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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... earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted His way upon the earth.” (Gen. vi.12.) Again: “All flesh shall see the salvation of God” (Luke iii. 6), either to bless Him for the grace that led them into the enjoyment ...
... earth; And hast feared continually every day Because of the fury of the oppressor, As if he were ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?” We need not fear what man can do unto us; for “Thou hast given Him power over ...
... earth”—a power He possesses and sways by virtue of His sufferings and the victory He achieved in that flesh which He took on Him, that “Through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil; and deliver them ...
... earth and hell were united to oppose us. Children of God, if the possession of all power in heaven and earth is sufficient to carry us safely through the wilderness, and finally to make us more than conquerors through Him that loved us ...
... earth for their interests; He is their appointed Head, and it will be the triumph of His grace “to present them without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing”; “to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe ...
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Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |