The Lord Jesus Christ is glorified because He has accomplished every demand placed on Him under the terms of the Covenant of Grace and Peace and finished the work His Father had given Him to do.

Preached at Hope Fellowship Particular Baptist Church, Leeds Road, Ossett. Sunday evening 1st June 2025.

Preached at Hope Fellowship Particular Baptist Church, Leeds Road, Ossett. Sunday morning 1st June 2025.

The Lord Jesus Christ has authority over all flesh and gives eternal life to those whom the Father has given to Him to save. These blessed people are the chosen of God, the sanctified of the Spirit and the redeemed of Christ.

In John chapter 17 we embark upon one of the most remarkable and profound passages in the whole of Scripture. Every believer reading this chapter must surely feel they are standing on holy ground for the majesty of the subjects involved and the blessedness of those things requested from God by our Lord Jesus Christ.

All the words the Lord Jesus spoke were for our peace and comfort. He spoke of sins forgiven, redemption and reconciliation with God and eternal happiness in heaven. The gospel of Jesus Christ is cheering and comforting because the Lord Himself has accomplished all that is needed to secure its benefits for His people. He says, ‘I have overcome the world’.

The Lord was close to His arrest and crucifixion but He was also close to His resurrection. He knew that the disciples would be greatly vexed by the upcoming events so He encourages them with the promise of imminent and lasting joy, the joy of the Lord, to offset their sadness and sorrow.

The Holy Spirit's comforting work amongst God's people is here detailed by the Saviour as being of a reproving nature. It is the Holy Spirit who brings chosen sinners to salvation and to eternal life by convincing us of our sin, convincing us of our need of Christ's righteousness and convincing us that Christ's death on the cross has successfully delivered us from judgment.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is The Truth and all He says is true. He warns us of future troubles to prepare us for them. He tells us what is expedient and necessary for our salvation. He calls us to trust Him and lean on Him in all our ways.

Our union with the Lord Jesus Christ has gained us many blessings and benefits. By grace and the work of God we are a spiritual people, redeemed by blood and prepared for glory. We are not of this world but look for a city whose builder and maker is God.

The love of the Lord Jesus for His people is a rare and special blessing. Here the Saviour tells us how He loves us as His Father loves Him.

The Lord Jesus is the True Vine. All our spiritual life, grace and blessing comes as we abide in Him. Believers do abide in Him and He promises to freely supply all we need to make our lives fruitful for His Father’s glory.

The Lord Jesus adds promise upon promise, gift upon gift, blessing upon blessing to His troubled disciples as He prepares them for His suffering and departure.

God in three Persons; Father, Son and Holy Spirit are promised to every believer to live in our heart and unite with our soul. The Lord Jesus Christ tells His disciples that that they will be comforted upon His going away from them by the spiritual presence of the Holy Spirit and the coming of the Father and Son to abide with them.

The Apostles were called to preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Church was provided with the method, the men and the message to be preached. We do well to follow this pattern.

The Lord Jesus Christ is encouraging His disciples prior to leaving them at the time of His death. He teaches them the beautiful doctrine of His union with His Father and how their faith is to be directed to Him as the divine person and provider of all their needs. He will accomplish all His will and purpose and provide them the tools to secure the end.

The Lord Jesus comforts His disciples as they learn about His imminent death and departure. He comforts all His children with promises of His heavenly glory, His presence with us on earth and His divine power to accomplish our full salvation.

Guilt will silence a believer’s worship and witness. It did for David. He pleads therefore that the Lord would grant him evangelical repentance, which is a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart. When the Lord grants repentance for sin He will not despise or deny the appeal for forgiveness and the peace of conscience that a child of God seeks.

David pleaded for cleansing from his sin but he also asked that the Lord would restore to him the joy of salvation; the joy and gladness that the psalmist-prophet had lost. Here we consider what the essence of spiritual joy is, how Satan tries to trick us out of its experience and how it is to be recovered by those who have fallen into sin.

David's sins were great but His Saviour's grace is greater. In Psalm 51 the broken and humiliated sinner sought forgiveness from the LORD upon the promises of God's own covenant mercy and with an eye to the Lord Jesus Christ. David is an example for us all.