Address—C. Hendricks
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We're not of the world which fadeth away. We're not of the night, but children of day.
Change that once bound us by Jesus our rhythm Your strangers on earth are home is in heaven. Someone raised the tomb. Please.
Let's turn to first, Timothy.
For a few verses.
It's not going to be the main subject of my message, but.
First Timothy 1.
The end of verse 10 if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine.
Sound doctrine. How important that is. The word doctrine is the same as teacher, and we're in a day when sound doctrine is.
Not found too many places.
Let's go to the second epistle. Second Timothy.
And in chapter 2 and verse 25 in Meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves if God for adventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.
And in chapter three we have.
In the last verse.
Now I read from verse 14. Continue thou Paul is writing to Timothy here, a young man, his son in the faith. Continue thou on the things which thou hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them. From a child thou knowest the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. This last verse, so important, all Scripture is given by inspiration.
Of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction.
For instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. Doctrine, Chapter 4, verse 2. Preach the word. Be instant in season, out of season. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine, for the time will come. It has come, beloved. It's right here in this nation. The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.
But after their own lust shall they heat to themselves teachers having itching ears, and they will turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Tables. Well, that's I think enough to introduce what I want to take up. I want to go to the Gospel of John and I want to look at the many passages that bring before us that he was sent of the Father. It's very precious, very wonderful, but.
It's so important that we have sound doctrine. I was visiting David and Billy Jennings coming here and I said to them, what is the the one thing?
That is, has been the most damaging to the Bible.
Through the Bible, all scripture is given by inspiration of God. If you don't believe that, then you're in real trouble. Real trouble. And in schools, they're teaching this awful doctrine of evolution. And that's what it is. If you believe evolution, you can't believe this book. And evolution is supposed to be scientifically back backed up. Which of course is the lie of Satan. It's not backed up by anything scientific at all. I was in the doctor's office recently with Laverne.
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She has having a little trouble with her throat and it was eyes, ears, nose, throat and throat. Doctor and I, while he was out of the room, I was looking at all these pictures of the different parts of the human body. And how can any doctor, how can anyone with an ounce of sense on his shoulders believe when he looks at the intricacies of just the ear or the eye or the throat that that that was just an evolved thing is by chance. It's absolutely absurd.
And yet it's for young people. They don't, they don't try to defend it. They just, they just present it and say, well, these these dinosaurs or whatever animals, they were millions of years old. That's a lie. They're not that old and that's not important how old they are. The importance is that God did it. God did it. That's the only thing that makes any sense. I want to what I want to do is now let's go back to John's Gospel Chapter 5.
I want to emphasize for our young men especially.
Read the Bible, read the word. All scripture is given by inspiration of God and the most attacked chapters in the Bible are the 1St 11 Chapters in Genesis And if you can destroy.
Any of the Bible.
Then you of course you've destroyed it all, because it it's all interdependent to 1 on the other.
If you can destroy what it says in Genesis as demands creation in that, then you're making Christ the liar because he said that it was done that way. He's piece of Moses as the one that brought it to us. So the Bible all stands and falls together and as you can't believe a certain part of it and reject another part that is so important.
I was saved as a freshman in college from a lot of studying and engineering.
And I was not a reader.
When I got saved, then I became a reader, because then I had something that was worthwhile reading and.
Word of God and ministry on it.
Very, very precious. I remember reading a book. I went to his office on a Saturday and it was a poor choice and he was going from one office to another. And he saw me sitting there and he knew he didn't have any time to. He knew what I was there for to get over the word with him. He was a Christian and he said just a minute he saw I was going to walk away and probably would never have come back. And he gave me a book by Moody's and it was called Heaven or Hell, which that was just a young believer, Very young, in fact. At that time maybe he wouldn't have even called me a believer.
But anyway, I read that book and the author of the book said heaven or hell, you're going to one place or the other. Which one? And I said, Lord, I'm going to hell.
I'm going to help. I had no background training at all in religion of any kind, and that was probably good in one way and it wasn't very long and I knelt down and I said Lord Jesus.
And lust I reached up the hand of faith, and I laid hold upon the man in the glory, and I received him.
Remember I used to come and I would take his notes down and I was avid writer taking notes and he'd say some things and and I'd have a note down and I'd put an X in it. Wrong. I was reading Mr. Darby's writings just feeding on them. I said that's not right. He said well, I don't know, I don't know about this Darby fellow. You know he was he was very up on his on his ideas. Well, after a little while he saw me. He saw the interest I was showing and.
He used to call me Mr. Hendricks. I'll never forget the time, he said. Brother Hendrix.
And I said I'm no longer outside. Now I'm inside Brother Hendrix and.
The Lord took him home. He was my teacher and it was good for me because he, he had a lot of error and that's how I came amongst the KLC brother. And because Brother Clark was a brother, an Irishman going to a German meeting and I used to pick him up and take him down well.
Be the word young person.
I'm old now. I don't have the kind of memory I used to have, and I can't read like I used to read. Don't wait till you're old. Use it while you're young. Spend your time in this book. Make it your own.
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Make it your own. Well, let's go to what I want to talk about in John Chapter 5. You can start there.
John Chapter 5.
Try to make as we go through this Gospel of John, try to make your doctrine, your doctrine, your understanding. We'll point it out as we go through it.
And.
Start with verse 23.
That all men. Well, verse 22. For the Father judges no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son. That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son, honoreth not the Father, which hath sent him. Stop there. Put that down as Dr. #1. That's an essential truth. If you don't utter the Son, you don't honor the Father. There are a lot of religions in Christendom today that don't honor the Son, and yet they say they believe in the Father.
That's enough right there to say you can't do that. That's contrary to Scripture. Have your thoughts formed by the word of God.
And let's go on, that all men should honor the sun, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son, honoreth not the Father, which hath sent him. Verse 24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, He loves to speak of himself, as being sent of the Father hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.
Verse 30.
Another truth I can of my known self do nothing. He did not come independently of the Father. He was sent of the Father, and he was here to give the words of the Father and do the works of the Father. Everything was from the Father. If you know Jesus, if you know him, you know the Father, because he is the one that that revealed him, that sent him.
Don't ever forget that I can't have my 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 wonderful truth. These statements are statements of truth that you should put down in your memory. One of the verses that Paul I didn't read it, but that Paul brought before Timothy was meditate upon these things when I was in the hospital recently or recently, a little a year ago or so.
I couldn't read much, but I could meditate. I did more meditating lying on that bed. I'd bring a scripture before me, and then I'd meditate on it and tears running down my cheeks.
As I meditated.
And the truth of God, meditate, young person, Don't just read it. Don't just read a chapter and then close the book and then forget what you've read. Meditate. Meditate on these things. See what they say. Make it a part of you. Make it yours. Oh, that's so important.
I can't of my own Self do nothing. As I hear I judge, the Lord says, and my judgment is just, because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father, which hath sent me precious truth, everything, he said. You remember the later, the Jews, who wanted the Lord to be brought to them, and they came those that were supposed to bring these, the Lord, and they didn't have Him.
And they said, why haven't you brought him?
And they said no, man.
Ever spoke like that, man?
No man ever spoke like that.
And he No one ever did.
He spoke words that were given to him from the father. If you know the son, you know the father. So any religion that teaches differently, you can forget it, can reject it and don't have anything to do with it.
Verse 36.
I have 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 Maine, that the Father.
Hath sent me.
Those works that he did, works that the Father gave him to do as the sent one, He was here to represent the Father, For the Father himself which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me, if neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. And he have not his word of biting in you. So he's talking to the Pharisees for whom he hath sent him. He believed not.
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They profess to believe in God the Father, Jehovah, but they wouldn't listen to the Son and everything the Son said was given to him of the Father like Father, like Son.
All you have to know is that simple truth, and you'll be able to reject a host of error that's out there in the Christian world.
Search the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life and they are there which testify of me in his prayer. The Lord Jesus said this is life eternal.
That they might know these things He's addressing the Father. That they might know the Father and Jesus Christ, who now has sent whom thou hast sent.
He sent one speaking about the Father that sent him. And to know the Son is to know the Father. And if you don't know the Son, you don't know the Father. You know nothing about the true God, really.
I know you, he says. Because you have not the love of God in you. Let's go on through the Gospel of John Precious, Precious Book I.
Verse 28 Chapter 6 Then said they unto him, What shall we do that we might work the works of God?
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that she believed on him whom he has sent. That's me. He says, Leave on him whom he hath sent. They said therefore unto him, What signs show us thou that we may see and believe thee? What does thou work? Our fathers did eat many in the desert, as it is written. He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven. But my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven, For the bread of God is he.
Which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life to the world. Then they said unto him, Lord Evermore, give us this bread.
And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life.
Yes, he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
When you're lying in the bed in a hospital, you can't read too much and you just ponder verses like this.
Pretty hard to do without tears running down.
These truths, these truths that we have in this book. Think it's your own, Think it's your own. Don't ever even entertain for a moment that this is not the word of God.
That the Son is not the sent one to the Father.
That's fundamental truth. Don't ever give it up.
Verse 40 He says This is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son and believeth on him, they have everlasting life. I'll raise him up at the last day. This is life eternal, that they might know thee, Father, and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent life eternal, doesn't just mean life forever, it is that true, but it's the knowledge of God the Father and God the Son, life eternal.
Verse 44 No man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me.
Draw him and I will raise him up at the last day.
Verse 40. I missed that. And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up.
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. To eat him is to, is to take him in and make him part of your very being.
This is that bread which came down from heaven.
Let's go on in the Gospel of John.
Verse 18 of Chapter 7, verse excuse me 16. In Chapter 7 Jesus answered them and said my doctrine is not mine but his that sent me. You can't say I believe in the Father but not the Son. You can't say that.
If you if you say that, you don't know the Father because you don't know the Son.
He that speaketh of himself verse 18 seeketh his own glory, but he that seeketh his glory that sent him.
The same is true and no unrighteousness is.
In him.
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Verse 28 Then cried Jesus in the temple, as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and you know whence I am, and I'm not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom he know not.
You don't know him because you don't know me. And I'm here. The very representation I'm here the very exposition of the Father. Every word I speak has given me of the Father. Every work that I perform has given me of the Father. But I know him. He says verse 29, For I am from him, and he hath sent me.
And they sought to take him, but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
Verse 33 Then said Jesus unto them. Yet a little while am I with you? Then I go unto him that sent me. And remember, after I got saved, I worked at a factory and I had a little New Testament, and I anytime I had a few moments, just a few moments, I spent it reading the Gospel of John over and over and over again. There's nothing like John's gospel, and I'm not saying anything little about others, but there's just some special, something special.
About John's Gospel.
Chapter 8.
Verse 15 Do 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.
Is also written in your law that the testimony of two witnesses is true. I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me nor my Father.
If you had known me, you should have known my father also. What these verses are telling us. And we should never give one inch to any argument that comes. If you know the sun, you know the Father. If you don't know the Son, you don't know the Father, and you can't know him, because he is the perfect representation of the Father the Father sent him.
And he came as scent of the Father.
Now that sound doctrine.
Sound doctrine. Don't ever give it up.
Verse So let's go to verse. In chapter 8, verse 42, Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me.
Let me back up to Let me back up to verse 40. So you get the connection. But now the Lord says, Ye seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth which I've heard of God. This did not, Abraham, you do the deeds of your father? And said they to him we'd be not born of fornication. We have one father, even God. Jesus said unto them, If God were your father, you would love me. For I proceeded forth and came from God. Neither came I of myself as an independent thing. But he sent me.
He sent me. Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear.
The message that's in my speech, my word, cannot hear my word.
Here, your father, the devil, he tells them.
Lusts of your Father. He will do verse 45 because I tell you the truth. You believe me not.
He was a very expression of the truth. They asked him, Who art thou? He says, Altogether, absolutely annexes John 825. Altogether and absolutely I am what I say.
Very expression of what I said. My mom used to say to me. Do as I say, don't do as I do.
Jesus did as he said everything he said he did. He was the living embodiment of an expression of the words that he taught.
He was given those words and those works to do by the Father.
So if you know Him, you know the Father, you know God.
Father, the Son, and then the Holy Spirit.
Verse 47.
Says he that is of God, heareth God's word. You therefore hear them not, because you're not of God. Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and has the devil. And notice how he answers that Jesus answered, I have not a devil. He rejects that charge. He doesn't say anything about the Samaritan, because he was like a Good Samaritan.
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Jesus answered, I have not a devil, but I honor my Father, and ye do dishonor me, and I seek not my own glory as one that seeketh and judgeth.
Chapter 9 verse four is one of my favorite chapters.
The blind man.
Verse four I must work. The Lord says, the works of him that sent me. While it is day, the night cometh when no man can work.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground and made play of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.
Have you ever, have you ever, you ever reflected on that?
When he had spoken, he spat on the ground.
And made clay of the spittle. The Word became flesh. That's what that's a picture of.
And he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.
And he said to him go wash in the pool of Siloam, which is by interpretation scent.
He was the sent one and he became a man. He made that spittle.
Word became flesh sent to the Father that was used to open the eyes of this blind man, when we see who Jesus is, God and man in one person ascent of the Father.
That's real light that opens your eyes.
He went his way, therefore, and watched and came seeing.
And we know the story so well. I don't want to take too long time reading that, but let's just read at the end of it.
Verse 32 Since the world began, this is this man talking to the Pharisees. It is not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. If this man were not of God, he could do nothing. They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out, because he was born blind, he was.
Altogether born in sins. That was their heretical doctrine.
They answered and said to him, Thou hast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. Jesus heard they had cast him out, and when he had found him, he said to them, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
He answered, and said, Lord, who is he that I might believe on him? And Jesus said to him, Thou has both seen him?
And it is he that talketh with thee.
They would see none might see. Well, it was the Pharisees that were blind. This man now had his sight, not only his physical sight, but his spiritual sight. He had come to know who he is. If you don't know who Jesus is really the essence of his person, that he, the Word, became flesh and dwelt among us. You haven't even started. First thing you have to know to be a Christian.
I was talking to a young man.
And you probably know something about this young man.
He had come from the our area to this conference some years ago.
He had stolen money.
Anyway, I was talking to him.
And.
He was talking about a friend of his that was a nice Christian, he said. He's just wrong in a few things.
I said what's he wrong in he doesn't believe in the Trinity. I said he doesn't believe in the Trinity. He's not a Christian. He's no Christian if he doesn't believe in the Trinity. The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. 3 persons One God, oh he's a Christian. I said no he's not.
He doesn't believe in the Trinity. He's not a true Christian.
I don't know where he is right now. These are things that you have to get firmly settled in your soul.
Good sound doctrine that you can always lean upon and refute. Error that's everywhere.
It's amazing the thoughts that are being propagated through the television screen and so on.
Lies.
Satan is a father of lies.
Chapter 10.
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Let's go on to Chapter 12.
Chapter 12 and verse 44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me, and he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
I am come a light into the world, and whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
If any man hear my words and believe not, I judge him not, For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words hath one that judgeth him the word that I have spoken the same shall judge him in the last day, for I have not spoken of myself.
But the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment his life everlasting, whatsoever I speak, Therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
The next chapter.
Verse Chapter 13 verse 16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his Lord, neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
Again verse 20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
Receive him, You receive the Father. Reject him you reject the Father.
Let's go to the 15th chapter, 15th chapter and verse 16. He says he have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain. And whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that you love one another.
If the world hates you.
You know that it hated me before. It hated you now. This is something that should go in your sound doctrine book that you're trying to make up as you go through this gospel and other parts of Scripture.
These things I command you that you love one another if the world hates you.
The first section of John 15 down to verse 17 he's dealing with the relationship among Christians and now in verse 18 it's it's the Christian in the world and what the world thinks of us.
Notice the difference. If the world hates you, verse 18. You know that it hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love his own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. Therefore the world hated you.
Young people, you go to universities, you go to these places of higher learning and the higher you go, the worse the error gets.
Remember, the world hates you if you're true to Christ.
The world hates us who are his.
I've chosen you out of the world. Therefore the world hated you. Remember the word that I said unto you. The servant is not greater than his Lord. They hated him. You're going to be a true servant of the Lord Jesus. They'll hate you and me. That's the way it goes. If they have prosecuted me, they will also prosecute you. If they have kept my saying, they will keep the results so that all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake because they know not him that sent me. They don't know the Father. They don't know God.
They have false gods.
If they have any tried, not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sinned, but now they have no cloak for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also that strong language. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, They had not had sin, But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
This cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in the law. They hated me.
Without a cause.
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me. And ye shall also bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning. So from the 14th chapter on we have the Comforter coming, being sent down of the Father and of the Son. And there we have the whole Trinity, Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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And then we come to.
17th chapter which is.
So precious it's the prayer of the of the Son to the Father.
His word spake, Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour has come, Glorify thy Son.
That thy Son also may glorify thee.
So I was giving him power over all flesh.
That he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
And this is life eternal. Here it is that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
I've glorified thee on the earth. I've finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. Here's the Eternal Son, addressing the Eternal Father and glowing back in his thoughts to the glory that he had with him before he ever became a man.
Before he ever became a man.
And now he is a man who never ceased to be a man.
You never surrender his humanity.
And of course, never his deity.
Have you ever just laid there on your bed, or whatever it might be, and justice meditated upon that God and man in one person?
Can you fathom that? Can I fathom that? I don't fathom it.
It's beyond my cuny mind to grasp, but I believe it with all my soul.
Because he said it. He who is the truth said it. I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me you can't get there any other way.
All other religions are false.
All other ways are wrong.
Is the only way?
Exclusive. Absolutely exclusive.
Verse eight he says, I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me, And they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee. And they have believed that thou didst send me.
You believe that, don't you? You believe that the Father sent him. If you don't, you're not a Christian.
You don't. You're not a Christian.
On the cross this just comes to mind and I before I forget it again.
The Lord uttered 7 utterances.
First utterances from Luke.
Father, forgive them.
For they know not what to do.
2nd utterance was from Luke.
One of the.
One of the thieves railed on him, and the other one said, this man has done nothing in this. And then he turned to the Lord and he said, Lord, Remember Me?
Here he is, He is. He's been crucified right along with the Lord. And he says, Remember, we when thou comest into thy Kingdom.
Who wrought that in that manner?
God the Holy Spirit did.
God the Holy Spirit brought that.
Two men. One was a thief that died, and what the hell? And the other one, the Lord says today thou shalt be with me in paradise.
Those are the 1St 2IN Luke. And then the third one comes from John's Gospel. The Lord is on the cross, and he sees his mother there, and John, who called himself the disciple whom Jesus loved. And he says, Behold thy mother John, behold thy mother, and his to him. And he says to his mother, Behold thy son.
Joseph was dead. Evidently, if Joseph had been alive, she wouldn't have committed.
The Lord wouldn't have committed her 21 Joseph, but.
John was one that he could commit to remember. I remember the Lord said, One of you shall betray me.
And they all said, is it I? Is it I? Is it I?
And Peter nudged John.
Says ask him.
Peter was always so forward, you know, And he asked it asked him and John said he didn't say is it I he knew it wasn't he. He lay on his bosom.
He was the disciples whom Jesus loved, and he entered into the good of that the Lord. He loved all of them but John.
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Appropriated it for himself and.
He said. Who is it?
Who was it? He knew it wasn't he?
Who is?
Do you know him that well?
Do I know him that well?
Like John did.
Peter made some bad mistakes. He denied him three times, but after he got straightened out and and really repented and was recovered and restored, you read the book of Acts and you'll see how how restored he was.
He used to carry the PA system around with me and I would stop at a park and set it up and preach.
And I stopped at this one part, and it was Jewish. I didn't know, didn't know there was Jews. I set it up and I start preaching to them.
And they were angry and they were really angry. And I didn't realize how powerful Peters message was in Acts two and three. I didn't have to say anything. I just read it from scripture. The the words that he gave to those early Jews. I I preached it to those later Jews and it it had the same effect on them that it had on the first ones.
Word of God is powerful, quick and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, dividing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit joints of marrow. He's a divider and discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Word of God, always use it. Know it, know it. So you can use it as a weapon.
The Word of God.
In his prayer to the Father, he says of his own, He says They are not of the word world. Verse 16. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Father, sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth as Thou has sent me into the world.
There it is again. As Thou has sent me into the world, Even so have I also sent them into the world. We're sent ones of the Son. He was sent ones of the Father.
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also, which shall believe on me through their word, that they all may be one.
As thou father, Artie me, and I indeed, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe.
That thou hast sent me.
If the unity of the Church had been maintained, it would have been such a testimony far greater than any evangelist. They would see the unity of the Church.
Not not 100 or 1000 denominations that we have today, but just one.
Well, in the 1St century, that's all there were. Every time I would witness to someone, one of the nurses or the nurses aides, they'd sit, they say right away, what denomination do you belong to? And I'd say, well, let's go back to the 1St century. How many were there?
She said just one.
I said That's right. That's the one I belong to. That's the one you belong to if you're saved.
Yeah, but she went away, and then she came back a little later, she said. I've been thinking about that, she says. You're right.
You're right, the enemy has done his work, hasn't he?
That there may be one even as we are one.
The world may believe that thou has sent me, and the glory which thou gave us me. I've given them that they may be 1 even.
As we are, one will experience that when the Lord comes for US1 in glory, all the differences forever gone.
I and them thou in need, that they may be made perfect in one that the world may know.
That thou has sent me, and has loved them as thou hast loved me. Wonderful. The world will see it. The world will know it. Today it's not so, because the work of the enemy work of the enemy.
And then that precious verse 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.
That they may behold my glory which thou hast given me. For the love is me before the foundation of the world. We're going to see him in that unique glory which is his. A one that we will not share, will will share the earlier glory. In verse 22 we'll share that, but in verse 24, it's his alone. It's his unique glory, but we'll we'll be privileged to look upon it.
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To look upon him.
And then he says, O righteous Father the world, when he speaks of the righteous Father, its connection with the world, the world.
Hath not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
And I have declared to them thy name and will declare it.
That the love were with us, love me may be in them.
And I in them.
But I've gone through this gospel very quickly.
I hope as you read it.
The other thing that's over and over and over again is where he speaks of of his father as my father, my father.
My father over and over again. I didn't go through it and that way I went through it as the sent one but.
It's very precious, very unique.
He didn't cry on the cross.
My father, my father, wise, thou forsaken me, he said. My God, my God, we didn't finish that, did we?
The first was.
He's covered that in the 1St 2:00.
And then?
What's the third one?
Third one comes from Joe. That's the one where he says.
His He committed his mother to John, and then came the.
Where he doesn't say Father anymore, but he says my God, my God. And he said it with a loud voice. Two times it says loud voice. This is the first time. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? It wasn't God his father that was dealing there. It was God as judge that was dealing with our sins, with him, with regards to our sins.
And.
That was the last three and a half $3 of darkness.
Three hours of darkness and then comes.
And then comes after that.
One verse, one verse in Psalm 69 says in my first they gave me vinegar to drink and he said I thirst.
I thirst that's found in.
Matthew, Mark and John.
And right after in John, you have it with a loud voice. It doesn't say a loud voice, but it was a loud voice, he said, finished.
He took that drink, gave him that vinegar and he drank it and he said finish. In the Greek it's one word. Just tell us die, finished.
When he cried, that cry of abandonment, it was God dealing with our sins.
And then he cries. Another cry, finish, the work is done. And then he goes back to the Father. He says, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit starts with the Father, ends with the Father, and in between it's my God.
By God, by his thou forsaken me was forsaken, that you might never be forsaken, that I might never be forsaken.
Praise him.
Wonderful.
To know him.
Whom to know his life eternal?
Life eternal.
Well, when you read the word.
May it form the doctrine, the teaching of your soul.
So when the enemy.
Tries to introduce something different. You say that's false. That's false.
I won't have it. Let's close by saying 283.
When we survey the wondrous cross.
In which the Lord of Glory died our richest gain. We counted loss in poor contempt and all our pride.
When?