Our Lord Prays for His Own: Thoughts on John 17Ravenio Books, 2014. máj. 13. 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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... keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for My name's sake, because they know not Him that sent Me.” (xv. 1821.), “These words spake Jesus.” Little did they contain of the circumstances of His own sorrow; He hints at ...
... keep clearly before our minds the position, state, and character, in which our blessed Lord was at the time He uttered this prayer. As God He could not pray. He would have no one to pray to, nor could He possibly have received any ...
... keep Thee, and give Thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am the Lord: that is My ...
... Keep through Thine own name those whom Thou hast given Me.” In verse 12, “Those that Thou gavest Me I have kept,”—and finally, for the seventh time, in verse 24, “Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where ...
... keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty,” making “Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him”? Another is—“I ...