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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... to digest it, to appropriate it, to understand and enjoy it, that we may be “strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.” Now observe this latter portion of the verse— “Father, . . . glorify Thy Son”—the Father in covenant.
... verse it is repeated and expanded: “And now, O Father, glorify thou Me with Thine own self, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” Wonderful! wonderful! He asks His Father to take The Son of Man into the position He ...
... verse contains an argument drawn by our Lord Jesus Christ from the nature and character of the commission with which His Father had entrusted Him. He had prayed, “Father, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee”: the Father ...
... verse 11, “Keep through Thine own name those whom Thou hast given Me.” In verse 12, “Those that Thou gavest Me I have kept,”—and finally, for the seventh time, in verse 24, “Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be ...
... verse 6 that they are those to whom Jehovah manifests Himself. Have we seen the beauty of Jesus? Have we admired the love of the Father in giving Him? Have we learned His name?—“The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious ...
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Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |