"Three Things Given to Christ"

Q: What does the Bible say about the authority of Christ?

Christ has been given all authority over all flesh, highlighting His sovereign power. In John 17:2, Jesus states that the Father has given Him power over all flesh, indicating that all authority belongs to Him. This authority encompasses not only rule over creation but also the ability to grant eternal life to those whom the Father has given to Him. Christ's dominion is affirmed throughout Scripture, including Daniel 7:14, which declares that He was given dominion and glory, signifying His ultimate authority as King over all. His authority is a pivotal aspect of His identity and mission, as it assures believers that nothing can ultimately thwart His redemptive plan.

Q: How do we know the doctrine of eternal life is true?

Eternal life is rooted in knowing the only true God and Jesus Christ as revealed in John 17:3. The doctrine of eternal life is fundamentally linked to the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ. In John 17:3, Jesus articulates that eternal life is to know the only true God and Himself whom He has sent. This relationship is intrinsic and demonstrates that eternal life is not merely a future promise but is experiential and relational in nature. Furthermore, it is a grace-based gift, meaning that our access to eternal life is not by our own merit but through God’s sovereign grace bestowed upon those He has chosen for salvation. Thus, eternal life is assured to those who have faith in Christ, as affirmed in various parts of Scripture.

Q: Why is knowing God important for Christians?

Knowing God is essential for genuine faith and is the essence of eternal life. For Christians, knowing God is vital as it forms the foundation of their faith and relationship with Him. In John 17:3, Jesus emphasizes that eternal life is defined as knowing the only true God. This knowledge is not merely academic but involves a deep, personal relationship with the Creator, unlocked through Christ. The more we know God, the more we can trust, love, and obey Him. This relational understanding leads to personal transformation and assurance of salvation. Furthermore, it positions believers to live in obedience and worship, fulfilling the purpose for which they were saved, thus emphasizing the importance of knowing God as part of their spiritual journey.

Q: What is the significance of Christ finishing His work?

Christ's completion of His work ensures the full accomplishment of salvation for His people. The significance of Christ finishing His work is profound, as evident in John 17:4 where Jesus states, 'I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.' This declaration announces the completion of His redemptive mission, which included obedience to the Father, atoning for sin, and providing a perfect righteousness on behalf of His people. His work is both a fulfillment of prophecy and an assurance to believers that their salvation is secure. It emphasizes the finality of His sacrifice on the cross, where He proclaimed, 'It is finished.' Therefore, the completed work instills confidence in believers that they have been fully redeemed and that Christ will continue to uphold them in faith.

Good evening. Let's all stand together and sing hymn number 61. 61. And we'll sing this to the tune of Holy Manna. 61. O the deep, deep love of Jesus, fast unmeasured, boundless, free, rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me. Underneath me, all around me, is the current of Thy love. Leading onward, leading homeward, to my glorious rest above. O the deep, deep love of Jesus Spread His praise from shore to shore How He loveth, never loveth, changeth never, nevermore How He watches o'er His loved ones I to call them all His own. Crown for them He interceded, wash it for them from the throne. Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus, love of every of the best. Tis an ocean vast of blessing, tis a haven sweet of rest. O that deep, deep love of Jesus, tis the heaven, the heavens to me. and it lifts me up to glory, for it lifts me up to Thee. To be seated, we'll sing hymn number 112. Number 112.

Up Calvary's mountain, one dreadful hour. While Christ, my Savior, weary and low, Facing poor sinners, That He might save him from endless loss. Blessed Redeemer, Precious Redeemer, Seems now I see Him. On Calvary's tree. Wounded and bleeding, Poor sinner's bleeding, Blinded and bleeding, Dying for thee. Father, forgive him, Thus did he pray, meanwhile his life-blood flowed fast away. Praying for sinners, while in such woe, no one but Jesus ever was sown. Blessed Redeemer Precious Redeemer Seems now I've seen Him On Calvary's tree Wounded and bleeding Poor sinner's pleading Blinded and bleeding, dying for me Oh how I love Him, Savior and free How can my praises ever find Him Through years unnumbered on heaven's shore, Thy tongue shall praise Him forevermore. Blessed Redeemer Precious Redeemer Lives now I see Him On Calvary's tree Wounded and bleeding For sinners pleading Why did I leave him dying for me? Amen.

Good, good, good song. John 17. I should have probably started in John chapter 1, but since I started through 17, if we do start in John, we'll just skip 17 and go start somewhere else. I will deal with four verses today, the first four verses. These words spake Jesus, 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 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."

You know, Daryl Hardman had to go. He got a touch of pneumonia and got some other things wrong with him. So we want to remember him and, of course, Doc and Janie and Helen and Rick, people that would be here if they were able. And Eleanor, you know, she'd be here if she was able. So we want to remember them dear saints. Delayed, yes.

Our Father, in the precious name, blessed name, of our Lord Jesus Christ, how blessed we are, how blessed we are to be able to come, to come into your presence, to come through the blood, the righteousness, the merit of our blessed Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And Father, I'm so grateful that we can meet, that we can meet here and open your precious word, learn some things about our Savior, Learn some things about His power and His glory. And our Savior, we do pray, our dear, blessed Savior, our Lord Jesus, be mindful of those we've mentioned tonight.

Brother Darrell, Elaine, Doc and Janie, Rick and Helen, others among us who have been so greatly, greatly tried, we thank you that you're always, always, if sufficient grace. The only reason, O Lord, so many don't fall away when they miss, knowing they not want to, is because you pray for us and our faith will never fail. Nothing will ever fail. You've perfected us forever by your blood, sanctified us forever, cleansed us from all our sin by your precious blood.

So meet with us tonight. and have mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, oh, God, on our children and our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren. Oh, Lord, I'm just at a nonpluss when it comes to my children, my grandchildren. I just don't know what to do except cry to you for them, just cry to you for them. Every family represented here, Lord, has children, sons and daughters, children, grandchildren. And, Lord, it's on our heart. Sometimes it's very burdensome. It's on our heart to see them brought to faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, brought to the end of themselves and find themselves at the feet of our blessed Savior.

Please, Lord, Bring glory to yourself in this service tonight. We ask in your holy name. Amen. Number 326. 326. I feel like there's some songs we've sang more than others, and I try to not sing the same songs every week, every service, but I don't think we could sing this one too much.

More about Jesus would I know, More of His grace to others show, More of His saving fullness see, More of His love who died for me. More, more about Jesus, More, more about Jesus, More of His saving fullness see, More of His love through God for me. More about Jesus let me learn More of His holy will discern Spirit of God, my teacher be Showing the things of Christ to me ♪ More about Jesus ♪ ♪ More, more about Jesus ♪ ♪ More of His saving, more is He ♪ ♪ More of His love who died for me ♪ ♪ More about Jesus in His Word ♪ Holding communion with my Lord, Hearing His voice in every line, Making each faithful saying mine. More, more about Jesus, More, more about Jesus More of His saving grace More of His love to die for me More about Jesus on His throne Riches in glory all His own, More of His kingdom sure increase, More of His coming Prince of Peace. More, more about Jesus, More, more about Jesus. More of His saving, more we'll see. More of His love through God and for me. back here with me in John 17, but let me tell you something.

Down in Australia, they had right on their pulpit, right up here in the corner, Sirs, we would see Jesus. That's what he looked at every time he got up to preach. Sirs, we would see Jesus. That's a good thing, to look at that every time you get up. Sir, we would see Jesus. Well, I hope by God's grace we'll see him tonight.

In these verses I read to you, there's three things given to Christ. Our Lord here prays to his Father. He presents pleas for himself, first for himself. And it's about God glorifying the Son, his Son, that the Son, his Son, may also glorify him. You know, there's three things given to Christ here.

First of all, authority, all authority is given unto him. Look what he says there in verse two. As thou hast given him all power, all power over all flesh. Now that word power, that means authority and it also means strength. Well, he's got all the power, all the authority, and he's got all the strength.

But let me show you something about how our Lord Jesus Christ viewed His relationship to His Father and how He ought to treat Him. Look with me in John chapter 8, verse 47, before we get into the message. John 8, verse 47. Our Master, His life on this earth was to glorify His Father. And in verse 47, John 80 said, he that is of God heareth God's word. Now you can tell whether you're God or not because you listen to his word. You can actually hear it. That word hear means to understand it. Ye therefore hear them not.

Why don't you? Because you're not of God. Then answered the Jews and said unto him, say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil? Jesus answered, I have not a devil, but now listen to this, but I honor my father, and you dishonor me. This is what he says, now I seek not mine own glory. There's one that's going to judge you. One. He said, I don't seek my glory. That's different than anybody else on this earth. We want our own glory. Now look in John chapter 5 and verse 41. is our master seeking to glorify his father. John 5, 41. This is an amazing thing to me. Our master said here in verse 41, I receive not honor from men. I don't. I don't receive honor from men. But I know you that you have not the love of God in you. I am come in my father's name I came from God Almighty, I come in the Father's name, God Almighty, the great I Am's name, and you will not receive me, you don't receive me.

If another shall come in his own name, in his own power, in his own glory, magnifying himself, bragging on himself, got a name. Oh, my name, you know, preachers get up and brag on one another. And I'll tell you, he said, listen, another shall come in his own name. And you'll receive him. You'll receive him like he's somebody. You'll receive him like he's got some power, some authority. You'll receive him like he's really special.

Oh, but how can, this is what our master said, how can you believe which receive honor one of another and seek not that honor that cometh from God only? Oh my. That's an awful thing to not honor the Lord Jesus. He that honors the son honors the father. You dishonor the son, you dishonor the father. That's what our master said. So that's what our Lord Jesus Christ, He said, Father, I've glorified you on the earth.

Now you glorify me. And all three things given to Christ. Let me go back over them again. First of all, authority. Thou shalt give him power over all flesh. And then He gave him a people to as many as thou hast given him. He got all authority over everybody. Power, authority over all flesh. But he really has power, saving power, saving strength to those has given him. So he has authority and he has power.

And then he has a work. Look what he said down first verse four. I've got I've glorified thee on the earth. I finished the work that you gave me to do. He's got authority. He got a people and he's got to work. And our master says here in verse one, glorify thy son. And God did glorify his son. Oh, how he glorified his son. And he's the son of the father. First of all, he glorified him and given him all this authority. Nobody else has ever had that power. Nobody else has ever had that dominion. Nobody else has had that power. Nobody else has ever had that strength. And I want to show you something. Now, Daniel, if you go to the book of Ezekiel and go to the end of Ezekiel, Daniel will be your next book. And go to Daniel chapter 7. Chapter 7.

I want to show you something, what it says about our Lord Jesus Christ. Give Him, in His authority, have given Him all power. Who gave Him all this power? The Father gave Him all this power. The Father glorified the Son, giving Him His authority. He says, thou art my son, and I give all authority unto you. Oh, God gave him all this authority. And then he says he's power over all flesh.

What flesh? Fallen flesh, saved flesh. Any kind of flesh. And ain't you glad He's got power over our flesh and our flesh cannot absolutely destroy us? That He's got authority over it? If He left us to ourselves in our flesh, even the way we are now, it'd be awful. It'd be awful.

But look what He said here in Daniel chapter 7 and verse 14, or verse 13. Excuse me, start verse 14. 13, excuse me, I saw in the night vision and behold, one like the son of man came with clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him.

Now watch this, and there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people and nations and languages should serve him His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and shall not pass away, and his kingdom that will shall not be destroyed. God brought him there and said, I'm going to give you a dominion.

I'm going to give you a people. I'm going to give you a kingdom. You can go as far as you want to go in this world. He said, you've got dominion over it. And when you get to glory, you're still going to have dominion over it. All authority. Oh my. And I'll tell you he has dominion over the whole human race. He does. I mean I'm grateful for that. I'm great. He has authority over every human race. The whole human race. From the day Adam was born to the last human being will be born on this earth. Christ has the authority over that person. And he give eternal life to whom he will and he can pass by whom he will.

And I often wonder how many people are reprobate in this world. And when I say reprobation, there's two things. There's mercy of God, the salvation of God, the grace of God that He gives to a certain people, and then there's other people that He just absolutely lets their minds go and do whatever's convenient for them to do. That's the mark of reprobation when God Himself turns you over and lets you do what you want to do. That's not absolutely contrary to Scripture, but you'll say, I think it's right and I feel right about it. Phileas don't enter into this business. He gave him power over all flesh. And oh my, gave him dominion over the whole world.

You know, our Lord Jesus Christ, God said, I made him lower than the angels. I made him lower than the angels. And he come down here lower than the angels. I mean, the angels obeyed Christ, but he said, I made him lower than the angels. I made him lower than angels.

But he turns around and says he's got all authority. He just said he never gave no authority to any angels like that. And oh, look over here in John 19, in verse 10. Look what it says over here about all his authority. God glorified the Son, and the Son glorified the Father in his authority. Look what he says down here in verse 10.

Then Pilate said unto him, speakest thou not unto me, knowest thou not that I have power, that word's authority, to crucify you, and I have the authority to release you? Our Lord answered, you could have no power. You've got no power at all against me. You have no power at all against me. except, except it was given you by my father, given you from above. Therefore he that delivered me unto you, he's got the greater sin.

And oh my, so in his authority, go back over to our text, he has a power over all flesh, power over the whole human race. And then look what else it says, as thou has given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as as thou hast given him.

God gave him a people. You go down through here and it talks about the people that's been given to the Lord Jesus Christ. And a people's given to him, and they were given to him for him to give life to them. He said, they were given unto me that I might give them life, eternal life. That's why he gave me power over them. That's why I have this authority, that I should give eternal life.

How many people is he going to give eternal life to? As many as thou hast given me. As many as. The scripture says so many times, as many as. As many as were ordained to eternal life, believe. As many as received him, to them became the sons of God, which were born not of the will of man, not of blood, not of the will of the flesh, but of God. Oh my, I'll tell you as many as.

And I'll tell you this, our Lord said, all that the Father gives me, those that I've got power over all flesh, all that the Father giveth me, they're going to come to me. When they come to me, how does he bring us to himself? In the day of his power. That's that authority. In the day of his power, his people are made willing. That's not a soul in this building. That's not been made willing to be a child of God to be a Redeemed and by the blood of Christ. Everybody is willingly willingly Willingly say Lord you're my everything. You're my salvation. You're my everything and always like Joseph down in Egypt He had all authority in Egypt But he loved his brethren.

And when his brethren came to him, and he revealed him, he had to reveal himself to his brothers. They didn't know who he was. Though he had all this authority and all this power, and he's the only one that could feed them. And after a while, because he loved them, he'd go off and start weeping over them, weeping, weeping, weeping over them. And then finally, one day, they were scared to death that he was going to send them, you know, put them in prison.

And he said, I am Joseph, thy brother. And that's the way our Savior does it. I am Jesus Christ, the eldest brother. And you know what he gave them? He gave them the best land in all of Egypt. And you know what Christ gives us? He gives us the best of all that's in this world. Gives us himself and then everything that we, most of the time, want. And I know he always gives us what we need.

Oh my. And oh, our Lord Jesus Christ said, ask of me, God said to his son, ask of me the heathen for thine inheritance. And you got them. And oh my, we're his reward. Oh, he said, I and the children which thou hast given me. And then Hebrews 2 says this, he said, he'll bring many sons, many sons unto glory. Oh my, this people that's been given to him, he'll bring many sons unto glory. And look what it says down in verse 12 down here. Oh, while I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name. Those thou gavest me have I kept. Everyone you gave me, I've kept. And none of them is lost. The one person, the son of perdition. And why was he that way? Because the scripture must be fulfilled. Judas has to go to his own place. Oh my.

And then he says, what is eternal life? What is eternal life? You know, he said, I'm going to give unto them that thou should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given me, given him, given to Christ. And oh, and he said, listen, this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God in Jesus Christ, whom I have seen. What is eternal life? What is it? What is it? The Son glorified the Father and given us life. He glorified the Father, given us life. Well, how in the world, what is eternal life?

It's to know God. It's to know God. And how can God be known apart from the Lord Jesus Christ? You know, God's only known in Christ. He said that I may glorify you. And this business of knowing God and having eternal life in Christ and being given to Christ, it's all of grace. It's all of grace. Not one soul has ever, ever come to Christ. Not one soul has ever been brought to Christ that was not because of the grace of God given us in Christ before the world ever began. Not one of us deserved anything. Not one.

If God done anything for us through His Son, it's because of the grace God gave us in His Son. Oh, my. Oh, that He should give eternal life to who? Those thou hast given Him. Oh, my. God's made known through the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the author of eternal life. This is the record. God hath given to us that life is in His Son, and he that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son don't have it. Now, if you got Christ, you got it. If you don't, you don't.

Knowing God and eternal life are inseparable. And this is eternal life, he said there in verse three. This is life eternal that they might know thee. Oh my. You know, knowing God and eternal life are inseparable. They're inseparable. Oh, you can't know God and not have life. And you can't have life and not know God. It's an impossibility.

Knowing God, this eternal life that they might know thee, the only true God. Not speculation about God, not theory about God, not an intellectual apprehension about God, but practical, experiential, spiritual knowledge. I know God. How do you know God?

The only way you can know Him is His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I'm telling you that. Acts 17, 2 says this, when the God of glory appeared unto our Father in Mesopotamia, and that's what has to happen. The God of glory has to appear to us while we're out there in the mess. And it's a spiritual knowledge. This knowing God is a spiritual knowledge. So many people say, well, I know about God. There's a whole lot difference to know about God and knowing God. There's a man named Brendan Craft. He lives up in Asheville, Kentucky. And he's getting ready to publish a book. It's got 900 pages in it, if I'm not mistaken. He might have said 1,200, but I know he's not. But the whole subject matter of his is the mind of God. And the first thing he starts talking about is God is.

We always think about God being eternal, open-ended eternities. There was no eternities even before God existed. You know the only reason God started eternity, what we call the beginning, to account time? God don't live in time. God's not interested in time. He don't care about time. He said, I want you to number your days. I want you to know your life has a hand's breadth. And he said, that's the only true God you know.

God, who, listen, God is invisible. Well, how did he become visible? Christ said he's the image of the invisible God. Moses endured as seeing him who is invisible. Well, how in the world do we see the invisible God? Our Lord Jesus Christ said, when you've seen me, you've seen the Father. He is the image of the invisible God. When you looked at him, God's made visible one place in his Son. And when we get to glory, that's the only God we're ever going to see. And we'll know it's him by his, oh my. Let me tell you something. Saving knowledge is knowing God. Saving knowledge is knowing God. And know that God is in Christ. Know Christ and God is in Christ. He's the one who reconciled us. We were enemies. We were enemies. God didn't need to be reconciled to us. We need to be reconciled to him. How did he reconcile us? By his blood.

And what brings more glory to the Father than that he should be made known? Blessed is the man who maketh the Lord his trust. I trust in thee with rock of my salvation. Oh my, what brings more glory to the Father than he should be known? And then you know him, you trust him. You love him. You worship him. You obey him. You serve him. And who is it by those that's given to his son and he gives eternal life to him? And all my, the essence of all blessings is contained in this eternal life because it's to know God and Jesus Christ whom he said. And look what else he says about him.

That they might know thee the only true God. When he says the only true God, you know what that means? That excludes everybody else. That excludes every other God, that excludes every other Lord, that excludes every other idol. Paul told the Thessalonians, he said, you turn from your idols to the living God. You know, when Paul went to preaching and he attacked their idols, You know, there was Diana, one of them was, and then there was another one. I forget what it was, but he attacked their gods, and he says, there ain't but one God, and he's the spirit, and you must worship him in spirit and truth. And old Paul got to preaching that, and those fellas got fighting mad.

Why? Because he tore down their idols. You're just worshiping, you're worshiping a statue out here. You think that this is certain? They said, great is the goddess of Diana. Our Lord, Paul said, there ain't no goddess. There's only one God. And he, through Jesus Christ, came into this world and was crucified and justified and raised again from the dead. And you are worshiping false. And they went after him. I'm going to kill him. I'm going to kill him.

And that's why the Lord says, you know, these men won't have rain over me. I'm going to show you something in 1 Corinthians chapter 8. I hope I'm not taking too long. Is it getting hot in here? It's getting hot to me. We got to, that air conditioner will go down, won't it? Huh? Yes, please. Turn it down to 68 or something. Turn it down where we can actually feel it. Yes. Yeah, that thing will kick on here in a minute. I need a fan. But let me show you something here. I'm talking about the only true God.

And now look at things here in verse 5. Corinthians chapter 8 and verse 5, For though there be that are called gods, see that's little g, whether in heaven or in earth, as they say, as there be gods many and lords many, but listen to this, but to us, but to us, but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we're in him, and of one Lord Jesus Christ by whom all are all things and we exist and saved by him." Everybody's got a God. Yeah, they've got a God. You know, they got the cross and they got to put the robe around it and all that and stand in front of it and get their picture taken with it.

Oh, I tell you what, you know, And then look what he says now back over here in verse 3 again. This is life eternal that they might know thee, the only true God, which excludes every other, everything else. And look what our Lord says about himself, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. This is the only time in all the scripture he calls himself Jesus Christ. The only time he ever calls himself that. That's the only time. Only time.

And then look what it says, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. Oh my, sent. Where was he sent from? If he is sent, where was he before he sent? Where was he before he was ever sent? You got to be someplace before you can go. Well, I'll tell you where he was.

He was with his father in heaven. Thou who, the true God, Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. You sent me. You sent me. And he sent him from heaven. Why did he send him? That give him all power over all flesh. That he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. That he should finish the work that the Father gave him and that he'd do that work. And who was he sent for? What was the reason he was sent? To save his elect.

Call them what you want to. Call them, you know, they're his people, given to him, they belong to him. He bought them before the world ever began, but he come into this world and actually paid for them on the cross himself with his shed blood. Oh my.

And I tell you what, he was sent to be our mediator. There's only one way we can come to God, and that's through the mediator of the man, Christ Jesus. We approach him through Christ, our Lord Jesus Christ. And oh, he's the apostle and high priest of our profession. And apostle means sent one. And the only time he called himself Jesus Christ was here. And then look what our master says, and I'm gonna wind this up.

In verse 4, he said, I have glorified thee on the earth. I have glorified thee on the earth. Now, he had a glory with the Father before the world began. He said, I want to go back to that. But he said, while I was on this earth, I glorified you. I glorified you. You know, God is glorified in creation.

The heavens declare his glory. The firmament shows his handiwork. He glorified in His providence as He carries out His work and His will in this world. Providence just means He's carrying out His will in this world, doing what He wants to do with whom He wants. That's all that means. And all but the Son glorified the Father in a unique way. In a unique way, in a glorious way. Let me give you several, and I'll quit.

First of all, Christ glorified His Father, glorified God in His person. absolute person. You know, the Scripture said He was the express image of His person. The brightness of His glory and the express image of His person. So, I mean, He was the express image of God. In Him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily in the Lord Jesus Christ. And He glorified Him by His miracles. Glorified Him by His miracles.

The only real miracle reason he'd done these miracles was to glorify his father and show him that he had this ability and make, my father gave me this power. My father sent me down here. My father sent me to do this. And all glorified him by his miracles. As the father raised the dead, even the soul, the son quickened, if you will.

And then glorifying by his words. Oh, how he glorified him by his words. Constantly, constantly attributed all praise and all honor to his father. He said in Matthew 11, I thank thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you've hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes, even so, It seemed good in your sight." That's how he glorified his father.

And oh, look over in John 11. Let me show you this over here where he prayed. And this is the only reason he raised Lazarus from the dead. Look in verse 41. Then took they 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 now I know that you hear me always. But because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And then he said, Lazarus, come forth. Oh, he magnified him by his words. Oh, my.

And oh, this is a wonderful way he glorified him, by his holy, sinless, perfect life, and his obedient life. Oh, he is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. Oh, how he glorified the Father in a sinless, obedient life. All the days he was come into this world to the day left.

Adam failed. He failed. But our Lord Jesus Christ, the last Adam, he restored. He took not away. And God sent him to be a representative of his people. A representative of his people. He rendered obedience. Now listen to me. The scripture said, curses is everyone that continues not in all things written in the book of the law to do them. But the scripture says, Christ was made a curse for us. To do what? To redeem us, by us, out from under that law.

Now he rendered perfect, perpetual obedience to it. And so when he did that, he did that as our representative. So what he did, we did. When he obeyed God, we did. That's how united we are with him. Oh, my. And it was only for those that was given him. And look what he says in the last part there, verse 4. I've glorified thee on the earth. I finished the work that thou gavest me to do. I glorified you on the earth. and I finished the work you gave me to do. I glorified you on the earth and finished the work.

The place where God is most dishonored, most disobeyed, most lied on, most disrespected since the first Adam is on this earth, right here on this earth. He's not dishonored in heaven. He's not disobeyed in heaven. He's not ridiculed in heaven. Only on earth and by man. But I glorified you on this earth. In the midst of all this corruption and all this sinfulness, I glorified you on this earth.

And oh, and look what he said. I have finished the work you gave me to do. You gave me to save those that you gave me, and I glorified you in doing that. And I finished the work that you gave me to do. He gave me to do. You know what the last word he said on the cross? One word, teleo. And when you interpret it into English, it is finished. You gave me a work to do. It's finished. I finished it, and I finished it here on this earth. I tell you what, this is a Sunday morning message. I should have waited Sunday morning for this. I don't want to quit, but I got to. You all got to go home and eat and do whatever you got to do.

But you know, it glorifies our Lord so much. Everything I said here tonight glorified him so much. And when he starts to work, Paul said, I'm confident of this one thing. He which hath begun a good work in you, what's going to happen to it? He shall finish. He shall finish.

Our Father. the blessed, blessed name of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, blessed be your name. Oh, what a Savior. What a Savior. Oh, Father, thank you for giving us to your blessed Son. And oh, blessed Lord Jesus, thank you for coming and undertaking to give us eternal life and doing it by doing the work, finishing the work, accomplishing a work, a successful work. Oh, you're such a successful Savior, such powerful Savior, such a Savior with such authority and such strength to not only save us, but to keep us saved.

God bless it be your holy name. Bless these dear saints. Encourage them as they go about their lives and their days. And Lord, continue to bless our brothers and sisters who weren't with us tonight because of sickness, frailty of flesh, and your providence kept them from coming. And we bless you and praise you for them. Thank you for them. Bring glory to yourself through us all. For Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. There is a name I love to hear. I love to sing its worth. It sounds like music in my ear. The sweetest name on earth. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. because he first loved me. See you Sunday, God willing.

"Three Things Given to Christ"

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What does the Bible say about the authority of Christ?

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What is the significance of Christ finishing His work?

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