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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... truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, Till He have set judgment in the earth: And the isles shall wait for His law. Thus saith God the Lord, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that spread forth the earth, and ...
... truth. Put this in the one scale, and all that the creature could do is but as the small dust in the other. “I have glorified Thee on the earth.” May faith rest upon that plea, and come with boldness to the throne of grace, seeing that ...
... truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.” And now, the Father is satisfied; the Son is satisfied; and the Holy Ghost is satisfied. I ask you, in the presence of God, individually, are you satisfied with Christ as ...
... truth, Thou wouldst raise Me up into the glory which I had with Thee before the world was, in order that I might rule heaven and earth on their behalf, and dispense as their Head eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Me. Father ...
... truth is, all power was vested in Him for this purpose; and the Holy Ghost was awaiting His ascension into heaven, in order to descend and be the revealer, through Christ, of that Father. He therefore refers to it as, in every sense of ...
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Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |
Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17 Marcus Rainford,Marcus Rainsford Fragmentweergave - 1978 |