I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do.
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… He said this toward the end of his life. I have glorified you on earth, Father. I have finished the work you gave me to do. And if you're saying, yeah, but that was Jesus and I'm not Jesus. Okay, well, Paul the apostle then. And Paul the apostle, at the end of his life, said, I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. So, find out God's call, run your race, and finish well. I just summed up your entire life purpose right there. Find out God's call, run your race, and finish well. find out God's call run your race and finish well I repeat just so you remember I want to help you get there I want to help you do that so I want to close by giving you a few questions to ask yourself to evaluate how you're doing in that and if you're smart you'll write these questions down number one am I going where God has called me simple question Am I going where God has called me? …
… I glory, he said at one point, I glorified you on the earth, talking to his father. I glorified you on the earth, having accomplished the work that you've given me to do. I've explained you on earth. That was the work you gave me to do. How do we miss this? But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and it was filled with, if the father was like you, what would go in that blank? If you were the son, what do you hope? goes into that blank. According to Jesus, we've all been the son because at some season of our lives, we've all been lost to God. The father saw the son in the parable and he filled with compassion for him and the crowd just moans. And then Jesus, because he's so good, he just pushes them to the edge of their capacity to follow him in this parable. and he ran, Jesus says, and he ran to his son and he threw his arms around him who'd been feeding pigs and he kissed him. …
… his whole life has been dedicated to his father's glory he recalls that his life has been devoted to his father's glory three times in john 17 verse 4 i glorified you on earth having accomplished the work that you gave me to do verse 6 i have manifested your name we talked last night about glory and name and honor and praise synonymous ways of talking about god's great end i've manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. And then verse 26, I have made known to them your name, Father, and I will continue to make it known. So Jesus not only did it and glorified his Father, he delighted in it, in his Father and his Father's glory. And then now the final one here in John 17. In the consecration of prayer, on his final evening before suffering and shame, he prays with a third joy. This might be the most surprising one for us. He prays for his own exaltation. …
… Turn back two chapters to John chapter 17. You look at John chapter 17, verse 4. Jesus uses the same word there. We kind of miss it because it's translated in some of our translations differently. But it says in verse 4, I brought you glory. This is Jesus praying to the Father. I brought you glory on earth by completing or finishing the work you gave me to do. same word in the original language of the New Testament that we see in John 19 verse 30 is now used here in John chapter 17 verse 4 now here's what I want us to do today I want us to think if Jesus said it is finished on the cross but he also said I finished the work you've given me to do in John 17 before he went to the cross then well this doesn't say the cross wasn't important that was obviously a very important part of his work but there was also another work that he was doing here that he could say even before he went to the cross, I've finished the work you've given me to do. …
… He prayed, Father, glorify your Son, that the Son may glorify you. I glorified you on the earth, having accomplished the work you gave for me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the foundation of the world. Oh, my goodness, this is glorious. Those are not separate questions. The first sentence on the webpage, I wonder who wrote it, that advertised this conference is, classical Christian education is ultimately about the glory of God through Christ. That's why I'm preaching what I'm preaching, because of that sentence. I said, okay, I got it. Green light. The glory of God through Jesus Christ. That's exactly right, because Jesus said, whoever does not honor the Son does not honor him who sent him, which means there is no glorification of God that is not a glorification of Christ. There's no such thing. Other religions are not true. who do not glorify Jesus Christ. Very controversial position in our day. …