John sixteen. The Lord said over in Matthew twenty four he said to learn the parable of the fig tree. And when the branches tender and put forth leaves you know summer is nigh. So likewise you when you see all these things. All the things he talked about there in Matthew twenty four. See, when you see all these things, know that He is near. Christ is near, even at the door. The return of the Lord is imminent. I mean, soon. It's all over, someone said, but the shouting. That's what it says. Scripture says it's going to happen when He comes, the Lord Himself shall descend with a shout. And in the meantime, the Lord hath reserved to himself some people who have not bowed the knee to the Baal, the religion of Baal today. I believe there are some true seekers. I believe there are some in here. I know there are. Not merely curious people, but real seekers. seeking the Lord, some true worshipers. It said, our Lord told the woman at the well that, he said, the time will come and now is when true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit. I mean, from the heart, really worshiping God, and in truth, the Word, the Gospel. He said, the Father seeketh such to worship him. I believe there's some true worshippers out there, and I believe there's some in here. Not merely religious, not here this morning because it's Sunday, but if it were Tuesday, you'd be here. I believe that. I believe there's some true watchers, waiters. Talk about those that watch for the Lord, wait on His coming, look forward to His coming. I really believe there are. And the scripture says to the sincere seekers. That's what we looked at last Sunday morning from Jeremiah. Seeking me, you shall find me when you search for me with all your heart. He said, you'll find. Seekers will find. He said, those that knock will have a door open to them, understanding. Askers, he said, I ask and you'll receive. There's nothing wrong with asking questions. As a matter of fact, I wish people would ask more questions. This generation has all the answers, though, don't they? And the questions they're asking, they're not worth asking. Job asked some pertinent questions, didn't he? How can he be clean as born a woman? How can man be just with God? Good question. The disciples here asked the Lord some questions, four questions, maybe five. If I get to the fifth. He asked some questions. And the Lord answered them. And they weren't foolish questions. They were questions that they wanted some answers for. regarding him, their relationship with him, and questions that we need to ask. And these are our Lord's, in John 13, chapter 13, 14, 15, 16, these are our Lord's parting words to his disciples. These are his private, personal words to his disciples. This is these are to his true disciples, his true followers. He spoke many words of comfort, and he opened up some mysteries to them. He revealed some things to them and answered their questions. Answered their questions. All right, look at John 16, verse 33, is the last thing he says. Let's look at the last verse. Verse 33, These things have I spoken unto you. Now, he said, a great deal. I mean, he had just spoken much volumes. He said, These things I have spoken unto you that in me you might have peace. In me. Knowing me. Trusting me. Understanding something of me, my person, my work. That in me you might have peace in the world. you shall have tribulation. These things have I spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer." And he must have smiled when he said that. I have overcome the world. All right, let's see what some of the things he said. Back to chapter thirteen now. Back to chapter thirteen. The Lord was leaving the earth. He was going to the cross to be crucified, but also to rise again and ascend to the Father. If they had thought back, sure he told them this several times. Back several ways before this, it says, At that time, beginning at that time, he began to tell them how that he would go to Jerusalem and be killed and on the third day rise again. He told them that more than once. He began to tell them that, remind them of that custom. If they just remembered his word. It's all in remembering his word. Peace is in remembering what he said. And I'm getting ahead of myself. At any rate, the disciples were troubled and they were confused. This, their father, Christ would have been their father. Don't let a father figure. He is the father. Their father, their mother, their brother, their provider, their protector. For three and a half years, they didn't lift a finger. And he told them their very innermost thoughts. And they watched him provide for them and protect them. Nothing could harm them. Their teacher, their preacher, their pastor, their friend, for three and a half years, and now he was leaving. That much they understood. But they really didn't know why. He's leaving. Why? We're just getting started. Why are you leaving? They didn't really know why. Look at chapter 13, verse 31. Chapter 13, verse 31 and following. Therefore, when he was gone out, when Judas left, Jesus said, Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him." Oh my, you're going to see my glory. Little children, little children, says the Father. Yet a little while I'm with you. you shall seek me and as I said unto the Jews whether I go you cannot come so now I say unto you. And now some questions. They begin to ask questions. Simon, you know who's going to talk first, don't you? You know who's going to ask the first question. Speak up first, don't you? Huh? Peter. Oh, impulsive, impatient, impetuous Peter. Oh, sorry, sinful, simple Simon. He got to speak up, but Lord. Verse 36, Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, where are you going? Whither goest thou? The Lord said, well, whither I go thou cannot follow me, but thou shalt. Follow me. Peter said, Lord, why can't I follow you now? Let's say, like any of your children, where are you going? I want to come. Why can't I go? Your children ever said that? I want to go. Where are you going? I've got business to take care of. You can't come with me. It's no place for children. But I want to come. Why can't I go? And God's children, here we ask the same question basically. Where is the Lord? Where is the Lord? Why didn't He come back? Why can't I go to be with Him now? Why do I have to suffer? Why do I have to stay here? Why can't I go? You ask that, the child of God? Lord? Now, it's the thing I want you to notice here. I've been talking about it already. Every time they address him, what do they say? Lord? Every time they ask a question, you'll see that. Lord? Lord? It's the only way they addressed him. Where are you going, Lord? Lord, where are you going? Why can't I tell? Now listen, Peter was a true believer. Peter was a true disciple of the Lord. He loved the Lord. He did, because he first loved Him. But he did love the Lord. Later on, he would take a fall and deny that he even knew the Lord. And you remember, our Lord called Peter back and said, Peter, do you love me? He just hung his head and said, yeah, yes, Lord. He did. Peter did. He knew the Lord. He loved the Lord. He didn't show it all the time, but he did. He did. And Peter asked this question here, and the Lord deals kindly and tenderly with his people. And the Lord answered Peter's question, and he comforted this weak fellow. Peter wasn't so strong. No, he wasn't. He was a coward at heart. And the Lord answered his question and comforted his sinful heart at the same time. Look at verse 1 of chapter 14. I love this portion. I love these words. John 14, verse 1. The Lord just told Peter, Deborah, the Lord just told Peter, Peter, you're going to deny me. You're going to take the worst fall you've ever taken. and deny me, and you're going to feel like you don't even know me at any part or lot in the matter, I'm going to call you back." Remember when he said, go tell the disciples and Peter. Make sure you tell Peter, because he's feeling mighty low about now. You're going to fall. You're going to deny me. But look what the Lord said, but let not your heart be troubled. You believe Christ. You believe God. Well, you're going to fall. You have fallen and you will fall. But let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God. Believe also in Him. You know what he's saying there? The so-called Jehovah's Witnesses today say he never said he was God. He just said it. Didn't he? He just said it. You believe in God? Believe in me. Equally. Believe in me equally. Believe also in me. Why? I am that I am. Oh my, John 14 is full of his glorious deity and excellency of his person, king of king, God in human flesh, isn't it? Jeanette, there's no doubt to you that Jesus Christ is very God and very God. And you get exasperated trying to tell people. They won't know unless he reveals himself. Neither did these disciples until he revealed himself to them. True believers believe God and they believe Christ. That's what he said over in his prayer. He said that, oh, that they might, this is eternal life, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he sent. True believers believe God and believe Christ. I remember when I first met, as a young lady, One time when I first met her, like everybody that first meets me and they find out I'm a preacher, you know, people introduce, just be glad you don't, you're not a preacher. Just be glad. People treat you like lepers, like a leper. When somebody says in a crowd of people, this fellow's a preacher, you might as well have said, this fellow's got AIDS. Seriously. That's how the mood changes. But I met this girl, and she found out that I was a preacher. And at first, everybody wants to tell me that they're religious. They want me to know. That they go to church, and this and that, and they didn't, you know. And this girl said, oh, I believe God. First thing out of her mouth, I said, how you doing? She said, I believe God. Well, I'm glad. I said, I hope so. But I always take that with a grain of salt. This girl, she doesn't go, she doesn't attend worship services. She doesn't worship God. You won't find her this morning worshiping God anywhere, nor tomorrow morning, nor the next. Yes, she doesn't worship God. And she doesn't give a flip about Jesus Christ. She doesn't go anywhere to worship Jesus Christ. I don't care what she said. He that believeth God worships God. Now, I mean, somebody really believes God. fear of the Lord and knows God, they worship God. They're right now in a place where God's being exalted and God's being extolled. And the songs they sing are worshipful songs of adoration and praise and glory to their God. They're worshiping God. They're not playing with it. They're worshiping God. They believe God. They worship God. And if they can't get there, they're sick. They're still worshiping Him. They believe God. And they believe Christ, and they believe all their hope is in this Christ, and they've got to worship Him, learn about Him, study Him. Their desire is like the Apostle Paul who believed Christ and said, Oh, that I might win Him and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, not just going to church, play on that. I need Christ. Where is He to be found? Where is He being preached? Where has he been honored and extolled? That's where I want to be. That's who I want to see. That's who I want to worship. That's who I believe. I've got to have the blood. Where's the blood being offered this morning? Huh? And not in mass. But where is the blood being presented before the Lord? Faith in Christ. I believe God. I believe Christ. True believers believe God. You understand what I'm saying? Some of you do. I know you do. You believe God. You do. You believe also in Christ, don't you? You believe He is God. Manifest and reflect. You believe Christ. He's your righteousness. He's your Lamb. He's your Christ. All the mercy and love and grace of God is in this Christ. He's your only hope. If I don't get another verse, if I don't get through another verse, people, you believe Christ? Do you believe God? Do you believe Christ? Got to. Nobody comes to the Father but by Christ. By Christ. Believe also in Christ. Trust, commit, love, follow Christ. Peter did. He did. Believe God? I don't know much about him. Believe me. I know you. I believe you. And we don't know much about God except what the Son has revealed to us. And though Peter was a miserable failure as a disciple, oh, he failed, didn't he, John? Oh, he failed. Not only was he about to fall, but he had fallen on his face. He put his size 10s or 11s in his mouth so often. Oh, he failed so miserably. And the Lord is saying this. Mindy, I never called your name, I don't believe. Call everybody but you, Mindy. He's saying here, for Peter's comfort, he said, you believe in God. Why? I mean, you know him. You believe in God, you do. Believe also in me. Let not your heart be troubled. Peter did believe, and though he failed, he did believe. He loved the Lord and he followed the Lord. Let not your heart be troubled. Let not your heart be troubled. Lord, but where are you going? Why can't I come? Here's his answer to him, verse 2 and 3. In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, If I'm doing this for you, I'm going to come again and receive you, take you home. My daughter, when I leave in the morning, tomorrow morning I'll get up early and I'll leave. And I'll go over there and start working on that house. See, I'm preparing a place for her. But she's not upset because I leave. Because she doesn't see me all day? Why? I'm preparing a place for her. Why am I doing that? I'm doing it for her. And she knows if I'm doing it for her, that I'm going to come again, and I'm going to receive her, and take her one of these days, I hope, one of these days, I'm going to get her and say, honey, let's go home. We're moving in. How much longer, Dad? How much longer? And Stan and Sherry are asking the same thing. How much longer? Soon. A little while. Two weeks. A little while, and I'll come, and we'll go home. And we'll move in. That's what the Lord said. That's what the Lord said. A little while. And you don't see me, do you? You don't see me, but I'm coming. I went to prepare a place for you. In my Father's house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I wouldn't have told you. I never lie. He that cometh to me, I will know I was cast out. Believe on me, you'll have everlasting life. I go to prepare a place for you. Christ went to the cross to prepare a place for us. He went to the cross to shed his blood, to put away our sins, that we might be accepted by holy God and be declared holy and righteous. Christ went to prepare that place for us. We have a place. We're accepted with God Almighty. Why? Because Christ prepared it. We don't lay down. We don't, you know, build our little mansion in glory. He did it. He built it all. Except the Lord built the house, they labor in vain to build it. He built the house had I had not lit the finger. I built that house with friends. But I built that house. She didn't lift a finger. The Lord built this house. My salvation, if I'm going to get there, because he did it all. He went to prepare a place for me. And he said, if I did this for you, let not your heart be troubled. I'm going to come back and get you. And we're going to go home. And our Lord said to Peter, He said, Where I go, you cannot come now. But John, that was right before he went to the cross, wasn't it? I mean, that was the Holy of Holies, wasn't it? That was when our high priest entered into the Holy of Holies with his own precious blood. Alone. Right? One man. Alone. By himself. Entered into that Holy of Holies. and make that great transaction before God Almighty to put away our sin, we call us better not touch the earth. He went in by himself and purged our sin, didn't he? Suffered the wrath of God by himself alone. Christ said, I alone must do that for you. I alone. You cannot come with me. You cannot do this with me. I alone must do it, but I'm going into the holy, holy, but alone, and to prepare this place for you, but you shall follow me." You follow that? He said, you will follow me into the very holy of holies. That's what Hebrews said. He said, someday you'll have boldness to enter into the very holiest of all by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Confidence. You will come, and I'll come and receive you again." Look at the next question. And the Lord says, whether I go, verse four, you know, and the way you know. Thomas, old Thomas, doubting, faithless Thomas. Each one of these people, there's somebody like him in here. Impulsive impatient I take here with you all the time always opening his mouth and getting in trouble. That's me. That's me too. I'm Thomas. You might want to claim all these people. Thomas was a doubting faithless cynic. Now I'm not going to believe unless I see his nail print. and touch my hand in his side, I don't believe." Doubting, faithless Thomas. Look at verse 5, what Thomas said. He said, Lord, Lord, we don't know. We know not where that you go. How can we know the way? You don't know where you're going or the way to get there. He said, the Lord said, you'll follow me. We don't know where you're going and don't know the way. This is old Thomas. Any of your children, some of you had more than one child. Which of your children was a worry wart? Cry baby all the time. Always worrying. Hard to convince about anything. Any of you have children like that? We even glad that you have a slew of them. Any of your children just growing up hard to convince, hard to console, they get to crying. It's hard to get them to stop. Hard to console. Fearful, doubtful. And some of God's people are that way. Bunyan called them ready to halt. Just ready to quit. Oh, the slightest obstacle. Oh, I'm going to quit. Fearful, doubting, ready to halt. Believers always doubting their salvation. Any Thomases in here? Always doubting their salvation. I don't think I'm saved. Why? I'm such a sinner. Well, in that case, ain't nobody saved. Right? But I don't think I'm saved. How can I be saved and act like that? We're all asking the same question, but it doesn't have anything to do with us, you see. How can I know I'm saved then? We ask a similar question of that. How can I know what I'm saying? You know, I'd rather somebody be up and down and doubtful and fearful and always asking, seeking, coming here and asking. I have some people ask me the same question, the same question every time. And I want to tell them bluntly, I just told you. But I don't. I'll answer it again. How can I have faith? I want more faith. People ask me, I want more faith. Well, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. We're going to meet, you know, we're going to meet later on, we're going to meet tonight, meet Wednesday night, and just come on out. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. And when they don't show up, I think, They'll be back next time and they'll ask me the same question. They'll ask me the same question. Well, I'd rather somebody keep coming and maybe asking the same old question and not come at all and not worry at all, not ask anything. But he answered Old Dowding Thomas' question. Verse 6, listen to it. Oh, what a verse. Old doubter. I don't think I'm saved. How can I know that I'm saved? I don't know if I'll be saved. If I'm going to be with God someday, go to heaven, how can I know? I am the way, he says. I am the way. Thomas, it's not your faith. but I don't have much faith." It's not your faith. I am the way. It's my faith, my faithfulness. You're going to fail, Thomas. You're going to say, I don't believe. But I cannot deny myself, Thomas. I remain faithful to you. Thomas, it's not your faith. It's my faithfulness to you. Oh, if only an old Thomas had realized that this morning. Huh? Thomas, it's not your... better don't pray much, Thomas. It's not your prayers. Ain't none of them fit for anything. It's my prayers. And I make intercession for you always. And the Father always hears my prayers. We accept you. Because I pray for you. Remember that what he told Peter that time? Peter, Satan's going to sit you. He's going to bring you down. Like a roaring lion, he's going to bring you down. Peter, you're going to be sifted and you're going to find out there ain't nothing there and nothing left of you. But, Peter, let not your heart be troubled. I pray for you, that your faith fail not. Oh, you're going to fall, you're going to look like an unbeliever, you're going to act like an unbeliever, but you're not an unbeliever. You believe God. Believe also in me. I'm the way, not your prayer. It's not your knowledge It's not you reading the Bible. I am the Bible. I am the way. There's a fellow down in Crossville, Tennessee. He's illiterate. He can't read, Stan. He's got a Bible in his lap. I know another fellow in Lexington who's illiterate, too. He can't read. But somebody reads it to him. And they're the strongest, if you know them, they're the salt of the earth. I wish I could attain under those men, the stature of those men. You know who I'm talking about? Delphus is one of them. Boy, a little old fella, he gets Don Bell's water for him and does tapes and all that, and he can't read. Can't read. But I can't read the Bible. This fella can't either. But he believes Christ. And when a man declares Him from the Word, that's my Christ. Yeah, that's my Christ. I am the way. But I just don't act like a Christian. I know it, he says. I know it. But I do. Christ said, I am the way. What a verse, isn't it? What a statement. Four words. I am the way. You want to get to God? Yes, I'm the way. I'll get you there. I'm the truth. Oh, he said, I'm the truth. Do you know Christ is all? He said, I don't know much about superlapsarianism. I don't either. I don't know much about what propitiation means. I can't really say it. Well, I'll tell you the truth. I don't either. I just say blood. Most of the time I just say blood. That's perpetuation. Blood. That's what it means. The blood makes atonement. Reconciliation. I don't fully understand that. You talk about imputed righteousness, Preacher. I really can't put that into words when I try to talk to people. Would you believe that Christ is your only hope? Before a holy God, the only way that God's going to accept you Of course, Christ did what he did for you. Oh, yeah. That's what I believe. That's the truth. That's true, you know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying, just say Christ. I'm the truth. I'm the truth. There's some preachers I know right now who absolutely believe that you must be able to Not only believe, but you must be able to articulate and say in so many words that that Jesus Christ is. It's a cult, they say. What's that little rope? They say it said by justifying faith. And his blood and imputed righteousness. And. See, forsaken your dead idols, Believing in Christ, your imputed right to justify and faith in Christ and Christ alone, something like that. If you don't say it every time. A man doesn't preach it every time. He doesn't. He's not. Christ is all. Christ says, I'm the truth. I am the truth. I am the truth. All your acceptance. I am the life. I am the life, Christ said. I am the life. But I just don't live like I should." No, you don't. But I lived like you should. I'm the life. And because I live, did you read that there in verse 19? Because I live, because I came and lived as a man for men, you'll live also. that there is imputed righteousness. And can you quote that? Because I live, you shall live also. Christ is life. Listen to me, Thomas. If some doubting Thomas in here, and I'm going to deal with this Wednesday night, life more abundant. If some doubting Thomas in here would commit their life to Christ. I mean lock, stock and barrel, like Scott would say, stack your guns. Totally. I mean totally. I believe they'd find, I know they would, they'd find some real life worth living. Instead of poor pitiful half a life. Some people as a brother says lives so far below their privileges, just half a life, half a life. Christ said a life more abundant. All right, look at the next question. Then the Lord said, if you'd known me, verse seven, you should have known my father also. From henceforth you know him. You've seen him. And Philip said unto him, Philip said, Lord, show us the father, or in a in a question or would you show us the father. That would suffice would you show us the father. Or if you if you just show us the father. Now. There's some Phillips in here. Apparently Philip was a was an intelligent fellow. He wasn't one of the fishermen Philip was I don't know what he did. Apparently, he was an intelligent fellow. He was religious. I believe Philip was religious before the Lord called him, because it says that when he went to holler at Nathaniel, he said, we found the Christ. We said, we found him of whom Moses and the prophets speak. Where'd you hear that? He'd been going to church, the temple. I believe he was religious. He was zealous. He was zealous, he was a witnesser. He ran and told Nathanael, Nathanael, Nathanael, come, come see. Come and see. And he was logical. Lord asked him one time, asked Philip one time, said he asked him to test him. He was trying old Philip one time. He said, Philip, he knew Philip was such a logical fellow. He got all his Ps and Qs in the right place. did everything. Everything had to be just so-so. And he said to Philip, old logical Philip, he said, Philip, there's a big crowd of people. He said, there's a lot of people here. He said, where are we going to get the money to feed all these people? Philip? And Philip said, well, 200 penny worth would not feed all these. That's right, Philip. That's right. Oh, logical Philip. Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices. Would you show us God? Show us something. We need more, Lord. We need more. And we have some logical Philips here, and I think a couple of them are female. But after all the Lord does, has done, after I've been so long time with you, he said, After all, the Lord has marvelously and miraculously revealed his power, his providence, his care for us. We need more. But where am I going to get this to do that? Philip. Verse 9, Philip, have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me? I am thy God. Fear not, O be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will still give thee aid." Philip, have I been so long time with you? And you still fretting? Still need more proof? And I'm your father. I girded you when you didn't know me, before you ever knew me. And now that you know me, I'm still going to gird you. I girded you before you gave me a thought. Now that you give me a thought, don't give me a thought. I'm your father. If ye then be an evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall the heavenly Father give good gifts unto them that ask him? Huh? Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Philip, have I been so long time with you? I am the Father. How do I say it? I am that I am. I am thy sustainer, I am thy provider, I am thy protector, I am thy guide, thy guardian, thy God. See, I'm on it. He that hath seen me hath seen God. Verse 11, Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me. Or believe me for the very work's sake. Okay, Philip? Here's another question. Look down at, read on down, Judas, down verse 22. Judas, now this is not Iscariot. Judas saith unto them, not Iscariot. This is Jude who wrote Jude, the little book. Jude, the brother of James, who was the bishop of Jerusalem. Jude, one of the apostles, the author of that Jude, listen, Jude was apparently a man of some understanding. Jude, I believe, was a man of some insight. Jude was a man of some understanding. He was a quiet fellow, I believe, a reflective fellow. He doesn't say much about Jude through the Scripture. He doesn't say hardly anything, except right here. But he waited for everybody else to ask their questions, and he'd consider them. And in Deborah, he had a question. And it was a good question. It was a good question. It wasn't full of fears and doubts and all. It was a good question. The question needs to be asked. It was Jude later on, just a minute, all right? In his book, he said, he talked about evil men or apostate men that ordained the condemnation. He talked about those going the way of Cain and the error of Balaam And the. Again, say in a quorum and things like that, remember that. Evil men ordained of old to that condemnation. Well. He had some understanding, he asked this question, verse 22, Lord. How is it? That thou will manifest thyself unto us. And not under the word. Lord, how do I know we? How will we know that we're the people of God? We're the church. How will we know who the church is? There's going to be a world of professors out there, a lot of religion, much in your name. What will be the difference? That's a good question, isn't it, Manson? That's a question worth asking, isn't it, Robert? What's going to be the difference, Lord? What will be the difference, all right? Read verses twenty-three and four. Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words, and 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 savings. The word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. How will you manifest yourself to us, Lord, and not to the world? And we're going to go out there and say, We're of God. John said, in a whole world life, and then how do we know the difference? How do you know the difference? Did you catch it in the answer? Is there any Jude out there with a little insight that is asking this question? How do you know that we're right and everybody? What's the difference? Did you catch the answer in our Lord there? What'd he say? Look at it again. Verse twenty-three. If a man love me, he will keep my words. He loves me not, doesn't keep my words. My words. A man love me, he'll believe my word, all of it. Now, I know there's a lot of people that say that. But you look, you go, and you find, and you see, and you look and see who is a place where over in Acts 19, you remember, Rebecca, in Acts 19 it said, the word of God grew and prevailed. His name was magnified and the word of God grew and prevailed. He never admitted it. I preached on it at the conference. You ought to. Well, it says in Acts 19, it says the true people of God, it says it's where the name, his name was magnified. They called him Lord. some fellas named Seba who came in the name of Jesus, casting out, and they flew naked out of that place. And it says the people, his name was magnified. The name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. His name magnified, declared his name, his person, his work, declared, magnified, extolled, honored, and his word grew and prevailed. What took precedent? What prevailed? What grew? What do people grow in? The Word. The Word grew, it didn't diminish. In this day and age, Stan, the Word is diminishing. They're rarely using it, right? And the difference is, His Word, in all of it, Christ said, He that loveth me, he keepeth my words, as one that found great spoil. When you keep something, it's like You know, everybody's got copies of the Bible. Doesn't that brother Donny Bell that said if a big windstorm or something blew up, he said, blew all the dust off all the Bibles and we'd have the biggest dust storm in the world. Everybody's got a Bible they keep put up somewhere. And the man loved me. He'll keep my word. When you keep something, Debra, you gonna keep that little guy beside you? You'll keep him? You'll give him away? You're willing to part with him? You're keeping him. That's what it means to keep. I found the gospel. I found his word. I found where Christ is breathed. I found where the word is opened up verse by verse, and I found what I need. I found God, who is God, who found me, and who's merciful and gracious and sovereign I feel some comfort. I'm going to keep this. But here's a little wind of doctrine. Let's follow this. Look down here. They're doing some miracles down here. I don't want that. I found what I need. I'm just going to keep this. Thank you. But I've got a new revelation. Keep it. Keep it. I'll keep this. I'll keep his words. That's what it means. None of us can keep his word to perfection. I mean, live up to perfection. What it means to keep is to keep. And what it means to keep something is if you love something, you're going to keep, you're going to keep around it. You're going to be around it where it is, you're going to keep it. You really love it. Pearl of great pride. I think I'll keep it. I'll give everything, I'll sacrifice in order to keep it. in order to keep it. My words, if you love me, you'll keep my word. All of it. All of it. Not just what you like. And leave the rest. No, all of it. All of it. And I said four, maybe five. All of them together, down here in chapter sixteen, all of them together, that's this. Look at it. Verse seventeen, and I'll let you go, all right? All of them together. They were murmuring among themselves. mumbling. Chapter 16, verse 17. And some of his disciples among themselves, they were talking among themselves, and they said, What is this? What is he saying here? What's he saying there? A little while and you shall not see me again. A little while and you shall see me because I go to him. They were saying this quietly among themselves. And God heard them. He read their thoughts. It says, why is it that you reason among yourself? Jesus knew, look at verse 19, he knew that they were desirous to ask him. They said that, let's not ask him any more questions. But he knew they wanted to ask him. Do you inquire among yourselves? And I could pause there. There's some questions you'd love to ask. Go ahead. Go ahead. I've been asking the word why for a good while now. Go ahead. Ask Him. He knew that you were desirous to ask the Lord. Why? And He said unto you, do you inquire among yourselves of that I said a little while, and ye shall not see me? And again, a little while, and ye shall see me? Well, yeah, that's exactly what we were saying. That's exactly what we were thinking. Well, verse 28, He says, I came," and he said several things, and he said this, "'I came forth from the Father and am coming to the world again. I leave the world and come to the Father.'" And his disciples, verse twenty-nine, said, "'Now you speak plainly. Now,' verse thirty, "'we are sure you know all things. We don't need to ask you any more questions. That's what they said. We don't need any man to ask you any more. By this we believe you came from God. And now you're with God now. And you come back to get out. So we'll just wait. We'll just wait. And he said over there in verse 33, These things have I spoken, these things, that in me you might have peace. You're going to have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I'll go to the Father, prepare a place for you. But, but, but, I'm so weak. I'm the way. I'm the way. But how are we going to know that we're not apostating this solid earth? You got my word. You love it. Keep it. It's what I give you until I come back. And I'll give you a comforter, too. I go to my Father. I'm coming back. a little while and you don't see me." We don't see him, do we? Whom have he not seen? Huh? And though now, though you see him not, yet you rejoice with joy unspeakable, full of glory. Whom have he not seen? You love. You say, a little while, you don't see me. But in a little while, you'll see me. You'll see me. You see? Now we know. Now we just wait. Wait with me, John. You're going to see him. You're going to see him. Every eye's going to see him. Every eye. Oh, we're going to see him. All right, Joe, you got a hymn picked out for it, buddy?