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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... peace; And I gave them to Him For the fear wherewith He feared Me, And was afraid before My name. The law of truth was in His mouth, And iniquity was not found in His lips: He walked with Me in peace and equity, And did turn many away ...
... peace:— “The God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work, to do His will.” Such were the ...
... peace, good will toward men.” What was His whole life here but a continued manifestation of the glory of the Father! When Philip said to Him, “Show us the Father,” what was His answer? “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast ...
... peace that passeth all understanding to realize them. See, He claims the Father's recognition of the fact that He had fulfilled the salvationwork assigned to Him; and in consideration of which His Father had engaged to accept Him as the ...
... peace laid upon Himself, that by His stripes we might be healed; He was about to sustain in His own blessed person the curse due to the sins of His people; to be made answerable for all the iniquities, transgressions, and sins of all ...
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Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |