Jesus Prays for Himself, His Disciples and the Church (John 17:1-26

John 17:1-5
Jesus Prays For Himself
January 12, 2014
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

January Memory Verse
Lamentations 3:22-23
NKJV
22 Through the Lord’s
mercies we are not
consumed, because His
compassions fail not.

23 They

are new every
morning. Great is Your
faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23
NKJV

The glory of God!

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Memory Verse for 2014
1 Corinthians 10:31 NKJV
31 Therefore,

whether you
eat or drink, or whatever
you do, do all to the glory
of God.

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William Barclay's
Daily Study Bible (NT)

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J. Vernon McGee's
Thru The Bible

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*We now come to one of
the most remarkable
chapters in the Bible.
*It is the longest prayer in
the Bible, although it
would take you less than
four minutes to read it.

*That is a good indication
of the length that public
prayers should be.
*If you can't say all you've
got to say in three or four
minutes, then you've got
way too much to say.

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*Brief public prayers,
thought out and right to
the point, are much more
effective than those long,
rambling ones we hear.
*No wonder many prayer
meetings are so dead!

According to
Romans 8:34,
Jesus is praying
for you this
very moment!

Romans 8:34b NKJV
34b It is Christ Who died,
and furthermore is also
risen, Who is even at the
right hand of God, Who
also makes intercession
for us.

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Isaiah 49:16a NKJV
16a I have inscribed you on
the palms of My hands;

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Would you like to know
exactly what Jesus is
praying for you right
now?

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The answer is found in
John 17.

John 17
Farewell Discourse
Wikipedia
In John, chapters 14-17,
Jesus is saying farewell to
His eleven remaining
disciples.

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The Farewell Discourse
was given by Jesus
immediately after the Last
Supper in the Upper
Room in Jerusalem, the
night before His
crucifixion.

Jesus tells the disciples
that He will be going
away to the Father and
that He will send the Holy
Spirit to guide them.

The Prince of Peace
bestows peace on the
disciples and commands
them to
love one
another.
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The unity of love is a key
theme in the discourse,
manifested by several
reiterations of the
New Commandment:
"love one another as I
have loved you".

Jesus showed them how
He loved them by laying
down His life for them.
13 Greater love has no one
than this, than to lay
down one’s life for his
friends. John 15:13 NKJV

Since we are to love one
another as He has loved
us, that means we should
be willing
to lay down
our lives
for each other.
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The discourse contains the
allegory of The Vine
which positions Jesus as
the vine and
the disciples
as the branches.
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Jesus then warns the
disciples of upcoming
persecutions:
"If the world hates you,
remember that they hated
Me before you".

In the final part of the
discourse (John 17:1-26)
Jesus prays for:
1) Himself,
2) His disciples and
3) the coming church(us).

While the earlier parts of
the discourse are
addressed to the disciples,
this final part addresses
the Father, as Jesus turns
His eyes to Heaven and
prays.

The key themes of the
prayer are:
1) the glorification of the
Father and
2) petitions for the unity
of the disciples
through love.

Jesus Prays for Himself
John 17:1-5
Jesus Prays for His
Disciples
John 17:6-19
Jesus Prays for Us
John 17:20-26

At the end of the Farewell
Discourse, this prayer of
Jesus is known as the
Farewell Prayer or as the
High Priestly Prayer
(why?).

In the Old Covenant, it
was the high priest who
offered the bloody
sacrifice to Yahweh on His
sacred altar and whose
responsibility it was to
serve the covenant people

as God's representative
and the
people's
intercessor.

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Now, in the New
Covenant order, it is Jesus
Who is offering Himself
as the sacrifice and His
intercession on behalf of
His disciples to God the
Father.

Therefore, this prayer has
come to be known as His
High Priestly Prayer.

As we read the words of
Jesus' prayer we have the
sense that even though He
is still speaking from the
Upper Room in
Jerusalem, He has already
begun to cross the barrier

between time and eternity
and that He has already
taken His first steps
toward the cross and His
return to the Father (see
“Now I am no
John 17:11
longer in the world…”).

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Once the prayer has
ended, the events of Jesus'
Passion and the end of
His earthly life unfold
rather quickly.

John 17:1-5 NKJV
1 Jesus spoke these words,
lifted up His eyes to heaven,
and said: “Father, the hour
has come. Glorify Your Son,
that Your Son also may
glorify You,

2 as

You have given Him
authority over all flesh,
that He should give
eternal life to as many as
You have given Him.

3 And

this is eternal life,
that they may know You,
the only true God, and
Jesus Christ Whom You
have sent.

4I

have glorified You on
the earth. I have finished
the work which You have
given Me to do.

5

And now, O Father,
glorify Me together with
Yourself, with the glory
which I had with You
before the world was.”
John 17:1-5 NKJV

The Lord Jesus is handing
in His final report to the
Father.

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*Jesus hasn't died on the
Cross yet; but, as far as
God is concerned, He
speaks of things which are
not as if they are.
*Future tense for God is
just as accurate as the past.

*Our Lord Jesus is going
to the Cross to die and
then will rise again.
On the Cross, He said, "It
is finished" (John 19:30).
That means our
redemption was finished.

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Colossians 2:14 NKJV
14 having wiped out the
handwriting of
requirements that was
against us, which was
contrary to us.

And He has taken it out of
the way, having nailed it
to the cross. (Col 2:14)

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He has done everything
that was necessary.
We can put a period there.
We cannot add a thing to
His finished work.

If our salvation was
dependent on what Jesus
did plus our works,
He could not have said,
“It is finished!”

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Therefore, the Gospel of
salvation is not what God
is asking you to do, but
what God is telling you
that He has already done
for you.

What He is looking for is
your response to that
which saves you.

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Notice in verses 1-5 that
since Jesus prayed for
Himself, it is not out of
line nor even a mark of
selfishness for us to pray
for ourselves.

When you and I go to God
in prayer, we need to get
our own hearts and lives
right with God.
We need to get in tune
with Heaven.

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Every instrument should
be tuned up before it is
played.

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Before you and I begin to
pray for others, we need
to pray for ourselves.
That is not selfishness;
it is essential.

The Upper Room
Discourse (Farewell
Discourse) is like climbing
a mountain,
climaxing
in this
prayer.
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Here is what others have
said about this great
chapter:

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Matthew Henry:
"It is the most remarkable
prayer following the most
full and consoling
discourse ever uttered on
the earth."

Martin Luther:
"This is truly beyond
measure a warm and
hearty prayer. Jesus opens
the depths of His heart,
both in reference to us
and to His Father, and He

pours them all out.
It sounds so honest, so
simple.
It is so deep, so rich, so
wide.
No one can fathom it."
Martin Luther

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*This is the prayer which
John Knox read over and
over in his lifetime.
*When he was on his
deathbed, his wife asked
him. "Where do you want
me to read?" He replied,

"Read where I first put my
anchor down, in the
seventeenth chapter of
John."
*We have the record of
many others who have
read it over and over.

This is a great portion of
Scripture.
It is Jesus’ high priestly
intercession for us which
He most likely is praying
for us right this moment.

*It is a revelation to us of
the communication which
constantly passes between
the Lord Jesus and the
Father in Heaven.
*His entire earthly life was
a life of prayer.

He began His ministry by
going into a solitary place
to pray.

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Often He went up into a
mountain to pray and
spent the night in prayer.

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He is our great
Intercessor.
He prays for you and for
me constantly and if you
forgot to pray this
morning, He didn't.

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God always hears and
answers Jesus' prayer just
the way He prays it.

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God answers my prayers
also, but not always the
way I pray them -sometimes He must
answer my prayer with a
no, or He may accomplish
what I ask by a

completely different
method or at a different
time.

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Jesus said:
John 11:41-42
41 “… Father, I thank Thee that
42 And I
Thou hast heard me.
knew that Thou hearest Me
always: but because of the
people which stand by I said
it, that they may

believe that Thou hast sent
Me“.
John 11:41b-42

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For Jesus, life had a climax
and that was the Cross.
To Him the Cross was the
glory of life and the way
to the glory of eternity.

"The hour has come," He
said, "for the Son of Man
to be glorified"
(John 12:23).

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What did Jesus mean
when he repeatedly spoke
of the Cross as His glory
and His glorification?

It is one of the facts of
history that again and
again it was in death that
the great ones found their
glory.

It was when they died,
and how they died, which
showed people what and
who they really were.

They may have been
misunderstood,
undervalued, condemned
as criminals in their lives,
but their deaths showed
their true place in the
scheme of things.

Joan of Arc was burned as
a witch and
a heretic by
the English.

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One of the secretaries of
the King of England left
the scene saying:
"We are all lost because we
have burned a saint."

*Again and again a
martyr's majesty has
appeared in their deaths.
*It was so with Jesus, for
even the centurion at the
foot of the Cross was left
saying:

"Truly this was the Son of
God" (Matthew 27:54).

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The Cross was the glory
of Jesus because He was
never
more
majestic
than in
His death.
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The Cross was His glory
because its magnet drew
men to Him in a way that
even His life had never
done—and it remains so
to this day.

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John 17:1 NKJV
1 Jesus

spoke these words,
lifted up His eyes to
heaven, and said: “Father,
the hour has come.

Glorify Your Son, that
Your Son also may glorify
You,
John 17:1 NKJV

Verse 1 says:
"Jesus spoke these words."
*Which words?
*Jesus is referring to the
words in the chapters we
have just studied,
chapters 13 -- 16.

*Now He stops speaking
to the disciples, and He
speaks to the Father.
*Although He is speaking
to the Father in this
chapter, He is speaking to
Him for their benefit --

and for our benefit also.
*Even today He is our
great Intercessor!

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We may wonder what He
is praying for us; well,
here it is.
This is the Lord's Prayer,
the prayer that He prays
to the Father for us.

The prayer in the Sermon
on the Mount is not really
the Lord's Prayer, it is the
Model Prayer.
It is the prayer that He
taught to the disciples.

*When Jesus begins the
Model Prayer with "Our
Father," He means this for
all the believers.
*But here, He does not say
“our Father”, He only
says “Father”.

*It says that He "lifted up
his eyes to Heaven,"
which means that His
eyes were open.
*Of course we can pray
without bowing our
heads & closing our eyes.

We can pray as we walk
or as we work or as we
drive, or as we suffer.

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This was a prayer of hope
and expectancy! “Father,
the hour has come”.

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What hour?
Well, the hour that had
been set long ago in
eternity.

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As He speaks, the clock is
striking the hour that was
set back in eternity,
because He was the Lamb
of God slain before the
foundation of the world.
(Revelation 13:8)

It was arranged back then;
now "the hour is come.”
This ‘hour’ had been
mentioned by Jesus before
in John 7.30; 12.23; and in
13.1.

It referred to the hour of
His going from the world
to His Father (7.33; 13.1),
by way of the cross (12.23).

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It was the last final period
of His life from the
moment when He knew
that the end was coming
(13.1).
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John 13:1 NKJV
1 Now before the Feast of
the Passover, when Jesus
knew that His hour had
come that He should
depart from this world to
the Father…

*It was the hour of
unbearable suffering.
*But in the end it was
through the cross and
resurrection that Jesus
would be glorified and
vindicated and would

bring great glory to the
Father, for there on the
cross, and through His
resurrection, would be
carried out the plan which
had been laid in eternity
for the redemption of His

people (Ephesians 1.4-8;
2 Timothy 1.9).
*Jesus is here conscious
that He is about to face a
battle of huge dimensions
which will result in great
glory.

The greater the difficulty,
the greater the glory!

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In Daniel 7:13-14 (536 BC)
when the Son of Man
comes into the presence of
the Ancient of Days, He
comes out of suffering to
receive ‘dominion and
glory and a kingdom’.

But that glory must come
through a cross before He
receives the crown.
He must be glorified
through suffering.

Remember that when He
began His ministry at the
wedding of Cana, His
mother said to Him,
"They have no wine."
His answer to her was,
"Woman, what have I to

do with thee?
Mine hour is not yet
come" (John 2:3-4).

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Now the hour has come,
the hour
when He
will pay
for your
sins and
mine.
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It is the hour when all the
creation of God will see
the love of God displayed
and lavished as He takes
your sins and my sins
upon Himself and dies a
vicarious, substitutionary,

redemptive death for you
and for me.

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Ephesians 1:7-8 NKJV
7 In

Him we have
redemption through His
blood, the forgiveness of
sins, in accordance with
the riches of God’s grace

8 that

he lavished on us
with all wisdom and
understanding.
Ephesians 1:7-8 NKJV

And it won't end there; it
will go on to the
Resurrection.

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The death of Christ
demonstrates that God is
a loving Father Who so
loved the world that He
gave His only begotten
Son.

Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But

God demonstrates
His own love toward us,
in that while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us.

Then the Son was raised
from the dead, ascended
back into Heaven, and He
will be given a name that
is above every name, that
at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow and

every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father!
“Glorify thy Son, that Thy
Son also may glorify
Thee.”
John 17:1b

Here it is made openly
apparent that it was Jesus’
temporary task that was
the reason why He at this
stage did not enjoy all of
the glory of His Godhood.

He had a temporarily
lower status because He
had ‘emptied Himself’ of
His Godhood in order to
become man, in
accordance with the
Father’s purpose.

But now He was to be
restored to His former
position and status again
in all of His glory.

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The partial glory of Jesus
had been revealed on
earth, both in the life that
He lived (1.14), and in the
signs that He gave (2.11;
11.4).

John 2:11 NKJV
11 This

beginning of signs
Jesus did in Cana of
Galilee, and manifested
His glory; and His
disciples believed in Him.

John 11:4 NKJV
4 When Jesus heard that,
He said, “This sickness (of
Lazarus) is not unto death,
but for the glory of God,
that the Son of God may
be glorified through it.”

John has also brought out
that it will be revealed by
His death and
resurrection, by which the
Son of Man will be
glorified (7.39; 13.31).

John 13:31 NKJV
31 So,

when he (Judas) had
gone out, Jesus
said, “Now the Son of
Man is glorified, and God
is glorified in Him.

But that is a limited glory.

What is spoken of here is
a glory that far surpasses
that glory.
It is unlimited!

It is the glory referred to
in 12.41, the glory that
was always His as God
before He ‘emptied
Himself’ (Philippians 2.7),
the glory that has been
His from eternity past.

John 12:41 NKJV
41 These

things Isaiah said
when he saw His glory
and spoke of Him.

Isaiah 6:1-4 NKJV
1 In the year that King
Uzziah died, I saw the
Lord sitting on a throne,
high and lifted up, and
the train of His robe filled
the temple.

2 Above

it stood seraphim;
each one had six wings:
with two he covered his
face, with two he covered
his feet, and with two he
flew.

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3 And

one cried to another
and said:
“Holy, holy,
holy is the LORD of hosts;
The whole earth is full of
His glory!”

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4 And

the posts of the
door were shaken by the
voice of him who cried
out, and the house was
filled with smoke.
Isaiah 6:1-4 NKJV

It is the glory of the
eternal Word (1.1), which
He had for a while put
aside in order to bring
about redemption, but
would now be receiving
again.

John 12:28 NKJV
28 Father, glorify Your
name.”
Then a voice came from
heaven, saying, “I have
both glorified it and will
glorify it again.”

Glorify Thy Name
Donna Adkins (born 1940)
Father, we love You
We worship and adore
You
Glorify Thy Name in all
the earth!

Glorify Thy Name
Glorify Thy Name
the earth!

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Jesus, we love You
You
the earth!
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Glorify Thy Name
Glorify Thy Name
the earth!

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Spirit, we love You
You
the earth!
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Glorify Thy Name
Glorify Thy Name
the earth!

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Above all this reveals His
outstanding and all
pervasive love
(John 3.16; 1 John 4.9-10;
Romans 5.8).

What greater glory could
there be than the glory
revealed when a holy but
merciful God surrenders
His own Son to die in
awful suffering, a
suffering in which He

Himself will take part, for
undeserving and sinful
men, in order to finally
redeem them and bring
them with Him into His
glory?

Jesus now turns to His
mission on earth.

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John 17:2-4 NKJV
2 as

You have given Him
authority over all flesh,
that He should give
eternal life to as many as
You have given Him.

4I

have glorified You on
the earth. I have finished
the work which You have
given Me to do.
John 17:2-4 NKJV

*Our Lord Jesus is going
to the Cross to die and
then will rise again.
*On the Cross, He said, "It
is finished" (John 19:30).
*That means our
redemption was finished.

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John 17:5 NKJV
5

And now, O Father,
glorify Me together with
Yourself, with the glory
which I had with You
before the world was.

In Philippians 2, it speaks
of Jesus emptying
Himself.
Some try to teach that He
emptied Himself of His
deity. Wrong!

*John makes it very clear
that the Word became
flesh.
*That little baby in Mary's
lap is God, and He could
have spoken this universe
out of existence.

*He wasn't just 99.9% God;
*He was, and is, 100% God.
*So of what did He empty
Himself?
*He emptied Himself of
His prerogatives of deity;
He laid aside His glory.

*At Christmas we make a
great deal of the
shepherds and the angels
and the wise men who
came to see Him.
*That is not the way it
should have been.

*He is the Lord of glory,
and the whole creation
should have been there;
every human being on the
face of the earth should
have been there.

People will come from all
parts of a country and
even all parts of the world
for the funeral of a great
political leader.

The whole world should
have been at the birth of
the Lord of glory when
He came to earth.

*Although He could have
claimed such homage,
instead He laid aside His
glory.
* In John 17, He is ready
to return to Heaven, back
to the glory.

Would you like to know
exactly what Jesus is
praying for you?

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The answer is found in
John 17:20-26 that we will
discuss next Sunday!

‘Even as You gave Him
authority over all flesh.’
The idea is that this One
Who goes to His death is
primarily the Judge of all
the earth and has
authority over all men.

He has the authority to do
whatever He will, and as
a result He has also the
authority to forgive sins
(Mark 2.10).

He came to the world
from the Father where the
world was under His feet.
Thus He could have done
what He wanted to do, for
He had authority over all.

Isaiah 66:1-2 NKJV
1 Thus

says the LORD:
“Heaven is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
Where is the house that
you will build Me?

And where is the place of
My rest?
2 For all those things My
hand has made,
And all those things exist,”
Says the LORD.
“But on this one will I look:

On him who is poor
(humble) and of a contrite
spirit,
And who trembles at My
word.
Isaiah 66:1-2 NKJV

*He could have taken
power and ruled as Satan
tempted Him to do
(Matthew 4.8-9).
*But that would not have
achieved the object of
redemption.

So He willingly and
tenaciously chose a
different path, the path
that God had laid down,
giving eternal life to those
given to Him by the
Father in full awareness of

the consequences of His
choice.
Notice the contrast
between ‘being given
authority over’ and
‘receiving as a gift from
the Father’, the one

authoritarian and
judgmental the other
personal and redeeming.
The idea of His being
given authority over all
flesh is monumental.

All things had been
committed into His
hands.
He was sole arbiter of the
destinies of all men
(compare Matthew 7.2123).

This is a startling
statement.
He has authority over all
flesh!
He could make this
universe and every one in
it bow to Him.

He could bring us all into
subjection to Him and
make robots out of all of
us.

Although that is the last
thing He would want to
do (if He had wanted
puppets, He would have
made us puppets), He has
the power over all flesh.

The church is God's love
gift to Jesus Christ.
So He gives eternal life to
as many "as thou hast
given Him."

John 17:3 NKJV
3 And

this is eternal life,
that they may know You,
the only true God, and
Jesus Christ Whom You
have sent.

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"That they might know
thee."
*It is not the amount of
knowledge you have, but
the kind of knowledge
that is important.
*It is Whom you know.

Name droppers know it is also important
Who knows you.

Do you know Jesus
Christ?
Does He know you?
*In the same way, it is not
the amount of faith you
have but the kind of faith
that is important.

Spurgeon said:
"It is not thy joy in Christ
that saves thee. It is
Christ. It is not thy faith in
Christ, though that be the
instrument. It is Christ's
blood and merit."

"This is life eternal, that
they might know Thee the
only true God, and Jesus
Christ."

Faith comes by hearing,
hearing the Word of God.

What does the Word of
God say?
The facts are that Jesus
died for our sins, was
buried, and rose again.

Our knowledge of the
facts and our response to
that knowledge is faith.
Faith is trusting Christ as
our own Savior.

Life eternal is to know
God and to know Jesus
Christ.
Jesus is His name as
Savior, and Christ is His
title -- the Messiah, the
King of Israel.

*To know Him means to
grow in grace and in the
knowledge of Christ.
*When we move on in the
knowledge of the Lord
Jesus Christ, we come to
the place of assurance.

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*Anyone without the
assurance of salvation is
either unsaved or is just a
babe in Christ.
*They need to move on to
the place where they
know that they are saved.

1 John 5:11-13 NKJV
11 And

this is the
testimony: that God has
given us eternal life, and
this life is in His Son.

12 He

who has the Son has
life; he who does not have
the Son of God does not
have life.

13 These

things I have
written to you who
believe in the name of the
Son of God, that you may
know (not hope so, not
maybe) that you have
eternal life, and that you

may continue to believe in
the name of the Son of
God.
1 John 5:11-13 NKJV

Life eternal is to know the
only genuine God and to
know Jesus Christ.
This is the reason that the
study of the Word of God
is so important.

Many people stay on the
fringe of things and are
never sure they are saved.

In 1869 Hudson Taylor was influenced
by a passage on personal holiness from
a book called "Christ Is All" by Henry
Law that was sent to him by a fellow
missionary, John McCarthy. "The Lord
Jesus received is holiness begun; the
Lord Jesus cherished is holiness
advancing; the Lord Jesus counted
upon as never absent would be holiness
complete."

After His resurrection He
said to Mary, I am not yet
ascended to My Father:
but go to My brethren,
and say unto them, I
ascend unto My Father,
and your Father; and to

My God, and your God
(John 20:17).

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In other words,
I have not yet ascended to
your Father, yours by the
new birth, and to My
Father, Mine because of
My position in the Trinity.

Also, it could never be the
prayer of Jesus to say,
"Forgive us our sins."
He never had any sins so
He could never pray the
Model Prayer as His
prayer.

By the same token, you
and I can never pray this
prayer of John 17.
This is His prayer.

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