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Robert Murray McCheyne (Minister in Scotland from 1835-1843) wrote, “If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million of enemies.
Yet the distance makes no difference; He is praying for me.”
[2] That is a powerful affirmation for each as believers to know.
As a Christian, would you conduct your life differently if you knew that Jesus was praying for you?
Would you live more boldly if you heard Jesus praying for you?
The fact is, Jesus is praying for you!
Though we may not hear Him McCheyne was right, He is praying for us.
The Bible assures us that He does pray for us; and that knowledge should encourage each of us.
In we read what is called “The Lord’s High Priestly Prayer” for His disciples.
First he is praying for “All those” God had given to him.
Meaning his disciple.
However, this also means that he is praying for you… Those who are here and are trusting in Him for love, forgiveness, provisions… You matter to him.
(vs.
20)
What you are going through in life right now… He Understand and identifies with us.
He is Interceding for you!
Struggling in a Relationship?
Struggling with a sinful habit?
Struggling with alcohol or drugs or pornography?
Struggling with forgiving others or maybe even forgiving yourself?
Struggling with your job or your finances?
All we have to do is ask him for his help… for his leadership in our lives… for us to have a willing heart to follow him; to trust him.
This doesn’t mean that your road will be paved with gold and that it will necessarily be smooth sailing, but he is interceding for you!!!
He know what you are going through… He knew what his disciples would go through once he was crucified, risen, and ascended to heaven.
He knew Peter would betray Him…
He prays that they would be ‘One’ as He and God the Father are ‘One.’
(Unity)
You’ve heard the phrase, “United with stand, divided we fall.”
Jesus knew Peter would deny Him (); that His disciples would abandon him in his last hours… () ‘Everyone deserted Him and fled.’
He also knew how important it was for them to stick together.
Strength comes in numbers.
says,
ILLUSTRATION: This is footballs season… when it comes to the offensive line, verses the defensive line, the one that will win will be the strongest and quickest.
But it takes them all to work together.
In the church God calls us to work together… to support one another; to encourage each other; to be part of equipping one another.
Jesus knew that Peter needed to be the central figure to bring His disciples back together after his death and resurrection.
Jesus knows what we need.
Jesus said to God the Father, “…I have given them your word and the world has hated them.”
Can you imagine, the person you grew to love, respect and honor, is taken from you, crucified, and buried, and just because you associated with Him, those in the world hate you?
Even after Jesus had risen from the grave; the dead, and ascended into heaven, His disciples face ridicule, in-prisoned…
In Peter and John had been put in jail.
When they came before the Sanhedrin (the Jewish elders and counsel) they were ordered (v.
18) not to teach or speak in the name of Jesus again, Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you rather than God.
For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
(v.
19) After their release we read their prayer in READ
Together, Peter, John, and the rest of the Disciples stood praying for God to speak the truth of God with boldness (v.
29)
We know from history that all of the remaining 11, with the exception of John, were martyred for their Faith and proclamation of Jesus.
Jesus KNEW the struggles that they would have, so he prayed that they would be one just as He and the Father are One, finding strength by faith in God together.
The Key to all of this?
Jesus gave us His Word!
It is not enough merely to study the Bible and learn a great deal of doctrinal truth.
We must also love Jesus Christ more as we learn all that He is and all He has done for us.
Learning and loving should lead to living, allowing the Spirit of God to enable us to obey His Word.
This is how we glorify Him in this present evil world.
The Word gives us joy, love, and power to live a holy life.
It also gives us what we need to serve Him as witnesses in this world (John 17:18–19).
Sanctification is not for the purpose of selfish enjoyment or boasting; it is so that we might represent Christ in this world and win others to Him.
Jesus set Himself apart for us, and now He has set us apart for Him.
The Father sent Him into the world, and now He sends us into the world.
We are people “under orders” and we had better obey!
Jesus is now “set apart” in heaven, praying for us, that our witness will bear fruit as many repent of their sins and turn to the Lord.
How can we be overcome by the world when we have the Word of God to enlighten us, enable us, and encourage us?
The Bible tells us that Jesus is ...
“Sanctify” (hagiazō) means “to separate” or “to set apart,” usually for some specially good purpose or use.
Its derivative meaning thus becomes “dedicate” or “consecrate” and then “to revere” or “to purify.”
The believer is so changed by the working of God’s Word in his life that he is separated from evil and to God.
This new devotion, which results in separation from evil, produces purification of life and consecration to God’s service.
Since the Word of God is truth, it provides the unchanging standard for the course and character of life.
The form of the expression “your word” raises the possibility that Jesus may have been referring to himself when he spoke.
He had said that he was “the truth” (14:6); so as the Logos of God he embodied truth in its totality.
Our Advocate:
An Advocate is someone who pleads on someone else’s behalf.
In the case of humanity, we know that without Christ our sins separate us from God. … But Jesus is our advocate - our ‘Care Giver.’
Jesus Advocates for us in that we need his assistance in order for us to come into the presence of God with our sins forgiven based on his death and resurrection and our faith in Him.
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Let me ILLUSTRATE it this way… If someone had been in prison for a felony they committed.
Did their prison time and were then released, they might have a difficult time finding a job.
But an advocate can come along side of them before a potential employer and say, “Yes, they committed that crime, for which they paid the price by being in prison.
But i’m here to assure you that this person isn’t the same person who went into prison.
He is different.
He has learned his lesson.
You will not go wrong in hiring this person!
That is an advocate.
That’s what Jesus does for us before God based on His sacrificial death for our sins and His resurrection from the dead.
Jesus is saying, “I paid the Price for that person’s sins and they believe in me and have repented of their sins.
They are not the fallen broken, sinful person that they once where.
They are my brother or sister in My name.
He Intercedes: ;
To intercede means: to intervene on behalf of another person.
When Jesus is before God he is saying to God, Yes, this is one of your creation who was a sinner… but all those things that he did in sin, they’ve been removed.
In other words he is saying, There is no sin in this persons life.
What does God do with the sins we confess?
his intercession in heaven is a presenting of his merit to his Father, with a suing out of the benefit of it for all his chosen ones.
Our Mediator:
A Mediator: A person who attempts to make people who are involved in a conflict to come to an agreement.
There may be a dispute between you and your employer.
You belong to a Union and you have a Union rep who works at bringing reconciliation.
That what Jesus did for us.
He brought reconciliation between us and God.
Even now, though we may fall into temptation and sin, Jesus is our mediator saying to God, “I paid the price for ‘All’ this person’s sins, past, present, and future.
Based on my shed blood, death, burial, and resurrection, and their faith in me, they have been cleansed by my blood because of their faith in me, the one you sent to take away the sins of the world.
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