This is Eternal Life...
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Intro: The Rancher and His Son…
Intro: The Rancher and His Son…
-I once knew a young man who was given some calves by his father…
-The young man wanted to go to college but wondered how he could afford it…
-At the age of 13 he began to care for this small herd…
*He fed and watered them everyday
* He made sure the fences were in good condition and mended them when
necessary
*He cared for the herd his father had given him.
*As his herd grew he sold some of the cattle and reinvested money in the
operation…
-By the time college came he had been faithful to the mission and completed his
father’s will!
1 Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you,
2 since you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.
3 This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent—Jesus Christ.
4 I have glorified you on the earth by completing the work you gave me to do.
5 Now, Father, glorify me in your presence with that glory I had with you before the world existed.
Point #1: This is Eternal Life: That They May Know You, The Only True God, and the One You Have Sent-Jesus Christ!
Point #1: This is Eternal Life: That They May Know You, The Only True God, and the One You Have Sent-Jesus Christ!
Up until now Jesus’ time hadn’t come! Now Jesus’ time has come!
John 17:1 (BKC): Jesus then prayed, Glorify Your Son (cf. 17:5). This request for glorification included sustaining Jesus in suffering, accepting His sacrifice, resurrecting Him, and restoring Him to His pristine glory. The purpose of the request was that the Father would be glorified by the Son, that God’s wisdom, power, and love might be known through Jesus. Believers too are to glorify God (v. 10); in fact, this is the chief end of man.
John 17:3 (BKC): Eternal life, as defined here by Jesus, involves the experience of knowing the only true God through His Son (cf. Matt. 11:27). It is a personal relationship of intimacy which is continuous and dynamic. The word know (ginōskōsin) here in the present tense, is often used in the Septuagint and sometimes in the Greek New Testament to describe the intimacy of a sexual relationship (e.g., Gen 4:1, “lay”; Matt. 1:25, “had … union”). Thus a person who knows God has an intimate personal relationship with Him. And that relationship is eternal, not temporal.
Continuing in John 17:6
Continuing in John 17:6
6 “I have revealed your name to the people you gave me from the world. They were yours, you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you,
8 because I have given them the words you gave me. They have received them and have known for certain that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
9 “I pray for them. I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me, because they are yours.
10 Everything I have is yours, and everything you have is mine, and I am glorified in them.
11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.
12 While I was with them, I was protecting them by your name that you have given me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.
Point #2: Our Life is Now Hidden in Christ! (Col 3:3)
Point #2: Our Life is Now Hidden in Christ! (Col 3:3)
1 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Pastor Wes’ definition of election
I don‘ believe that God’s Election transgresses against our free will…
Instead I believe that it works hand in glove with it!
John 17:9–10 (BKC): Christ’s prayer (in vv. 6–19) was particularly for the Eleven, though it applies to all believers (cf. v. 20). At this point He was not praying for the world in its hostility and unbelief. This prayer is for two things: (a) the disciples’ preservation (“protect them,” v. 11) and (b) their sanctification (“sanctify them,” v. 17). The world is not to be preserved in its rebellion or sanctified in its unbelief. Jesus prayed this request because of God’s ownership of them by creation and election (they are Yours). Jesus’ words, All I have is Yours, and all You have is Mine, reveal His claim to unity, intimacy, and equality with the Father.
2. John 17:9–12 (CSB): 9 “I pray for them. I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me, because they are yours.
a. 10 Everything I have is yours, and everything you have is mine, and I am glorified
in them.
b. 11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you.
Holy Father, protect them by your name that you have given me, so that they may
be one as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I was protecting them by your
name that you have given me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except
the son of destruction, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.
John 17:11 (BKC): Jesus would soon depart to the Father and leave His disciples in the world. They had to stay in the world to carry out God’s plan in spreading the good news of redemption and in planting the church. With the formation of the church, the history of the world has become, in a sense, “a tale of two cities”: the city of God and the city of man.
John 17:11 (BKC): Since the disciples would be in the world, Jesus prayed for their protection. The hostility against God which fell on Jesus would now fall on the tiny band of apostles, and subsequently on many of Jesus’ followers. Jesus, in calling on His Holy Father, pointed up God’s distinction from sinful creatures. This holiness is the basis for believers’ separation from the world. He would protect them from the sin and enmity of the world by the power of His name (cf. Prov. 18:10). In Bible times a person’s name stood for the person. (In John 17:6, 26 the niv translates the Gr. “Your name” by the word “You.”)
Why did Jesus pray for their preservation? It was to promote the unity of the believers, patterned after the unity of the Father and the Son: so that they may be one as We are One (cf. vv. 21–22). The unity here seems to be that of will and purpose. By being protected from the world they would be unified in their desires to serve and glorify the Son.
Continuing in John 17:13
Continuing in John 17:13
13 Now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in them.
14 I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
15 I am not praying that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
18 As you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
19 I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
Point #3: I Am Not Praying That You Taken Them Out of the World, But That You Protect Them From the Evil One!
Point #3: I Am Not Praying That You Taken Them Out of the World, But That You Protect Them From the Evil One!
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John 17:14 (BKC): As believers share Jesus Christ, “Everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes, and the boasting of what he has and does” (1 John 2:16) loses its attractiveness. A believer’s commitment shows the world’s values to be trash or dung (cf. Phil. 3:8). Therefore the world hates the exposure of its sham values (cf. John 3:20).
John 17:15 (BKC): God’s plan was not to remove the disciples from danger and opposition (take them out of the world) but to preserve them in the midst of conflict. Though Jesus would soon be taken out of the world (v. 11), His followers are to remain in it. Like Daniel in Babylon (Dan. 1–2; 4–6) and the saints in Caesar’s household (Phil. 4:22), God intends for His followers to be witnesses to truth in the midst of satanic falsehood. Satan, the evil one (cf. Matt. 5:37; 1 John 5:19), as head of the world system, seeks to do everything possible to destroy believers (cf. Rev. 2:10; 12:10) but God’s plan will prevail. Christians must not take themselves out of the world but remain in meaningful contact with it, trusting in God’s protection while they witness for Jesus.
John 17:19 (BKC): For the benefit of the disciples, Jesus sanctified Himself. In what sense did Jesus need to sanctify Himself? Was He not already set apart to God and distinct from the world? Yes, but this sanctification refers to His being separated and dedicated to His death. And the purpose of His death was that they too may be truly sanctified. The words “truly sanctified” are literally “sanctified in truth.” This probably means that God’s truth is the means of sanctification (cf. comments on v. 17). The purpose of the death of Christ is to dedicate or separate believers to God and His program.
Continuing in John 17:20
Continuing in John 17:20
20 “I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in me through their word.
21 May they all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us, so that the world may believe you sent me.
22 I have given them the glory you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.
23 I am in them and you are in me, so that they may be made completely one, that the world may know you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me.
Point #4: I Am In Them and You Are in Me, So That They May Be Made Completely One!
Point #4: I Am In Them and You Are in Me, So That They May Be Made Completely One!
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Continuing in John 17:24
Continuing in John 17:24
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation.
25 Righteous Father, the world has not known you. However, I have known you, and they have known that you sent me.
26 I made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them and I may be in them.”
Point #5: I Want Those You Have Given Me to Be With Me!
Point #5: I Want Those You Have Given Me to Be With Me!
John 17:25–26 (BKC): Jesus made the Father and His love known to the world by His death. And the Father made known His love for the Son by raising Him to glory. Jesus’ purpose in revealing the Father was that Christians would continue to grow in that love (that the Father’s love for the Son may be in them) and to enjoy the personal presence of Jesus in their lives (that I Myself may be in them).
Jesus’ petitions for believers are four: preservation (John 17:11), sanctification (v. 17), unity (vv. 11, 21–22), and participation in Jesus’ glory (v. 24). This prayer is sure to be answered (cf. 11:42; 1 John 5:14).