this glorious chapter, but we are going to try to get
through the whole thing. So needless to say, we will only
just touch some of these points. This is our Lord's prayer. This is the Lord's prayer. It's really the only recorded
prayer of our Lord. He spoke out loud a few times
to the Father, but he prayed often, and this is the only recorded
prayer at length. This is the prayer of our great
high priest. right before he goes into the
Holy of Holies on Calvary's tree to offer up that one sacrifice
of sin, his own precious blood, for his people. This is a wonderful,
wonderful prayer, and it's on our behalf. Let's look at it. These words spake Jesus and lifted
up his eyes to heaven. This is the only man who can.
This is the only man who can lift up his eyes to heaven and
look into the face of God himself and say, Father, this is the eternal Son of God
the Father. Father, the hour has come, the
hour for which all time in eternity looks to and looks back to. the
hour of Christ's death. He says, Father, the hour is
come. Glorify thy son, that thy son
also may glorify thee. This is why Christ came. This is what Christ did. It's all for the glory of God
the Father. It's all for the glory of God
the Son, the glory of God's character, his holy and righteous character
in Christ fulfilling the law as unto God, the glory of God's
wisdom, of God's redemptive covenant and saving of people, God's eternal
purpose and wisdom in working out so great
a salvation, the glory of God in fulfilling every jot and tittle
and everything ordered in that covenant completely. That's the glory of God the Father,
His wisdom, His power, the glory of God's mercy, His love and
His grace to the sons of men. Christ on Calvary's tree revealed that more than at any
other time. The glory of the Son and his
obedience to the law and his delight to the Father and his
delight and his pleasure toward his brethren, his people, and
coming to be what he was, a lamb slain, the glory of God the Son,
of which we'll be singing throughout eternity. And behold, this is
what this is all about. And here is his glory, verse
2. He says, Glorify thy son, that thy son may also glorify
thee, as thou hast given him power over all flesh. This is
his glory. And I'm going to try to attempt
not to say too much of what men are saying about him today. There's
not enough time. It's a waste of breath. to say
what men are saying. There's too much truth here to
proclaim and declare and to spend our time talking about error. However, men have dishonored
the Lord Jesus Christ and do dishonor our God by saying that
he does not have the power. that he has. Power over all flesh. Christ said, Thou hast given
him power over all flesh. Power over all flesh. He reigns
and rules among the armies of heaven. There's still flesh in
heaven. And among the inhabitants of
the earth. He's the head of all principalities
and powers. He has keys of hell and death
at his side. He reigns and he rules There's
nothing, as Martin used to say, that writhes or wriggles that's
not in the hands of the great king to dispose of as he will
according to his eternal purpose. He has all power. He's not in the hands of anyone
or subject to anyone. He has all power. All things
are in him, of him, through him, to him, by him, and for him.
He has all power over all. flesh, not power which is given
him by flesh, but flesh only gets its power from him. All power over all flesh. And
here he tells us is his glory, that he should give eternal life
to as many as thou hast given him. Eternal life is in the hands
of Jesus Christ to give. It's not in man. Not in man's
will or works or decision or whatever, in the power of any
person but Jesus Christ himself. All souls are in his power to
dispose of as he will. And it says that God has given
Christ a people to give this life to, to do what he did for,
to pray this prayerful. These people were given to Christ,
the scripture says, before the world began. Ephesians 1 verse
4, as he has chosen us, that is the saints, the faithful,
God's people, in Christ before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame in him, in Christ. And he gave them to Christ to
make them so, to make them whole. This was an eternal covenant
agreement between God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Spirit. There was no one present but
the triune God when this decision was made. And God the Father
chose whom he would, elected whom he would. None were worthy. They would all be born unworthy
and sinful, but he chose, but God. rich in mercy, for a great
love that he set upon certain sons of Adam, chose them to be
objects of, vessels of mercy, fitted for glory. And the only
way in which they could be so was to give them to the Son to
accomplish this redemption for them, to bring them in, to make
them righteous, to pay for their sins, and to ensure and send
the Holy Spirit in time to gather them all up, round them up to
the gospel call, and bring them into everlasting glory. As not
one of them would make it if salvation were not in the hands
of this sovereign Savior. He's given him all power over
all flesh to give eternal life to as many as God had given him. Now they—no man can number them. They are the as of the stars
of the sky and the sands of the seashore. No man can number them,
but God has." He has them numbered, as many. He knows them all, and
he has them numbered. And he said, even their very
names are inscribed upon his hands. When Christ offered that
sacrifice on Calvary's tree, he didn't offer it to all flesh.
He wasn't even offered unto flesh. He was offered to God as payment
in full for his people, and he was offered four of those names
which he alone knew and knows, which he had inscribed on the
palms of his—he must have big hands. He does. The whole universe is in it,
and so are his people especially. And he said, none can take them
out of my hand. I give unto them eternal life.
And it means just that, eternal. They shall never perish. Verse
3. And this is life eternal. How do you know you have it?
How do you know Jesus Christ did what he did for you? How
do you know you're one of the elect, one of these chosen? How
do you know? This is life eternal. A person
has this life when, verse 3, that they might know thee the
only true God. and Jesus Christ whom thou hast
sent." This is life eternal. Flesh and blood doesn't reveal
this. Men don't just, by searching, find this out. But God Almighty
reveals this. God the Father, the heavenly
Father, reveals this unto all of his children. They shall all
be taught of God. What are they taught? Every one
of them without exception. know that he is God. Again, I'm not going to say what
men say about him, but they all know that he is God—holy, just,
sovereign, reigning, ruling, all-wise, all-powerful, omnipotent,
omniscient, omnipresent. immutable, unchanging, all-powerful, sovereign,
holy, and righteous God, that He is God Almighty. He is indeed. This is life eternal, that God
would open their eyes and their understanding that they might
know Him, that He is God. And there's no decision on the
part of man here when this happens. God just decides to But they
know it, and they hear it through the gospel. They understand that
he's God. He said, I've chosen you in Isaiah
43. You, I've chosen that you might
know me and understand that I'm God. There's none else. There's
none beside me, that I'm God. And I've chosen you to know that.
That's life. To have your eyes open, your
ears. Man otherwise is dead. His understanding is darkened.
I'm not going to say what he thinks. And this is life eternal. That they might know Jesus Christ
whom thou hast sent. Notice how Christ referred to
himself. That they might know Jesus. That
they might know Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. He said
to his disciples one day, he said, you call me Lord and Master
and you say well. That's how we should refer to
him. Why? Because that's what he is, Lord
and Master. And this is eternal life, that
men know and understand that he's Jesus the Christ, the Christ
sent, whom thou hast sent. When you send someone somewhere,
that means that What's the word that that means that before hand
you had a purpose you had something in mind and you chose someone
to do your purpose and your will and you set them or that is there
was a particular place to which you set them to do that particular
job they were sent to do. Well, this is eternal life, that
they might know that Jesus Christ is the sent one, that God Almighty
purposed all things before the world began. God makes all of
his people understand that. Not makes them believe that. They don't fully understand it,
but they believe it. They know if he's God, Barbara,
he has to have an eternal purpose that cannot be altered. Right? We find out men make our plans
and purposes, but we have no power to control the outcome. We have no power to see that
they are fulfilled. Not God. God known unto God all his works
from the beginning. He purposed everything concerning
everything, predestined all things, from the path of a fly to the
soul. And Jesus Christ was sent to
accomplish that purpose, sent to a particular people, to a
certain person here and there and everywhere that he found
them, you see. They're lost sheep of God, and
he sent to them. He said, I'm not sent, but to
the lost sheep of the house of Israel. He left the ninety and
nine, the multitude, in search of each one that was lost, and
says he finds them. That's why God sent him. Sent
the good shepherd to find each of the sheep, certain ones, in
certain places, that he might certainly save them. He's the
sent one. He'd dwell there a while, couldn't
he? He says, I have glorified thee
on the earth. Why did Christ come? He came
to glorify God as a man. Scripture says all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God. From the first man that
was created to the last man that's born on this earth will have
come short of the glory of God, of glorifying God as men and
women were intended to do by God. fulfill His law perfectly,
to glorify God in everything, to be thankful, holy, righteous, all these things. Christ did. He glorified God from the cradle
to the grave as a man, perfectly, fulfilling God's law perfectly
as a man. And not just in the letter, not
just in outward obedience, but from the heart. in love to God. He loved God with all his heart,
mind, soul, and strength, as God created man to do, which
man can't, but this man did. He said, I've glorified thee
on the earth. I've done it. I have finished the work which
thou gavest me to do. Why did Christ live this perfect
life? Not to just show us how to do it, and if we'll follow
his footsteps and be just like him and imitate him, God will
accept us too. No, he did it. You see, it's
past tense there, and I have finished the work which Thou
hast given me to do. It's not that there's something
left for anyone else to do, that he's done all their and that
he could do, and now we've finished. No, he said, I have finished
the work you gave me to do. Didn't he? What's that? To bring
in an everlasting righteousness. To fulfill the law on behalf
of everyone he did this for. To work out a perfect righteousness
as a man. And give that, charge that to
every one of those people he was doing this for. I finished
it. That's the establishing of that
righteousness. And then, later on, hanging on
a tree, he said it again, didn't he? He said it again. He said,
it is finished. Well, what was finished then?
The payment of their sins. You see, the bringing in of that
holiness and righteousness, making them holy before God, imputing
it to them. He said right there, I finished
that. And then when he was hanging
on the tree, after God laid on him the iniquity of all—their
sins have to be paid for. God is holy. God is just. God
laid on him the iniquity of all. Us all? Who's us all? Whoever
he's talking about here. And when Christ made that blood
payment, he said, it's finished. Sins are—righteousness is established. Sins are paid for. Salvation's
accomplished. It is finished. And all that's
left to do is for the Holy Spirit to come and round them all up,
the ones He sees the blood on. He sees the blood that Christ
shed. He rounds them up. Read on. He said, I, O Father,
now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self. with the
glory which I had with thee before the world was. Glorified thou
me?" Oh yes, God has. God has glorified the Son, given
him a name which is above every name, that the name of Jesus.
Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that he's
Lord to the glory of God the Father. Yes, he's glorified him
who made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of
a servant. Therefore God hath highly exalted him. Yes, he's
glorified him because God was glorified by him, you see. He's glorified in himself. Christ
in God, God in Christ, they're both glorified in each other. And he's glorified with the glory
which he had before the world was. He is now ascended back
on the—into heaven itself where he sits at the right hand of
the majesty on high with all glory." That good old black preacher
one time said, where was God before the world began? Where
was God when man was created? Where was God? when Christ was
crucified. Where was God? In his glory. In his glory. That's where he
is. He's in his glory, where he was
before the world was. Verse 6, he said, 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.
Talking about those whom The Father gave to Christ in that
covenant. Christ said, I have manifested.
This is one of the things that Christ was sent to do by the
Father. Make them know who I am. Make them know I am. Make them know I am. He says here, I have manifested
thy name. What name? I have to say that some say that
Christ never said he was God. There's a whole denomination
out there who deny his deity, who go about saying he never
came out and said he was God. Brother Riley, he didn't say
it to them. No, they hadn't heard it. But he says it to all his
people. They all know. They all have
it manifest to them. What? God's name. What is it? I said, I am the bread of life. I am the door. I am the resurrection. I am the way, the truth, the
life. I am the good shepherd. I am I am, I am. I have manifested unto them thy
name." And Brother Henry, he said to that bunch of Pharisees,
if you believe not, I am. You'll die in your sin. All of
God's people, without exception, know that he is, I am. They know because he's manifested
his name unto those that God gave him out of the world. Notice our Lord's language here.
It's concerning his given people, those who are given out of the
world, chosen out of it, let us stand, those who are not of
it. They're not a part of it. They're
not considered a part of it. Read on. He said, Thine they
were. Verse 6, Thine they were. You're
going to notice with me through here how it says, Thine they
were and Thine they are. that they may be thine. Yes,
they were, they are, and they ever shall be. Belong to God. Thine they were. When? Before
the world began. God chose them. Thine they were,
read on, and thou gavest them me. Thou gavest them me. Oh, what
a statement this is, huh? They you gave them to me, but
you gave me to them." Like a bride and a husband, huh? They belong to each other. They're
one. Now, "...gavest them me, and they have kept thy word."
Singular. What do believers believe? God's Word. They believe God. A believer believes God. What does that mean? Just say
something. That's what it means. Whatever
God is, whatever God has said, whatever God has done, whatever
God has declared, God's Word, they believe. Thy Word. They've kept thy Word. And keeping
it means they have laid hold on it. They believe it. And they don't want to let go
of it. It's theirs to keep. Not fulfill,
mind you, but to lay hold on it. They will not let it go.
It's their life. Read on. Verse 7. Now they have
known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. Now they have known. One time
Peter came to this conclusion. When our Lord said, when all
the multitude quit following him. They got mad, they were
angry, hard things he was saying about himself and about them. And our Lord turned to his disciples
and said, well, will you go away also? And Peter spoke up and
said, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of life,
and we know, listen to this, Peter said, and we know and are
sure. We know And we are sure that
thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. We're not
going anywhere. We know who you are. We're certain of it. We're
not leaving." And our Lord said, Yes, have not I chosen you? Will you also go away? No, not
if they're Christ's. They'll know and they'll be sure. They have known, it said. And we merit that all things
work together for good to them that love God. That's what Paul
said. Who knows that? All of God's people. I have known
all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. I know
we've got 26 verses, people. I'm going to get through them.
I promise you. Stay with me, all right? This is Christ's prayer. Give it your undivided attention.
Take your shoes off. These words are not fit for us
to read. I mean, we're not fit to read these words, if I may.
And I'm not capable of dealing with it. There's too much here.
Please, as for your comfort, notice I'm smiling through this
whole thing, trying. Now they've known. If you know
this Van Ogle, flesh and blood didn't reveal
it to you, buddy, but the Father which is in heaven. Now they've
known. All things whatsoever thou hast
given me are of thee. Everything is of God and of Christ. Christ is all. And I have given
them, verse 8, the words which thou gavest me." One of the brethren
and I were marveling at the fact that Everything that Christ uttered
while he was on this earth, every single sentence, every word which
came out of his mouth was divinely ordained before the world began
for him to say it. And therefore, everywhere he
went, every person he dealt with, every circumstance, every event
was divinely ordained. Everything he was going to say,
every footstep he would take was divine. I've spoken everything
you told me to say. Not one word less or one word
more. The words thou hast given me,
and they received them. They didn't understand them, but they received them. They
received them. And they had known, surely, that
I came out from thee, and that they had believed that thou didst
send me. He's the sent one on purpose,
God's purpose. And they know this. Jeanette,
you know this, don't you? Is there any doubt in your mind about the all-sovereign God and
His purpose and who Christ is and why He came? Is there any
doubt? Any? None. We know and are sure. You're
blessed. Blessed art thou, Jeanette. And so Christ says, I pray for
them. Verse 9, I pray for them. Present tense. Present tense. This prayer still
is on our behalf, is it not? I pray for whoever lives to make
the intercession. I pray for them. I pray not for
the world. Does that need comment? That's plain in it, Brother Stephen.
I pray not for the world, but for whom? But for them which
thou hast given me. Come, they are thine. Thine they
were, thine they are, and thine they ever shall be. They're thine.
That's who I'm praying for, he said. And we want to see some
others. Verse 10. All mine are thine. Those you've given me, they belong
to you, and thine are mine. Those that belong to you belong
to me, and I am glorified in them." God was glorified in Christ, and God is glorified in us. Why? How? The glory—this is the
glory of God, that we know and understand that He's God and
believe. That's the glory of God. It's a gift of God. Faith, it's
glorious. It's amazing. Grace is what it
is. Anyone who has it, God is glorified
in it. If you believe the God of the
Bible, that's a miracle. Most people don't. Nine out of
ten people don't. Many are called, many see this,
many read what we're reading, but few are chosen to believe
to behold His glory. Few people believe that God's
God. We say, well, how could they
not? How could we believe it? Because God gave it. Because
this is the glory of God, Brother John, flesh and blood. If none
of yourselves, Brother John, had not God chosen to glorify
you, glorify himself in you, you wouldn't believe it either.
You'd be gritting your teeth at what you're hearing instead
of smiling like you're doing. But God, see, is glorified in
them believing. God is, well, dishonored in all
that's being said and done in his name today, but not in God's
people. He's being glorified. He's being
honored. Yes, he is. That's what they're interested
in. That's why they were created, for the glory of God. Now, verse
11, he says, I am no more in the world. But these are in the
world, and I come to thee. Christ is leaving. And so he
prays, 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. What's his name? How do we know
that God's going to keep them? What is his name? I Am. He never changes. And he said,
I am Jehovah Jireh. Then that means he's going to
provide, does it not? Huh? I am Jehovah Shalom. Then that means he's going to
be our peace from then on, does it not? way he's just denied his name.
Your name doesn't mean that. If God loses one of his sheep,
he's not the great shepherd. Right? If one of his sheep fall
away, he's not the good great chief shepherd. He's not. He's
just another shepherd like any other shepherd who's lost a few
sheep. But he said, I won't lose a one.
None of them. Look at it. Verse 12. He says,
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. Those thou gavest me, I have
kept. None of them is lost, except one, the son of perdition. He
was determined to be before the world began. Let the Scriptures
not be fulfilled. None of them was lost. He says,
Keep them through thy name, according to thy name, that they may be
one. Oh, there's so much here. We
need more time. We don't have it. "...that they
may be one, not only one in Christ, not only be considered in Christ
as holy and blameless and reprovable, but one in each other." This
is how the world, he's going to say, that the world may know
that they are one. By this shall all men know, you're
my disciple. They have—they're one. I mean,
not just in denomination, not just in theory, but they're actually
one. They have one mind, one purpose,
one goal, one heart in all things. Yes, they are one. One people. They're a family. This is not
natural. This is not natural. This is
a gift, that they may be one as we are. inseparable, inseparable. He said, I've kept them, not
one of them is lost. Verse 13, And now come I to thee,
and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my
joy fulfilled in themselves. Oh, I dare not preach this without
smiling, because Christ said that's why He's praying it, didn't
He? He said, These things I speak, this is recorded for what? Not
to answer potsherds, but for our joy. This is for God's people. This was a private prayer that
Christ prayed with the Father for His people. It was not for
the world, but for His people. And He says, for you, that He's
praying this prayer, that our joy might be full. That they
might have what joy? My joy. fulfilled in themselves. He said, My peace I give unto
you, not as the world giveth, but my peace, and joy, that my
joy might be in you. Fulfilled in themselves. Joy
in Christ. Rejoicing in the Lord and who
He is and what He's done. That's our chief cause for rejoicing,
is it not? Yes, it is. I've given them thy
word, and the world hath hated them. I've given them thy word,
and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world,
even as I am not of the world." Our Lord promised this before.
He said this, if you are of the world, the world would love his
own. But since you're not of the world, the world hateth you. Disciples not above his master.
If they receive me, they receive you. Now while we don't want men and
women to hate us, and we don't want to present the gospel in
a way that's not gracious and compassionate,
and to make it a... We don't want to be hard in the
way we present it. Yet the fact of the matter is,
Christ said, if you go and just declare the truth, God's Word,
if you just read, just declare, just quote God's Word, the truth. Christ said they're going to
hate you. And while we don't want men to hate us, and no one
likes this, I sure don't like it, I don't want it. But you can take some joy and
some comfort. You can get some assurance here,
Jenny, if people hate you just because you tell them the truth.
Do you see that? Christ said that. That means
you're not of the world, Jenny. That's what it means. If they
are of the world—well, Christ said that in John's epistle.
He said, they are of the world, therefore they speak of the world,
and the world hears them. But since you're not of the world,
you don't speak of the world, and the only one you're speaking
of, and the only one you're really concerned with. Really, are you
not? Deep down in your heart, you're
not out to make proselytes or Baptists or members of this congregation. No, no, you just want men to
know the true and living God will hate you for it. Don't rejoice. So did they to the prophets that
were before you. A prophetess and a... Not you,
but the other ones. Uh-huh, there was an Anna. Men
and women hated her because she just told the truth. Because
you're not of the world, he said. Read on. They're not of the world? Verse 14. They're not of the
world even as I'm not of the world. You know, we only love
our kind, don't we? People, the races are never going
to get along completely. I mean, we're trying. People
are trying, aren't they? But black and white, red, they're
not going to get along. They're just not going to do
it. Dogs and cats, there may be a few here and there that
dwell, cohabit peacefully, but by and large, they don't get
along. Right? We love our own. We love
our own kind. If you love the world, the world
will love you. Christ said, I'm not from this
world, I'm above it, and they hate me. If people were really
holy, they would love the holiness of Christ. Would they not? If people were
really, genuinely holy and righteous, they would love more than anything
that perfect holiness, which only was in Jesus Christ. And
that's the only one they talk about, isn't it, like David? Psalm 71, I'll make mention of
your righteousness and yours only. Why? He loved righteousness,
real righteousness. Read on. He said, they're not
of the world. Verse 15, I pray not that thou
shouldest take them out of the world. People, we don't, we don't
take ourselves out of this world. We don't, it's not in our hands
to remove ourselves from this world. Don't even think about
it. Young people, anybody, everybody, don't ever even consider it. God will remove you from this
world when your time is done, when your purpose is fulfilled. That's tempting God. And do not
think for a minute, do not think that you will automatically go
into the presence of God. That's the highest and the ultimate,
most fatalistic form of presumption there is. I'm going to kill myself. Where
are you going? You better know for a fact, or
else you'll know more misery than you've ever known before,
which caused you to do what you did. You understand that? I pray
not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but thou shouldest keep them
from the evil. Keep them from the evil, the
evil one, the evil of this world. It's not God's will for God's
people to be separated from this world, but to be out in it. That's
what Christ did with his disciples. He sent them out into the world.
Why? They're the salt, Tammy. They're the salt of the earth.
If the salt has lost its savor, then you remove the salt. If
you don't need salt, you remove the world. All right? And so the world and God's people
are sent out into it. Read it. Verse 16, they're not of the
world again, even as I'm not of the world. They're not of
the world. And that's said to remind us
again and again, we have here no continuance. We need to keep
that in mind. Our Lord keeps saying that, doesn't
he? Not for God's information, not
for his own, but for ours. Nancy, you're not of this world.
You're not. You were born here, why? to know
Jesus Christ. Give birth to a few young'uns
that they might know Jesus Christ. And then when it's all over,
maybe you're young'uns, young'uns, then it's over for you and then
you go to be with Jesus Christ. You like that? Good. You're not
of this world. It keeps telling us that. We're
not going to stay here. We're not going to get it. Get
this world. We're not going to learn what
the world's got coming. We've got a new a new world God's
going to create just for his people, freedom, and he's going
to dwell with it. And for their sakes, he says,
verse 17, sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is true. This is what separates God's
people from the world. It's not their dress, it's not
their language, their speech, although you understand Their
speech is seasoned with sovereign grace, and of him, him, him,
him, him, him, no I, I, I. Nevertheless, what really distinguishes
them is the truth. What separates them from the
world is they believe the truth. Not only believe it, Brother
Henry, they love it. It's more than doctrine to them,
it's their salvation. It's their salvation. It's not
just a doctrine that Calvin came up with, and we argue for nothing.
It's our salvation. If God's not God, if Christ didn't
accomplish it, huh? The Holy Spirit doesn't keep
me? That's my salvation. Read on. And for their sakes,
verse 18, as thou hast sent me into the world, even so have
I sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify
myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Christ set himself apart. Why? For his people. For their sake,
Christ came down to do what he did for them. That they might
be set apart in him. That they might be—the Holy Spirit
takes them and puts them in Christ. That's what separates them. They're
no better, no different than the world. They're flesh and
blood and sinner, but what makes them different is they're under
the lie. The Holy Spirit has put the blow
on their doorposts and lit them. It's got them in the cleft of
the rock. And that's where God sees them when the overflowing
scourge of his wrath comes by. It will not come now then. Why?
They're hidden. They're not different in themselves,
but they're hidden. They're in Christ. They're set
apart in him. That's what sets apart the people
of God, the truth, which is Christ. which is Christ. Verse 20, neither
pray I for these alone. Now, he's not just talking about
those twelve of them. Well, yes, twelve, counting Paul. But for them also which shall
believe on me through their word. You have believed because you've
heard the gospel preached through Paul, Peter, James, I do not
believe this. I mean how do you believe what
Peter preached. All day job. Matthew. He's great. Your name's not there but if
you believe. I pray for the most. We don't first twenty one but
they all may be one. Oh yeah Amy you're going to be
with Peter James John and Anna, Mary Magdalene, Lydia, Abraham,
Sarah. He's praying for Amy Paul right
there. Yeah, he is. Whosoever. Whosoever
believe it. Put your name right there if
you believe. I pray for Patrick Collins. That he may be one. That he might move with us in
the end. Read on. That they also may be
one in us. as thou father art in me, I in
thee, that they may be one in us, that the world may believe
that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest
me I have given them, that they may be one, even as we are one."
And that glory shines in your eyes when this gospel is preached.
Yes, it does. Verse 23, I in them and thou
in me, that they may be one, that they may be made perfect
in one. I in them, thou in me, Christ
in you also, the hope of glory, that the world may know that
thou hast sent me and hast loved them, not the world, but them,
out of the world, as thou hast loved me. Father, and our Lord
concludes his prayer here, Father, and again, this is the only man
that can say, I will. Only man with a free will. He says, I will. We're told to
pray not our will, but thy will. Christ says, I will. This is
what I will. I will that they also, who? Peter, James, John, Matthew,
Amy. That they whom thou hast given
me be with me where I am. Is Christ going to get what he
asked for? He said that at Lazarus' tomb.
He said, I know you always hear me and give me the things that
I ask. So whoever he prayed for is going to be with him where
he is, where he don't. That they may, what are they
going to do? Behold my glory. That's what they're doing now,
you see. That's what He chose them to do now. Although we see
through a glass dimly, we know in part, we preach in part, we
believe in part, we can hear just partially, we can behold
just a little of that glory right now without drifting away, but
then we're going to behold His glory. The glory He's given Christ,
for thou lovest me before the foundation of the world. The
love of God is in Christ. O righteous Father, the world
hath not known thee, but I have known thee, and these
have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto
them thy name, and will declare it." He's continuing to declare
his name through his preachers even now. And here's the end,
that the love wherewith thou hast loved me, the love of God
for Christ, Christ for God, the Holy Spirit may be in them, and
I in them. The love of God shed abroad in
the hearts of God's people. This is what Christ does, this
is what the Holy Spirit does. puts a love of the true God in
the hearts of God's people. They really do love God as sovereign. There's nothing about Him that
they do not love. They love that He is God, and
they love that Christ is all and salvation. And they really
do love each other. Oh yes, not in word only, not
in principle, not in theory, but it's In actuality, they really
do love God's people. They really do. They'd rather
spend more time with them than anybody else. That's just a fact.
And all of this is the result of this prayer. All right. Mary, not Mary. Sherry. Sherry will come down
to the piano. Mary, don't get scared. Sherry? We'll sing number 16. Number
16. M number 16 in the grain book.
Let's stand as we sing. M number 16. Stand.