Transcript Document

The Disciple Maker’s Prayer
Part 2
Doing and Asking
John 17:6-24
Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer
Listen to this prayer
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Know that Jesus is at God’s right hand talking to
the Father
“Jesus Christ does not pray for the world today”
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His ministry of intercession is for His own who are
in the world
He doesn’t pray for the world; He died for the
world
He has sent the Holy Spirit into the world to
convict the world of sin, righteousness, and
judgment
What more could He do for the world?
Review
What God gave His Son
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Glory to Reflect (v. 1, 5)
Authority to Save (v. 2-3)
Work to Do (vv. 4, 6a)
Men to Build Up (vv. 6,b-7)
Words to Declare (v. 8)
What the Son gives to us!
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Glory to Reflect
Authority to Save
Work to Do
Men to Build Up
Words to Declare
Romans 8:16-17
16 The Spirit Himself bears
witness with our spirit that
we are children of God, 17
and if children, then
heirs—heirs of God and
joint heirs with Christ, if
indeed we suffer with Him,
that we may also be
glorified together.
Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer
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What the Father Gave to His Son (vv.
1-6)
II. What the Son Has Done for His
Disciples (vv. 7-19)
III. What the Son Asks for His Disciples
(vv. 9-24)
What a Disciple Maker Does for His
Disciples
A. Manifests the Father for Them (v. 6-7)
B. Gives Them God’s Word (vv. 8, 14)
C. Keeps Them in the Name of the Father
(v. 12)
D. Sends Them into the World (v. 18)
E. Sanctifies Himself for Them (v. 19)
Manifests the Father (v. 6-7)
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I have manifested Your name to the men whom You
have given Me out of the world. They were Yours,
You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
Now they have known that all things which You have
given Me are from You.
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In the Bible, “name” refers to “nature”
“I have manifested Your name” means “I have revealed the
nature of God”
John 1:18 - one of the ministries of the Son was to declare
the Father
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“declared” = “to unfold, to lead, to show the way”
Gradually, by His words and His deeds, Jesus revealed to
them the nature of God, as they were able to bear it (John
16:12)
Gives Them God’s Word
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For I have given to them the words which You
have given Me; and they have received them,
and have known surely that I came forth from
You; and they have believed that You sent Me
14 I have given them Your word; and the world
has hated them because they are not of the
world, just as I am not of the world
Gives Them God’s Word
The Lord had given them the Words of the Father
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He had not given them property or money or
transportation, but the Words of the Father
How did Jesus get the Words of the Father?
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Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD has given Me the
tongue of disciples, That I may know how to
sustain the weary one with a word. He awakens Me
morning by morning, He awakens My ear to listen
as a disciple. (NASB)
Gives Them God’s Word
After following Jesus for three years, these
disciples believed that He came from the
Father
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They knew who He was
They did not understand His purpose and certainly
not His death and resurrection
They knew He had come from God
They believed that God had sent Him because of
what they saw in Jesus and heard from Him
Keeps Them in the Name of the Father
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in
Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept;
and none of them is lost except the son of perdition,
that the Scripture might be fulfilled
The safety and security of the believer - God keeps His
own
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Our security depends on the nature of God, not our own
character or conduct
Jesus kept His disciples and they knew they could depend on
Him
Jesus has not changed!
Sends Them into the World
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As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the
world
Luke 19:10
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for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost
Matthew 28:18-20
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And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been
given to Me in heaven and on earth.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and
lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Sends Them into the World
Mark 15:15-16
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And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature.
He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not
believe will be condemned.
Luke 24:46-49
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Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary
for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His
name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
And you are witnesses of these things.
Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the
city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.”
Sends Them into the World
John 20:21
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So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent
Me, I also send you.”
Acts 1:8
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But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon
you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea
and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Sanctifies Himself
19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they
also may be sanctified by the truth
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“sanctify” means to be set apart, to be separated
Jesus actually sanctified Himself to the point of
death!
Jesus was sent out of heaven into the world to be a
witness of the Father and we have been sent out
into the world to bear a witness
Sanctifies Himself
Philippians 2:5-11
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Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality
with God a thing to be grasped,
but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being
made in the likeness of men.
Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by
becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him
the name which is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in
heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father.
What a Disciple Maker Asks for His
Disciples
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To keep them safe from the world and the evil one (vv.
9-12, 15-16)
To make them one (v. 11)
To have Christ’s joy fulfilled in them (vv. 13-14)
To sanctify them by God’s truth (vv. 17-19)
To multiply them (vv. 20-23)
To bring them to be with Jesus in heaven (v. 24)
To keep them safe from the world and
the evil one
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“I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for
those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I
am glorified in them. 11 Now I am no longer in the
world, but these are in the world, and I come to You.
Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom
You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in
Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept;
and none of them is lost except the son of perdition,
that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
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I do not pray that You should take them out of the
world, but that You should keep them from the evil
one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of
the world.
To keep them safe from the world and
the evil one
The Word of God causes problems in the world today
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The Bible teaches that you cannot save yourself, that only
Christ can save you
The world doesn’t want to hear that!
Satan does not want us saying that!
“They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world”
(v. 16)
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The measure in which believers realize this, the more
completely we fulfill His will and His purpose
We are the ones to whom God has committed the ministry of
His kingdom
When people see our faith or power or compassion, they
know is beyond our human capability
Then they will know that Christ has supernaturally changed
our life and that we are sent from God!
To make them one
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Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and
I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those
whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are
He prays the Father that His disciples might be one
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He’s not praying for an ecumenical movement or that we all join the
same denomination
He prays that we should be one as the Father and the Son are one
We are one in love, one in purpose, one in faith, and one in strategy for
reaching the world
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The Father has answered every prayer of His Son
The Holy Spirit takes all true believers and baptizes them into the
body of Christ, identifies them in the body of Christ
To have Christ’s joy fulfilled in them
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But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the
world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in
themselves.
14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated
them because they are not of the world, just as I am
not of the world
Did you realize that Christ wants you to have His
joy fulfilled in your life?
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Joy = chara = an inner gladness; a deep seated
pleasure
To have Christ’s joy fulfilled in them
The source of the believer’s joy:
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The fellowship of the Father and His Son brings joy - 1 John 1:3-4; Psalm
16:11
Victory over sin, death, and hell brings joy - John 14:28; John 16:20-22;
Isaiah 12:3; Isaiah 61:10
Repentance brings joy - Luke 15:7, 10
The hope of glory brings joy - Romans 14:17; Hebrews 12:2; 1 Peter 4:13
The Lord’s Word, the revelations, commandments, and promises which He
made bring joy - John 15:11
Obeying the commandments of Christ and the will of God bring joy - John
15:11
Answered prayer brings joy - John 16:24
The presence and fellowship of believers brings joy - 1 John 1:3-4
Converts bring joy - Luke 15:5; Phil. 4:1; 1 Thes. 2:19-20; Psalm 126:5.
Hearing that others walk in the truth brings joy - 3 John 1:4
Giving brings joy - 2 Cor. 8:2; Hebrews 10:34
To sanctify them by God’s truth
17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth
18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them
into the world
19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also
may be sanctified by the truth
Sanctify means to set apart
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The believer is not of the world; he is set apart
The believer is set apart by the Word of God
The Word reveals the mind of God
The Word sets you apart for a particular ministry
To sanctify them by God’s truth
Sanctify also means holiness, dedication, consecration
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God called believers out of the world and away from the old
life it offered, the old life of sin and death
How can we be in the world without being part of the
world?
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We need to be sanctified daily in the truth
We are to receive that truth through God’s Word
Time spent in Bible reading, in listening to God, and in
obeying scripture will strengthen us against the temptations
and evil in the world
To multiply them
20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who
will believe in Me through their word;
21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me,
and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the
world may believe that You sent Me
22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them,
that they may be one just as We are one:
23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made
perfect in one, and that the world may know that You
have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved
Me
To multiply them
Jesus prayed not only for the disciples but for all those who would
believe because of the disciples
Everything we know about Christ has come down to us from the
spiritual multiplication of those early disciples
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John was written by one of the twelve disciples
Matthew also was an eyewitness account
Peter was a disciple, and James and Jude were brothers of Christ
Mark was discipled by Peter
Paul received visions from Christ but was also discipled by
Barnabas who was discipled by Peter
Luke not only learned from the eyewitnesses, he was also discipled
by Paul
To multiply them
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Every believer has multiplied spiritually
from the few men and women who were
discipled by Christ and who then discipled
others!
They did it by pouring their lives into
others the way Jesus poured His life into
them
“I in them, and Thou in me”
To be with Jesus in heaven
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Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with
Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have
given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world
Some day these words will be fulfilled in your life!
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Jesus loves you so much that He wants you to spend eternity
with Him
The Believer’s Bible Commentary
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"The Son desires to have His people with Himself in glory.
Every time a believer dies, it is, in a sense, an answer to this
prayer. If we realized this, it would be a comfort to us in our
sorrow. To die is to go to be with Christ...."