These words spake Jesus, that is, after all that he had
said. And he lifted 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 a 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. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou
me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee
before the world was. I have manifested thy name unto
the men which thou gavest me out of the world. and thou gavest them me, and
they have kept thy word. And now they have known that
all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the
words which thou gavest me, and they have received them, and
have known surely that I came out from thee and they have believed that thou
didst send me, I pray for them. I pray not for
the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for they
are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine
are mine, and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world,
but these are in the world, and 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. While I was with them in the
world, I gave them, I kept them in thy name. Those that thou
gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost but the son of
perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled. And now come
I to thee, and these things I speak in the world, that they might
have my joy fulfilled in themselves." I have 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. I pray not that thou shouldest
take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them
from the evil one. They are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the
world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for
their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified
through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone,
but for them also which shall believe on me, which shall believe
on me through their word, that they all may be one, as thou,
Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in
us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the
glory which thou gavest me I have given them, that they may be
one, even as we are one. I in them, and thou in me, that
they may be made perfect in one. And that the world may know that
thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also,
whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory
which thou hast given me. For thou lovest me before the
foundation of the world. 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, that the love wherewith thou hast loved
me may be in them, and I in them. There's no way that you can read
that portion of scripture as it should be read. No way. I'd like to have heard that.
I'd like to have heard him pray that prayer. Someday we'll hear
that voice. The spans of time are sinking
The dawn of heaven breaks The summer morn I've sighed for the
last week on the way Dark, dark, it's been the midnight Dayspring is at hand, And glory,
glory dwelleth In Emmanuel's blood. O Christ, He is the power
of death, Deep sweet well of love, streams on earth I've tasted,
more deep I'll drink of love. There to an ocean fullness His
mercy doth expand, and glory, glory dwelleth any man you like. Oh, I am my Beloved's, my Beloved's
man. He brings up all vile sinners
into his house of wine. I stand upon his merits. I know no other stand, not even
where glory dwelleth. in Emmanuel's lap. Her bright eyes, not her garment,
but her dear bridegroom's face. And I will not gaze at glory,
but on my King of grace. Not at the crown He giveth, but
on His blessed hand. The Lamb is all the glory, of
Emmanuel the Lamb. OK. If any study. Should require
sincere, heartfelt and diligent seeking of God's spirit. As I
briefly spoke about last Sunday night. If anything, if any portion
of scripture should require that. This should. One writer said,
when you approach this portion of Scripture, you need to take
off your shoes. Be on holy ground. This is our Lord's prayer, not
the one that he gave as a pattern to his disciples. This is the
Lord of Glory's prayer. We are listening in on God talking to God. We're eavesdropping, with permission,
on the Son and the Father conversing. And you know what? He's talking
about us. This is the high priest, the
great high priest, the one mediator between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus. This is his high priestly prayer. This is it. He's speaking to
God for his people. like that holy incense upon the
altar that rose up into the nostrils of God before that lamb was sacrificed
and placed upon the altar. Dare we approach this indifferently,
casually, carelessly or inattentively. And this is the reason. I looked
at this for a long time before writing anything down. I read
a lot of writers. I had it on my mind for a few
days before I even approached it. And this is the reason that I
am merely going to do an introduction to this tonight. And really,
in all honesty, it was just too big. It's just too great. And
everything I read, every man I read, he had a ten, twelve
page introduction to this before he even got to the first verse.
And I saw the necessity of that, a sort of Kind of preparing your,
kind of taking your shoes off before you get into this. Kind
of stripping before you lie down. And so before we get into this
prayer itself, I want to briefly consider some things, and I'm
going to have you out of here very quickly. I just want to impress upon you
right now the magnitude of this and the seriousness of it and
entice you, create a spark of interest to look into this for
the remainder of the week and as we prepare to get into it
next week. I'm not trying to be formal.
I'm not trying to be overly what they call melodramatic or whatever,
but it really is This is great. Like I said, this is God talking
to God. And we're just going to rush.
I don't want to make a discourse out of it. I want to do that.
I'd love to enter into the spirit and feeling of this, wouldn't
you? I'd love to just have it grip me, what he said. But I
thought about this in the form of a question. This message is
going to take on the form of a question. Why did Christ pray? Why did
Jesus Christ pray? He who is none other than God
himself—he never was separated, really, from God. They're one
and the same person. He who is God himself prayed
to God. Why? by whom are all things, and for
whom are all things, in whom we live and move and have our
being, who made all things by the word of his power, who upholds
all things by the word of his power, who has the keys of heaven
and hell, life and death, who openeth and no man shuts, and
shuts and no man opens." It's strange to me when I stopped
and thought about this. It's strange to me, Henry, that
he prays. Why? He didn't have to pray,
really. I mean, in light of who he is,
or you follow the line of thinking of him, why did he pray? I mean, he was with one mind
and one essence with the Father. He is God. So why pray? Why did he pray? Since he knows
all things, has all things, worketh all things, since the scripture
says, known unto God are all his works from the beginning,
why in the world does he have to ask for anything? It's already done, and he's the
one that does it, yet he's praying. Why is he on his knees before
whom every knee shall bow? Why does he knock on heaven's
door? Who is the door of heaven? Why does he ask of the Father
when they are one in essence, being, purpose, and power? Well, listen to these reasons.
I believe this is going to be a blessing to you. First of all,
I want you to turn with me to Exodus chapter 30. Exodus chapter
30. Why did Christ pray? Why does
he pray? Number one, to fulfill his office
as the great high priest, to fulfill his high priestly office. Now, you know, all of you are
fairly familiar with the high priest and the atonement and
so forth, but the high priest of old, which was Aaron right
here, he had particular duties. God Almighty chose Aaron and
he commanded Aaron. He gave him specific duties to
perform in the office of high priest. Particular duties. And these
things had particular significance or meanings because every one
of them pointed to the Lord Jesus Christ. And one of these was
to burn incense, like I briefly mentioned a while ago. Now look
at it here in Exodus 30 verse 1. God is giving him the direction
or instructions of what to build. And he says, make an altar to
burn incense on. Of shittum wood thou shalt make
it. Or that is, make it out of an
earthen vessel. This altar to burn incense on.
Look down at verse 6. And thou shalt put it before
the veil, that is, by the ark of the testimony, or the covenant,
before the mercy seat, that is, over the testimony, where I will
meet with thee." Put that ark or that altar to burn incense
over there. That's the place you're to put
it. And verse 7, And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet, sweet, sweet
incense. every morning, as soon as he
wakes up, the rising of the sun. And when he dresses the lamps,
that's at evening, that's the evening sacrifice, he shall burn
incense on. And when Aaron lighteth the lamps
at evening, or it is between the two evenings, at dusk, he
shall burn incense upon it. A perpetual incense before the
Lord throughout your generations. You shall offer no strange incense
thereon." No strange incense. But you're to keep burning incense
on them. And this is a type of Christ. These are types of Christ's prayers,
sweet prayers, sweet-smelling savors that go up into the nostrils
of our Father. And he offers them incessantly
or continually as our intercessor continually. The scripture says,
seeing he ever live it to make intercession for us morning,
noon, night, always he ever live it to make intercession for us. He's our great high priest who
offers up his prayers to the father and this prayer before
us, John 17. You know, the high priest went
into the Holy of Holies once a year to offer that one atonement,
that one great sacrifice. And it was a special time, special
time. And this prayer that Christ is
offering here in John 17 is right before he went in and made that
final sacrifice, one offering forever. that would sanctify
them forever, that would put away, that would do away with
all previous types and ceremonies and pictures and ordinances and
such, would finally put an end to it all. And this prayer that
Christ is about to pray is that great high priestly prayer before
he goes in and makes that atonement of his own blood, his own blood. So why did Christ pray? His office
as the Great High Priest. Now, secondly, why did Christ
pray? To fulfill all righteousness. Stay with me now. This has put
a lot of work into this. Why did Christ pray? To fulfill
His office as the Great High Priest. We've got to have somebody
praying for us. We've got to have the incense
on the altar. We've got to have a mediator, Terry, an intercessor. We've got to have Him speaking
to the Father for us. Because our prayers, everything
about us is filthy rags in God's eyes. And he's got to offer up
right prayer, righteous prayer. And that's my second point. He
did this to fulfill all righteousness. Now listen, God demands perfect
obedience. Perfect obedience. And one of
those commands, God commands prayer of all his people. Doesn't he? He commands that
his prayer, ask of me. Ask of me, and he said there
in Psalm 2, I believe it is, ask of me and I'll give you the
heathen for your inheritance. That's just what he's doing in
John 17, asking for the heathen, asking for Henry's sword, a heathen.
He asked Henry and he got what he asked for. He got you. Ask of me, and Christ did. He
did all that the Father commanded. And also, this was part of that
covenant agreement between Him and the Father. Look over at
Hebrews chapter 5 with me. This will be a blessing to you,
Hebrews chapter 5. This was part of that covenant agreement that
the Father and the Son made before time, that Christ was to come
down and be that great high priest, actually be a high priest, actually. The others were symbols and types
and pictures. Aaron was just a picture of the
one who was to come. He was going to be the one, the
real high priest. See, it's not possible that the
blood of bulls and goats or the prayers of Aaron or the incense
or whatever could put away sins or that could have any saving
benefit with God for us. But this high priest could. This
final one. Look here at Hebrews chapter
5. Look at chapter 4. Now we have not an high priest
which cannot be touched with a feeling of our infirmities.
There was a sense in which those old high priests who lived in
the temple, they were kind of sheltered from the people and
what went on and so forth, much like the monks and so forth at
the hour of death. But he says here we don't have
a high priest like that. But he's touched with a feeling
of our infirmities and was in all points tempted like as we
are, yet without sin. He says, Let us, therefore, come
boldly with assurance unto the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy. Let us pray, he says. Let's go
to the throne, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help
in time of need. Now listen, go on here in chapter
5. Now every high priest, he said, is taken from among men
and is ordained for men in all things pertaining to God. that
he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sin, that is, all of the
ceremonies and types that he went through. God ordained it
as a picture. And who can have compassion on
the ignorant and on them that are out of the way? But Christ,
for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. And this earthly
priest, that is, by reason hereof, he ought, as for the people,
also for himself to offer for sins. That earthly priest had
to offer sins for himself, too. And no man taketh this honor
unto himself, but he that is called of God. This is what Aaron
was, he said. Aaron was called of God, chosen
of God, chosen from among the people. So also Christ, look
at verse five, he glorified not himself to be made an high priest,
but God said unto him, you're my son, today I have begotten
thee, I have chosen you. And he said also in another place,
you're a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. Having
no, that is having no father or mother, no beginning of days
or ending. And Christ, now look at this.
This is what I want to get to. Christ in the days of his flesh,
when he had offered up prayers and supplications, and he did
it all the time, with strong crying and tears. unto God that was able to save
him from death. He was heard, and that he feared. Now look at verse 8. But though he were a son, the
Son of God, yet learned he obedience, obedience by the things which
he suffered. In other words, Christ had to
know what it was like to have faith in an unseen God. Somehow or another, Christ lived
by faith, like us. Somehow or another, he limited
himself, he made a little lower than the angels even. As a man,
somehow or another, I can't describe this, but somehow or another
he got in a body and he limited himself to where he couldn't
actually, this seems to be what this is indicating, see the Father,
like us. Terry, no man's seen God. We
have to live by faith, don't we? Faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. And Christ
had to pray to an unseen God, just like you and I have to.
He had to learn what it was like. Now, do you get a hold of this?
He left, first of all, it's glorious enough that he left the presence
of his Father with whom he had close, like a father and a son
who loved one another. We can't even enter into this.
But they loved each other with with perfect love, and to voluntarily
strip himself, part himself with the Father, and go down into
this cesspool of iniquity, and then put a curtain across between
him and his Father, and live like us, base creatures, and
have to cry, plead strongly. That's what it says here. He
learned obedience. And he cried with strong and
fervent prayer, and he did it for us. Why? Because he's touched
with the feeling of your infirmities, Nancy Parks. He knows you can't
see God. Never have. Never will. Until
you leave this body of death. And you can't see. You have to
just rely on His Word. His Word. And that's what Christ
did. He limited Himself. He learned obedience. And being
made perfect. He became the author of eternal
salvation on all them that believe. He grew up in wisdom and stature.
This is puzzling. This is a mystery. This is a
great mystery. But he did it for our sakes.
He didn't have to, but he did it for our sake. So why did Christ
pray? First of all, to fulfill that
high priestly office. Secondly, that he might fulfill
all righteousness, because the Father said, now you're going
to go down there and you're going to have to live like a man. You're not going
to have any special privileges any more than any other son of
God. Right? Right? You're going to have to
live by faith. You're not going to see me with
the naked eye just like old Joe and just like old Terry and Rick.
And they're struggling to a degree, in a sense, this is what he did.
Right? Thank God. He's touched with
a feeling of our infirmities and this being made low, lowly. He said, take my yoke upon you
and learn of me. I'm lowly. He who was highly
esteemed became lowly like us. Thirsty, hungry, all of these
things. And right here, above all else,
cut off. in a sense, from God, from seeing
His Father. Thirdly, why did Christ pray?
Now listen to this. Look back at the text in John
17. Look at it with me. John 17. Why did Christ pray,
thirdly, that we might have a copy of
it? Look at verse 13 in John 17. He says, Now come I to thee. And these things I speak in the
world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves."
Look over at John 11. Do you remember the story of
Lazarus when he was at Lazarus' tomb? Look over there. John 11. Remember, he stayed away, and
then he finally came, and he talked to Mary and Martha, and
he finally went to the tomb there, and he told them, And then what did he do when
he came to that tomb? He started praying. Everything
he did, this is important to notice it, I'm going to get into
this in a minute. Everything he did, Henry, he prayed about
it. That's what he tells us to do. In everything with thanksgiving. Prayer, make your supplications
known. Look here in John 11, look at
verse 41. Then they took away the stone from the place where
the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes
and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And
I knew that thou hearest me always. But because of the people which
stand by, I said it, that they might believe that you sent me."
And why did Christ pray? That we might have a copy of
it. And so many, Henry, so many things that he did was for our
benefit. So many things, well, everything
he said was to fulfill the Scripture, but also for our benefit. Else
we wouldn't have known what was, we wouldn't have the mind of
Christ, would we? We wouldn't know. We just wouldn't know.
And this, and I'll tell you why. Why did he pray? That we might
have a copy of it. Because, Stan, this is our church
covenant. John 17. is our church covenant. This is our bylaws. Anybody ask
you what your church covenant is, don't go to the Philadelphia
Confession of Faith. No, say John 17. It's all right
there. This is the articles. This is
our articles of faith. John 17. It is. This is where
we resort to and resort to and resort to. I tell you, if you
look at this quote, while we were reading this, I saw things
I hadn't seen before, just in the reading of it just now. And
I'm sure the next time we read it, we're going to see things
that we've never seen before. This is where we resort, or rather
who we resort to, and what he said. What he said for strength,
for assurance, for comfort, for encouragement, for help. It's
all right here. It's all right here in John 17.
Tell you, if you didn't have another verse of Scripture and
all about it, it'd be enough right here. The whole purpose
and counsel and mind of God Almighty is right here in John 17. It's
amazing. So why did he pray? So we'd have
a copy of it. a church covenant. Number four,
why did Christ pray? Think about this. He prayed to come in prayer,
to consecrate the act of prayer. That's why. To precept and promise,
he now adds his example. Listen, he said, ask and you
shall receive, didn't he? He said, ask and you shall receive. We read that several times already
through the previous chapter. Ask and you'll receive. What
did he do? He asked and what did he get? He received. And he commands and he shows
us how it's done. What's to be said? Christ knew
all things. This is what I just said. He
knew all things, yet he asked for all things before he got
them. He prayed about everything. He
truly prayed without ceasing, without ceasing. He prayed fervently. I love that scripture over in
James, where it says, The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous
man availeth much. Who do you reckon that's really
talking about? Elijah? Oh, no. The effectual. Every one of his prayers were
heard. Fervent. Oh, you're talking about fervency.
Sincerity and truth prayer of a righteous you talk about a
righteous man the altogether righteous one availeth what much
everything all things. All things now. Christ prayed
he commended and consecrated that very act of prayer now if
Christ prayed about everything. What's it tell you and me. He
who knew everything before it happened, yet he prayed about
it. What does that tell us we ought to do? We don't know anything.
We don't know. I don't know what's going to
happen in the next five minutes. This roof may cave in. What does
that tell us we ought to do? In everything, in everything,
prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, prayer and supplication,
everything. Because without Him, we can do
nothing. And that's who we're appealing
to. And He sets this example He calls upon the Father. Father,
Father, Father. He lived like us. Father, give
me. Father, do this. Father. And
He did everything He said. Now He says, you do the same.
As you've seen Me do, you do it also. You do it also. Fifthly, why did Christ pray?
First of all, that He might fulfill that high priestly office. Secondly,
fulfill all righteousness because the Father said, you pray. Thirdly,
that we'd have a copy of it. Fourthly, to commend and to consecrate
this act of prayer, to commend it. Fifthly, that our prayers
might be effectual. Now listen, the reason our prayers
are heard is because Christ prayed this prayer, didn't He? Did you
notice all these things that He said about us? We'll get into
them later on. Father, love them like you love
me. Hear them like you heard me. Be with them like you'd be
with me. And the reason, the only reason
our prayers are heard is because our great high priest came down
and prayed this prayer. If he had not been prayed, if
he had not come and done this, our prayers wouldn't be heard
because this is the only man ever approved and the only prayers
ever approved. Our prayers are full, you have
to admit it. I don't care how good they sound. I don't care
how good they sound. They're full, full of sin and
self-righteousness. Any man that's a right man, mine,
doesn't like to pray publicly. Right, Rick? Just don't like
to pray publicly. Why? Because you feel your hypocrisy
and just every wickedness, everything. Even privately, you have a hard
time praying. But this man could pray with
a perfect heart and mind and spirit. And God heard him. He
prayed in sincerity and in truth for the will of God, for the
glory of God. And God heard him. And Henry
saw, when you go to pray, he'll hear you too. Why? Because there's
virtue in your prayer? No, because there's virtue in
his prayer, his prayer. Our prayers are full of sin.
But because of Christ, Christ sanctified by his blood, in his
blood, considered in Christ as children of God, sanctified by
the Spirit, God hears our prayer. He hears our prayer. You remember
back there in John 16 where he says, look back at John 16 with
me, verse 26. Remember Christ said it was back
in chapter 14, I believe. I go to prepare a place for you.
I'm going to clear the way. I'm going to tear down the veil,
Vicki, so your prayers can come through. That's what Paul says
over in the Hebrew. Now you can come in boldly. Or
that is with confidence, not proudly, but with confidence
and assurance that God will hear you. Look here, that's what he
says back in chapter 16, verse 26. He says, At that day you
will ask in my name, and I say not unto you that I'm going to
have to convince the Father to hear you, because he heard me,
and I consecrated this act, made your prayers effectual. I'll
pray the Father, because the Father himself loves you, and
he'll hear you for my sake, for my sake. He'll hear you. Well,
you know, our prayers, the Father hears them. He hears them, but
they have to be worked on a great deal. Everything has to be cut off,
don't look like a hound dog. Everything has to be removed,
all the dross. That's about all of it, isn't
it? I mean, everything in it. He has to wipe it out entirely
and start over again. That's what he says about the
Holy Spirit. He said the Holy Spirit even
prays for us, helps us. When we don't know how or what
to pray for, he has to make groanings that can't be uttered. He has
to say things to God that we wouldn't have thought of saying
and make things right that we did say to God. Well, why did Christ pray and
I'll quit? Why did he pray? to fulfill his
office as a high priest, to pray for us, to fulfill all righteousness,
because God said, you pray. You're going to go down there
and you're going to live like a man. You're going to have to pray to me.
That's good news to me. I like that. Thirdly, that we
might have a copy of it. I like that too, this copy of
it. Fourthly, to commend and to consecrate
this act of prayer. And fifthly, that our prayers
would be effectual. And along the lines of this fourth
thing, God, he consecrated this act of prayer. Listen to this.
Think about this. Christ consecrated every single
thing that we, he tells us to do. He did it. Everything. He told John, he said, when he
came down to John to be baptized, he said, John said, no, I know
you baptized me. What's the, I don't, what do
you need to be baptized? Well, it was Christ baptizing him.
Well, he told John, he said, it behooves us to fulfill all
righteousness. I'm a man. And all men who believe
in me are to be baptized. I believe in the Father. I'm
going to baptize. I'm going to be baptized. And
he was baptized of John. He consecrated everything. A
hearing. He went and heard John preach.
And possibly the disciples. Well, he told them they'd get
nervous. What do you reckon? I'm just sure he heard him preach.
Just sure of it. Well, speculation. But I know
he did. I know he did. He heard him preach. He went and heard the gospel
preach. He did. He went to the synagogue singing.
When they got in that upper room before he went to the cross,
they sang hymns, didn't they? They sang. Singing. Singing. Fellowship of the saints. Paul
said, over in Hebrews, forsake not the assembling of yourselves
together. He didn't. Never did. Sure he never did.
He was constantly with his companions, his fellow laborers. Constantly.
What does that tell us? Constantly. They were his constant
companions. Constantly. Worship. He was always... Look at that. Every Sabbath he
was in the synagogue. Yes, he was. He was in the synagogue
worshiping on the Sabbath, every Sabbath. And now prayer. He prayed. You look through the
Scriptures. You just try to just pick out where he says he prayed. He constantly did. He began his
earthly ministry with it. He continued with it. The last
thing before he died, the last thing he did before he died was
prayed in it. Didn't he? The last words he
uttered, he prayed to the Father. And if he did all this, what
about us, our commitment? Baptism. Have you confessed Christ?
Do you believe this gospel? Have you confessed Christ in
believers' baptism? We've got a pool up here. We
cleared it out the other day. We had some stuff in it like
we weren't expecting anybody to ever get in it again. But
we cleared her out just in case somebody hadn't confessed Christ.
You need to confess Christ in baptism if you never have. Hearing the Word, this is the way we grow. This is the way we are nourished.
Singing, and we like to sing and hear singing. Fellowship,
forsaking not the assembly of yourselves together. Worship,
you need to be here at every opportunity, because if you're
honest with yourself, you just kind of, you're pretty devoid
of worship during the week, aren't you? So come in here. Come. When you hear the sound of the
trumpet, like Nehemiah said, resort thither to us. When you
hear the sound of the trumpet, come thou with us and we'll do
thee good. And prayer right here. Prayer. But, not just an example. He did it all, like I said, as
our great high priest, and he did it all the right way. The
right way. We'll never do these things with
a pure heart. He did. He did. He did it all to fulfill
righteousness. The way God demands of us, and
he did it for us. And he prays right here for us. This high priestly prayer. And
we'll get into it starting next week. Why did he pray? Oh boy,
there's many more reasons I'm sure of it. Many, many, many,
many. I'm sure glad he did. I'm sure glad he did. I'm sure
glad we've got John 17. Look at it this week. Look into
it. I'm telling you what now. If
you want comfort, you know, we talk about resorting to the Psalms.
That was David and his prayer, his Psalms, his prayers he offered
up to God. Go to the son of David in John
17 and see what he said. If you need some comfort and
some peace and some assurance, well, John 17 is the place to
go. Any place in the Scripture you can go, but right here is
a special place. Special place. Okay. Let's sing a song I had
in mind. Sherry? Which one was it I picked out? uh...