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But listen, dear friend, in John's Gospel, I dare say you have noticed it as well as I have, the Lord, the Lord is not forsaken in John's Gospel. It's just like what we have in connection with Abraham and Isaac. The father and the son, they go together. And the moment has been reached dear friend, when this work — that was going to be so glorifying to God — it was nearing its completion. What a moment for this world, the nearing of the completion of the work that was not only going to save sinners like you and me, but the work that was going to clear sins out of the whole universe of God. And that's the work that I'm resting upon tonight for the forgiveness of my sins: that work which is going to clear the whole universe of sin. Jesus said, after having received the vinegar, "It is finished." Three words in the English language, but they tell me that in the Greek language it's just one word. And you know, it wasn't the cry of a man, whose life was ebbing out. Jesus didn't die like the two thieves, you know; Jesus dismissed His Spirit. We sometimes sing, "The storm that bowed Thy blessed head." The storm didn't bow His blessed head; He bowed His head in the storm. He was superior to it all. He was able to accomplish the work that He came to do. "Once in the end of the age hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." And there upon the Cross of Calvary, dear friend, He was able to say "it is finished" and completed. And in the seventeenth chapter of this very Gospel, speaking to the Father — you and I are privileged to hear — it's a privilege to hear each other praying, but what a privilege to listen to the Lord praying! He said, "I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do."