"Glorify Thy Son"

Q: What does the Bible say about glorifying God?

The Bible teaches that glorifying God is essential, especially through the work of Jesus Christ on the cross. In John 17, Jesus prays for His own glorification so that He can glorify the Father. The relationship between the Father and the Son is characterized by mutual glorification. The cross is seen as the focal point of this glorification, where Christ's obedience and sacrifice display the attributes of God such as love, grace, and righteousness. As believers, we are called to glorify God in our lives by reflecting Christ's love and obedience.

Q: How do we know Jesus' work on the cross glorifies God?

Jesus' work on the cross glorifies God by fulfilling God's plan for redemption and displaying His attributes. Jesus' prayer to the Father for glorification is directly linked to His suffering and the sacrifice He made on the cross. The cross is where Jesus bore the sins of the elect, showcasing God's love and justice simultaneously. The glory of God is evident in the righteousness displayed at the cross, where sin is punished yet grace is offered, allowing for forgiveness. Thus, the work of Christ is paramount to glorifying God as it fulfills His redemptive purpose throughout history.

Q: Why is the cross significant for Christians?

The cross is significant because it represents God's love, justice, and the means by which believers obtain eternal life. The cross is central to the Christian faith because it is the place where Jesus paid the penalty for sin. In John 17, Jesus emphasizes that eternal life is knowing the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom He sent. The crucifixion is not only a historical event but the culmination of God's redemptive plan, fulfilling the prophecies and establishing a new covenant. For believers, the cross is a symbol of hope, mercy, and the foundation of their faith in the grace of God.

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No, no, no, stop. You can see that on your monitor. Thank you. Thank you. Kind of like a preacher, you know, just blowing air. I've got the, Angus Fisher sent me that message where I dealt with that one old man in that nursing home by himself, and just preached to him by himself. I need to send that out to you all. It ain't probably 15, 20 years old, but it was a special time. Angus had his funeral yesterday. Good evening, let's all stand together and sing hymn number 294. 294. Savior, like a shepherd lead us, Much we need Thy tender care. In Thy pleasant pastures feed us, For our use Thy folks prepare.

Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, Thou hast bought us Thine we are. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, Thou hast bought us Thine we are. We are Thine, do Thou befriend us, be the guardian of our way. Keen by far from sin defend us, Seek us when we go astray. Blessed Jesus, Blessed Jesus, Hear, O hear us when we pray. Blessed Jesus, Blessed Jesus, Hear, O hear us when we pray. Thou hast promised to receive us, poor and sinful though we be.

Thou hast mercy to relieve us, grace to cleanse and power to free. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, early let us turn to Thee. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, early let us turn to Thee. Early let us seek Thy favor, early let us do Thy will. Blessed Lord and holy Savior, with Thy love our brothers fear. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, Thou hast loved us, love us still. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus, Thou hast loved us, love us still. Be seated and we'll sing hymn number 168. 168. Lord, I hear of showers of blessing, Thou art scattering, full and free. Showers the thirsty, plain and refreshing, Let some drops now fall on me.

Even me, even me, let Thy blessing fall on me. Pass me not, O tender Saviour, Let me love and cling to Thee. I am longing for Thy favour, Whilst Thou art calling, O call me. Even me, even me, let Thy blessing fall on me. Pass me not, O mighty Spirit, Thou canst make the blind to see. Witness, sir, that Jesus' spirit speak the word of power to me. Even me, even me, let Thy blessing fall on me. Love of God so pure and changeless Blood of Christ so rich and free Grace of God so strong and boundless Magnified in all in me Even me, even me Let thy blessing fall on me.

Pass me not, I lost one bringing, Find my heart, O Lord, to Thee. While the streams of life are springing, Blessing others, O bless me. Even me, even me, Let thy blessing fall on me. John 17. Our second message out of this chapter. That was prayer last week and I'll read verses 1 through 5.

These words spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, thou has come, glorify thy son, that thy son also may glorify thee, as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him.

And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent. I have glorified Thee on the earth. 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. our great blessed God of heaven and earth.

Lord, we come into your presence the only way that you told us we could come, and that's through the blessed name, the blood, the merit, the righteousness of your precious son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And our Father, we do come in his name. Oh, what a name. What a precious name. What a powerful name. What a glorious name. A saving name. A name, oh Lord, that entails all that we need in his name.

And Lord Jesus, please enable me to speak this evening to the betterment and edification of those gathered out here tonight. And Lord Jesus, we ask that you'd please Please be mindful of those who are not with us, though they would be if they could be. So Lord, be with them, strengthen them, encourage them, give them abundance of grace. For we know, Lord, you've told us ourselves, and we've experienced it ourselves, that your grace is sufficient. It is sufficient for whatever comes through this world. And Lord Jesus, we ask that you would Remember our families, have mercy upon our families, on our sons, on our daughters, on our children, on our grandchildren.

Lord, we are going to keep bringing them. We're like the man who, the four men who brought that man, led him through the tile, down in the roof. Lord Jesus, we bring our children to you, but we don't have to bring them through a roof. We can't pick up ropes and bring them, or we would. But Lord, we can bring them from our hearts.

We can bring them before you. We can trust you with their souls. Trust you with what they need in this life. And they need you more than they need anything else in this world. So our blessed Savior, send forth the Holy Spirit. Send conviction into the hearts of our loved ones. You're the only one that can. And we pray that you do it for Christ's sake. Meet with us, oh God. For Christ's sake, amen. Number 31 in our course book. 31 in the course book, oh, how merciful.

When I was lost in sin and shame, How Thou let me take the blame. Blessed Lord, how merciful Thou was to me. When I get looked down deep within, and see the sinfulness of sin. Blessed Lord, how merciful Thou wast to me. Oh, how merciful how merciful blessed lord how merciful thou art to me oh how merciful How merciful, blessed Lord, How merciful Thou art to me. A sinner lost and so helpless, Yet Thou say'st, I must repent, Blessed Lord, how merciful Thou wast to me! I wonder why should I rebel, And with a soul deserving hell? Blessed Lord, how merciful Thou wast to me!

Oh, how merciful! How merciful! Blessed Lord, how merciful Thou art to me! Oh, how merciful! How merciful, blessed Lord, How merciful Thou art to me. I'm not ashamed of all Thy grace, When Thou came and took my place, Blessed Lord, how merciful Thou art to me. When this world ceases to be, Eternal blood to speak for me, Blessed Lord, how merciful Thou art to me Oh, how merciful, how merciful Blessed Lord, how merciful Thou art to me. Oh, how merciful, how merciful. Blessed Lord, how merciful Thou art to me.

We had us a little stand. I'd stand down here and have everybody sit on this side. We'd done that for a long, long time, on Wednesday night especially. And I'd still stand up here, be down there. So maybe we can, last one I had, I let Bruce Crabtree had it. If he still got it, I may have him bring it back. And bring it back. But my subject tonight is glorify thy son, glorify thy son.

That's what he said in verse one. You know, you look at the last words in verse 33 of chapter 16. And you know, he had been talking to his disciples. These things have I spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you'll have tribulation. But be of good cheer, I've overcome the world. It's the last words he spoke, and then he started praying. Talk to them. It's going to be a good year. These words spake Jesus and then lifted up his eyes to heaven. And I believe when our Lord Jesus Christ lifted up his eyes to heaven, I believe he saw his father. You and I can't see into heaven. We don't know what heaven's going to be like. I'd like to think about it. I'd like to enjoy the thought of having to be done with sin, have to be done with this flesh. And whatever it's going to be, it has nothing to do with this world. This is where everything will become new.

But all he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, thine has come. Glorify thy son, that thy son also may glorify thee. This is the high priestly prayer of our Savior. And the Holy Spirit allows us to listen to our Savior and to learn some things from our Savior. Our Lord is leaving his disciples. He's going to leave his disciples, and he has this prayer for them and for us. He's going to leave them.

Look what it says in the first verse of chapter 18. And when Jesus has spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over Brook Sedron, where there was a garden into which he entered with his disciples. So he got through speaking words, and then it says when he got through speaking them words, he went to the garden. So here he is with his disciples. He's going to leave his beloved disciples, and he prays for them.

This prayer is divided into three parts. The first verses 1 through 5, our Lord prays mostly for Himself and about Himself. In verses 6 through 19, if you'll read this thing and go through it and familiarize you will see it, He prays for His disciples in particular and those around Him and about Him. And He also prays for those who will believe on Him through their preaching, through their word. And then in verses 20 through 26, He prays for the church universal.

And that means he prays for us even in the future. He prays for us even before we existed. He prayed for us. And I mean the church universal means at all times, wherever it's at, in all places. And our Lord starts with prayer, adoration, worship. Worship. And he prays for himself. He prays for himself.

That's a very unusual thing for the Lord to pray for himself when he prayed for so many other people, so many other times, done so much for so many people. He prays for his disciples and those who are going to believe on them through their prayer and for the whole church while on earth.

And he said, Father, he said, Father, Father, What a glorious relationship our Lord Jesus Christ had between him and his father. You know, when our Lord Jesus told us and gave us the model prayer, he said, say, our father, which art heaven. Now, when he talks about his father, this was his father, the one that begat him, the one who was with him, the one who knew him, the one whom he is well pleased.

And he says, the hours come. We'll deal with that later in the chapter, but I mean later in another message. But when he says the hours come, every event in history, in the history of redemption from the time the Bible started, and everything that happened in history had a time fixed by the eternal Kri-Kri of God. People talk about decrees, there's only, God only decreed one thing, one time. And everything that He decreed, He said He declared the end from the beginning.

Everything that happens in this world, God fixed it. He fixed our redemption. He fixed everything in history. And the focal point between the histories of this world took place on a cross outside Jerusalem 2,000 years ago. Everything before that pointed to it. Everything after that goes back to it, to Christ on that cross. God's history and everything that happens in this world was based on this one thing happened. This one thing happened, our redemption.

And God had, you know, there is a, a time and a season for every purpose under the heavens. And God, what he hath done, nothing can be added to it and nothing be taken from it. And so our Lord said, prayed here, he said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify thy son. Glorify thy son. And it was, look what he says down in verse five. And now, O Father, glorify me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."

When he says, glorify thy son, because when he said the hour is coming, he's talking about his going to the cross, his sufferings, his sufferings. He talked about all the time. He says, my hour has not yet come. And he says, the time is coming when the son of man should be glorified.

And in His cross, His glory shined like nothing else did. His shine displayed for the world to see. And all of His attributes were gloriously displayed in Him. You're talking about all the attributes of God. All the attributes of God is displayed in the cross, in the sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ. And this is how He's going to glorify His Father, by going to that cross, through His suffering.

Now you're talking about love? Oh my, the love of God manifested here. You're talking about grace? Grace is here. Righteousness is here. Holiness is here. Sovereignty is here. Election is here. Redemption is here. Every attribute, mercy, grace, every attribute's on display here in our Savior on that cross. Glorious display. The Son glorified the Father while He was on that cross. And oh, what a blessed, blessed glory God got out of that. Now the Lord Jesus Christ got from it. The cross is where He redeemed His people. And it was the cross that manifested the perfection of His obedience. And it's the cross where it shows his infinite love for sinners.

Look what it says in verse two. As thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. Well, how's he going to do that? How's he going to do that? God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. And oh my, he had power over the prince of this world?

Satan was defeated back then and there never to have any more power over one of God's elect. Never, ever again. When our Lord Jesus Christ was on that cross, I mean he crushed that serpent's head. And I'll tell you what, he put him on a chain and he can't go no farther than our Lord Jesus will let him. He can't touch us. He can't harm us. He can't do nothing to us because the Lord Jesus Christ defeated him once and for all.

You hear the average preacher pray and preach. He says Satan and God's got the same pound of power. It's up to you to choose which one you're going to follow. Satan ain't never had the power. Never had any power. Not when Christ defeated him. And the scriptures tell us if you put him in a bottomless pit. And I tell you what, people say, well, he's going to be turned loose. Well, listen, our Lord's got him on a chain. He has to have permission to do anything. Yeah, he has to ask permission. Would you let me do this? Would you let me do that?

But oh, he defeated him. And he prayed here to be glorified by the father. He didn't say, I want to be glorified in the world. I don't want the world to honor me. I'd like the world to think the best of me. No, no. He prayed for the father to be glorified.

And then he says, father, glorify thy son. Glorify thy son. Now I want you to see some. What a prayer. What a prayer. From a son to a father. That thy son, thy son may also glorify thee. Look in Proverbs chapter eight. Look in Proverbs chapter eight. Talking about the son. Talking about the son. Oh my, glorify thy son. The son glorified him in his sufferings on the cross.

You know, when our father looked at him, he said, I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied with who you are. I'm satisfied with what you did. I'm satisfied with who you did it for. I'm satisfied with everything you said and done in this world. I'm satisfied with your sacrifice. I'm satisfied with your obedience. I'm satisfied with you putting sin away. I'm satisfied with everything you did in this world. That's what God says about his son. That's what he means to glorify. But look what he says here, Proverbs 8, verse 22. Glorify thy son. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before the works of old. Now, this is Christ talking now.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth ever was, before the earth ever existed, when there was When there was no depths, I was brought forth. When there were no fountains abounding with water, before the mountains were settled, before the hills brought forth. While as yet he had not made the earth, had not made the fields, not the highest part of the dust of the world.

Well, I was there when he prepared the heavens, I was there. When he set a compass upon the face of the depth, I was there. When he established the clouds above, when he strengthened the fountains of the deep, when he gave to the sea his decree that thy waters should not pass his commandment, when he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him.

As Ward brought up with him, I was daily daily His delight. Listen to this, rejoicing always before Him. What a description of our Savior. What a description of our Lord. And oh my, look in Hebrews chapter 1 in verse 5. You need to see this here. Oh my. If I could get over there myself. Hebrews chapter 1 in verse 5.

For unto which of the angels said, had he at any time, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. And again, I'll be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. And again, when he bringeth the first begotten into the world, he saith, let all the angels of God worship him. And when he came into this world, you know, when the day that he was born, The angels begin to sing. The angels begin to sing, glory to God in the highest. On earth this day is born in the city of David, a savior. Who is he? Christ the Lord. Oh my, the angels worship him and adore him. And oh my, he's a son to the father.

The son also may glorify thee. The only reason for my glory is to glorify the Father. That's what our Lord Jesus means here. The only reason I come into this world was to glorify my Father. And let's just consider one attribute of God glorified in Christ on the cross. Righteousness. Just that one attribute, righteousness. He declared it here. God's righteous to punish sin. And now He's righteously able to forgive sin. Oh, look at Luke 23, 47. Look at Luke 23, 47. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Verse 46, you know, Christ came to this world to glorify the Father.

In fact, the first words he uttered on the cross, he said, Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands, I commend my spirit. And having said thus, he gave up the ghost. Now watch this.

Now, when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God. Like our Lord said, I come to glorify you. give my glory to you." He glorified God saying, certainly this was a righteous man. And oh my, of all the attributes that I, Lord Jesus Christ, got honored that Christ glorified himself and God glorified, he glorified the Father that was in his righteousness. His righteousness. Christ died righteously. God's glory and God's righteousness was magnified on the cross, so God can righteously now forgive us of our sins.

And all by the Father glorifying the Son, Father, thy hours come, glorify thy Son, that thy Son may also glorify thee. And all our prayer answered in his suffering for sin, he come to save his people. Come to save his people. He gave, you know, he has power over all flesh to save everyone God gave to him. And all the miracles that took place at the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, during his suffering, the darkness, the earthquake, the bell ring from top to bottom, appointed to him at this time, our Lord Jesus Christ obeyed unto death, glorifying his father.

His hour was come, he has appointed his sufferings, He willingly endured them, and I mean He did in His humanity. Our Lord Jesus said, you know, God said this about Him. He said, I made His soul an offering for sin. It pleased the Lord to bruise Him. So He's glorifying His Son, and the Son is glorifying the Father. He said, I come to do Thy will. Thy will, O God, I delight to do. If it means my death, thou die. If it means my blood, I'll shed my blood. If it means my obedience to death, I'll obey you till I die.

It pleased the Lord to bruise him. What does that mean? That means it satisfied God, it honored God, it glorified God to bruise our Savior. And He done it willingly. Oh my, my God, my God, why has You forsaken me? And the answer comes back because you're holy, you're holy. And our Lord did this in his humanity. According as he has given him, that's what he said there in verse two, given him, given him these people.

I've got to go and save these people. No other way they can be saved other than me going to the cross and glorifying you. And he was glorified also in his resurrection. He said, thou shalt not leave my soul in hell, neither shall my flesh suffer corruption. And I tell you, he was glorified by his ascension and exaltation.

He by himself, by himself, he by himself purged our sins. Purged them. And what did he do after he'd done that? He sat down on the right hand of the majesty. God gave him a name that's above every name that every knee's gonna bow. And that's why he said in verse five, and now, O Father, glorify thou me with your own self, with you, and with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

Now, how's that gonna happen? He's got to enter back into glory. He's gotta go back where he come from. How's he going to enter into that glory after he's finished the work? How's he going to be one with the Father? How's he going to glorify himself with the Father? And he says, oh, Father, I want to be with you and have the glory that I had before I ever come into this world. Now, how in the world is that going to happen? Well, first of all, after he's purged our sin, he's got to go to glory. He's got to ascend to glory.

Oh, my, he has all authority, power over all flesh. And we're complete in Him who's the head of all principalities and bounds. Oh my. He has all authority. And now He glorifies His Father on earth. Oh my. Look back over here with me in John 16. Our Lord glorifies His Father on earth.

And I'm... It's one of the first Any catechism that you listen to or read or find anywhere, the first one is this, is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. Believe God and enjoy Him forever. That's the thing. That's the first one. Believe God and enjoy Him forever. Trust God and enjoy Him forever.

And I'll tell you what, the only way we can enjoy God and rest in Him right now and have joy is because our Lord Jesus Christ came to glorify His Father. And the Father sent Him into this Son that He might glorify His Son. And everything that happened in this world was two things happening. The Father's glorifying the Son and the Son's glorifying the Father.

And He says, now Father, I finished the work, it's done. It's done. I don't have another thing to do except go to that cross and that's my hour and it's come here now. I gotta go. There's no way in the world that I can save those that you give me. I can't those that you give to me they'll never come to me unless I go and pay for them unless I bathe their sins in my own body on the tree unless I uphold your righteous character except I obey you in everything I've got to do it and oh my and look what he said he glorifies him now on earth look what he told his disciples in john 16 and verse 13 and 14 Now He's telling His disciples these things before He goes.

Howbeit, when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come. See how that Spirit of Truth, Spirit is capitalized, the Holy Spirit. When He is come, when He is come, He will guide you into all truth. For He shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear. He will show you and He will speak and He'll show you things to come. How do you think we learn about Christ? How do you think we come to know Christ? How do you think all these things happened?

And oh my, look what He says, and not only that, but He shall glorify me. The Holy Spirit said when he comes with the Spirit of truth, guess what he's gonna do? He's gonna glorify me. For he shall receive mine and shall show it to you. Show it to you. We wouldn't see it if he didn't show it to us. And oh my, as soon as our Savior ascended, the Holy Spirit came and immediately glorified the Son. How did he do it?

Peter says, you crucified the just one with your wicked hands. And oh my, when they got through preaching, he got through preaching on the day of Pentecost, they said, men and brethren, what must we do? He said, repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. 3000 souls was born that day after our Lord ascended.

And oh my, And I tell you, He gives eternal life to those that was given to Him. He said, all that the Father gives me. And we go down through here and you see how many things are given. All that the Father gives me. I hope there's some folks come in here that's been given to the Father. I do. I hope some people come in here that's been given to the Father.

I mean, on Sunday morning, You know, I believe, I believe most, you know, you folks, you give every indication that you know Christ, and I hope I do. But oh my, maybe somebody will show up one of these Sunday mornings, and he'll be the one that Father gave him to him, and oh my goodness, the Holy Spirit will take the things of Christ and glorify himself. That's why we preach Christ. That's why we preach the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh my, and I'll tell you what, And not only that, but he'll also be glorified in the destruction of his enemies.

You know what it says in Hebrews? Set thou here at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. I'm going to make all your enemies. I'm going to make all your enemies. And Christ's got lots of enemies. All them Pharisees were enemies. All the Sadducees were enemies. The religious world's an enemy. The world is an enemy of Christ. Religion's an enemy of Christ. Most preachers are enemies of Christ. And he said, I'll tell you what, you sit right here, and when it's all said and done, every one of them's gonna come right here, and I'm gonna make all of them your footstool, and you're gonna put your feet on them.

Oh my, that'll be a day of joy for his sheep. Oh my, but oh my, a day of sorrow for everything else. And the scriptures tells us that every eye shall see him. When our Lord Jesus comes back, every eye shall see him. Now how about the people in the grave? Every eye shall see him. The dead in Christ shall rise first.

And you know, the judgment has, the wicked will be on the left and the righteous will be on the right. The sheep and the goats, he makes that much difference in them. And they say, come ye, blessed are my father, heard the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Take ye these others and cast them into outer darkness, put them into the depths of hell.

Oh my. Oh, a day of sorrow for every eye, but every eye is going to see. And I'll tell you what, and I'll tell you these, it says, they shall look upon me whom they pierced. They shall look upon me whom they pierced. So you think about that, people looking on Christ.

You know, Scott Richardson made a statement when that Roman soldier took that spear and opened Christ's side and out come the blood and the water. He said, there's a nearer way to the heart of Jesus than through a spear and through his side. There's a nearer way to the heart of Jesus. And I tell you what, a spear has nothing to do with it. It's from this heart to that heart, from us to him. There's a nearer way to the heart of Christ.

Oh, my. And I tell you what, His glory and Christ's glory, I'm going to tell you something, it's going to continue forever and ever and ever and ever. And I love that about it. You know, when we get to glory, you know what we're going to be doing? We're going to be showing the exceeding riches of grace, worlds without end. We'll see Him in every day of our lives, and we see Him and we'll glorify Him. Oh, the glory!

When John saw him in Revelations, he saw him with this white hair and this glorious golden robe that he had girdled his hat on and feet of brass. And oh, he saw him in all his glory and he fell down before him as a dead man. He said, they're so glorious. I can't behold your glory without falling down.

And when Moses and them was in the tabernacle, when God told them all to come out, he was going to come down, they all stood there and they all fell on the ground because the glory of God came down on them and they could not stand it. So if the glory of God come down in the Old Testament and cause people to fall on their faces, imagine what it's going to be like.

That's why we have to have a new body. That's why we have to be made new. That's why God starts with that new work here. New heart, new mind, new will, new affections, new creature. And all you think what's gonna be when he takes this old body. That can't go to glory. Heart can. I'm gonna give you one to get you there. I'm gonna give you one that'll get you there. And guess who's gonna take you? I'm gonna take you. I'm gonna present you before my father. Oh my.

And I tell you what, back over in 17, our Lord's prayer has been answered. The Father has been glorifying the Son. The Son has been glorifying the Father. And these things will continue throughout all eternity, all eternity. The Father, even now, right now by the Holy Spirit, even now is working in many hearts glorifying the Son. He comes in the Holy Spirit. The Father sends the Holy Spirit. He works in our hearts, many hearts, glorifying the Son by revealing Him, drawing them to Him, giving faith in Him, causing them to love Him, adore Him, and worship Him, and need Him, and love Him above everything else in this world. That's what the Father is doing to glorify the Son right now. And the Son, by the Holy Spirit, glorifies the Father, working in many to rejoice, to love and worship and reverence the Father, by whom all things."

Look in Romans chapter 11. Look in Romans chapter 11. Oh, my. You know, the Holy Spirit, through Christ, glorifying His Father, Look down at verse 33, oh my. We love, he teaches us to rejoice in, to love and worship and reverence our father. Look what he says. Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God.

How unsearchable, how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways, I found it out. Who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? Who has first given to him? And God has to pay him back. For of him, through him, and to him are all things to whom be glory. The Father, the Spirit, the Son, all of them, bless his holy name. And you know his Father is our Father.

Remember when Mary was going to touch him after she found out he was the master, after he revealed himself to her there in the garden. And she was looking for his body. And he called her name, Mary. And she fell down fixing to touch him. She said, touch me not, Mary.

I'm not yet ascended to my father and your father, my God and your God. So the father that he worships is the father we worship. The God that he says is my Father, he says my God, he's our God. One and the same. And our Lord Jesus Christ willingly glorified the Father. God bless the Son by the Holy Spirit and make us make it our aim to glorify Him. Let me close with Revelations chapter 5. Revelations chapter 5. Look in verse 13. That's what we're talking about.

Father, glorify thy Son, that thy Son may also glorify thee. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I say, Blessing and honor and glory and power be unto him that setteth upon the throne forever and ever. Well, I should have. And oh, my. And oh, my.

And every creature, everyone, what are they doing? They said, blessing and every creature under the earth, above the earth, wherever they're at. How in the world are they going to do this? God said they're going to. You know, you think about all the birds God gave a tune to sing. You think about all the lions that he causes to roar. All the deer out in the middle of nowhere lay down and have babies and they survive. You know why? even in creation, everything that ever moved, right or wriggle, gonna say, riches and honor and power and blessing and glory unto him who sitteth upon the throne for how long? Forever. Forever. That's a long time.

All right. Our Father, thank you for being such a Blessing to my heart. I thank you for your word. I thank you for your word. I don't know how to describe these things the way they should be described. I don't know how to deal with them the way they should be dealt with. But Lord, I pray that you'd give me the wisdom and the understanding how to take your word and give understanding to it. Give me some wisdom to give her the understanding of it, not to make it say something it doesn't say or take away something it should say.

Oh, God, please bless these dear saints as they go their way and bless my dear brothers and sisters who are not here with us. Bless them for your glory and our good in Christ's holy name. Amen. Amen. See you Sunday, God willing. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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