JESUS PRAYED FOR YOU
John 17:1-23
INTRODUCTION
Jesus was in
His final hours on earth. He was headed toward
the cross, the
Completion of
His work on earth. Judas had betrayed Him and He would
Be accused
of preaching the Gospel. He would be tried, beaten and
Nailed to the
cross for our salvation. He went to the Father
praying for
His
disciples.
THE
DISCIPLES PRAYER
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven
and prayed:
"Father,
the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you
granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all
those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you,
the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
A. It is our job to pray for each other.
No matter what we are going through,
Someone needs our prayers.
1. The road to life is full of problems
we cannot foresee.
2. Jesus knows the problems we will face
and intercedes for us
To the Father.
3. Notice His posture was looking to the
heavens.
4. Everything for us comes down from
heaven through the power of
The Father.
5. We should continue to put our trust
in the Lord who is our present help.
B. The focus of Jesus is on the divine
plan of the Father.
1. Glorify Me that I may Glorify You.
2. That should be our prayer.
a. We should ask the Father to enable
and strengthen us to work to
Glorify Him.
3. The request of Jesus came at a great
cost to Him.
a. He asked the Father to allow Him to
be wrongly accused, beaten
Until skin came off His
back, nailed to the cross and death.
b. Love is defined by the unselfish
sacrifices we make for others.
C. God the Father gave Jesus, God the
Son power over us to provide
Eternal life through the cross.
1. Jesus described eternal life as
knowing the one true God and
Him crucified.
2. The Apostle Paul said I determine to
know nothing but Jesus Christ
And Him crucified.
3. Most of us will never know the entire
Bible.
4. Most of us will never live up to the
standards of Christian living
Jesus set for us.
5. The good news is all we need
salvation to know Jesus and
His crucifixion for the
atonement of our sins.
THE DIVINE GLORY OF JESUS
V:4. I have
brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now,
Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the
world began.
A. Jesus came to give glory to the
Father by teaching the Gospel and drawing men/women
To believe that He is the way to eternal life.
1. His 3 ½ years on earth proved that He
became man.
2. His miracle proved that He was God.
3. Teaching the Word of truth proved His
mission was from the Father.
B. In Jesus prayer, He claimed His
position at the right hand of the Father
Was eternal.
1. He was from the beginning in glory
with the Father.
2. Jesus voluntarily gave up His glory
in heaven to become a man.
3. It was the Father who restored Jesus
to His original glory.
DIVINE
ELECTION
V:6 "I
have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours;
you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7 Now they know that
everything you have given me comes from you. 8 For I gave them the words you
gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you,
and they believed that you sent me. 9 I pray for them.
A. Every now and then we need to review
who we are and who we belong to.
1. Ephesians 1:4 says we were predestined
to be in Christ before the
Foundation of the world.
2. We are owned by the Father, who gave
us to Jesus to enlighten us
With the Word of truth,
3. Jesus expresses confidence in His
work in us.
a. He is confident in our knowledge of
the Word.
b. He is confident in our obedience to
the Word.
c. Jesus is confident in the power of
the Holy Spirit to
Convict us by the Word
and bring us to repentance.
d. Jesus is confident in our belief in
the Word.
B. Jesus is confident that we will come
to know the plan of God
And role the Father plays and the role of Himself.
1. In our salvation, nothing is left to
chance.
2. The same power Jesus used to draw the
original 12 Apostles
To Himself, He uses today
to draw us to Him.
3. The same conviction power Jesus used
over 2000 years ago,
He uses today with us.
4. The same confidence that Jesus had
with the original disciples, He
Has with us today.
C. Jesus is constantly in prayer for us.
1. Jesus is the power in our prayers.
2. We should always be in prayer for
each other
DIVINE
PRAYER
V:9b. I am
not praying for the world, but for those, you have given me, for they are
yours. 10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to
me through them. 11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in
the world, and I am coming to you.
A. Jesus is
selective in His prayer.
1. The Father is selective in who He chose
to give Jesus.
2. There are two types of people in society.
a. There those God chose in Jesus.
b. There are those God left in the world.
c. There are those God chose for
salvation.
d. There are those God chose for hell.
B. Jesus and
the Father claim ownership of all they chose to
Believe in the Gospel.
1. All believers, that is the Church, are
chosen to give God glory.
2. Jesus left the world to return to the
Father.
3. He made provisions for us through His
prayers.
4. We make provisions for each other
through our prayers.
DIVINE
PROTECTION
V:11b. Holy
Father, protect them by the power of your name — the name you gave me — so that
they may be one as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them and
kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one
doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
V:13 "I
am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so
that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14 I have given them
your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more
than I am of the world. 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world
but that you protect them from the evil one.
A. One of the provisions, Jesus has made
for us is that we are full of His joy.
1. We will have trouble in this world, but
the joy we have will override it.
2. We should not expect to fit in with
everyone.
3. The world hates us because of our
relationship with Jesus.
B. Experientially, we are in the world.
1. Positionally we are in Christ in
heaven.
2. God does not intend to eliminate the
problems of this world.
3. But He protects us in the problems,
through the problems and
Out of the problems.
4. The problems of this world are Satan
designed.
5. God has His arm of protection around
us.
6. Not only is our protection divine,
but it is eternal.
We have been sealed in Jesus until
the day of redemption
DIVINE
SANCTIFICATION
V:16 They are not of the world, even as I am
not of it. 17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me
into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19 For them I sanctify myself,
that they too may be truly sanctified.
A. Our position is one of heaven.
1. We should carry ourselves as citizens
of the kingdom of Heaven.
2. It is the Word of God that sets us
apart from the world.
3. Men know we are of God when we live
in obedience to the Word.
4. We have supernational knowledge which
is the truth, the Word of
God.
B. Jesus set Himself apart from the
world so that our belief in Him
Sets us apart from the World.
1. The world can hear the Word of God
but is not able to
Believe for it is foolishness
to them.
2. We have the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit which gives us access
To heavenly knowledge.
DIVINELY UNITED
WITH THE FATHER
V:20
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe
in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as
you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may
believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me,
that they may be one as we are one: 23 I in them and you in me. May they be
brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved
them even as you have loved me.
A. There is much work in prayer.
1. We must pray for each believer.
2. We must pray for an understanding of
the Word.
3. We must pray for clarity to teach the
Word.
4. We must pray for God to draw to us to
those who He has
Chosen to hear the Word.
B. We must pray that our lifestyle is a
light to the world.
1. We must pray that we are united with
Christ.
2. We must pray that we are united with
each other in Christ.
C. We must pray that the love of Christ
will be experienced by all
Who comes in contact with us.
1. We must pray that God gives us the
mental strength to
To love our neighbors and
our enemies as ourselves.
2. We must pray that God helps our
unbelief in every area
That we are weak and not
pleasing to Him.
3. Our equality in love will show that
we are not of this world.
Rev. M.
Mitchell
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