The u/John_G17 community on Reddit. The author of this epistle never identified himself by name, but Christians since the beginning of the church have considered this letter authoritative, believing it was written by JOHN: PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT Precept Ministries International Inductive Study. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes [] so that it will be even more fruitful. In verses 14-21 we find their consequent relationship to the world; in verses 20, 21, He introduces those who should believe through their means into the enjoyment of their blessing. Lesson 1 of each part can be downloaded below as Pdf. Lesson 19 Lesson 9. Here those who believed, inasmuch as receiving and taking part in that which was communicated, had their oneness in the power of the blessing into which they were brought. The Lord, whose looks of love had until then been directed towards His disciples on the earth, now lifts His eyes to heaven as He addresses His Father. Chapter 17 is divided thus: Verses 1-5 relate to Christ Himself, to His taking His position in glory, to His work, and to that glory as belonging to His Person, and the result of His work. We shall share this in the sense of seeing our Beloved in it, and of being with Him, and of beholding the glory which the Father has given Him, according to the love wherewith He loved Him before the world had any part whatever in the dealings of God. (compare chap. They had kept the Father's word. He gives us (and here the witnesses and the believers are together) the glory which the Father has given Him. The High Priestly Prayer. The object of His solicitude was to keep them in unity, even as the Father and the Son are one. John 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. His glory with the Father in heaven was but the just consequence-the necessary consequence, in mere justice. This is, speaking generally, the new position. Two things were connected with this-power over all flesh, and the gift of eternal life to as many as the Father had given Him. This was quite another thing from hopes connected with the Messiah or what Jehovah had given Him. Being thus in relationship with the Father, who had taken them out from the men of the world, and having received the Father's word (and eternal life in the Son in that knowledge), they were not of the world even as Jesus was not of the world: and therefor the world hated them. He speaks of their position through faith-not of their realisation of this position. John 15-17 New International Version (NIV) The Vine and the Branches. His work and His Person alike gave Him a right to it. For He speaks here of given glory. And the life He gives is realised in the knowledge of the Father, and of Jesus Christ whom He has sent. This is the great principle-the great foundation of the prayer of Christ. Includes Topical Study on the Feasts (Lessons 2-4) and Topical Study on Sheep So that it was the Father's glory, revealed by Him on earth, and the glory into which He had ascended as man; for this is the complete result-the illustration in glory of the way in which He had set Himself apart for God, but on behalf of His own. Perfection being come, that which the Holy Ghost had produced spiritually, His absorbing energy shutting out every other, was natural to all in glory. This is probably why he named them Boanerges (the sons of thunder, Mark 3:17). He enters into the detail of His desires in this respect, grounded on their not being of the world. He repeats this thought as the basis of their position here below. The Book of John . The means of giving this grace is, "through thy truth, thy word is truth." Christ, then, was the Father's delight. In verse 20, He declares that He prays also for those who should believe on Him through their means. It portrays a prayer of Jesus Christ addressed to His Father, placed in context immediately before His betrayal and crucifixion, the events which the gospel often refers to as His glorification. John's calling to be a disciple of the Lord is described in the synoptic Gospels (Math. They had known that all which Jesus had was of the Father. This is not the simple, perfect oneness of verse 11, nor the mutuality and communion of verse 21. It is this which is so precious to us, because He has acquired it by His sufferings for us, and yet it is what was perfectly due to Him-the just reward for having, in them, perfectly glorified the Father. The Lord presents to the Father two motives for His request: 1st, They were the Father's, so that the Father, for His own glory, and because of His affection for that which belonged to Him, should keep them; 2nd, Jesus was glorified in them, so that if Jesus was the object of the Father's affection, for that reason also the Father should keep them. John Chapter 17 One of the most famous prayers between Jesus and His Father, God, is recorded in John Chapter 17. In The Farewell Discourse and Final Prayer of Jesus, D. A. Carson offers a penetrating exposition of John 14–17—the finale of Jesus’ teaching.These short studies touch on many of the great themes of the Christian faith, held together by the experience of the cross that loomed over Christ and his disciples at Gethsemane. Structure and overview. I add, it was out of this the enemy sought to seduce Him, in vain, in the wilderness. Eternal life was the knowledge of the Father, the only true God, and of Jesus Christ, whom He had sent. 3-Question Bible Study . 2012. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN The Gospel according to John is quite different in character from the three synoptic gospels. This chapter is divided into 26 verses. It is thus, also, that the disciples are presented to the Father; not as receiving Christ in the character of Messiah, and honouring Him as possessing His power by that title. There is that which the world will not see, because it will not be in it. [3] This answers to Moses and Elias entering into the cloud, besides their display in the same glory as Christ, standing on the mountain. The last three verses alone take the disciples up to heaven as a supplemental truth. John and his brother James were full of zeal for the Lord Jesus. to be the object of this mutual affection, of these common and inseparable interests of the Father and the Son. And the world had hated them as it had hated Jesus (the living and personal testimony of the Father) and the Father Himself. View the player profile of Aston Villa Defender John Terry, including statistics and photos, on the official website of the Premier League. He gave them the word of His Father-not the words to bring them into communion with Him, but His word-the testimony of what He was. Nevertheless the Lord does not pray that they might be taken out of it; but that the Father should keep them from the evil. By one Spirit, in which they were necessarily united, they had a place in communion with the Father and the Son. This, moreover, gives the relationship in which He enters into this new place as man, His Son, and the work by which He does so in righteousness, and thus gives us a title, and the character in which we have a place there. Lesson 18 Lesson 8 . Jesus sends them into the world, as the Father had sent Him into the world; into the world-in no wise of the world. It was thus that the disciples were to be set apart. By what rule, by what model, were they to be formed? [3] Solace and encouragement for us, after having partaken of His shame: but yet more precious, inasmuch as we see that He who has been dishonoured as man, and because He became man for our sake, shall, even on that account, be glorified with a glory above all other glory, save His who has put all things under Him. But there was yet more. (17) To condemn the world gives to the English reader a stronger impression than that of the original Greek. John learns that this great whore sits on many waters, which represent the peoples of the earth (see Rev. He had manifested the Father's name to those whom the Father had given Him out of the world. Besides, the interests of the Father and the Son could not be separated. But the word of the Father, by Jesus, revealed the Father Himself, in Him whom the Father had sent, and put him who received them into the place of love, which was Christ's place; and to know the Father and the Son was life eternal. Dull of comprehension as they were, the Lord recognises them according to His appreciation of their faith, according to the object of that faith, as known to Himself, and not according to their intelligence. John 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. This is the unity referred to here. So, also, in chapter 5 of our Gospel, He quickens whom He will; here it is those whom the Father has given Him. But the principle of the existence of this unity, added yet another character to that truth-that of manifestation, or at least of an inward source which realised its manifestation in them: "I in them," said Jesus, "and thou in me." He receives all from His Father-He is sent by Him, His Father glorifies Him. Their mission follows. [1] The more we examine the Gospel of John, the more we shall see One who speaks and acts as a divine Person-one with the Father-alone could do, but yet always as One who had taken the place of a servant, and takes nothing to Himself, but receives all from His Father. Verses 1-3 present His new position in two aspects: "glorify thy Son"-power over all flesh, for eternal life to those given to Him; verses 4, 5, His work and its results. He had perfectly glorified the Father on earth. It was from thence He came, and He came furnished with the authority of a mission from the Father. 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