Go back to John 17 now. Apostle Paul said, Who is sufficient
for these things? No man is sufficient for this
one chapter alone. This is the Lord's prayer. Men call the prayer that Christ
taught His disciples, they call that the Lord's prayer. That's
not. That's the disciples' prayer. This is the Lord's Prayer. This
is, as it were, His high priestly prayer. You know, the Old Testament,
where the tabernacle and the temple, right before you went
into the veil, right before the high priest alone went into the
veil, there was an altar of incense. That represents the prayers of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is that prayer, right
before he went in, through the veil, to the Holy of Holies,
poured out his blood on the mercy seat. This is holy ground. Someone said, we need to take
our shoes off here. This is, we're entering into
the Holy of Holies here. This is, we're allowed to enter
into a prayer that the Son of God made to His Father. Intimate prayer between God the
Son and God the Father, and He's allowed us to listen to it. He
told us to pray in secret, and here He says He prays for us
to hear. And what a blessing it is. Someone
said this is a Bible by itself. This one chapter. Telling us
who Christ is, what He came to do, who He did it for, and that
He did it. And where He is now. It's profound yet simple. Very
few words over a couple of syllables. Infinite sum and substance of
salvation, eternal life. This will answer, this one chapter
alone will answer every question that can be asked about God,
about Christ, about man, about salvation, about eternity. Every
question in one chapter. This is a prayer, mind you. And
not just anybody's prayer. There's some wonderful prayers
in Scripture. This is the prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's
for His people. It's not for the world. We read
that it's not for the world. It's for His people. If you're
one of His people. John Knox, the great preacher,
had them read this to him on his deathbed over and over and
over again until he died. This is my hope. Everything our
Lord says in this chapter, in this prayer, is my hope of salvation. Is it yours? Let's look at it. My, my. These words fake Jesus,
a man. God became a man. He prayed. I need to pray, don't we? He did. He prayed for us. We're lacking, aren't we? Not
he. He lifted up his eyes to heaven. We bow our heads, don't
we? The public wouldn't so much as lift up his eyes to heaven.
This man is sinless, faultless. He could look into the eyes of
God. He could tell God the Father what he would have him do. I will. He said, Father, the hour has come.
He kept saying, Mine hour has not yet come. Mine hour has not
yet come. But now, He says, the hour has
come. His finest hour. This is the Son of Righteousness
who is arisen with healing in His wings. This is the Son at
its zenith, at its peak, at its highest. Our Lord hung on the
cross at noon. The sun never shines so brightly
as at noon. His greatest hour. He said, Father,
glorify Thy Son that Thy Son also may glorify Thee. The greatest glory of God and
the greatest glory of the Son of God is in Christ crucified. Moses said, show me your glory.
And God said, I will make all my goodness pass before you.
I'll be merciful. I'll be gracious. I'll proclaim
my name. Who is all that talking about?
Jesus Christ. He's the glory of God. The glory
of God is seen in the face of Jesus Christ. And though it was
Christ's great humiliation to hang on that cross in shame and
dishonor from man, it was the greatest glory that man has ever
given God. He said in verse 2, Thou hast
given Him power over all flesh. Glorify Thy Son that I may glorify
Thee as You've given Me power over all flesh that I should
give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him. The Lord
God gave several things here that the Lord gave Him. And one
of them is power over all flesh. This is incontestable. This is irrefutable. This is
undeniable. Who has power over all things?
Jesus Christ. To say otherwise is to call Jesus
Christ a liar. It's to reject this Word. It's
to reject the truth. Christ said, Thou hast given
me power over all flesh. whatever it is. And this was
His glory that God gave Him to do, to come down to this world
of flesh and give eternal life to many of these dead sinners. Dead in trespassancy, in the
flesh. That which is flesh is flesh. It must be born of the It says, You've given me power
over all flesh. Who did Christ come to die for? All that the Father gave Him.
His sheep. He kept saying that, didn't He?
I've manifested Your name unto the men that You've given them.
You've given them to Me. God entrusted His people with
His Son to come down and save them. Did He do it? Verse 3 says, This is life eternal. That they might know Thee, the
only true God, which clearly tells us that men, some people
believe in another God, a God that's not God. And that this
is true eternal life, is to know the only true God, as revealed
in the Scripture, who He is. What he's like, his name declares
his character, his being. And our Lord kept saying that,
I've manifested thy name. They know you because Christ
revealed him to them. The only true God and Jesus Christ
whom thou hast sent. This is God's glory, that God
sent the Son. God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, sent His Son into this God-hating
world. That's glory. That's God's glory.
That's the Son's glory. It's the glory of God. Well,
the next line. He said, I have glorified Thee
on the earth. I finished the work which thou gavest me to
do. Now he hasn't gone to Calvary yet. He hasn't shed his precious
blood for the remission of the sins of God's people, to make
atonement. But the first work God sent him
to do is to glorify God as a man. Adam fell far short of the glory. Adam brought reproach upon God. Adam shamed his God. Adam didn't
glorify God. He denied God. He rebelled against
God. And the angels, before the angels, Adam brought
shame and reproach upon God. Before the fallen angels, before
Satan, man has dishonored God. So the God-man came. Second Adam
from above. Another Adam. Not of the earth
earthy, but the Lord from heaven. He came to glorify God as a man. He condemned sin in the flesh. Every temptation that he was
faced with, he had the victory over it. Despised it. Denied
it. More than that, more than not
sinning, He glorified God with His heart, mind, soul, and strength,
and every ounce of His being all His life. That's glory. That's what man was created to
do, and that man failed, but not the God-man. I have finished that work. And
a little while later, He's going to hang on the cross. And He
did another work. It's all one work. But he, see,
as a man he established this perfect holiness and righteousness
and glorified God as a man in the flesh. And God was well pleased
for his righteousness. But now he's got to take man's
sin. He's got to take their sins upon
him. God is just. He will by no means
clear the guilty. Sin's got to be paid for. And
before the world began, God said, Son, you're going to have to
live a holy life. I'll do it. But you're going
to have to pay for this sin. You're going to have to become
sin. You have to take their sins in
your body on the tree and pay for them. Will you do it? And I'll do it. And when he's hanging on that
cross, he said it the second time, third time actually, it
is finished. It's finished. And now, O Father, glorify Thou
me, verse 5, glorify Thou me with Thine own self, with the
glory which I had before the world was. It amazes me that
Jesus Christ came to this earth. It amazes you. He was with the
Father in glory and resplendent glory and the angels loved Him
and adored Him and there was nothing but holiness and righteousness
and peace and joy and praising God and worship and fellowship.
And He came into this cesspool for 33 years and everything about
Him was vile and despicable. Why? Because He's God, not man. So He's going back to the Father.
He's going back to sit at the right hand of the Magician High
to be clothed in that glory He had before the world began to
take back His robes of splendor and glory and never relinquish
them again. And His last part of this prayer
is, I will that they be with Me to behold My glory. Man today
cannot see the glory of Jesus Christ. In fact, there's no beauty
about him that they should deny her, that they should love him
or despise the man, reject him. He said in verse 6, I've manifested
thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world. Thine
they were. God chose a people. And this
is what our Lord's saying in it. The people, the men you gave
me. before the world began. God chose.
Is this true? Well, yes, it's true. Jesus Christ
is telling them. I remember it was thirty, let's
see, twenty-eight or nine years ago, a place down here in Henry
Fort asked me to come preach and about twenty some of you
went with me. As an opportunity to preach the truth to people
that never heard it, or at least Didn't hear it regularly. Many
of you went. You remember that? I called my
father at the time, just for some wisdom, some guidance as
to what to preach. I had already picked out Romans
9. I'm going to take Romans 9 and just beat him over the head with
it. I'm going to take Romans 9 and just, you know... We loved Romans 9. He said, don't
do that. He said, preach John 17. He said, just preach what Jesus
Christ said about God and about Himself and about man and about
salvation. Just preach that right there. And preach it like they
are a fool not to believe it. If anybody questions it, they're
questioning Jesus Christ. Preach it like that. I did. I
tried. I remember their so-called preacher
sat there on the front row with his wife. He didn't even have
a Bible. The pastor. But I remember coming to verses
like this, He gave Him a people for the foundation of the world,
didn't He, preacher? And He was forced to do this.
That's what it says. And I'm glad, aren't you? Again,
if He had not chosen a people, none of would have chosen Him.
The men You gave Me out of the world, if He hadn't chosen a
people out of the world, they'd all be in it and die with it. You gave them Me, He said, and
they have kept Thy Word. They've laid hold of the Word
of Life. They've kept it as something
they don't want to lose. Why? That's what we talked about
this morning, didn't we, brother? Why is this life to you? Oh,
it is to me. There was a time I didn't care. Oh, I care now. Why? I made my
decision. Oh, no. God made that decision
before I was even born. He said, one day you're going
to care alright. He says in verse 7, Now they
have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that that man that lived on this
earth is God. Don't you? There is no doubt
in my mind. There's nothing anybody can say
or nothing that can happen That will change my mind. Why? Because
when God teaches your talking, they'll all be taught of God. He says in verse 8, I've given
unto them the words which thou gavest me. And they've received
them. Look at this. You see, great
is the mystery of God, unless God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the Spirit, received by angels, and believed on in
the world, and received up unto glory. He says this here, I've
given them thy words that thou gavest me, and they've received
them. He goes on to say the world doesn't receive the Word. There
was a time when I didn't receive the Word. My heart was hired by God. Bless His holy name. They've received Him. As many
as received Him, He gave the power, the right, the privilege
to become sons of God, which were born, not of the will of
the flesh, not the will of the mouth of blood, but of God. God
gave birth to them. God chose them and said, Be born. Oh, my. They received it. They've
known surely that I came out from thee. And they have believed
that thou didst send me. Oh, my. It was finally a day the Lord
revealed Himself to me, and I believe that He sent the Gospel. He sent the Gospel of Christ
to deliver me. God, I believe He sent Him to
me. Sent one. That's what he does.
That's what God does. He sent... Go down there. You
see that fellow there? That wild-ass is cold? Apprehend him. Apprehend him
to me. Sent. John, he sent those disciples
for that wild-ass is cold. What do you do with him? I'm
going to get glory out of him. Write it, and he's going to be
happy about it. I pray for them, verse 9, he
said, I pray for them, not for the world. Now if Christ died,
if God loves everybody in the world, and Christ died for every
single person in the world, why didn't he pray for everybody
in the world? He didn't. Those are the two biggest lies
ever been told. God loves everybody, and Christ
died for everybody. Neither one of them said it.
Neither will himself. God loves his people. The love
of God is in Christ, Romans 8. And Christ died for his sheep,
he said so. He laid down his life for his
sheep. For the transgression of my people was he stricken. That's it. But he prays for his people.
And brothers and sisters, the effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much. Are you with me? James said that.
The effectual fervent prayer. He said, now Elijah was a man
of passions like us. He prayed that it stop raining
and it did. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man. What
about the righteous one? Will God hear his prayer? What
does it avail? Everything. God answers everything
that He prayed for. He doesn't always hear Him pray.
He grants Him everything. God doesn't grant me everything
I ask for. Thank God. If I ask for anything in the
name of Christ and according to His will, He'll grant that. Everything that Christ prayed
was the will of the Father for the glory of God, for the good
of God's people. And God answered everything He
said. So who's He praying for? You. Me. Everyone that believes
Him. And so He says, I pray for them.
They're Thine. They are Thine. They belong to
You. What if I told you you belonged
to God? You're His. You're His possession.
You're His child. Well, what would you think about
that if I told you you're God's child? You're a daughter of the
King. You're going to be brought before the King in glorious apparel. Me? I'm a harlot. I know it. That's who He came
for. Why? Glory. Mercy and grace. That's His glory, you see. He
doesn't find beautiful women. He finds ugly ones and makes
them beautiful. He finds rebels. and breaks their
will. It's His glory. They're thine. And all mine are thine. And thine
are mine. I am glorified in them. Christ's great glory. was to come save these sinners. Oh, what glory it was for Christ
to walk by that Sea of Galilee one day, and out there's this
cussing, no good, spitting Simon, son of Jonas. He'd never given
God a thought all his life. Fishing was his life. And he
fought every man coming and going. And when he got through fishing,
he'd head to the pub. Haven't that's his life? You
know it was. But God, God said, Son, go down and call that man. Simon, son of Jonah, call him. So Christ came walking one day.
This is glory. And that rough, tough, and tumble
fellow out there wouldn't believe, wouldn't follow anybody. He's
a leader in crime and trouble. Christ with the Word. Follow
me. and turned around and walked
off. And Simon Peter dropped everything. He dropped everything and everyone. Another time, he dove out of
the boat to get to it. Oh, what power. Oh, what glory. Oh, what mercy. Oh, what love. Oh, what grace. What a Lord. What a Savior. And Simon right
now is singing at the top of his lungs unto Him that loved him. He says
in verse 11, he's leaving, I am no more in the world. These are
in the world. I come to thee, Holy Father. Keep through thine
own name those whom thou hast given me that they may be one
as we are. Keep through thy name. God. What's
his name? The Lord. The Lord God. Merciful,
gracious. He will keep His people. He will.
That's His name. Our salvation depends on His
character. He's a Savior. He cannot not
save His people. He didn't try to save. He wouldn't
be a Savior. He's got to save to be a Savior,
doesn't He? Keep them, that they may be one. Our Lord is praying for the unity
of His people. He said, they are thine, and
thine are mine, and thine are mine, and he went on to say that
I and the Father are one, and he's praying now that they'll
all be one, and let nothing and no one separate them from this
unity. That's, oh, I need that. Lord, pray for me. Pray for me. I want to be one with you. I
want to be one with my brethren. I want to be one. Verse 12, I
was with them in the world. I kept them in thy name. Those
thou gavest me, I have kept. How is anyone saved when it's
all over? When it's all said and done,
how is one single human being saved? Kept by the power of God. Simon Peter, when he first started
writing his epistle, He started saying, elect, didn't
he? The stranger scattered. Elect
according to the foreknowledge of God. And it goes down a few
verses. Kept by the power of God. Simon, you're going to leave
me. Simon, you're going to deny me three times before the sun
comes up. Not me, Lord. Yes, you. But I have prayed for you. What's
he praying? Keep him. Oh, we ought to throw
him away. No, keep him. He kept. Don't you love that brother,
Kelly? We're kept. I can't keep myself. He can and he did. When it's
all over, he's going to say, behold, I and the children, what
Sal has given me. None is lost. But the son of
perdition, if the scriptures might be fulfilled. Now, he says,
I come to thee, and these things I speak in the world, that they
might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. Where is joy found?
There is no joy in this world. There is no joy in any... It's
brief, you know, we get a little bit of joy. I enjoy my wife,
I enjoy my children and grandchildren, I enjoy some things in this world.
God's given us richly to enjoy everything, but it doesn't last.
Why? Because we lose these things.
Things change, but He changes not. Rejoice in the Lord. And again I say, rejoice in the
Lord. He doesn't change. In fact, our
joy in the Lord ought to increase. With everything change and decay
in all around I see, O thou who changest not, abide with me. And no man will take that joy
from me. Fulfill, I've given them thy
word, the world hath hated them. Because they're not of the world,
even as I'm not of the world. Oh, brothers and sisters, I know
what you're thinking when you read these. You think, I am too
of the world, I'm a sinner. No, you're not either. If you
believe Christ, you're... No. If you love Christ, mm-mm,
God loves you, you're in His kingdom, you're in His Son, His
Son's in you. If you have a desire to depart
and be with the Lord, if you love His truth, if you love His
people, if you love His kingdom, if you hear His Word, if it breaks
your heart, if it fills your heart with joy, if the Word of
God has a place in you, you're a child of God. You're not of
this world. The world has nothing to do with any of these things.
The world's not sitting in here this morning. It's hard to get
anybody out of the world to come in and sit in here and talk about
God. Now, you're here. Why? None of the world. That's good news to me. He says,
I'm not of the world. Just passing through. You know
that? We're just passing through. I pray not, he says, that thou
should take them out of the world. You see, when the Lord takes
all of His people out of this world, it's over. Right? The last elect's born, it's over. So we're the light of the world.
We're the salt of the earth, the scripture says. He sends
us. What's salt and light? It's the gospel. It's the truth.
This is the glory he's going to speak of. He's given them
and us. He says, I pray that thou shalt keep them from the
evil. That's the evil one. The God
of this world holds men captive. Christ came and took captivity
captive, took His people away from the God of this world, stronger
than He took His goods. And now they're His, they don't
belong to the God of this world, they belong to God, they belong
to Christ. But He prays for them, keep them
from that man. Once Christ takes them from Him,
that's who He wants more than anybody. Satan hath desired you,
Peter and Simon, to shift you like wheat. But I pray for you. See, this prayer avails everything.
Everything. Read on. He says, sanctify them
through thy truth. Thy Word is truth. Set them apart. You see, they're not of the world.
They've been set apart. They've been sanctified. How's
that? Truth. Oh brethren, beloved Lord,
I'm bound to give thanks to God for you. John and Erlene, all
these years, you're still sitting there. Who do we have to thank
for that? God. God had from the beginning
chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit. He set you apart from other people. You're your neighbors. Your neighbors
don't come here. You do. Why? God and mercy. sanctified you, set you apart,
made you His choice by the Spirit through belief of the truth.
Belief of the truth. Your neighbors don't believe
the truth. You don't. You love the truth. And it goes on to say, unto the
obtained, whereunto He called you by our gospel. He called
you by our gospel. That's why He calls His people
out of the world, by the gospel. And what's it all about? The
obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. You're going
to see His glory. John, I'm trying right now to
glorify God, and I'm not coming close. But very soon, buddy,
you're 80-something. Very soon, Brother John, you
don't have to listen to any more bad preaching! Really! You're going to see the Son of
God Himself. And you're going to say, it was true, alright,
He's true. What is truth? The Word of Truth. Christ said, I am the truth.
Verse 18, Esau has sent me into the world, even so have I also
sent them into the world. He's praying for his apostles
in particular here. He's sending them out into the
world. He told them they're going to
be hated. They're hated and killed for the gospel sake. And he says,
I'm sending them out into the world. So he's praying for them.
And oh, God heard his prayer and God kept those men and God
made those men resolute and firm to the end. Simon Peter, according
to our Lord's prophecy, was crucified. He denied him in the beginning
to teach him a lesson. But in the end, he gave him strength
and gave him courage and enabled him to die for Christ. Sent him into the world and hated
him. For their sakes, verse 19, he said, I sanctify myself. What sanctifies us is Christ
himself. The Word, the Word of Truth,
the Spirit of God takes the things of Christ and sanctifies us.
He's made unto us wisdom, righteousness, and what? Are you still with
me? Sanctification. Sanctification. That's why we preach Christ,
because He's all the counsel of God in. Sanctification. He
said, for their sakes I sanctify myself. He set Himself apart.
Holy, harmless, separate from sinners. He came, separated Himself
from the Father, left the throne of God to come down to this earth
to take a forlorn bride to Himself and marry her, become one with
her and give unto her His righteousness and take unto Himself her sin.
give unto her sanctification, and take unto him her sin, that
they might be sanctified through the truth, through the knowledge
of the gospel, through Christ Himself. Verse 20, it said, Neither
pray I for these alone, these apostles, but for them also which
shall believe on me through their word. Let me ask you. Do you believe
that the Word of Paul, Saul of Tarsus, formerly Paul, now the
Apostle, Simon, son of Jonah, a fisherman, that everything
he wrote down was the Word of God and not men? Do you? Do you? That's why we believe. God sent
the Word. Great was the company of them
that published it. Paul said this in 1 Thessalonians
2. He said, Bound to give thanks
to God, brethren, because when you heard the Word from us, you
received it not as the words of men, but as it is in truth,
the Word of God. Sister Jeanette, you know how
that this feministic world that worships womankind hates everything
that Paul the Apostle wrote. Hates it. Think he was a bigoted
woman hater. They do! Don't they? Do you,
sister? You love it, don't you? Your
soul hangs on what Paul wrote. You belong to Him. You're His
daughter. Oh, my. See, I believe through the preaching
of the gospel, that they all may be one. Verse 21. The apostles
and us, and we're all one now. As thou, the Father art in me,
and I in thee, that they all may be one in us, that the world
may believe that thou hast sent me. Now here he's talking about a
people out of every nation, kindred, and tongue under heaven. There's
some people out there in the world that don't believe on it.
Okay? They're going to. A vast number
of people that don't believe on it. They're in the world.
But they're not of the world. I mean, they're of it right then.
But God has chosen them out of it. And they're going to hear
it through the gospel. Saul of Tarsus is one of them
right now that Christ is praying for. And all the Gentiles and people
at Ephesus and all that said that the world might believe.
They're all going to believe that you sent me. And the glory,
verse 22, the glory which thou gavest me I've given them. What is that? What is the glory
of God? What has He given the apostles?
Something glorious. What has He given us? Something
glorious. What are you listening to right now? Something glorious.
It's the glorious gospel of Christ, the power of God. That's what
Christ gave His apostles to go out to declare His glory. Glorious. He's given us this
glory. That they may be one. That is
one thing. We do one thing. Did you listen
to the radio message? This is one thing that the church
does. This is the one thing that God's
people do. This is the one thing they do.
They worship God and they rejoice in Christ Jesus. They preach
the gospel. A man stands up and preaches
a gospel and they sit and hear it. Is that all y'all do? Yes,
it is. Oh, we sing, we pray, we read,
but it's all about His glory. What's God's glory? The gospel. Christ is the power of God and
the glory of God. Wisdom of God. Verse 23, I in them and thou
in me. Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Christ said the Father's in me. Do you believe that? But here
He says He's in us. Do you believe that? That's what He said. How do you
know? One more time. Do you love what you're hearing?
Christ is in you. And He says, that the world may
know that thou hast sent Me, that the world may know and has
loved them as thou hast loved Me. When Christ said, having
loved His own, He loved them to the end, He was talking about
His disciples, wasn't He? Well, I'm a disciple. I am. I'm a follower of Jesus Christ.
I am. I'm a believer in the Lord Jesus
Christ. I believe He called me just like He did Simon Peter.
I'm a disciple. Are you a disciple? I'm a disciple. Well, you need to know this,
that God loves you like He loved His Son. That's amazing. Amazing love. How can it be? And I hear, oh
my, listen to this. You know, we've looked at this
about 35 times together. A couple of times we devoted a
message to nearly every verse. Every verse deserves a message,
doesn't it? You're hearing it all in one.
My, what is this? Look at verse 24. Father, I will,
that they also whom thou hast given me, I will, this is my
desire, this is what I will, that they be with me where I
am, that they may behold my glory which thou givest me before the
which thou hast given me, where thou lovest me before the foundation
of the world. Christ says about all of his
people, this is my will, this is my desire, that they all be
with me where I am. I want to be with Christ. I don't
want to be left out. Do you? Are you going to be there? Why? Why? Because Christ prayed for
you. I will. What are you going to
be doing? Has anybody this morning seen
anything of the glory of God, of the glory of Jesus Christ,
of your own shamefulness and sinfulness, and yet the glory
of God's mercy and grace and saving grace and His sovereign
election and choice of views. Anybody seen a little bit of
that? Well, Christ said, I will that they be with me where I
am. Boy, they're going to see glory. It hadn't entered into our hearts.
He has revealed this thing, but we know in part, we see in part,
we're going to behold His glory. The glory God gave him because
he loved him before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father,
verse 25, the world hath not known thee, but I have known
thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. He keeps saying
that. And I believe it. And I'm comforted
by that. I really do believe. the true God, the God of the
Bible, I believe everything He says about Himself. Don't you?
I believe everything He says about it. I believe all things
written in the prophets and the apostles. Don't you? And Jesus
Christ is my only foundation, my only hope. And I believe Jesus
Christ is my only hope of salvation, that God sent Him to this earth
to save me, to save sinners, and I'm a sinner. And I believe
He did just that. He said so. And so, I'm resting
my soul and my eternal life on the fact that Jesus Christ came
to this earth sent by the Father to save man. That's it. He sent
one. And I have declared, He said
in verse 26, unto them, I have declared unto them thy name.
and will declare it. I will keep declaring it. You know when you love somebody,
you never tire of hearing their name, don't you? Huh? Mindy calls
me all the time. And her picture pops up on my
phone. I love her. Oh, that's my beloved. Seriously. until when I'm mad
at her. But most of the time, seriously,
she calls me. Oh, there she is. That's my beloved.
Mindy. Melinda Sue. I call her Melinda
Sue. All the time, though. I love
that name. I love that lady. Do you love
the name of God? You love the name of Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ. Don't
you love the sound of those names? Do you ever get tired of hearing
the gospel of the glory of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ? In fact, you don't want to hear
anything else, do you? You know what that means? That
God has put in you the love that He put Look at this, verse 26,
that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them. Do you understand that? God loves His Son supremely,
made a whole universe concerning His Son, does everything for
His Son. And the Scriptures talk about
the love of God shed abroad in the hearts of His people, meaning
that they love Jesus Christ, they really do. Everything about
Him. That's how you know. They never
tire of seeing His glory like that picture. They never tire
of hearing His voice. They never. A man can't say His
name enough. That's all we're going to be
doing in glory. And you love them, and you put
this love in them, that that love may be in them, and I in
them. Meaning, a love of Christ. You love Jesus Christ, and He's
in you. He's in your heart. He's in your
affection. He's in your mind, the mind of Christ. You think
about Christ. You call on Christ. You're who He prayed for. And
I believe we'll see you in glory. Okay. Brother John, you come.