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Introduction:
Good morning Church Family,
I have very much been looking forward to saying these words.
If you have your Bibles, let me invite you to open with me to the book of John chapter 17, we will begin reading in verse 20.
If you don’t have a copy of God’s word just slip up your hand and one of our church members will be glad to bring you one.
If you are visiting with us here at St. Rose Community Church or if you have been visiting with us for the last three months, I want to introduce myself.
My name is Brandon Langley, I am one of the pastors here at St. Rose Community Church.
In fact, I have served as the lead pastor here for about 7 years now, and in September, our church graciously granted me a 3 month Sabbatical from preaching and pastoral responsibilities.
During that time, I have spent much needed time with my family and with the Lord.
I took the time to finish up and graduate with a degree I had been working on for several years…, and I spent time praying and preparing for this next season of ministry.
Now, I could spend a long time this morning talking through things that the Lord did over my Sabbatical…, but that would be a distraction from the main task this morning…
The task that God has primarily called me to in this church in this moment is the task of preaching God’s word.
A couple weeks ago, Drew began our advent Christmas series which takes us through the High Priestly Prayer…
… let me just pause there and say this… my Sabbatical would not have been possible or as fruitful without the faithful labor of Drew O’Neal in his care for this church.
Drew thank you brother for your pastoral ministry to me and to this church.
It also would not have been possible with out our other elders, Stephen and Ray.
Thank you brothers.
John 17 is 2,000 year old record of a prayer Jesus prayed on our behalf which he lifted up to God the Father before he died on the cross for us.
Reading this text is like walking on Holy Ground.
It is profound.
… AND it is a wonderful text to meditate on as we consider Christmas.
Christ’s intention for the miracle of Christmas, his coming to Earth as a human is found in these words.
If you ever asked the question, “what is God’s will for my life?”
OR “what is God’s will for our church?”
This should be a text you consult because here we have God the Son speaking to God the Father about his will for our lives.
So lets read and lets listen and lets pray for understanding.
Jesus prays these words…
Lets Pray
Jesus Christ of Nazareth…, 2,000 years ago, before he took his final steps to the cross.…
He prayed for you.
He clarified that what he was about to do in his death and resurrection was not simply to benefit his immediate disciples….
but rather his words, and ministry, and work on the cross was for that generation and it was for your generation.
In this prayer, He anticipates your salvation.
He anticipates the believers of St. Rose Community Church.
Not only does he anticipate your salvation , but he anticipates the means by which you would come to that salvation.
Jesus highlights the hearing and the believing of God’s message through preachers of the Word.
John 17:20 (ESV)
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
Jesus anticipates a continuous, generation by generation, ministry of preaching the most important message in the history of the world.
If you are here this morning and you are not certain that you are in good standing with God…, you are in the right place.
You have the opportunity for forgiveness this morning… opportunity for eternal life… opportunity for everlasting relationship with God through these very simple means - the hearing and believing the message of Jesus through the preached word of God.
Right now in these following sentences …, someone’s eternity will be influenced either positively or negatively.
Believe this… that Jesus really is the manifestation of God on earth.
That He was and is and will forever be God with us.
That he lived a perfect human life…
that he died a substitutionary death, thus paying the death penalty for sinners like me….
that he then conquered the curse of death, rose again…,
and that he now offers eternal life to anyone who would trust him as Lord and believe his message.
This is how salvation works… you hear that message and you either believe with your whole heart, so much so that you repent of your sin and turn to follow this Jesus
OR you reject that message and you reject the God of that message and you harden yourself to it a little more.
If you are a Christian in this room this prayer certainly includes you.
If at some point in your life, you heard the preaching of God’s word and you believed… you need to pause for just a moment and be thankful for that reality which Jesus assumed and expected would save you one day.
Be thankful that somebody somewhere was obedient to preach the good news to you.
Be thankful that God worked in your heart so that you would believe what you heard.
And be thankful that Jesus, 2,000 years ago, was communicating with God the Father about and for you.
Now, I suppose we could end the sermon right here.…,
In fact, that is where much preaching ends.
Much preaching of the good news ends with a call for you to simply be saved…, but I want you to notice that that is not where Jesus’ prayer ends.
In fact, thats really just the beginning of his prayer for you.
Jesus’ high priestly prayer is not a prayer that as many people as possible will believe..
But rather Jesus’ prayer takes a step further For you.
The purpose of salvation goes deeper.
Its scope - wider.
Its end goal more glorious Then walking an aisle and picking up some assurance that you won’t go to hell.
Christian...., you were not called to believe through the preached word only so that you would get out of hell in the end…
Now that is a wonderful thing, but you… we.... all are called to more than that.
Jesus prays for more for you and from you.
The thing that really sticks out about this section in John 17… is all the “so that” phrases.
“So that” is a purpose clause… it takes you beyond the what and into the deeper “why”....
the “so that” clauses take you beyond the lights, and the songs, and the happy holidays…, and into the reason for the season… Or in this case, into the purpose for which Christ now prays…, and thus the purpose for which Christ came at Christmas.
Listen for your ultimate purpose in life as the “so thats” just ring out of the passage taking you deeper and deeper.
John 17:20–24 (ESV)
20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
So what are the “so thats” leading to.
Why is Jesus praying and for what is Jesus praying?
Three Prayer Requests:
#1 Jesus Prays for Our Unity With God
John 17:21 (ESV)
21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us,...
Jesus prays for the unity of Christians which we will talk about in a second…, but under that unity among Christians, supporting that unity, causing that unity…, is first a unity with God himself.
Earlier Jesus describes in his prayer what the true essence of eternal life is.
Eternal life is and forever will be a joyful and personal knowledge of God.
A relationship that Jesus himself has enjoyed from eternity past.
We worship a relational God.
In his very being he is Father, Son, and Spirit.
There is no other living being exactly like God.
He is totally unique.
He has always existed as eternal love shared in and with himself.... joy shared in and with himself…, relationship shared with himself.
This is what it means that the Christian God is triune.
He is trinity…
He is unlike any other created thing, because all created beings need relationship with other created being in order to be fulfilled… but he is uncreated and he is relationally fulfilled in himself.
God the Son shared in the glory of God the Father in and through the presence of God the Spirit from before the foundation of the world.
In fact, it is to that glorious unhindered union that Jesus now looks forward to returning to.
God has always existed in love sharing relationship with himself.
Such a relationship of joy, goodness, contentment, safety, and wonder cannot even be imagined.
Jesus is speaking of things higher, deeper, and wider then our finite ability to grasp…
but somehow… someway…
Jesus prays and understands that to believe in him through the word preached about him… is to be invited into that eternal relationship Of God.
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