November 15, 1987
The time for Christ to be glorified had come: He had lived in perfect obedience, He had loved the lost, and on the cross He would triumph over evil. John 17 describes the moment that all of history had been leading up to—the moment when God gave us the gift of eternal life in Jesus. Alistair Begg encourages us to accept God’s gift of eternal life and share the news of it with others.
1When Jesus had spoken these words, mhe lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, nthe hour has come; oglorify your Son that the Son may pglorify you, 2since qyou have given him authority over all flesh, rto give eternal life to all swhom you have given him. 3tAnd this is eternal life, uthat they know you, vthe only wtrue God, and xJesus Christ whom you have sent. 4I yglorified you on earth, zhaving accomplished the work that you gave me to do. 5And now, Father, aglorify me in your own presence with the glory bthat I had with you cbefore the world existed.
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