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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... words spake Jesus.” From the fourteenth chapter we have the record of them, words of life and joy; words of comfort ... thou not known Me, Philip? He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, shew us the Father ...
... you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for My name's sake, because they know not Him that sent Me.” (xv. 1821.), “These words spake Jesus.” Little did they contain of the ...
Marcus Rainsford. John. 17:1. “These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee.” It is altogether necessary to keep clearly before our minds ...
... Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee as Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him.” Let us dwell upon three subjects presented to our consideration in the text ...
... Thy name unto them.” Again: “I have given unto them the words which Thou gavest Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from Thee, and they have believed that Thou didst send Me.” Here is the Lord's own ...
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Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |
Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |