The Lord’s Greatest Prayer, Part 6

and now we have the opportunity to return to the 17th chapter of the Gospel of John this remarkable portion of Scripture that has really no parallel our Lord Jesus interceding for his own before the Father this is in every sense a preview that was given the very day that our Lord was crucified when he prayed this prayer preview of his ongoing ministry of intercession for all who belong to him throughout all of history when you ask yourself what is the most blessed and most encouraging and most uplifting doctrine for Christians to understand it would come down to a very small list for me I can't imagine anything more encouraging more uplifting more wonderful than to know that those who truly believe in the Lord Jesus Christ will finally and forever be taken in to the glories of heaven that the Lord will lose none of his I know there are people there are movements there are churches there are denominations there are theologies that teach that salvation can be lost that can be temporary it can be forfeited that is not what the Bible teaches again the most blessed and encouraging and uplifting doctrine that I know is that all who are true believers in the Lord Jesus Christ will be finally and forever taken in to the glories of heaven such is the testimony of Scripture and it's not sparse testimony we find it even back in the Old Testament as God defines his salvation as something that is everlasting for example in Psalm 37 and verse 23 we read the steps of a man are established by the Lord and he delights in his way when he falls he will not be hurled headlong because the Lord is the one who holds his hand verse 28 says for the Lord loves justice and does not forsake his godly ones they are preserved forever it's in proverbs chapter 4 and verse 18 that we read this but the path of the righteous is like the dawn of day that shines brighter and brighter until the full day the picture of ever-increasing light until the sunrise of eternal glory the prophet Isaiah had much to say about the character the nature and the extent of salvation in Isaiah chapter 43 the opening part of that chapter lays down some wonderful promises listen do I say a43 one but now thus says the Lord your Creator o Jacob and he who formed you O Israel do not fear for I have redeemed you I have called you by my name you are mine when you pass through the waters I will be with you and through the rivers they will not overflow you when you walk through the fire you will not be scorched nor will the flame burn you for I am the Lord your God the Holy One of Israel your savior since you are precious in my sight since you are honored and I love you I will give other men in your place and other peoples in exchange for your life do not fear for I am with you I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the West and I will say to the north give them up and to the south do not hold them back bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth everyone who is called by my name and whom I have created for my glory whom I have formed even whom I have made the promise of God to gather all of his own beloved into the final glories of heaven in isaiah 45:17 we read Israel has been saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation you will not be put to shame or humiliated to all eternity God's salvation is always everlasting always eternal Isaiah 51 6 says lift up your eyes to the sky then look to the earth beneath for the sky will vanish like smoke and the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants will die in like manner but my salvation will be forever the familiar and wonderful words of Isaiah chapter 55 are known to us o everyone who thirsts come to the waters and you who have no money come by and eat come buy wine and milk without money without cost why do you spend money for what is not bread and your wages for what does not satisfy listen careful to me carefully to me and eat what is good and delight yourself in abundance incline your ear and come to me listen that you may live and I will make an everlasting covenant with you God's covenant of salvation always always everlasting Jeremiah holds out the same glorious truth in Jeremiah chapter 32 for the end of the chapter verse 38 he says they shall be my people and I will be their God and I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me always for their own good and the good of their children after them I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them to do them good and I will put the fear of me in their heart so that they will not turn away from me I will rejoice over them to do them good and will faithfully plant them in this land with all my heart and with all my soul God gives only an everlasting salvation there is no such thing as a temporary salvation of course we we see that in the New Testament all through the writings of the Gospels and all through the epistles remind yourself of John 5:24 truly truly the Lord said I say to you he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and does not come into judgment but has passed out of death into life and then the familiar chapter 6 verse 37 all that the father gives me will come to me and the one who comes to me I will certainly not cast out verse 39 this is the will of him who sent me that of all that he has given me I lose none but raise it up on the last day and those wonderful words in the 10th chapter of John equally familiar to us my sheep hear my voice and I know them they follow me and I give eternal life to them and they will never perish and no one will snatch them out of my hand my father who has given them to me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand I and the father are one and beyond that we have the eighth chapter of Romans in which the Apostle Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit says nothing can ever separate us from the love of God which is in Christ he begins the chapter by saying there will never be any condemnation to those who belong to Christ Philippians 1:6 says that the one who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Christ the day when we see Christ face to face the confidence of the writers of the New Testament is expressed wonderfully in 2nd Timothy 1:12 for this reason Paul says I also suffer these things but I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I've entrusted to him until that day and he entrusted to him his own eternal soul a few weeks ago we looked at first Peter 1 which says that we have as believers obtained an inheritance heavenly inheritance which is imperishable undefiled will not fade away and we are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time the final benediction of Jude we could add to the scriptures that speak to the eternality of salvation now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and make you stand in the presence of his glory blameless with great joy to the only God our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord be glory Majesty Dominion and authority before all time and now and forever amen the doxology is based upon the fact that he will bring us to glory the promise of Scripture is that God's salvation is a forever salvation what secures that salvation is threefold first of all the purpose of the Father the purpose of God the Father the Father has purposed to call out of people for his name the father has purpose to secure a bride for his son made up of redeemed humanity this is the Father's purpose and God works all things Romans 8 says according to his purpose and whomever he predestined he justifies and whomever he justifies he glorifies we are secure in the Father's purpose secondly we are secured by the Spirit's presence Ephesians 1 says that the Spirit is the downpayment the guarantee the Arab on the engagement ring the security of our future glory it is the Father's purpose it is the spirits presence that secures our eternal salvation and then thirdly it is the prayers of the son the purpose of the Father the presence of the Spirit and the prayers of the son the Lord Jesus according to Hebrews 7:25 ever lives to make intercession for us he is praying for us for the purpose of bringing many sons to glory that is exactly what we are hearing in the 17th chapter of John this chapter is the sole biblical illustration of the Lord Jesus and his mediatorial intercessory ministry as our great high priest praying us into heaven praying us into heaven he ever lives to make intercession for us it goes on all the time throughout all of redemptive history until till all the sons of God are brought to glory Paul in Romans 5 calls it much more it is a much more work much more than what much more than the cross much more than the resurrection not more important but more extensive Christ paid the penalty for our sins in a moment on the cross if you will in a few hours he suffered the wrath of God Christ came out of the grave in a moment and he was alive from being dead those were rapid accomplishments by the Lord but now the much more work that goes on continually evermore is this work of securing us for eternal glory praying for us to bring us home to God John 17 then is a pre ascension pre exaltation example of our Lord's mediatorial intercessory ministry as the great high priest he has passed through the curtains of the three heavens we saw last week he is entered into the heavenly Holy of Holies and he has sat down in the Holy of Holies in the Old Testament in the temple even in the new there was no place to sit because the priests came and went our great High Priest has gone into the heavenly Holy of Holies sprinkled his own blood as an atonement for our sins and sat down in the father's presence to constantly plead for his people to bring them to eternal glory against all our failures against all of our iniquities all of our transgressions all of our sins against all the accusations brought against us by men and demons and Satan himself the Lord praised us into heaven no one is lost this is his prayer in the opening five verses he prayed for his own glory because he had to be glorified to begin this mediatorial ministry so in verses 1 to 5 he prays to the Father to glorify Him now that his work is done this is early in the darkness of Friday morning he is headed toward the cross in just a few hours and of course this is Friday by Sunday he'll be out of the grave 40 days after that he will ascend into heaven and take his place in the father's presence he is praying for that when he says the hour has come he means the hour of his death his resurrection his ascension his exaltation and the beginning of his intercession and here is an example of that intercession now for whom is he praying he starts out in verses 6 and following praying for the disciples that the Lord God the Father has given him he's praying for the men verse 6 says whom you gave me out of the world but what he praised is not limited to them verse 20 says I do not ask on behalf of these alone but for those also who believe in me through their word and that stretches forward and backward he is praying for all who are gods all who will be given to him through all of redemptive history he is praying them all as it were into heaven now the specific requests in his prayer are given in verses 11 to 19 verses 11 to 19 he makes the statement that he is leaving he is no longer verse 11 in the world yet they themselves are in the world and I come to you it is that setting that establishes the character of his prayer we have to be here in this hostile deadly dangerous world this world filled with sin 16th chapter ended by him saying in the world you have tribulation this troubled world we are left here he is gone in view of that he is praying for us in his absence he has already promised us that he would send the Holy Spirit that promises in chapter 14 repeated in 15 repeated again in 16 and that the Spirit would come and take his place and even be better for them because he had been with them in Christ now he would be dwelling in them personally so he has established everything that they're going to need including the coming of the Holy Spirit he has filled the previous chapters on that Thursday night Friday morning with all kinds of promises that we've been through for months and months but now comes the prayer that pulls it all together Father fulfill all these promises send your Holy Spirit that's behind all of this and father these are the specific requests that I ask of you regarding my people starting in verse 11 and running to verse 19 is the first element of that number one he prayed for our spiritual security verses 11 and 12 we've been through we won't go back keep them in your name guard them verse 12 he says I guarded them not one of them perished but the son of perdition never was the son of God that was Judas that the scripture would be fulfilled so he says father I pray for their spiritual security that they'll be secure all the way to glory secondly prayed for our spiritual unity at the end of verse 11 that they may be one even as we are and we'll see more about that down deeper into the chapter spiritual security spiritual unity in verse 13 he prayed for our spiritual Felicity or joy now I come to you these things I speak in the world so that they may have my joy made full in themselves wonderful things the Lord is praying for us for our security for our unity not a unity that's superficial not a unity that is simply trying to get us all to like each other but an internal unity of eternal life that we possess this is the true unity of being one with Christ and therefore one with each other he's praying for the reality of the body of Christ to come together possessing divine life he also prays for our joy that is a rich and wonderful thing to see earlier he said that he would give us his peace he had given us his life and now he prays that we would have his joy not something less than his but his level of joy his peace his life his joy his spirit all of this we've been saying is ours because we are in him he prays for our joy in the midst of a troubled world we have that joy that prayer is answered we have joy in our salvation with all its blessings fourthly he prayed to the Father for our spiritual immunity immunity that we would be protected verse 15 says from the evil one vs. 14 15 and 16 speak to the fact that we are in the world the world hates us we're not of the world even as our Lord was not of the world we are in a dangerous dangerous place he prays for our protection our immunity from the devastating power of the evil one second Thessalonians 3 3 the Lord is faithful and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one we have confidence in the Lord concerning you that prayer will be answered God will protect us from the evil one as we saw last week Satan is literally under our feet because we are in Christ now all of these prayers for spiritual stability spiritual unity spiritual félicité spiritual immunity spiritual security all the way to spiritual immunity all of these are motivated by love 13:1 having loved his own who were in the world he loved them to the max all of this is essentially a prayer for for US based on divine love we have been loved by God from the beginning of the world we have been loved by God everlastingly he loved us before we existed he loves us now he will love us forever it's all driven by divine love and you see that even more at the end of the chapter how we're swept up in this amazing reality of divine love not because we're deserving of that love earned that love it is purely a gift of God's infinite grace then there's one final request that our Lord has in this section he prays for our spiritual purity our spiritual purity out of love for us also he prays for our sanctification let's look at verse 17 sanctify them in the truth Your Word is truth as you sent me into the world I also have sent them into the world for their sakes I sanctify myself that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth very simple words but a very direct focused and profound point is being made here first of all the issue is sanctification sanctify mentioned in verse 17 sanctify sanctified twice in verse 19 three times we see that verb the verb carries the action this is a prayer for our sanctification he prays for our holiness now sanctification is a kind of a stained-glass word it's a churchy word what it essentially means is separation set apart from what from sin he's praying that we would be set apart from sin hence he's praying for our purity for our purity this is also an encourage wonderfully exciting element of our Lord's Prayer like praying for our joy he prays also for our purity for our continual separation from sin and increasing godliness while we are on the way to heaven while we're on the journey to get to heaven he prays that we will be being sanctified we will become increasingly more holy in practice as we are in position he prays according to the Father's will and according to the spirits work it is the Father's will that we be holy it is the spirits work to make us holy to conform us to holiness it is the sons petition that we become holy now this prayer deals with our human flesh we have three enemies the world the devil and the flesh we've already heard about the world and Jesus prayed that we'd be protected from the world we've heard about the devil the Evil One and Jesus prayed that we would be protected from the evil one here he prays that we will be victorious over the ever-present flesh it is the flesh that humaneness in which we are still incarcerated even though we're believers in verse 17 he says sanctify them in the truth Your Word is truth set them apart from sin separate them from evil and that is a practical prayer the Apostles and all believers have been separated from the penalty of sin Jesus paid the penalty we're never gonna see that penalty we've been separated from the penalty of sin one day when we enter into heaven we will be separated from the presence of sin his death separated us from the penalty his resurrection separated us from the presence of sin in the future in heaven and in the middle we are now in need of being separated from the power of sin the power of sin here on earth the work of separation from the our sin is a lifelong progressive work of God he is speaking of already regenerated already justified already converted followers of the Lord Jesus Christ being continually made more holy that is our prayer to our Lord's Prayer that we who are still sinful are loved by him with a perfect heavenly love and that love calls out from his heart a prayer for our sanctification he accepts us in our imperfections and prays for us to become more holy and what is the means of that what is the means of that very clear sanctify them in the truth Your Word is truth he says it again at the end of verse 19 that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth whereas the truth found it's the revelation of god it's the scripture it's the bible it is as we immerse ourselves in the word of god that we are in the place where our sanctification operates as we immerse ourselves in the knowledge of the word of god in the interpretation the accurate interpretation of the word of god not only in terms of understanding but affection loving the truth it is in being as you as it were immersed in scripture that sanctification takes place by the Holy Spirit this is not something mystical this isn't something in the air this isn't something that happens to you when you sit in a corner and contemplate your spiritual navel this is only going to happen in our lives progressive sanctification progressive separation from sin as we look at the Word of God and as we read it understand it embrace it and love it second Corinthians 3:18 often-quoted we all with unveiled face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord the glasses Scripture as we look with the veil off clear-sighted now since we have been redeemed we look into the glass of Scripture we see the glory of the Lord and in seeing that glory we are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory just as from the Lord the spirit as you gaze at the revelation of the glory of the Lord manifests particularly in Christ in the scripture that look that gaze that preoccupation with Christ the Spirit of God uses to conform you to the very image of Christ moving you from one level of glory to the next to the next to the next sanctification the psalmist simply put it this way psalm 119:11 your word if I hid in my heart that I might not sin that I might not sin Peter said as babes desire the pure milk of the word that you may grow thereby prior to that he'd said laying aside all evil the Word of God works against the sin that remains in us the Word of God reveals the glory of Christ in all his beauty and as we are caught up in that glory and we see it and understand it and believe it and love it the Spirit uses all of that to make us more and more and more like Christ Paul's telling the Philippians this is the goal to be like Christ this is the prize of the high calling to be like Christ and now before we get to that reality we pursue that even in this life why is this important it's important look at verse 18 it's important for the very reason that we're in the world as you sent me into the world I also have sent them into the world it's important because we have a mission to accomplish and holiness is critical to that mission let your light so shine before men that they may see your works good works and glorify your father who is in heaven you've got to put the gospel on display you've got to put the power of God on display and if we're going through the world saying the Lord changes lives the Lord transforms sinners the Lord takes evil people and makes them good you're going to have to have some illustrations of that or somebody's going to say why would I believe that we have a great Commission Matthew 28 we're sent into all the world to preach the gospel to everyone to make disciples to baptize to teach them all things whatsoever I have commanded to have them embrace the gospel to be witnesses in Jerusalem Judea Samaria and the world and what is going to make our witness believable is the transformation in our lives Matthew five your salt your light Philippians you're holding forth the truth like lights verse Peter you're a holy people confronting an unholy world so our Lord says the father sent me the son into the world the holy son and now I the son am sending you into the world the father sent me into the world in the power of the Spirit I am sending you into the world in the power of the Spirit the father sent me to manifest a holy life to put his glory on display that his message might be believed I send you in the power of the Holy Spirit to live a holy life also to put his glory through the gospel on display so the objective and sanctification is to be as much like Christ as we can possibly be that's why we focus on his glory now verse 19 is a very striking verse that pulls this together for us our Lord says something very unusual for their sakes for their sakes I sanctify myself does it strike you that there was something Jesus had to do to sanctify himself would it not seem to you that this was something automatic for an absolutely wholly eternal being but that holiness that eternal holiness was maintained was maintained in some inexplicable way by the very purpose intention of the Son of God I sanctify myself well why would he sanctify himself two reasons theologically speaking reason number one he needed to live a perfect life he needed to live a perfectly holy life why because there had to be at least one perfect holy life lived by someone in the history of the world and he's the only one why is that important because when you put your trust in Jesus Christ that perfect life is credited to your account it's as if you lived his life that's the doctrine of imputation 2nd Corinthians 5:21 that's how we become the righteousness of God in Christ literally we have his perfect life credited to us it's as if we lived his life there had to be a life that could be credited to us to make us acceptable to God it had to be a perfect life and his was so we had to live a perfect life he had to sanctify himself in perfect holiness so that that perfect life could be accredited to us by grace but secondly he had to live a perfectly holy life not only so that it could be imputed to us but as an example to us as an example to us we have his perfect righteous life imputed to us covering us that's justification we have his perfect righteousness characterizing us granted to us and that's sanctification Christ covers me his life covers me his death covers mice in his life covers me but his life is also an example to me of sanctification in justification my position is taken care of in sanctification my practice is dealt with so let's look at that second aspect our Lord is saying here I sanctify myself for their sakes that they themselves be sanctified in truth so he's not praying about justification here he's not praying about that he's praying about the sanctification process that every believer goes through in the application of divine truth he's saying I do it myself so that they will have an example someone to look to now what does it mean what is he saying our Lord established what sanctification is what is sanctification perfect sanctification perfect obedience motivated by perfect love okay sanctification is perfect obedience motivated by perfect love the Lord Jesus was perfectly obedient to the Father out of perfect love he loved the father perfectly he loved the father to the full capacity that he has the power as eternal God to love and he obeyed perfectly again perfect sanctification is perfect obedience to God's holy will perfect obedience to God's holy will motivated by perfect love Jesus loved the father loved the father perfectly obeyed the father perfectly just a quick run again through the Gospel of John chapter 4 verse 34 he gives this testimony over and over he says my food is to do the will of him who sent me to do the will of him who sent me to accomplish his work complete commitment to the will of the Father chapter 5 verse 17 he says my father is working now and I myself am working I work along with the father they were shocked by that kind of statement because he was saying God is his father verse 18 says making himself equal with God then he replied in verse 19 truly truly I say to you the son can do nothing of himself he can do nothing of himself therein lies the impeccability of Christ he doesn't do anything independent of God nothing he can't it's impossible he cannot sin he can do nothing of himself it has to be something he sees the father doing for whatever the father does these the son also does and he does them in the same manner in verse 30 I can do nothing on my own initiative as I hear I judge my judgment is just because I do not seek my own will but the will of him who sent me chapter 6 verse 38 I've come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me chapter 7 verse 18 he who speaks from himself seeks his own glory he was seeking the glory of the one who sent him he is true and there is no unrighteousness in him he seeks the father's glory only does what the father does only does the Father's will and never does anything else in the eighth chapter of John and verse 28 jesus said when you lift up the Son of man you will know that I am he and I do nothing on my own initiative but I speak these things as the father taught me and verse 29 chapter 8 he who has sent me is with me he has not left me alone I always do the things that are pleasing to him that is why the father says this is my beloved Son in whom I'm what well pleased that's perfect sanctification perfect motive pure love perfect obedience pure righteous behavior in every aspect and our Lord is saying I'm sanctified myself and putting it on display for their sakes you want to know what sanctification is look at Christ it's perfect love operating in perfect obedience now what is the power for this come from where does the power for this come from you might say well the Lord Jesus had his own power that that is true but do you remember that in the Incarnation he set aside the independent use of his attributes and submitted himself to the Father's will and the Spirit's power listen to what Isaiah says way back in Isaiah 11 speaking of Messiah the one who will come from the stem of Jesse the branch from the roots of Jesse will bear fruit this is what defines him the spirit of the Lord will rest on him the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and strength the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord and He will delight in the fear of the Lord in other words his delight in worshiping God honoring God perfectly will come because he will have the fullness of the holy spirit the Sevenfold fullness of the Holy Spirit in his life in the 61st chapter of Isaiah another familiar text Messianic text speaking of the Lord the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me and you remember then Luke chapter 4 in the synagogue Nazareth he said today I'm here to fulfill that the Spirit of the Lord is upon me so the question is this by what power did Jesus offer God perfect love and perfect obedience answer by the power of the Holy Spirit in Matthew 12 when they called him a devil he said you blaspheme the Holy Spirit who is doing this work through me you might want to recall the 10th chapter of the book of Acts and verse 38 you know of Jesus of Nazareth how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power and how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil for God was with him we were witnesses of all the things he did he was anointed with the Holy Spirit and power Christ is a model for us perfect love perfect obedience empowered by the Holy Spirit that's sanctification that's the perfect sanctification so when our Lord says to the disciples it's better that I go away because I'm gonna send the Holy Spirit he has been with you in me but now he will be in you know who is the model of sanctification it's Christ and we see it in perfection perfect love perfect obedience empowered by the Holy Spirit that's sanctification so what about us well there's one simple command that relates to our sanctification and it's maybe a good one to sum up it's in first John two first John 2 verse six the one who says he abides in him you say you abide in Christ God himself to walk in the same manner as he walked Oh so that's sanctification right walk like Christ walk like Christ walk what do you mean walk walk simply means steady continual constant progression against enemies opposition odds conflict walk New Testaments just loaded with the word walk describing the Christian life where described as walking in new life walking decently walking worthily walking in unity walking in humility walking in purity walking in contentment walking in faith walking in good works walking in separation walking in love walking in light walking in wisdom walking in truth and that's Jesus and that's why John says walk like Jesus if you say you are in him if you say you abide in him and it's true then walk like he walked listen to Colossians 2:6 therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk in him walk in him follow his pattern follow his life we know what sanctification is it's Christ and that can we go back to 2nd Corinthians 4:18 you look at him and see his glory you know exactly how to walk walk in love to God love God with our heart soul mind and strength like he did that's the goal obey the Lord and everything everything you do everything you say everything you think be pleasing to him yes he is your righteousness in that you are covered by his holiness in your justification but he is also your example of righteousness a pattern to be followed in your practice and in your sanctification so he not only prays for our purity but he knows it's tough because we have remaining flesh we're living in a hostile world the evil one is after us and he prays us into the only means by which this sanctification could take place and that is being immersed in the Divine Word of God the scripture as you study the scripture as the scripture to borrow Paul's words dwells in you richly you will be walking in the spirit and you will be walking the way Christ walked you will know the scripture believed the scripture loved the scripture and that's the path to Christ likeness what an amazing statement for our Lord to make I sanctify myself for their sakes positionally by imputing his life to us practically by providing an example for us in the one we are justified in the second we are being sanctified father I pray for their spiritual purity that prayer was on the heart of the Apostle Paul he he desperately wanted to present the people that that he administered to to God as a pure people he wanted a people that he called a chaste virgin espoused to Christ any pastor has this prayer on his heart all the time for his own life and those he serves and he believers should be driven by this same desire it involves looking at Christ it also involves looking at sin honestly in our own lives and being willing to turn from it cleansing ourselves of all filthiness of the flesh perfecting holiness in the fear of God it's all the Holy Spirit's power but it takes all of our commitment as well where here is a church to help you in that to serve you by giving you the Word of God providing all the resources for you to know and have convictions and believe things that are going to cause you to behave in a way that honors God that's the ministry the church has there is more in this chapter that is equally rich and we'll look at what's yet to come the next couple of weeks father we're so grateful as we think about these things we feel like we're just touching the edge the hem of the garment there's so much here so helpful to see the clarity and consistency with which the Bible explains itself comparing Scripture with Scripture and we know that you are your own interpreter that your word interprets itself by its own consistency we see in it the very divine mind coming through with such clarity thank you for what you have given to us by way of the vision of Christ there's so much of him in the scripture so much of him so that we can gaze at your glory as manifest in him and be changed into his image Lord we look forward to the day when we will see him as he is as John says and we will be like him we will be like him we'll have a body like unto his glorified body we will be like him that is righteous and holy and eternal pure what a promise that is the prize of the upward call we long for that day but we desire to see the answers to our lord's prayer in our lives even now that we would be sanctified as we look to him as our example these things we ask for his glory amen

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Published: Wed Feb 10 2016