(John) Tender Touches — Willie Mullan

John 14:19 and the Promise of Christ’s Return

John's Gospel, chapter 14, and we're at the last part of the chapter. We're starting at verse 19, and we're going to try to go right through to the end of the chapter this evening. I know that I'm biting off more than usual, but I want to get through this part of the chapter this evening, right from 19 to the end, and then mark you that next Tuesday, in the will of God, we shall be at chapter 15.

And, of course, this is the great chapter of John's Gospel, where our Lord Jesus gives that teaching on the true vine. And there every believer will find how to live a life that brings glory to God. John, chapter 15, next Tuesday, in the will of the Lord, and we'll be dealing with that great subject of fruit-bearing, and how to live down here for the glory of God.

Now, in the verses before us this evening, we have many, many wonderful things. Indeed, I have termed this part of the chapter, Tender Touches. The Lord Jesus Christ is in the upper room here with his disciples, and he's teaching them some very wonderful truths.

I've called this portion, Tender Touches. I think that every believer will find beautiful things here this evening for them, beautiful things for believers. And I think that every student of the Word of God will find some very staggering things here.

Interpreting Difficult Passages in John 14

You see the verse 19 that we're commencing with? Well, the second phrase of the verse says this, and the world will see it no more. To say, sharpen the small and great span before God, that they shall see his face.

That the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and all the bondmen will cry in the rocks and mountains to hide them from the face of him that sitteth on the throne.

And the book teaches us in the day to come that every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him, and the tribes of the earth shall mourn because of him. The world will see me no more. There's a problem for you students.

Could I pick another one or two out for you? You see verse 21? He that hath my commandment. That's not the word, my commandment. You see verse 23? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my works.

You see verse 24? He that loveth me not keepeth not my saying. Is there a difference between my commandment, my word, my saying? Another one for you. Do you see verse 26? But the comforter which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things.

That in the absolute sense, you know as much as God knows. See verse 28 at the end of the verse, the last phrase. For my Father is greater than I. The verse of Unitarian. When they want to disprove the absolute deity of Christ, they say, didn't he say, my Father is greater than I?

Here are some problems for you. These are for me, of course, to expound. So that you'll find in the chapter this evening, beautiful things for believers, and staggering things for students, and yet again I think you'll find special things for the perishing.

It's a wonderful chapter, it's very deep, and I'm prepared to admit that it's very difficult, but I believe that it's also very delightful if you take your time and let the Holy Ghost lead you into the truth that's before us.

And so I'm taking it phrase by phrase this evening so that you'll really get the exposition of the verses that lie ahead of us. We're commencing at verse 19. I think you know what led up to this, don't you?

Don't you remember? We're in the upper room, and our Lord Jesus is talking to his own disciples. Yea, Judas has gone out to betray the Master, and you remember how at the commencement of the chapter he revealed that he was going away to prepare a place for them.

You remember that? That was a wonderful revelation and explanation for their consolation, why he was leaving there a place for them. Then you remember that in verse, remember in verse 8 he corrupted the Master, and there were some precious points for Philip to ponder in the answers.

And so we've got down through these things, and at verse 19 our Lord Jesus is talking to them, and he says this, praise yet a little while. You see, our Lord Jesus Christ is standing at that very moment in the upper room, above another, and at this it might display to us the marvelous unlimited divine knowledge.

Many remember the first verse of chapter 13. Well, have a look at it again. Chapter 13 began like this, Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come, that he should depart out of the world unto the Father.

Yes, there we have the knowledge of the Lord. He knew that his hour had come, and now it's growing nearer. He's saying to them, in the shadows of the three G's, wonder do you remember it? This is where he was.

And he's standing just here in the shadow of Gethsemane. In a little while, standing in the shadow of Gethsemane. And he's standing in the shadow of Golgotha. What a little while will bring forth. Anybody tells you that his knowledge was limited, you're gazing at the knowledge of the Lord.

Yes, that was the very night in which he was betrayed. That was the very night in which he stood in the hall with triumphers, and then on to the judgment hall. So that word yet is a wonderful word in your New Testament.

Try and go through it sometime and gobble them all up. It displays wonder. It's displaying the wonder of his knowledge here. Do you remember a few times, when I started the young ones off? Do you remember Paul writing to the Corinthians?

He said, Though our Lord Jesus Christ was rich. Do you remember Paul writing to the Hebrews? And in the fifth chapter he said this, Though he were our son, yet he obeyed him by the things which he suffered.

Mind you, he didn't obey him, yet learned he to obey. Oh, not at all. He had the human form as he walked in the will of God. That was the wonder of his experience. Obedience really was the servant of Jehovah.

Do you remember another verse in Hebrews? We have not, and I preach, which planet but that's with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are. Yes, without sin. That's the wonder, wonder of his life.

Remember one in Isaiah, who said, Wonder if you take out all the yet. And this is the wonder of his knowledge. Standing in the upper room as the shades of night had fallen, and he's saying to his disciples, Yet a little while.

The World Sees Christ No More

It's just showing you the knowledge of the Lord. Now we come to this difficult phrase, verse 19,. Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more. Of course there's a problem here, isn't there? When you find problems in the book, there's always an answer.

I teach some of you young ones how to hump this book through. You see, I found out that if anything doesn't fit in, something's wrong. Part of the book says, Every eye shall see him, and men shall cry on the rocks for them from his face.

Now there's something wrong with this. You find this out. That when you get something that's wrong, it's one of four things that have gone wrong. Preparation, duration, complication, duplication. You see, sometimes somebody lifts a phrase out and they bring it to you, you know.

An old lady did this the other evening to me. She said, Does the Bible say that we should work out our own salvation with fear and trembling? It does, I said. She said, That's good enough for me. The Bible says that you should work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, but it doesn't say it for sinners.

I said, Just you come back a wee minute. Will you let me show you where it is? It's in the letter to the Philippians, and your first verse in Philippians is Paul writing to the church at Philippi to the bishops and saints and deacons.

People, mother. The verse he was quoting was a verse that was for cave people. When God saves you, he works within you, and whenever God works within you, work out. You'll find you're being practically saved every day.

She had dislocated the word of God. Don't you allow them to dislocate. Then, of course, there's this misapplication. Has he left something, and it's really only applicable to the Jews, and he tries to apply it to you?

Or is it something out of excess that's only applicable to the Samaritans, and he tries to apply it to the Gentiles? They say before you can get the holy goods, you'll have to get somebody to lay their hands on you.

Well, if you find out in excess it was a Samaritan, and it was an apostle laying his hands on a Samaritan, and you can't find either an apostle or a Samaritan just in this place. Oh, you want to be very careful of misapplying the word of God.

But on this occasion, it's not misinterpretation, nor is it dislocation or misapplication. The trouble here is translation. ...thing, of course, you've got to get down to. I just read in the last week, I think, about fourteen different commentaries from all the best scholars, and I noticed this, that all in the country were agreed that the original phrase here is this one.

Watch me read it now, verse nineteen. ...a little while trouble, you know. You see, we're living in the dispensation of grace, and you know, grace came by Jesus Christ. And you know, when our Lord Jesus Christ was put on the cross, and his head fell lifeless on his chest, and tender hands took him down and put him in the tomb, by the world, no dispensation save him.

...didn't save him anymore, only his loved ones, who met around him in resurrection. It was his loved ones who watched him go up, and when he comes again, it will be his own loved ones who will rise to meet him in the air.

And in this dispensation, the world sees him no longer. So there's no trouble with it, but you have to see it, you see. Now, here's a lovely bit. Watch our Lord Jesus saying this. Nineteen, yet a little while, and the world no longer sees me, but ye see me.

Lovely, isn't it? It must be in the same dispensation. Yes, of course it is. You see, here's the idea, that in the dispensation of grace, the believers walk by faith. Remember Paul writing a letter to the Hebrews?

He said, we see Jesus crowned with glory and honor. You know, the faith of a real believer is a wonderful thing. It comes out from his heart, and it pierces the clouds, and it goes right away like a rocket, and it goes past all the stars, angels, and it goes right to the throne of God, and it says, as we sing here on Sunday morning, look, ye saints, the Christ is crowned, ye have seen the man.

We see him seated on the throne, our savior, our shepherd, our supplier, our supporter, our sovereign, by faith. Wonderful thing, isn't it? Yes, we walk by faith, not by sight. We walk by faith. And that's just exactly what he was saying here.

The world hasn't got this faith, so they're in the dark, and then the believer can see the blessed Lord Jesus. Now, here's a lovely touch coming on now. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more, but ye see me also.

For you, I passed that one by, didn't I? At what day? At what day? Now, just watch this, do you see it setting in? It's one of the loveliest touches in John 14. You see, our Lord Jesus is standing in the upper room, and it's just a little while, and he'll be on the cross, and he knows in the depths of his heart that unless the corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, the Bible is going to die.

But he knew more than that, he knew he was going to live again. He said, at that day, when I come back from the dead, we put them down, and we put them in with him. And as he rose in newness of life, so we rise with him.

You know, you'll only get the source and the teaching of that if you come back next week, because the whole thing is, I'm the vine, and my Father is the husbandman, and ye are the branches, and there's a connection.

He's shown you how to let that life live, through you. Wonderful retouch. Now, here's a lovely bit, 21 we're at now. Commandments, and there is an F there. Commandments of the Saviour. Commandments. The book now.

Christ’s Commandments and Obedient Love

Would you be added to this book? Now, no one dare take any weight. All the commandments are in the book. And you have them in your hand tonight. This is what it says. My heart, my commandments, it was them.

It's a wee bit, isn't it? You know, it's one thing to be able to coach them, and to turn to them, and mark them, and underline them. But it's another thing to let them be worked out in your life. He that hath my commandments and keepeth them.

Now, we're not on the top step yet. Here we're coming. Watch. He it is that loveth me. It's not getting emotional that proves your love for Christ. It isn't rolling on the floor that proves you love Christ.

It isn't screaming in the open air that proves you love Christ. And it isn't, it isn't barging in the prayer meeting, and that proves you love Christ. Let me tell you calmly, it proves you love Christ.

The commandment. You know, there are quite a number of commandments. One dares and starts to coach them. Here's the commandment of the Lord. Equally you, together with unbelievers, are to quibble about.

Because arguing is law-keeping, you know. And there's no use of trying to juggle with it. And there's no use of saying, you know, you know where I'm placed, and you know this, and you know that. I don't want to know.

About it. And you have to obey. It's your level. There is about it. No argument. She doesn't want your reasoning. No use a young lass going with a young fellow that's not saved and has her eye on him when she's praying for the Lord to help her out, you know.

When all the time the Lord's saying, be not unequally judged. That's all there is about it. Go home and argue whatever way you like. All the Lord wants of you is obedience. I want you to get a hold of that, because it's very important.

He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he that loveth me, but hears of it, now we're on the top step. He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and manifest myself to him.

Now we're at the cream of the gesture. You know, I want you to get this, believers. There's an experience in life, and it's called Christ Manifest. It's an experience for every believer. Believer experience.

What does this mean? What does this mean? I remember getting down on my knees about this. What does this mean? These are real followers and real believers. What does this mean when you manifest yourself to us?

You know, I've learned over the years very well, too. You see, I can look back. I'm looking back 27 years. I've come down the line. I can remember times when the Lord spoke to me out of a book, took me, you know.

His commands seemed quite clear to me, and I'm glad tonight I obeyed. Then from the center of the king's high way, he manifested himself to me as the shepherd saving your life. Oh, I know my soul saved, and it's lovely to know that he's the shepherd of every step.

If you really want to see the Lord saving your life, you'll have to obey his command. If you really want to know the Lord as the shepherd, you'll have to obey his command. And if you really want to know the Lord as the supplier of every need, you'll have to obey his command.

He'll really bless you. Don't talk to me about knowing the nearness of the Lord when you have just obeyed the book. I can tell you, you don't know the first thing about it. I mean, you're talking about second blessing, and if it started to teach you believers baptism, you'd turn your nose out.

Go on, obey the book. Just have to start to obey the book. That's all. Don't tell me that you can trample the word of the Lord onto your feet and get on with the Lord, because you can't make me believe any such nonsense.

Too old-fashioned for that. Lovely touch there, isn't there? Beautiful one. You young folk, go in for it. Now, here's somebody butting in again and interrupting. It's Judas this time, and the Bible's very careful, not Iscariot.

Not lovely of the Holy Ghost to do that. You see, Thomas butted in, and then Philip butted in, and now Judas is butting in. And you know, he's asking, yes, a question that's absolutely nonsensical, isn't it?

Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us and not unto the world? You know, sometimes people come and ask you questions, and you know, the Bible teaches me in these days that only ignorant questions I'm to avoid.

You see, I know this from experience, that sometimes a wee fellow comes and asks me a question, but it's not an answer he wants, you know, it's an argument he wants. Well, I'm not playing with him. Some of them say, oh, when you go to ask him anything, he wouldn't look at you, no fear of that.

I'm not looking. If you want an answer, I'll give you an answer. If it's an argument, away home and go to bed. People just want to come to argue. I don't want that. The Bible teaches meaning of the word, you know.

John learned an ignorant boy, but in this day before the Bible was completed, and the epistles were penned, and the Holy Ghost had come, the Lord was very gracious with boys like that. But there's a whole group now, and so he said, avoid it.

But he did speak to Judas, didn't he? And he said something I think is very wonderful. He said, verse 23, Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word, between my commandments and my words and my sayings.

Oh, they're about different. It was Dr. Ironside who first told me the answer, and I must really let you know that it was him that told me. He got me a whole lot of with it. You know, I spent a very precious ten days under Dr. Ironside's wing, and in those ten days he knocked a lot into me and a lot out of me that really needed to be done.

He put this one to me once. You know the difference between my commandments and my words? I said, no, sir, I don't. I was just honest about it. Well, listen, I'll tell you. He said, here's the easiest way to let you see that.

He said, we'll think about a young girl, sixteen, she's in the high school. She's very clever, she's getting on, but she's got lots of homework to do. She's working very hard to get into the higher grades, and he said, you know, her mother is a very wise woman and won't let her do very much housework, but then she's got to be trained somehow.

So he said, now look, Mary, you've got a lot of housework to do. I want you only to tidy your room. You must keep it correct. You must do your own polishing. You must do your own cleaning. You must make your own bed.

Now, this is really a must. This is your mother's command. Well, that's what Mary had to do. She's got to work hard and keep her own room, you know, and that wasn't too bad. He said, supposing one day we are seeing her coming home from school.

There hasn't too many exercises to do this evening. It's a beautiful evening, and the other girls say, Mary, hurry up and do the old exercise and let's get out and we'll go for a walk this afternoon and evening in the beautiful sunshine.

Mary says, right, I'll do it. We'll hurry out. And just as she goes in the hall, Mommy's talking to a lady in the sitting room, and Mary overhead her saying this, oh, I've got a lot of people coming this evening, and I haven't a silver gun, and I've so much to do, and I just feel miserable about it.

I don't know how I'll get through it all. And you know, Mary overhead her words. And Mary just turned in and said, Mommy, you lie down there. I'll clean the sofa, and I'll set the table. I'll do a whole lot of things.

Now, she wasn't commanded to do that, but she heard her mother's words. Sometime when you're reading through this, you'll find this. You'll find that Andrew came into the Lord's presence and was so thrilled with him that he ran away and first found his own brother Peter, and he brought him to Christ.

And you know, the Lord was pleased to see him. And from the words the Lord speaks to Peter, and from the words that he speaks to him ever after, you can see how delighted the Lord was. Now, you're not commanded in this book to go and find your brother first.

You're not sent in to the Lord's words. There's a whole lot of things you could do to please him. A lot of beautiful sayings and teachings and words of the Master that could show you wee things to do.

And when you keep his words, my, you please him. I can remember reaching a message like this in Glasgow, and sitting at my elbow was a very big black man, I think the blackest man I've ever seen. Bob knew him well.

And when I'd finished, old Peter came in to me. He must have been 70 years of age. And I remember him getting down and holding up his black hands and his black face, and he said, Mr. Moan, Mr. Moan, I want to please him.

I want to please him from this night forward. I just want to please him. Do you ever think about pleasing him? You know, the fellow that's always asking, is there a command for that? He just wants to live on the edge of the cliff, doesn't he?

But the fellow, I hope you see the difference. It's a beautiful touch, isn't it? Now, once again, we're getting down. 23, Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man love me, he will keep my word. My father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him.

He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings. But the word which he hearth is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you. He gets pleasant with you. You see, I believe it because the Lord was standing in the midst, and they could hold on to his rope, or lean upon his breast, or put their arm round his shoulder.

I don't think they were getting the teaching the way they ought to get it. Perfectly sure they weren't. Only when he would be taken from them, that these things would come with force. But the Holy Ghost would have to come to really apply them.

That's why he said this, being yet pleasant with you. Then he immediately started. Watch, verse 26, But the comforter which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things.

God says it like this. You see, is this in the absolute sense? He's going to teach you all things that God knows? Wouldn't you know as much as God? Not in that sense. He's not going to teach you all the eternal things.

And he's certainly not going to teach you all the physical things. And he's certainly not going to teach you all the mental things. No, it isn't in the sense of eternal, or in the sense of physical, or in the sense of mental, nor in a thousand other senses.

It's just in one sense. He will teach you all things spiritual. For your spiritual well-being, the Holy Ghost is prepared to teach you. Never let it just enter the absolute sense. Now watch, verse 27.

The Peace Christ Gives His Disciples

Now I think this is lovely too. There's a vast difference between peace and my peace. The one he was leaving, and the other he was giving. You see, I believe that peace, when it's a great subject, isn't peace.

I believe this, that when our Lord Jesus Christ hung in Yom Kippur, he was delivered from our offences, then he was raised again for our justification. And the next verse says, You see, when a poor sinner is brought to see the finished work of the cross, and puts the arms of his faith round the atoning sacrifice, he's justified before God, into the near place, in the presence of the Holy God, just as if he'd never sinned, because Christ, his offences, on the tree, reconciles.

Appearances is what he said. He said to all those saints, and they were already justified, and they already had peace with God. He said to them, these fellows shall have the blessing of peace with God.

He said to those, be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let you request the midnoon unto God, and the peace of God. Keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Now, there's all the difference between peace with God, I was last here with Mr. Montgomery, and he took a heart attack yesterday, and when I rushed in to see him, well, I thought he was just a few, but I'm only a few inches seeing his blessed face.

He was in the valley of the shadow, I know. He was nearly there. And with this pain tearing in his breast, with gasps, you know, he got it out. Only a few inches from seeing his blessed face. And I'm happy.

Could you be like that? You know, this is your privilege too, because the Lord left this for you too. Are you also claimant, you know? And I'll tell you this, the old group has taught long ago that he will come to home.

You know, between the two. He, the two that's there. It was lovely of the Lord to say this. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto you. Not as the world gives, give I unto you. Then he comes back to what he started with afterwards.

Let not your heart be afraid. I have this talk with these fellows in the upper room, I'll tell you. This was really wonderful of the Lord. You know, he wanted to counsel. Indecisive. Really wonderful.

The Lord wanted. The platform he built, he built it to do it. First of all, he gave them a revelation of where I'm going and I'm going to build a house. I'm going to build a place for you. If I go, I'll prepare a place for you.

He began with a revelation. And then he went on to talk about the manifest. And then he talked about the habitation of the Holy Ghost inside them. And then he talked about not only the revelation, and not only the manifestation, and not only the habitation, but he talked about the consolation.

My peace. What are you worried about? I'm wrapping the whole chapter into a wee packet for you to take home. You're a wonderful Lord. We want you to be worried, you know. Let them build your place. Let them go on with their atomic warfare.

They'll never touch the place he's building, you know. And you know, as you keep his commands, never mind what they do. He'll come and manifest himself to you. And you'll know him as a savior you never knew before, and as a shepherd, and a supplier, and a supporter, and a servant.

What a wonderful Lord he is. And you know, he has given the Holy Ghost inside to lead you unto every bit of spiritual truth within. Friend, here he is, wonderful Jesus, wants to console you. But let's get through with this.

Christ’s Departure, the Father’s Greatness, and His Victory

We're at verse 28 now. Oh, you have heard how I said unto you, I go away and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father. And here's a lovely retouch. What are you all worried about?

You know, the moment that he said over the page, my little children, as I said unto the Jews, and I'll say I unto you where I go, ye cannot come. And because he said, I go, fill their hearts. You remember me reading that verse to you, Sarah filled their hearts.

What were they sorrowing about? You know, the one who was going to take their place on Calvary, was going to be raised from the dead, and taken up through the clouds, and passed all the angels, and seated down on the very fruit of God, our perfect Savior.

What was there to worry about? The very fact that he was going to the Father is the fact that the work was finished on Calvary. And the very fact that he went is the very fact that you'll go too. You know, I think there's a lovely touch here.

He says, my, ye should rejoice, that I'm going to the Father. And do you know, I know that when we lose our loved one, there is a certain sense where we sorrow. Well, let me say this tenderly now, because I know all the folk in the meeting, or the most of those, let me say this, there is a sense in which you can rejoice.

Remember that. You know, they have been taken away out of this world of pain. They've been taken away from temptation, and toss, and pains, and storms, and tears, and problems, and wars, and darkness, and satan, and slander, and curse, and everything that you can name that's wrong.

I am. I'm no more troubled. She's at home with the Lord. Yes, you can rejoice. That's what the Savior's teaching you. Don't miss it now. He said, my, ye should rejoice, because I'm going. And you can rejoice when they go with them too.

Now watch again. Verse 28. Ye have heard how I said unto you, if I go away and come again unto you, if ye love me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father, for my Father is greater than I.

Probably that's the biggest problem in the chapter. And yet it's a very simple one. You know, all Unitarians, and all those who follow in this train, this one, this doctrine, and Russellites, and Christodelphians, and I suppose a hundred moreists, and all the rest of it, who deny the Trinity, the absolute deity of our Lord Jesus, they all run to the steps.

And you know, there's something in the decks, they all miss. It's not a long one, so there isn't very much that you could miss, is there? Watch me read it. My Father is greater. Through your New Testament, please watch the places where the word is THE Father.

John chapter 10, so we try to get a real basis on this. John 10, you remember we came down through these pages. John 10, and verse 30. Father of One. I hope you're noticing the word MY. Because if it's a good Bible, it's in italics.

You see, the translators put the word IN. Sometimes they put the wrong word in. You can see from the very verse that he's talking about I and THE Father. There's an equality. I am the unity. You see, it would be absolute sinful idiosyncrasy to say I even have the politeness when you were talking about your Father to say MY Father and I.

I don't know very much about grammar, but I know that much. I know that you would put your Father first. And I know you would have the politeness to put your son next. But just to prove that he was co-equal, to be equal with God, he said it first, and he said it meaningfully.

And you go through the Scriptures, watch it. You see, when it's THE Son and THE Father, it doesn't make a matter which one. First, it's co-equal and co-eternal. But I want you to get the hold of this.

That THE Son and THE Father, before the hills and all that stood, made a covenant to go down to earth. Humanity was not to be born, but he had no human father. And as a servant of Jehovah, as a servant, he says, MY Father.

The Father now. MY Father. You know, the very first recorded words of our Lord Jesus, when he's only said the first recorded words and they mean something. Here they are. He looked at Mary and said, WHICH HE KNOWS THAT I MUST BE ABOUT MY FIRST BUSINESS.

He's the Son. Now, then, next the text appears again. All the scholars are agreed that on this occasion, in John 14, it should be THE Father. And the phrase actually proves it. Watch it. BECAUSE I SAID I GO UNTO THE FATHER.

That connects it, doesn't it? FOR THE FATHER. Greater than I. Because he took upon him the form of a servant, doesn't mean that he seeks to be God. Because in John 10 he can go back and say, WITHOUT ANY HESITATION, I AM THE FATHER OF ONE.

It's a pity they didn't read them all. Always you watch whether it should be THE FATHER and MY FATHER and the things found for you. When he talks about MY FATHER, he's the servant. When he talks about THE FATHER, he's the co-equal eternal Son.

Now, let's get on with this. This is a lovely little bit. I, the Master, talk much with you, for this world cometh and hath nothing in me. You know, he knew everything, didn't he? You know, he's standing in that little upper room and he knows it's just a little while and outside in the shadows the traitor is waiting for him and yonder is the very hill where he must lay down his life as a ransom for many.

And he knew that all the satanic of principalities and powers would come upon him and Satan would meet him personally at the cross. Yea, he would be allowed to prove his faith. But he knew the end of the story, you know.

He knew that he would rise triumphant. He says, I'll meet him all right. He has nothing in me. He knew he would defeat the devil. You know, he's building a platform for their comfort. You see, you've got it down in the chapter.

The revelation, why I'm going and what I'm doing. The manifestation, how near I can come to you even after I'm gone. The habitation of the Holy Ghost within you to teach you. The consummation, peace upon my peace.