The High Priestly Prayer

Timeline:

-Supper in the upper room, somewhere in Jerusalem

-they leave to go to the Mount of olives and he teaches

-Jesus’ high priestly prayer

-Get’s to the garden of Gethsemane, across the Brook Kidron

-prayers with the three

-gets arrested

High Priestly Prayer

This is the Lords prayer

It is a prayer of intercession

Jesus’ earthy ministry was focused on teaching and healing, His heavenly ministry is to intercede on our part to the father.

He becomes our priest.

In the old testament we see Abrahams plea for Sodom and Moses standing in for Israel

In the Day of Attonement (Yom Kippur) where the priest made intercession for the tribes with there name on his heart (the breatplate)

Today Christ acts as our priest

Romans 8:34 “34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.”

Luke 22:31–32 “31 “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, 32 but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.””

Not only is He our priest, He was human and remained without sin

Hebrews 4:14 “14 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.”

Today He stands before the father for us

1 John 2:1 “1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”

Hebrews 5:1–6 “1 For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2 He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness. 3 Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people. 4 And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was. 5 So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”; 6 as he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.””

1 Timothy 2:5 “5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,”

Since Christ is our priest and currently makes intercession for us, we can have faith in the difficult times.

He Has Access to the Father

Because Jesus’ status as the Son of God, He is able to stand before God.

He refers to God as father multiple times in this prayer

v1

v5

v11

He refers to himself as son two times int the opening of this prayer.

He Shares in the Fathers Glory

It is The Father that glorifies the son

The son is glorified to glorify the father

The father gives him authority to save

it is the same glory Christ had in the beginning v5

He Receives Us From the Father

v2

v6

v9

He Prays For Us

v9

v10

v11 - he asks the father to keep us

He Keeps Us

v12

v13

v15&16 - the world hates us

His Truth Sanctifies Us

Since we are in the world, but not of the world, we are to be made different.

Sanctification is God’s process of making us Holy; separate; different. It is how God acts to change us and differentiate us from the rest of the world.

17: The word sanctifies us

18: we are not to flee the world

19: Christ set Himself apart and that helps us to be sanctified