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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE SECOND MAJOR REQUEST OF JESUS FOR HIS CHURCH. THAT THEY MAY BE WITH ME WHERE I AM.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. In the 13th chapter Jesus told His disciples that He was going away and where He was going they could not come now.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This brought up the questions of "Where are you going?" and "Why cannot we come now?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus in chapter 14, declared, "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, that where I am, there you may be also.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. At the end of chapter 14, He declared, "I have told you how I am going away, and coming again, if you loved Me you would rejoice, because I am going to My Father."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. I cannot help but think of this scripture in light of the death of our loved ones.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Those who are saved, if we truly loved them, we would rejoice because they have gone to the Father.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Jesus expresses this as His will. "Father, I will."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We know that it is also the will of the Father. "God is not willing that any should perish."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus had been speaking of the oneness between the Father and Himself.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. So many are asking concerning the Lord's will for their life. Here Jesus expresses His will. That you might be with Him in paradise. In the glory of the Father's kingdom.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. A great part of any wonderful experience is to share that experience with someone you love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. A walk along a stream through the woods.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. A beautiful flower.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. A colorful sunset.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. These are not nearly as enjoyable alone. The joy is in the sharing of these beauties with someone you love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Jesus loves you and desires that you should share the beauty and glory of the eternal kingdom of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Have you ever shared those beautiful moments with Him?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Heaven is a place of indescribable beauty. Paul said it would be a crime to try to describe the beauty with human language.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. No description you could give would do it justice. We do not have words in our vocabulary, for there is nothing of this material world that can be likened to it. Take the most beautiful sight your eyes have ever beheld, heaven's beauty so far exceeds it that no comparison can be made without doing heaven an injustice.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Take the most beautiful sounds you have ever heard, sounds that have excited you to the very core of your being. They are discordant and ugly compared to the sounds of the heavenly anthems of praise.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. JESUS WANTS YOU THERE WITH HIM IN HEAVEN THAT YOU MIGHT BEHOLD HIS GLORY THAT THE FATHER HAS GIVEN HIM.<</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. In verse 5, He had asked the Father to glorify Him with His own self, the glory that He had had with the Father from the beginning.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Peter, James, and John had a foretaste of this experience. There on the mount when He was transfigured before them. Matthew tells us that His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was as white as light.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. John describes his vision of the glory of Jesus Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rev',1,13);">REV 1:13</a> And in the midst of the seven candlesticks [one] like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rev',1,14);">REV 1:14</a> His head and [his] hairs [were] white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes [were] as a flame of fire;</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rev',1,15);">REV 1:15</a> And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rev',1,16);">REV 1:16</a> And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance [was] as the sun shineth in his strength.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Paul tells us that now we see through a glass darkly, but then it will be face-to-face. You haven't seen the full, clear picture yet.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Paul tells us that God has highly exalted Jesus and given Him a name that at the name of Jesus every knee would bow and every tongue would confess that Jesus Christ was Lord, to the glory of God the Father.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. In Revelation, we read of the glorious angelic choirs of over a hundred million, plus millions more as they declare the worthiness of the Lamb to receive the power and riches and wisdom, and strength, and honor and glory and blessing. He tells us that every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, he heard them saying, "Blessing and honor and glory and power be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus wants you to be there to see, to hear, as He is exalted before the universe.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. This is all the result of the Father's love for the Son. "For You loved Me before the foundations of the world."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. My greatest joys come from seeing those I love blessed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I am blessed more by hearing my sons praised than I am receiving the praise myself.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. It thrills me more hearing something wonderful being said about my daughters than hearing nice things said about me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. In the same token, you can say something cutting or mean about me, and chances are you will be at least partially right. I will not be prone to respond to what you have said, but just don't touch my wife, or my kids, or you have gained an enemy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. The Father is going to bring all of this glory and honor to His Son, because He has loved the Son from the beginning.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Because the Son loves you. He wants you to be there when it all takes place.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Much of this exaltation of the Son will be taking place in heaven, before the return of Jesus to set up the Kingdom of God upon the earth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Looking at the place of this exaltation in heaven of the Son, it would appear that it corresponds with the beginning of the great tribulation on the earth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Could it be that this is tied with <a onClick="return mV('Luk',21,1);">Luke 21</a>, where Jesus when He was talking to His disciples concerning the Great Tribulation that was going to come upon the earth said, "Pray always that you will be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are coming to pass upon the earth, and to stand before the Son of Man." That standing before the Son of Man as He is being exalted in glory is the thing that Jesus is praying for His church.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. "O, RIGHTEOUS FATHER, THE WORLD HAS NOT KNOWN THEE."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The natural man understandeth not the things of the Spirit, neither can he know them for they are spiritually discerned.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This unrighteous world does not know the righteous Father.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. If they only knew the Father, they would not do the things that they are doing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. It is awesome to consider that some day they will have to face the righteous Father.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Imagine standing before God with all of the filth of your sinful life exposed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. All darkness has been dispelled, the darkness in which you tried to hide. You stand there in the pure light of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Thank God that will not be the case for the child of God. We will stand in the righteousness of Jesus Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. "But I have known Thee."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This is why the words of Jesus are so important for us to hear and heed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. When I hear someone tampering with the words of Jesus I cringe.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. This professor of religion at U.S.C. who declared that he knew more than Jesus about the writing of the book of Isaiah, for Jesus was not privy to the modern day scholarship.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. It will be interesting to hear him when he is standing before God giving an account of all his learning, and his leading astray the students who have passed through his class, by destroying their faith in the word of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. I will take the authority of Jesus over all of the scholarship of man. He knows the Father.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Concerning His church, He declares, "And these have known that You have sent Me."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Do you know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who God has sent into the world?</div>
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