Much for that very lovely song.
So good to be back with you tonight
and to welcome some perhaps who are joining
us for the first time this evening.
When God brought his people Israel out of
Egypt, it was beneath the shadow of the
shed blood of an unblemished lamb, painted upon
the doorpost and the lintel of each family
home.
And God's pledge to his people was this,
when the angel of my wrath passes through
the country and he sees the blood, he
will pass over.
And as we reminded ourselves last evening, from
this there was instituted that feast which God
commanded his people to keep every year forever,
known as the Passover Feast.
That Passover Feast that was being celebrated by
the Lord Jesus when he sat at table
with them, as the one of whom that
unblemished lamb was but the foreshadowing, for he
is our Passover.
And as through faith we claim redemption through
the blood that he shed, painting it upon,
as it were, the doorpost and the lintel
of our own hearts.
So God from that moment says, I will
remember your sins no more.
We have been cleansed and has no longer
appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation
through our Lord Jesus.
But in instituting the Passover Feast, we saw
last evening that God said that this is
going to be a sign upon your hand,
a memorial between your eyes, that the law
of the Lord may be in your mouth.
And it is a feast that commemorates a
day, God said, that is to be remembered
in a land to be possessed.
For I'm going to bring you out that
I might bring you in, out of Egypt
and into Canaan.
And Canaan was the only place where this
memorable day of God's divine intervention, whereby he
would redeem them out of slavery in Egypt,
could be legitimately remembered.
And as we saw last evening, after the
second year in which they had celebrated the
Feast of the Passover in the wilderness, they
did not celebrate the Feast of the Passover
again for 38 years.
Not until by the hand of Joshua they
were led through Jordan, out of the wilderness
and into the land of promise.
For in all those weary years in the
wilderness, they never entered into that rest which
God had redeemed.
A sign upon your hand, it's going to
represent a complete transformation in what you do.
A memorial between your eyes, it is to
transform completely the things that you think and
cherish.
And it's going to revolutionize completely the things
that you say.
In other words, in the picture language of
the Old Testament, redemption was calculated in God's
purpose to bring about a radical change of
character.
No longer walking after the flesh, sold under
sin, but now walking after the Spirit, sold
out to God.
But we saw last evening, that in the
wilderness they still did those things that they
considered right in their own eyes, they pleased
themselves.
In the wilderness, far from relishing the things
that God had prepared for in the land,
they preoccupied themselves more and more with those
things to which they had said goodbye in
the day that they turned their back on
Egypt and set their faces towards Canaan.
The fish, and the leeks, and the onions,
and the garlic.
And far from transforming the things that they
said in the wilderness, whenever Moses or Aaron
reminded them of the purpose which God had
brought them out that he might bring them
in, again and again they murmured and they
grumbled and they said, get off our backs!
We are holy enough in the wilderness.
They did as they pleased, they harked back
to the land of slavery from which God
had redeemed them, and they settled for something
less than God's best, for a redeemed people.
But in spite of all this last evening,
God bore witness to them day by day
with relentless consistency, that they were his redeemed
people.
And this we saw was the significance of
the manna in the golden pot which was
part of the content of that ark of
testimony which was kept in the holy of
holies beneath the mercy seat that was to
be sprinkled with blood once a year by
the high priest when he went in to
make an atonement for the people.
Manna, something that they had never tasted before,
something that was entirely new in their experience,
and something which they received only when they
had passed through the Red Sea and were
on their way to Canaan.
And every morning, the manna.
The witness of God's Holy Spirit to your
spirit and mine, from the moment that we
claim redemption through the blood of Christ, that
we have become the children of God.
And the fantastic thing that we saw last
night was this, that in spite of their
rebellion, in spite of their disobedience, in spite
of their self-will and selfishness and greed,
in spite of their worldliness in harking back
to the things from which God had redeemed
them, in spite of their rebellion, in spite
of their willingness to endure spiritual poverty and
settle for something so pathetically less than that
for which God had redeemed them, God never
forsook.
His Holy Spirit bore witness day by day
to the fact that they were a redeemed
people.
And the Holy Spirit, whom you and I
receive the moment we claim redemption through the
blood of Christ, by whose presence we are
sealed as his purchased possession, bears witness to
us by and large in two different ways.
As the manna in the wilderness bore witness
to God's people in two different ways.
You see, there were those who were trying
to get away from God.
There were those who counseled together and said,
let's get rid of Moses.
Do you remember when he went up into
the mountain, didn't come back?
They said, he's gone for good and good
riddance.
Let's establish our own captain.
Let's get somebody to take us back to
Egypt.
But the next morning there was manna, bearing
testimony to the fact that the God who
had redeemed them out of Egypt was still
at hand.
And that frightened them.
But of course to Moses and to Aaron
and to Joshua and to Caleb, Joshua and
Caleb, the only two that survived of those
who came out of Egypt to go into
the land of Canaan, there were moments when
in the heights of this people's rebellion, we'd
feel God must have forsaken us.
He can't possibly tolerate this.
He's going to visit us with his judgment.
He's going to blot us out as a
people.
When they wakened up the next morning, there
was the manna.
So to the one you see it was
a source of embarrassment and fear and aggravation.
And to the other, an unspeakable source of
comfort and encouragement.
And by and large, this is how the
Holy Spirit bears witness to your spirit and
mine.
Because if you are a child of God,
if you claim redemption, if you're genuinely converted,
if you can look back honestly to the
day when you accepted Christ as your Redeemer,
the Holy Spirit's presence within you will be
a source of irritation and aggravation and embarrassment
to you at those times when you're straining
at the leash and rebelling against God's claims
upon you as a Christian.
That's why a backslidden Christian is the most
miserable person in the world.
An unconverted person, you see, who hasn't got
the witness of God's spirit to his spirit
that he's a child of God, can be
reasonably happy, enjoying the pleasure of sin for
a season, just like a pig in a
pigsty.
I've always found that pigs by and large
are very happy in their pigsty.
It's their habitat, that's where they belong.
And you see the unconverted, the unregenerate, who've
never tasted of the heavenly gift, who don't
know really what it is to be a
child of God, they've got to make do
with what they've got.
And by and large, if a person wants
to go to hell, I don't begrudge them.
If they want to become an alcoholic or
shoot their brains with acid, if they want
to destroy their bodies, if they want to
have their fling and insist on going to
hell, well, why not let them enjoy the
pigsty as much as best they could?
They won't have much to look forward to
beyond the grave.
But a person who's been regenerated, somebody who's
really saved, they can never enjoy the world.
They can go back to the world.
They can choose the wrong company, they can
choose the wrong occupations, they can cherish the
wrong ambitions, they can defy God to his
face, but there will always be a little
voice inside and say, you're God's child.
You can't run away.
You're his purchased possession.
I remember a small boy coming up to
me at the end of a he wasn't
a small boy then, I beg his pardon,
he was a 16 year old young man.
He came up to me at the end
of a meeting that I'd spoken at in
the city of Manchester.
And he introduced himself to me, and he
said, 11 years ago, when I was at
one of your meetings in Bolton, in Lancashire,
I accepted Jesus Christ as my Saviour.
And I asked him then how old he
was, and he said 16.
And by a little mental arithmetic, I came
to the conclusion that he must have been
5 years of age when at that meeting
in Bolton he received Christ as his Saviour.
And he did.
I didn't know it.
I didn't know it until he then introduced
himself to me.
His name was Jimmy Woods.
But I learned later from his mother how
he'd come to know Christ.
While he was sitting in the meeting, apparently
I had suggested to anybody, man, woman, boy
or girl, who had come to be aware
of their need of the Lord Jesus Christ
as Saviour, that if they would like so
to do, they could come to me afterwards,
and we'd pray together, and they could claim
salvation.
And so this little boy at the end
of the meeting nudged his mum and said,
take me to that man.
And so Mother said, what do you want
to go to that man for?
And Jimmy had said, want to be saved.
So Mother, a little bit sceptical, had said,
well Jimmy, I think you're just a little
bit young.
You see, you're only 5.
Maybe you don't understand.
And Jimmy said, take me to that man.
Have you ever tried arguing with a small
boy?
You might just as well whistle up a
drainpipe.
So I understand that Mother brought him to
me.
And I couldn't remember the incident one tiny
bit.
But apparently I talked to the little lad,
and we prayed together, and Jimmy there accepted
Christ as his Saviour.
He's a Baptist minister now, with lots of
little gyms of his own, in the city
of Crewe in England.
Well, I was delighted to meet him, 11
years later, as a fine Christian young fellow.
And I said, well, I hope you'll be
able to come and stay with us up
at Capenray, our home and international headquarters, about
60 miles north of Manchester.
And he said, oh no, I couldn't do
that.
But I said, why not?
He said, my father wouldn't let me.
He said, my father will neither allow me
nor my brother to go anywhere near any
kind of Christian camp.
Only with great hesitation does he let us
to go to one Bible class once a
week, that's all.
He won't allow any Christians in the home.
I discovered that he had so ill-treated
his wife during this period of time that
twice she'd had to leave the house.
And yet, you know, that man, as a
youngster, in his late teens and early twenties,
had been an active, earnest, zealous, genuinely born
-again child of God.
Been to the university, completed his training as
a dental surgeon.
And then, to enhance his professional status and
increase his income, increasingly he compromised so that
he might enlarge his practice.
And sank deeper and deeper away from the
things that once he cherished with all his
heart.
Until finally, and for 20 solid years, he
fought bitterly against any who named the name
of the Lord Jesus.
He was vitriolic in his sarcasm.
Well, Jimmy, at the age of 16, arranged
a special series of meetings for me over
a long weekend.
He was only a kid of 16, but
he booked a hall seating about 1,500
people.
He delivered about 10,000 invitations to the
local population.
And, to my amazement, and to his, his
father allowed me to stay in the home.
His mother was a sweet Christian.
So when I stayed in the home, I
acted as though I knew nothing about the
situation, talked to him as I talked to
the others, just as though they were Christians.
On the Saturday night he came to the
meeting, to their surprise.
On Sunday he came again, to their great
surprise.
On Monday, they didn't ask him.
And he wasn't there when the meeting started,
but halfway through he arrived.
And the following day I left.
And a day or two later I got
a letter from the father, enclosed in some
slippers that I'd left behind.
And at the end of a brief, courteous
note, he said, I signed myself, perhaps to
your surprise, yours in Christ.
The next letter I opened was from his
little, from his son, Jim.
And Jim said, tremendous thing happened.
My mother and I were discussing the possibility
of getting somebody to talk at our Bible
class, when suddenly Dad stood up.
And he said, you're good at helping other
people, now help me.
And dropped down on his knees and sobbed
like a child.
And asked God to forgive him for all
the twenty years in which he had bitterly
fought against God, and misused his own family.
He's one of my close friends today, he
lives in Garstang, and he is once more
active in evangelistic work, and he spoke to
our young folk at Cape and Ray, and
you know, he said, in all those twenty
years, I never once doubted my salvation.
There was never one day in which I
did not know that I was a child
of God.
I didn't believe one word I said, and
I hated myself for everything I was saying.
But I was too proud.
But never once did God's witness to my
spirit that I was his child, redeemed in
the blood of my Saviour, Jesus Christ, forsake
me.
And it was hell on earth.
Now, this has been my experience again and
again in similar instances.
That no matter how much a person may
rebel and fight and tug and try to
get away, the Lord Jesus says, I'll never
leave you, nor forsake you.
And whom the Lord loveth, he chastens, and
scourges every son whom he receives.
And if you insist, he'll make you as
miserable as hell itself.
He'll never forsake you, because he cannot, without
betraying his own integrity.
You see, the moment the Father accepts you
for the sake of the Son, not for
your sake, the Father is in honour bound
to Jesus Christ, to receive you, on the
grounds of his redemptive transaction, and you're sealed
by the restoration of God the Holy Spirit
to your spirit, who will constantly bear witness
that you're God's child.
And the manna in the golden pot represents
the unrelenting testimony and witness of God's Holy
Spirit to your spirit and mine, that the
moment we've claimed Christ as Redeemer, we are
eternally reconciled to God, even though we may
be saved as by fire.
To bow our heads in shame, in the
day that we stand in our heap of
ashes, and look into the face of the
one who paid the price of our redemption,
and whom we robbed on earth, may be
in a whole lifetime of that which was
his rightful inheritance in us.
The golden pot with manna, the witness of
God's Holy Spirit.
Now, the second content in the ark was
the rob that bodied, Aaron's rob that bodied.
And this is quite a beautiful picture too.
The manna in the golden pot tells us
that everybody cleansed in the blood of Christ
is divinely sealed.
But Aaron's rob that bodied tells us that
of those who are redeemed in the blood
of Christ, whom God has chosen, who are
genuinely his, and in God's estimate are holy,
must be divinely sent.
Divinely sealed, the manna in the golden pot.
Divinely sent, Aaron's rob that bodied.
Now, the circumstances were these.
In the 16th chapter of the book of
Numbers, and we turned to this passage last
night.
Because it's the occasion when Korah, and Dathan,
and Abiram, and On, and the others, with
250 princes of the assembly, famous in the
congregation, and men of renown, protested to Moses
and to Aaron that in spite of their
insistence that God brought them out to take
them in, they were perfectly satisfied with their
situation in the wilderness, they were holy enough.
And when Moses heard it, in verse 4
of Numbers chapter 16, he fell upon his
face and he spake unto Korah and unto
all his company saying, Even tomorrow the Lord
will show who I is, who is holy,
and will cause him to come near unto
him, even him whom he hath chosen will
he cause to come near unto him.
This do.
Take you senses, Korah, and all his company,
put fire therein, and put incense in them
before the Lord tomorrow, and it shall be
that the man whom the Lord doth choose,
he shall be holy.
You take too much upon you, you sons
of Levi.
Moses said to Korah, verse 16, Be thou
in all thy company before the Lord thou,
and they, and Aaron tomorrow.
Take every man his censer, put incense in
them, and bring you before the Lord every
man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers,
thou also and Aaron, each of you his
censer.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron
saying, Separate yourselves from among this congregation, verse
21, that I may consume them in a
moment.
But Moses and Aaron fell upon their faces,
and they said, O God, the God of
the spirits of all flesh, shall one man
sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all
the congregation?
One can't help but be amazed at the
integrity of Moses and Aaron as they interceded
for this rebellious, grousing, grumbling, complaining people.
In all their crass self-centeredness and rebellion
towards God.
God said to the congregation, Depart, I pray
you, Moses said to the congregation, Depart, I
pray you, from the tents of these wicked
men.
Touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed
in all their sin.
And Moses said, verse 28, Hereby you will
know that the Lord hath sent me to
do all these works, for I have not
done them of mine own mind.
If these men die, the common death of
all men, if they be visited after the
visitation of all men, then the Lord hath
not sent me.
But if the Lord make a new thing,
and the earth open her mouth and swallow
them up with all that appertain unto them,
and they go down quick into the pit,
then you will understand that these men have
provoked the Lord.
It came to pass, as he had made
an end of speaking all these words, that
the ground clave asunder that was under them,
and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed
them up, and their houses, and all the
men that appertained unto Korah, and all their
goods, they and all that appertained to them,
went down alive into the pit, and the
earth closed upon them, and they perished from
among the congregation.
In other words, Moses said, if these men
die a natural death, if they die in
their beds, okay, God didn't send them.
But if a new thing happens, and God
himself takes the initiative, then you'll know that
these have provoked the Lord, and God answered
from heaven.
But the amazing thing is this, that on
the morrow, verse 41, the congregation of the
children of Israel murmured against Moses and against
Aaron, saying, you killed the people of the
Lord.
These people who were holy enough, they're dead.
It came to pass, when the congregation was
gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they
looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation, and
behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory
of the Lord appeared.
God said, verse 45, get you up from
among this congregation, that I may consume them
in a moment.
And once more, Moses quickly said to Aaron,
quick, make an atonement for them, for there
is wrath gone out from the Lord, the
plague has begun.
And he made an atonement for the people,
and he stood, verse 48, between the dead
and the living, and the plague was stagnant.
But 14,000 died.
Then God said to Moses, in the seventeenth
chapter, speak unto the children of Israel, and
take of every one of them a rod.
According to the house of their fathers, of
all their princes, according to the house of
their fathers, twelve rods.
Write thou every man's name upon his rod,
each for the tribe that it represents, and
thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod
of Levi.
One rod shall be for the head of
the house of their fathers.
And then he says, lay them up in
the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony,
where I'll meet with you.
And it shall come to pass that the
man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom,
and I will make to cease from me
the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby
they murmur against me.
In other words, God's instructions were very simple.
He said, now for each of the tribes,
take a rod, each representing the father of
that particular tribe, the head or prince of
that house.
And then separate the rod from the men,
and the rod that binds will belong to
the one whom I have sent.
And it came to pass that on the
morrow, Moses went to the tabernacle of Witness,
and behold, the rod of Aaron for the
house of Levi was budded, and brought forth
buds, and bloomed, blossomed, and yielded on.
The only one of the twelve rods that
budded was that belonged to Aaron.
The picture is very simple.
You see, if a man has not been
sent by God, the moment you detach the
man from his ministry, the ministry collapses.
But if you detach the ministry from the
man, and the ministry continues, you know that
this is something that has its origin not
in man, but in God.
How can we see a work that has
been developed around the personality of some individual?
I remember not too long ago having a
meal with a Christian couple, and they were
in great distress about the church to which
they belonged.
They themselves, with the best will in the
world, had invested a very large sum of
money in the building of a new church
auditorium.
And they said, we had a man there
who for fourteen years maintained what they described
as a strong evangelical testimony.
But he retired.
Went away.
And they said, just about nine months ago
we called another man, and we thought he
too would maintain an evangelical testimony, but in
about three to six months we discovered that
he didn't believe in the authority of Scripture.
He began to introduce various influences into the
church testimony that were alien to what they
knew to be the tenets of God's Word.
Well, I said, surely, if you discover that
you've made a mistake in the man that
you've called, and he's beginning to deny the
things for which this church really stands as
a company of God's people, there's a very
simple remedy.
You face the issue, and you say to
this man, I'm sorry, we're a company of
people who love the Word of God, we
believe in the atonement, we believe that Jesus
Christ rose again, we believe that he's coming
back, we believe that this is his revelation
of God's redemptive and regenerative purpose, and we're
sorry, we'll have to part companies.
Well, he said, of course, you would think
that that would be the solution, but the
tragedy is this, that although it's only nine
months since he's been in the pulpit, the
vast majority of the congregation are now on
his side.
Well, how much worth was fourteen years' evangelical
testimony if nine months can destroy the witness
of a congregation?
You see, a church isn't a pastor in
the pulpit.
A church is a fellowship of redeemed sinners.
A church is a manifestation of the body
of Christ, clothed with the humanity of men,
women, boys and girls, who, cleansed in the
blood of Christ, are indwelt by the Holy
Spirit, all equally saint.
A church isn't a building, it isn't an
organization, it's an organic whole.
I remember Dr. Walter Wilson, who just very
recently went to be with his Saviour and
Lord, and whose name I know would be
well known to you.
I was with him, amongst others, at the
Torrey Memorial Bible Conference in Los Angeles, and
at a luncheon, especially for pastors, with about
two hundred, two hundred and fifty men there,
he was speaking to them.
And he mentioned an occasion when he invited
a very well-known preacher to occupy his
pulpit in Kansas City.
And he said the man declined the offer,
because he said he would have nobody to
occupy his own pulpit in his absence.
And Dr. Wilson said, how long have you
been ministering that church?
He said, about twenty-seven years.
He said, how many men would you consider
do you have in your congregation, who have
been consistently present over, say, the last ten
years of your ministry?
He said, about five hundred.
He said, do you mean you've been ministering
in church for twenty-seven years, you've got
some five hundred men who are in that
large congregation, who have been consistently under your
ministry for ten years, and there's not one
who can occupy your pulpit?
He said, if I were you, I'd resign.
And three weeks later, he did.
Because, you see, that isn't a church.
That's just a platform.
That's just a pulpit.
You and I are cleansed in the blood
of Jesus Christ, not only to be divinely
sealed by the presence of the Spirit of
God within the human spirit, but you and
I have been redeemed in the blood of
Jesus Christ, divinely sealed, to be divinely sent,
so that every boy, every girl, every man,
every woman who claims to have been reconciled
to God on the grounds of Christ's redemptive
transaction, becomes wholly available to him to be
as much sent from the pew as the
man is sent from the pulpit.
That's the church of Jesus Christ.
And the ministry of the man in the
pulpit is to make quite sure that every
individual boy, girl, man, or woman who claims
redemption through the blood of Christ is fully
aware of these facts.
You see, God has called men into this
ministry that we might prepare the members of
the church to carry on the work of
the ministry.
His gifts will vary.
Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 11.
He himself appointed some to be apostles, some
to be prophets, Ephesians 4, 11, some to
be evangelists, and some to be pastors, and
some to be teachers.
And his intention was the perfecting and the
full equipping of the saints, that they should
do the work of ministry toward building up
Christ's body, the church.
I don't know how you find it in
your Bible, but you'll find, of course, in
the Authorized, the King James Version, the punctuation
is in the wrong place.
Let me read it to you from the
Authorized.
He gave some apostles and some prophets and
some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for
the perfecting of the saints, comma, for the
work of the ministry, comma, for the edifying
of the body of Christ.
Now that is grammatically wrong.
It's not for the perfecting of the saints,
comma, as though that were their job, and
then for the work of the ministry, comma,
as though that were their job, for the
edifying of the body of Christ, as though
that were their job.
That isn't what it says in the original.
What it says in the original is this.
God gave some to be apostles, some to
be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to
be pastors, some to be teachers, for the
perfecting of the saints, for the work of
the ministry.
No comma.
The office of the pastor, the office of
the preacher, the office of the evangelist, the
office of the teacher, is to perfect the
saints for the work of the ministry.
So that every boy, every girl, every man,
every woman who claims to be converted recognizes
that they are individual members in the particular
of the body corporate of Christ as part
of the organic whole through which the life
of Jesus Christ is to be spontaneously expressed.
We have all been sent.
From the youngest boy or girl in this
congregation who claims to be converted to know
Christ as Redeemer, to the oldest man or
woman, to the simplest or the most sophisticated,
to each has come God's commission divinely sealed
and divinely sent.
The Lord Jesus said, as my father sent
me, even so send I you.
There was only one explanation the Lord Jesus
ever gave for anything that he ever did
or said or was sent.
I suggested to the students the other day,
Monday I think it was, at the college
there, that they would find it very profitable
and quite exciting to do a little research
in John's gospel.
Let's just sample it for a moment, concerning
the ministry of the Lord Jesus.
I'm going to read a few verses to
you, not in chronological order, chapter by chapter,
but moving very fast from one chapter to
another.
I'll pick out a number of verses, all
being the testimony of the Lord Jesus concerning
his own ministry as the one whom the
Father gave for your salvation and mine.
In John's gospel, chapter 3, and if you
want to follow me you'll have to be
pretty fast, and you'll want a double supply
of lake.
But in the third chapter of John's gospel,
in the 17th verse, God sent not his
Son into the world to condemn the world,
but the world through him might be saved.
For verse 34 of chapter 3, he whom
God hath sent speaketh the words of God.
In the fourth chapter, in the 34th verse,
Jesus saith unto them, my need is to
do the will of him that sent me,
and to finish his work.
In the fifth chapter, in the 23rd verse,
that all men should honour the Son even
as they honour the Father, he that honoureth
not the Son honoureth not the Father which
hath sent him.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that
heareth my word, and believeth on him that
sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not
come into condemnation, but is passed from death
unto life.
Verse 30, I can of mine own self
do nothing, as I hear I judge, and
my judgment is just, because I seek not
mine own will, but the will of the
Father which hath sent me.
36, but I have a greater witness than
that of John.
For the works which the Father hath given
me to finish, the same works that I
do bear witness of me, the Father hath
sent me.
And the Father himself which hath sent me,
hath borne witness of me.
You have not his word abiding in you,
for whom he hath sent, verse 38, him
you believe not.
In the sixth chapter, and the twenty-ninth
verse, Jesus answered and said unto them, this
is the work of God that you believe
on him whom he hath sent, verse 38.
For I came down from heaven not to
do mine own will, but the will of
him that sent me.
And this is the Father's will which hath
sent me, that of all which he hath
given me I should lose nothing, but should
raise it up again at the last day.
And this is the will of him that
sent me, that every one which seeth the
Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting
life, and I will raise him up in
the last day.
No man, verse 44, can come to me,
except the Father which hath sent me draw
him, and I will raise him up at
the last day, verse 57, as the living
Father hath sent me.
And I live by the Father, so he
that eateth me, even he shall live by
me.
Chapter 7, verse 16, Jesus answered them and
said, my doctrine is not mine, but his
that sent me.
Verse 18, he that speaketh of himself, seeketh
his own glory, but he that seeketh his
glory that sent him.
The same is true, and no unrighteousness is
in him.
Verse 28, then cried Jesus in the temple
as he taught, saying, ye both know me,
and you know whence I am, and I
am not come of myself, but he that
sent me is true, whom you know not.
But I know him, verse 29, for I
am from him, and he hath sent me.
Verse 33, then said Jesus unto them, yet
a little while am I with you, and
then I go unto him that sent me.
Chapter 8, verse 15, you judge after the
flesh, I judge no man.
And yet if I judge, my judgment is
true, for I am not alone, but I
am the Father that sent me.
Verse 18, I am one that bare witness
of myself, and the Father that sent me,
beareth witness of me.
Verse 26, I have many things to say
and to judge of you, but he that
sent me is true, and he, verse 29,
that sent me is with me.
The Father hath not left me alone, for
I do always those things that please him.
Verse 42, Jesus said unto him, If God
were your Father, you would love me, for
I proceeded forth and came from God, neither
came I of myself, but he sent me.
Chapter 9, verse 4, I must work the
works of him that sent me.
Chapter 10, verse 36, say ye of him
whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into
the world, thou blasphemest, because I said, I
am the Son of God.
Verse 42 of chapter 11, I knew that
thou hearest me always, Father, because of the
people which stand by, said it, that they
may believe that thou hast sent me.
Verse 44 of chapter 12, Jesus cried and
said, He that believeth on me, believeth not
on me, but in him that sent me.
And he that seeth me, verse 45, seeth
him that sent me.
Verse 49, for I have not spoken unto
myself, but the Father which sent me, he
gave me a commandment, what I should say
and what I should speak.