Sermon Tone Analysis

Do you ever find it really hard to live this life?

Are there times when you think that it would be easier to not be a Christian?

Intro

“True prayer is the first sign of conversion.”

“one of the first effects of the new birth is the beginning of true prayer.”

- D.F. Kelly, If God already knows why pray

Paul in

Paul had been persecuting Christians

Acts 9:

Jesus comes to him in a light from heaven

Acts 9:

Ananias was told to go and meet Paul

What do you think wen through his mind?

Fear and doubt

But God tells him

Prayer is essential to the Christian life - for Perseverance

Definition: steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success:

The Christian life is hard and sometimes we are tempted to give in and resist the work of God.

But there is one important reason that we will never give in to this temptation:

Jesus

Let’s look

Jesus is praying for His sheep - He starts of by giving God all glory in his prayer-

Drama

Who Jesus prays for:

Jesus prays for Christians/Believers

Disciples, those who believe

Those called out of the world, Sanctified and set apart has Holy

John 17:

What Jesus Prays for:

For the believers security - This is the main thee throughout this part of his prayer

For the believers unity

John 17

For the believers Salvation

For the believers continued faith

For the believer to have His joy

John

Delight in doing the Lord’s work

For the believer’s protection from Satan

For the sanctification of believers

Growing in Xp and in God’s Word

Doctrine

We are not of this world

Perseverance of the Saints

Jesus our High Priests prayed for God to keep us until the end

God is working toward that end

United to Christ

We share in the things that Christ experienced in this world

Sanctification

The process of growing in Christ that we are currently in

Jesus expects the believer to grow spiritually

This sanctification comes from God’s Word

Q. 35.

What is sanctification?

A. Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.l

Doxology

We should thank God and praise Him for Jesus’ prayers for us

The whole Trinity - God the Father, Jesus the Son and the HS have you secure, your salvation secure,

Romans 8

God is answering Jesus prayer

Praise him today that He has you securely in His grip

Praise Him that He is sanctifying you and preparing you for that Day in Glory

Praise Him that there isn’t anything that can separate you from the love of God

Yes, being a Christian can be hard if your trying to do things on your own.

We should thank God that he has given us a means to address him through Jesus Christ

We should be on our knees praying to God and seeking his strength

We should be on our knees praying to God and seeking his strength

We should thank God that he has given us a means to address him through Jesus Christ

God is a personal God: “if He is personal and I am personal, then it is most reasonable t believe that we can know each other.”

- Kelly

Gal 4:

God gives us his Spirit of Adoption and we too can cry out in this relationship with God.

Kelly - “though the book of Revelation tells us that in God’s ultimate purposes, the consummation of the marriage of the church of Christ will be in heaven, we do not nee to wait until then to enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.”

Let us trust God in this very fact, this prayer by Jesus has been answered.

God loved Jesus so much that he has answered and if you look at your own life just a bit, I bet you will se where God has upheld you, reminded you of your salvation, of it’s security.

You are HIS and HE is praying for you.