All right, well, let's get in it. Any news, anything, anything, anything struck you as you was walking through these last couple days of walking through John from 17, 18, 19, or you can be anywhere else. There's no, you know it. We, I don't know, I don't want to sound redundant. Every time I mention it, it doesn't have to be In John, we just want to hear what God's dealing with you and speaking to you and helping you with so that you could help us. We'll do our best to run in whatever He's working in your spirit over, for sure. I like to be well ready, versed, and prepared to take it and go in any direction. Can't always do that, but thank the Lord for it. Amen. It's rich. A lot of good stuff. A lot of great promises. He is working it out for us, didn't he? Working it out for us. But anything. Look in 17. Let's just jump there and kind of work our way to Ward 19 if we get the time. Just something to think about. I know y'all noticed it. And man, it is so, so important because not one single dynamic of these things that he brings out can be can be off, they're so intertwined together. And what I mean by that, did y'all notice how many times he uses the base word of give in chapter 17? Like gave, give, or given, he uses it 17 times, 17 times in this prayer, 17 times. And every one of them, interlocked or interwoven together not one of them can go can go wrong they're all tied together for an example look in verse number two as you have given him given him Jesus authority over all flesh that he Jesus should give eternal life to as many as you have given him. I mean, each one of those givens has to be in perfect harmony with the will of God. Not one thing could be off, not the authority, not what he's given to the son and what the son gives to us. And this is strictly not for them in that day. This is also talking about us. So every ounce of it has to be fulfilled. And so when we start calculating these words in that small word give, man, they add up to a lot. It's all there. To be given that kind of authority tells us that he was obedient unto death. And therefore God has given him a name which is above every name and that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow and confess that he is King of kings and Lord of lords. He's been given all authority all authority and we watch that's a pattern of God isn't it? Then we see that God tells us for an example in Jeremiah 27 this is kind of In the middle of what we have in Older Testament history, God shows up in Jeremiah 27 and says, I wanna tell y'all how I've been doing business from day one. I've never not worked this away. This is how I work, this is what I do, and this is what I'm doing right now. But it's not just what he was doing then, it's what he's always done, and it's what he always will do. And what he had done was that he had given authority to Nebuchadnezzar. And he says, I've given Nebuchadnezzar all these nations. I've given him all these people. I've given him all these lands. I've given him all these beasts. And those who will not get under his yoke will perish, will die. You don't have an option in this. There is no negotiation in it. He is the one who I've given it to. He is my servant. Well, that same authority, but on even a greater scale and in a supernatural way out of the obedience of Jesus, not out of the obedience of Nebuchadnezzar. He didn't even know God was using him that a way, but Jesus does. And he says, I've given him authority over all flesh of all time. every age and every generation he's my answer and if you don't get under his yoke what will be the consequence you'll perish as well and that's what he says here but see not only does he give him that authority but he gives him people he gives him people as many as you have what no more no less as many Now, we can take this and go back to other places, like John 6. He says the exact same thing. As many as the Father has given me will come to me, and those that come to me I won't cast any out, and I'll raise them up the last day. And this is that idea of giving. Look over in chapter 11, and I'm going to tie this in because chapter 18 does as well. Look in 11, 48, 47. We talked a little bit about this in Sunday school, Sunday morning, but this is in relationship to Caiaphas. Remember chapter 18 brought this same thing up and reiterated it. And when God reiterates something to us twice, you gotta pay attention to it. You need to go back and look at it again and say, what was all that about? Well, verse 47, then the chief priests and the Pharisees, they gathered a council and said, what shall we do? For this man works many signs. Or you can say this man has given much evidence, undeniable evidence. That's the idea of a sign is evidence, proof, evidence. Verse 48, if we let him alone like this, what he's doing, everyone will believe in him and the Romans will come and take away both place and our nation that is Rome's gonna deal with us because they're not gonna put up with a rogue king that everybody gets under he hasn't been commissioned he don't have the political ties he don't have the authority of Rome Rome is the authority currently the Jews are operating under their supervision in their own land but they still answer to Rome And if there's an upheaval and the people start following this new king, and he's given all the evidence that people are gonna believe him, that's gonna cause us trouble. So we gotta do something about this. Verse 49, and one of them, who is it? It's Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, y'all know nothing. Now he didn't use the southern word y'all, but he says you, know nothing at all. Now, if he had been on our council, one of us would have said, y'all know nothing, right? But you know nothing at all. Verse 50, nor do you consider, nor have you processed this, that it is expedient. The word expedient has the idea it's beneficial, it's profitable for us that one man should die for the people, that there needs to be a sacrifice. that sacrifice to preserve our place in our nation somebody's gonna have to die now that wasn't in his mindset this is no connection with God this is all about who this is all about preserving self and keeping Rome off our back so we need a sacrifice for Rome for ourselves God's not even in the picture though where did he come up with this idea He come up with this idea because the Old Testament has been telling us that there was going to be one who would die and he was going to die on behalf of the people. You see but he had he had not a spiritual mindset about it. He had a political mindset about it. He had a logical mind not a supernatural understanding. But here's the thing God's going to use what he said because God is is the one who is saying it. Caiaphas is just the mouth that he's using, but Caiaphas don't even know God's using him. He's in the dark on it. Can't see it. We'll pull that together in a minute. Y'all remind me 1 Corinthians 2. 1 Corinthians 2, before we go, also the book of Acts. I'll show you a couple places how we can see how Caiaphas had no idea. Pilate had no idea what he was saying when he said what he said. 50. Nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people and not the whole nation should perish. Verse 51. Now that's what he said. Now John is throwing the thought in what he understands about this because remember John is writing this many years later and John's writing it as the Spirit leads him. So this is not Caiaphas' thoughts, this is John interpreting what took place for us. Verse 51, now this he did, Caiaphas, he did not say on his own authority, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation. Now, John's gonna say, but it wasn't enough just for that nation. and not for that nation only but also that he would what gather together in one the children of God who were what scattered abroad the children out there and they don't know their children and they're actually not functioning as children currently but they will they will They're gonna, because they've been children of God and God's work before time ever began. That's where Jesus said in John 17, as many as you gave me, they were given to Jesus. Why were they given to Jesus? Because they were the father's first. And the father did what? Gave them to the son. Why? Because his son is the only propitiation, the only way they can be reconciled, the only way they can become a child of God is through the son. But their children of God scattered abroad. So this is a picture of the entire scope of God's redeeming work in Christ throughout time. And one day, one day, there's still coming a day that all the children of God, every believer, is going to be gathered together. The sheep are going to be gathered together, and there's going to be a day, as Matthew would talk about, he's going to separate the sheep from the goats. And he's going to give the goats what they deserve, and the sheep are going to be the sheep because somebody paid a price for them at the cross of Calvary. Amen? So the giving here is talking about these children here. But remember these children, like the Apostle Paul for an example, remember he's a slave to sin, he's a product of the wrath of God, but God's got plans for him, don't he? He's a child of God, but he ain't a child yet because he don't know he's a child, but he's going to know he's a child when the gospel comes to him. God's going to get the Word to him. Hold your spot right there. Y'all follow with me there? Now look over in chapter 18 and then we're gonna look at another spot. Look in 18 in verse number, verse number 14. Well, verse 12, let's just do that. Then the detachment of troops and the captain and the officer of the Jews, they arrested Jesus and they bound him. They led him away to Annas first for he was the father-in-law of who? Caiaphas who was high priest that year now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was beneficial profitable expedient that one man should die for the people you see how God had brought that back to mind for us and Now Caiaphas said what he said because God gave it to him to say it, but God and Caiaphas wasn't on the same page. Wasn't talking about the same thing. Caiaphas is talking about Rome, but God's talking about his children that the blood of Jesus would wash away. Amen? Now think about that. Let's look at Hebrews real quick. Look in Hebrews. Go to Hebrews chapter number Hebrews 2. Go over to Hebrews. Watch this idea of children, children, children, children, sons. These children had to be propitiated for and they couldn't be propitiated for apart from the grace of God. Somebody had to satisfy God because the children couldn't satisfy God but His Son could. and his son would. Look into, in verse number, verse number 8 is a quote from Psalm 8, that God has put all things under man's feet, but they recognize that all things aren't under our feet. Why? Because mankind is a product of a fall. But what do we see instead? Verse about middle ways down, when you get out of Psalm 8, as the quote says, for in that he, God, put all in subjection under him, man, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not see all things put under man. Why? Because man misstepped, man sinned, man fell in the garden. See, when God originally created Adam in the garden, He put all things under Him. He had dominion over all things. But when Adam fell, He lost that dominion. So a second Adam had to come. Who has dominion? Who's been what? As Jesus would say in John 17, He's given me authority over all flesh. Look what verse number 9 says. But who do we see? We see Jesus. who, like Adam, was made a little lower than the angels. That is, He took upon flesh. As John told us, the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. We see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels. But what was He made for? He was made for the suffering of... That's what we're reading about right now in 19, right? When He said, It is finished, He was made for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor remember he said that all in John 17 the glory that you gave me the glory that we had you glorified me now glorify me again you glorify me in the life witness that I gave now glorify me in the cross you glorify me in the cross glorify me in the resurrection and what the father say I'm gonna glorify you again while you are my son in whom I am well pleased all you just we just read all those things in John's gospel John 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 and 19 and we getting into his death and resurrection and the father glorified him all the way through why because the son glorified the father how by doing his will he drank that cup didn't he he said that's my cup Father gave me this cup. I'm not pushing away what the father gave me. Though he asked the father if it was possible, let this cup pass from me, but he recognized it wasn't his will, it was the father's will, and therefore he tells us there ain't no other way. He had to drink that cup. So he would drink the cup for us. So he was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor that he, Jesus, By the what? Oh Lord, the grace of God. Jesus lived by grace, by the grace of God. His whole life, he is the personification of grace. That is how we are saved, through his grace. It says, by the grace of God, by the purpose of God, he might taste death for what? Everyone. That would be everyone he's gonna explain to you who he's talking about in a minute, the everyone. Not everybody, but every one of God's children, every one of his believers, every one of his sheep. I'll show you what I mean. Verse 10, for it was fitting for him, for whom, that would be the father, for him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things. You know that passage in Romans 11, 36, it says, Of him, to him, and through him are all things. That's that idea. And therefore we present our bodies as living sacrifices unto the Lord because God's the one behind this. He's behind you. He's behind Jesus. He's behind it all. So he says, It was fitting for the Father for whom are all things and by whom are all things in bringing many sons to what? Man, isn't that a wonderful thought? Many what? Sons to glory. To make, it was fitting for the father to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering. Who's the captain of our salvation? man that's Jesus amen and these things they do something to me when I read these verse 11 for both he who sanctifies that's Jesus he's our captain he's the one who sets us apart remember what he told him in John 17 father sanctify them by your you sanctify me sanctify them by your word for your word is or by your word for your word is truth he who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one for which reason Jesus he is not ashamed to call them what brethren why because he was clothed in flesh by the grace of God. He took upon flesh, he's a brother to us. We are the sons of glory, but we can only be sons because of our brother, of our brother. Verse number 12, saying, now watch this, I, Jesus, will declare your father's name to my who. to my brethren in the midst of the assembly I will sing praises to you and again notice this this is where our redeeming work comes in Jesus never failed in this I will put my trust in who I Jesus will put my trust in the father you see that's where my salvation comes from brother Shannon his faith His trust, His righteousness, trust in Him. And again, notice this right here. Here I am, and who? The children whom God has what? Given me. He gave them to me. He gave them to me. So when Caiaphas said, he's gonna die on behalf of the nation, John says, he didn't realize what he was saying, but yes he will. But not only that nation, he's going to die for all the children of God that are scattered abroad throughout all time. And he's going to gather them again one day, and he's going to present them to his Father. Here I am and the children whom God has given me. In so much, verse 14, then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared in the same, that through death, that is through the grace of God, through death, he might destroy him who had the power of death, that is the devil. And all God's people say? Man, y'all see what I'm talking about? That giving is important, that giving is important because every one of them have been given to Jesus, given to Jesus, given to Jesus and Jesus gave His life for those that were given to Him. Praise God. He's our answer in propitiation. So, you can tell people you in the Father's business. Somebody ask you, jot it down a little note, people ask us. Anybody ever ask you what kind of work you do, what kind of business you in, anything like that? I got to think in the day. And I've talked to y'all about this before. I use all kind of stuff. People ask me at times what I do. I tell them I'm a storyteller. And they look at me funny like, well, boy, what's he gonna tell me here? And I tell him I get to tell the story of Jesus again and again. I get to realign it, retell it, and retell it again and again and again. But I was thinking, I was thinking as I was going through and looking at all this that I'm in the family business. I inherited from my father. I inherited from my father. set it up for us. And it was His will, it was His will that we carry on the work, that we carry it on. And the thing is, He died to rescue me. And therefore I can't help but keep the family business going. Got to, amen? And if people ask you, so what kind of work is it? Well, it's the work my father and my brother set up for me. It's the fishing business, amen? It's the fishing business. He said, if I follow him, he'll what? Make me a fisherman. I'm in the fishing business. That's my father's business. That's my brother's business. Jesus is my brother. Amen. I was dying, lost, dying, and he saved me. And in saving me, he died. spilled his blood and therefore I can't help but what carry on the business that he said we in the salvage business you can tell people you in the salvage business isn't salvation the salvaging work of God that we were headed for ruin but he salvaged our life. We could tell folks we're in the farming business. That is, we're in the fertilizer business. We get to fertilize what's been planted. We're in the seed business. Don't we get to carry seed of the Word of God? Don't we get to water? We're in the water business. Of the water, the Word. Man, our Father has His hand in every aspect of this old world we live in. But we in his business, amen. So we can tell folks. I mean, if somebody asks, what kind of business? Well, I inherited the family business. What do y'all do? Well, we in the salvage business. So you in the trash? Yeah, he lets us go out and find trash and he recycles it and makes it useful, amen. That's what he does. You can tell folks that and stand on it, amen. Say, yeah, we in the fishing business, too. And, well, what kind of fish? Well, they stinky, but he has a way of catching them, and he cleans them up and makes them into something beautiful and profitable, amen? That's what he does. And we in the building business. We building people. We in the, what other kind of businesses? What's that? The seed business, yeah, we seed planters. We have seed to give away. So we're in the Father's business, amen? And we look forward to the harvest. We do, we do, we do. Some of us sometimes are out in the field harvesting. Some of us are acquisitioning seed for the field. Some of us are cultivating the field. Some are getting water to the field. And some of them are out getting harvest. But we all get to play every part of it. But we are in the family business. The family business. How long has it been around? Well, it's been around a long time. It's established, amen? And it's a good business to be part of. But yes, we can tell folks we are in the family business. And y'all know I've been carrying my ducks around, giving them away. I got to give a couple of them away today and talk with people. It's crazy how when you talk with people, they always want to revert to the lowest end. I said, you know, I said, if it looks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, if it quacks like a duck, if it has a bill like a duck, if it's got hollow bones like a duck and feathers like a duck and wet feet like a duck, swims like a duck, it's pretty much, it's a duck, right? And I said, the same thing goes, applies to disciple. If they believe like a disciple, trust like a disciple, follow like a disciple, learn like a disciple, walk like a disciple, teach like a disciple, disciple like a disciple, repent like a disciple, seek like a disciple, confess like a disciple, fish like a disciple, it must be a disciple. Amen? And I tell somebody that, and they said, but even them disciples were fools and did foolish stuff. I said, why do you want to revert to the lowest end rather than the greater end and say it's even possible to be made a disciple? I said, that's just the flesh at work, right? I said, let me give you this duck just to remind you that, look, just like a duck can take the water, a disciple can take to Jesus, a new creature in Christ takes to Jesus like a duck takes to water. And if you haven't been interrupted or invaded, Jesus will be a problem for you. But if he's interrupted you, invaded you, you'll take to him like a duck takes to water. And that's just what we see when we read through these great truths here. What did he say? Those are of the truth. Hear my voice. Amen. You take to it. Isn't that what he said in chapter 18? What he said. Remember, you sanctify them. By your truth, keep them from the evil ones. Sanctify them by your truth. Go back to John 17. John 17 again. I mentioned a passage or two to you, didn't I? Okay, yeah, yeah, we're gonna come to that in one second. John 17, let's get back to that word give again. What we have to be careful of, and I thought about this as we're dealing with these elders and, you know, Jesus said these elders and these chief priests and these scribes and these Pharisees, what were they going to do to Jesus? They killed Him, right? They killed Him. That's right. And we have to be careful because this is what I was thinking about. Like the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes who rejected plotted against and killed Jesus, too many in our day treat the Bible truths of God giving people to Jesus in words like election the same exact way. You mention it, man, they bristle up. That's how they did with Jesus. And we don't want to be that kind of way. Because the Bible's clear on those things. Just because he uses that word, and what I'm saying is, They bristle up, get nervous, and squirm in their seats when words like elect or grace or given is read in the Bible or spoken by a teacher. They even encourage their people to reject it, avoid it, stifle it, kill it when they hear it. And man, that's what the Pharisees did. That's what the scribes did. A Bible teaching truth like Jesus, which Jesus is teaching, Spoke up. I'm think about it. I had jotted down several times how Jesus used the word elect himself on numerous occasions But we live in a society that says Reject that word Don't treat it just like they treated Jesus even though it came from the mouth of Jesus and taught by him that's exactly how they handled Jesus and And do they not even recognize that's how they're treating the evidence that is given them, just like they recognize, man, there's so much evidence of this man, but he's got to die. We got to kill it. And that's how they treat these teachings. And it goes abroad. Man, you would be surprised on how that is such a taboo word. Don't even mention it. Because if you bring it up, man, they gonna try to do everything they can to kill you, and stifle you, and blackball you. And it's a Bible teaching truth, and they do the same thing, they did the same thing with Jesus. And we gotta be cautious of that. Hey, if the Bible teaches something, we wanna believe it, amen? We wanna understand it. They didn't wanna understand Jesus. That's why they did what they did with him. But see, they did that, when you think about it, look in verse six of 17. 17.6. How many times I say the word given is used in? 17 times. Verse six. I have manifested your name to the men whom you have what? Given me. Out of where? Now watch. They were, they were your children. You gave them to me and they have what? Kept your word. Now they have known that all things which you have what? Given me are from you. You see how that word given is so important? I mean, you take one idea of the word given away, you have to take it all away. And if you take the idea of he gave them to him, You have to take away that he gave his words to him. And you can't do that, can you? You can't do it. Verse number eight. For I have given to them the words which you have given me, and they have received them and have known surely that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom you have, what? given me for they are yours and then verse 10 all are mine are yours and yours are mine and i am what glorified and just like i glorified you and you glorified me now i'll be glorified in them and we'll be glorified in them because you gave them to me and i give my life for them amen Look in verse 11, now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you, Holy Father, keep them through your name, those whom you have what? Given me that they may be one as we are. Verse 12, while I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name, those whom you what? gave me, I kept. Verse 14, I have given them your word and the world has hated them because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world. Verse 22, and the glory which you gave me, I have what? Given them. Man, aren't you glad you can't take one, not one dynamic of giving. You can't take it away. You have to hold on to it all. Because it's the sum total of it all. Verse 24, Father, I desire that they also, whom you, what, gave me, may be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which you have given me, amen? Look in verse 20, I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will, what? Believe in me through their word. Why? Because the word you gave me, I've given them. And the ones you've given me, I've given them. You see, we are in the father's business. We get to go bring his word, his truths, his ways to those that were given to the son. Because the son gave us what the father gave him. so that we can go get what the Father gave him. We can gather the children, amen? We can gather the children. Now, if you go to 1 Corinthians 2, notice this. 1 Corinthians 2. Remember when Pilate said, are you not talking to me? Are you not going to answer me? Do you realize I have the authority to what? crucify you or what? Let you go. Man, that was his confession, wasn't it? That he had that authority. But who did he yield to? He yielded to the Jews who said what? Crucify. Could Pilate let him go? Oh, he just confessed it. You don't realize who you talking to, young man. You said you were king. You don't realize the authority I have. Your life is banking on me. And what did Jesus tell him? I love what he told him. What did he tell him? He said, the only authority that you have has been given to you by my father. Your authority is limited based on what he's given you. He's given it to you so that his will would be fulfilled in your life and you don't even know he's fulfilling it. I know what he's doing, but you don't know what he's doing. Look in 1 Corinthians 2. Now all teaching can be mistaught. That's a given. We want to make sure whatever we're teaching, we're teaching accurately, right? and with authority. So no matter what teaching it is that you want it to be accurate, but we don't want to run from any teaching that the Bible teaches. We want to understand it. So look in verse number six. Let's just start there. However, we speak wisdom among those who are complete or mature Yet not the wisdom of this age nor of the rulers of this age who are coming to, where was Pilate headed? To what? Nothing. To nothing. To nothing. He had no earthly idea who he was working with. He had zero clue. Caiaphas had zero clue of who he was about to call out to be crucified, to die for the nation. He says in verse number seven, but we speak the wisdom of God and we speak it in the mystery. It's hidden. It's hidden in plain sight though. It's right before you. It's right before Pilate and Caiaphas, but they couldn't see it. could not see it remember but you if you're not of the truth you can't see the truth which God ordained before what the ages for who for our remember we're talking about children that were scattered abroad it was for for them verse 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew for had they known they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. Had Pilate knew who he was talking to, he would have never said what he said, nor allow what happened to happen. Wouldn't have done it. Caiaphas or Annas or any of them would have not done it. But see, they had no clue. Though it was what? Right in front of their eyes. They had no earthly idea what was before them. That's why verse nine says, but as it is written, Caiaphas' eye has not seen. Caiaphas's ear has not heard, nor has it entered into his heart the things which God has prepared for those who, what? Caiaphas didn't love him. Pilate didn't love him. Those elders and leaders and scribes who rejected him didn't love him, and they couldn't see it. But notice what verse 10 says, but God, but God has what? He's unveiled it. He's turned the light on. He's given us revelation. Revelation is something you can't see unless God turns the light on for you. He turned the light on for us through who? Through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things. Yes, the deep things. You need the spotlight of the Spirit to see the wondrous light of God. Amen? Notice what, man, I tell you, what we're walking through and seeing right now, you see why they did what they did to him, because they had no clue who he was. They did not know it. They didn't see it. They only saw him as a problem. And they saw that their only answer with Rome was he had to die. That's why Acts, look at Acts real quick before we go. We'll walk out of here tonight. Look in Acts 2. Look in verse 22. Acts 2, men of Israel hear these words, NAZARETH. HE WANTS TO MAKE SURE THEY KNOW WHO HE'S TALKING ABOUT. AMEN? NOT JUST ANY JESUS, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE GALILEAN, THE ONE FROM NAZARETH. A MAN ATTESTED OR APPROVED OR THE IDEA IS TO BE PUT FORTH, TO BE SET FORTH, TO BE PUT ON DISPLAY AS BEING THE MOST DISTINCT PERSON IN ALL TIME. THAT'S THE IDEA OF BEING SET APART IN Open display. But remember, they couldn't see it, even though God put him on display. They couldn't see it. Jesus of Nazareth, a man tested by God, put on display by God, to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which nobody was ever able to do, which God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves also know. Him being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands and have crucified Him to put Him to death, whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it. And all God's people say it. Man, isn't that a wonder? Now we could take it and go a little bit further and it does tell us in several other places. Look in 3, look in 313, I think it is. Chapter 3. 313 says, The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of who? When He was determined to what? Let Him go. Let Him go. Look in chapter 4. Verse 27, for truly against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together to do whatever what your hand and your purpose determined before to be done. Brother Shannon, Paul said in Corinthians, if they knew who he was, They would have never killed Him. Amen? They would have never killed Him. So who was doing this? God was doing this. That's right. The Father was doing it. So that Jesus could what? Bring His children home. That Jesus could bring many sons to glory, as Hebrews 2 would say. That Jesus would fulfill that prophecy of What John said, Caiaphas didn't have a clue what he was saying, that he would gather the children scattered abroad. Praise God, amen. Woo! Man, this is some wondrous, whose business we in? Man, we've inherited the family business, amen. We inherited the family business. And if it quacks like a duck, it must be disciples you know them when you see them amen. Father we bless you we love you thank you for your kindness thank you for your goodness thank you that we can testify to the words that it is finished you wasn't finished but it is finished you have propitiated satisfied you have reconciled all that needed to be reconciled you have done it And therefore, now we go forth with that word and that ministry and the family business of reconciling the slaves of sin, the children of wrath, products of the fall, that they may be gathered together as sheep under your fold. So send us forth to go tell the glorious good news that whosoever will, let him come and take of the water of life freely. We're gonna give you praise for it in Jesus' name. Amen. Love y'all. Y'all have a good night.