I want to talk about our Lord
Jesus Christ and His glory. Our Lord and His glory. Our Lord is praying here, and
first He prays for Himself. He prays for Himself. And the
first thing He says in verse 1 is, The hour has come, father, glorify
thy son that thy son may also glorify thee. He prays for himself. Then he prays for the disciples.
He prays for them. And then he prays for the church
as he prays for them, not for the world, but for those that
God has given me out of the world. One thing that preachers teach
all the time is that we need to pray for the world. You know,
but our Lord didn't pray for the world. He only prayed for
His elect. He only prayed for those that
the Father had given Him. And if you've been given to Christ,
Christ prayed for you before you was ever born. And if you're
not one of His elect, if you're not one for whom He died, He
ain't said nothing about you. In fact, He says He don't know
your name. But he says, I know my sheep, and I know them, and
they know me. That puts salvation where it
belongs, in the Lord's hands. And I love it there, don't you?
That ensures my salvation. That guarantees that I shall... You know what it says down there
in verse 10? They said all mine are thine
and thine are mine and then look what he says, I am glorified
in them. He didn't say I want to be, I
hope to be, I'm trying to be, but I am. That's a statement
of fact. Oh my. And as our Savior prayed,
the words he used reveal the whole of our salvation. the whole
of our salvation, of God's way of saving sinners. Look what
he said in verse 2. He says, As thou hast given him
power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as
many as thou hast given him. This is eternal life that they
might know thee, the only true God in Jesus Christ, whom thou
hast sent. Now those two verses right there,
as our Savior prayed, the words He used there, reveal the whole
of our salvation. Every bit of it. God's way of
saving sinners. First of all, the Lord Jesus
Christ has all the power. And the thing about salvation
is, in the gospel, always starts with God. Always starts with
God. He said, as thou hast given Him,
we start with God. God gave the Son power. And it's God's glory to give
the Son the power. And the glory of God is even
before the glory of His Son. His Son came to glorify His Father. That's what He said. I come to
glorify Thee. And He said in verse 4, I have
glorified Thee on the earth. I've done it. You gave me a work
to do. I did it. I did it. And this salvation is revealed
to us here from glory to glory from the glory that Christ had
before the world was to the glory that the father gave him while
he was in this world and the glory that our Lord Jesus Christ
brought to his father so we go from eternity to eternity and
I tell you how do you deal with such things he says father Glorify
your son then he says I have glorified you and now glorify
me with the glory which you had with me What I had with you before
the world began so from glory to glory I Come with glory. I brought glory and I'm going
back to glory How do we feel in the presence of such God honoring
truths? and I do know this that it's
hard hard to be taken up with self and If you're taken up with
someone else, in order to be taken up with the Lord Jesus
Christ, David said, I desire to see this one thing of my desire,
that I might behold the King in His beauty and dwell in the
house of the Lord forever. And I want two things for us
to see this morning, if God would enable me to do it. I want us
to see the preexistent glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. the
pre-existing glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ain't that what
he said in verse 5? And now, O Father, glorify Thou
me with Thine own self, with the glory which I had with Thee
before the world was. Our Lord had a glory before He
ever came into this world. And that glory was with His Father.
And then the second thing I want us to see is His predestinated
work. Everything our Lord did was predestinated
for him to do it. Look first of all at his pre-existence
glory. That's what he said in verse
5. Glorify me thou with thine own self with the glory which
I had with thee before the world was. You know what our Savior
is saying? He's asking His Father to restore
Him to His place, to His glory, His proper place before the world
ever was. Before anything ever happened
in this world, He said, I want you to put me back. Give me that
glory that I had with you before anything ever happened in this
world. Before the sun ever gave off its light. Before the moon
ever reflected its light. Before the star ever was hung
in the sky. Before you laid the foundation
of the world. Before the angels sang in their
glory. He says give me what I had with
you before the world ever was. When it was nobody but me and
you. He said, that's what I want.
And that's why, you know, look over here in John chapter 1,
just a minute, let me show you a couple of things. John chapter
1, verse 1 and 2. And I tell you, our Lord Jesus
Christ, you see, He had the same glory that the Father had. They're
one in nature. God the Father and God the Son.
They're one in nature. They're both holy. They're both.
They're very nature. They're the same. They're the
eternal. They have the same nature. They
have the same essence. And they enjoyed one another.
And look what it says, in the beginning, in the beginning was
the Word capitalized. The Word was with God and the
Word was God. And listen to this, that Word
was the same as in the beginning with God. And he said, that's
where I want to go. I want to go back there. And
I'll tell you what, our Lord Jesus Christ, before the world
ever began, He had glory as the Creator. You know, He's the first
cause of everything. He's the first cause of creation.
It's said over in Colossians chapter 1 verse 16, All things
that were created, were created by Him and for Him. And He's
before all things and by Him. Everything that consists, consists
by Him. And I mean our Lord Jesus Christ,
He has great glory as Creator. And here's the thing about it,
people will have Him knocking on somebody's heart, so He can
create a world. Create a world and all the worlds
within a world, you know how many worlds there are in this
world? Lots of worlds in this world. You got your world that
you live in. The heavenly world, world beneath,
animal world, vegetable world, mineral world, World inside the
sea, angelic world, spiritual world, worlds all over this world.
But everything that exists in this world, our Lord Jesus Christ
created it. If you see a whale, Christ created
it. If you see an ant, Christ created it. If you see a gnat,
Christ created it. You got breath in your body,
Christ created you and He made you and if He has every breath
in His hand to do what He will with it and when He wants to,
He'll cut it off just like that. He owns the breath of every living
soul. You couldn't be in better hands. And all He had glory as a surety. Look what He said in verse 2.
Here in John 17 now. Look what he says in verse 18.
Glory as a surety, and a surety is one who takes the place of
another to discharge all of their inconsistencies and incompetence
and all the things that they can't do for themselves. And
he said, Thou hast given him power over all flesh. And here's
the reason he gave it to him, that he should give eternal life. to as many as thou hast given
him." I mean as many. So he was surety for somebody.
He stood good for somebody. He paid somebody's debt. He stood
good for them, struck hands with the Father before the world was,
for somebody, and he said, and I'll tell you who they are, as
many as you gave me. As many as were ordained to eternal
life to believe. You go through the scriptures,
you see as many as, and every time you see as many as, that's
as many as Christ was given to him, and that's who he's going
to save. And then I'll tell you what,
he's covered his head over his people, look what it said in
verse 3. And this is life eternal, and this is what he makes known,
that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ
whom thou hast sent. He's the one that God made head
over everything. And so here He is. He has the
Father. He has His preexistent glory.
And He prays for the glory He had. He says there again in verse
5, John 17, And now, O Father, glorify Me with Thine own self
with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was. So
He's praying for that glory that He had before. Well what in the
world happened to that glory that he wants it back? What happened
to it that you can't see it? What happens to it that he says
give it back to me? I want what I had before the
world ever was. I want that glory. What happened
to that glory? I'll tell you what happened to
it. He became a man. He became a man and his glory
His glory was veiled in flesh in his humanity. He didn't lay
aside his Godhead. He didn't lay aside his deity.
He was still God. But he laid aside the glory of
his deity. When you saw him as an infant,
you saw a baby. He didn't lay aside His deed,
but He laid aside the glory of His deity. He didn't cease to
be God. He ceased to manifest the glory
of God in Himself. Oh, how many people, Scott Richardson
said this one time, he says, you know, everybody says we ought
to live in such a way that they see Jesus in us. He said they
didn't see Jesus in Jesus. And I tell you what, and you
know the only time that they actually saw His glory apart
from Revelation when He was on the Mount of Transfiguration
and He was transfigured in them and He shone as bright, glistening
white as bright as the sun. Now that's the glory He's talking
about. And that's not how he normally appeared to men and
women. No, that's not how. This is the
glory he had. That glory that they saw on the
Mount of Transfiguration. That glory that Moses and Elijah
and Peter, James and John saw on the Mount of Transfiguration.
And when that was gone, he went right back to being looking like
a man. And oh, he laid it aside. Another
time he pleared in glory, and that was after he was already
in glory. He appeared to glory to Saul of Tarsus. And the scripture
said, a light brighter than the sun came down on him. But you
know what he said about him when he come into this world? He said
he was a root out of dry ground. There was no beauty about him
that we should desire. Ain't that what it said? And so when he came into this
world, men saw just a man. And the reaction
to him shows that his glory was found. You know how many times
they said, who is this man? He said he came down from heaven. And he said, we know his father,
we know his mother, we know his brothers, we know his sisters.
How in the world, who is this man that said he came down from
heaven? We've watched him work. We've
seen his work. He's a carpenter. But that glory there is shining
in him, but that glory is veiled in the flesh so that no one can
see it without revelation. It's like Moses, when Moses went
up on the mountain, and he was in the presence of God, and he
had the glory of God on his face. And he had to come down with
a veil over his face so they wouldn't see that glory. Well,
that's the way our Lord Jesus Christ was. He was veiled in
this flesh, in the fleshly body. And if our Lord had come in power,
and He had come in great glory, if He's come as a King as they
say He's going to come, If he would have come as the Prince
of Glory, and he would have come and ascended the throne and sat
down on the throne, lived in a palace, that would have been
wonderful, but that's not how he came. You know how he came? Scripture says he came in the
likeness of sinful flesh. When you saw him, you saw a man,
and he was just in the likeness of body like ours, but it wasn't
sinful flesh. It wasn't simple. It was a body
like ours. And all born in poverty. And his mother and father were
poor. And they were so poor that all they could afford to offer
for him was doves. Couldn't afford a lamb. Couldn't
afford a heifer. Couldn't afford a goat. Couldn't
afford a bullock. Went and bought two doves. And that's what they offered
for him when they dedicated him to the Lord, being the firstborn.
And then as he grew up, he earned his living as a carpenter. And
as he got on his own, you know, he never ever had a home that
he could say was mine. When he entered his ministry
when he was 30 years old in Nazareth and he went in that tabernacle,
went in the temple there and then went in the synagogue and
began to quote scriptures and said, this day of this scripture
fulfilled in your ear. From that day on, he never ever
had a place that he could say, this is mine. And yet he made
the world and the heaven of heavens can't contain him. He said, see that fox? It has
a hole. See that bird? It's got a nest.
But you see me? I don't have a place to lay my
head tonight. He said, I ain't got no glory.
I ain't got no glory. And when
he went into the garden of Gethsemane and he began to pray there, to
his sweat became as a great drops of blood. Where's his glory? His disciples were so weak that
they fell asleep while He was praying. And here on earth, beloved, He
did not have the glory that He had with the Father before the
world was. And He says now, He says, Father,
glorify Me with the glory. And you know, He's going to return
to the very place where He came from. Look over here in John
chapter 16 with me just a minute, verse 28. John 16, 28. Look what he said. He's going to return where
he come from. He said, I came forth from the
Father and I am come into the world. Again, I leave the world
and I go to the Father. What he said is it's time for
me to return to you. It's time for me to go back to
the glory that I had before the world ever began. And the astounding thing is, and
here's the astounding thing, he's going to return to the Father.
He's going to return to the glory God gave him before the world
was. But he's going to go back different than he was when he
came. He's not only going to go back up there as God, the
creator and sustainer and surety of his people. But he's also
going to go back there as a man. He's going to go right back up
there as a man this time. And he'll be able to be seen.
And he'll sit down as a man. And how do we know he's a man?
Because he took with him the marks in his body of that cross
there with him. And he goes back there and that's
why he says, you know, he's still God. But he'll always be, once
he became a man, he'll always be a man. And there's a man in
glory. And that's why our Lord Jesus
Christ said he can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities
as he was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. Because he went through what
we went through. And fell every temptation that
you and I'll ever have. Without any sin being involved
in it, that our Lord Jesus Christ, He sits now at the right hand
of God as a man. A man in glory. And I tell you
what, there's only one person that ever saw Him. And that was
Stephen. When he was martyred and they
stoned him to death, and he said, Father, he said, Lord Jesus,
forgive us. Let not this sin to their charge.
And the Lord Jesus stood up, and Stephen saw and said, I see
the Lord Jesus standing at the right hand of God. Why was he
standing? Come on home, Stephen, I'll welcome
you home. And he stood up to welcome that
martyr into his presence. Oh my, in eternity before pure
deity, eternal God, eternal Son, Son of God. And when He returns
to His glory as God-man, He'll be there as our representative. And God will restore all that
glory that He voluntarily laid aside. Psalm 24 says, Lift up
your doors. Lift up your gates, everlasting
doors and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of
Glory? The Lord, mighty in battle, strong in victory. Open up! Why? Because the King of Glory
is coming in. Why? Because he won the battle.
He got the victory. And I tell you what, they open
the doors, you know, and they go in these palaces and they
go in all these places, you know, and they have all these gates
and stuff to bar people from getting in. Well, I wore Jesus
Christ symbolic, but all their gates of heaven, the glory of
heaven, everything that was there. He said, just lift them up, open
them up. Somebody's coming in. Who is
it? It's the King of Glory. What's he going to do when he
gets here? He's going to sit down. What's going to happen? Every angel there is going to
bless his name. And the Father is going to say
to him, Son, sit here in my right hand. I'm giving you the place of majesty
and you sit right here until I make all of your enemies your
footstool. And he's sitting there. All right, that's the glory.
Now let's look at his predestinated work. He said, Father, give me
the glory that I had with you before the world was. And all
I tell you, look at his predestinated work. He said in verse 4 of John
17, I have glorified thee on the
earth. I have finished the work which
thou hast given me to do. Finished it. Now it says that
you gave it to me. When did the Father give him
the work? Before the world began. He said I'm sending you into
the world. And you're going down there to do one thing. to do one thing, to finish the
work that I gave you to do. And oh beloved, what is that
work? And I tell you, he's the lamb slain from the foundation
of the world. He's the one that redeemed it
with his precious blood as a lamb without spot, without blemish,
who barely was foreordained. And oh, what was the work that
he had to do? The first work he had to do was
to reveal God. Reveal God. Ain't that what it
tells us here? He said in verse 6, I've manifested
your name unto the men which you gave me out of the world.
He came down here to make God known to his people. You can't know God apart from
Jesus Christ. You cannot possibly know God
apart from Christ. There's no way in the world that
you can have any relationship with God apart from Jesus Christ. God won't speak to you or let
you be spoken to apart from His Son. Those Peter didn't know
Him, didn't know who God was until Christ made Him known.
Andrew didn't know who He was until God made Him known. Paul
said, I know who God is, but he did not know who God was.
You know when he found out who God was? When Christ put Him
down on the Damascus road. He said, no man, no man has ever
seen the Father. Only the only begotten Son who
is in the bosom of the Father and He came to reveal Him. He
came to tell it out. And this idea that there's a
lot of different ways to get there, that's a lie hashed right
out of hell. There ain't but one way that
God will be spoken to. One way God will be approached.
And one way that you can ever know God and Christ has to be
the one make you know it. I've run around this country
preaching and jumping benches and speaking in tongues and laying
hands on people and telling everybody how they're supposed to dress
and all the sins that they had to quit before they could be
converted and all that. I just was, I did the whole,
little old wholeness preacher come down here for a month. Didn't
know God from ago. You know when I found out who
God was? When Christ put me in the dust back in the late 70s. He came and He took my will He
came and He took my rights. He came and He took my ministry. He came and took every prayer. He came and took my legalism.
He came and took my fundamentalism. He came and took everything I
had until I was naked before Him and left in His hands to
either save me or damn me. And I tell you what, I said,
if you will have mercy on me and I ain't got no right to ask
you for nothing. If you ever let me say another
word, I'll tell the truth on you. That's what I will do. And
I tell you, he came to reveal God. Look what it said over here
in John chapter 14, verse 8 and 9. And oh, when Moses went up on
the mountain, he said, Lord, I want to see your glory. You
know what the Lord said? He said, He calls the name of
the Lord to pass before him. He's made the goodness of the
Lord pass before him. But you know, he couldn't do
that until he put him in the cleft of the rock because he
couldn't see. Nothing but the hindered parts of God. And look
what he said here in John 14. Excuse me, John 14 and 8. Philip saith unto him, Lord,
show us the Father. And that will suffice us. That
will be sufficient. We won't bother you again. Just show us
the Father and that will be sufficient. That will be sufficient. And then look what he said. Our
Lord said, unto him, have I been so long time with you? And hast
thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen
the Father. How sayest thou then? Show us
the Father. You're looking at it. The fullness
of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily. If you want to see God, you'll
only see Christ. You want to have a relationship
with God? Only through Christ. And then he not only came to
manifest and reveal God to his people, but look what else it
says. He gave them the words of the
Father. Look what it says down in verse 8. For I have given
unto them the words which thou hast given me." You know what
words are for? Words are means of communication.
Words are what we use to express what's in our mind, to express
what's in our heart, to express what we're thinking, to express
what we're feeling. And that's what words were for.
Our Lord Jesus Christ came and gave us the words. Words. And look what it says
there now, listen to what it says. I have given unto them
the words which thou gavest me, and listen to this, and they
received them. Have you received them? Have
you received them? You say, yes, yeah, I believe
that. Yesterday I was in that preacher's class and I was dealing
with some some things about in the preacher's class and I got
through and this young man come up to me and he preached a few
times and he came up to me and he said, boy, he says, I said,
you know what you said was so real to me, it's my heart and
your heart. I mean we was connected and I
was using words and he received what I had to say. Now I receive
what Christ has to say. I agree with everything Christ
said. He said, I'm the Father. I believe
that. He said, I am come that you might
have life. I believe that. He said, there's no way you can
get to the Father but by me. I agree with that. Everything about him. He said,
I'm the Lord. I agree with that. I'm the only
one that can give eternal life. I agree with that. I received
that. I believe that. I'm not looking
for salvation in any other place. Are you? He said, I gave them the words.
You know what they did? He said, and they received them.
They just went out and got them. Yes. And then look what else he gives. In verse 33, he gives eternal
life. He said in verse 3 here, John 17, 3. He said, And this
is eternal life, that they might know thee. You know what eternal
life is? Knowing God. Knowing God. The only true God
in Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. How do we know God? Christ revealed to me. Christ
revealing Him. I'll tell you something else
He did in His predestinated work. He done something for us that
you and I couldn't do. Now they make a big deal about
putting up the Ten Commandments all over the place. They just
debate that all the time. The only place I want to see
the Ten Commandments at is when they're fulfilled in Christ. I don't want them in my house.
I don't want them on the walls. I don't want them in my yard.
I don't want them roped in a cross. I don't want them. I don't want
them. You know why? Because all they do is condemn
me. In and of themselves, by themselves. First thing he said,
don't you ever have a God before me. Don't you ever have a God before
me. And I tell you what, which of us hasn't had a God beside
Jesus Christ? You've had a God. And if you
don't know God in Christ right now, you still have another God. It may be self. It may be your
own wisdom. It may be your own goodness. You mean drug addicts? Well,
I'm not, you know, I know I'm not very good, you know, I know
I make a lot of mess out there. But I'll tell you one thing,
I'm, you know, there's some goodness in me. I got, you know, I got
a good heart. Somebody lied. Well, it was necessary
for me to lie, you know, it was a white lie. People's got something. Somebody
told me one time, you know, oh my, well, I tell you, you can't
meet a drunk, you can't meet a whore, you can't meet a drug
addict, you can't meet nobody that don't have something they're
trusting in until God saves them for Christ's sake. Call them a sinner and I may
be bad, but I'm not as bad as so-and-so. I tell you what, if
God ever makes you bad, you'll realize, you'll be the worst
person ever was if God ever makes you bad. If God ever makes you
a sinner, you'll really, really, really, really, really know something
about how awful you are. You can be a Boy Scout and have
every merit badge that there is, but merit badges don't mean
nothing to God. You can be a wonderful mother
and love your children, take care of them all your life, but
God don't save wonderful mothers. He saves sinful mothers. Oh, my granny, she's the sweetest
thing ever was. I loved to be at her house. She
cooked the best meal. God don't save good grannies
that make good meals. He saves sinful grannies. Oh, he's the best husband. Oh,
he's so good to me. I can't tell you what a wonderful
husband he is. Oh, God don't save wonderful
husbands. He saves sinful, wicked husbands. And that's why nobody's getting
converted today. You can't find anybody that's
a sinner unless they're already saved. You know that? You cannot find a sinner unless
God's already saved him. Now ain't that right, Brad? If
you start talking about your sinfulness and how unworthy you
are, something's already been done. That's what I'm telling
you. You go on to the law if you want
to. You go on to the law. You face the law. I'm a good
person. As far as I know, I haven't broken
any of them. I haven't committed adultery.
I haven't lied. I have no graven images. I honor my father. I honor my
mother. Of course you do. Of course you do. You know what
our Lord Jesus Christ said? He said, I didn't come to destroy
it, but to fulfill. the law, and not only the Ten
Commandments, but all, everything about this blessed book he kept.
He kept all of it. He kept all the prophets spoke
of him, he filled them both, he honored God, he glorified
God, because the perfection of his perfect, of his person and
his works, therefore, are perfect. And I'll tell you something else.
If you ever bring anything to God, it must be perfect to be
accepted. Now where are we going to get
perfection at? The scripture says we're complete in Him. And
you know what that word complete means? Perfect in Him. He'll present us without spot,
without blemish, holy and unblameable in love. You want to be perfect? You've got to be in Christ. You want a perfect sacrifice
to offer God? The Lord Jesus Christ. You want
a prayer that God will accept? Christ's got to pray it for you. Oh my. And I'll tell you something,
the law now How many things have we done to dishonor our Lord? But our Lord Jesus Christ did
more to honor God's law than we ever have done by sin to dishonor
it. Where sin did abound, grace did
much more abound. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them. We're at in Christ. Christ is
the end, the fulfillment, the goal, of the law for righteousness,
not to the man that does, to the man that believes. Now I
tell you what, the law, the whole book, that whole book right now
can come and look me over from top to bottom. He can look you
over, James. He can look you over, Herman. The
law, that whole book can come and look you over from top to
bottom, inside and out. And you know what? Vertical me?
Perfect. Find no fault. I don't even see
a blemish. Ain't that what He said? He hath perfected forever. Who? Them that are sanctified. And
then let's go back over here in John 17 just a minute. I'll
wind this thing up for you. What he said in verse 19, he
made an atonement for sin too. He said in verse 19, and for
their sakes I sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified
through thy truth. Now when our Lord Jesus Christ
talks about sanctifying himself, that doesn't mean that he's setting
himself apart to be more holy than he is. He was sinless perfection. So
when he says, I sanctify myself, he said, I'm setting myself apart
as a sacrifice. He says, my hours come. I finished
the work. And my hours now come. And so
I'm going to set myself apart to the cross. I'm going to set
myself apart to the Father's will. I'm going to set myself
apart to the justice of God. I'm going to set myself apart
to the wrath of God. I'm going to set myself apart
to be a sin offering. I'm going to set myself apart
to be a substitute. I'm going to sanctify, set myself
apart. And I set myself apart to bear
their sins. Those as many as you gave me,
I'll be made a curse for them. I've set myself apart to shed
my blood unto death. And I tell you what, when he
offered his sacrifice on that cross, that was the last sacrifice
ever offered on this earth. And the only one that ever, ever
put away sin. The only one that God ever accepted
once and for all. When He said it is finished,
I mean there ain't, don't even try to bring anything else. Don't try, please, please, I'm
telling you, if you've ever heard anything I've ever said, don't
you ever try to bring God anything, any sacrifice, because He's already
got a perfect one. So what could you possibly bring? And it actually put away sin
And he made an atonement he put away all of his people sins for
all time and for all eternity And I tell you what the last
thing he done and I'm gonna tell you this He came to save his
elect and to save him eternally Look what he said here in verse
2 and 3 of John 17. I He said, as thou hast given him
power, authority over all flesh, that he should give eternal life
to as many as thou hast given him. And this is eternal life.
They might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
thou hast sent. He came to save his people. And
he said in verse four there, he said, I finished that work.
I did it. He said, I give unto my sheep
eternal life and they shall never perish. Do you know that everybody
here that knows Christ has trusted Christ? They have life, eternal
life. Right now. Not going to get it. They got it right now. Some of you ain't going to be
here six months from now. Some of you ain't going to be
here a year from now. The Lord's going to take you from this world
and take you out of this world. And you're not going to get eternal
life when you die. You have eternal life now. Life
inhabits an old tent. You know, as our Lord's glory
was veiled in His flesh, that life we have is veiled in His
flesh. But we got it. That's why we say, even so, come
Lord Jesus, come on. Oh my, just think about it. That
trumpet's going to sound. The dead in Christ are going
to rise. You know, when you're going,
when your eyes are going, you're bam, you're right there. Oh my! Who in the world wouldn't
want that? And then I tell you the work
is finished. He says there in verse 4. I have glorified thee
on the earth. I have finished the work which
your God gave me. And so Father, since I finished
it, you know what my reward is? Give me the glory which I had
with you before the world was. And we'll sit right there. We'll
sit there together. until it's all over. Our Father, our Father, in the
blessed, holy, glorious name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Father,
thank you for allowing us to honor you today in our very feeble
way. But Lord, I'd love to try to
honor your name, to magnify you. And oh, Father, if it would please
you to drive this truth home, you must do it. Oh, Holy Spirit,
take the things of Christ and show them unto them. Take the
things of Christ in open hearts and minds and understanding.
Take that darkened mind and turn on the light Take that stony
heart and take it out and put in a heart of flesh. Take those eyes that can't see
and may they see the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Take those
ears that can't hear and oh Lord, unstop them until they hear the
voice of the Son of God. Oh Lord Jesus. And then here in it they have
life. Thank you, Lord, for allowing
us today to meet here and worship you. In Christ's name, amen. Amen. Let's stand together and
sing a couple of verses of 349 and you'll be at liberty to go.
I think that's what I want. Ain't that to God be the glory?
449? Yep, listen. To God be the glory, great things
He hath done. So love ye the world, that He
may bless His Son. atonement for sin, and open the
wide gate that all may go in. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. O come to the Father, through
Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory, great thing He hath done. great things he hath done, and
prayed out rejoicing through Jesus the Son. The purer and higher and greater
will be our wonder Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the earth hear His voice. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord! Let the people hear His voice. See you tonight, six o'clock,
God willing.