Pray Like This: In Jesus' Name.
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Introduction:
Introduction:
5 times through our John 14, 15, and 16 Jesus repeats this simple condition, “In My Name:”
Recap:
Recap:
We talked about some major roles that doxology plays within Scripture.
The purpose of doxology is to stress that everything belongs to God.
He is the Source of the kingdom and the power and the glory.
He is the Possessor of the kingdom and the power and the glory.
He is the Recipient of the kingdom and the power and the glory.
There is great importance placed upon the kingdom power and the glory.
We belong to God’s kingdom.
We belong to God’s power.
We belong to God’s glory.
Sharing what you learned from HW:
Sharing what you learned from HW:
John 14:12 Context
John 14:12 Context
Context: Jesus will soon depart to the Father.
Jesus is encouraging His disciples, and this passage of scripture is either taking place in the upper room or on the way to the garden. He knows the hardships that will come after His arrest, and also the hardship the disciples will face after His resurrection, and the persecution that will come.
How is Jesus encouraging His disciples in verse 12?
“Whoever believes in me:” Prompting them to trust in, rely on, and cling to Him in faith, because of who He is, the words He spoke, and the miracles He has done. Now Jesus described the benefit or blessing that come to those who believe.
“Will also do the works that I do:” Jesus expected those who believe in Him to carry on His work in the world. He did not expect the disciples to disband after He went to be with the Father. He expected them to work in an even greater way.
How are we to produce “greater works?”
The “greater works” of which Jesus is speaking of is still His own works. Accomplished no longer by Jesus’ visible presence among them but through His Spirit within them.
One important thing to note is that Jesus did not mean greater in the sense of more sensational, but greater in magnitude. Jesus would leave behind a victorious, working family of followers who would spread His kingdom to more people and places than Jesus ever did in His life and ministry.
Jesus would soon explain that when He ascended to heaven, He would send the Holy Spirit:
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
It was because Jesus went to the Father that the Holy Spirit came upon His people, enabling them to do these greater works.
John 14:13-14: In My Name
John 14:13-14: In My Name
“In My name:” is not a magic incantation for prayer, or a type of genie in a lamp. In addition to that, it doesn’t mean that a believer can get anything they’d like simply by adding “in Jesus name” at the end of their prayer.
What are the implications of praying in Jesus’ name?
It speaks of both an endorsement (think a bank check) and a limitation (requests must be in accordance with the character of the name). We come to God in Jesus’ name, not in our own.
How are we to pray in the name of Jesus?
The test of any prayer is: Can I make it in the name of Jesus? No one can, for instance, pray for personal revenge, for personal ambition, for some unworthy and unchristian object in the name of Jesus.
You see to ask in His name or do anything in His name argues a unity of mind with Jesus’, which includes aim and motive.
In order to ask in Christ’s name, we must live in close fellowship with Him. Otherwise we would not know His attitude. The closer we are to Him, the more our desires will be the same as His are. the Father is glorified in the Son because the Son only desires those things that are pleasing in God’s sight.
We cannot be men and women of prevailing prayer unless we study God’s Word to find out His will for us.
Answer to prayer, however, do not depend upon our feelings, but upon the trustworthiness of the Promiser.
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
If we love God we ought to pray, because He wants us to pray, and commands us to pray. If we believe God we shall pray because we cannot help doing so: we cannot get on without it.
It is only when whatsoever we do is done in His name that He will do whatsoever we ask in His name.
God will not do some things unless we are obedient. He store the hills with marble, but He has never built a cathedral. He fills the mountains with iron ore, but He never makes a needle or a car. He leaves that to us. We must get to work.
Prayer:
Prayer:
Homework:
Homework:
What are some Hindrances to prayer and why? How are we to avoid them?
24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, 25 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.