And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
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Prophetic God, the God who saves, the God who preexisted. And listen, evidence that our faith is founded upon facts. I love this. Are you a Bible-believing follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, And do you understand God's word and his promise? You're not wishful thinking some sort of religious experience. It's based on fact. Listen, when God says, I'm going to do this or that, and then he does what he says, that is him announcing to us that he's the God of facts. He doesn't tell stories. He'll give you a parable to enlighten a fact. Isaiah chapter 55. We all appreciate this. We all love verse 11, but I wanted to throw more of the context into it. Isaiah 55. You guys okay? Isaiah 55 verse 8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts. I'm so glad. Nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. …
began that some of you are thinking alright Dave we got a long way to go to get 40 plus times well get your pen pencil ready verse 6 I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world they were yours you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word now they know that everything you have given me comes from you for I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them they knew with certainty that I came from you and they believe that you sent me I pray for them I'm not praying for the world but for those you have given me for they are yours all I have is yours and all you have is mine and glory has come to me through them I will remain in the world no longer but they are still in the world and I'm coming to you holy father protect them by the power of your name the name you gave me so that they maybe one as we are one while I was with them I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me none has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that scripture would be fulfilled I'm coming to you now but I say these things while I'm still in the world so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them I've given them your word and the world has hated them …
1. They partake with him in the ineffable delights he has in heaven, in the enjoyment of his Father. When Christ ascended into heaven, he was received to a glorious and peculiar joy and blessedness in the enjoyment of his Father, who, in his passion, hid his face from him; such an enjoyment as became the relation he stood in to the Father, and such as was a meet reward for the great and hard service he had performed on earth. Then “God showed him the path of life, and brought him into his presence, where is fullness of joy, and to sit on his right hand, where there are pleasures for evermore,” as is said of Christ, Psa. xvi. 11. Then the Father “made him most blessed forever. He made him exceeding glad with his countenance,” as in Psa. xxi. 6. The saints, by virtue of their union with Christ, and being his members, do, in some sort partake of his childlike relation to the Father; and so are heirs with him of his happiness in the enjoyment of his Father; as seems to be intimated by the apostle, in Galatians iv. 4-7. The spouse of Christ, by virtue of her espousals to that only begotten Son of God, is, as it were, a partaker of his filial relation to God, and becomes the king’s daughter, Psa. xiv. 13, and so partakes with her divine husband in his enjoyment of his Father and her Father, his God and her God.” A promise of this seems to be implied in those words of Christ to Mary, John xx. 17. Thus Christ’s faithful servants “enter into the joy of their Lord,” Matt. xxv. 21, 23., and “Christ’s joy remains in them,” agreeably to those words of Christ, John xv. 11. Christ from eternity is, as it were, in the bosom of the Father, as the object of his infinite complacence. In him is the Father’s eternal happiness. Before the world was, he was with the Father, in the enjoyment of his infinite love; and had infinite delight and blessedness in that enjoyment; as he declares of himself in Prov. viii. 30.: “Then I was by him as one brought up with him. And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him.” And when Christ ascended to the Father after his passion, he went to him, to the enjoyment of the same glory and blessedness in the enjoyment of his love; agreeably to his prayer the evening before his crucifixion, John xvii. 5., “And now, oh Father, glorify me with thine own self, with the glory I had with thee before the world was.” And in the same prayer, he manifests it to be his will, that his true disciples should be with him in the enjoyment of that joy and glory, which he then asked for himself, verse 13., “That my joy might be fulfilled in themselves,” verse 22., “And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them.” This glory of Christ, which the saints are to enjoy with him, is that which he has in the enjoyment of the Father’s infinite love to him; as appears by the last words of that prayer of our Lord, verse 26., “That the love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them.” The love which the Father has to his Son is great indeed: the Deity does, as it were, wholly and entirely flow out in a stream of love to Christ; and the joy and pleasure of Christ is proportionably great. This is the stream of Christ’s delights, the river of his infinite pleasure; which he will make his saints to drink of with him, agreeably to Psalms xxxvi. 8, 9.: “They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house. Thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life. In thy light shall we see light.” The saints shall have pleasure in partaking with Christ in his pleasure, and shall see light in his light. They shall partake with Christ of the same river of pleasure, shall drink of the same water of life, and of the same new wine in Christ’s Father’s kingdom, Matt. xxvi. 29. That new wine is especially that joy and happiness that Christ and his true disciples shall partake of together in glory, which is the purchase of Christ’s blood, or the reward of his obedience unto death. Christ, at his ascension into heaven, received everlasting pleasures at his Father’s right hand, and in the enjoyment of his Father’s love, as the reward of his own death, or obedience unto death. But the same righteousness is reckoned to both head and members; and both shall have fellowship in the same reward, each according to their distinct capacity. …