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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... iniquity of the church of God; yet nevertheless and with that accumulated load upon His soul He never questioned His Father's promise to accept His death as the atonement for it all. O for more of His' faith! We sometimes question ...
... iniquity of them all; by accepting the sacrifice He is about to offer to Thee on their behalf; by substituting Him for the sins of Thy people; by sustaining and upholding Him in the tremendous ordeal He is about to undergo; by bursting ...
... iniquity, and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty,” making “Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him”? Another is—“I have manifested Thy name unto them ...
... iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless My lovingkindness will I not utterly take from Him, Nor suffer My faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips. Once have I sworn by My holiness ...
... iniquity was not found in His lips: He walked with Me in peace and equity, And did turn many away from iniquity.” In Luke i. we come to the fulfilment (verses 6875) the song of Zacharias: “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; For He.
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Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |