John 17: Preching/Teaching
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Prayer
Prayer
EOT-Jesus finished upper room discourse in prayer where his disciples watched on.
EOS-Jesus prayer gives us a pattern to emulate.
DDS-I will emulate Jesus prayer this week by prayer walking my neighborhood daily-once-
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Prayer is hard for me.
As I was studying this message it was hard because I came to the text with more questions than answers and I was challenged as I examined my own prayer life.
The first takeaway from Jesus prayer is:
The first takeaway from Jesus prayer is:
1. It starts with God’s glory in our own life.
1. It starts with God’s glory in our own life.
This sounds very wrong. Start with prayer for ourselves.
When the airplane is going down, the pilot says save yourself first so then you can help someone else.
How is your prayer life?
Prayer will empower us to do the will of God
Prayer will empower us to do the will of God
Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,
Jesus is about to die on the cross for sinful humanity.
Jesus is the only person who has ever perfectly glorified God.
This is why we need Jesus so badly.
To glorify in this context means to clothe in splendor (cf. v. 5). The only way that this could happen was for Jesus to endure the Cross. Thus this petition—the only personal petition in this prayer—is a testimony to Jesus’ commitment to do the Father’s will, even to the point of dying on the cross. His request for glory, therefore, was unselfish. It amounted to a request for the reversal of the conditions, of lost and fallen humanity, that resulted in the Incarnation (cf. Phil. 2:6–11). Jesus
prayer connects us
prayer connects us
How did Jesus glorify the Father?
By Being obedient and doing what he came to do, die on the cross for sinful mankind.
How did the Father glorify the Son?
He gave him every possible resource he could so that he could do what he had called him to do.
More immediately, the Father glorified the Son in several ways: by sending an angel to strengthen Him in Gethsemane, through Pilate’s testimony as to Jesus’ innocence, the salvation of the thief on the cross, the tearing of the temple veil, and the confession of the centurion that Jesus was the Son of God.
We can’t die for the sins of people like Jesus. But we do have a calling on our life and when we pray for God glory in our life god will give everything we need to be faithful to what we are called to do.
what has God called you to do?
Are you prayers for yourself entrenched in the glory of God?
Prayer allows us to go deeper with God.
Prayer allows us to go deeper with God.
Why do so many Christians not have a close relationship with God, because they have weak prayer lives.
even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.
“This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Eternal Life is literally in Jesus hands.
This was his mission-to die on the cross so eternal life to others.
What is eternal life?
We have simplified this to simply mean heaven. It means to know God. What were we created for to know God. What is eternal life? to know God. It is so much than where we are going it is who we know. We all live eternally some in heaven others in hell, eternal life is connected to knowing God personally.
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Praying is the very essence of how we get to know God better. Eternal life is a right here and right now thing and I do not want us to have....
Prayer allows us to finish strong
“I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.
“Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
Application:
Are your prayers the fuel for the power so that you can do what God has called you to do?
What I find when I pray like this it allows God to work with me from the inside out.
When we pray Gods glory we also saw that it allows us to connect relationally with God.
it also allows us the strength and power to do what God has called us to do and even see what he has called us to do.
this week I want to challenge all of us to start in prayer.
This is what the trinity has done from all eternity is walk in perfect unity glorifying each other the Godhead is three in one.
The next takeaway from Jesus prayer is:
The next takeaway from Jesus prayer is:
2. We must pray passionately for each other (6-19: KV 11-12).
2. We must pray passionately for each other (6-19: KV 11-12).
Next Jesus prays for his disciples, the men he spent 3 years of his life pouring into.
The people who came to him and believed in him were going to be the same people that were going to share his message with the world.
Notice Jesus prayed way longer for his disciples than he prayed for himself.
“Jesus prayed for His disciples before He chose them (Luke 6:12), during His ministry (John 6:15), at the end of His ministry (Luke 22:32), here (John 17:6–19), and later in heaven (Rom. 8:34; Heb. 7:25).”
Isn’t it amazing to thing that the God of the universe is literally praying for you and I right now.
Why: Because we are in the family of God
Why: Because we are in the family of God
The whole reason Jesus came, FOR THIS HOUR is so that we could be bought by his blood and brought into his family.
“I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
What puts us in the family of God. We believe God word.
We are not in because of any worthy thing we do but only because we have believed in the worthy savior.
“Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You;
for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
They don’t just know God’s word they have believed in it.
“I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours;
and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.
For my kids it is not hard for me to pray. It should be the same way with our spiritual family, if you are a believer in Jesus you are family and we actually have real relationships so we need to pray for each other in here.
One of the reasons I don’t think believers pray for each other like they should is because discipleship relationships are not happening.
Jesus could not help but pray for his disciples.
Paul when he was on his death bed could not help but pray for the man he discipled Timothy.
I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience the way my forefathers did, as I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day,
When we are growing together in Jesus and making disciples pray becomes a get to.
We are family.
Pray that we would finish our race
Pray that we would finish our race
“I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are.
“While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
Pray that we would grow in our sanctification
Pray that we would grow in our sanctification
The Justification part of our salvation is not the hard part. When you believe the gospel. God declares you forgiven and innocent because of what Jesus has already done for us. It is the sanctification. Do you know what sanctification is = When God beats the hell out of us to make us look more and more like Jesus. Sanctification is the process from now until the time we are with Jesus full time.
Joy is a part of our prayer life
Joy is a part of our prayer life
“But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.
Our joy level is directly tied to our sanctification and our prayer life.
The Word of God is a part of our prayer life
The Word of God is a part of our prayer life
“I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
“I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.
“They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
“Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
Notice Jesus does not take us out of the world, we are to be right in the middle of the world as we pray
“As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
“For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
Jesus prays for you and I (20-26)
Jesus prays for you and I (20-26)
“I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;
that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
Jesus was going to be praying for his disciples but the reality is Jesus is praying for you and I, isn’t this amazing. As I think about this, it gives me so much hope because even when I feel like I am not holding on to him like I should he is holding on to me.
When believers are unified the gospel goes out
When believers are unified the gospel goes out
“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;
Vision of being one. Difference between unity and uniformity.
I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.
“Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
“O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me;
and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
I shared with you before this talk, I was challenged. I was challenged because as Jesus gave me a glimpse into his prayer I realized that I do not pray like my master like I need to be.
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What is your application going to be this week in prayer.