Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17Ravenio Books, 13 mei 2014 THIS chapter is emphatically the Lord’s prayer. That which we commonly call the Lord’s prayer He taught His disciples, but did not use Himself. The petition, “Forgive us our trespasses,” could never have been uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ. This prayer, on the other hand, is His own—His disciples were not invited to unite in it; it was a prayer they did not and could not utter. Evidently the Lord spake so as to be heard, and the disciples listened. The Holy Ghost has provided that not one petition should be lost to the church of God. We often find our Lord teaching His disciples to pray, and we read of Him spending even whole nights in prayer; but we never find Him praying with His disciples. Indeed, there would seem to be something incongruous in Christ kneeling down with His disciples for prayer; there must always have been something peculiar in His petitions. At this time His work on earth was well-nigh ended: nothing remained for Him but to die: “I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do.” (v. 4.) The Last Supper was over. The Lord had dispensed to His disciples the broken bread and poured-out wine, memorials of His dying love; He had expressed to them His desire, that in remembrance of Him, they should often gather together and thus show forth His death in this illustration and their union with Himself and with each other, until His return to them in glory. He had washed their feet; He had comforted them; He had opened His whole heart to them. He now opens it for them to Him before whom “all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid;” and having poured out His soul into the ear, and into the bosom of God, He went forth into Gethsemane. May God the Spirit be with us and give unction and understanding to our hearts, while we meditate on His most precious prayer. |
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... truth, than this prayer of our most blessed Lord. If we are to grow in Christian life we must live upon the food God has provided—the bread of God. May He teach us to digest it, to appropriate it, to understand and enjoy it, that we may ...
... truth! Our Lord is speaking in an official character. He appears before the Father here as the Mediator; as God He could not pray, as God He could not receive any power that did not belong to Him essentially. On the other hand, as the ...
... truth which, next to the revelation of Christ Himself, shines out most fully in Scripture. For your sakes Christ was incarnate; for your sakes the office of Mediator was appointed; for your sakes Christ died, and rose, and revived; for ...
... truth itself to know Him as having so loved this sinful world, that “He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” “This is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the ...
... truth”; “In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” Therefore, the majesty, the holiness, the blessedness, the preciousness, and the glory of the Godman, Christ Jesus, can never be conceived or expressed; The Father's love ...