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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... speaks of it as done; and it was as good as done. He speaks of Himself as one passed out of the world at this time: “And now I am no more in the world; but these are in the world, and I come to Thee.” So completely was He laid upon the ...
Marcus Rainsford. It was no uncertain work; some people seem to think and speak of it as if its completion depended upon whether they consented or not. Christ's work was no uncertain work, nor is it an unsatisfying work; try it; God ...
... speaks as Mediator: the salvation, the triumph, and the glory of His people were inseparable from His own. When he said, “Glorify Thou Me,” He prayed as head of His church; the Godman mystical was included, and in His person all the ...
... speaks of His own work, “I have finished the work;” whether He speaks of the revelation of the Father's name, “I have manifested Thy name unto the men Thou gavest Me;” or whether He speaks of their reception of that name, “they have ...
... speaks of us above as complete in Him. If the Spirit of God in His Word proclaims to us that “By Him all that Relieve are justified from all things,” our glorious Intercessor speaks of us before His Father as “justified from all things ...
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Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |