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My Hour has come
In the midst of the climax of the story- Jesus stops to Pray.
He knows that the cross and the agony He is about to endure is now upon him, and so he takes a moment to cry out to God the father for Help.
Jesus says “Father the Hour has come”
This is not simply the hour Jesus has known would come.
It’s the hour all of creation has been anticipating.
It’s the fulfillment of a promise made in genesis 3that God would send a Rescuer to Redeem humanity from sin.
it’s the moment when mankind will no longer be separated from God because of their sin.
It’s the moment when spiritual life will triumph over spiritual death.
Know that the hour all creation has been anticipating is upon him Jesus stops to pray.
This morning I want us to look at Jesus’s prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane the night he was betrayed, arrested, and accused.
look with me at verse 1-5
Jesus Prays for himself
He begins with a simple prayer
Glorify Me so that I will glorify You
This was not a prayer for deliverance from pain, or for the strength to endure the cross, but rather it was a prayer that the Father would be glorified in His death.
Jesus said “glorify me so that I can bring you glory.
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Jesus understood that his sacrificial death was the means whereby God and humans would be reconciled.
Paul speaks of this reconciliation through Christ in 2 Cor.
5:19
Jesus desires to be glorified so he can glorify the Father.
in John chapter one Jesus is identified at the Word
Jesus is the Word, the revelation of God’s goodness towards mankind.
Jesus said i n Luke 19:10 “ I cam to seek and save the lost.
Jesus came to earth to bring God’s goodness of redemption to mankind.
Look again at verse 2-3
To know God is to know His goodness, and to know His goodness means that You have accepted Jesus Christ as your savior.
Jesus sacrifice on the cross is what secures God’s goodness of eternal life for all those who belong to Him.
The eternal life that Jesus brings through the cross is not just everlasting life, or just an escape from Hell.
The eternal life that Jesus secures through the cross
Is an eternity living in God’s goodness
it is having a personal relationship with the everlasting God.
It is forever delighting in the unlimited glories of God.
It is forever rejoicing in his presence.
& it is living how we were created to live—in perfect fellowship with our Creator.
Jesus brings the father glory by displaying the goodness of God and bringing rebellious creatures into an eternal relationship with God the Father.
Jesus prays for God’s glory to be revealed in Him because he knows that The moment He will most reveals God’s Goodness towards mankind will be on the cross.
Hanging on that Tree the world will see the greatest display of God’s perfect Justice and God’s perfect love powerfully together.
The cross is was a necessity for the world to understand how glorious God is. .
Because of the cross we now can understand his holiness and Hatred of sin, we can now understand his eternal wrath and his unconditional love, and because of the cross we can know experience his justice and forgiveness.
When Jesus Hangs on that Cross The Father will glorify the Son, and the Son will reveal the unparalleled goodness of the Father towards the world.
Jesus opens up his prayer “ Father the time has finally come for the worlds relationship with you to be restored.
The time has come for reconciliation, Glorify Me as the redeemer so that through My death on the cross the world will be restored back to You which will bring you glory.
And father Glorify me in your presence.
Jesus is simply saying My Work is finished I am coming home.
Transition: Jesus continues in His prayer and Now prays for the 11 disciples.
Look with me at verses 6-8
Jesus prays for the disciples
Three times in these verses Jesus describes the disciples as “those you have given me.”
Meaning that their ability to follow and obey Jesus was Only through the power of God at work in them.
God gave these men as disciples to jesus.
He drew them to himself, He opened their eyes to the truth.
Jesus uses the verb “have given,” which is in the perfect tense.
That means an action happened in the past and has results that continue in the present.
In the past God gave Jesus a specific group of people that are his and continue to be his.
God chose people, not based on any merit of their own, and gave them as a gift to his Son in eternity past.
The apostle Paul told the believers in Ephesus they were chosen in Christ “before the foundation of the world” (Eph 1:4).
Prior to salvation we were cold, dead sinners.
By nature and choice we were rebels against God.
The only way we could ever come to him is if he did a work in our hearts, drawing us to himself.
When God does that work, we respond.
We see, here in chapter 17, the disciples responded to the work of God.
• They kept the Father’s word (v. 6)
• They received it through the teaching of Jesus (v.
8).
• They came to understand and believe what God said (v. 8).
The disciples were responsible to believe, but even their ability to believe was the result of what God said and did.
Let’s say you showed up to church one morning with your beautiful, ten-month old baby, dropped him off at the nursery, and headed in to the service.
The nursery worker begins to talk to your ten-month-old.
“You look so nice.
Did you take a bath this morning?”
He nods his head yes.
“It looks like you’re full.
Did you eat a yummy breakfast?”
Once again, he nods his head yes.
“I love your outfit.
Did you get dressed in your nice clothes?” Again he answers yes.
So he has answered yes to all three questions.
He took a bath, he ate breakfast, and he got dressed.
But that’s not the whole picture.
As his parent, you drew the bathwater, lathered him with soap, and rinsed him off.
You fixed breakfast, fed it to him, and cleaned up his mess.
You washed his clothes, changed his diaper, and then got him dressed.
It’s true he took a bath, ate breakfast, and got dressed but only because of what you did.
You did the work he couldn’t do himself.
He simply responded.
God does the work of calling sinners to salvation.
Our responsibility is to respond to what God does.
The disciples were saved by the power of God working in their lives.
He called them out of the world, He revealed Christ to them, He convicted them of their sinfulness and He gave them the ability to believe in Jesus for their Salvation
The point Jesus makes in these verses and through all of scripture is that our salvation is all about God and what He has done and nothing about what we do.
For the disciples, they were Choses by God before creation as a gift to Jesus to be his followers who would take his gospel message to the world.
and Now Jesus simply prays that that same power of God that saved them will now keep them for the rest of their lives.
Jesus Prays for the disciple's Security
Jesus is focused on the disciples’ spiritual security.
Up to this point Jesus has been protecting them by the Father’s name.
For three Years Jesus has been teaching these men about the character and person of God.
He has been been pointing their attention towards Him, and they have come to know God Personally through walking with Jesus.
He has been with them, guarding them from falling away from the truths of God.
And if they are going to continue the mission of taking the gospel to the world they can not turn away from this truth.
Jesus, knowing that He will no longer be with them asks the Father to keep them secure, to preserve their faith, to keep them faithful to His word and faithful to His mission that they may be one.
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Transition: The discipels are going to face real danger in their lives.
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