with one. Verses eighteen and twenty-one. And Elijah came unto all the people and said, How long haught ye between two opinions? Did the Lord begotten follow him? But if they'll then follow him, and the people answer him, not a word. Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I, only remain a prophet of the Lord, But Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. Let them, therefore, give us two bullocks, and let them choose one bullet themselves, and cut it in pieces. Lay it on wood, put no fire under. And I will dress the other bullet, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under. And call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord. And the God that answers by fire, let him be God. all the people answered and said, It is well spoken, Lord, as a fair deal. And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullet for yourself, and dread first, for ye are many, and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under. They took the bullet which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal for mourning, even until noon, saying, O bail, hear us. For them... Chapter fourteen, please. John chapter fourteen. Fourteen chapter of John. And verse eight, John fourteen and eight. Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father, and how saith thou show us the Father. Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself, but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me, or else believe me for the very work-state. Very, very I say unto you, He that believeth on me the works that I do shall he do also, and greater works than thee shall he do, because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. If he loved me, keep my commandment. And I will pray, Father, and he shall give you another comfort, that he may abide with you forever. In the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it saith him not, neither knoweth him, but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not give you comfortless. I will come to you here in a while, and the world seeth me no more. But ye see me, because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and he in me, and I in you. He that have thy commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that love of me. And he that loves me shall be loved of my Father. And I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. We've been picking up the various dialogues with the Lord Jesus. First of all, it's Peter who had a dialogue with the Lord Jesus. And Peter, you will recall, he spoke about the place where the Lord Jesus was going first to the cross and then to the house of many mansions. Then we had last week how Thomas had reference to the pathway. And here we come to Philip and he is referring to the person of the Father, these three dialogues. And then there will be a fourth next week when we speak of Jude and he wants to know something about the people of God. You have the four P's. You have the place, the pathway, the personality of God, and a people of God. Last week we were talking, in fact, the last two weeks we've made reference to the place. You can hardly get away from the place. I presume God's people and even unsaved people are interested in the place that Peter was interested in. First of all, Calvary, and that leads to the place that everyone, I presume, wants to go to in that paradise. In my father's house are many mansions, if it were not so, I go to prepare a place for you. And when I go, when I go, I'll come back again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye may be also. that wonderful place. If anyone had the authority to speak about that place, it was the Lord Jesus, because He came from heaven and He went back to heaven. Must He have the authority to speak about that wonderful place? No one else has that authority. There are a number of things about that place before getting into our subject on the person of the Father. I think there are about ten things about that place. First of all, our Father is there. Do we not say, or those who quote the Lord's Prayer, and he gave it to the disciples, we read there about my Father which is in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Our Father which is in heaven says the Lord Jesus, talking to the disciples. That's where he is. He is in heaven so... Every child of God can say, My Father is in heaven. But then My Savior is in heaven, true. Over in Hebrews nine, Christ has entered into heaven, into the holiest of all. And He has now sat down on the right hand of the Majesty of the Father. The Majesty of God. So the Father is there. My Savior is there. Not only so, my eternal home is there. That's where I'm going, and so is every born again Christian. And my name is there. That's nice, isn't it? When you read over in Matthew or Luke chapter ten, rejoice that your name is written in heaven. The disciples had gone out and had seen great things done, performing miracles. and they came back and told the Lord of all that they had seen and done. And he said, there's something beyond that. There's something to rejoice in more than success. He says, rejoice in that your name is written in heaven. I don't know anything to make a person rejoice more than to know. My name is written in heaven. It is written there as an individual. It is written there indelibly. It cannot be erased. Rejoice that your name is written in heaven, because the time is going to come when that book is going to be opened, and whosoever's name is not found written in the book of life will be cast into the lake of fire. People are concerned today about having the name on a church register. you can have your name written on every church in all day and still miss heaven. I'm not interested in having my name on any of the records of men. I want to know if my name written there in that land right and there, in the home of my father, is my name written there. And the moment you receive Christ as your Savior and become a child of God, your name is written in heaven and it will never be erased. He said, rejoice that your name is written in heaven. Can you rejoice? Because of that? And then again our life is there over in Colossians three. He says, your life is hid with Christ. Then he says, set your affections on things above and not on things of the earth. but on things above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And so, not only is my Father there, not only is my Savior there, not only is my home there, not only is my name there, not only is my life there, but my heart there. Isn't it? What a challenge for the Christian is my heart In heaven, listen to this text over in Matthew six, nineteen twenty one. Lay not up for yourselves treasured upon earth, where moth and rust up to corrupt and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust up corrupt and where thieves do not break through and steal. For where your treasure is, there is your heart to be also. Is your heart in heaven? Well, if your treasure there should be, oh, you say, but my treasure of earth, then something's going to happen to those treasures. If they're earthly treasures, they're going to perish, and the Lord speaks of three things, he speaks of the moth, rust, and thieves that are bitterly, and all three of these things work silently. You don't hear a bell ringing or anything sounding when the moth is working on those nice woolens of yours. All so silent. Rust doesn't tell you at work. The thieves don't, they try to do it silently. And these are the things that are destroying those perishable things. Those things that can be destroyed. But we have things, none of these I've mentioned, no moth, no rust, no thieves, can destroy or touch. What we have, the treasures that are ours, are untouchable, untouchable, invisible. No moths can destroy these treasures. Rust cannot destroy these treasures. Thieves cannot steal them. Water cannot burn them. Fire cannot burn them. These are treasures in heaven. The paid is not away. Is your heart there? Your wise man or woman to have your heart where your treasures are. If your treasure is some big pile of money somewhere in a lot of stock, why... Maybe the inflation keeps going the way it is, or the monetary system crashes. That'll be the end of your treasure and the end of your heart. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Is Christ your treasure? Is Christ your treasure? And all that related to him, all that you have in him, imperishable things, is your treasure in heaven. Oh, someone said, my treasure is an individual, such a place. He lives in such a place. She lives in such a place. Maybe your treasure is in that little crib. That's where your heart is. The Christian's true treasures in heaven at God's right hand. And you say this morning, that's where my heart is. My treasure is in heaven. In things that cannot perish. Things cannot be stolen, burnt, nor drowned, nor rushed. Nor can Moth Marlin. That's where my treasure is. That's where my heart is. And again, our inheritance is in heaven. To inheritance incorruptible and defile that payeth not away reserved in heaven for you. That's what Peter says. We have an inheritance that's in heaven. Also, our citizenship is in heaven. You read this in Philippians three. For our citizenship, or our conversation, the real word conversation means our citizenship in heaven. From whence we look for the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, we shall change our vile bodies, but they will change and will fashion light unto his glorious body. So it's nice, isn't it, to have our citizenship in heaven. They've got me listed up in Washington as a British subject, a Canadian citizen, and an honorable resident of the United States. So I'm recognized by three countries. Now, my main citizenship that I mentioned in is up in heaven. I'm a citizenship of heaven. Are you? Not for you. to answer. And our saved loved ones are in heaven. Someone passed away in your family. Is that someone in heaven? You say, I hope so. If they didn't leave very much hope, you'd be sure you're going to leave your loved ones with better hope. And when the time comes, they gather around your coffin. They can look into that silent face and say, I know where he is. I know where she is, heaven. Or will there be a question mark? That's the point. I know my loved ones are in heaven. I know my mother's there. I know my father is. My mother pointed my father to Christ. My father pointed me to Christ. I have a couple of sisters there and a brother. I have two sisters still living on the way to heaven. I have a brother that isn't on the way to heaven. Ten years younger than I am, and he's not a Christian. He doesn't smoke nor swear nor damn. He's lost on the way to heaven, on the way to heaven. He hasn't been born again yet. How wonderful to know we have loved ones in heaven and we shall join them. What does the Lord say over in First Thessalonians? He says, the Lord shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them. He's going to bring the souls, the spirits of those who are now with him, and he brings them to the air, and he raises their glorified bodies to meet their spirits and souls, and they'll be united. Those of us who are alive, when the Lord comes, we shall be chained, be caught up to be with him and with them. Loved ones gone before. Their spirits and souls are now in heaven. Another thing in heaven, our reward there. He said, I behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me to give unto all those When a love is appeared, ready for his coming, he has the reward. The reward for what we're doing on earth. Will he have the rewards? Are the rewards waiting for you? Waiting for the Lord comes when he'll present you with those rewards, things you've earned through your faithful life and labor. And so here's Peter, and he's talking about that place. And Thomas, last we were speaking about Thomas and the pathway. You quoted a verse over in Isaiah thirty-five, eight, a remarkable verse, linking up what you have in verse six here. I am the way, the truth, and the light. No man comes under the Father, but by me. Here's the pathway. You look over in that verse in Isaiah thirty-five, eight, you find a lot of that pathway. It's the King's Halley. It's a royal pathway. It's a holy pathway. I began thinking this week and meditating on this about all the highways I know about in the world. What a lot of ways we've got as we think of our country, crisscrossing our continent. Up in Canada, they have a couple of highways. They don't have any like it down here. They have the King's Highway, it's Highway Four Hundred. It has a royal name. They've got the Queen Elizabeth Highway. And I've been on both of them. These are Royal Highways. But the Highway to Heaven, that we're speaking about this morning, the King's Highway, and only the King's subject are going to walk on it. The Royal Highway to Heaven. This is a wonderful highway. It's a special highway. Yes, a very special. That's why these two highways in Canada are named after the kings of England and also the queen. This special, royal highways. This one's a better one. When Christ says, I am the way, the truth, and the life, oh man, come with under the Father but by me. This is a special highway. Also noticing going over the map, A couple of days ago, you have highways up in Canada they call them secondary. Nothing secondary to this highway to heaven. It's primary. It's first. It's the only highway. They have highways up there too that are what they call treasury highways. They're only available in the summertime. They're not maintained in the wintertime because too much snow. But the highway we're speaking on this morning is open, wide open and clean, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Nothing's going to keep you off this highway if you want to get off. No snow, no ice. This is a highway that's been open for nineteen hundred years, this highway that glory. And poor shadows in the Old Testament as Isaiah brings us. Also, you read it. more lane highways. Yes, a lot of them. I know up near Toronto there are fifteen highways. That is, lanes running in the same direction. And it's a pain in the neck when you get onto those thirteen highways with all the exits and exits. But I'm telling you, there's a highway that don't have any exits. It's just one entrance and no exit. in their life. You can't get off once you get on. No exit on the road to heaven. I am the way, the truth, and the light. No man cometh under the Father's butt by me. I was thickened in the room this morning. This is like the ark. One door in, and eight people were in there, and they had to stay in there a whole year. Suppose, and after about three months, one of those eight, maybe one of Noah's sons or daughters-in-law, maybe the wife. But I want to get out of here. No, no, no, you're getting out of here, you jump out in the lake or in the water. You're drowned. You can't get up. The only door is up there. And God lost it. And it'll never be open until the flood waters are big. And this ark settles on the mountains. You can't get out until the sunshine. And the moment you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, you get on the highway and you can't get off. And I don't know a born-again Christian who wants to get out. Some people think, well, I didn't get on and get off. I can be saved and lost and saved and lost. That's, you know, enough for the get off the highway, back on the highway, off the... You get caught off the highway when the Lord comes, and that's your business. In fact, you've never been on a real highway. How wonderful to know once you have Christ, He's your server, and you are His. You're on this highway, the slave, no exit. Then you'll find a notice in there, under construction. I now praise God the Lord on travel to heaven, not under this construction. It's finished. The Lord says it's finished on the cross. He finished the highway. All finished. The highway is open. It's clear. And there are no wrecks on this highway. His angels patrol it. He gives his angels charge concerning me. Are you protected on? this highway. If it's all built, all you have to do is have a look. You know, I can't help but think of how confusing it must be to older people. I'm getting there. Maybe it's confusing to younger people when they see the trouble of each other. The highway is gone. I don't know what they do. Sometimes I get confused. There's no confusion when it comes to God's salvation, yet some people do get confused. There's so many religions, so many denominations, so many churches don't know which one to go to. No, then. There's only one way to heaven to have Christ drawn the right way. The only way. No need of being confused. Just one way to heaven. I remember one time in handling the Pennsylvania Turnpike first time I was ever on the bridge. And, of course, they have places where you stop and get something to read. And when I stopped, I saw this plaque there, and all these names on it. I thought it was names of casualties during the war. Soldiers were killed. And I went over and read it. It was what I thought. It was the number of men that lost their lives in the building of that turnpike. For there were several people. I was amazed at how many men lost their lives building that Pennsylvania turned. It was a costly highway. I don't know how many dollars it cost, but it cost a lot of lives. And when the highway to heaven was a costly one, it cost the Lord Jesus life. He not only designed the highway, he not only planned it running through this confused world, but he paid the price for it to be built. The Lord Jesus laid down his life at Calvary, his shed, his precious mud, that you might be saved at a costly height. How costly. You go there in yourself of this highway to heaven. How secure it is. It's a saintly way. We read over in that text in Isaiah. It's flawed by those who are holy, the way of holiness. I don't mean to say when you just say that you're without sin and you're holy and will never have a wrong thought. No, but I'll tell you this. The moment you get saved in the sight of God, he sees you in Christ Jesus' Son, and he can speak to you as holy. You're in Christ. Your sins are all forgiven. You're on your way to heaven. You still have an old nature. But you have the new life in Christ, and this is what's taking you to heaven. You're on that highway, and God wants you to be saintly. It's a royal highway, held by those who are loyal to their king. Not only so it's separated, but from the broadway leading to destruction, but it is a narrow way that becomes a light. So it's a separate highway from all the other highways, and it's simple. A wave-faring man, though he of fool need not earth, or enough what you read in Isaiah. Yes, very simple. The wave-faring man, though he be of fool, need not earth. That's what the Bible says. No God's salvation is so simple. I'm known people to be saved at the age of five and six. They're very rare. When people get saved around that age, I have my fingers crossed, waiting to look it up a few years to see if they really did get saved. But some have. So simple. If a child of five, six, seven has been able to grasp God's salvation, And the Bible said accept you be converted to become a little children. And at once the wisest man in the world has got to become a little child. To accept Christ is so simple. Just faith. And children will believe you. For you believe what the Lord Jesus is telling you this morning. He says, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man cometh unto Father but by me. It's the sure way, a state way, a salvation way. It's trodden by the redeemed. Those have been redeemed by the blood of Christ. It's the singing way. Listen to this. The ransom the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads. That's what Isaiah is about. Why is the singing way? I get a lot of people talking about me with them all the time. When I go to the hall of the hall of the And Geneva, of course, she's a phoenix, and any little thing troubles her. And he said, the Virgil is left in there whistling again. The Virgil says, well, he lives alone down in Albany. That's what he does all the time. No, that's not why I whistled. I whistled because I'm happy. I whistled because I'm free. I whistled because I'm on the way to heaven. Only yesterday I walked someplace with me. They said, you must be happy. I said, I am. I'm happy on the way to heaven. This highway is the highway for singers. Those who are happy. Not only so, it's a sublime way. They shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. That's what Isaiah says. And this is the end of the highway. You read it in Revelation, verse twenty-one, four. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away. That's the end of the highway. Are you on that way this morning? Then we come to Philip. Now, Philip, he's talking about something else, Lord, Satan, who began to read, Philip, saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father. I don't suffice with us. And then the Lord goes in to telling that Philip, he should have I been with you so long, and yet hast thou known me, nor have you known my Father. He that has seen me has seen the Father. Why, Philip, you've got... God-building, God, before you, you've seen him three and a half years, showing that Jesus Christ is God. And don't forget that. A revelation of the Father. You find sixteen times in these three verses, verses eight to twenty-one, you have sixteen times the Father's mention. I think in verses eight, you have twenty-one. The Son is revealing the Father. He that I've seen Me have seen Father. The Son reveals the Father. How can a Son reveal the Father by His image? You say He's got exact image of His Father. Some of you wise say, I wish he hadn't. A Son can reveal the Father by His image. That's what the Lord Jesus said. You read that over in Hebrews one. He's the likeness of His glory, the express image of His person. Jesus Christ was the image of His Father. And that is true. But also a son can reveal the Father by His disposition. His likes, His dislikes. That's true physically. He likes just what His Father likes, lest he was going through. And dislikes. He let this and he doesn't like that, just like his father. That's true, Lord Jesus. He likes what God likes and he dislikes what God dislikes. He that has seen me has seen the father. A son also can receive or reveal his father by his words. He talks just like his father. He talked just like his father. The Lord Jesus talked just like his father. He said the same words. In other words, he said, I only say what my father tells me to say. And a son can reveal his father by his work. He does things just like his father. He acts just like his father. The Lord Jesus acted like his father. just like his father. Yes, he's like his father in nature. That's why your son is just like you, is not your nature. The Lord Jesus is like his father as to nature, sinless. God the father sinless, God the son is sinless. Just like his father, he's got his nature. God is holy. Christ is holy. God is powerful. Christ is powerful. God is gracious. God is gracious. God loves. Christ loves. He that has seen me has seen a father. All the attributes of God are seen in Jesus Christ. Christ is the fullness of a Godhead father. How wonderful. The Lord Jesus is answering Philip's question. He that has seen me has seen the Father, and the Son honors the Father by obedience and love. The Lord Jesus honored his Father by obedience and love. And what earthly Father wouldn't be proud if his Son honored him by obedience and love? my son obeys me ahead of me. He loves me. God can say that about the Lord Jesus' son. He obeys me. He was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, and he loves me. And so he answers Philip's question, he that has seen me, has seen the Father. And in these ten or seven bright stars on the dark night, which is in the paper. He says, I go to the Father. What would they do without them? He says, I want the Father, talking to the Lord. What are we going to do, Lord? You know your enemies, those who try to destroy you, and you were able to meet them on their ground. And those bitter Jews and Pharisees, those priests, they tried their best to kill you, those people priests. And those religious leaders, Lord, you were able to face them. You were able to defeat them. You could elude their presence when they tried to kill you. What are we going to do? You say, Lord, the Father, where does that leave us? Because I'll take care of that. I'm going to see that you have all the equipment, all the necessary to meet those same enemies that I have built. Where do you find that? Luke verse twelve. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me the works that I do, shall he do also, and greater works than thee shall he do, because I go from the Father. How could they do greater works than he did? Well, there are various things. I don't think he was talking about physical things like turning the water into wine or calming the troubled sea. We don't find the disciples doing that. He's talking about spiritual things. That's why he says, when I go, And I'm glad I'm going to go, because I'm going to send you my other self. I'm going to send you the Holy Spirit. And through the Spirit, you can do greater things than I do. How? Well, for instance, I've been among you three and a half years, and I haven't gone outside the bounds of Palestine. I've been local. But when I go to heaven and in my spirit, The Spirit will be universal, his operation. And some men will live for fifty, sixty years, preaching the gospel. I only live a few and a half. Some men are going to do greater works than I do. And that's true. Few believed on him during his lifetime. But there have been men who've seen thousands and thousands of Peter saw three thousand saved on the day of Pentecost, and Christ had gone to heaven. But the Spirit came down, and Peter, preaching in the power of the Spirit, he saw greater things. And Christ did in the way of winning soon. Now you have five thousand fed on one occasion, four of us. David doesn't say they got saved. He said, a lot of you folks are following me for the loaves and the sheep. He performed very good. He did good things and kind things to a lot of people. They didn't accept him as their Savior. I'm talking about those who are really born again. Christ says He shall do greater things. There are men like Whitfield, other men like Moody, Billy Graham today through the news media, and the methods of communication have reached far more souls for Christ than Christ saw himself when he was on earth for three and a half years. He says he shall do greater things, really. But the wonderful thing is, how did they do those great things? They preached him for one who was here for three and a half years. and died on the cross. They preached him on the power of the Spirit, and they saw greater things done. And some disciples did see, according to Mark chapter sixteen, they did perform some miracles, but they did it in his name. They did it by the Holy Spirit. I don't think the world saw such a convert as the Apostle Paul, and when Paul was saved, the Lord was in heaven. I know the feet of the cross got saved, a wicked woman got saved. That was remarkable. But the world was never so impressed or affected as when the Apostle Paul got saved and the Acts. Yes, and they turned the world upside down. The Lord Jesus turned Palestine upside down, but broadly men have gone forth with the message of Christ. and in some places they turn the world upside down. He says you'll do greater things. But how wonderful that that is possible. Doing greater things. And so he said to them, I'm going away, but he said to the thing I'm going, because he says you're going to have the Holy Spirit, and you're going to do greater things. My ministry is local, but yours is going to be universal, and you're going to have the same power of God in the Holy Spirit. That's one bright star in a dark sky. Then there's another. He said in verses thirteen and fourteen, And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, what will I do that the Father may be glorified in the Son, if ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. Isn't this a nice bright star? in the dark sky, prayer, asking in his name, what would Christians do without this star? He says, I'm going away. While I've been among you, you've asked me many things, but he says, I'm going up to build my body. And you can talk to my father in my name, and you'll get an audience. Thus, then we shall ask the Father in my name, it will be done. Isn't that promise a bright star in this dark world, in this dark sky? What would Christians do if they didn't have prayer and the power of their spirit like a sharp light going through the darkness and reaching the throne of God house in my name? Now, the only way you're prayers will reach the throne in my name. The power of that name, yes, it's for his sake, and because of his merit, or because of his glory, if you pray with those three things in mind, your prayer will be effectual. It's for Christ's sake, not my sake. It's for Christ's not for the sake of that person's suffering. No need portraying before God how much that person's suffering, and what a bad circumstances are, for their sake, Lord, answer my prayer. No perfection. For Christ's sake, answer my prayer. For Christ's sake, and because of what He did on the cross, and for His glory, answer my prayer. Isn't that a bright star? and a dark sky. Then there's another one in verse sixteen. I will pray God will give you another comforter. We take up the comforter more in chapter sixteen. What a comforter. God didn't say or Christ didn't say he was going to heaven. Well, I'm going to heaven and I'm going to leave Peter behind. And he'll comfort you. No, Peter, they've come for themselves. He says, I'm going to heaven and I'm going to send someone back to earth and he'll comfort you just like I did. He's a comforter. He's a counter. He's a guide. And so he gave them that instruction. How wonderful. He gave them a comforter. And he said in verse eighteen, I will come to you. Oh, I'm at, and I'll come to you. I'll come to you through my word. I'll come to you through the Holy Spirit. I'll come to you. I'll come to you. And he can come to you through members of his body. He speaks of those who visited him in prison. Was he in prison? No. But some of his people went to prison. And God can then some of his people and do for you or give you the message that Christ would give. He says, I'll come to you in one way or another. Sometimes there may be circumstances I'll come to you. There may be painful circumstances, but I'll come. I will come to you. And they tell you something else here. Verse ninety. He says, I will make it possible. For you to do what? To live also. Ye, yet a little while, and the world seeeth me no more. But ye see me, because I live, he shall live also. Isn't that nice? Because he live, I live.