
it's the same thing. That's the Anointed One, isn't
it? That's who we know we're speaking of. Now, knowing that
this is who Gabriel's talking about, look up in verse 24. 70
weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city
to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make
reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most
holy." That Messiah is going to come and he's got some work
to do. Six things are listed here. Six things. First off,
it just gives us a little time frame. It says 70 weeks. A week
was 7 years, is what they're referring to, and there's 70
of them. That's 490 years. And Gabriel's saying 490 years
from right now, Daniel, this stuff's going to come to pass.
And he's going to be cut off. That hour's going to happen.
But not for himself. Not for himself. for the Father
and for us. What's he going to do? First
thing, to finish the transgression. What's that mean? Well, first
off, that means to put away our sin. We've sinned. He's got to
put away our sin. That's what he said in Matthew
1. Those angels came and she shall bring forth a son, they
said, and I shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his
people from their sins. That transgression is going to
be put away. It's going to finish transgression. It's over. He's
going to save us from those. And He's going to put away evil
forever. Not just our sins and sins are going to be floating
all around and all this stuff. He's going to crush that serpent's
head like it says in Genesis 3.15, isn't it? It's going to
bruise your hair. You're going to bruise his head.
John told us that in 1 John. He said, For this purpose the
Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of
the devil. He came here to destroy the works
of the devil. What's that mean? All men are
without excuse. And women, and children, and
anything else. They're guilty before Christ.
That's who we're going to be judged against. Whether we're
judged in Him or against Him. Here's the standard. Here's the
law giver and the law keeper. He's going to put those things
away. What else? Verse 24, 70 weeks are determined upon thy
people and upon thy holy city to finish the transgression and
to make an end of sins. That's what Paul wrote in Colossians
2, blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against
us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing
it to his cross. By that one offering, nail it
to his cross, by that one work, in that hour he was talking about,
for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Those he set apart for his use,
he said, these are mine, these are for my use, I own them and
they're holy. I've made them that way. David
said, as far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed
our sins, our transgressions from us. Clean lifted off of
us, it's gone. And a mark left. Well, I've had
some things on me that took off of me and I've got scars from
it. Things go through me and I've
got some scars. There's no evidence of sin. It's
gone. Removed. It says, to finish the
transgression, to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation
for iniquity. We did it. He put it away. It's gone. But we have to be
restored. We have to be reconciled. Sin
has been put away and we are restored. Paul wrote this here
in 2 Corinthians 5. People ought to know exactly
what I'm going to read, huh? Start about verse 18. And these things
are of God who have reconciled us. You know what reconciled
means? You young people listen up. I'm
going to tell you what a word means. Reconciled. It means restored
to divine favor. You're reconciled to God. You're
back in God's favor. That's what that word means.
Who's reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ and has given
to us the ministry of reconciliation. He did that for us and He gave
us this work to go tell folks about Christ's blood, His reconciliation,
what He did, the work that He did, who He is and what He did.
to wit that God was in Christ, reconciled the world to Himself,
not imputing their trespasses unto Him, and hath committed
unto us this word of reconciliation." He's gave this to us. You gonna
hide it underneath your couch and not leave your property for
four years? No! Go tell somebody about it. Now
that we're ambassadors for Christ, we got a job to do. As though
God did beseech you by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be
ye reconciled to God." That's what he did for us. That's what
he said to me. We just go tell people what he said. One wouldn't think it's a hard
job. It is though, ain't it? How did he do that? It pleased
the Lord to bruise him. That's how he made reconciliation.
By his stripes we're healed. When that face was marred, more
than any other face has been marred, it's because it looked
like his people. It looked like sin, the feminine noun, and he
punished it. Now verse 24, 70 weeks are determined
upon thy people and upon the holy city to finish the transgression,
to make an end of sin, to make reconciliation for iniquity,
and to bring in everlasting righteousness. If we were to turn to 2 Corinthians
5, that next verse, verse 21, says 4. Because. Because what? Because what he
just said. He made reconciliation. He gave us this ministry of reconciliation.
For he hath made him sin for us, who knew no sin, that we
might be made the righteousness of God in him. That's bringing
in everlasting righteousness. That's Christ's work the Father
gave him. This will shock the religious
world. Shock the pants right off of them. He finished the
work. He finished it. We got to be made righteous and
holy. That's done. I got to be redeemed. He did
that. It's finished. He did it. He's
covered us in the robe of righteousness. Isaiah 61 says, I will greatly
rejoice in the Lord. My soul shall be full, joyful
in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation.
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness. As a bridegroom,
decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride, adorneth herself
with jewels. Just like he put that on, he put it on us. It's
his. He gave it to us. You've heard
that before about our clothings, our gospel. I've told you that.
What was one of the pictures in that garden? There was the
fall, and Adam and Eve were naked. They were walking around naked
without sin. And I thought they never was cold, and they never
got sunburnt. They had no clothes on. It was
hot this week. They never got sunburnt. Sin
entered in. They tried to robe themselves
with fig leaves. Oh, I know. I know. I know what to do. I've got an
idea. There's a way that seems right
unto man and that way is death. It's going to shrivel up, isn't
it? What happened? Unto Adam also and to his wife did the
Lord God make coats of skin and clothed them. That's in Genesis
3.21. You mean he's going to cover
us in a righteousness? A robe of righteousness? That's his
work. It's his doing. And he did it. It's finished.
It's finished, isn't it? He was that lamb slain that the
Lord covered him with. picture of him. There in Genesis
37, Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, and because
he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many
colors. We just read that not too long ago, didn't we? Put
that coat on him, and his brothers went and sold him and threw him
in a pit, and they took that coat, and they said, boy, daddy's
gonna, we gotta have a story to tell him. What'd they do with that
coat? Dipped it in blood and brought
it to the father. I can't pick up every diamond
in the field when I went through Genesis. They brought that coat,
that robe, covered in blood to the father for the son. You think Jacob kept that coat?
Or do you think he threw it away? I wonder if it was with him when
they got to Egypt. I thought he was like, here's
your coat back. It wasn't torn, it was whole.
Aaron and his son Eliezer, the Lord said, bring them up to the
mountain Aaron sinned against me. And strip Herod of his garments
and put them upon Eliezer his son and Aaron shall be gathered
unto his people and he shall not die there. The last thing
Aaron ever did in his Arianic priesthood was to be a picture
of Christ. He was took up a mountain and
he was slain by God and his garments covered his children, covered
his son. Our Lord had garments on, didn't He? And they stripped
Him of Him. And they put a scarlet robe on Him and a crown of thorns.
And they bowed in front of Him and said, All hail the King of
the Jews! And mocked Him and spit in His face. So we would have a robe of righteousness.
70 weeks are determined upon thy
people and upon thy holy city to finish the transgression and
to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity
and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up the vision and
prophecy. To seal it up. Complete it. The vision of the prophets that
they've been given, it no longer needs to be given. There's a
Messiah coming. It's fulfilled. It's fulfilled. All the prophets are fulfilled.
There's no need for more prophets. Come up with new dreams and new
visions. No. Christ is coming. There He is. He came. That's
finished. It's a work that was finished.
And the prophecy of Him coming. He's come. That's what the Lord
told us in Hebrews 1. God, who at sundry time and in
divers manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the
prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by His Son,
whom He hath appointed heir of all things. Nothing's added to
it. Nothing needs to be added to
it. Nothing needs to be taken away. We have the law and we
have the testimony right here. I don't have to write any epistles.
I don't have to write any open letters for people. Just say,
right here's what God says. You think you can say it better? That's what it says. Like them
poor fellows that wrote that article on the internet. It don't
say that. No, it doesn't say that. Here's
what it does say. Say, Lord said so, isn't it? He is the sum and
He is the substance of all Scriptures. And it's sealed up. It's tidied
up. All the loose ends are tucked
in. What's that mean? It's finished. That's the work
He was given to do. And He did it. It ain't that
hard. People make it hard, don't they? There, John 19. It says, After
this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished,
that the scriptures might be fulfilled. He said, I thirst.
And there was set a vessel of vinegar and they filled a sponge
with vinegar and put it upon Hyssop and put it to his mouth.
And when Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,
it is finished. And he bowed his head and he
gave up the ghost. No one's ever gave up the ghost.
No one's ever lived like this man. No one's ever died like
this man. Other people try to commit suicide and they failed.
You may jump off a bridge, you may die, you may not. He said,
this works, Don. I give up the ghost. Well, didn't
he say it was finished back in John 17? That's who we're talking
about, isn't it? He said before the foundation
of the world, he was a lamb slain. If he said that's going to rain
Tuesday, buy an umbrella. It's going to come to pass. It
was done. Finally, that's five. Here's
six. To finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, and to
make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most
Holy. To anoint the Most Holy. His
blood is what anointed that mercy seed. He was the acceptable bloody
sacrifice. Do you remember the word testicle?
propitiation in it. That's what John told us. He
anointed the holy place inside that tabernacle where we can't
go. He anointed it. We can come boldly to that throne
now. When it's time to die, go on, you're fine. He anointed
it. He anointed the most holy. His blood bought us, anointing
us, sanctifying us, setting us apart for His use, making us
holy. He put that nature in us, a new creation. And His work,
this work He sent to do, His shedding of the blood, it anointed
heaven itself. That place He went to prepare
for us, remember that? You remember what that was? A
place of reconciliation, wasn't it? A place of redemption. A
place of atonement with the Father. Being back in His good favor.
Reconciliation with the Father who He glorified. For us, in
us. He's given us these things. Do we thank Him for 45 minutes
twice a week? Or we put in our hand what God
gave us to do? Or we just talk about it a whole lot? I don't
want to talk about it a whole lot. I want to do it, don't you? I want to
tell people about that. That's what He's done for us.
I got brothers and sisters out there somewhere. They don't know
it yet. They ain't been born yet. I want to go tell them. I thought of you, Carrie, whenever
I wrote that. You went a long way up. This date's long. You
went to go see your brother and your sister, didn't you? Wow,
that's your family. You want to go see? I got family
out there. You do too. I want to get to know them. That's
the word. There in her text. We was away
from it for a long time, but John 17. He said, I have glorified
thee on the earth. Boy, did he. Boy did he. I have finished the work which
thou gavest me to do. Does that make you want to thank
him? What a savior. What a work. What a worker. No man worked
like that man. There wasn't a carpenter ever
lived that's ever put in a day of work like he put in. That's
something.