You In Christ and Christ in You

We are in less than twenty six, right? Twenty six. And we have gotten down to question six. How far did we go? Five. Yeah, five. I'm starting it and you'll see what this this question now. and the one previous one. We're starting into the issue of God's glory, my association with His glory, and what hopefully we can, over the next few weeks, get a handle on glory and our association, our relationship with it. Question 5 is in John 17, 22. Let's get there. John 17 is the priestly prayer between the Lord Jesus and the Father, of which the Apostle John got to listen to. He peeked around the corner and listened to what the Lord Jesus was saying to the Father.

And in verse 22, the Lord says to the Father, and the glory which you gave me, I have given them. that they may be one just as we are one. So my question is, what does Jesus mean by the glory which you gave me, I have given them? What does he mean by that? Let's talk a little bit about glory. At the beginning of this chapter, the Lord Jesus is asking the Father to glorify him with the glory that they had before the world began. And we decided that at least a preliminary definition of God's glory would be the manifestation of his attributes, who he is. And the Lord Jesus is asking for this glory as a man, because when he became a man he set his glory, his deity aside.

And so now he's asking for it. He's asking the Father to glorify him. And why is he asking at this point? Because the work that the Father sent him to do, he's about to finish it, although his viewpoint is that it is finished. And it would be from God's frame of reference. So what we have now is a human being, a man, who has ascended up into heaven and has been glorified by the Father. Now when he says, when I say to you that the Father glorified the Son, this human being, what do I mean happen? What happened? He got a name tag saying I'm now glorified. What happened?

He's not a man anymore. Yeah he is. He's 100% man. He's still a man. Yeah. Well what is he if he's not a man? He's not a God. Tinkerbell. He's the son of God, but he's a man. He's 100% man. He's also 100% God. But the man now possesses and radiates the very glory of God. He's the God-man. Did he give up what he had previously? When he became a man, he gave up. He had the same attributes as God did before he came to earth as a man. That's true. So now he's taken back what he had given up when he came to earth.

But see, don't you find it interesting that he doesn't take them back. He asks the Father to restore them. See? Which is really kind of cool that it's that way because it shows the dependence that Christ has as a man on the Father. Which is what we're supposed to be. Dependent that way. I don't think, what's the term you used?

Gave him up? I don't think he gave him up. I think a better term would be that he set him aside. And he didn't resort to them at all while he was on the earth. Even on the Mount of Transfiguration, it wasn't something he did, it was something the Spirit did to him. Mike, what exactly did he set aside? He set aside all of the attributes of godliness.

In other words, how do I say this so it's understandable? The radiance of God, He's omniscient, He's holy, He's righteous, and those things to us are just words, but if you were to stand in front of the Lord Jesus Christ, not only are those things words, but they radiate out of Him. See that? And John, early on, says nobody has seen God at any time, right? Except for who? Him.

And why is He called the Lagos of God. You know in John chapter 1 it says, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word was with God. Who is the Word? The Lord Jesus Christ. And why is he termed, the word or the Greek word is Lagos of God. Why is he, why don't they call him, he was the Bronco of God. He was the whatever of God. Why does the Bible use that term Word?

Would it be because he was a representation of God, so we got to know the Father through seeing the physical Jesus, through seeing Him walk and talk? That's pretty good. That's exactly right. He's the one person of the Trinity that expresses to the creation who God is. Without the Lord Jesus Christ, we don't know.

Because the Father is a spirit, Ever seen a spirit? And the Holy Spirit is a spirit. With the Holy Spirit you can see what he does, but you never see him. The best example is when the wind blows through the forest, the leaves all shake, but you don't see the wind. You see the effects of the wind.

The Lord Jesus Christ, as we'll study next week and this week, his glory, because he's a man, the glory of God is resonant and and viewable and knowable within him. So as you're talking about that, I'm thinking, if he sets aside his glory, who he is as a spirit, and becomes a man, what is that, a soul that occupies a body?

He had a body that was made for him by the Father. Right? He had a soul He became a soul. None of the persons of the Godhead had a soul before that. And he had a human spirit. So he is a man. He's a total man. With all the make-ups of the original man, Adam, except he didn't come from Adam's line. So I would say he's a spirit that has a soul that lives in a body. So he would be the first one in that configuration? That's exactly right. He's the first one in that configuration. He's a representative man. He's a prototype.

Okay? But that soul, you know, I guess you think of the soul as your personality, your individuality, and yet his was totally dependent on the Father. Isn't that something? Yeah. Yeah. He said that I never do anything of myself. I only do what I see my Father doing. And what's interesting about that is that Well, the Constitution doesn't allow for that. You're supposed to do what I want to do.

When he lived here on the earth, he was the perfect representation of how a godly man is to live in relationship to the Father. Dependence, fellowship, intimacy, right? And the best example I know, you remember when Lazarus gets sick, right? And down comes somebody from Bethany to say to the Lord Jesus, Hey buddy, Lazarus is sick. He needs you to come up there right away and fix it. And he doesn't go up there for three or four days.

How come? Because it was the Father's will that he not go. It says that he loved Lazarus, but that the Father was to be glorified in what he was about to do. So he waited. I mean, if you came to me and said, or I sent Donna over to you and you're the one that had the healing power and said, hey, Mike's really sick, you think, oh, I better go over there and fix it. But not him. Why not?

Because he functioned only based on what the Father's will was. He never made his own decision about anything. He's God. It demonstrates the unity between the Father and Son. They never act inconsistent with each other. Never. One of them doesn't make a decision to go do something that the other two... it's like the other two elders and myself. I make a decision to do something and I tell them. No, that isn't the way that God operates.

They're in unison about everything they do. And in the eternal covenant, there was an arrangement. I call it a deal. There was a contract, a covenant. The Father said, if you become a man and die for the sins of the world, I'll raise you up. He said, okay, I'll do it.

And so when he's raised up as a man and taken back into heaven, the glory of God is now resident within a human being. And when he comes to rule and reign on the earth, guess what? You won't need the sun. It'll be here, but you won't need it. And in eternity, he'll be the light, and so will you. So will you and me. You don't need the planet after that.

So the glory of God is of such a character, and hopefully over the next few weeks we'll maybe get our arms more and more around this thing, glory. I think that Darby's definition of glory is the sum total of God's intrinsic attributes that can be observed and seen. And only observable in his creation and focused and centered in on the Lord Jesus Christ himself.

You know, we live in a beautiful place. You walk around. Last night you see the full moon. You see it this morning? God's glory is magnificent. It's just a little tiny bit of it. I remember laying out on top of a houseboat at Lake Powell one night and opening up my eyes and the stars were so bright with no moon that you could see miles across the lake.

And I thought about the glory of God and then it dawned on me that the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and that will be manifested to and through us in eternity, this is nothing compared to what he's going to do. So I don't know if I answered your question. I think your question will be answered over the next couple of weeks because I'm really trying to focus on this.

So could you say that a human being is defined by the expression of their soul through their body? But a born-again believer is defined by the glory? That comes from where? Through his spirit, through his soul. See, a non-believer has a dead spirit to God. So all he can manifest is the sin nature. And you could say, well, that's his glory. Through his soul, right? Through his soul, yeah. That's his character, his personality. A believer as he's conformed to the image of Christ, godliness begins to come out of him. As his life.

And that's the amazing thing, and we're going to study, hopefully, how that happens. The how-tos are really important. So the glory that God is, Christ asks that it be given him as a man, and then he does a spectacular thing He says, I gave it to them too, meaning you and me. Well, you guys don't look very glorious this morning.

I mean, you all look nice, but glory, no. But you know, I never knew that the word meant Christ. The word means, the word in Greek is Lagos, and what it means is that he is the one person of the Godhead that manifests and reveals Christ to us. We would not know God without Christ. We wouldn't know him. You could know the effects, but you wouldn't know him personally. Okay. Does God really intend to give us his glory? But Mike, didn't the Jewish people know God? How did they know him? Which Jews?

All of them? The Old Testament Jews. All of them? No. Just a few of them. Some of them. Moses? Abraham, when God revealed himself to them. And again, we'll talk about some of that this morning too. Like the example when Moses is up on Mount Sinai and he's talking to God every day and his face begins to glow.

And he comes down because he's been in the presence of the glory of God. It has an effect on him. But, you know, Harvey Levi that lived down the street over here, he didn't see the Glory of God. The Glory of God was in the Shekinah Glory, was in the Holy of Holies. But who got to go in and see it? High Priest. He's the only one.

Does God really intend to give us His Glory? Think He does? How many of you think He really means it? Why is he going to do that? Why is he going to do that? It says so that they may be one, even as we are. I guess maybe the question I'm asking is this. He wants us for Himself. Say that again? He wants us for Himself. He wants us for Himself. But why would He give... I mean, He could own us and have us for Himself and not give His glory to us.

We're His legitimate offspring. We're the same. He's the firstborn. So we have the exact same at Christ. You know, so this makes sense. If we're new creatures in Christ, everything that's true about Him is true about us. like him, minus the deity. So I mean it makes sense for him to give us that glory. Do you understand what Courtney is talking about?

No. When you begin to enter into what it really means to be a son of God, what does that really mean? It means that you are, and you read John 17 and he says, Father that they may be one as we are one, that they may be one in us, and that we're sons. Well, my son is supposed to manifest some of the characteristics of his parents, isn't he? Well, I'm a son of God, shouldn't I manifest some of the characteristics of my father?

Sure I should. That's what he wants to do, because I'm a son. And I'm not illegitimate, I'm not, you know, I'm a full-fledged adult son. I was wondering if it's partly like what Nick's doing with his engineering buddy down there, that when you manifest God's glory, you bring folks into the kingdom. Yeah, it's interesting.

If you're in a place to be an evangelist, don't you kind of view yourself as, well, I'm the one that's sort of out here with the job and the obligation to lead that person to Christ. Laura's going, she's right. Who saves people? God saves them, not you. And if they're going to be attracted to Christ, that's what they're going to see, is Christ in you.

It's important that you have the right information, it's important that there's at least to some degree some spiritual maturity about you, that you are a son. This idea of being one, I know that he wants me to fellowship with and to understand and have a thing going on.

If he didn't give me his glory, share that with me, put it in me, would I be unable then? Because I wouldn't truly be like him. If you weren't, if we weren't qualified, or the King James user, I like this word, we were made meat, M-E-E-T, we were qualified, by God to be the receivers of his nature and his glory. And if none of that is in place, talk about it all you want.

There's no oneness there. So it's bigger than just manifesting his glory to the world. Yes it is. It becomes an individual one-on-one thing that he's really after. And the other is kind of like, yeah it's important, but maybe not as important as this. And that's why this week, next week, and probably the week after, that's what we're going to talk about. That's the most important thing there is. There's nothing in the Christian life more important than fellowship and intimacy with Christ. Nothing. Nothing.

People say, well, gee, I've got all these trials and sufferings and I'm growing. No, you're not. What's the Bible? How do you get transformed or conformed to the image of Christ? By beholding Him. That's the only way. Oh, when I went through all of this trials and suffering, well that might have got you ready to be holding, but that didn't grow you up. What that did is maybe got the flesh out of the way so you could be holding. You see that? I'm going to read something to you.

Let's see, in talking about in question 6, this is a quote from John Darby, it has to do with 2 Corinthians 3.18, there is no veil now on the glory of Christ, nor is there on our hearts when we believe.

There is no idea of reflection in this passage. The Greek word means looking into the mirror sometimes, but not necessarily. I do not like the idea of Christ being a reflection. People talk of mirroring of Christ from this verse. It's an absurd. How can our mirroring the Lord change us? I look with perfect liberty for where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, and I see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. And the effect of seeing is, I am changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of God. The reason is plain. If the law looks for righteousness in man, man doesn't have it, so is afraid of the glory. The moment there is the least glory shown out, men shrink from it. It is the effect of having glorified God and therefore God has glorified him.

How did Jesus glorify God? How did he do it? Isn't that what he says in John 17, I have glorified you on the earth? How did he do it? He did his will and what was his will? That he die. That he satisfy God about the sin issue. That he take care of the barrier between God and God's creation.

Question 7, in John 17, 24, what does the request to be with me where I am have to do with the display of Christ's glory? 24 says, Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me, isn't that cool to know that you're a possession of God, be with me where I am so that they may see my glory which you have given me For you have loved me before the foundation of the world. So why is it important? What does the request to be with me where I am have to do with the display of glory? What does the request, quote, to be with me where I am, end quote, have to do with the display of Christ's glory? Understand the question? Why would Christ say, I want these people to be with me where I am?

You've got to go to Him. And where is He? He's in me. So if I look in me for Him, what am I going to find? Not Him. The Spirit's job, He's the link. and sent here to reveal the glory of Christ to us, even while we're still here. So you have to be where He is. Oh, by the way, as a human being, the 100% man part is not omnipresent.

The God part is that Christ, the glorified man, is in the heavenlies right now. So the Spirit of God Spiritually takes us there and through the word reveals the glory of Christ to us, and that's why he wants us there Now granted when when we leave the planet we're all of us is there it isn't Through the word of God and through the Spirit of God. We're face to face But 2nd Corinthians 4 talks about The glory of God is in the face of Christ now right now You alright with that? Why does Jesus will that we be with Him where He is?

It's a similar question, but it's the full expression of Christ's glory is now in the heavenlies. It's not here. Jesus of Nazareth, let's all go to Nazareth, maybe we can find Him. No, He's in the heavenlies. And so He's asking that believers would be able to see Him where he is glorified.

Do you remember in John, I think it was 14 or 15, when he promised the Spirit, remember that? I've got to go because if I don't go I won't send the Spirit. And there was a cause and effect situation there that if he didn't go, The Spirit wouldn't come. Remember that? Why that arrangement? You just can't have two godly persons on earth at the same time. Here's the deal.

The Spirit of God is sent from the glory where Christ has been glorified to manifest Him to believers. If Christ doesn't go there as a resurrected man and get glorified, then when the Spirit of God comes, what's he bringing to us? An un-glorified Christ? So you have to wait for the sequence to take place.

You see that? He gets crucified, risen, and then he goes to the heavenlies and the Father glorifies him as a man. Then the Spirit comes to reveal that glorified man to us. You alright with that? What does the phrase, Behold My Glory, mean? Let's talk about the word, Behold. Well, nine and ten are similar, but let's stick with nine. What does the term, Behold My Glory, mean? Look at it. Okay. Okay. That's really good. The Lord Jesus desires that all believers be able to look at or see the full extent of his divine attributes manifested through him as a human being. That's what he's asking for.

So in question 10 I said, in 2 Corinthians 3.18 Paul speaks about beholding. What does that term beholding mean? Give me a definition for that word. The Greek word is thoreo. Does that remind you of an English word?

Theater. In order to explain this story, I have to tell you a great story about my brother. One of my brothers. When we were little, on Sunday afternoon, my folks would take my older brother, me, my younger brother, and my younger sister to the movies and drop us off. We went to this little theater in Loves Park, Illinois. It was a Quonset hut. My brother, Pat, who was four years younger than me, had such an imagination. that you'd be watching the Roy Rogers movie, right? And the bad guy is sneaking up on Roy. And my brother would yell out, look out! And we'd smack him, of course, and tell him to be quiet. What was he doing? What was he doing? He was beholding. He put himself into that scene.

That's what this word means. You see that? That's what this word means. That when we see Christ, and behold his glory, we're part of it. That's what that word Thoreau means. That's where we get the word theater. You go down to the Bonfeuille Center and you watch a really good play. You're in it. Put yourself into that person's place. What's that? Put yourself into that person's place. Yeah. Yeah.

So, on question 11, some people think the mirror shouldn't be there, but let's talk about the mirror in 2 Corinthians 3.18. What is the mirror? The reflection. And what is it? What's the reflector?

It's the Bible. It's the Word of God. So to get all these pieces in place, there's you, there's the Spirit of God, and then there's the Word of God. So as you're spending time in the Word of God, what are you there to do? Thoreau. Thoreau. That's what you're there. You're not there to memorize. You're not there to look up the rules. You're not there to create an environment of conduct that befits you as a Christian. You're there to thoreto. To what? You're there to behold.

To learn? To learn also? Don't you learn when you open the pages? Well, when my brother saw the bad guy sneaking up on Roy Rogers, he was learning, alright. He was anticipating that Roy was going to be in trouble if he didn't turn around, right? He was learning. but he was so into it that it was more than learning. He projected himself into the scene. When I'm studying the Word of God, well, pick up the Word of God tonight and read John chapter 17 and threaten it.

Put yourself in it. Put your name in there. Father, I wish that Mike would be with me where I am. that Mike might be able to behold my blood. Put your name in there. He's talking about you. Do you see what I mean? Take any of Paul's epistles and when he starts talking about you, put your name in there where you is. Because that's who he's talking to.

This issue is I think the most significant issue in all of Christianity, yeah, we're to grow in the knowledge and grace of the Lord Jesus, knowledge, epignosis, but that leads to this intimacy. And how do I become intimate with another human being? I hang out with them, I look at them, we converse back and forth, I get to know them, I observe them, I hang with them, I, you know, well, I have the privilege and the obligation and opportunity to fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what he wants more than anything else.

So in the study of the Word of God, that should be your frame of reference rather than being a Bible scholar. You know my thing about all these Bible scholars up in heaven with all their books under their arms, they'll come up to Christ and say, excuse me, and they'll walk right around him. They don't know who he is. Yeah, you can be a scholar and know nothing. That's right. So, having set you up then, what do you expect to behold when you see Christ? Have you ever thought about what you expect? What do you expect? What's that?

Ephesians 1.3 says, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ.

Ephesians 1.17 and 18, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. Epinosis, knowledge of Him. Verse 18, I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of his calling.

What are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints? Let's just take that. Paul says, I pray that Mike's eyes might be opened, might be enlightened, so that Mike will know what is the hope of his calling. What are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in me? Put your name in there, whenever you see those pronouns.

1 Corinthians 1.9, God is faithful through whom you were called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Do you really think in your mind and believe that you can actually have a relationship, intimacy and fellowship with Christ?

Yes. You sure? Of course. This is not just a bunch of pious words? That's what you want. That's what he wants. You believe that that's what he's going to do? Do you really think that's what he's going to do? No, it has to come from you. Do you think that's really what he wants to do?

He wants to have fellowship with you. But if you have to be the willing partner... Let's turn it around. Does he want you to have fellowship with him? Yes. Is that more important than whether he has fellowship with you? Who's the center here? Where's the focus? It's on him. No fair going to God and saying, you need to come talk to me. I'm here, I'm waiting. No, you go to him.

You have fellowship with him through the Word. The root word for fellowship or communion is common. Understand what I just said? The root word for fellowship is common. Our communion with the Father and the Son, having fellowship with one another is to have common thoughts, common affections, and common purpose. That's what you asked me about oneness? It is oneness of heart and mind. How do you get that? You only get it by hanging out with them.

You okay with that? Am I making you nervous by stressing this so hard? Okay. Yes? In that beholding, isn't there also a sense of contemplation or considering what you're reading? You know, I think about the magnitude of, you know, I should have put John in 17. Rather than just reading it, you know, there's a deepness to it. Yeah. That you have to spend time with rather than... Yeah. And it's not so much as to have to spend time.

All of you have loved somebody in your life, right? And once you first met them and loved them, then you were done. You didn't want to talk to them anymore, right? What did you want to do? More time. Spend more time, right? Well, if you go in the Word of God for the specific purpose of knowing Christ, He'll win your heart over, and you won't have any trouble going back and spending time in the Word. As a matter of fact, over time you'll be looking for more and more opportunities to spend with Him. Because He wins your heart, that's what happens. Do you see that? And does it mean that you've got to sort of prime the pump or jump start it? No. No, He'll lead you there, but you come to the understanding of what is God really up to? What does He really want from me?

He just wants you to know Him and hang with Him in the Word. So a believer, you know, this young man comes to Christ. Somebody in a church is going to tell him he needs quiet time. What have they just done to him? Stuck a law on him. But if you can explain to a young believer that what God is really after is fellowship and how that goes, that will change the whole equation about how that guy lives his life. It's a magnet. That's right. You cannot behold the glory of the Lord without being attracted to Him. We all know people who were godly people and we were attracted to them. Why? Because Christ was in them.

You could see it. It. You could see Him. Alright, did anybody look at the lesson 27? Look at the paper. There's only one question. The question is, looking up the scriptures will give a pattern. Anybody want to take a shot at the pattern? Same subject we're talking about.

And the first, obviously the first verse I gave you was 2 Corinthians 3.18. Yeah, what I thought I would do, and it's probably going to take a couple weeks, I would go through some verses in the Bibles and Old Testament and compare Old Testament scriptures that have to do with guys in the Old Testament that saw God and us. And the effect maybe is what I'm after. The effect that beholding has on not only Old Testament people but us.

So it's probably going to take, actually this is a work in progress. I've sat down to it ten times this week and added to it and added to it and I'm sure it's going to happen next week. Then I'm going to be gone, and Courtney's going to have to add to it.

Anyway, in 2 Corinthians 3.18, I'll highlight the different issues. First one is with unveiled face. Second one is, beholding as in third the mirror, fourth the glory of the Lord, are being fifth transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the last one, the spirit of the Lord. So, it's interesting. In the Old Testament, and you could look it up in Exodus 34, in the Old Testament, our guy Moses I'll read from 34, just so you get the idea.

And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights. He didn't either eat bread nor drink water. He wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. Forty days, he must have been a slow writer. And it came to pass, now listen, watch this. And it came to pass when Moses came down from the Mount, Sinai, with the two tables of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the Mount, Moses knew not the skin of his face shown by reason of his speaking with him."

See that? He spends 40 days with Jehovah, and by the way, he doesn't behold him face to face, he's just around him. His face is shining. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, what was their reaction?

They were afraid to come near him. How come? What scared them? Now this is a really important point for us as believers to understand. Here comes Moses, down from 40 days with the Lord, his face is glowing and when the other Jews saw him, they were afraid. How come? We didn't know what was happening.

More than that. Would you have been afraid? He was changed. He was changed? But why were they afraid? Because he was not one of them anymore? He was different? What does the manifestation of the glory of God in the face of Moses, what kind of an effect does that have on them? They hadn't been beholden to the Lord like he had. They hadn't? And so why were they afraid? They were guilty.

There you go. There you go. What does the glory of God do to an ungodly man? Intimidates him. Hides. What did Adam and Eve do when they sinned? They hide. The glory of God convicts the sinner. Same thing when Stephen died. Exactly, and that's going to be part of this. Exactly the same thing.

Moses called upon them and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him and Moses spoke to them and afterwards the children of Israel did come near and he gave them a commandment all that Jehovah had spoken to him in Sinai, and Moses was done speaking, he put the veil back on his face.

How come? Because he knew that manifestation of the glory intimidated them. They wouldn't come near him unless he had the veil over his face. Isn't that interesting? Now, that's why 2 Corinthians says, but we all with unveiled face. Why unveiled face? See, we belong there. We're not intimidated. We're suited out to be there. In other words, what caused the face of Moses to shine was being in the presence of Jehovah. He put a veil over his face primarily so it wouldn't intimidate the Jews who were convicted by the glory that showed up. Do you see that? The glory convicted them. Does that make sense? You alright with that?

Now a believer, you and I, we go into the Holy of Holies with unveiled face, and guess what we get to do? We get to gaze upon the glory of the Lord. All the qualities of God's nature, and this is a definition, all the qualities of God's nature are balanced in Christ. and I look at my Savior, I have come into God's presence, the Holy of Holies, and what do I find there? When I come in there, what do I find? I find the glory of God in Christ. Does it make me shrink away? No, it makes me want to be there. Makes me want to be there.

Now, the second group of verses I wanted you to look up was Isaiah, right? Again, this is in terms of contrast. We'll pick up next week and what we'll do is we're going to talk about, we're going to contrast several incidences of Old Testament saints who come into the presence of the glory of God and the effect it has on them. And New Testament saints who come into the glory of God and the effect it has on them, and you'll find that they are very different. And it's because the people are different.

Okay? Let's close. Father, how we thank you. We thank you for your love. We thank you mostly for the fact that your desire is that we might have fellowship with you and with your son, the Lord Jesus. We boldly accept that premise and by faith we enter in to behold the glory of your dear son, Father. We thank you and we pray in his name. Amen.