1 00:00:03,270 --> 00:00:05,730 Now, I want to say this about this 2 00:00:05,730 --> 00:00:11,590 portion of this chapter of this gospel, that 3 00:00:11,590 --> 00:00:14,210 I believe that we're at one of the 4 00:00:14,210 --> 00:00:20,230 most difficult portions in the whole of this 5 00:00:20,230 --> 00:00:21,210 wonderful gospel. 6 00:00:23,090 --> 00:00:25,430 In fact, some of the verses that we 7 00:00:25,430 --> 00:00:29,110 are about to look at have been verses 8 00:00:29,110 --> 00:00:37,150 around which arguments and battles have raged with 9 00:00:37,150 --> 00:00:41,110 the most able of commentators down through the 10 00:00:41,110 --> 00:00:44,950 years, so that we're at a very difficult 11 00:00:44,950 --> 00:00:47,130 part for exposition this evening. 12 00:00:48,830 --> 00:00:50,910 And then, I want to say that this 13 00:00:50,910 --> 00:00:54,870 part of John's gospel, the last eleven verses 14 00:00:54,870 --> 00:00:58,610 of John 16, is the part of the 15 00:00:58,610 --> 00:01:02,470 gospel of John that room won't touch. 16 00:01:03,950 --> 00:01:05,110 They're afraid of it. 17 00:01:07,340 --> 00:01:10,140 You will find in all the Roman commentaries 18 00:01:10,140 --> 00:01:13,760 that they skip by some of the verses 19 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,040 in the latter part of John 16 very, 20 00:01:17,180 --> 00:01:24,360 very quickly, because it exposes, and it exposes 21 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,640 in a way that can't be again said, 22 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:33,120 any intermediaries between the saint and the father. 23 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:39,860 And the Lord Jesus clears out any cause 24 00:01:39,860 --> 00:01:43,760 for intermediaries between the saint and the father, 25 00:01:44,540 --> 00:01:46,400 and He does it in the way that 26 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,240 can't be again said in this chapter. 27 00:01:50,060 --> 00:01:57,050 Not only does Pagan, Popist, Babylonist, idolatrous Rome 28 00:01:57,050 --> 00:02:03,090 fear this portion of God's word, but all 29 00:02:03,090 --> 00:02:10,810 the Russellites, and Jehovah's Witnesses, and Millennial Dawnists, 30 00:02:11,890 --> 00:02:18,870 and Philadelphians, and all who deny the deity, 31 00:02:19,850 --> 00:02:24,410 and the eternality, and the eternal Sonship of 32 00:02:24,410 --> 00:02:29,250 Christ, are afraid of this portion, because our 33 00:02:29,250 --> 00:02:33,790 Lord Jesus Christ said very plainly, I came 34 00:02:33,790 --> 00:02:37,550 forth from the Father. 35 00:02:38,510 --> 00:02:40,810 A mighty statement, but we'll go into it 36 00:02:40,810 --> 00:02:41,570 in due time. 37 00:02:43,190 --> 00:02:48,190 Not only does Rome fear this portion, and 38 00:02:48,190 --> 00:02:50,970 all the isms and ifs that form a 39 00:02:50,970 --> 00:02:55,910 Unitarianism, but the devil is afraid of this 40 00:02:55,910 --> 00:03:00,070 portion more than any other, because our Lord 41 00:03:00,070 --> 00:03:04,690 Jesus Christ ended this great pastoral discourse with 42 00:03:04,690 --> 00:03:09,650 these words, be of good cheer, I have 43 00:03:09,650 --> 00:03:10,930 overcome the world. 44 00:03:12,890 --> 00:03:15,850 And you know that the devil is the 45 00:03:15,850 --> 00:03:17,090 god of this world. 46 00:03:18,590 --> 00:03:22,410 The Bible calls him the prince of this 47 00:03:22,410 --> 00:03:28,990 world, and all this world system that's so 48 00:03:28,990 --> 00:03:34,450 subtle around us tonight, the worlds of flesh, 49 00:03:34,610 --> 00:03:39,090 and the world of fashion, and the world 50 00:03:39,090 --> 00:03:43,070 of film, and so many other sidelines that 51 00:03:43,070 --> 00:03:45,450 you can bring in, in the world system, 52 00:03:46,170 --> 00:03:50,570 is all controlled and energized by the devil 53 00:03:50,570 --> 00:03:51,190 himself. 54 00:03:52,330 --> 00:03:55,910 But our Lord Jesus Christ is shouting here, 55 00:03:56,890 --> 00:04:02,770 be of good cheer, I have overcome the 56 00:04:02,770 --> 00:04:03,190 world. 57 00:04:04,310 --> 00:04:06,930 So we're at a tremendous portion that is, 58 00:04:07,470 --> 00:04:12,490 a portion that arguments have raged round, a 59 00:04:12,490 --> 00:04:15,470 portion that so many of the cults from 60 00:04:15,470 --> 00:04:20,149 the pit of hell are afraid of, and 61 00:04:20,149 --> 00:04:22,670 a portion that presents to us tonight some 62 00:04:22,670 --> 00:04:23,610 real difficulties. 63 00:04:25,550 --> 00:04:27,290 Have a look at the verse we're starting 64 00:04:27,290 --> 00:04:29,650 with, verse 23. 65 00:04:31,630 --> 00:04:34,470 The Lord Jesus Christ is speaking and saying, 66 00:04:35,690 --> 00:04:41,030 and in that day ye shall ask me 67 00:04:41,030 --> 00:04:41,530 nothing. 68 00:04:43,250 --> 00:04:45,150 Have a look at verse 26. 69 00:04:46,810 --> 00:04:52,590 At that day ye shall ask in my 70 00:04:52,590 --> 00:04:52,970 name. 71 00:04:54,730 --> 00:04:57,450 Looking at it casually, it almost looks like 72 00:04:57,450 --> 00:04:59,150 a contradiction, doesn't it? 73 00:05:01,980 --> 00:05:02,860 Well, it's not. 74 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,960 And there are many problems in the passage, 75 00:05:07,180 --> 00:05:09,180 just like that this evening, that I could 76 00:05:09,180 --> 00:05:12,380 talk out for you, and you'd find yourself 77 00:05:12,380 --> 00:05:14,360 tightened up to give the proper answer. 78 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:17,980 So that we're at a very difficult portion 79 00:05:17,980 --> 00:05:20,800 this evening, and we shall take our time 80 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:21,440 to get through. 81 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,680 I have six headings here before you. 82 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,680 The first one is the practice of the 83 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:29,120 past. 84 00:05:30,420 --> 00:05:33,120 I want to show you what the apostles 85 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,360 practiced in the days when our Lord Jesus 86 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,400 Christ was with them, and we shall go 87 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,560 in very carefully into the practice of the 88 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:44,940 past. 89 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,040 And then I want to show you how 90 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,500 our Lord Jesus Christ led them to see 91 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:55,940 the privilege of the peasants, because the dispensation 92 00:05:55,940 --> 00:05:58,380 that we live in now has many privileges, 93 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,060 and the privilege of the peasant is before 94 00:06:02,060 --> 00:06:02,920 us in the portion. 95 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:09,380 Then, of course, clearly stated is the power 96 00:06:09,380 --> 00:06:10,040 of prayer. 97 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,500 Whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, 98 00:06:15,620 --> 00:06:16,600 he will give it you. 99 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:19,900 And then when we go on down the 100 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:22,780 chapter, we shall come to that wonderful verse, 101 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,020 verse 28, I came forth from the Father 102 00:06:27,020 --> 00:06:29,540 and am coming to the world. 103 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,900 Again, I leave the world and go to 104 00:06:33,900 --> 00:06:34,440 the Father. 105 00:06:35,620 --> 00:06:38,440 The verse made of two statements, I came 106 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,320 forth from the Father and come into the 107 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:40,620 world. 108 00:06:41,980 --> 00:06:44,000 Second one, again, I leave the world and 109 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:44,820 go to the Father. 110 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:48,460 And in between the two stands the cross 111 00:06:48,460 --> 00:06:51,180 and the glorious resurrection. 112 00:06:52,540 --> 00:06:54,140 But what a verse this is! 113 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:58,680 It gives us the panorama of the whole 114 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,760 pathway that lay before the Savior from glory 115 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:04,860 back to glory. 116 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,820 Right from the Father's bosom, right to the 117 00:07:09,820 --> 00:07:14,080 depths of darkness and Golgotha's hill, up to 118 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:18,020 resurrection and ascension, back to the right hand 119 00:07:18,020 --> 00:07:19,460 of the Majesty and High. 120 00:07:19,940 --> 00:07:22,400 You have a panorama of the pathway that 121 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:23,500 lay before the Savior. 122 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,160 At the end of the chapter, we shall 123 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,800 look at the profession of these pilgrims around 124 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:30,280 us. 125 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,140 They're saying to them, we are sure, by 126 00:07:34,140 --> 00:07:35,020 this we believe. 127 00:07:36,340 --> 00:07:39,760 And then, before the chapter ends, he preaches 128 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,720 four things to them that they needed to 129 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,080 know, just before he breaks into prayer. 130 00:07:46,660 --> 00:07:50,900 Because verse, chapter 17, verse 1 says, these 131 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:53,940 words speak Jesus, and lifted up his eyes 132 00:07:53,940 --> 00:07:56,660 to heaven and began to pray. 133 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,760 He went directly from preaching to prayer. 134 00:08:01,380 --> 00:08:04,560 So, here are the headings, the practice of 135 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:09,320 the past, the privilege of the present, the 136 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:11,980 power of prayer, the panorama of the pathway, 137 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,220 the profession of the pilgrims, and the preaching 138 00:08:16,220 --> 00:08:17,700 just before the prayer. 139 00:08:19,460 --> 00:08:21,400 Let's get down to the details of the 140 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:21,760 chapter. 141 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:24,640 Let's have a look at this verse, verse 142 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:25,140 23. 143 00:08:26,260 --> 00:08:29,140 The Lord Jesus Christ is speaking the first 144 00:08:29,140 --> 00:08:35,860 phrase, and in that day ye shall ask 145 00:08:35,860 --> 00:08:36,780 me nothing. 146 00:08:38,909 --> 00:08:40,929 And you must place this other one with 147 00:08:40,929 --> 00:08:44,970 it, verse 26, at that day ye shall 148 00:08:44,970 --> 00:08:47,870 ask in my name. 149 00:08:48,670 --> 00:08:51,810 Now, when you come to the chapter at 150 00:08:51,810 --> 00:08:57,390 any time, and you face a problem, I'll 151 00:08:57,390 --> 00:08:59,610 tell you how to go about it, and 152 00:08:59,610 --> 00:09:01,150 you younger ones listen carefully. 153 00:09:02,390 --> 00:09:05,470 First thing you do is, you ask yourself, 154 00:09:05,650 --> 00:09:06,310 who's speaking? 155 00:09:07,930 --> 00:09:11,490 Always be perfectly sure that you know who's 156 00:09:11,490 --> 00:09:11,830 speaking. 157 00:09:13,930 --> 00:09:17,790 And then ask yourself the second question, who 158 00:09:17,790 --> 00:09:20,110 is the speaker speaking to? 159 00:09:21,810 --> 00:09:24,650 Be very sure that you know who he's 160 00:09:24,650 --> 00:09:25,330 speaking to. 161 00:09:25,830 --> 00:09:29,510 And then third question, where is he speaking 162 00:09:29,510 --> 00:09:30,130 from? 163 00:09:31,870 --> 00:09:34,030 And then the fourth question, and it's the 164 00:09:34,030 --> 00:09:38,590 most important one, be very sure that you're 165 00:09:38,590 --> 00:09:42,830 sure of what he's speaking about, so that 166 00:09:42,830 --> 00:09:45,170 that will make you look at every word 167 00:09:45,170 --> 00:09:46,690 in the speech. 168 00:09:47,910 --> 00:09:50,250 But we know who's speaking, says our Lord 169 00:09:50,250 --> 00:09:54,750 Jesus, and we know who he's speaking to. 170 00:09:55,010 --> 00:09:57,510 He's speaking to the eleven apostles. 171 00:09:59,310 --> 00:10:00,910 I'll slip that into your mind. 172 00:10:01,190 --> 00:10:03,050 And we know where he's speaking at. 173 00:10:03,370 --> 00:10:05,930 He's on the way to the garden of 174 00:10:05,930 --> 00:10:06,530 Gethsemane. 175 00:10:07,290 --> 00:10:10,810 At the end of John 14, he left 176 00:10:10,810 --> 00:10:14,070 the upper room, and he's now walking from 177 00:10:14,070 --> 00:10:17,010 the upper room on that memorable level to 178 00:10:17,010 --> 00:10:21,760 be, and he's on the way to the 179 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:26,120 garden, and in my opinion, he's very near 180 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:30,240 to the brook that he passed over as 181 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:32,420 he went into the garden of Gethsemane to 182 00:10:32,420 --> 00:10:32,720 pray. 183 00:10:34,970 --> 00:10:37,170 And as he walks along with his eleven 184 00:10:37,170 --> 00:10:40,650 apostles on the way to the garden on 185 00:10:40,650 --> 00:10:44,210 that memorable night, he said this to them, 186 00:10:45,570 --> 00:10:50,470 and in that day, and we've only got 187 00:10:50,470 --> 00:10:52,870 to stop and ask ourselves the question, what 188 00:10:52,870 --> 00:10:54,470 day is he talking about? 189 00:10:55,730 --> 00:10:58,690 And that's very simply answered because you remember 190 00:10:58,690 --> 00:11:04,270 last week's portion, that in five verses, we 191 00:11:04,270 --> 00:11:07,210 have this phrase, a little while. 192 00:11:07,850 --> 00:11:09,570 Look at verse 16. 193 00:11:10,330 --> 00:11:13,730 A little while, and you shall not see 194 00:11:13,730 --> 00:11:13,990 me. 195 00:11:14,870 --> 00:11:18,950 And again, a little while, and you shall 196 00:11:18,950 --> 00:11:20,770 see me, because I go to the farm. 197 00:11:21,630 --> 00:11:24,350 And seven times in five verses, you've got 198 00:11:24,350 --> 00:11:25,950 this phrase, a little while. 199 00:11:27,050 --> 00:11:29,070 And he was looking up to the disciples, 200 00:11:29,270 --> 00:11:31,570 and he was saying, now I want you 201 00:11:31,570 --> 00:11:34,350 to get the hold of this, a little 202 00:11:34,350 --> 00:11:37,910 while, and you shall not see me. 203 00:11:39,110 --> 00:11:42,410 And again, a little while, and you shall 204 00:11:42,410 --> 00:11:42,730 see. 205 00:11:43,790 --> 00:11:47,550 And he was talking about that time when 206 00:11:47,550 --> 00:11:52,550 he would go away, and this very dispensation 207 00:11:52,550 --> 00:11:56,870 that we're in now would be brought about 208 00:11:56,870 --> 00:12:01,510 when he would be our absent Lord, and 209 00:12:01,510 --> 00:12:05,550 whom, not having seen, we would still love. 210 00:12:06,790 --> 00:12:09,310 And you remember how I went into why 211 00:12:09,310 --> 00:12:13,090 he called it a little while, why it 212 00:12:13,090 --> 00:12:15,270 has run almost two thousand years. 213 00:12:16,690 --> 00:12:19,810 But when we calculated up from his standpoint 214 00:12:19,810 --> 00:12:25,610 that one thousand years are as one day, 215 00:12:26,890 --> 00:12:29,150 why he hasn't been gone two days yet, 216 00:12:29,770 --> 00:12:30,890 in his estimation. 217 00:12:31,930 --> 00:12:36,110 And I said last week that after nineteen 218 00:12:36,110 --> 00:12:41,350 hundred years of absence, there must be a 219 00:12:41,350 --> 00:12:44,890 very, very, very little while left of the 220 00:12:44,890 --> 00:12:45,570 little while. 221 00:12:46,730 --> 00:12:50,070 Before he comes again, there can't be much 222 00:12:50,070 --> 00:12:51,030 of it left now. 223 00:12:52,150 --> 00:12:54,230 If it was a little while when he 224 00:12:54,230 --> 00:12:57,730 went, and there are over nineteen hundred years 225 00:12:57,730 --> 00:13:01,010 gone, there must be very little of the 226 00:13:01,010 --> 00:13:04,110 little while left, until we see him again, 227 00:13:04,170 --> 00:13:06,050 and I'm positively sure that's true. 228 00:13:07,530 --> 00:13:11,270 Now, that's the day he's talking about, the 229 00:13:11,270 --> 00:13:12,750 day when he'll be gone. 230 00:13:13,490 --> 00:13:16,890 This very dispensation, that's what he's talking about, 231 00:13:17,070 --> 00:13:19,570 and that's what he's saying, in that day, 232 00:13:19,690 --> 00:13:24,870 in this dispensation, the dispensation when he would 233 00:13:24,870 --> 00:13:27,470 be gone from them, and they wouldn't see 234 00:13:27,470 --> 00:13:27,590 him. 235 00:13:27,810 --> 00:13:31,310 He says, in that day ye shall ask 236 00:13:31,310 --> 00:13:32,070 me nothing. 237 00:13:33,970 --> 00:13:36,470 And it's the same dispensation in verse twenty 238 00:13:36,470 --> 00:13:40,630 -six, at that day ye shall ask in 239 00:13:40,630 --> 00:13:41,290 my name. 240 00:13:42,810 --> 00:13:44,470 And I'll shut the light out of you 241 00:13:44,470 --> 00:13:46,250 when I tell you that the word ask 242 00:13:46,250 --> 00:13:49,350 in both verses is two different Greek words. 243 00:13:51,570 --> 00:13:52,970 And that's the bit you've got to be 244 00:13:52,970 --> 00:13:53,830 sure of, you see. 245 00:13:53,830 --> 00:13:57,630 I went over each word very carefully, and 246 00:13:57,630 --> 00:14:00,290 I found this, and I found the answer 247 00:14:00,290 --> 00:14:01,390 to the problem too. 248 00:14:02,490 --> 00:14:06,290 I found the first ask, in verse twenty 249 00:14:06,290 --> 00:14:09,890 -three, is a Greek word that just means 250 00:14:09,890 --> 00:14:14,370 to ask questions, and he's taken them back 251 00:14:14,370 --> 00:14:16,110 to the pictures of the past. 252 00:14:17,370 --> 00:14:19,470 You know, when the Lord was here with 253 00:14:19,470 --> 00:14:23,670 them, when they'd got any problem or anything 254 00:14:23,670 --> 00:14:26,450 to discuss, they just came and they asked 255 00:14:26,450 --> 00:14:26,690 him. 256 00:14:28,250 --> 00:14:30,130 I will not be asked, it's in the 257 00:14:30,130 --> 00:14:30,850 first verse. 258 00:14:32,490 --> 00:14:38,070 It's just the Greek word for questioning, coming 259 00:14:38,070 --> 00:14:40,730 and asking your familiar friend some question. 260 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:44,900 But the Greek word that's in verse twenty 261 00:14:44,900 --> 00:14:48,000 -six is the word for actually getting down 262 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,120 and making a petition. 263 00:14:51,500 --> 00:14:53,120 And he said, you'll do that when I'm 264 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:54,980 gone, and you'll not do the other. 265 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:56,520 And the thing's plain, isn't it? 266 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,820 Oh, there are no problems in the book 267 00:14:59,820 --> 00:15:01,220 if you take your time, you know. 268 00:15:02,340 --> 00:15:04,460 You see, he's just turning them down to 269 00:15:04,460 --> 00:15:05,940 see the breasts of the past. 270 00:15:07,220 --> 00:15:09,780 Supposing we try to watch this, have a 271 00:15:09,780 --> 00:15:11,720 look at John fourteen over again. 272 00:15:15,170 --> 00:15:17,030 Now, here's the sort of thing that went 273 00:15:17,030 --> 00:15:18,870 on when our Lord was with them. 274 00:15:20,310 --> 00:15:24,330 We'll begin at John fourteen, verse one, and 275 00:15:24,330 --> 00:15:26,150 our Lord's talking to them, he's trying to 276 00:15:26,150 --> 00:15:26,850 comfort them. 277 00:15:27,850 --> 00:15:29,810 Let not your heart be troubled, you believe 278 00:15:29,810 --> 00:15:31,470 in God, believe also in me. 279 00:15:32,330 --> 00:15:34,430 In my Father's house are many mansions, if 280 00:15:34,430 --> 00:15:35,930 it were not so, I would have told 281 00:15:35,930 --> 00:15:37,530 you I go to prepare a place for 282 00:15:37,530 --> 00:15:37,770 you. 283 00:15:38,470 --> 00:15:40,230 And if I go and prepare a place 284 00:15:40,230 --> 00:15:41,930 for you, I will come again and receive 285 00:15:41,930 --> 00:15:43,790 you unto myself, that where I am there 286 00:15:43,790 --> 00:15:44,670 you may be also. 287 00:15:45,290 --> 00:15:46,890 And whether I go, you know, and the 288 00:15:46,890 --> 00:15:47,410 way you know. 289 00:15:47,530 --> 00:15:51,890 And then Thomas watches, and he asks the 290 00:15:51,890 --> 00:15:56,210 question, Lord, we know not whither thou goest, 291 00:15:56,230 --> 00:15:57,510 and how can we know the way? 292 00:15:59,620 --> 00:16:01,580 Well, that's the sort of asking that he's 293 00:16:01,580 --> 00:16:03,320 talking about in verse twenty-three. 294 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:06,880 He said, you know, when I'm gone, you'll 295 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:08,420 not be able to do that sort of 296 00:16:08,420 --> 00:16:08,720 thing. 297 00:16:10,180 --> 00:16:12,960 In that day, ye shall ask me no 298 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:13,780 more questions. 299 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:16,360 That's the idea. 300 00:16:17,500 --> 00:16:19,520 You see, he started to talk to Thomas 301 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:20,480 here, do you see him? 302 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,820 Jesus saith unto him, verse six, I am 303 00:16:24,820 --> 00:16:26,240 the way, the truth, and the life, and 304 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,060 no man cometh unto the Father but by 305 00:16:28,060 --> 00:16:28,280 me. 306 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:29,980 If ye had known me, ye should have 307 00:16:29,980 --> 00:16:31,060 known my Father also. 308 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,160 I am from henceforth ye know him, and 309 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:34,920 have seen him, and then Philip watched him. 310 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:40,300 Lord, to us the Father, and it suffices 311 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:40,680 us. 312 00:16:41,740 --> 00:16:43,920 Oh, he's coming up with a suggestion. 313 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:46,380 And the Lord starts to talk to him, 314 00:16:46,460 --> 00:16:47,880 and down the chapter, do you see, verse 315 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:52,180 twenty-two, Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot. 316 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,060 How very, how very wonderful the word is 317 00:16:56,060 --> 00:16:57,180 to protect a fellow. 318 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,660 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how 319 00:17:00,660 --> 00:17:03,099 is it that thou would manifest thyself unto 320 00:17:03,099 --> 00:17:04,680 us, and not unto the world? 321 00:17:06,140 --> 00:17:08,140 And if you go through John's gospel, and 322 00:17:08,140 --> 00:17:10,240 see our Lord talking to them, and preaching 323 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,040 to them, and trying to enlighten them, you'll 324 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,300 find that again, and again, and again, they 325 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:20,079 butt in, and they ask questions, and they 326 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:21,280 had a right to do it. 327 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,700 He was in their midst, and to whom 328 00:17:24,700 --> 00:17:25,700 else would they go? 329 00:17:27,180 --> 00:17:29,380 Why, he had got the words of eternal 330 00:17:29,380 --> 00:17:29,840 life. 331 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:33,320 And the soldier, I came and asked him 332 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:33,860 questions. 333 00:17:35,220 --> 00:17:37,560 And the Lord is just saying in John 334 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:42,980 sixteen, At that day, when I am gone, 335 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:46,880 ye shall ask me nothing. 336 00:17:48,660 --> 00:17:50,920 No more questions asked like that. 337 00:17:52,140 --> 00:17:54,160 You see, something else would take place. 338 00:17:54,580 --> 00:17:58,040 At that day, ye shall get down and 339 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,720 petition my Father, in my name. 340 00:18:01,740 --> 00:18:03,720 That's the way we go about it now. 341 00:18:05,020 --> 00:18:07,560 Yes, you go to heaven with your problems, 342 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:08,700 and I hope you do. 343 00:18:10,180 --> 00:18:11,680 Some of you seem to think you only 344 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:12,980 need to run to the pastor. 345 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,520 You think that he can just call the 346 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:16,880 dog. 347 00:18:17,980 --> 00:18:20,160 Well, you're being taught different by the Lord. 348 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,240 You need to know the way into the 349 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,640 holiest of all, and how to get down 350 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:30,260 on your knees, and bring your burden to 351 00:18:30,260 --> 00:18:34,040 the Lord, and leave it there, and make 352 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:36,180 your request known unto God. 353 00:18:36,980 --> 00:18:38,860 That's the teaching of God's word. 354 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:41,740 And so, there's no problem here. 355 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:45,860 You see, he's only showing them the practice 356 00:18:45,860 --> 00:18:46,640 of the past. 357 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,720 You see, in the past, they asked him 358 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:50,260 questions. 359 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:52,760 And watch this. 360 00:18:53,660 --> 00:18:58,740 In verse twenty-four, he said this, Hitherto 361 00:18:58,740 --> 00:19:01,900 have ye asked nothing in my name. 362 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:03,100 He said, hitherto. 363 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:05,360 Oh, that's the past also. 364 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:10,120 You see, wouldn't it have been nonsensical for 365 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:13,100 these disciples to get down in prayer around 366 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:16,240 the Lord Jesus, probably holding on to a 367 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,540 stretch, and closing their eyes, and asking God 368 00:19:19,540 --> 00:19:21,000 for something in his name? 369 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,500 No, hitherto, they didn't do that. 370 00:19:26,300 --> 00:19:28,580 Why, even the prayer that he gave them 371 00:19:28,580 --> 00:19:32,480 for a model, they down like this, Oh, 372 00:19:32,540 --> 00:19:33,860 Father, we trust in heaven. 373 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,480 And it didn't end with Jesus' name at 374 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:37,860 all. 375 00:19:39,180 --> 00:19:42,680 Because hitherto, in that day, they were not 376 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:44,220 asking in his name. 377 00:19:46,020 --> 00:19:47,640 Oh no, that day had not come. 378 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:51,220 They were talking to the God of history. 379 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:57,880 Hitherto, he said, ye have not asked anything 380 00:19:57,880 --> 00:19:58,680 in my name. 381 00:20:00,020 --> 00:20:01,000 But watch this. 382 00:20:01,780 --> 00:20:05,080 Not only in the past did they ask 383 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,320 him questions, and not only in the past 384 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:12,000 they prayed not in his name, but he 385 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:12,720 said this. 386 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:18,660 At that day, verse 26, ye shall ask 387 00:20:18,660 --> 00:20:21,880 in my name, and I say not unto 388 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:23,680 you that I will pray the Father for 389 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:24,000 you. 390 00:20:25,140 --> 00:20:29,480 You see, in the past, they didn't ask 391 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:30,240 him his name. 392 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,540 They came and asked him the question, but 393 00:20:34,540 --> 00:20:37,260 in the past he had asked the Father 394 00:20:37,260 --> 00:20:38,060 for them. 395 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,640 Oh, you remember outside the grave of Lazarus, 396 00:20:43,220 --> 00:20:44,680 that he prayed Father. 397 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,440 Then he said, I know that thou hearest 398 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:54,040 me, but for their sake I'm crying out 399 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:54,420 loud. 400 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,840 And again and again he had asked you, 401 00:20:59,180 --> 00:20:59,940 Father, for them. 402 00:21:01,020 --> 00:21:04,880 That's all the fractures of the past, for 403 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,500 eleven a person. 404 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:09,940 So you no need to get mixed up 405 00:21:09,940 --> 00:21:10,320 in it. 406 00:21:11,140 --> 00:21:12,920 It's as clean as daylight to me. 407 00:21:12,980 --> 00:21:14,800 It doesn't worry me for one bit. 408 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:17,820 And you should see the mess that some 409 00:21:17,820 --> 00:21:19,600 of the commentators have made of it. 410 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,100 It's absolutely clear. 411 00:21:25,140 --> 00:21:28,600 It's just the past practice of these apostles 412 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:29,960 that is touching here. 413 00:21:30,980 --> 00:21:33,680 But then he comes to the present privilege. 414 00:21:35,340 --> 00:21:40,200 You see, verse 23 over again, says, In 415 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:44,620 that day ye shall question me no longer. 416 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,860 Then he says, Verily, verily I say unto 417 00:21:50,860 --> 00:21:55,320 you, whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in 418 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,080 my name, he will give it to you. 419 00:21:59,180 --> 00:22:04,120 Now, the ask here is the Greek word 420 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:06,020 for petitioning. 421 00:22:06,860 --> 00:22:09,680 It's a different word from the word that's 422 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,100 used for questioning a familiar friend. 423 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:15,060 It's the Greek word for petitioning. 424 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:16,960 You shall petition the Father. 425 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,900 And while our authorized version reads like this, 426 00:22:22,820 --> 00:22:25,320 Verily, verily I say unto you, whatsoever ye 427 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:26,920 shall ask the Father in my name, he 428 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,080 will give it to you. 429 00:22:28,580 --> 00:22:31,920 All the best and oldest manuscripts read like 430 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:32,280 this. 431 00:22:33,060 --> 00:22:35,320 Verily, verily I say unto you, whatsoever ye 432 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,640 shall ask the Father, he will give it 433 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:38,920 to you in my name. 434 00:22:40,580 --> 00:22:41,860 It's just that wee bit of difference. 435 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:47,340 Now, on this occasion, the in my name 436 00:22:47,340 --> 00:22:49,680 is not connected with the asking. 437 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,400 I know that in other scriptures it's connected 438 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:54,160 with the asking. 439 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,260 But on this occasion, the in my name 440 00:22:57,260 --> 00:22:58,640 is connected with the giving. 441 00:23:00,420 --> 00:23:02,320 That makes all the difference, you know. 442 00:23:03,020 --> 00:23:05,380 It says, In that day, in that news, 443 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,920 ye shall come in before my power, and 444 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,560 ye shall ask, and he'll give you whatsoever 445 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,580 ye ask in my name. 446 00:23:19,580 --> 00:23:21,100 Oh, it's terribly beautiful. 447 00:23:22,580 --> 00:23:25,920 Dr. Ironside and Enderstreet did that like this, 448 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:27,780 by a story from the battlefield. 449 00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:31,060 Two young fellows had gone to the war 450 00:23:31,060 --> 00:23:33,980 together, meted up together, went to battle together. 451 00:23:35,220 --> 00:23:37,820 One of them is now lying on Newmound's 452 00:23:37,820 --> 00:23:39,760 land, and his blood is draining into the 453 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:40,140 swamp. 454 00:23:41,260 --> 00:23:44,040 And his friend, who's quite a way off, 455 00:23:44,180 --> 00:23:46,460 crawls and crawls until he comes beside him, 456 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:48,980 puts his arm on the young fellow and 457 00:23:48,980 --> 00:23:50,560 says, Jacob, I'm dying. 458 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:53,520 He said, I've never told you, you know. 459 00:23:53,580 --> 00:23:54,560 I didn't like to tell you. 460 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:55,880 I just wanted to meet up with you. 461 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:56,940 My father's a millionaire. 462 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:01,280 He said, take my card. 463 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:03,660 Hold it while I sign it. 464 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:05,860 And he signed Charlie on it. 465 00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:09,020 He said, Jack, if you get out of 466 00:24:09,020 --> 00:24:11,720 this and you get home, go and see 467 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,880 my father and he'll do anything for you, 468 00:24:14,380 --> 00:24:15,660 for my sake. 469 00:24:17,180 --> 00:24:18,800 And the fellow put the card in his 470 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,000 pocket, and after the war was over, went 471 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,560 home and forgot all about it. 472 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,160 And then came the hard times. 473 00:24:25,700 --> 00:24:26,980 Then he thought about this. 474 00:24:27,940 --> 00:24:29,780 Then he went away to see Charlie's father 475 00:24:29,780 --> 00:24:32,400 and sent in his own card, but they 476 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:33,240 sent it out again. 477 00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:35,020 The man was too busy, he couldn't see 478 00:24:36,590 --> 00:24:36,690 it. 479 00:24:36,890 --> 00:24:38,490 Then he took this one out and sent 480 00:24:38,490 --> 00:24:38,910 it in. 481 00:24:39,750 --> 00:24:41,930 And in two seconds, the big business man 482 00:24:41,930 --> 00:24:43,750 was off, and he said, he said, my 483 00:24:43,750 --> 00:24:45,550 God, why didn't you let me see this 484 00:24:45,550 --> 00:24:46,010 before? 485 00:24:46,750 --> 00:24:48,750 For Charlie's sake, I'll give you anything. 486 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:55,000 No, I want you to get the hold 487 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:55,480 of that. 488 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:02,460 Our lovely Lord Jesus Christ, through his death 489 00:25:02,460 --> 00:25:06,320 on the battlefield of Calvary, has opened a 490 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,400 way for us, right into the holiest of 491 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:09,880 all. 492 00:25:13,030 --> 00:25:18,280 And for Christ, God will give you. 493 00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:22,280 God will give you. 494 00:25:22,420 --> 00:25:24,860 Yes, that's the privilege we have, but, oh, 495 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:26,520 it's so much deeper than that. 496 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:27,880 I want you to get the hold of 497 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:28,260 this. 498 00:25:29,460 --> 00:25:31,800 You see, our Lord Jesus is talking here. 499 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:39,620 He says in verse 26, Archbapti, ye shall 500 00:25:39,620 --> 00:25:43,380 ask in my name, and I say not 501 00:25:43,380 --> 00:25:45,160 unto you that I will pray the Father 502 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:45,960 for you. 503 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:51,240 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye 504 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,040 have loved me, and have believed that I 505 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:54,980 came out from God. 506 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:58,620 This is a tremendous vision. 507 00:25:58,820 --> 00:26:00,160 I want to go easy, so that you'll 508 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:01,140 get the hold of it. 509 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,240 You know, in the very early days of 510 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:12,660 the Christian Church, in this dispensation, many dear 511 00:26:12,660 --> 00:26:18,380 saints of God got the idea that God 512 00:26:18,380 --> 00:26:26,460 was so holy, and so inflexibly holy, and 513 00:26:26,460 --> 00:26:30,780 so mighty, and so far away, and they 514 00:26:30,780 --> 00:26:34,620 themselves were so poor, and so blind, and 515 00:26:34,620 --> 00:26:37,420 so miserable, and so naked, just like us, 516 00:26:39,580 --> 00:26:41,960 that they actually believed that they would have 517 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:47,120 needed someone to be an intermediary between them 518 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:47,760 and the Father. 519 00:26:51,460 --> 00:26:53,520 It is perfectly true that there is one 520 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,780 mediator between God and men, the man Christ 521 00:26:56,780 --> 00:26:57,140 Jesus. 522 00:26:57,540 --> 00:26:59,340 Of course, the moment that we come to 523 00:26:59,340 --> 00:27:01,720 Christ, and the moment we embrace Christ, and 524 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,660 the moment we trust Christ, we're made acceptable 525 00:27:04,660 --> 00:27:05,800 through him. 526 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:07,460 To God? 527 00:27:09,850 --> 00:27:11,330 Ah, but wait a minute! 528 00:27:12,990 --> 00:27:17,150 We're not talking just now about sinners coming 529 00:27:17,150 --> 00:27:19,490 to God through these mediations. 530 00:27:20,950 --> 00:27:24,370 We're talking now about sinners who came to 531 00:27:24,370 --> 00:27:25,950 Christ who were made trans. 532 00:27:31,210 --> 00:27:35,160 You see, you are not only a sinner 533 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:40,110 that came to God through Christ, but the 534 00:27:40,110 --> 00:27:44,050 moment you came, you got the adoption of 535 00:27:44,050 --> 00:27:48,970 silence, and God became your Father. 536 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:52,680 And I want you to get the hold 537 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:53,200 of this. 538 00:27:53,740 --> 00:27:57,660 The Lord Jesus said, at that day, I 539 00:27:57,660 --> 00:27:59,800 will not pray the Father for you. 540 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,420 I'll not be the intermediary, mind you, to 541 00:28:04,420 --> 00:28:06,700 bring you to the Father, for the Father 542 00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:10,420 himself loves you because you love me, can 543 00:28:10,420 --> 00:28:10,780 believe. 544 00:28:13,380 --> 00:28:15,240 Do you know what makes you acceptable to 545 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:15,760 the Father? 546 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,060 Just because you believe in the Lord Jesus, 547 00:28:20,180 --> 00:28:20,940 and you love him. 548 00:28:23,590 --> 00:28:26,370 And you don't even need an intermediary. 549 00:28:27,510 --> 00:28:29,710 And Christ won't be it. 550 00:28:30,730 --> 00:28:33,690 He said, no, no, I'll not pray the 551 00:28:33,690 --> 00:28:34,570 Father for you. 552 00:28:36,090 --> 00:28:38,890 The very moment that you believe and accept 553 00:28:38,890 --> 00:28:44,550 me, you'll be welcomed by the Father, without 554 00:28:44,550 --> 00:28:45,790 anybody in between. 555 00:28:46,790 --> 00:28:48,990 And if we don't need Christ, we most 556 00:28:48,990 --> 00:28:50,170 certainly don't need Mary. 557 00:28:52,810 --> 00:28:54,910 And if we don't need Christ, we don't 558 00:28:54,910 --> 00:28:57,590 need King Paul, or King Peter, or King 559 00:28:57,590 --> 00:28:58,030 Jude. 560 00:28:59,890 --> 00:29:01,930 Now, I want this meeting to get the 561 00:29:01,930 --> 00:29:04,910 hold of this tonight, that the day that 562 00:29:04,910 --> 00:29:08,130 we trusted Christ as sinners, we were brought 563 00:29:08,130 --> 00:29:11,310 into God's presence, not only as sinners gave 564 00:29:11,310 --> 00:29:14,550 by grace, but as children of the Father. 565 00:29:15,150 --> 00:29:17,330 And we have a right tonight to go 566 00:29:17,330 --> 00:29:20,350 into the Father's presence, and he'll accept us 567 00:29:20,350 --> 00:29:22,930 because we believed in Christ, and because we 568 00:29:22,930 --> 00:29:23,450 love him. 569 00:29:25,230 --> 00:29:26,270 There's truth here now. 570 00:29:27,630 --> 00:29:29,910 No wonder pagan Rome doesn't like us. 571 00:29:31,070 --> 00:29:33,890 Knocks the bottom out of their boots, to 572 00:29:33,890 --> 00:29:35,430 put an intermediary in here. 573 00:29:36,170 --> 00:29:38,030 And it is the teaching of the blessed 574 00:29:38,030 --> 00:29:41,490 Lord Jesus himself, that you can go to 575 00:29:41,490 --> 00:29:45,510 the Father without any intermediary in between. 576 00:29:46,530 --> 00:29:48,950 And the only grounds that you go on, 577 00:29:49,010 --> 00:29:51,770 is that you love the Savior, and that 578 00:29:51,770 --> 00:29:52,710 you believe in him. 579 00:29:53,150 --> 00:29:54,590 You know, I think this was a tender 580 00:29:54,590 --> 00:29:55,150 touch. 581 00:29:55,910 --> 00:29:57,510 It's a very tender one, isn't it? 582 00:29:57,930 --> 00:29:59,570 When he looked at them, and he said, 583 00:30:00,150 --> 00:30:02,930 verse 26 over again, Of that day ye 584 00:30:02,930 --> 00:30:06,390 shall ask in my name, and I say 585 00:30:06,390 --> 00:30:08,030 not unto you that I will pray the 586 00:30:08,030 --> 00:30:08,830 Father for you. 587 00:30:10,430 --> 00:30:14,870 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye 588 00:30:14,870 --> 00:30:18,310 have loved me, and believed that I came 589 00:30:18,310 --> 00:30:19,050 out from God. 590 00:30:20,290 --> 00:30:21,950 You see the crowd that was around them? 591 00:30:22,870 --> 00:30:26,450 There's Peter, and Thomas, and Nathanael. 592 00:30:27,050 --> 00:30:28,130 You see eleven of them. 593 00:30:29,130 --> 00:30:31,650 Eleven miserable characters, I'll call them. 594 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,480 Yes, Peter's the man on this very night, 595 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,520 who is going to deny him. 596 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,460 And Thomas is the man who's going to 597 00:30:44,460 --> 00:30:45,860 disbelieve the evidence. 598 00:30:47,220 --> 00:30:49,260 And Nathanael is the man who cried at 599 00:30:49,260 --> 00:30:51,240 the beginning, shall any good thing come out 600 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:51,780 of Nazareth? 601 00:30:52,140 --> 00:30:53,440 And here they're all lined up. 602 00:30:54,340 --> 00:30:59,540 And yet, you know, miserable poor weaklings that 603 00:30:59,540 --> 00:31:02,000 they were, the Lord says, you know, you 604 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,040 shall love me. 605 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:06,580 And you believed in me. 606 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:09,340 Very nice of him. 607 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,080 What a beautiful Savior he is. 608 00:31:14,140 --> 00:31:16,040 You know, here we are tonight, and we're, 609 00:31:16,140 --> 00:31:18,420 we're a crowd, you know. 610 00:31:20,420 --> 00:31:23,100 Yes, miserable crowd that we are. 611 00:31:23,860 --> 00:31:26,240 And perhaps the posture of the most miserable 612 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:26,960 of all. 613 00:31:27,780 --> 00:31:30,020 Here we are, and yet he looked down 614 00:31:30,020 --> 00:31:30,880 on us tonight. 615 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,240 And he said, you shall not love me. 616 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,300 And you believed in me. 617 00:31:37,340 --> 00:31:40,380 And that's enough to get the end of 618 00:31:40,380 --> 00:31:41,200 the Father's threat. 619 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,940 You'd almost hang your head in blush when 620 00:31:51,940 --> 00:31:53,580 you talk about loving them, wouldn't you? 621 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,560 But he looks at us, poor creatures, and 622 00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:58,520 says, you love me. 623 00:31:59,580 --> 00:32:01,320 And you believed in me. 624 00:32:03,190 --> 00:32:04,890 And the Father loves you for that. 625 00:32:06,910 --> 00:32:11,470 You see, the Father doesn't love us because 626 00:32:11,470 --> 00:32:13,030 of Christ's intercession. 627 00:32:13,230 --> 00:32:15,050 Oh no, no, no. 628 00:32:16,990 --> 00:32:21,670 No, Christ intercedes because the Father loves us. 629 00:32:21,670 --> 00:32:23,310 Put it on the other way, man. 630 00:32:25,010 --> 00:32:28,610 The Father doesn't love us because Christ intercedes. 631 00:32:28,710 --> 00:32:29,070 No. 632 00:32:31,310 --> 00:32:34,870 The Christ intercedes because the Father loves us. 633 00:32:35,370 --> 00:32:36,150 It was on that way. 634 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:39,480 You know, the moment that we put our 635 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:43,200 arms around the Savior down here, and gave 636 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,440 him our hearts and souls, poor weaklings that 637 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:51,500 we are, and have stumbled with thee, yet 638 00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:53,780 the Father opens his heart and loves us, 639 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,940 because at that moment we became sons and 640 00:32:57,940 --> 00:33:01,080 daughters of the living God. 641 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,340 This is a family affair now. 642 00:33:05,860 --> 00:33:10,670 And we can go into the Father, and 643 00:33:10,670 --> 00:33:15,090 for the son's sake he will give you 644 00:33:15,090 --> 00:33:17,750 whatsoever you ask. 645 00:33:18,390 --> 00:33:20,050 It's very wonderful, isn't it? 646 00:33:20,670 --> 00:33:22,330 You know, that's the privilege of the present. 647 00:33:23,850 --> 00:33:25,390 Now, we must have a look at this 648 00:33:25,390 --> 00:33:26,730 power of prayer, of course. 649 00:33:28,330 --> 00:33:30,470 You see, it's all tangled up together, isn't 650 00:33:30,470 --> 00:33:30,590 it? 651 00:33:30,610 --> 00:33:32,030 I'm only teasing it out. 652 00:33:33,610 --> 00:33:35,170 Now, let's get down to it again. 653 00:33:35,230 --> 00:33:35,870 Verse 23. 654 00:33:50,470 --> 00:33:54,940 I think we must stop there for a 655 00:33:54,940 --> 00:33:58,600 moment, because that whatsoever is not as broad 656 00:33:58,600 --> 00:33:59,920 as you might have thought it was. 657 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,940 You see, he's talking to his disciples now, 658 00:34:07,159 --> 00:34:10,860 and he's liking them as children who can 659 00:34:10,860 --> 00:34:14,020 come to the Father, and he's talking about 660 00:34:14,020 --> 00:34:18,840 really asking, petitioning the Father. 661 00:34:20,219 --> 00:34:22,159 Now, I want you to get the hold 662 00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:31,389 of this, whatsoever ye ask, because you know 663 00:34:31,389 --> 00:34:33,969 this, that word ask, a very special Greek 664 00:34:33,969 --> 00:34:36,310 word, meaning to petition the Father. 665 00:34:38,389 --> 00:34:40,610 And there's a whole lot that goes on 666 00:34:40,610 --> 00:34:44,949 for prayer, you know, that's not asking anything. 667 00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:49,219 And he's not asking at all, in any 668 00:34:49,219 --> 00:34:49,580 sense. 669 00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:53,340 We were looking on Sunday morning at a 670 00:34:53,340 --> 00:34:56,139 text, and the Lord Jesus looked at his 671 00:34:56,139 --> 00:34:58,820 disciples and said, And ye, when ye pray, 672 00:34:58,940 --> 00:35:02,100 ye shall not be as the hypocrites are, 673 00:35:02,380 --> 00:35:04,700 for they love to pray standing in the 674 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:06,860 synagogues and at the corners of the streets, 675 00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:08,140 that they may be seen of men. 676 00:35:08,140 --> 00:35:10,600 And he used this word, they love to 677 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,960 pray, because there's no other English word you 678 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:14,620 can use to describe it, but it wasn't 679 00:35:14,620 --> 00:35:14,880 pray. 680 00:35:17,890 --> 00:35:19,450 You see, for a man to stand at 681 00:35:19,450 --> 00:35:21,430 the corner of the street, or to stand 682 00:35:21,430 --> 00:35:23,470 up in the synagogue, and to close his 683 00:35:23,470 --> 00:35:25,410 eyes, and to tumble at a whole lot 684 00:35:25,410 --> 00:35:28,190 of words, and in his heart he only 685 00:35:28,190 --> 00:35:29,750 wants to be seen of men. 686 00:35:30,350 --> 00:35:32,230 Well, whatever he's doing is not prayer. 687 00:35:34,620 --> 00:35:36,220 There's a whole lot of that goes on 688 00:35:36,220 --> 00:35:36,840 in the prayer meeting. 689 00:35:41,010 --> 00:35:43,170 And there's a whole lot of things that's 690 00:35:43,170 --> 00:35:47,330 passed over of intercession, and supplication, and praying, 691 00:35:47,450 --> 00:35:49,070 and asking, and it's baloney. 692 00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:00,780 Real asking is what Jude describes as praying 693 00:36:00,780 --> 00:36:02,580 in the Holy Ghost. 694 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:07,600 That's when you're asking. 695 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,680 You see, he's looking at this very dispensation 696 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,620 of God, this privileged dispensation, when the Holy 697 00:36:15,620 --> 00:36:17,960 Ghost will end well every child of God. 698 00:36:18,020 --> 00:36:19,620 That's the way we can go into the 699 00:36:19,620 --> 00:36:21,880 presence of the Father and say, Abba, Father, 700 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:22,680 by the Spirit. 701 00:36:24,530 --> 00:36:26,450 So, if you hadn't the indwelling of the 702 00:36:26,450 --> 00:36:28,190 Spirit, you wouldn't be in the family at 703 00:36:28,190 --> 00:36:28,550 all. 704 00:36:30,590 --> 00:36:33,590 Yes, when the fullness of the time would 705 00:36:33,590 --> 00:36:35,970 come, God sent forth his Son, made of 706 00:36:35,970 --> 00:36:37,850 a woman, made under the law to redeem 707 00:36:37,850 --> 00:36:40,170 them that are under the law, that we 708 00:36:40,170 --> 00:36:44,450 might receive the adoption of sons by the 709 00:36:44,450 --> 00:36:47,530 Spirit, and were able to say, Abba, Father. 710 00:36:50,130 --> 00:36:51,150 Oh, this is wonderful. 711 00:36:52,110 --> 00:36:56,670 But the Holy Ghost does take men and 712 00:36:56,670 --> 00:37:01,050 women, praise the Lord, and removes their hearts, 713 00:37:02,290 --> 00:37:06,170 removes their whole beings, until they come into 714 00:37:06,170 --> 00:37:09,330 the very presence of the Father, and they 715 00:37:09,330 --> 00:37:10,990 make their requests known. 716 00:37:12,470 --> 00:37:15,470 And whatsoever you ask in the power of 717 00:37:15,470 --> 00:37:21,960 the Holy Ghost, God will give it, for 718 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:22,840 his Son said. 719 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,080 So, that's a mighty thing. 720 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,160 Do you see the Spirit taking the child 721 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,940 to put his hand upon the Father's throne, 722 00:37:33,860 --> 00:37:37,860 and for the Son said, the answer will 723 00:37:37,860 --> 00:37:38,100 come. 724 00:37:38,260 --> 00:37:41,080 That's the triune God, working wonders. 725 00:37:48,410 --> 00:37:50,330 That's the power of prayer. 726 00:37:50,490 --> 00:37:52,530 It's not twaddle in the prayer meeting, mind 727 00:37:52,530 --> 00:37:52,770 you. 728 00:37:54,070 --> 00:37:56,070 It's not some old fellow getting up to 729 00:37:56,070 --> 00:37:58,290 pray, and kicking the half of the time 730 00:37:58,290 --> 00:38:00,830 off, and waddling round the room, and if 731 00:38:00,830 --> 00:38:02,830 he wasn't there next Thursday, you could say 732 00:38:02,830 --> 00:38:04,890 his prayers for him, and all the old 733 00:38:04,890 --> 00:38:06,730 twaddle you've ever had in all your life, 734 00:38:07,010 --> 00:38:08,130 that hits up the time. 735 00:38:08,450 --> 00:38:09,310 It's not that. 736 00:38:14,130 --> 00:38:19,750 Talking about really asking, being moved by the 737 00:38:19,750 --> 00:38:25,350 Holy Ghost, for the glory of Christ, a 738 00:38:25,350 --> 00:38:27,930 child in the presence of the Father through 739 00:38:27,930 --> 00:38:29,010 the power of the Spirit. 740 00:38:30,830 --> 00:38:32,390 And if you get there like that, you 741 00:38:32,390 --> 00:38:34,670 know, you'll get answers. 742 00:38:36,290 --> 00:38:37,870 Prayer's a mighty thing, isn't it? 743 00:38:39,770 --> 00:38:41,670 You see what the Lord Jesus Christ said 744 00:38:41,670 --> 00:38:42,450 behind that? 745 00:38:44,740 --> 00:38:50,100 He said this in verse 25, These things 746 00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:54,760 have I spoken unto you in Proverbs, but 747 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,640 the time cometh when I shall no more 748 00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:58,640 speak unto you in Proverbs, but I shall 749 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,020 show you plainly of the Father. 750 00:39:01,940 --> 00:39:04,340 You know, all this was desperately difficult for 751 00:39:04,340 --> 00:39:06,280 them, and it may just be difficult for 752 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:07,540 us tonight, it shouldn't be. 753 00:39:08,980 --> 00:39:11,160 You see, here's the whole thing that was 754 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,100 the problem here. 755 00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:16,180 These eleven standing round him, their whole mind, 756 00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:19,360 their whole hearts, their whole soul, was all 757 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,100 filled with the idea of the Kingdom. 758 00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:27,420 Although we're always wondering when you'll take the 759 00:39:27,420 --> 00:39:31,420 throne, when you'll set up your kingdom, and 760 00:39:31,420 --> 00:39:35,400 when we'll be in the cabinets, and they 761 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,060 can't understand them going away, and a little 762 00:39:38,060 --> 00:39:40,560 while in the lofty hill, and talking about 763 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,180 us going to the fatherless children. 764 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,280 They can't get it. 765 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,060 It's a proverb unto them. 766 00:39:49,650 --> 00:39:52,150 They saw sparks of light, but they couldn't 767 00:39:52,150 --> 00:39:52,530 get it. 768 00:39:52,570 --> 00:39:54,470 It was a new dispensation altogether. 769 00:39:56,370 --> 00:39:59,430 He said the time will come when I 770 00:39:59,430 --> 00:40:01,090 shall show you plainly of the Father. 771 00:40:02,870 --> 00:40:03,670 Wonderful Jesus. 772 00:40:04,630 --> 00:40:07,830 And you know, our difficult portions becoming clearer, 773 00:40:08,010 --> 00:40:08,290 I hope. 774 00:40:10,130 --> 00:40:12,110 Oh, it's a difficult one, but I think 775 00:40:12,110 --> 00:40:13,510 if you take your time you'll get it. 776 00:40:14,590 --> 00:40:16,550 And then he comes out into the open, 777 00:40:16,630 --> 00:40:22,510 and he said this, verse twenty-eight, I 778 00:40:22,510 --> 00:40:28,820 came forth from the Father, and I'm coming 779 00:40:28,820 --> 00:40:33,140 to the world, again I leave the world, 780 00:40:35,260 --> 00:40:36,200 and go to the Father. 781 00:40:38,700 --> 00:40:41,640 You know, I don't think that there was 782 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:48,340 ever so much said, and so little, to 783 00:40:48,340 --> 00:40:50,420 so few, to mean so much. 784 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,640 What a marvelous statement this is. 785 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,340 I think you need to take your time 786 00:40:57,340 --> 00:40:57,780 at it. 787 00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,440 I want you to get that, I want 788 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:01,980 you to place the I over there. 789 00:41:02,620 --> 00:41:04,380 I, just put it there, it's the Lord 790 00:41:04,380 --> 00:41:04,760 Jesus. 791 00:41:06,260 --> 00:41:13,860 I came forth from, so that he actually 792 00:41:13,860 --> 00:41:16,660 existed before he came forth from. 793 00:41:19,620 --> 00:41:20,680 There's your Russell Wagner. 794 00:41:23,670 --> 00:41:25,990 Let me tell you that this teaches the 795 00:41:25,990 --> 00:41:30,120 pre-existence of Lord Jesus. 796 00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:34,600 Yes, it teaches his eternality. 797 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,060 And if it teaches his pre-existence and 798 00:41:38,060 --> 00:41:39,760 eternality, it's touching his deity. 799 00:41:41,460 --> 00:41:43,400 Ah, but it's far deeper than that, brethren. 800 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:44,760 Just put the I there again. 801 00:41:45,460 --> 00:41:50,120 I came forth from the Father. 802 00:41:52,670 --> 00:41:55,970 Oh, I know there are exclusives who think 803 00:41:55,970 --> 00:41:57,510 they know the whole thing, don't they? 804 00:41:58,850 --> 00:42:01,870 And they say that the sonship only began 805 00:42:01,870 --> 00:42:02,650 in Bethlehem. 806 00:42:03,310 --> 00:42:03,870 Hold your tongue. 807 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:10,060 I, go on ahead, came forth from, that's 808 00:42:10,060 --> 00:42:11,300 who, the Father. 809 00:42:13,340 --> 00:42:15,040 I don't think there's a Father here who's 810 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:16,040 got only one son. 811 00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,440 Well, I can just tell you how long 812 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,460 your fatherhood has, has, has reigned. 813 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,480 Just as long as your son. 814 00:42:28,100 --> 00:42:29,940 You weren't a father till you had a 815 00:42:29,940 --> 00:42:30,160 son. 816 00:42:32,530 --> 00:42:34,110 Oh, you might have been married for years. 817 00:42:35,850 --> 00:42:37,450 But the day you got a son, you 818 00:42:37,450 --> 00:42:38,270 became a father. 819 00:42:39,730 --> 00:42:42,930 And so if he came forth from the 820 00:42:42,930 --> 00:42:46,590 Father, hallelujah, there was a son before he 821 00:42:46,590 --> 00:42:47,030 came. 822 00:42:51,300 --> 00:42:52,920 Because it's a deep one, but it's a 823 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:53,720 glorious one. 824 00:42:54,980 --> 00:42:57,560 Oh, it didn't begin in Bethlehem. 825 00:42:58,420 --> 00:43:02,140 That's Unitarianism and it'll take you to hell. 826 00:43:04,770 --> 00:43:06,990 Unitarians are on their way to hell. 827 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:13,760 Deny the deity and the eternality of Christ. 828 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,100 You go to heaven, you know. 829 00:43:18,070 --> 00:43:20,510 Oh, no, it didn't begin at Bethlehem. 830 00:43:21,710 --> 00:43:24,730 He was the son yonder who came forth 831 00:43:24,730 --> 00:43:27,090 from the Father. 832 00:43:28,750 --> 00:43:30,210 And you know, if you can see his 833 00:43:30,210 --> 00:43:34,590 eternality and see a sonship, the very wording 834 00:43:34,590 --> 00:43:36,510 here, came forth. 835 00:43:37,750 --> 00:43:39,870 I came forth. 836 00:43:40,270 --> 00:43:42,090 You can see his willingness, can't you? 837 00:43:43,070 --> 00:43:45,170 Oh, I know that officially he was sent. 838 00:43:45,310 --> 00:43:45,870 I know that. 839 00:43:46,430 --> 00:43:48,210 I know that when the Godhead got down 840 00:43:48,210 --> 00:43:51,130 to consider this thing, that the voice came 841 00:43:51,130 --> 00:43:53,170 and said, who will do for us and 842 00:43:53,170 --> 00:43:53,950 whom will we send? 843 00:43:54,030 --> 00:43:55,670 And he said, here am I, send me. 844 00:43:55,910 --> 00:43:57,190 And the Father sent the Son. 845 00:43:57,250 --> 00:43:58,710 I know officially he was sent. 846 00:44:00,330 --> 00:44:02,110 But I know that he stood here and 847 00:44:02,110 --> 00:44:05,630 said, I came forth. 848 00:44:07,010 --> 00:44:10,610 And I know that Paul, Christ, Jesus, came 849 00:44:10,610 --> 00:44:11,910 into the world. 850 00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:16,300 He wasn't pushed into this thing. 851 00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:17,960 Can't you see the willingness? 852 00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:20,800 Can't you see his eternality? 853 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:23,600 Can't you see his willingness? 854 00:44:24,980 --> 00:44:26,640 Can't you see his sonship? 855 00:44:27,220 --> 00:44:30,220 And he came forth from the Father into 856 00:44:30,220 --> 00:44:30,960 the world. 857 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,020 Can't you see his humility? 858 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,790 Can't you see his humanitary statement? 859 00:44:37,810 --> 00:44:39,350 How much he pressed into it. 860 00:44:41,020 --> 00:44:42,480 And then, you know, he took the second 861 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,660 bit and said, and I leave the world. 862 00:44:44,740 --> 00:44:46,300 And again, I leave the world and go 863 00:44:46,300 --> 00:44:46,800 to the Father. 864 00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,680 And in between these two mighty statements stands 865 00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,060 his cross and his resurrection. 866 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:55,380 Oh, this is a wonderful thing. 867 00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:57,500 Look, if you're getting it like this, there 868 00:44:57,500 --> 00:44:58,740 are five G's. 869 00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:03,060 I came forth from the Father. 870 00:45:03,180 --> 00:45:04,260 That's from the glory. 871 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,940 And in the next chapter it says about 872 00:45:07,940 --> 00:45:09,900 the glory that I had with thee before 873 00:45:09,900 --> 00:45:10,700 the world was. 874 00:45:12,420 --> 00:45:15,600 And from the glory he came to Galilee. 875 00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,720 That's where the incarnation took place, up at 876 00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:19,880 Nazareth in Galilee. 877 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:21,600 That's where it took place. 878 00:45:21,660 --> 00:45:23,260 I know he was born in Bethlehem, but 879 00:45:23,260 --> 00:45:24,920 the incarnation took place yonder. 880 00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:26,880 And when the fullness of the time must 881 00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,120 come, the Virgin was brought to Bethlehem. 882 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,080 And from Galilee he set his face to 883 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:35,380 go to Gethsemane. 884 00:45:36,580 --> 00:45:38,580 And it all was started in our chapter. 885 00:45:40,940 --> 00:45:44,540 And from Gethsemane he went to Gabbatha, the 886 00:45:44,540 --> 00:45:45,500 judgment hall. 887 00:45:47,100 --> 00:45:49,620 And from Gabbatha he went to Golgotha. 888 00:45:50,990 --> 00:45:54,810 And from Golgotha he went back to glory. 889 00:45:55,750 --> 00:45:56,390 Hallelujah. 890 00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:04,320 The level was so much, said in so 891 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,540 little, to so few, to proclaim so much 892 00:46:07,540 --> 00:46:08,460 as I do of. 893 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:12,440 The glorious version, don't miss it, of it's 894 00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,820 the whole panorama of the pathway of the 895 00:46:15,820 --> 00:46:16,120 Savior. 896 00:46:17,580 --> 00:46:21,000 And you know, once he'd said this, verse 897 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,340 29, his disciples said unto him, Lo, now 898 00:46:25,340 --> 00:46:28,400 speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proper. 899 00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,340 Now we are sure that thou knowest all 900 00:46:33,340 --> 00:46:36,980 things, and needest not that any should ask 901 00:46:36,980 --> 00:46:37,280 thee. 902 00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,360 By this we believe that thou camest forth 903 00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:41,080 from God. 904 00:46:42,500 --> 00:46:45,020 They haven't got the fatherhood worked in yet, 905 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:45,460 have they? 906 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:48,580 Oh no, they haven't. 907 00:46:48,620 --> 00:46:49,660 They can't get this bit. 908 00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,040 It doesn't suit their ideas of the kingdom. 909 00:46:55,660 --> 00:47:00,040 But you know, it behoves every believer to 910 00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,100 watch what they're doing. 911 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,620 I'm sure they were very sincere when they 912 00:47:04,620 --> 00:47:07,600 said, Now we are sure. 913 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:10,460 By this we believe. 914 00:47:10,460 --> 00:47:12,020 And mind you, the whole crowd of them, 915 00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,720 I can see them all around them, maybe 916 00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:14,820 one or two only speaking. 917 00:47:15,540 --> 00:47:17,140 By this we are sure, and the rest 918 00:47:17,140 --> 00:47:18,380 of them nodding their heads. 919 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:20,100 We're all in. 920 00:47:20,940 --> 00:47:21,900 We've got it now, Lord. 921 00:47:23,060 --> 00:47:24,380 My, we're late now, Lord. 922 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:25,240 We've got it now. 923 00:47:27,670 --> 00:47:31,290 And it will behove every believer here to 924 00:47:31,290 --> 00:47:35,370 pay attention just here, to have no confidence 925 00:47:35,370 --> 00:47:36,950 in that old crash of yours. 926 00:47:40,020 --> 00:47:42,000 And there is a teaching that can never 927 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:42,620 be altered. 928 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:47,000 Let him that standeth to teach. 929 00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:51,820 You know, I get fed up listening to 930 00:47:51,820 --> 00:47:53,800 these fellows who say, I've got it. 931 00:47:54,300 --> 00:47:57,320 Oh yes, they've got it. 932 00:47:57,380 --> 00:47:58,580 Yes, I'm holy. 933 00:47:58,720 --> 00:47:59,660 Oh yes, I'm holy. 934 00:48:01,990 --> 00:48:03,550 We're on the top of the hill. 935 00:48:03,770 --> 00:48:04,210 They're standing. 936 00:48:04,390 --> 00:48:04,810 Hallelujah. 937 00:48:05,010 --> 00:48:05,590 So pick me up. 938 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:11,200 It's all I. 939 00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:12,720 You listen and you'll hear it. 940 00:48:13,980 --> 00:48:15,840 I can hear it for one ear now. 941 00:48:18,020 --> 00:48:27,040 And before very long, I've seen them too 942 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:27,740 often, you know. 943 00:48:28,820 --> 00:48:30,080 You want a list of them, I'll write 944 00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:30,860 them out for you. 945 00:48:33,610 --> 00:48:36,730 Dear brother, if you can just get down 946 00:48:36,730 --> 00:48:41,720 to see how miserable and poor that anything 947 00:48:41,720 --> 00:48:46,500 within you is, you'll begin to say like 948 00:48:46,500 --> 00:48:47,620 Paul, it's not I. 949 00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:49,320 Not I. 950 00:48:53,780 --> 00:48:57,060 Oh, if I outline that chapter and it 951 00:48:57,060 --> 00:49:00,200 pleases me well, and I'm getting it over 952 00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,740 and it's thrilling the people, I always say 953 00:49:02,740 --> 00:49:03,960 at the bottom, it's not I. 954 00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:11,010 Well, it has got nothing in the white 955 00:49:11,010 --> 00:49:12,230 world to do with me. 956 00:49:26,190 --> 00:49:28,110 Well, when you begin to talk about I, 957 00:49:28,190 --> 00:49:30,670 it's a great pity of your spiritual mentality. 958 00:49:34,970 --> 00:49:36,050 It's not I. 959 00:49:39,330 --> 00:49:40,810 And the Lord had a look at them, 960 00:49:40,890 --> 00:49:41,350 hadn't he? 961 00:49:42,950 --> 00:49:44,450 And here's what he said to them. 962 00:49:47,420 --> 00:49:51,860 Verse 31, Jesus answered them. 963 00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:55,800 Oh, if it had been the apostle that 964 00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:57,280 was answering them, they would have been annoyed, 965 00:49:57,420 --> 00:49:57,780 wouldn't they? 966 00:49:59,710 --> 00:50:01,570 I said to him, he's always talking. 967 00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:05,280 It was Jesus that was answering. 968 00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:08,920 Do ye now believe? 969 00:50:11,870 --> 00:50:13,390 Behold, they all cometh. 970 00:50:14,550 --> 00:50:15,950 Yea, yea, is now come. 971 00:50:18,010 --> 00:50:20,150 That ye shall be scattered every man to 972 00:50:20,150 --> 00:50:22,370 his own, and shall leave me alone. 973 00:50:26,020 --> 00:50:28,500 That was tight talk coming behind such statements, 974 00:50:28,620 --> 00:50:29,140 wasn't it? 975 00:50:30,580 --> 00:50:32,080 And you know, they were just at the 976 00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:32,840 very place. 977 00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,000 Oh, how foolish we can be. 978 00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,480 Oh, how self-confident we can be. 979 00:50:39,860 --> 00:50:42,120 Oh, how this old flesh can be lost. 980 00:50:43,580 --> 00:50:45,140 They were at the brook, Capernaum. 981 00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,060 And on the other side of the brook, 982 00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:48,440 Judas was going to come. 983 00:50:48,860 --> 00:50:52,120 And they would split. 984 00:51:00,460 --> 00:51:02,800 God help us to go slow and low. 985 00:51:04,980 --> 00:51:06,300 Always not I, brother. 986 00:51:06,460 --> 00:51:07,280 Always not I. 987 00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:12,140 I think there's a touch here we wouldn't 988 00:51:12,140 --> 00:51:12,840 need to miss. 989 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:18,650 He said, ye shall leave me alone, and 990 00:51:18,650 --> 00:51:22,670 yet I am not alone, because the Father 991 00:51:22,670 --> 00:51:23,490 is with me. 992 00:51:25,090 --> 00:51:29,030 You know, this was one great, wonderful comfort 993 00:51:29,030 --> 00:51:32,730 to the Lord Jesus, that every step right 994 00:51:32,730 --> 00:51:39,150 down through those days of ministry, when he 995 00:51:39,150 --> 00:51:42,810 was despised and rejected of men, right down 996 00:51:42,810 --> 00:51:44,470 until they put him on the cross. 997 00:51:45,130 --> 00:51:47,090 And when you hear the dull blow of 998 00:51:47,090 --> 00:51:48,850 the hammer swung low, and he's looking into 999 00:51:48,850 --> 00:51:51,430 the faces of the men who are nailing 1000 00:51:51,430 --> 00:51:56,090 him, he's saying, Father, forgive them. 1001 00:51:58,510 --> 00:51:59,950 And he was still with the Father. 1002 00:52:02,030 --> 00:52:04,610 But what a moment must it have been 1003 00:52:05,190 --> 00:52:08,450 when the Father turned away. 1004 00:52:15,020 --> 00:52:17,160 I wouldn't like to dare to expound it, 1005 00:52:17,240 --> 00:52:17,500 you know. 1006 00:52:18,900 --> 00:52:22,380 I can only gaze way down deep into 1007 00:52:22,380 --> 00:52:24,460 the depths where there was no standing, and 1008 00:52:24,460 --> 00:52:27,020 the night was dark, and none of the 1009 00:52:27,020 --> 00:52:29,020 ransomed ever knew how deep were the waters 1010 00:52:29,020 --> 00:52:30,900 crossed, or how dark was the night that 1011 00:52:30,900 --> 00:52:32,840 the Lord passed through, ere he found the 1012 00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:33,640 sheep that was lost. 1013 00:52:33,940 --> 00:52:36,080 But away down there he cried, My God, 1014 00:52:36,180 --> 00:52:37,960 my God, why is there no protection? 1015 00:52:42,900 --> 00:52:45,400 The light of the sun faded out. 1016 00:52:47,420 --> 00:52:52,080 When he died for me, blessed be his 1017 00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:52,880 holy name. 1018 00:52:54,720 --> 00:53:01,200 Wonderful Jesus, wonderful, wonderful Jesus. 1019 00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:05,760 You'll never understand it. 1020 00:53:06,580 --> 00:53:10,630 I dare not explain it. 1021 00:53:10,650 --> 00:53:11,950 And then he said this to them. 1022 00:53:17,300 --> 00:53:19,420 You see, he was warning them there of 1023 00:53:19,420 --> 00:53:20,080 their weakness. 1024 00:53:22,450 --> 00:53:24,730 These things have I spoken unto you, that 1025 00:53:24,730 --> 00:53:26,190 in me ye might have peace. 1026 00:53:28,230 --> 00:53:31,510 He's pointing the pathway to peace. 1027 00:53:31,550 --> 00:53:34,050 Now, I believe that these things have I 1028 00:53:34,050 --> 00:53:34,850 spoken unto you. 1029 00:53:34,950 --> 00:53:36,530 It just doesn't deal with the last eleven 1030 00:53:36,530 --> 00:53:36,950 verses. 1031 00:53:38,550 --> 00:53:41,170 I believe it deals with the whole pastoral 1032 00:53:41,170 --> 00:53:41,770 discourse. 1033 00:53:43,310 --> 00:53:45,070 And that began in the upper room. 1034 00:53:46,510 --> 00:53:50,430 Yet it begins with John 14, the explanation 1035 00:53:50,430 --> 00:53:52,190 of why he was going away. 1036 00:53:53,370 --> 00:53:57,330 He said, If I go away, I go 1037 00:53:57,330 --> 00:53:58,950 to prepare a place for you. 1038 00:53:58,950 --> 00:54:00,290 That was the explanation. 1039 00:54:01,670 --> 00:54:03,510 And I wish we could get our eyes 1040 00:54:03,510 --> 00:54:07,970 on the beautiful, beautiful place that he's preparing 1041 00:54:07,970 --> 00:54:08,570 for us. 1042 00:54:10,590 --> 00:54:13,370 And then he comes down John 14 into 1043 00:54:13,370 --> 00:54:16,370 John 15, and he takes the illustration of 1044 00:54:16,370 --> 00:54:19,850 the vine, that even when I'm away preparing 1045 00:54:19,850 --> 00:54:22,570 the place for you, there'll be a sufficiency 1046 00:54:22,570 --> 00:54:24,990 flowing through me that will meet your every 1047 00:54:24,990 --> 00:54:26,890 need, that will make you live here to 1048 00:54:26,890 --> 00:54:28,070 the glory of God. 1049 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,200 And then he comes from the explanation and 1050 00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,340 the illustration to the revelation, I'll send the 1051 00:54:35,340 --> 00:54:36,060 Holy Ghost. 1052 00:54:37,900 --> 00:54:39,480 He shall guide you into also. 1053 00:54:41,490 --> 00:54:43,190 He shall show you things to come. 1054 00:54:44,350 --> 00:54:45,810 He shall glorify me. 1055 00:54:47,590 --> 00:54:49,030 Oh, what a revelation. 1056 00:54:50,150 --> 00:54:55,410 And now comes this new dispensation, when you 1057 00:54:55,410 --> 00:54:57,910 can go into the Father without anybody keeping 1058 00:54:57,910 --> 00:54:59,750 you back and get the things, the Holy 1059 00:54:59,750 --> 00:55:01,330 Ghost lays upon your heart. 1060 00:55:02,550 --> 00:55:07,590 He says, These things, these things, this explanation, 1061 00:55:08,310 --> 00:55:12,750 this illustration, this revelation, this dispensation of privilege, 1062 00:55:12,990 --> 00:55:15,090 these things ought to bring you peace. 1063 00:55:16,670 --> 00:55:17,930 Oh, dwell on them, brethren. 1064 00:55:19,860 --> 00:55:22,280 Take up pagan Rome and their rebels. 1065 00:55:22,900 --> 00:55:23,960 We're going home. 1066 00:55:27,590 --> 00:55:32,040 There's a house over there for all the 1067 00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:32,760 redeemed. 1068 00:55:35,100 --> 00:55:37,720 Thank God there's every sufficiency on the way 1069 00:55:37,720 --> 00:55:38,040 home. 1070 00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:42,480 Christ is all sufficient, and the Holy Ghost 1071 00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:42,980 is here. 1072 00:55:43,740 --> 00:55:45,300 That's why we're enjoying the book. 1073 00:55:46,820 --> 00:55:49,100 And we're in a dispensation where we can 1074 00:55:49,100 --> 00:55:51,720 go into the Father, and we don't need 1075 00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:53,740 Mary, thank God we don't need Mary. 1076 00:55:54,460 --> 00:55:56,300 Just before you close your Bibles, look at 1077 00:55:56,300 --> 00:55:57,040 two things. 1078 00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:03,320 He said this, In the world ye shall 1079 00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:04,280 have tribulation. 1080 00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:09,150 I'd like you to take that statement tonight, 1081 00:56:09,230 --> 00:56:10,450 and I'd like you to take it home 1082 00:56:10,450 --> 00:56:10,810 with you. 1083 00:56:11,990 --> 00:56:14,090 And I'd like you to remember that Christ 1084 00:56:14,090 --> 00:56:14,650 said it. 1085 00:56:16,730 --> 00:56:18,570 And I'd like all you young believers to 1086 00:56:18,570 --> 00:56:19,410 get the hold of it. 1087 00:56:19,510 --> 00:56:20,770 He's not bluffing you, mind you. 1088 00:56:22,330 --> 00:56:24,530 He says, In the world ye shall have 1089 00:56:24,530 --> 00:56:25,150 tribulation. 1090 00:56:25,370 --> 00:56:26,670 And you can't alter this. 1091 00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:30,880 And you can't put it behind your back, 1092 00:56:31,060 --> 00:56:32,260 and you can't blot it out. 1093 00:56:33,580 --> 00:56:34,940 It's Christ's own words. 1094 00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:38,100 In the world you shall have tribulation. 1095 00:56:38,340 --> 00:56:39,260 And don't you forget it. 1096 00:56:41,340 --> 00:56:43,040 You just live for Christ. 1097 00:56:43,660 --> 00:56:44,980 You just teach Christ. 1098 00:56:45,340 --> 00:56:46,580 You just follow Christ. 1099 00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:48,160 You just worship Christ. 1100 00:56:48,420 --> 00:56:49,440 You just love Christ. 1101 00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:50,660 You just obey Christ. 1102 00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:52,200 And you'll have tribulation. 1103 00:56:53,780 --> 00:56:54,660 And you will. 1104 00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:57,600 And you can't alter it. 1105 00:56:59,660 --> 00:57:00,620 You can't alter it. 1106 00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:03,180 Brethren, it's just like that. 1107 00:57:03,300 --> 00:57:04,380 That's just how it's to be. 1108 00:57:05,240 --> 00:57:07,160 In the world you shall have tribulation. 1109 00:57:07,940 --> 00:57:09,620 And they'll give you a pretty good dose 1110 00:57:09,620 --> 00:57:10,140 of it too. 1111 00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,140 And the more you live for Christ, the 1112 00:57:13,140 --> 00:57:13,820 more you'll get. 1113 00:57:14,780 --> 00:57:16,040 So you must make up your mind. 1114 00:57:17,020 --> 00:57:18,940 Don't think because you're going to be a 1115 00:57:18,940 --> 00:57:20,660 spiritual fellow you're going to dodge it. 1116 00:57:20,900 --> 00:57:22,300 You're walking dead into it. 1117 00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,120 I've made up my mind about it. 1118 00:57:27,060 --> 00:57:28,440 It's going to be a battle for me 1119 00:57:28,440 --> 00:57:29,340 the whole way home. 1120 00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:31,600 I'm not bluffed about this. 1121 00:57:31,620 --> 00:57:32,680 I know where I am, you know. 1122 00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:33,800 I know the wilderness of me. 1123 00:57:35,970 --> 00:57:37,750 But if he said that, he finished the 1124 00:57:37,750 --> 00:57:38,890 discourse like this. 1125 00:57:39,950 --> 00:57:48,550 Be of good cheer for the victor. 1126 00:57:50,230 --> 00:57:51,830 Blessed, wonderful Jesus. 1127 00:57:53,130 --> 00:57:54,150 God bless you. 1128 00:57:54,230 --> 00:57:56,070 Let us bow together before the Lord. 1129 00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:06,340 I don't think we'll, yes we will, we'll 1130 00:58:06,340 --> 00:58:06,900 change us. 1131 00:58:07,020 --> 00:58:08,280 Just let's bow for a moment. 1132 00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,920 Father, we bow in thy presence. 1133 00:58:17,230 --> 00:58:18,270 We lift our hearts. 1134 00:58:19,790 --> 00:58:23,090 We bless thee for our wonderful, wonderful, wonderful 1135 00:58:23,090 --> 00:58:23,730 safety. 1136 00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,660 Thank thee for this dispensation in which we 1137 00:58:29,660 --> 00:58:34,180 are now acknowledged publicly as thy sons and 1138 00:58:34,180 --> 00:58:34,560 daughters. 1139 00:58:35,780 --> 00:58:39,580 We have had the adoption of sons, and 1140 00:58:39,580 --> 00:58:41,660 we can come to thee as children to 1141 00:58:41,660 --> 00:58:44,020 a father, and we don't need any intermediary 1142 00:58:44,020 --> 00:58:44,420 between. 1143 00:58:46,570 --> 00:58:48,590 And we thank thee that just because we 1144 00:58:48,590 --> 00:58:50,810 believe in him and because we love him, 1145 00:58:51,530 --> 00:58:55,530 little as it says, Lord, we're accepted in 1146 00:58:55,530 --> 00:58:56,150 thy presence. 1147 00:58:58,180 --> 00:58:59,860 And we know that when the Holy Ghost 1148 00:58:59,860 --> 00:59:03,780 really moves us to put our burdens at 1149 00:59:03,780 --> 00:59:05,260 thy feet, that thou wilt answer. 1150 00:59:06,260 --> 00:59:08,020 We have no doubts about it. 1151 00:59:10,510 --> 00:59:13,030 Lord, we thank thee for all the way 1152 00:59:13,030 --> 00:59:16,450 that thou didst travel for us, from the 1153 00:59:16,450 --> 00:59:18,690 heights of the glory of the bosom of 1154 00:59:18,690 --> 00:59:22,410 the Father, to the dark, dark depths of 1155 00:59:22,410 --> 00:59:26,470 Calvary, and back to the glory to prove 1156 00:59:26,470 --> 00:59:27,490 that the work was done. 1157 00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,500 We know that in the world we shall 1158 00:59:33,500 --> 00:59:39,240 have tribulation, but Lord, our trust is in 1159 00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:44,380 thee, and thou hast overcome the world. 1160 00:59:46,410 --> 00:59:50,030 And by this we shall overcome even our 1161 00:59:50,030 --> 00:59:52,290 faith in thee. 1162 00:59:53,690 --> 00:59:55,950 They can't do anything to us, Lord. 1163 00:59:56,730 --> 00:59:58,250 Our trust is in thee. 1164 00:59:59,550 --> 01:00:00,930 Bless thy people. 1165 01:00:02,070 --> 01:00:05,590 And should there be one here tonight who 1166 01:00:05,590 --> 01:00:07,910 has gazed at thy coming from the Father, 1167 01:00:09,330 --> 01:00:12,670 and going into the depths of Calvary, and 1168 01:00:12,670 --> 01:00:18,130 dying alone, and praying sin's tremendous price, and 1169 01:00:18,130 --> 01:00:21,870 rising from the dead, an all-sufficient conquering 1170 01:00:21,870 --> 01:00:24,790 Savior, O God, if there's one here without 1171 01:00:24,790 --> 01:00:29,070 Christ, wilt thou draw them to his feet 1172 01:00:29,070 --> 01:00:29,670 this evening? 1173 01:00:31,290 --> 01:00:34,710 Get them to come as sinners, and then 1174 01:00:34,710 --> 01:00:37,850 they'll be changed in the Son, and be 1175 01:00:37,850 --> 01:00:39,330 able to come to the Father. 1176 01:00:42,420 --> 01:00:45,720 Dear Lord, take our thanks for thy words, 1177 01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:50,640 thy precious words, for thy name's sake. 1178 01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:51,660 Amen.