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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... bestow, He prays, “Father, glorify Thy Son, that in the accomplishing of this Thy Son also may glorify Thee.” (4.) Those who are given to Christ have assured safety. They will lack nothing for time, nor for eternity; if the fulness of ...
... bestowing, or them in obtaining it? How He pleads for them! He pleads His covenant engagements; He pleads His own relationship; He pleads the favours bestowed upon Him, the gifts supplied to Him, the avowed object of their salvation—the ...
... bestowed on Himself, in that power over all flesh was given to Him in order that He might give eternal life to as many as God had given to Him. Life is the perfection of being; eternal life is the perfection of life; all life has its ...
... bestowed on us apart from God; but a principle laid up in Christ for us, “hid with Christ in God,” and imparted to the soul by the Holy Ghost, in the knowledge of God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. The Father Himself is the source ...
... bestow life eternal, in the knowledge of the only true God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. Even the beginning of this knowledge here on earth is eternal life, commenced in grace: for he that believeth hath eternal life, and the ...
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Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |