The High Priestly Prayer of Christ: John 17:

Thisprayer of the Son of God was recorded to instruct the readers of their privileged place in their union with both the Father and the Son because of Christ¡¯s ministry on their behalf (17:1–26)

 

Character of Jesus from this chapter

1. He is the One with God. (Perfect unity)

2. He is the Priest for all of us.

3. He is the Intercessor for all of us.

 

The character of the leader from Jesus in this chapter.

1. Intimate relationship with Father God, Jesus and Holy Spirit

2. Responsibility for the people (God gave us)

3. Intercession for the people

 

The heart for the People

1. God gives us the people (Expect God only – not rely on mine)

2. We have the responsibility for the people.

3. The people is God¡¯s

4. Ownership and partnership

5. Commitment for the people

 

I. Prayer For Jesus, Himself (vv. 1–5)

 

JN 17:1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, ¡°Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,

JN 17:2 even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.

JN 17:3 ¡°This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

JN 17:4 ¡° I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.

JN 17:5 ¡°Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

 

 

 

 

The Eternal Life

 

Pastor Young Joon Park

February 8, 2009

 

John 17:1-5

1 Jesus spoke these words; and lifted upHis eyes to heaven, He said, ¡°Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, thatthe Son may glorify You,

2 as You have given Him authority over allflesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.

3 ¡°This is eternal life, that they may knowYou, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

4 ¡°I have glorified You on the earth. Ihave finished the work which You have given Me to do.

5 ¡°Now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself,with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

 

Someoneasked, ¡°What are you going to do today if you know that the earth would be destroyed tomorrow?¡± What would you answer for it?

One person said, ¡°I will plant a tree today even the earth would be destroyed tomorrow.¡±

We might have many different responses.

 

What would do today if you know that you will die tomorrow?

We might to do the very important thing in our life.

 

I. Jesus¡¯ time has come

Jesus knew that tonight is the last night to spend time with His Disciples, and He will go through the cross to the Glory.

 

That is why He spent time with His Disciples very special private banquet, an event with invitation only. He wanted to spend the special private time with His Disciples just before He goes through all the persecution and He had been waiting for this supper with His Disciples for 3 years..

 

John 17:1

Jesus spoke these words; and lifted up His eyes to heaven, He said, ¡°Father,the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,

 

1. Jesus spoke these words;

 

InJohn Chapter 13 to 16, He shared very important words with HisDisciples during this time. Thesewords were for His Disciples alone.

 

Hewashed His Disciples¡¯ feet as an example to serve each other.

Hereleased Iscariot Judas on what he has to do.

after IscariotJudas left the supper place

He shared severalimportant words for them

  1)Released the new commandment to love one another

  2) Peter¡¯s denial as the weakness of the flesh

  3) He hasa plan to leave them and go to Heaven. For the great hope

  4) Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life – Salvation is only through Jesus

  5) Thepromise of the Holy Spirit will come – He will help them

  6)Encourage them to abide in Him to fulfill for their purpose of life

  7) Theybelong to Jesus, so the world will hate them.

  8) Hementioned about His resurrection

 

2.and lifted up His eyes to heaven, He said,

 

Andthen He prayed for Himself, His Disciples, and for us 2000 years ago.

Youcan find His prayer in this chapter.

Iwould like to share what He prayed for Himself today.

 

 3.Father, the hour has come;

 

Do you know your time and yourpurpose of your life?

 

If you know your time and thepurpose of your life, please raise your hand.

I do not know my time exactly, but I feel itpartially, and constantly God confirmed me the time and seasons.

I know the purpose of my life. That is why I am walkingin the Lord with the vision no matter what circumstances I am under. I havegone through many tough times without giving up because of the vision and thepurpose of my life.

 

Jesus had the purpose of His Life from the beginning through His Name ¡°Jesus.¡±

 

Mark 10:45   

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served,but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.¡±

 

Jesus knew the purpose of His Life, and He lived andfocused on it throughout His Life.

 

And tonight is the climax of His Life to fulfill His purpose on the earth. Jesus knew that He will be arrested tonight, stand at the illegal Sanhedrin court early in the morning, stand at the Roman governor Pilate¡¯s court, torture by the roman soldiers, all the Priest and Pharisees will be against Him, and receive death sentence, He will be mocked by the people, he will carry His Cross to the Calvary, to be crucified on the cross. He will die on the cross. He will be resurrected from the death.  

 

This was the most precious moment of the History unnatural and the spiritual.

 

His time is to restore the relationship between the lost Children of the Lord¡¯s, who are us and Father God.

 

Colossians 1:20-22

20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.

21 And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,

22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—

 

It is a good timeto give your life to the Lord if you do not know Jesus Christ.

 

 

4.glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,

 

Through Jesus Christ¡¯s blood and Jesus¡¯ death God brought the reconciliation between Him and us now. Father God glorified Jesus, because Jesus¡¯ sacrifice is accomplished the will of God. Jesus Glorified God through His Sacrifice.

 

II. Jesus Glorified Father God

 

John 17:4

I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do

 

 

1. I have glorified You on the earth.

 

Life of Jesus itself was to glorify the Father God alone.

And this is one of the purpose of our life.

 

I  Corinthians 10:31 Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

 

Someone debated whether drinking wine or smoking is sin or not.

According to this Corinthians, if you glorify the Lord, then do it exceedingly.

If not, then stop completely.

 

Many times I could see that there are some people whowant to be glorified from the people.

They always emphasize what they did and what happened because of them.

 

John 7:18a

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory;

 

How you are going to respond when someone accuses that you ruined his or her reputation because of your life or action?

We do not need to concern ourselves about it as long as we glorify the Lord.

 

We are dead since we have been crucified with JesusChrist on the cross. Dead people do not need any reputation or honor, and there is no reputation or honor.

 

We do not need to be glorified at all, but only Jesus.

 

As you know that our Church name is One Glory Church.

We glorify only Jesus, Father God and the Holy Spirit among us.

 

 

 

2.I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.

 

Then how can we glorify theLord alone in our life and in our church?

It is as simple as Jesus¡¯prayer.

¡°I have glorified You on the earth.

I have finished the work whichYou have given Me to do.

 

The obedience is the key to glorify theLord.

And the key of the obedience is to hear the voice of the Lord.

And the key to hear the voice of the Lordis the intimate relationship with the Lord.

 

John 5:19

Truly, truly, Isay to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.

 

Are you interested in jumping into the intimate relationship with the Lord?

How many people want to have intimate relationship with the Lord?

 

Our theme and goal is to enter into the intimate relationship with the Lord.

 

Our motto is ¡°To Know Jesus Christ andTo Make Him Known¡±

 

We have to know Jesus Christ, our Lord, inintimate way.

I believe that our Father God will bring us in His secret chamber to have the intimate relationship individually.

 

 

 

III. Jesus asked Father to return to His Glory

 

 

John 17:5

Now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

 

 

1. the glorywhich I had with You before the world was.

 

Colossians 1:15-17 

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers orauthorities— all things have been created through Him and for Him.

17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

 

 

2. Now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself

 

Philippians 2:5-11

5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,  

6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,

7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men.

8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,

10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERYKNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

 

3.Restored His Glory

 

Ephesians 1:20-23

20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,

21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church,

23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

 

IV. Jesus gives the eternal life

John 17:2-3

2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him.

3 ¡°This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

 

1.Jesus is the way, the truth and the life

 

Jesusis the only One, our Lord and Savior, and there is no other.

 

John 14:6

I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me

 

Jesus is the only one gives us the eternal life.

 

 

2. Eternal Life

What is the eternal life?

People response – live eternally

Eternal life word itself mean live eternally.

We are going to face two eternal matter.

Eternal life in Heaven or eternal life in hell.

So Eternal life means more that live eternally.

 

Jesus gave the definition verse 3

1) They may know You, the only true God

2) They may know Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

 

The eternal life is To know the true God and to knowJesus Christ.

 

1) the True God

The true God is love and He loves us so much.

We have only One True God, and others are from satan.

Our God Yahweh is the only True God, and others are not God at all, but the evil spirits from satan. Their goal is to steal, to kill and to destroy, and there is no hope for them, but torment.

Our God loves us and have a great hope and future for us.

 

The eternal life is to know the True God.

 

2) Jesus Christ

Jesus is His only begotten Son, and He is the actionof the Love of the True God.

The True God sent Jesus Christ for us as the Redeemer for us.

The True God and Jesus Christ are One.

 

The eternal life is to know Jesus Christ.

 

3) To Know (ginoskow)

In Greek ¡°ginoskow¡± and ¡°oida¡±

Oida means to know in knowledge

Ginoskow means to know through the experience – use term as the marriage life as the relationship with husband and wife

 

This word means about the intimate relationship.

So this eternal life means to have the intimate relationship with the True God and Jesus Christ – the true relationship.

 

God invites us to the deeper relationship.

God wants you to come to the deeper level of the relationship more and more.

 

How can we enter His deeper chamber?

You are invited already, so we have to jump in.

 

a) Practical action

We need to spend more time with the Lord if you want to enter His chamber.

Simply you can start to pray in spirit instead of the flesh prayer.

You can spend time with the word of the Lord and meditate the word of God.

Keep dialog with the Lord, not just prayer or justread, but wait the Lord what He is saying to you.

Worship the Lord constantly

 

b) Prepare your heart

Humble yourself

Committed fully

Remove ungodly mind

Holy and pure life separate from sin

Obedience without hesitation.

 

Conclusion

 

Jeremiah 29:13

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

 

2 Chronicles 16:9a

For the eyes of the LORD move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His.

 

We are going to continually focus on the intimate relationship whole this year together step by step.

Let¡¯s start the major communication method word and prayer.

 

If you did not read Bible in regular basis, then fromnow on commit to read how many chapters in a day from today not for tomorrow. If you do not spend time to pray then start from today.

 

I will share with you how we are going to have a fellowship with the Lord and communicate with Him in daily.

 

There was one boy who was instructed  to prayfor 15 minutes, 15 minutes of prayer and to share the gospel God will bless him. He did keep this commitment seriously and kept doing in his life so many years – Billy Graham