John 21. John 21. It's a real privilege to be here. I appreciate John asking me to
preach. Todd and I went up to see Scott
Richardson and preached up there last night and had a wonderful
visit with Scott and had a wonderful afternoon so far with John. I
love the Lord's people no matter where they are. There's something
special about them. God does something in their hearts
that makes them special to one another. They truly bear one
another's burdens. They truly feel one another's
sorrows and griefs. You know, you can't be one in
Christ. And the Scripture says, you know,
we're one body in Christ. And if one member hurts, it affects
the whole body. And I love the Lord's people.
I do. I really, really do. And I want
to bring a message tonight, God willing, here in John 21. And I'm going to get to it by
starting out reading until I get to where I need to go. But it
says here in verse one, after these things, Jesus showed himself
again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias on this wise. Our Lord shows himself to his
people. at different times in different
ways according to their needs, on this wise or in this particular
way. And they had all went back fishing.
And our Lord shows himself to his people in different ways,
and he does it according to their need. Look what he says down
there in verse 5. Those fellows out there preaching,
that night they caught nothing. I tell you, when you You know,
we labor and it don't seem like, you know, everything comes up
nought, zero, nada. These fellas toiled all night,
didn't catch anything. And then the Lord Jesus says
in verse 5, have you any meat? Got anything to eat? No, no,
ain't got nothing. Ain't got nothing. Don't have
anything. He gonna make us admit, you know,
we don't have nothing. Can't do nothing, don't have
nothing. And then he goes on to say, well, I'll tell you what
you do. Since you ain't got nothing to eat, you just cast your net
over on the right side. And they did. And they got so
many, they couldn't get them to shore. Couldn't get them to
shore. And that's what these fellows hadn't caught anything.
Didn't have anything to eat. They was hungry. And our Lord
Jesus told them what to do. Where to catch fish. They filled
the net full. And they started coming to shore.
And then looked down there. in verse 12. And the Lord Jesus
Christ said here, said to His disciples, come and dine. Now,
He had just told them to catch all these fish. He hadn't done
anything. And then all of a sudden, they get to the shore and there's
a fire. Where'd that fire come from? Where'd those fish come
from? Where'd those bread come from? You know, you think the
Lord had matches and built up a fire there? You think He went
fishing and caught those fish? You think He baked that bread?
He told him what to do, and yet he had a fire, had fish, had
bread, said, now come and dine. Come and dine. You've just wasted,
you've wasted the last 24 hours. You're hungry, you're in need.
And Christ always, this is the way He made Himself known to
these men at this time, makes Himself known to His people in
their way that they need at that particular time. And come and
dine. And none of them ask Him, what
in the world are you doing? Because they knew it was the
Lord. And then watch what it says. Then Jesus taketh bread. He didn't say, now you fellas
fix yourself a plate. He takes the bread. He's going
to always have to feed us. And He takes the bread. And He
gives it to them. And the fish likewise. And this
is the way our Master does. He takes what's His. What He
provides. After we've done nothing, labored
all night. have to say no, and then he takes
and provides what we need, and then he gives it to us. And he
gave it to them, and they dined, and then our Lord Jesus Christ
began to search the hearts, the secrets of Peter's heart, with
a threefold question. Peter denied the Lord Jesus three
times, and our Lord asked him three questions. Three questions. And he said, Jesus said to Simon
Peter, verse 15, Son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these,
the fish, the labor, the boats, the nets? He said unto him, Yea,
Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. You know that I love you. Well, feed my lambs. And all
beloved, he said to him again the second time, Son of Jonas,
Son of Jonas, lovest thou me This is the question, and it's
the only question worth answering. Two questions in the scriptures,
several questions, but here's one. If we could call ourselves
the children of God, and this is what Christ asked Simon Peter,
and this is a man in the ministry, and he says to him, do you love
me? This is the severest examination that God can give to a preacher
or give to any of us. Do you love me? And he said,
Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. Well, feed my sheep.
And then he said unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas,
lovest thou me? Peter was grieved now. He's grieved. The Lord knows something about
me I don't know about myself. There's something in me that
I don't sow, I don't see, and the Lord just not going to let
me go. He's looking down so he knows something. I don't know.
I've been telling him I love him. I've told him twice. I've told him and told him I
love him. Told him and told him I fished all night, didn't catch
nothing. I just ate the food that he prepared for me. I was
the first one to shore to see him and fall at his feet. After
I denied him three times, I jumped off that boat and swam over there
to get to him. I wanted to be at His feet. I
wanted to bow before Him. I wanted to embrace Him. And
here He is. He just won't let me go. And,
boy, Peter was grieved. And this grieving, his heart
was heavy. Oh, he knows he is being examined. And he saith
unto Him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he threw himself
on Christ here. Lord, You know all things. You
are omniscient. You knew what I was going to
do. You told me I was going to deny You three times before the rooster
crowed. You knew I was going to do that, and I told you I
wasn't. You knew what I was going to
do before I did it. So here you know all things. You know all
things. You know that I love you. You
know that I love you. And you know our Lord Jesus Christ
and the ministry and our lives has more to do with the heart
than it does the head. And I would rather Christ test
my heart as to test my head. I'd rather him to test my soul
and test my relationship with him than to ever test how much
I know about him. And no matter the education,
no matter the ability to use grammar, no matter how ability
to read and study and put things in flowery arrangements, There
must be a heart love. There must be a heart submission.
There must be a heart devoted to Christ. Must be. And that's the best ministry
and a preacher that's got his heart devoted, committed, submitted
to Christ. And Peter confessed his love
to Christ and then the Lord told him to feed his lambs and his
sheep. And then our Lord Peter told Peter the painful death
that he's going to die. He says in verse 18, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
when you was young, you gird yourself. That's what you did
when you went back fishing. You put on your own clothes.
You got up in the morning, you put on your own clothes, went
where you wanted, walked where you would, did what you do. But
when you get old, you're going to stretch forth your hands and
another's going to gird you and they're going to carry you where
you wouldn't go. And our Lord said, this is what he spake signifying,
by what death, and I love this right here, by what death He
should glorify God. A death to glorify God. And he
says here, and when he's spoken this, he saith unto him, follow
me. And you know, when the Lord Jesus told Simon Peter, you know,
you're going to die. It's going to be a painful death.
Somebody else is going to take you, and they're going to take
you, and they're going to kill you. I don't know how you know
it. Don't tell us how it happened.
But Peter, even when he got close to death, when he was fixing
to put off his tabernacle, He says, the Lord has shown me I
must surely put off this tabernacle. Now, I've noticed what he said
here. He never complained. He never said, Lord, I'm afraid
of it. I dread it. Don't cause me to go through
this. He never complained. He accepted it as the will of
God. But then he became concerned with what God's going to do.
So you told me what you're going to do with me. You examined me,
and you examined my heart, and you told me how I was going to
die. And you told me I am going to die, and that I would glorify
God in my death. And then Peter turned around
and turned about, saith the disciple whom Jesus loved following. Evidently
they started walking, and here comes John walking along behind
them, and Simon Peter and the Lord talking, walking. And this
is the same one who leaned on his breast at supper. When John
asked him there to suffer, who is he that betrayeth him? Well,
Jesus saw him following along, and He says, Peter, Jesus said,
He says to him, said, Jesus, Lord, what shall this man do?
What shall this man do? What's going to happen to him?
You told me what's going to happen to me. You examined my heart.
You dealt with me. You have put me through the wringer.
You just told me I'm going to die. Told me I was going to die
a painful death and all these things. But what's going to happen
to John? What's going to happen to him? Look what our Lord said. Jesus saith unto him, If I will
that he tarry till I come, what's that to you? Follow thou me. Our Lord, the answer He gave
to Peter reveals our Savior's unique method, the matchless,
matchless character of our dear Savior. First he says, if I will,
if I will. How many times have we prayed,
Lord, your will be done. Lord, please reveal to me your
will. Don't let me get out of your
will. Keep me by your will. And the first thing he says here,
if I will, if I will, if this I, this I of Christ stretches
from the deepest the deepest low you can possibly go, the
depth that you can possibly go, this eye can go down right where
you're at the very bottom, and it reaches to the highest heights
that God himself can go. And it stretches from that eternity
to this eternity, and this is what interests us, and he says,
if I will, If I will. And when our Lord Jesus Christ
said this, it made us to see how our Lord Jesus Christ views
life. Now, when our Lord Jesus here,
he says, if I will that it tarry till I come, our Lord, his will,
his eye was always on the great issues of life. It wasn't on
anything of curiosity, not just answering questions for the sake
of answering questions. He didn't, you know it, What
difference does it make what I do with John? What difference
does it make if I do with somebody else? And what he's saying here,
there's no place for curiosity for curiosity's sake. He could
have told him what it's going to do with John. He could have
told him where John was going. He said, you know, John's going
to write some books. John's going to be on the Isle of Patmos.
He could have told him everything. He's going to write the Revelation.
I'm going to let him live to his 95 years. He could have told
him everything about it. But he's not interested in the
mundane, curious things of life as we ask these questions. And
he says, well, what in the world? You're just being curious for
curious sake. You just, again, there you go,
Peter, you don't know what else to say, so you ask the question.
And that's what he said, what's that to you? The thing is, follow
thou me. And we must have our eyes, our
wheels, our souls, Our will, everything about us must be taken
up with Him. We need to be more anxious to
follow Christ. And what Peter was doing was
trying to say, you're going to have me this experience, what
kind of experience are you going to give Him? You know, you told
me what kind of death am I going to have, what kind of death is
He going to have? And we go through life trying to gauge our experiences
by the men's experiences. And Peter says, I've got this
experience, what about the experience you're going to give God? And
beloved, we should never compare our experiences with one another
or contrast our experiences, either in this life or in death,
because Christ deals with His people as their needs. Here's
all these people in this building tonight. Every single one of
us has a particular need, a particular life, particular prayer issues,
health issues, worries, threats, sickness, fears, anxieties, depressions. All kinds of things goes on with
us. Now, there'd be sight if Christ dealt with all of us exactly
the same and didn't need us where we were. Three o'clock in the
morning, you make me sound asleep and He may have me wide awake
over here. You don't want Him to wake you up because He woke
me up, do you? That's why we're sitting here.
Oh, you told me what's going to happen to me, now tell me
about what's going to happen to him. And oh, beloved, our
Lord just don't answer curiosity for curious sake. And look at
his method of working here. He says, if I will, that he,
he deals with him, that he carry till I come. What's that to you? What's that to you? What in the
world's that to you, Simon Peter? He doesn't deal with his disciples
in the same way, after uniformity, after rigid law. Here's John,
he says John was the one who leaned on the Lord's breast.
Whenever you hear John's name mentioned, he's always called
the disciple whom Jesus loved. But yet he never walked on water,
but Simon Peter walked on water. He doesn't have all these disciples
have different experiences and he never dealt with all of them
the same way an original Lord did mechanically. And our Lord
is too wise and too powerful to allow this. And this is what's
so glorious about Christ and His glory and His power and His
majesty. Every individual child of His,
every one of His sheep, every one for whom He died and called
to Himself. He dedicates and gives Himself
to that one child of God, that one sheep like He's the only
sheep He's got. And that one sheep can go to
Christ like He's the only Lord and nobody else is involved in
the flock. He's just us and Him. That's
one of the most glorious things. When I get the glory, I'll have
Him and nobody else will have Him like I'll have Him. And every
one of you will have Him like nobody else will have Him. And
that's what he's saying right here. He deals with each individual
disciple as they are specially considered. And he has a providence
for that child and that child alone. And that's why he says
he calls them by name. And you know what it means when
he calls them by their name? That means he calls them by the
individual in nature. What it would take to break you
and bring you to himself, it may not take to bring somebody
else to it. But when he calls them by name,
he calls them by their individual nature, by their individual need,
and whatever it takes to bring them to wherever he's at, at
his feet, that's what he's going to do to get them there. Sometimes
he just puts one through, practically puts them through hell, and makes
them think they're going to go crazy before they get there.
Other folks, they're sitting here at one toxic. I believe
that. And they give evidence from that day on. That's a mysterious
thing. But that's just the way he deals
with these people. And He'll deal with them, and I know this
about Him. He deals with them for their highest good. Oh, when
Simon Peter denied Him, do you know how that man, I believe
he remembered that other day of his life. I believe there
were nights, now, you know, it's just strictly speculation on
my part. It's not Scripture. But I believe
because when he denied the Lord, after he told the Lord he wouldn't,
he'd die with Him, he'd go to jail with Him, he'd die with
Him. And then he went and denied him, and when he heard that rooster
crow, and he turned around, and it says over there in Mark 15,
62, it says, there was the Lord Jesus looking right at him. He
turned around and saw Christ looking at him. I believe that man, there's many
a day and many a night that that comes back to his mind, how proud
I was, how I was so ashamed of that, sick in his stomach, sick
in his mind, And he'd lay and he'd wonder,
what in the world, why did I do that? Why was I so proud? Why
did I talk back to the Lord like that? Why did I question Him
that way? Why did I do that? Why would I stand up against
Him like that? Why would I question His will? Why would I do that? And now he sees it's for his
highest good and for God's highest glory. He says, now, Simon Peter,
I'm going to give you Most precious thing to my heart, I'm going
to give you my sheep to feed. And then look here at His glorious
power. He says there in verse 22, Jesus saith unto him, If
I will, if I will, what a will is this? If I will, Lionel, if
I will, what a will is this? What a will is this? They come to David and they gave
him three things after he numbered the Lord's people. Three things
to befall on him. You know what he says? He said, I'll just throw
myself on the Lord. That's what he said. If I will.
What a will is this? What a refuge. What a refuge,
the will, if I will. What a refuge for a weary soul.
What a refuge for a troubled soul. What a refuge for a trembling
soul. What a refuge for one who is
afraid and don't know which way to turn. One don't know what
to do. Oh, if I will. His will, beloved, is not a burden
for us to carry. It's not a burden for us to carry.
The will of God is not a burden. The will of Christ is not a burden.
It's a pillar to go to bed at night and pluck it up under your
head and go to sleep in the will of Christ. When Simon Peter,
he says, the Lord showed me, I put off my tabernacle shortly.
He went to bed that night and flipped up his pillow and said,
maybe it'll be four in the morning. That's what the will is. He said,
take my yoke upon you and learn of me. And he's got a yoke that
fits nobody but us. Down in Mexico, some of those
people still use oxen that way out in those play blows and you
know, they'll have a team of oxen and they'll fix those yokes. to fit that particular oxen where
it won't gall him, where it won't press on him, where it won't
wear the hair off. And I mean, it just fixed that
one. They're not made exactly the same for each oxen. They
know their oxen. They know what it takes. And
that's what Christ does. He's got a yoke for me and you. And He's got a yoke to yoke you
to. And you know what He says? He
says it's easy. And oh, it's so light. So light. And all His will is not a burden
for us to carry. You hear some people talking
like the will of God is just all mine. But oh, it's a pillar
to rest on. Think of the dignity. Think of
the authority. Think of the almightiness that's
in these words. If I will. If I will. Look with me over here in Daniel
chapter 4. I know you've seen this many
times, but we need to look at it. Daniel 4, talking about these,
what a dignity, what authority, what power, what glory, what
strength lies in these words, if I will, if I will. He has but to will. That's all
he has to do, just to will it. And it's done. It's done. Daniel 4.35. And all the inhabitants of the
earth are reputed as nothing. And he doeth according to his
will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the
earth, and none can stay his hand or say unto him, What doest
thou? And that's what our Lord said,
If I will. Would you change the will of
God for you at any one time in your life? Would you change the
will of Christ for you right now? Proverbs 16.9 says this, man
devises his own steps, but the Lord directs his, devises his
own way, but the Lord directs his steps. Jeremiah said it's
not in man to direct his own steps. The Lord has to direct
them for him. We'll say I'll go this way, but
the will of Christ takes us that way. And ain't you grateful for
that? Ain't you grateful for that?
Oh, bless His holy name. The will of Christ. What a rest
there is for us. What a comfort there is for us in His will.
He willed from eternity for us to be His. And then He willed
for us to be called. He willed for us to hear the
gospel. He willed for us to submit our hearts. He willed for us
to bow before him. He willed for us to say, Lord,
I surrender. He willed. Everything he's willed
for us, he's brought it to pass. And Lord, all you've got to do
is just will. That's all I'm interested in. And oh, beloved,
think of the dignity of that. It shall be done. If he wills
to bless, who can curse? And if he wills to keep, who
in the world can harm you or take you out of His hands. Oh, how much safer, how much
safer, how much more right can our lives be than here if I will,
if I will have Thine own way, Lord, have Thine own way. Thou
art the potter, I but the clay. Make me and mold me after thy
will, while I am waiting, yielded and still. And then look what he says, he
said, you know, not only if I will, what a blessed will it is, what
glory is in those words, what dignity, what authority, what
rest, if I will. And then look at his presence
here. He's going to abide with us. He's going to be with us,
he says, if I will that it carry till I come, what's that to thee?
Follow thou. Don't lead, follow. And you know, Christ is always with us and
always in front of us. And you know how long He's going
to be with us? You know, we say He's going to
be with us to the end here. No. Once He ever, well, He was
for us in eternity. Is that not He's going to be
with us in eternity? He's going to always be. There will be a
time when He won't be with us. But oh, he's with us, beloved.
That's what the scripture says. You know, he said, I'll never
leave him. I'll never forsake him. Therefore, I boldly say
the Lord is my helper. I shall not fear what man shall
do unto me. Well, how is our Lord with us?
How do we follow him now? How do we follow our Lord Jesus
right now? How do we do it? First of all,
we follow him in his word. We follow him by his word. He's
with us by his word. Look in John 6 over here with
me just a minute. John 6. We follow everybody that prayed
tonight and said, Lord, let us see Christ. Let us hear from
Christ. Let us learn more about Jesus.
Let us learn more about our Master. And He's with us by His Word.
John 6.63 says this, It is the Spirit that quickeneth. The flesh profits nothing. The
words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are
life. Oh my, He's with us by His Word.
He comes in our midst by His Word. And it's the Word that
quickens us. It's the Word that instructs
us. It's the Word that enlightens us. It's the Word that warms
our hearts. It's the Word that lifts us up. It's the Word that
rebukes us, exhorts us, corrects us, instructs us. And you know,
you can't separate Christ, the Living Word, the Word, the world
that by this Word was made from His written Word. Here, living
Word and written Word, when He says the Word was made flesh
and dwelt among us, the living Christ and the written Word,
they're both the Word of God, they're Word of Christ. And then
He's with us by Spirit. We follow Him by Spirit. He said,
I'll be with you. And He's with us now. He's with
us now by Spirit. This is one of the most blessed
things that I believe that God taught me. is that when I hear
other preachers preach, and I'm with other believers, not even
if they're preaching, but if I'm with other believers, and
we began to talk, and we're talking through the Scriptures and things,
and we're just, you know, Christ in me, Christ in me, the Spirit
of God in me, answers to Christ in them and the Spirit of God
in them. And it gets stirred up. How can that be except the
Spirit of God be in them, the Spirit of God be in me? And you
know, the Christ that we preach from the Scripture, Because the
Spirit Himself bears witness that we're the children of God.
The Scriptures comes and gives evidence that we're the children
of God because the Word itself makes Christ real to our hearts
while we're hearing Him preached. Is that not right? And then,
beloved, it's by His Word. That's how He's with us. It's
by His Word and by His Spirit. And it's by His Word and by His
Spirit that we follow Him now. Just the same way He's with us,
that's the way we follow. That's the way we follow. We
don't follow him by dreams and visions. No, no, we look in the scriptures.
We listen to preachers. We want to find out what the
Bible says. We want to follow him by his word. Angels move
and honor him and have the greatest delight of his will. And what
a privilege for us to follow him. Now, sometimes I'll just
speak for myself. You speak for me. Sometimes I
follow afar off. But by His grace, He keeps me
following. Sometimes I get a long way off. But still, by His grace,
He keeps me following. I'm still following. He won't
let me not just quit, you know. He won't let me get so far back
that I can't hear. And then, beloved, But God in
His grace always causes us to follow Him. And then look what
he says here in verse 22 again. Look what he says. I love this.
A fellow wrote a hymn, sent it to me the other day after he
heard me preach this message a few weeks ago at home. He says in verse 22 again, Jesus
said, If I will, Daddy Terry, watch this, till I come, Till
I come. He's coming again. If He willed
that He tarry till I come, what's that to you? He said, till I
come. That tells us He's coming again.
This is the third time in this gospel where our Lord mentioned
that He's coming again. He said, I'll go to prepare a
place for you. If I go to prepare a place for you, I will come
again. I will come again and take you
to be with me where I am. And here he talks about, if he
tarries until I come, he said, I'm coming. I'm coming again.
And this is the third time that he mentions coming again. And,
oh beloved, he came the first time to suffer for his people,
to suffer for their sins. Look in Hebrews 9 with me just
a minute. Hebrews 9. He came the first time to suffer
for his people, to suffer for their sins. That's what he done. He came
the first time. He had done and resurrected the third time He
had appeared to His disciples. But in Hebrews 9, verse 27, the
first time He came to suffer for His people, to suffer for
their sins, to suffer the judgment and justice of God on their behalf.
It says in verse 27, as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this to judgment. Scott Richardson says, you know,
Christ bore the judgment and then died. So now we will not
ever have to bear the judgment. Now men die and then face the
judgment, but Christ faced the judgment and then died. So Christ
was once offered to bear the sins of many. That's what He
come for the first time, to bear the sins of many. And unto them
that look for Him shall He appear the second time, not as a sacrifice,
not to put away sin. He's coming to take all of His
children to be with Him, gather all His sheep, gather all of
His people. Preaching the other day and I forgot over there in
1 Corinthians 15 says, you know, we'll be changed in a moment.
A twinkle of an eye. You see my eye twinkle? If the Lord comes tonight, that's
how fast we'd be changed. If I could see your eye twinkle,
that's how fast it's going to happen. But he said the light
come and we're looking for him. I'm looking for him. He's not
coming as a sin offering. John the Revelator, John, he's
just talking about what are you going to do about him? He, you
know, John was the one who said that in Revelation 22, behold,
he said, Jesus, our Lord said, I come quickly. He said, behold,
Lord Jesus, come on, come on. Oh, we saw him the first time
on the cross. Saw him for us dying, bearing
our sin, bearing our guilt, bearing our shame, bearing our judgment.
bearing the wrath of God in our souls. The next time we'll see
Him, He'll be high and lifted up on His throne. He'll be in
His glory. He'll be there with that glorious
crown on His head. And we'll all be gathered around
that throne singing, Hallelujah to the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. And He brings salvation to Himself. And, oh, beloved, this is the
blessed hope that we have, till I come. Till I come. Look in
Hebrews 10.37. This is the blessed hope, till I come. Sometimes, you know, He's done
come and got several folks that you know. Lots of people you've
known over the years, He's come and got them. He's kept His promise.
I told you I was going to come and get you, take you unto Myself,
that where I am, there you may be also. He comes and gets us,
one at a time. One of these days, He's going
to get us all at the same time. But He says, oh, what a blessed
hope we have. Look here in Hebrews 10, verse 37. For yet a little while, just
a little while, John, just a little while, yet a little while, and
He that shall come will come and will not tarry. Oh, well,
what are we going to do until then? Until He comes. Well, the
just, they're going to live by faith. Well, what about those
who draw back? I ain't going to have no pleasure
in them. But, but, we're not of them who draw back under prediction. But we are them that believe
and believe and believe and believe and believe and believe until
we're plumb sand. And I'm going to show you one
other verse that I'm through. John 17, 24. If I will. Oh, Lord, thank you for that.
If I will. If I will. Thank you for that.
Thank you for your will. You deal with Peter the way you
want to deal with him. You deal with John the way you want to
deal with him. Deal with Thomas the way you want to deal with
him. Oh, how condescending our Lord is. He said, I will not
believe. Can you believe a believer would
say, I will not believe? Thomas did. He said, I will not
believe. Except I can take my own favor
and put it in his hand and take my hand and stick it in his side. I saw him die. I saw that rib
inside. I saw those nails in his hand.
And if you say this again, I will not believe till I do that. He
no sooner got the words out of his mouth than Christ stood there
and said, Here, Thomas. He met Thomas right where his
greatest need was. And that's the way he does us.
Whatever it takes to meet our needs. If it takes sticking our
fangs in his hand in his side, whatever it
takes. That's what he's going to do
for his children to keep us believing, to say, my Lord and my God. But
look what he said here in John 17, 24, talking about it till
I come. Father, I will. Father, I will. that they also whom thou hast
given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory
which thou hast given me." Oh, Lord Jesus, bless your name.
You reckon we'll seize glory? He said, if I will, and then
he prayed over there, Father, I will. I will. How many in this room tonight
have been given to Christ? He prayed for you, prayed for
me. I want them to see my glory.
I want to be with me right where I am. That's where I want to
be. Well, Lord, when you get ready, I'm ready. Amen? Amen. The Lord bless you. Thank
you very much.