The Lord's Prayer

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Today we will be studying John 17 together.
Often we refer to the Lord teaching the disciples to pray in Matthew 6:9-13, and Luke 11:2-4 as the Lord’s Prayer. Certainly, Jesus did pray those words, and they are the Lord’s prayer.
John 17 is another of his prayers. However, this prayer is not his instruction about how to pray. This is his actual prayer to the Father. In John 17, we find Jesus talking with the Father, and sharing his real heart, and his concerns with the Father.
This follows right after Jesus told the disciples to “ask the Father in my name.” To ask in Jesus name is to ask the things Jesus would ask.
As we look into this prayer, we see what Jesus would ask! As we see that, it can help us to better, ‘ask in Jesus’ name’.
Let’s pray and look into this prayer.
We will read this together. While we read, look for main themes and concepts. Look for things which are repeated. Think about the divisions, or how the text has sections, and what is the flow of those sections. Those are the main points to which we really need to pay attention.
John 17 NIV
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. “I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

Repeated words:

World - 18

Give/Have Given -17

Know/Known/Revealed - 9

Glory/Glorify - 8

What does it mean to have glory, or to be glorified?
Honor
Praise

Send/Sent - 7

Father - 6

Love/loved - 5

Word/Message - 4

Ask - 4

Kept (obeyed/Protect) - 4

Sanctify/Sanctified (set apart) - 3

Jesus prayed for himself - 17:1-5
Jesus asked for his apostles - 17:6-19
Jesus asked future believers - 17:20-26
Let’s go through the passage to see some key points in some of the verses, and then come back to see the big picture.
John 17:1 NIV
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.
The hour has come...
hour had not come: John 2:4, 7:6, 8, 30; 8:20.
God has a plan. He knows the best time, and way for all things to work together for the good of those who love him.
As we saw in Deuteronomy 32:35 last week, he will work things out in his time.
Galatians 4:4-5 brings this out as well.
Galatians 4:4–5 NIV
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
John 17:2 NIV
For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
John 17:3 NIV
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Eternal life - definition: knowing God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent
Everyone will live on into eternity.
Two options:
Eternal life
Eternal damnation
OR
Knowing God in all his goodness
Apart from the goodness of God
John 17:4 NIV
I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.
What was the work? John 1:17-18.
John 1:17–18 NIV
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
Grace and truth, making the Father known
John 17:2–3 NIV
For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
John 17:6 NIV
“I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.
John 17:7–8 NIV
Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
The way Jesus made the father known was to give them his words, his message.
John 17:14 NIV
I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
John 17:25–26 NIV
“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
Overview

Purpose: Glorify Son and Father - Make them known!

Method: Message from Father

Result: Have His Complete Joy

John 15:11 NIV
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
John 16:20 NIV
Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
John 16:21 NIV
A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.
John 16:22 NIV
So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
John 16:24 NIV
Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
John 17:13 NIV
“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.
What was Jesus’ Joy?
Hebrews 12:2 NIV
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
What was apostles Joy?
Philippians 4:1 NIV
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends!
1 Thessalonians 2:19–20 NIV
For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you? Indeed, you are our glory and joy.

Take away: Be Sanctified! Make Him Known!

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