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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... pleads “I have glorified Thee on the earth.” Truly this prayer and this pleading did ascend into the very Holy of Holies, and perfume the heavens for evermore. Now it is of the utmost importance that we should understand, as it is also ...
... in every good work, to do His will.” Such were the circumstances under which the Lord Jesus Christ prayed to His Father. III. THE GROUND UPON WHICH HE RESTS HIS PLEA—“I have glorified Thee on the earth.” The Saviour pleads the performance.
Marcus Rainsford. glorified Thee on the earth.” The Saviour pleads the performance of His part of the contract. He was at this time standing, bound with the cords of everlasting love, beside the altar of burnt offering. The last act was ...
... pleaded; and whether looking backward upon the earth, where His work was over; or forward to the glory, where He was to “see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied,” He pleads with His Father, “I have finished the work which Thou ...
... pleads with His Father—“I have glorified Thee on the earth; I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do”—the Father Himself by those very words appeals to you; for “Herein is love; not that we loved God, but that He loved us ...
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Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |