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I'm going to begin a series of messages on the prayer that is really the Lord's prayer.

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I have never done this before.

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Oh, sure.

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You have heard my series of messages on the prayer that Jesus taught us to pray.

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Our Father, which art in heaven.

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But the real prayer, the prayer that Jesus prayed, is the Lord's prayer.

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It is found in the 17th chapter of John.

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I'm not going to read the entire prayer.

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I shall at a later time.

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But I pray that you shall not miss one single one of these little heart-to-heart talks.

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Get out your Bible, the 17th chapter of John.

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Now, in the fourth verse, we hear him saying,

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I glorified thee on the earth.

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Remember something, Jesus is talking to the heavenly power.

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This is a communion, a fellowship between Jesus and God.

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I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do.

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In other words, this is what he is saying on earth.

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And he made it very definite that his work on earth, the plan for him on earth at that time was accomplished.

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Don't stop there.

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There was still a great work remaining for him to do.

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But he said, it's expedient for you that I go away, speaking to the disciples.

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In other words, it is necessary that I go away.

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My work here on earth at this time has been accomplished.

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But it is necessary that I leave you now.

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But I leave you not alone, for when I will have gone away, the Holy Spirit will come.

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I will send him, and he will be your strengthener.

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He'll be your power.

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His work continued, remember.

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In this very moment, he is in position of great high priest.

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He could not hold two positions at the same time.

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He could not remain here on earth and be the great high priest.

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What is the position that he holds this very moment even as I speak to you?

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The position of great high priest, seated at the right hand of God the Father,

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ever living to make intercession for you and for me.

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You and I have one at the right hand of God the Father, Gori, praying for us constantly night and day.

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That's the reason I can tell you upon the authority of God's word that no man, no woman,

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not one of his children need ever be defeated on a single score.

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Not one of us ever needs to go down and defeat.

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He's made provision for victory.

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He's made provision for abundant living.

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He's there interceding for us.

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He's there willing to make a way of escape when we stand face to face with temptation.

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When the enemy assails us, we do not stand alone.

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No man walks alone.

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I do not live one minute of my life alone.

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You do not need to live one second of your life alone.

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We have a great high priest who'll hear our prayer in intercession,

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one who's willing to forgive, one who'll give you the power to overcome.

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You do not have to overcome.

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You cannot overcome in your own power.

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You have one who'll give you his power to overcome.

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You do not need to be a weak person.

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He's there willing to give you his strength.

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That's one reason Jesus made it very clear in this prayer that he prayed,

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in this communion that he had with the Father,

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when he said, I glorify thee on the earth,

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having accomplished the work which thou hast given to me here on earth at this time.

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Now you and I had the great privilege to be permitted to come into his presence

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as under the very shadow of the cross.

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This is the beautiful privilege that we have of hearing Jesus talking to the Heavenly Father.

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He held communion with his Father.

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And he did so audibly in the very presence of those disciples.

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I wish I might have been there.

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Can you think of anything more wonderful than to hear Jesus talking to the Heavenly Father?

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How many times he did it prior to this we do not know.

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It may have been many times.

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Sometimes I think when he withdrew from the crowd.

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There were hours and hours when he had beautiful communion with the Father.

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But this is once when he held communion with the Father

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and did so audibly in the presence of those disciples.

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Who can doubt that the uttering of this great prayer at the close,

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while it was strictly communion with the Father,

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was uttered audibly for the sake of that group of men that were round about him.

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They, through this, were permitted to come into the sanctity of the thinking of Jesus,

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his thinking in the presence of his Father,

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and all of this was immediately before the cross.

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There have been many times, as I have read the Word of God,

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that I have wondered what was in the mind of Jesus before he did a certain deed.

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I've often wondered about his thinking.

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I've often wondered what his thoughts were

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when he stood there before Caiaphas.

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I've often wondered what his thoughts really were

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when he stood there and cried,

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Lazarus, come forth.

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I've often wondered what his thoughts really were

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when he was disappointed with those in whom he had such trust and such confidence.

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Here, for just a very brief time,

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we are permitted to get a glimpse of his thinking immediately before the cross.

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But remember, just a matter of a very short time,

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he would stand before Caiaphas in a very short time.

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He'd stand before Pilate in a very short time.

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Now, he would be led away to go a Gorthish brow.

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Oh, this is beautiful.

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I almost feel like speaking softly because

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I'm getting a glimpse of something that's very private and very sacred.

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I do not know whether or not I want the whole world to hear my personal and private communion with my Lord.

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It's something that's so sacred.

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I feel as though we're on holy ground

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when we begin talking about this prayer,

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this communion that Jesus had with the Heavenly Father.

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Three times he said these two words,

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I pray, but I believe that the true meaning is I desire.

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And it's true with us when we come into the presence of the Heavenly Father,

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when we come into the presence of Jesus, our great High Priest.

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Instead of saying I pray, what we really mean is I desire.

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And I believe that this is strictly a spiritual interpretation.

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He was not really asking favors of the Father, not really.

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He was talking with the Father.

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But in communion, expressing the things upon which his heart was set,

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the thing that he desired.

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And this communion, as you and I break it down, is threefold.

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His express desires at the very beginning concerned himself.

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Just analyze it.

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I dare say that before you and I all through that little heart-to-heart talks

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regarding the prayer that Jesus prayed, his communion with the Father,

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will be amazed at the depth.

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He expressed concern regarding himself.

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You'll find it so in the first five verses.

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And then from verse 6 to 19, he prayed for those who were with him,

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those who were present.

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And then at verse 20, we come to the final movement.

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He said,

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Neither for these only do I pray,

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but for them also that believe on me through their word.

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From there to the end, he was praying for his whole church,

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for the bride of Christ,

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for all who are Christians, all members of the church,

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including you and including me.

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And the amazing thing is that at the call to this prayer,

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he did not forget one single one of his children.

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He did not only pray for those who would be members of his church

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during the times of the Gentiles, but he went further than that.

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He also prayed for those who would be saved during the Great Tribulation.

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And when we get to that part, I'll explain it a little further to you.

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Why? I know.

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Because you see, during the Great Tribulation,

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the Holy Spirit will not be here.

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They'll not be the convicting part of the Holy Spirit.

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During the Great Tribulation,

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there will be literally thousands and thousands who will accept the Christ of their Savior,

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who will be born again, who will be converted.

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But they'll be converted through the word of their testimony.

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And at the end of his prayer, at the end of his communion to the Father,

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he was praying that only for his whole church,

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but for all of those who would be saved by the word of their testimony.

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Oh, to me that's thrilling.

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It's thrilling.

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And so our blessed Lord is here talking to his Father about himself,

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about that group around about him,

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who are hearing him talking to the Father audibly.

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And through them looking on down the years that have muck-applied into the decades and centuries,

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and now nearly two millenniums, all the hosts who believed in him,

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thinking of them into the circle of his thinking, of his great passion, of his desire,

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all his church to the consummation.

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They all passed before him as he prayed.

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He forgot not one.

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Not one.

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And the plane of this prayer was that of expressing in communion his desires

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and his determination, the subjects of prayer, himself, his first messengers,

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and then all who should believe on him through their word.

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In the first five verses, which concerned himself, there were two expressed desires.

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In verses 6 to 9 King, concerning the men around him, there were three expressed desires.

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In verses 20 to 26, there were two expressed desires.

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Follow me, if you will, please, very closely.

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In the first five verses, the two desires that were expressed, what were they?

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He begins, Father, and I love it.

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You and I coming before the Father's throne in the prayer that he taught us to pray,

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he taught us to pray in exactly the same way.

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Our Father, which art in heaven.

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And when Jesus himself came before the Father's throne and remembered something,

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as he prayed this prayer, he was still as much man as though he were not God

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because he had not yet died on the cross.

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Father, the hour is come.

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All through John we found references to that hour.

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He talked about it very freely.

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It began way back when talking to his mother.

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Remember what Jesus said to his mother?

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Mine hour is not yet come.

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Now he said to the Father, Father, the hour, the hour that I knew would come,

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the hour that I knew a way back there in my youth,

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the hour that I'd been looking forward to,

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the end of redemption's plan, that hour is come.

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And to this hour he'd been looking forward from the very beginning.

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He'd been preparing all of his teaching, in all of his doing.

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It was this hour which had constituted the underlying passion, the urge of his life.

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And now, Father, that hour, the hour is come.

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In the presence of that consciousness he expressed two desires for himself.

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The first is contained in the early verses.

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Glorify thy son, that the son may glorify thee,

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even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh,

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that whatsoever thou hast given him, to them he should give eternal life.

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And this is eternal life, that they should know thee,

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the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.

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I glorify thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do.

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Do you want to see something?

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And this is amazing, in speaking of himself.

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He refers to himself as glorify thy son,

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that thy son may glorify thee, and then he answers by saying,

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I glorify thee on earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do.