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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... glory of the Father, the glory of the Son, and the glory of the Holy Ghost, and The infinite desire of the Godhead, that the people given to Christ should be filled with all the fulness of God. Who can speak of eternal life? A life ...
... glory, and of His own glory; for, in order that He might be enabled to give them the eternal life He was commissioned to bestow, He prays, “Father, glorify Thy Son, that in the accomplishing of this Thy Son also may glorify Thee.” (4 ...
... glory can crown them, they shall be crowned; if the Mediator on high can save them, they shall be saved; if God is to be glorified, they shall be glorified. Who are they? We have a description of them (chap. vi. 37), “All that the ...
... glory into the soul of its possessor; and how divinely secure its possession has been made: “Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He might give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him.” O for a more abundant knowledge ...
... glory. Why are we so ignorant? alas! alas! is it not because our faith is so feeble? Faith has a high prerogative; it is the principle in the soul which lays hold upon God, and approaches and enjoys the knowledge of Him, and Jesus ...
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Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |