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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... throne in all the inestimable worth, preciousness, and perfection of His mediatorial work and office. He pleads “I have glorified Thee on the earth.” Truly this prayer and this pleading did ascend into the very Holy of Holies, and ...
... in the Holiest shone forth, inviting and encouraging sinners to come boldly to the Throne of Grace; and thus it was that the Lord Jesus Christ glorified God on the earth. We read in Isa. lix. 2, “your iniquities have separated.
... throne to do honour to another king, thus in the substituting of Himself, as a curse for us, in emptying Himself of the glory He had with His Father before the world was, and coming down to be spit upon, rejected, and crucified here on ...
... throne of grace, seeing that He who glorified Jehovah on earth is now seated on His throne, with open arms, to welcome those who have never glorified Him—that they may come in, and receive, and enjoy the great salvation which the God of ...
... throne was between the wings of the cherubim, the mercy seat, Jehovah's habitation; where He held intercourse with Israel; where the great High Priest ministered, and the glory was revealed. What a costly structure it was! what care was ...
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Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |