Christ's Prayer for Us — Leonard Ravenhill

God's Inexhaustible Supply

One of my favorite scriptures is, the river of God is full of water. We can't exhaust God's supplies. In one of his statements encouraging Christians, that very great Baptist preacher, Mr. Spurgeon said, never be afraid of taking too much from God.

Otherwise, he said, you might be like a bird in the air that says, I better not breathe too much, or I might exhaust all the air. Or he said, we might be like a mouse that gets in a great big granary and says, I won't eat too much, I might eat the whole granary up.

In other words, it's impossible. And the river of God is full of water. The supply is there, whatever supply we need. And the manner is always fresh. It isn't stale. You may be stale, I mean, we may get stale, but the word of God is never stale.

It's always fresh, beautiful, and reinvigorates us. John 17, usually called, or very seldom I should say, called the Lord's Prayer. We talk about the Lord's Prayer, we say sometimes, a brother's going to sing the Lord's Prayer.

That is not the Lord's Prayer, that's the disciples prayer. The disciples said, teach us to pray, and he said, after this manner pray ye. This is the Lord's Prayer. The disciples could not pray this prayer.

And Jesus could not pray the disciples prayer. This prayer is divided very neatly into three sections. Verses 1 to 5, Jesus prays for himself. Verses 6 to 19, he prays for his disciples. And verses 20 to the end, he prays for the world.

There are times when people say about this prayer, Jesus here is not, he's only praying for his disciples. This is not true, Jesus here is praying for the world. One of the conditions of prayer is purity.

Purity and Integrity in Prayer

In the revival in the Hebrides, one day Dr. Duncan Campbell told me that there was, or one night in a meeting, there was no sense of God. The atmosphere froze. It was like brass, as we say, the heavens are like brass.

And he called on a boy, a boy about 16 years of age, a boy called John Smith. He asked him to pray. If I remember right, that boy prayed for 45 minutes. But before he prayed, he said what's the good of praying if we're not right with God.

What's the good of praying if we're hiding hypocrisy. We sabotage our praying. We blame the devil, we blame lots of things, but we sabotage our own praying. And he said no, let's remember. And he quoted and he read a psalm that became a basis for revival in the Hebrides from 1949 onward.

And that was the 24th psalm. This became the basis, almost every time they gathered for worship. They quoted Psalm 24, who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord. Edith hath clean hands and a pure heart.

He hath not lifted up his soul to vanity nor sworn deceitfully. I'm convinced, you may not be, but I'm convinced that we sabotage a lot of our own praying because of gossip, slander, criticism, bitterness.

In other words, these lips of ours are impure. I often think of a bride and bridegroom, a church full of wonderful people ready to celebrate a wedding. And somebody drags in a garbage can. Wouldn't that be lovely.

Put it between the bride and the bridegroom. A garbage can full of all smelly fish and lettuce and junk. I've never seen that at a wedding. I've seen a lot of strange things at weddings, but I've never seen a garbage can there.

It will be out of place. And I believe that conversation is as repulsive and out of place in the presence of God. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord. Edith hath clean hands. Hands mean our relationship with the world.

Edith hath clean hands and a pure heart. That hath not lifted up his soul to vanity. A few years ago I was riding in an automobile down the turnpike in Ohio. With some very famous men, world-famous preachers.

And I was amazed there was six of us in the car. My dear wife wasn't there, I was glad. But the preachers were there, their wives were there. And suddenly one of them told an off-color joke. And so of course somebody else had to try and beat it.

And I was amazed that they'd been in a meeting urging people to be cleansed and filled with the Spirit. And then were telling the, the jokes that some people wouldn't tell even in a tavern I'm sure. Very often criticism again, and bitterness and slander.

We can't come into God's presence unless our lips are clean. Edith hath clean hands and a pure heart. He that backbiteth not with his tongue. The tongue is an unruly member. When I look at a congregation singing all for a thousand tongues, I always praise the Lord they haven't got them.

If you did as much damage with the other 999 or kept it as busy as the one you've got, you'd be in trouble. If you used your arm, if you used your arm all the time you talk, boy the next day you'd have to go and get it, some massaging or somebody.

But the tongue never gets tired for some reason. It's a dangerous thing. So Jesus conforms to this standard. I can't think of anything more wonderful, more thrilling, than Jesus praying. I was reading the next chapter this morning, 18th of John.

And I notice in verse 2 it says, Judas also which betrayed him, knew the place. This is the garden of Gethsemane. He knew the place, for Jesus often resorted thither with his disciples. There were many miniature Gethsemane's before the final Gethsemane.

Jesus as a Man of Prayer

I think when Jesus went to Gethsemane, it must be like a man who was looking at a scaffold that he was going to be hung on. Jesus trained in prayer, if you want to put it that way. Jesus exercised prayer, there's nothing greater.

I said this, I still affirm this, that there is, that no man is greater than his prayer life. I don't care how eloquent, how theological, how brilliant he is. No man is greater. The devil doesn't fear preaching.

If he did, he'd be scared to death every Sunday. But he doesn't bother about it. Prayer doesn't scare him, preaching doesn't scare him, prayer does. And I remind you again, if you want to follow the prayer life of the Lord Jesus, you would read the Gospel of Luke.

Because he emphasizes prayer in every crisis situation that Jesus had. Jesus was baptized in Jordan, Luke says it was as he was praying he was baptized. Jesus chose twelve disciples, Luke says after he spent a night in prayer he chose twelve disciples.

Jesus was transfigured on the Mount of Transfiguration, Luke says it was as he was praying. There's nothing more transfiguring. Romans 12 1 and 2 says, present your body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed. The word there is the same, be ye transfigured. By the renewing of your mind, it's more than knowledge, it's the renewing of your personality.

There is nothing more demanding. Why they said to Jesus, you talk about Abraham, you're not 50 years of age, he was 30. Would you like anybody to think you were 50 when you were 30? Why was he so old?

Because he often went to the garden, he resorted with his disciples. Very often it says he went on to the Mount to pray as was his custom, they went to bed as was their custom. Jesus was essentially a man of prayer.

There's no fortification like prayer. For us, there's no detergent like prayer. Because immediately you go to prayer, if you have an obstruction, if you have any dirt there, if you have any conscience at all, any sensitivity to the Spirit, the Spirit will immediately say no.

There's an obstruction between you and God. This was not true in the case of the Lord Jesus. Jesus lifted up his eyes, if you, if you approach this portion in the life of Jesus as I do, you must feel like taking your shoes from off your feet, for the place whereon we stand is holy ground.

Thomas Mamton, he was one of the Puritans, lived in the 1500s. And he has a thick volume, a huge volume on John 17, not on John, just on John 17. And he calls this the dying blaze of the Lord Jesus. Very often when a person has been sick, even in a coma, they'll suddenly sit up and begin to talk something, and then they'll go out like that.

The last effort they do, this was the dying blaze of the Lord Jesus Christ, his last great final utterance. It's the longest prayer. The second longest prayer was the prayer of Jesus when he called Lazarus from the tomb.

That's the longest recorded prayer, apart from this one. But this is essentially, again, the prayer of Jesus. This is the Lord's prayer, remember, the other is the disciples prayer. The disciples could not pray this prayer, Jesus could not pray the disciples prayer.

They don't fit. Jesus lifted up his eyes unto heaven, and said, Father the hour is come. It says that again in that story of Lazarus, Jesus lifted up his eyes, we usually close our eyes. Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven.

Psalm 123 verse 1 says, unto thee will I lift up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. It isn't possible for us, I'm sure, to in any way test, measure, or find the degree of relationship between Jesus and his Father.

I remind you again, that Jesus says a little later to his disciples, you tarry here, I go yonder to pray. They never would have understood his praying. When I first went to Dr. Tozer's church, I said to one of the elders, I'm looking forward to praying with Dr. Tozer.

I'd rather pray with a man than eat my dinner. I'd rather pray with a man than do anything. The greatest, most important work, this side of eternity. And this man shocked me by saying, well, Dr. Tozer doesn't come to prayer meetings.

Well I said, now, now I'm amazed. Well he said, you see, he used to come to a prayer meeting, and, and he'd give a dissertation on prayer, and then he'd say, now let us pray. And nobody would pray. Nobody would pray till Dr. Tozer prayed.

Then after he prayed, nobody dared pray. So they asked him to stay at home. Isn't that nice, when you're such a spiritual, anointed pastor, that you say, could, could you please skip the prayer meeting, because, you see, everybody else, they kind of said their ABCs, they paddled around in waters to the ankles.

He plunged off into the deeps. He knew a dimension in prayer that, that the rest of the people did not know. It's rather amazing that, to me at any how, that, that if you go to, say a seminary, I don't know if they teach music in seminaries, go to Bible school, they have a section where they'll teach you this, and they'll teach you that, and they'll teach you something else.

But I do not know of schools where they teach prayer. Andrew Murray has a book with Christ in the school of prayer. We very much need a school of prayer. I don't know how many candidates we get, I don't think we get too many.

It will be very, very, very deep water. It will get very dry for the average person, I'm quite sure of that, but not to the person who really wants to know God. Jesus lifted up his eyes and prayed, Father the hour has come.

Christ's Divine Appointment and the Value of Time

If there was anything that Jesus was conscious of, and I'm sure there were many things, his ministry, that he had come to save the world, at least from a certain point he knew that. But if there's anything that Jesus was conscious of, he was surely conscious of this, that his life was worked out to a divine program.

Father the hour is come. Elsewhere he says, for this hour I came into the world. To me the most biting thing, if I use that phrase here, is in the seventh chapter of John. Where John is, you remember, Jesus says you go up to the feast.

Off you go, you boys, go to the feast. I go not up to the feast. Now the feast only lasted seven days. Some people say eight, all right have it eight. Jesus says you go to the feast, off you go, it's the great feast of the year, the final feast.

More than a million people went. Again we've lost all the pomp and circumstance, it doesn't mean much to us. When they went to feast, to the feast, they were marching to Zion, the beautiful city of God.

They sang hymns, nor they sang songs. And they really praised the Lord as they went. And when they went there, there was a chandelier, it looked very much like a cross, and it had two baskets of fire, there was no other way to illuminate the city.

When Jesus said I am the light of the world, they, they looked at that, and remember that this was the light only of the city. He said he was the light of life, he said he was the bread of life, and so forth and so on.

But Jesus was very conscious, that he was working to a timetable. You go up to the feast, I go not up. And yet two days after he went up to the feast, in the middle of the feast, Jesus went up. Why didn't he go the first day?

Couldn't waste the time. I've known men who said well I'm going to a conference, and good conference, famous conference, for six or seven days. And they say well please, will you tell me what part of the program I'm going to preach?

I don't have time. Oh you say he doesn't want to listen to somebody else, thinks he's the only preacher. No no, he's a smart man. He realizes that while God will forgive you for many things, this thing never forgives anybody.

You can't turn it back. Sometimes you wish you could, don't you? You can't turn it back. Time like an ever rolling stream, bears all its sons away, they fly forgotten as a dream flies of the opening day.

What's the most precious thing you have, money? No, you you get to my age, you're older than I am, and you say well money doesn't matter, if I had just a little more time. I think I have about four books I've started writing.

I don't know when I'll finish them, but, oh five maybe now, but I just wish I had more time. Sometimes I say I won't preach anymore, I'll just, I'll just go home and write. But I like to preach, I confess this.

Other people don't like my preaching, but I like it. But anyhow, and so I have to, but I'd like to take more time. I'd like to find a clock with 26 hours on it every day, and a calendar with eight days, and a calendar with 13 months in the year.

It might get through, but no sir, time is the same for all of us. You can't stretch it, you can use it wisely. You go up to the feast, I go not up to the feast. In the middle of the feast Jesus went up.

They said oh don't go through Jewry, and he said it's all right, my hour is not yet come, don't you worry about it. Now Hudson Taylor said, and I think he was right, that that we're immortal until our work is done.

You can go to the gates of hell, it won't make any difference. One of the scriptures that comforts me when I'm flying in the sky, I don't think we should fly, flying's for the birds. But one of the things that comforts me in the sky is that Jesus has the keys of death and of hell.

And I always kind of say that when I get in a plane, it won't go down, Jesus has the keys anyhow, and he's gonna look after me. We're immortal until our work's done. Go ye up to the feast, I go not up to the feast.

Look after your time. If you look after time, eternity will take care of itself. Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, Father the hour has come, glorify thy son that thy son may also glorify thee. Jesus glorified the Father.

He glorified him in doing everything the Father requested of him. He glorified the Father in Gethsemane, he glorified the Father on the cross, he didn't give up. He glorified the Father in the resurrection, and that's all I'm saying about that there.

As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. Now Jesus is very conscious that this little group that he has, is given to him of the Father.

Do you know why? Because he says this in verse 2, in verse 6, in verse 9, in verse 11, in verse 12, and in verse 24. He's not wasting his time, these are being given to him. Now if you know the answer to this, tell me I don't know the answer.

Why did Jesus labor with 12 men for three years? If anybody could handle a hundred or a thousand men, Jesus did, why did he only have 12? Well some say because there are 12 thrones up there. There are 4 and 20 elders.

Are 12 of them the old patriarchs, and 12 of them the new patriarchs, if you like, of the New Testament. Why did he only have 12? 12 is a sign, the number of perfect government, sure enough. Otherwise I don't know why he took 12.

And when he took 12, they weren't all a success, some of them were a failure. Isn't it amazing that Jesus would sit patiently day after day, tutoring, teaching, and you know he never said take your notebooks out and take notes.

He never taught them, never gave them an outline. I don't know that he ever preached to them on the mysteries of Daniel's revelation, I don't know that he did. All Jesus did was walk before them, and show them how to walk as well as how to work.

If you were to stand here, brother Bill could do this I'm sure, and sing very beautifully, I walk today where Jesus walked. It's a nice hymn. You would raise an eyelash, not even a false one. That wouldn't worry anybody, if you say I walk today where Jesus walked.

But if you said I walk today as Jesus walked, somebody say do you think that's right? Well as we see tonight, Peter said that we should walk even as he walked. How did he walk? He left us an example that we should walk even as he walked.

Now of course we're going to guess how you know, we don't guess how you walk. You read the next verse, we should walk even as he walked, who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, who when he was reviled, will be reviled not again.

And so it gives you all the way that Jesus walked, and it says that's the way you're to walk. You're to walk without sin, you're not to backbite, you're not to retaliate, you don't let people rub you out if they want, that's quite all right.

Don't worry about it. Walk as he walked. When you say it's impossible to live without sin, no it's possible, it's possible to live without sin, not impossible to live without sinning. If you can sin and be a Christian, well why don't you write a list out and tell these young people what sins they can commit and what they can't.

You'll help them a lot. I'm sure they're quite confused over many things in modern life. What sins can you commit? What sins can't you commit? Can you commit sins of the flesh and not sins of the spirit, or sins of the spirit and not of the flesh?

Sanctification as Progressive Growth in Grace

Now I know that's a big area, and somebody will say Raven who preaches sinless for faith, don't preach anything of the kind. I don't know a man in history that ever did. They accused John Wesley of it, because he preached sanctification.

But Wesley said that sanctification, regeneration, is sanctification begun. As I've said so often, the Christian life is this, it's process, crisis, process, crisis, except it's not on the level, it's all uphill.

It's process, and then a crisis. And you get through a big event in your life, and you say that's the big, God will never have anything bigger than that, I've just graduated. And all you do is get a bit further up the road, you live on a process for a while, you go on, then suddenly another crisis.

And you say my, that's worse than last time. This must be the last hump I'm getting over. And you go on maybe instead of two months, you go on for a year maybe, and then next, another crisis. And then, that's the only way you're growing grades.

There's no plateau. There's not reaching a height where you say well beyond this there's nothing. Lowry wrote a book, I've been after it for 30 years, I got one recently. There are many abridged editions, but I managed to get an unabridged edition of Lowry's marvelous book.

I haven't read it yet. I've got about 2 ,000 books at home I haven't read, but Lowry's book, The Possibilities of Grace. We don't explore the possibilities of grace. It's pathetic to go to some churches.

We were in a house, I conducted a house meeting, and a lady said to another lady, the pastor's going to be after you, you weren't in church last night, Wednesday night. She said I haven't been for three weeks.

Oh, the pastor will be after you, he's been already. What did he say? He said I didn't see you in church Wednesday night. What did you say? He said I looked at him and said, pastor I don't need saving three times a week.

What do you mean you don't need saving? All you preach Sunday morning is a salvation message, Sunday night a salvation message, Wednesday night a salvation message. I want something to feed on. I am saved.

I want to explore other areas of grace. Tell me something about trial. Tell me something about temptation. Tell me something about gifts of the Spirit. Tell me something about purity. Tell me something about sanctification.

Tell me something about holiness. All they do is paddle around in waters to the ankles. Ezekiel is a prophet that measures everything. Everything is done in stages. That's, that's how God works. God could have made the world in a day.

He could have said let the world be and it came. He took seven days to do it. He could have sent to a piece of dust stand up and Adam would have stood up. He didn't do that, he made Adam. And then finally breathed into him the breath of life.

Ezekiel has a vision. Here is a boneyard, big big stacks of bone. And the Lord says, come and have a walk. I don't think God ever asks a man to do a task, a job without showing him what that thing is or giving him some idea of the size of it.

And he says let's walk around the boneyard. Now can these dry bones live? And faith of course would say yes. And doubt would say no. And this man walks right down the middle and he says Lord thou knowest.

But did anybody ever have a more difficult job than Ezekiel? Prophesied to these bones. And he prophesied. And bones started jumping here there and everywhere. They laid out all in order, beautiful. Skeletons.

But you've made progress. They were bones, they become skeletons. He speaks again and sinew comes on the bones. Well you've got a bit further. He speaks again and flesh comes on the sinews. He speaks again and skin comes on the flesh.

Now you had a jungle of bones, look like a scrapyard of wrecked automobiles, except they were wrecked bodies, wrecked skeletons. There's a sudden knocking together and there's a noise. Well that would suit us, we like noise.

We mistake rattle for revival and commotion for creation and action for action. Bumping bones together and suddenly they're all beautiful skeletons. And then sinews and then flesh and then skin. And instead of having a valley full of bones, a valley full of skeletons.

Instead of skeletons you've got a valley full of corpses. They must have looked very nice. Hands but they couldn't move, eyes they couldn't see, feet they couldn't walk. That's all of it. Then he speaks again.

And breath came and then they became an exceeding great army. Now but there was process and progress. From the bones to the skeletons to the corpses to the living being. The same with the river. The river is water to the ankles.

And then I measured a thousand cubits and it was water to the knees. And then I measured a thousand and it was water to the loins. Then I measured a thousand waters to swim in. Well it's up for you, I wouldn't try to do it.

What, where are you now since you were saved? Are you still paddling in an inch of water? Or is it water to the ankles? Or is it to your knees or loins? Or have you got there where you've got your feet?

Because that's the only place of faith, you get your feet. I can swim with one toe on the bottom. Real good, you should see me go. But if you tell me to jump into 25 feet of water, no sir I'm gonna stand on the bank and watch the others do it.

Launch out into the deep, Jesus says, and let down your nets. But we stay paddling around here don't we? 20-minute sermon is nearly too long. Oh two or three hours in the recreation hall isn't too long.

Three hours on the beach isn't too long. Eighteen holes on the golf course isn't too long. But you know I mean you get to concentrate. It gets a bit heavy doesn't it? Because you could do that if you're a scientist over the water there.

You could spend hours when other people are sleeping, working this thing out and something else out. And mystifying language we don't know a thing about. Well, well why not be as earnest and zealous and determined to be an explorer in grace as other men are in space.

If we'd explored grace as we've done space, though we'd be living in the millennium and got past that we might all be in heaven now. But we're not as zealous about that. The perishing things of clay as A .B. Simpson said, fascinates us a great deal more don't we?

Knowing God as Eternal Life

The hour has come. You'll discover in your life as I have done, and I'm sure you've already done this, there are hours in your life. You'll come to an hour of temptation, you'll come to an hour of disappointment, you come to an hour of grief, you come to an hour of joy, come to a period in your life which is just a milestone if you like.

Jesus said father the hour has come. Verse 3, this is life eternal that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ. If Christianity is anything at all, it's a religion of knowledge. It's a religion of knowledge.

Do you know that word know, or knowledge, or knowing occurs 1436 times in the Bible, that's an awful lot. I know in whom I have believed. We know that we have passed from death unto life says God. He's always saying we know, we know, we know.

If you say to somebody are you saved, they say they don't know, well it can always help them out, for they surely aren't. If a man is carrying a load on his back, and he's just sagging under that load, and you go lift it off his back, and he stands up straight, do you think he'd know that he'd lost the burden?

If you've lost the burden of sin you'll know. If you were locked up in a dark room and there's a man there with a club in case you got out, and somebody comes and clobbers the man and knocks him down, and takes you out of the dark room into the sunshine, would you know that you'd come out of darkness into the most marvelous light?

The man that doesn't know isn't saved, because the Spirit bears witness. And he not only bears witness, John Wesley preached on the witness of the Spirit more than any other sermon he ever preached. But not only does the Spirit bear witness that we're saved, he bears witness in everything.

In the ninth isn't it, in the ninth of Romans where Paul says I call the Holy Ghost, I want you to be very brave to dare to ask the Holy Ghost and say the Holy Ghost told me this, because he could kill you anyhow, like he did Ananias and Sapphira.

He says I call the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost to bear witness, that I have a burden for you, that I could wish myself a curse, the literal word is, I'll be damned if need be. If my damnation would mean your salvation, I'm prepared to be damned in order to get you saved.

Now you've got to be very brave to talk to God like that. That's not our language, our language is oh Lord bless us today as we go down the road and don't let anybody hurt us, and oh bless John Smith working with weekly translators, amen.

That's about it eh. When you get alone in the secret place with God, does it become an arena, now there are times when the sky will open and you'll be transported to heavenly places. There are times when you'll feel it's like hell, when you battle principalities and battle darkness.

And God wants it that way, it's the only way you can become a Christian, become mature, get something out of here to down here. Your theology doesn't matter too much, until it gets in your bloodstream.

As I say, well whatever I teach, God gives me it back on a plate and says eat it yourself. Otherwise I'm just here directing the traffic, I'm just a philosopher. I talk about getting battered and beaten up, I've been battered and beaten up and lied about, misrepresented by men.

Many of them teach deeper life and whatnot. I won't retaliate, it isn't out of the fact they do it. You think you're having it rough, Jesus was the holiest person that ever lived. And you know what they said, you know I cast demons out of people, because he's the prince of demons that's why.

He's not from God, he's from hell itself. And so the demons, they respect him, because he's their king, he's their prince. Now nobody said that of you did they yet? Maybe it's coming, but they didn't say it yet.

As I say it's very nice, I don't know if it's in your hymn book, is the hymn, Oh to be like thee blessed Redeemer? Isn't in your hymn book? What a poor hymn book. But anyhow, in the Christian Mystery Alliance they sing it a great deal, Oh to be like thee blessed Redeemer.

Full of compassion, pure as thou art. It's a lovely, lovely hymn. But if you're going to be like him, you can't be choosy and say well I want to be like you here, but not there. If you're going to be like him, you'll be lonely.

He was very lonely. He went to pray, they went to bed. He went to get seminate. The greatest privilege ever allowed any men on earth, was to be with Jesus in that final critical hour, just before he died.

And they went to sleep, and he came back, and they were asleep, and he came back, and they were asleep, and he gave up. He said all right forget it, forget it, keep sleeping. They'd already vowed. Peter says you can't depend on this bunch, they're not very dependable.

But me, I'll die for you. He didn't die, he went to sleep. Easy to make out. Every vow you've made this week, Satan will contest it. I'm going to talk about that tonight. If you've yielded ground to God, Satan's going to fight to get every inch of that ground back.

If you said my prayer life is sick, I'm going to pray. Maybe you've already seen to it that you didn't pray. I met a girl on the mall, down in Merritt Island the other night, after a meeting we'd had.

My wife wanted something, and we went on the mall after the meeting, there was one of these moonlight madness sales, and we wanted a bargain. This girl came up, she said Mr. Rayfield the devil's doing his best tonight to keep me from praying.

My mother wants me to go here, somebody wants, but I'm going to pray. That sixteen-year-old girl had met God in the meeting, she went home and prayed the whole night through. And I admire her for it.

But you see Satan contested. He knew that if that girl tasted the deep things of God, and entered into a new relationship, and a new prayer life, that he'd lost an awful lot of ground. Because she was going to gain ground that night, and it would be harder the next day for him to get back.

He wanted to get back what he'd already lost, before he lost something more. Before she got new, before she got new interests, and desires, and vision, and concern. This is life eternal that they may know thee.

He says he gave to them eternal life. What is eternal life? Now we caught the scripture, we say now you got saved. The gift of God is eternal life. And we suggested as though it's a gift from God. Here he gives you a bit of eternal life.

He has a resource here, and he takes some, and he says there you are that is eternal life. It doesn't say that. It doesn't say eternal life is a gift from God. Eternal life is the gift of God. It's God himself coming to live in your personality.