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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... prays, “Father, glorify Thy Son.” This prayer uttered on earth by Jehovah's servant, at the throne of the heavenly grace, is the model of the intercession, which, as our risen and accepted representative, the Lord Jesus Christ now ...
... pray, as God He could not receive any power that did not belong to Him essentially. On the other hand, as the Godman Mediator, all He possessed was bestowed upon Him—His office appointed to Him in the everlasting covenant between Father ...
... prayer. In seven different places He speaks of His Father's gift of His people to Him; in verse 2, “as many as Thou ... pray . . for them whom Thou hast given Me, for they are Thine.” Why were they so precious? Apparently for another ...
... prays that “The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and ... pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge.” In the knowledge of God we get our love to God; and ...
... prayer. He evidently opens His whole heart to His Father; His petitions are wonderful; first for Himself, and then for “those whom Thou hast given Me.” As Aaron appeared before the Lord in the holy place, with the names, and ...
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Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |