John 17:6-12
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Illustration: OG Students left behind
Illustration: OG Students left behind
Difference between Lord’s Prayer and HPP
The privilege of the prayer
He has taught them he has promised them. Now he prays
Discuss Jesus’s work on our behalf
This is the Holy of Holies
A preview of the intercession of Christ
The Persons
The Persons
“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.
The first question we need to answer with regard to this passage is: Who is Jesus praying for in His high priestly prayer?
Last week, we spoke on the introduction of the prayer.
Jesus is praying directly to the Father.
But who is He praying for?
For whom does He do He priestly work of intercession?
Here in this passage, he is speaking specifically and praying specifically about a particular group of people.
Here is verse 6, we are told who he is referring to.
Look what He says here.
“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.
Now, later in this passage, Jesus will say that he is praying for all those who will beilieve in verse 20, but here, in verse 6, There were a specific group of men that he is praying for.
These are the disciples. They are the one who have been privileged to share in the life and ministry and work of Jesus.
Jesus says here that He has manifested the Father’s name to them.
To manifest the Father’s name to them is to reveal the character and nature of God to them.
He has accomplished His purpose in the lives of these men.
The first thing we see about the persons to whom Jesus is referring to is that they have been separated by God.
Separated and Chosen by the Father
Separated and Chosen by the Father
These disciples have been hand chosen by God to be the disciples of Jesus.
They WERE yours.
You GAVE them to me OUT of the world.
here we see the Gracious hand and purpose.
He selects, elects, and chooses these men out of all the people in the world to be the disciples of Jesus.
All of this is orchestrated by God the Father. We talked about last week, that The Father is the planner of all things. The Son accomplishes the plan.
When Jesus goes looking for disciples, He knows whom the Father has selected.
We might think, surely, he could have picked someone better than Peter. Peter was a loud mouth, big talker, who denied Jesus. Surely, there was someone better.
But no, God had a plan and purpose that this loud mouth would one day proclaim loudly to the watching the world that Jesus Christ was the crucified King.
God gave THESE men to Jesus for a specific purpose.
And THEY have kept your Word.
Jesus prays here knowing the future of the 11.
He knew that His resurrection and His Spirit would empower them, and they would remain faithful to His Word.
These were His men. They were the Father’s and the Father has given them to the Son.
They have a knowledge of the Father
They have a knowledge of the Father
“Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You;
They have come to know the Father through the Son.
Everything that Jesus has done has been a revelation of the Father.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him,
God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Jesus reveals the Father.
It is pretty simple here.
Those who are truly the disciples of Christ have a relationship with the Father.
Through Christ, we have knowledge of the Father.
This is what Jesus has been working for and accomplishing the lives of His disciples.
Every miracle, every lesson, every correction, every rebuking is Christ revealing the Father to them and they have come to know this.
They believe the Father.
They believe the Father.
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.
Jesus here is praying to the Father realizing that these are the qualifications that must be met for His prayer for them to mean anything.
Jesus has discipled those given to Him by the Father.
Those disciples have a knowledge of the Father.
Those disciples recieved, understood, and believed.
Jesus is the fullness of God bodily. He has been given by the Father for this purpose.
But simply knowing that Christ existed and hearing Christ’s teaching about the Father doesn’t save.
Look at Judas.
He knew Christ personally, but verse 8 is not indicative of his heart.
EVERYTHING from the outside would have pointed to that fact, but in his heart he was evil, rejecting the knowledge that Christ was revealing.
True disciples, the ones that Jesus prays for here, are ones that have been selected by God the Father, Christ has revealed the Father to them, and they have recieved, understood, and believed.
These are the people for whom Jesus prays. How do I know that? Look in verse 9.
“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;
Christ’s work of intercession is only believer’s and true disciples of Christ.
If you do not believe in Christ, you cannot expect for Jesus to plead your case.
If you do not believe in Christ, you cannot expect His blood to cover your sins.
His priestly work of atonement and intercession are for those who believe in Him.
There is exclusivity here.
I ask on their behalf. Not the world, but them.
For the disciples, and for the believer’s this is comforting. Christ does His work of atonement and intercession for you.
He prays for you!!! He intercedes for you. He died for you!!
He speaks to the Father on behalf of those who believe in Him and for those who believe in the Father because they are the Father’s.
The have been given to Him by the Father.
He is talking about the disciples here. He is talking about us here.
We are Christ’s possession.
and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
1 Pter 2:8-9
For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
In other words, look at verse 10.
I love verse 10.
and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.
Let me just break down what that means for us.
If all things that are Christ’s are the Father’s, then that means that I am the Father’s possession, because I am Christ’s possession.
If all things that are the Father’s are Christ’s, then I am Christ’s possession because I am the Father’s possesion.
And Christ is glorified in me.
This means something for our security and assurance.
Difference.
Look in verse 11
“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.
Listen to the heart of our Savior.
I am no longer here, physically, because the Christ is returning to the Father
They are in the world, and we are in the world.
LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF CHRIST HERE!!
Holy Father, Keep them in your name!!!!
Please understand, every one of Jesus’s prayers are answered by the Father according to the Father’s will.
Jesus praying this insures something for you security and your salvation.
Christ prays that that the Father would keep us.
Do you think that the Father has the ability to do this?
Absolutely.
Do you think that God the Father is going to fail in what he sets out to do?
Absolutely not. Not even possible.
Is it possible that God the Father would fail in what he sets
The Father will keep us in His name just as Jesus has asked Him to do here in verse number 11.
and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
Hear me out: Those who are GENUINELY His, he will not and he cannot lose.
None.
No one will fall through the cracks.
Everyone who the Father has given the Son will be saved.
The most wonderful part of this is that this gives us a glimpse of what Christ’s intercession looks like now.
If he prayed this on earth, it is his goal in heaven.
Rest assured, at this very moment, we are being kept by the Father’s power, the Son’s intercession, and the Spirit’s seal upon our lives.
And this is the goal for us. End of verse 11.
THAT WE WOULD BE ONE EVEN AS WE ARE.
Unity in Christ.
Unity with each other.
One purpose.
One Mission.
So many differences and factions within the church today. (Denominations-differences even between these) Why?
One day there will be no differences, no denominations, no theological differences.
Christ will be all in all and we will purpose to worship Him together.
Christ prays that we would be one as they are are one.
No hindrances of sin in relationship.
No differences in theology.
One together and one in Christ.
“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.
Christ has kept His disciples.
Every genuine one.
Judas, looked as if he was genuine, but he was always a son of destruction, looking for the opportunity to betray.
He proved by His actions that he was
None of them have perished.
Except the one of destruction.
The son of destruction
The son of perdition.
His nature has not changed. He is not saved.
He is not a child of God, a child of life.
He is a son of destruction.
He is not one with the mission of Christ.
Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
Children of wrath. Son of destruction
Fulfilled the Scripture
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me.
APP
Have we kept His word?
Have we understood them?
Are you a true believer? Has your nature changed.
