The sermon 'Beholding The Glory of Jesus' by Jason Dohm focuses on John 17:20-26, where Jesus prays for future believers. This chapter is identified as the longest recorded prayer of Jesus, with three distinct parts addressing himself, his disciples, and future believers. The sermon emphasizes Jesus' intent and will for his disciples: to be unified, sanctified, protected from evil, and to ultimately behold his glory. Jesus' expressed desire is seen as a definitive intent, not mere wishful thinking. The sermon highlights Jesus' ongoing ministry of revealing the Father to his people through the Holy Spirit, and how this revelation is rooted in the divine love of the Father for the Son and his people. The sermon underscores the transformative impact of this love on believers, encouraging them to live in anticipation of seeing Jesus' glory and to be mindful of his indwelling presence in their lives.

Our sermon text this morning is John chapter 17 verse 20 through 26. I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they all may be one as you Father are in me and I in you that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that you sent me and the glory which you gave me I have given them that they may be one just as we are one I and them and you and me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me father I desire that they also whom you gave me may be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. Oh, righteous father, the world has not known you, but I have known you. And these have known that you send me and I have declared to them your name and will declare it that the love which you have loved, the love which you love me may be in them and I in them." Let's pray.

Lord, we thank you for these precious words as we continue to dwell upon this prayer and This text in John 17 God. I pray that you would Help our hearts to be submitted to your word this morning in humility God Desiring to be fed by you through your spirit and that you would come now and work through Jason as he brings your word before us in Jesus name amen please be seated next week The Templetons and I will be on the road again. We'll be in Montgomery, Alabama next Friday night. And then next Saturday and Sunday we'll be in Pensacola, Florida with dear friends Jeff Pollard and crew at Mount Zion. James will be preaching, I believe, on Hebrews 13 next week.

So we'll be out of John next week, and then the week after, We're actually going to read the discourse, the Last Supper discourse that leads into this prayer beginning in the end of chapter 13 through 17. We'll have a long public reading of Scripture and then I'll have a short period of time where I just summarize that. And then we'll start moving on to the crucifixion narratives in the weeks after that. So that's a roadmap for the next couple of weeks. The title of the sermon this morning is Beholding the Glory of Jesus, because the text is about beholding the glory of Jesus.

It's that simple. The whole chapter, all of chapter 17, is a prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's the longest prayer that Jesus prays in any of the four gospels. There are three very distinct parts. It's really easy to subdivide this prayer of Jesus.

Verses 1-5 are unmistakably Jesus praying about himself and the work of the cross which he'll undertake within 24 hours. Verses 6 through 19 are unmistakably about his 11 faithful disciples and he's actually audibly praying this prayer within the hearing of his eleven faithful disciples. Undoubtedly, they took comfort and encouragement from the things that he's praying out loud. And then finally in verses 20 through 26, Jesus is praying for those who will believe in Him through the word of the disciples. That's me.

I believe in Jesus not because I heard from Jesus, but His disciples went into the world and discipled people who discipled people who discipled people and one of them made it to me. So he's praying for me at the end of John 17. I hope he's praying for you too. There are four things that he prays for his disciples. That they would be one, sanctified.

That they would be set apart for sacred service. His disciples are ones who are taken out of the world, and they are set apart for sacred service to be sent back into the world to lift him up as an exalted Savior, as one who can save the world from their sins. Two, that they would be kept from evil and the evil one, his disciples are not saved and then set adrift, left on their own. They are kept by God. They are saved by God and they are kept by God.

Three, that they would be unified with God and with each other, brought into union with God and as a result that they would be unified together so that the world would look at that and say Jesus was sent by God and is transforming a people. And now in these last verses of chapter 17 He prays that his disciples would see Jesus in his glory. So that's what we're undertaking today. As we go to the text, let's ask for the Lord's blessing on our time. Jesus, we who know You, long for the day When we see you face to face and behold your glory, we can't wait.

There is something in our hearts that burns within us to go beyond even the good things that we experience on the earth, to go and be with you, and to see you as you are. No distance, no veil to behold your glory. I pray that you would use this prayer of John 17, this text, to bring us face to face with the reality of a future date in which all the distance and veil will be removed. And we'll just behold You in Your stunning glory. Make our hearts burn for it, Lord, in Jesus' name.

Amen. Let's subdivide and start by looking at just verse 24. Hopefully your Bibles are still open to John 17. Follow along with me as I reread verse 24. Jesus prays this.

Father, I desire that they also whom you gave me may be with me where I am. They may behold my glory which you have given me. For you loved me before the foundation of the world." In this verse, we have the will of Jesus for His people. So if you're taking notes on the handout and filling in blanks, it's the will of Jesus for His people. Jesus begins this section of his prayer, Father, I desire that.

And then he expresses his desire. The King James actually renders it, Father, I will that. The lexicon for this Greek word says, to will, to have in mind, to intend. So Jesus is expressing intent, not giving voice to wishful thinking. Nothing wrong with the translation, desire, Father I desire that.

That's a perfectly good translation. As long as you don't impart to Jesus the nature of some of our desires. The nature of some of our desires is wishful thinking. Jesus is God. He doesn't engage in wishful thinking.

He expresses intent for things that he intends to do and has the power to do and will do. You find the same Greek word used in Matthew 26 verse 39. He went a little farther and fell on his face and prayed saying, Oh my Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will." Same word. Not as I will, or as I desire, but as you Father will, or as you desire.

This of course is in Gethsemane. This chronologically is just after where we are in John 17, though we don't have a parallel account in the Gospel of John. In Gethsemane, Jesus would not yield to His hatred of sin which made him want to recoil from the cross? Are you with me? In Gethsemane, in what Jesus prays, Jesus would not yield to his hatred of sin.

Does Jesus hate sin? Yes, he is God. He cannot even look upon sin. But he would not yield to his hatred of sin, which made him want to recoil from the cross. What was so despicable about the cross to Jesus?

What made him sweat drops of blood as he poured out his heart to his father in Gethsemane. That he was going to suffer? Well that was only a very, very small part of it. It was Him who knew no sin, being made sin for us. He recoiled at the thought of the cross, and yet He did not yield to His hatred of sin that would have caused him to recoil from the cross, but he yielded himself to be made sin that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

So when it came to his immediate future of suffering being made sin that he hated, he prayed not as I will, but as you will. But when it comes to the future of his own blood-bought people, Jesus says, I will that. I intend that. This should be precious to you. Think of how he prayed for himself.

He withheld his inclination to be held back from the cross because of his hatred of sin, he withheld intending. But for you and for me, he says, I Father, I desire that, I will that, I intend that. Of course there is no distinction between the Father's will and His will. He's not separating Himself from His Father's will here. He has ownership for an intent for these things for his disciples.

What is Jesus expressed intent for his disciples? Two things. First, Jesus wants his people to be with him where He is. He wants His people to join Him where He is. He wants to be in fellowship with His people for all eternity.

Remember what Jesus said in the discourse leading into this prayer, meaning he had a time where he was teaching his disciples before he started into this prayer that we're studying. Look back at John 14 verses 2 and 3. He taught his disciples this in John 14, 2 and 3. In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you.

I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, that where I am there you may also be. That where I am you may be, because I prepared a place for you." He's now praying over what he just taught them. His desire, his will, his intent is to go and make a place ready and then bring them to be with Him where He is. He desires that.

He wills that. Listen to Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4. Chapter 4 verses 15-18. Paul writes this, For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.

And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord." And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Now listen to this, verse 18, Therefore comfort one another with these words. So Jesus is praying in John 17, I desire that they will be with me where I am.

I will that they will be with me where I am. I intend for them to be with me where I am." And Paul says, that's going to happen. And thus, we shall always be with the Lord. Comfort each other with these words. Yes, they are a source of comfort.

If you are in Christ, know this, He's coming for you. Dead or alive, says Paul, dead or alive, He's coming for you and thus we shall always be with the Lord, Comfort each other with these words. Jesus wills it. Jesus wishes it. Jesus accomplishes it.

Jesus makes a way for you to go to a holy place, to be with the holy God through the shedding of His blood. Matthew Henry says this, Jesus paid for what he prayed for. No one says it like Matthew Henry, so I had to quote him. Couldn't take credit for that. Jesus paid for, he bought, that a sinful people might be separated from their sins, cleansed, washed, made white as snow so that he can go to a holy place to be with the Holy God forever and ever and ever.

He paid for what he prayed for. So that is the first expressed intent of the Lord in this prayer. Jesus wants His people to be with Him where He is, without end. Second, there is a specific purpose Jesus wants His people to be with Him. That they may behold the glory which the Father has given him." Jesus purchases the people with his blood, and the purpose of it is that they might gaze upon Him forever in His glory, that they might behold.

Behold what is before you. Jesus in His glory. Now, I want you to consider this. In the introduction to his Gospel, John said this in chapter 1 verse 14. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

We beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father." What does he mean? He means that John and his fellow disciples were eyewitnesses when Jesus turned water into an abundance of good wine, that they were eyewitnesses when Jesus walked on water, that they were eyewitnesses when Jesus commanded the seas to be still, and they were still, that they were eyewitnesses when Jesus healed the sick and gave sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf and made the mute speak. They were there as eyewitnesses when Jesus raised the dead on more than one occasion. What is the significance of what Jesus is praying in John 17? That Jesus doesn't consider any of that His glory.

John, the Gospel writer says, we be held as glory. Jesus in his praying, the implication of what he's praying is, that's just my humiliation. That's me in my form as a bondservant. You see nothing yet of my glory. Look at verse 5, John 17, verse 5.

And now, O Father, glorify me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with you before the world was. Return me to glory. Return me from this state of humiliation. Return me from this state of being in the form of a bond servant. Jesus is so glorious that he displays glory to us even in his incarnation.

But I suspect when beliefs are in heaven and we behold his glory that we'll forget all about walking on water, we'll forget all about even raising from the dead, we'll say, now this is glory. It seems to be his perspective in John 17. There is a glory that transcends all of that. There is a glory that transcends sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, walking on water, water to wine. Consider the vision of Revelation chapter 5.

In all of heaven, and in all of earth, and in all of under the earth, and in all of the created beings throughout all of history, there is not one worthy to take the scroll and open it, but one. The lion of the tribe of Judah, who somehow at the same time is the lamb, who appears as if he had been slain and he is worshipped by the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders and they sing a new song. You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals for you were slain and redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation and then he's joined by the angels and then they're joined by every creature singing glory and power and dominion to you forever and ever and ever. He wants us to behold his glory. Revelation chapter 5 is a picture of all of his redeemed creation beholding his glory.

This is the future of the redeemed. This is just what Paul said in Philippians 2. We keep coming back to, and coming back to, and coming back to, and coming back to Philippians 2. It has such a bearing on what's been before us in our text these past weeks. Jesus willingly laid aside the glory that belonged to Him in heaven to take on the form of a bondservant and become obedient to death, even the shameful, agonizing, disgraceful death of the cross.

Therefore, God has highly exalted him and given him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee would bow, every tongue confess that He is Lord. This is divine glory. This is given glory. He was appointed by His Father to this work of honor, this redeeming work of honor. He was given that glorious place.

He was appointed the place in Revelation 5 where he would appear as a lamb as if it were slain and be worshiped by the redeemed that way. He was given that glory. It is based on an everlasting love of the Father towards His Son. And we who are in Christ get to see it played out throughout all eternity. Oh, I hope there is something in your heart that burns when you hear about these things.

I hope there is something in your heart that says, come quickly Lord Jesus, take us away from this veil of tears, this world that is afflicted with sin and the compromise in my own heart. Oh, go to go and have the distance removed to see you as you are in all of your glory. Let me behold you in your glory." That's how John the Gospel writer ends the Bible, the book of Revelation. Jesus says, behold I'm coming quickly, And John's response to that is instantly, even so, come Lord Jesus, come quickly. Just like you said, you said you're coming quickly, yes, come more quickly.

It's the impulse of John to Jesus saying that. Those are the words that close the Bible. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. I hope if you're redeemed, I hope that's burning in your heart. To see Him, to behold Him in His glory.

He desires that. He wants us to come, be with Him where He is, to behold Him in His glory. It's a divine glory. It's a given glory. It's a glory that is rooted in an everlasting love from the Father to the Son.

John 17, verses 25 and 26. Follow along. Jesus prays, Oh righteous Father, The world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you sent me. And I have declared to them your name, and will declare it, that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them." In this ending to the prayer, we have the endpoint of saving faith. So if you're taking notes on the handout and filling in blanks or two blanks and saving faith fills them in.

The end point of saving faith. Jesus begins, Oh righteous Father, and then he prays that the world has not known this righteous Father, but that Jesus has known him and has revealed him to those who have known that Jesus was the sent one of the Father. Again consider the framework that John gives to his Gospel in John chapter 1. Listen to John chapter 1 verses 17 and 18. John our Gospel writer says this in John 1, 17 and 18.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. No one has seen God with their own two eyes. But Jesus is the express image of the Son.

He came to teach and display His Father, to make His Father known. Then why this great gulf? Jesus came to make his Father known. John frames his gospel that way. It is the framework for the gospel.

Why did Jesus come? To make the Father known. Then why this great gulf between a world that doesn't know God and disciples who have been shown God? Has Jesus failed in his mission? I know the answer to that.

But Listen to Jesus speaking to Nicodemus in John 3.19. And this is the condemnation that the light has come into the world and men love darkness rather than light. Because their deeds were evil. This is the condemnation. This is why mankind stands condemned.

Because light came into the world. What one showing and declaring God, making God the Father known, came into the world. And found men who loved darkness, rather than light, because their deeds were evil. There was no defect in the mission, no defect in the messenger, No defect in the Lord Jesus Christ. It was that men loved darkness.

That is why the human race stands condemned. It is the righteousness of God that causes the world to shrink back. The Father has been declared. He has been made known. The world shrinks back from it.

Knowledge of the Father isn't withheld from the world. The world withholds itself from the knowledge of the Father. Those are very different things. The world shrinks back from knowing the Father because He is a righteous Father. Darkness flees.

Oh, righteous Father, the world has not known you, But I have known you and I have declared your name." Listen to what Jesus says in Matthew 11 verse 27. All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal him." No one knows the Father except the Son, just like we have. The world has not known you, but I have known you. The Son knows the Father and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal him." I've declared your name.

This is exactly what we find in Jesus' prayer. The Father has given a people to the Son, and the Son has undertaken to reveal the Father to those people. God the Father gave the people to God the Son, and He undertook the mission to reveal the Father to them, overcoming their love of darkness, bringing them into marvelous light. There are amazing testimonies of this. Every real Christian is a testimony of this.

Two popped in mind. One is Jim Santles. He lived all that time scoffing at Christians, laughing at Christians, thinking Christianity was a joke. Until a moment in time, he can't explain it. He can't explain it.

You know what? The father gave Jim Santles to the son, and the son undertook to reveal him. He overcame his love of darkness. He overwhelmed. He had the last word.

Another testimony. Paul Carrington. Paul Carrington. He was a worldling. A worldling with a girlfriend who got born again.

So he acquired a Bible. Why did he acquire a Bible? Because he wanted to come into that world too. No! To talk his girlfriend out of it!

Because her radical change of life was disruptive to him. So he acquired a Bible so he could flip his girlfriend, Melinda, now his wife of many years, so he could flip her and pull her out of this craziness." God had the last word. The son undertook to reveal the father to Paul Carrington. On a night in his room, he's listening to his hip hop, he's reading the Sermon on the Mount. He's listening to hip hop, he's reading the Sermon on the Mount.

He's listening to hip hop, he's reading the Sermon on the Mount. He's listening to hip-hop, he's reading the Sermon on the Mount. He's listening to hip-hop, he's reading the Sermon on the Mount. Finally, he says, who is this man? I must know this man.

He bundles up all his hip-hop cassettes. This was a long time ago. Most of you don't even know what a cassette is. We used to listen to music that way. He took the bundle across the street to the basketball court, and put it in the public garbage, and came back to read the Gospel.

This is nothing but the Son undertaking to make the Father known. Jesus prays in the first half of verse 26, I have declared your name, or I have made your name known. That's the literal rendering of that word. I have made your name known. And will declare it, or will make it known.

Jesus' ministry of making his Father's name known, making his Father known, is ongoing. Yes, He came to earth. His incarnation was about making the Father known. But it didn't end with the end of the incarnation. His ministry of making His Father known is ongoing.

He makes it possible through his work and he advances it every day by his Spirit. We can tell that from what Jesus is praying. It's an ongoing ministry of making his Father known. Today, Yesterday, today, tomorrow, till He returns. The great ministry of Jesus and His incarnation continues in John 16 verse 14, which again was part of His teaching His disciples right before he prayed the prayer that we are studying, he said this, chapter 16 verse 14, that the Holy Spirit would take of what is His, the Holy Spirit will take of what is Jesus' and declare it to His disciples.

So Jesus' work of revelation is not done, and specifically the revelation of the Father is not done. He physically left the world and sent His Spirit to continue His ministry. He takes of what is Jesus' knowledge of the Father primarily, and makes it known to the disciples. That's what the Holy Spirit is doing. Finally, Jesus prays the great purpose for the salvation of His people.

Why has the Father given a people to His Son? Why have this people known that Jesus is the promised Messiah sent by God? Why has Jesus made His Father known to them? The second half of verse 26. That the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.

That's why God the Father has given a people to God the Son. That's why God the Son has undertaken to reveal His Father to this people that the love with which the Father loved the Son may be in them. They may experience it, know it, be partakers of it, and I in them, and Jesus indwelling this people. We have already seen this love in Jesus' prayer. In last week, verse 23, just look back at the verse right before this week's text, verse 23.

I in them, Jesus in his people, and you in me, the Father and the Son, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me." Wow! The Father loves His people as the Father loves His Son. In the same way, to the same degree. Can you bring yourself to believe that? It is in the Bible, Jesus did say it.

But can you bring yourself to believe it? It's almost unbelievable. Or this week, the verse we started with, verse 24, Father, I desire that they also whom you gave me may be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. We've already seen this love of Father for Son, and of Father for the Son's people. When I come into union with Jesus by faith, when I am in Christ, the Father's love for his Son is now and forever.

The Father's love for you, now and forever. Because you are now a son or a daughter. Through union with his only begotten son. Or as Jesus said in John 14 verse 23, again the teaching that just leads up to this prayer, John 14, 23, Jesus said, If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. No wonder we behold his glory.

No wonder we behold his glory. Let's give Paul the last word. Turn to Ephesians chapter 3. Ephesians chapter 3. I'll be reading 14-21.

Paul takes up the same topic. The love of God. You'd really have to call it the love of the triune God, the trinity for His people. You find one testimony. The Father loves the people of God, the Son loves the people of God, the Spirit loves the people of God.

They conspire together to save the people of God, to keep the people of God. Ephesians 3 verses 14-21. Follow along. For this reason I, Paul, bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. That He would grant you, Ephesians, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man.

That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. That you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to Comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church, by Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. Forever and ever.

Amen. Paul is desiring, asking, pleading with the Ephesians to understand their place in the affection of God. Their place as the apple of God's eye. That they would be able to comprehend with all the saints the dimensions of it. The width, and the length, and the depth, and the height.

Know the love of Christ which passes knowledge. You will not be able to learn that in books. You go to the library and read all day. You can't get it just out of the books. It can give you a taste of it and begin to acquaint you with it.

You have to experience it. You have to know it by experience. The great object of God's saving a people, God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit, saving a people is not simply to put us to work. Though there is a great commission that should occupy us, maybe even preoccupy us, it should be on our minds all the time, God didn't save us for that, as if He needed the labor. It is to bring us into His love for us.

God saves us to bring us into His love for us. Into His love for His Son. Friends, the Great Commission flows out of this. It starts with God's love for us. That's why He puts His hand upon us.

Because He's setting His love on us. He's not acquiring labor. He doesn't need our labor. He gives us the privilege to be co-labors with Him for our joy and His glory. But He doesn't need the labor.

He wants to bring us into a relationship of love. He sets us before Him as the object of His love, and then He comes and claims us. Jesus went to the cross for this. The mission flows out of this. We love him because he first loved us.

Don't just read over the top of that. Don't skim over the top of that. He loves us. He still loves us. As we gather here today in Youngsville, he loves us.

We're the apple of his eye. He knows my sins more than I know my sins. We're so dull to them, dead to them, unaware of how deeply tainted we are by sins, but He's not dull to it or unaware of it at all. He knows them all. He loves me.

Anyway, he's undertaken to transform me over time. He knows how to deal with those sins. He knows how to wash them away, and how to change my life. But he does it because he loves me. I'm the apple of his eye.

Can you believe it? Can you believe it? You're not his science project to prove that he can do great things. He loves you. You're not his workforce as if he needed the labor.

He loves you. Today he loves you. The mission flows out of that. The mission flows out of knowing that he loves others. And we can be co-labors with him in going and pulling them out of the world.

So that they would also be set apart for sacred service. How can we possibly sustain the mission if we don't abide in this? Right back to John 15, abide in my love, abide in my love, don't depart from my love, don't forget about my love. How can we sustain the mission in Turkey if we don't abide in His love? We've already hit some bumps in the road.

We're going to hit some more bumps in the road. There's going to be a lot of bumps in the road. How are we going to sustain through that? God loves us. He set His love on us.

He loves some people in Turkey too, who right now are living and dying, never knowing a Christian, never hearing the Gospel. I can't live with that. I cannot live with that. The Templetons can't live with that. There are people in Turkey living and dying, never having heard the gospel.

And they deserve the condemnation for their sin. They did it. They did the crime. But you know what? I did the crime.

I've done so many crimes in my thoughts, in my words, in my actions, but God had mercy on me. He loves me. He sent people to me. He sent people to you. It sustains us in the mission.

Three applications. Number one, the world has many pleasant things, even that are lawful, even that are gifts of God. Don't overvalue them. Nothing wrong with acknowledging that there are many pleasant things in the world that are lawful gifts from God to us. Marriage, praise God, Not only lawful, commendable, a gift from God to you, to bless you.

Pleasant things like marriage. Beauty in the world. So many lawful, pleasant gifts from God to be enjoyed. Don't overvalue. Never lose the ability to see beyond them to something that is so much more glorious.

Just think. When we're there in eternity beholding his glory, water to wine will be small potatoes. Raising the dead will be small potatoes. We want to think of that as glory? Jesus didn't.

Jesus thought, the acts of my humiliation. Don't overvalue even the pleasant things that have been given as gifts. See beyond them. Let it burn within your heart to go and behold His glory. Let it burn within your heart.

Come quickly, come quickly. If you were on the best vacation of your life, know that you would want it to come to an end right that second to go and be with Him face to face to behold Him in His glory. Number two, if you're a Christian, Jesus is seeking to make His Father better known to you. You buy that as a premise based on what Jesus is praying? If you are a Christian, Jesus is seeking to make His Father better known to you.

I have declared your name to them and I will declare it. Not done. Ongoing, continuous ministry of Jesus Christ through His Spirit is to make His Father known and more known and more known. Join Him in seeking that. How often are you praying?

Reveal yourself to me. Jesus, reveal yourself to me. Jesus, reveal your Father to me. However often it is, pray more often. Say it more often.

Jesus is seeking to make his Father better known to you. Join him in seeking that. These are things we can pray for with such confidence. Some of the things we pray for, we're not even sure we should be praying for it. This is something you can pray with such confidence.

Number three, finally. Be impacted by the knowledge that Jesus dwells in His people. Right here at the end. That the love with which you loved Me may be in them, that we might know and experience the Father's love, and I in them, and Jesus in his people." Jesus said it, we know it, now be moved by that, be impacted by that truth. Here's what Thomas Manton, the great Puritan, said, If an earthly king lie but one night in a house.

What care there is taken that nothing be offensive to him and that all be neat and sweet and clean. How much more careful ought you to be to keep your hearts clean, to perform service acceptable to Him, to be in the exercise of faith, love, and other graces, so that you may entertain as you ought your heavenly King, who comes to take up his continual abode in your heart. Thomas Manton challenges you to a thought experiment, to a thought exercise. The king's coming to your house tonight. What's the afternoon going to be like?

It's going to be a scramble to make ready. The King's coming. He's sleeping in my house tonight. Just tonight. What pains would you go to to make sure that he's comfortable, that there's nothing that offends him, that everything's neat and clean and sweet, as Thomas Manton says.

Now Thomas Manton says, Christ lives in your heart. Your heavenly King has come. How could you be careless? You wouldn't be careless if the king was sleeping at your house tonight. He lives in your heart.

How could you be careless? This rebukes our carelessness. Receive the rebuke. Let the punch land. God, thank You for our continued study of the Gospel of John.

These things are so sweet to contemplate. There are so many precious truths that we should have more top of mind than we do. Thank you for bringing them right before our eyes again. Thank you for the great and precious promises that we are partaking in week by week. How could it be that we are the apple of your eye, we are the object of your affections?

We know you ought to be the object of ours. How could it be that we are the object of yours? Oh Glory! We want to behold you in your glory. You have purchased us to God by your own blood out of every people and tribe, tongue, and nation.

We thank you Lord in Jesus' name, Amen.