Jesus Christ's unique claims and divine nature are central to It, drawing from John 5:16 and Matthew 11:28. The examples emphasize Jesus' ability to provide spiritual rest and satisfaction, highlighting his unique position as the source of eternal life. The sermon further explores Jesus' intimate knowledge of humanity and his divine equality with God, as evidenced by his responses to the Pharisees and his teachings on rendering to God what is God's. Ultimately, the message asserts that seeing Jesus is seeing the Father, underscoring his role as the perfect revelation of God and the guarantor of eternal security for believers.
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Now tonight, our subject is the unique phase of Christ, one of our most important themes, you and I can possibly contemplate. And I want, first of all, to read a few verses from the Gospel by John in chapter five, at verse sixteen, chapter five of John, the fifteenth verse. Catch the connection that a man had been healed, he had had an infirmity for thirty and eight years. And that medical had been brought on the Sabbath day.
Now verse sixteen, and therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus and sought to slay him because he had done these things on the Sabbath day. But Jesus answered them, My father worked if he were to do, and I were. Therefore the Jews sought them more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his father, making himself equal with God. Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, the son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the father do, for whatsoever things he doeth, These also doeth the Son likewise.
For the Father loveth the Son and showeth him all things that himself doeth. And he will show him greater works than these that ye shall must. Now a well-known scripture in the Gospel by Matthew in chapter eleven. Verse twenty-eight. Come unto me, O need I labor, and I have a laden, and I will give you rest.
Now first of all, I want to consider our Lord's claim to satisfy the human heart. Then I want to consider his claim to be the innermost source. and motive of mankind. Then I want to consider his greatest claim of all on inequality with God. I would like to have been with him. I would love to have seen him. I would love to have heard him when he issued the invitation so well known to us which we have just raised.
come unto me and I will give you rest. Now here our Lord Jesus was outstanding. There's not a man in the world who would dare to say to his fellows, you come to me and place your confidence in me and I will give you rest spiritually. But our Lord Jesus Christ could and he did. Blessed of hearts, blessed of minds, Bless for conscience. Bless to the weary. Bless for the restless. Bless for time.
Bless for eternity. I will give you rest. And I hope that every one of us here tonight knows something of what this means. That rest which the Lord Jesus Christ and those can give. Now in the sixth chapter of John, we need not turn to it, I expect we know it well. And verse thirty-five, our Lord said this, He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on thee shall never thirst. Now here again our Lord Jesus Christ was unique. There is not a man in the world who would say to anyone around him, come to me and I will see to it that you will never hunger spiritually.
You believe on me, you have implicit confidence in me and I will see to it that you will never thirst spiritually. But our Lord Jesus Christ could and he did. And friend, if you and I have come to Christ by faith and have given ourselves to him out of a whole personality, spirit, soul and body, we need never thirst for salvation because we have it in our possession. And if we have a lead on him to our soul's salvation, we need not thirst for eternal life because we have that in our possession. Of course there is such a thing as hunger and thirst after righteousness, and that's always a good sign.
It's a very bad sign when any believer is satisfied with our present or his present spiritual condition. There are higher heights of Christian experience than you and I have ever yet known. There are gems in this wonderful mine or verse, the word of God, which you and I have never yet discovered. There are glories and beauties of the loveliness about our Lord Jesus Christ, which we have never yet appreciated. And so we have to hunger and thirst after righteousness. first thing after God, first thing after the things of God, first thing after the Word of God. Now our Lord Jesus not only made this wonderful statement and invitations, but he made wonderful promises.
And I love the promise or the statement in the last verse of the last chapter of Matthew. Lord, I am with you all the days even unto the end of the age. What a promise. Only he could have made a promise like that. You know, every promise in the word of God is filled by the blood of the eternal covenant. Every promise is yea and amen in Christ. Every promise is as certain as God himself can make it. And the Lord Jesus says, I will be with you all the day. Yes, friend, he is with us all the day.
In your days and in my days, days of darkness and days of light, days of gloom and days of sunshine, days of sickness and days of health, days of prosperity and days of adversity, days when everything seems fair, days when everything seems just the opposite, days of realization, days of disappointment, all the things. I am with you unto the end. Now you know, friends, the promises in the word of God are quite unlike promises which man can give. If I were to promise you a gift of, say, three thousand dollars at the end of next week, but please remember it's only supposition.
If I were to promise you that gift, I could not guarantee it would be fulfilled, because obviously anything might happen to me between now and the end of next week. And if nothing untoward happened to me, something might happen to you, Fred. We should render the fulfillment of that promise and altogether impossibility. But every promise of God is guaranteed, Fred, and we may just rely upon each one. And then there was another promise our Lord Jesus made his disciples, which applies to you and to me tonight. It's in John chapter fourteen and verse nineteen. And the words were read, Because I live, ye shall live also.
I don't know what reaction that had upon the disciples. I don't know how far they appreciated it. But oh friends, what a comfort it is. The Lord Jesus Christ said, Because I live, ye shall live also. And he now lives unto God. He died unto sin once. But he now lives in the power of an endless life. The cross will never, never be reenacted. He'll never again wear that crown of thorns. He'll never again suffer the deers and the ignominy, the continuality, and the horrible torture of his creatures.
All that is fast and fast forever. And now he lives and he lives on high and he says, Because I live, ye can be also. And that is true, friend. We are to live where he lives, where is that, in heaven. We are to live as long as he shall live. How long is that? Forever. I remember when I was quite a young Christian, I visited one of the godliest men in Great Britain. His name was R. C. Chapman. He lived in a place of town called Barnstable.
Mr. Spurgeon, when we visited that dear man, he said he was the holiest man he'd ever met. And I was quite a young brother, quite a young Christian, and I had the privilege of entering his house. It was an open house for anybody. He used to say, well, if anybody is invited to come, he is welcome. If anybody comes uninvited, he is doubly welcome. And I remember sitting there at supper, and there were about five, six perhaps eight others there at the table, and there was God's Vindam servant.
And he was always quoting scripture, And he said, Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord. And then he stopped. A brother on the other side of the table finished it for him and said forever. Well, Mr. Chapman pretended not to hear him. said I beg your pardon my brother what did you see forever again mr. Chapman pretended not to hear him said excuse me my brother what did you see forever mr.
Chapman oh thank you thank you dear brother thank you now dear brother will you please tell me how long that is brother nearly collapsed he couldn't tell how long it was being forever Oh, beloved friends, where I, because I live ye shall be more so. And you and I are to dwell throughout a wonderful, lovely eternity with our lovely Lord Jesus Christ in glory. And so he alone can satisfy the human heart, and he does.
Now I want to come to the next phase of our subject, and that is, is claimed to read the motive, source, the innermost source of mankind. Would you turn with me to the second chapter of John, the closing words of the verse, of the chapter? Verse twenty-fourth, the latter part of this verse. John two, verse twenty-fourth. He knew old men, now verse twenty-five, And need it not that any should testify of man. For he knew from within man. Now here are three distinct statements.
First of all, he knew all men. The Lord Jesus Christ was omniscient. He knew only, not a certain number of men. Not ninety-nine percent of them, but all of them. He knew all men. He knows you then. He knows me. and he needed not that then he should testify of man. There was no man who could tell him anything about anyone which he did not know. And Yuki then cannot tell him anything that he does not know. And then he said, he knew what was in him. He could probe the innermost thoughts and motives and aspirations of the human heart.
Now this was his claim, friend. I want to see how it works. Will you turn back to Matthew and chapter twenty-two? I think we should see something there very interesting. Matthew twenty-two verse fifteen. Then when the Pharisees took counsel how they might tangle him in his speech or in his talk, Now they were always doing this. They were always watching the Lord Jesus in order to catch him in his conversation.
Now the evangelist Luke tells us the reason for this, how they might take him, entangle him in his talk. Luke says that they might bring him under the power and authority of the governor. And that's what these men had in view. And so they sent certain disciples, first of all, their own disciples, disciples of the Pharisees, and then also the Herodians. Now see how awful these men were. They were going to ask him that great question, which has come down the ages, which is so very familiar, concerning the tribute money, as to whether it was lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not.
And so they sent the disciples of the Pharisees, the Jews, also the erodians. Now the erodians of course represented the Romans. And here were these two people, the Pharisees representing the Jews, the erodians representing the Romans. And they came to him. And before they asked him the great question, They eulogized him and they said this, Master, we know that thou art true and teach us the way of God in truth.
Neither care is thou for any man, for thou regardest not the person of men. Now, oh, this is true. We know that thou art true. He was true. He was not only the way and the life. He was the truth. And he was truth incarnate. And thou teachest the way of God in truth. That was correct. He had nothing else to teach, but the way of God in truth. And also, that thou regardest, or careest thou not for any man, thou regardest not the person of man. All this is true. Perfectly true. Why did they say this? Well, friends, they eulogized him that they might put him on his guard.
The fact was his. They have made a trap for him. And they determined to make it so that he would fall into that trap. And so they first of all just speak these fair words and that they might bring him under the power and authority of the Gautama. And when they came to him and eulogized him, They said, now, what think is now? Is it lawful to get tribute unto Caesar or not? That was the question. A question which is one of the most familiar questions today among Christians.
And you know what it says. Notice what it says in verse eighteen. But Jesus perceived their wickedness. The gospel by Mark states he perceived their hypocrisy. The evangelist Luke says he perceived a crockiness. The Lord Jesus knew all about these people long before they started on their journey. He knew what they were up to. He knew, as they came along, the very wording of that question they were going to ask. Before they approached him, he knew the sinister motives they had in asking the thefts.
People freed their wickedness. He looked right down into their wicked hands. And he said, show me a penny. Well, they showed him a penny. And you know, on that coin, on one side, the Caesar's innards. On the other side, the Caesar's superscription. And he said, now, whose image am I superscription is this? Well, they had only one answer to give, of course. Caesar's is that. Now notice the answer. Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's.
But he didn't stop there. He went on to say unto God the things that are gods. And that's what they never expected. No doubt as those wicked men came along. Before they asked the question, they said to one another, now whatever answer he gives, we'll have him. We'll entangle him in his talk. If he says no, then that would be unpopular with Nero, his master. This was a swimming fact imposed by the Roman anthropologist.
And then they said, perhaps, if he says, yet it is lawful, therefore it will be unpopular with the Jews. They were starting under the domination of Rome. And so they said, whatever answer he gives will be wrong. But friends, a little expected what he was going to say. Lender, therefore, to Caesar the things which are Caesar and to God the things which are God's Our friends, they had not rendered to God that which was his. In the last book in the Old Testament, God had a terrible, a serious controversy with those people. He said, you've robbed me.
The whole nation has robbed me. You've robbed me of times and often. You've kept back from me what you should have brought in to me. And you've utilized it for your own selfish interests. They had not given to God the things which were God. They had done just the opposite. No doubt they were as promised at his doctrine. And that's his answer. Now you know, friends, there is a very practical application to this. In the Thirteenth of Romans, you and I are told to be subject to the authorities of being, to the powers of being.
Therefore it says, to whom tribute is due, and fear to whom fear, and honor to whom honor, and trust. So that beloved friend, when the income tax gift comes along, the demand you have to pay it. Lay you against the grain, of course, especially with a large demand that you have to pay it, you know. But first of all, let me advise you to check it very carefully before you do pay it. Even official government servants are not entitled. At least I'm not in Great Britain. But after just examining the demand and attaining confidence that it's in order, you have to pay it.
Severe to whom tribute is due, and honor to whom honor is due, and custom to whom custom, and fear to whom fear. But friend, after paying that, after paying what is due to the authorities, remember this, we've met with the goodness of God, the things which are God's. I wonder whether we've all done this really. Have you and I been given to God, honestly, those things which are his, those things which he demands for things aren't they? Well, God demands all I have and all I am. I have to give myself, I beseech you brethren, St.
Paul, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And I have to render to him, if I'm honest, render to him everything I possess, my money and my faculties, my memory, my possessions. Everything belongs to him. And therefore I surrender to God the things which are gods, all I have and all I have. Now that was to the Jews and to the Herodians.
Now I want to turn to another passage. It's the sixteenth of John in verse sixteen. John sixteen and verse sixteen. a little while and ye shall not see me. And again a little while and ye shall see me. Because I go to the Father. Now very often when the Lord Jesus made a statement to the disciples, they were quite mystified. They could not tell what he meant. And they were mystified at this stage.
And therefore in the very next verse it says, Then said some of his disciples, Knutis, among themselves. Apparently they didn't say a word to the Lord. They just said among themselves. What is this that he said? A little while then he shall not see me, and again a little while and he shall see me, and because I go unto the Father. It's also mysterious to us. We don't know what he means. Now, beloved friend, in verse nineteen, it says, Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask.
He read their thoughts. He knew what was behind their mind. He knew that they had been discussing among themselves concerning this statement. And when he knew that they were desirous to ask him, he explained just what he meant. Oh, friends, what a fast. A little while and he shall not see me. That referred to the cross. That referred to his burial. Again, a little while and he shall see me. That referred to his glorious resurrection. And so, of course, he said, now you have sorrow because I'm going away.
I'm going to leave you. I'm going back to heaven by the way of Calvary. I'm going to lead you into this world. And he now therefore has sorrow. But by and by he shall rejoice. And no man shall take that joy from you. They had sorrow when the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified. And although his disciples forsook him and fled beloved friends, surely their hearts were absolutely I was going to say buried in sorrow, but they saw him again. They saw him in resurrection, and then their hearts rejoiced, and then such was their joy, that neither the world, no man could make a promise.
Now, you know, it's the same with you and me, friends. You and I have an interest in Christ, I hope we have. I hope we have an interest in his cross work when he died for our sins of Calvary. Well, friend, if you have an interest in him, remember he has a greater interest in you than you ever could have in him. And he says, now you're going to see me again. And we shall see him again. We see him now by faith. By and by, we're going to see him by and by.
I don't know whether you have experienced what I have experienced at times in studying the word of God carefully. I remember an occasion when I was reading carefully one truth in the Bible. And I looked at it. I studied it verse by verse. And I was so overwhelmed with divine joy, I had to ask the Lord to stay his hand. I felt that I could not endure very much more. Do you know anything about that, sir? That's the joy of studying the word of God. And that's what we want today, particularly among our young men and young women.
Individual study of the scriptures. Five years and years ago, We've studied the word of God away there in Great Britain for hours together. I knocked myself away from everybody, from my own brethren, from my own people. And there sometimes were up on my knees. I just read the word of God and thought to know more of the mind of my Lord. That was one day, friends. Whether in California or any other part of the United States or anywhere else, young men and young women who are Christians, devoting time to the individual study of the greatest book in the world.
And then we shall know what joy is. We see Christ in the written word. And it is a joy to see Christ in the written word, friends. What will it be when we see him as he is? And I believe in heaven we shall have no need of our Bible. I believe there We shall know our Bibles from first to last, because he is the Word of God, the living eternal Word. And when we see our Blessed Lord, we shall know our Bibles as we've never, never known them before. And so, friend, he was able to read the thoughts and motives of the human heart, whether he's in it or his own disciple.
Now I want to come to the most important part of our subject. Our Lord greatly be on an equality with God. I'm going to ask you, if you will, Fred, just to exercise patience as we just look into that passage we read, the fifth chapter of John, and I want to examine it carefully, verse by verse. John five, verse sixteen. Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus and sought to slay him because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.
Now first of all, that was gross hypocrisy. This man, of whom he read in the first part of the chapter, he had had an infirmity thirty-eight years. The Lord healed him. He healed him on the Sabbath day. And because he healed him on the Sabbath day, the Jews, they found hope with him and sought to slay him. Many of our Lord's miracles were performed on the Sabbath day. Well, you say, in what way were these people hypocrites? Why, I say, if one or their animals had not fallen out, had fallen into a ditch, or a pit on the Sabbath day, they would have gone at once and have transferred that animal from a place of danger to a place of safety.
Of course they would. They would think nothing about it either. And yet they blamed the Lord for healing a man on the Sabbath day who had had an infirmity for thirty-eight years. Absolute shocking hypocrisy. Well, notice our Lord's reply to that, will you? He says in verse seventeen, My father worked his hither too, and I was. Now the Jews knew what that meant. They knew it meant this. He placed himself on a level with God his father. He was equal with God.
And that embraced the Jews still more. And therefore it says, the Jews thought to mortification because he had not only broken the sun, but said also that God was his father, making himself equal with God. Now in point of fact then, that wasn't true. The Lord Jesus never made himself equal with God. You say, what do you mean? What I mean is that he was God. He was God from all eternity. He was God in human form. And there was no need for any human manufacture in order to bring this relationship into existence.
He never made himself God. He was God. You know, at the mock trial, they said surprising. We have a Lord. By our Lord he ought to die. Because he made himself the Son of God. He never did anything of the kind. He was the Son of God and God the Son. But the Jews, they thought the Lord to kill him. Now, verse nineteen says, then unto Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing of himself.
But what he sees a father do, for whatsoever things he doeth, he also doeth a son likewise. I and my father are one. You remember that passage in the tenth chapter of the same gospel, verse fifteen. Now, you know, friends, to me it's wonderful. The Lord Jesus said to his disciples in the fifteenth chapter of the same gospel, All things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. The Lord Jesus said nothing which he had not heard first from the Father. He has initiated us into the Father's seeking.
Would you think that's wonderful? And in this passage he says, now whatever the Father does, I do. The Lord Jesus Christ did nothing but what His Father did not do. They were absolutely one. You know, this was true in so many ways. This was true concerning the gospel. The gospel which we love to hear preach. The gospel which has been proclaimed right down the ages since Pentecost. The glorious gospel of Christ which has been the power of God under the salvation of millions.
We love the gospel. And when we read or speak of the gospel of God, it's quite correct. That very phrase is mentioned twice in the first epistle to the Thessalonians and chapter two, the gospel of God. But you know, friends, the Apostle Paul said, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. So when we speak of the gospel of God, it's quite correct. And when we speak of the gospel of Christ, that is correct. You see, I and my father are one. There are not two gospels, there's only one gospel. And this is true concerning the church. That church, that wonderful mystical body, that organism, you know, which is comprised of every single believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Not merely the primus brethren, you know. We're not the only people in the world, and I thank God for it. But, I mean, all believers in Christ are members of this church. And again and again we read and we speak of the Church of God. And that is mentioned many times in the first epistle to the Corinthians. The Church of the Living God, and it's quite correct. But the Lord Jesus said, On this rock I will build my church. So that when we speak of the Church of Christ, it is quite correct. Christ loved the church and gave himself on it. That by and by he might present it to himself a glorious church.
Not having father or uncle having himself seen. Not that he should behold him without blemish before him. Oh, friends, I am my father of one. The church of God, that's correct. The church of Christ, that is correct. It's the church I say comprised of every believer. If anyone asked me to which church I belong, I could say without any hesitation, I belong to the church of all saints. I belong to the church which is comprised of all beliefs and so do you if you are belonging to Christ. I am my Father, I am one.
You know this is true concerning the word of God, the Bible. Again and again we read of the Word of God, the very statement we read. The Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. If you see, even through the dividing of thunder of soul and spirit, that is a critic of the thoughts and intents of the heart, the Word of God, yes. We love the Word of God. I hope you do, friend. There's no book in the world like a Bible. There's no book in the come anywhere near us. And when we read of the word of God or speak of it, quite correct, now in Colossians three and verse sixteen we read that the word of Christ dwell in you richly.
The word of God that's true. The word of Christ that's equally true. Why? I am my father of one. I don't need true guidance. My Bible is quite satisfying to me, and you don't read through Bibles either. Do you know this is true concerning love, the greatest thing in the world? You talk about that a little bit more tonight, O being well, more particularly. But you and I read of the love of God many, many times in my Bible, and it's the joy to our hearts. The love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts.
by the Holy Spirit. We know something about it. I hope we live in the enjoyment of it. The love of God. Now, three times in the New Testament, we read of the love of Christ. Romans eight, who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Ephesians three, that he may know the love of Christ, which passes all understanding. Two Corinthians five, the love of Christ comes to me. The love of God, that's true. The love of Christ, that is true. I will my father and wife. You know, this is one of the most important things you and I can possibly imagine.
This is true concerning answer prayer. The Lord Jesus said, if he asks my father anything in my name, he will give it to you. And you and I know what that means, surely. I have gone to God, I don't know how many times, I have gone to God thousands of times on my knees for various requests and He has answered me. But the Lord Jesus said this, if He asks anything in my name, I will do it. And so I ask God to do certain things for me and He does them. I ask Him to give me certain things I need and He gives them to me.
I ask the Lord Jesus that he answer my supplications as well. I and my father are one. And beloved friends, this is true concerning the advent of the Holy Spirit. The Lord Jesus said distinctly, I have saved a father and he will give you another comforter, even the spirit of truth which abides forever. Do you know what he said as well? He said to his disciples, Now I was expedient to you that I go away. It's necessary for you that I depart. If I go not away, the Holy Spirit will not come.
If I depart, I will depart. So God said the Holy Spirit. Christ said the Holy Spirit. I am my Father of one. And this is true, friends, concerning the forgiveness of sins. God forgives How it is? Ephesians chapter four and the last verse. Forgive one another as God for Christ's sake has forgiven us. And in Colossians we have this passage. Forgive one another even as Christ has forgiven you. God forgives us. Christ forgives us. I am my Father our one.
I don't know how this appeals to you friends, but it appeals to me very, very strongly. This is true concerning the resurrection. We know that God raised Christ from the dead. And we rejoice in him. Up from the grave he arose. With a mighty triumph all his food. And so on. But the Lord Jesus said to his enemies, Destroy this temple, referring to his body. And in three days I will raise it. God raised Christ from the dead, Christ raised himself by the glory of his own divine power. I am my father of one.
Now friends, this is true concerning eternal security. I give unto my sheep eternal night, they shall never perish. Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My father, which gave them me. He's greater than old. No man is able to pluck them out of my father's hands. All things, what a passage. What a promise. I give unto my sheep eternal life. They shall never perish. I don't know what may happen to me down here in my future life.
God kindly veils my knives. I know what has happened before. And some things have happened to me in my past life. I trust they'll never happen again. But I don't know what may happen tomorrow. God only knows. The very dimness of my sight makes me secure. I know there's something, friend, which will never happen. I shall never perish. Thank God. Ten thousand times. The world can't say that. You and I can if we belong to Christ. We shall never perish.
But we are in Christ's hands. That's why. Those hands which were nailed to the cross for our sins now hold us fast. And they hold us so tenaciously. They hold us, beloved friends, faster than those fat males held those lovely hands on the tree. My Father which gave them is greater than all. No man can suck you out of my Father's hand. I, my Father's hand. Now just give me a few minutes, would you please? I want to refer to one other verse. To me it's one of the most wonderful verses in the Gospels.
It's the fourteenth chapter of John and verse nine. Now our Lord Jesus Christ had been speaking about the Father. He had told his disciples that in his father's house there were many mansions. He told them that he was the way, the truth, and the life. No one has gone to the Father but by him. Now in verse seven he said, If he hath known me, he should have known my father also. And from henceforth he know him and has seen him.
Now here again the disciples were mystified and didn't know what he meant. And so Philip, on his own behalf, and also on behalf of his fellow disciples, said, Lord, show us the Father. And they sat right with us. Lord, they were spoken about the Father. They were going back to the Father. They were going to leave us in this world. Lord, show us the Father. We should be serving them. When my daughter was very little and she was just able to read, I overheard her one day reading these words.
She read them very slowly and very distinctly. Jesus said unto him, Have I been so long time with you? And yet hast thou not known me to me? He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father. How saith thou then, Joach, the Father? And as my daughter was reading those words, I said to myself, my darling, you are reading some of the most wonderful words in the entire realm of literature.
Philip, I've been with you three years. You have seen my life. You've heard my words. You've seen many of my miracles. Philip, don't you know me? He has seen me. He has seen my life. A man. And as those disciples are gaining From that lovely face, at that psychological moment they were gazing into the face of the world. I say that's one of the most wonderful passages in the whole of the Bible.
It has been said that the kindest thing God ever did was when he became a man. And the Lord Jesus Christ was God in human form, just walking among his feet. And as those disciples saw him, they saw the Father. Now I believe that what was true on earth will be true in heaven. And when you and I are there, and we see the Lord Jesus in all his glory, we shall see the Father. No man has seen God at any time. You can't see a spirit. God is a spirit. But when we see the Lord Jesus, we shall see the Father. And what a sight that will be the loving friend.
He who wefts above the grave, He who spills the raging wave, Leap to suffer strong to save, He shall bear the glory. He who sorrows past, late Lord, He who every good bestowed, Son of man and Son of God, He shall bear the glory. monarch of the smitten cheek, scorn of Jew and scorn of Greek. Prince and king divinely meet, he shall bear the glory. On your rainbow circled throne, meet the myriads of his own, never more to weep alone.
He shall bear the glory. He who died to set me free, He who loves and loves thee, me, he who comes, whom I shall see, Jesus only, only he, he shall bear the glory. This is your beloved. This is your friend. He is my beloved. He is my friend. Blessed be his holy name. Forevermore.