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ask him to reveal his truths for our lives.
Going to the Gospel of John 17th chapter Those of you who are
visiting with us for the first time, those of you who are
guests and not normal attendees here at Key life, you don't know
this, but I'll go ahead and tell you.
We've been going through the Gospel of John for quite some
time. Now verse by verse and We are
here at the 17th chapter and we're going to the next few
weeks break. This 17th chapter down in
several different parts. I wrestled with this all week
long verse 1, I was going to attempt to go beyond verse 1 but
I couldn't. Not and get you out of here by
3:30. and so, as I studied in, as I Contemplated and meditated
on verse 1 as what we're going to look at today.
The first verse chapter 17 John Bunyan said this, he said you
can do more than pray after you have prayed.
But you can't do more than pray, until you have prayed what a
statement. Jesus hear the king of kings,
and Lord of lords who condescended as we said, from
his glory, in heaven to this Earth, where he Became.
Flesh. And he failed his glory in his
flesh. And he came to this earth to
live as our example and to die as our sacrifices here in John
17, he is taking one more step closer to his predestined
Mission, his death, his burial and his resurrection in
accordance with the will of the father.
Is Jesus is moving closer and closer step-by-step to the
Suffering The Agony of the cross.
We're going to see that he is moved to prayer.
He's moved to prayer. He can't go any further.
Without praying. Just as bunion said, you can do
more than pray after you have prayed, but you can't do more
than pray until you have prayed. And here we see the Lord Jesus.
Moved. To prayer move to prayer and
many would ask. If Jesus Is God, as he's been
saying this whole time in his, I am statements in John, we've
talked about it over and over the deity of Christ.
Why would he have to pray to the father?
Let us not forget that in this subsistence, the these
subsistence e of the trinity. The Sonic came to do the will of
the father. It is, the Father's will that he
is seeking here. We see this laid out in Jesus
prayer here. In John, chapter 17 known as the
high Priestly prayer of Jesus. In this prayer, he is going to
pray as we will see today for himself.
He is also going to pray for the disciples who were with them.
They're on Earth at this time. As we will see in the lessons to
come. He's going to pray for us.
He is going to pray for each and every one of you who are in
Christ two thousand years ago. Jesus on his way to the Cross
stops. He prays for you.
People have sung a song in error so many times when he was on the
cross, I was on his mind know before the foundations of the
earth you were on his mind. he came to rescue, you He came to
intercede for you. We see his high Priestly prayer.
So much is going to be revealed about Jesus in the following
lessons and lessons lesson today.
I want you to pay close attention to it because many
people have called Matthew chapter 6.
What we see there, as the Lord's Prayer, when, in fact, Matthew
chapter 6, Jesus is not praying at all.
But what he's doing is he's instructing his disciples on how
to pray. He's teaching them and giving
them a lesson on how to pray. So that's not the Lord's Prayer
at all. That is the model prayer that
the Lord taught the disciples. Here's what prayer ought to be.
But here in John chapter 17, we're going to see the Lord,
actually praying. We are going to see the true
Lord's Prayer. We're going to see it here as
John unfolds, the details of this account for us just ours.
Before Christ goes to the cross. He's going to offer as our great
high priest. That's what Hebrews calls him.
Our great high priest, in the order of Melchizedek, he is our
Eternal high priest. We're going to see Jesus
operating in the office. Of the priest.
The priesthood of Jesus. He is going. to pray for us
prior to Becoming the sacrifice of atonement for us.
Jesus fear praying in John 17 verse 1.
It says this after Jesus said this.
He looked toward heaven. And prayed.
Father, the time has come. Glorify your son that your son
may glorify you after this. Whatever it was that Jesus said
and we go back to last week. Remember what he said?
In chapter 16, the last verse in verse 33, he said I have told
you these things so that in me you may have peace.
He just told them you're about to run for your life.
You're going to feel like you abandoned me but the father's
never going to abandon me have peace, rest in me the same Jesus
who told them, don't lose heart. Don't be trouble.
He says, I told you these things so that you in me may have peace
in this world, you will have trouble, but take heart, I have
overcome. The world and then.
Jesus begins to pray. After Jesus said this.
He begins to pray, not only for himself, not only for the
disciples who were about to run for their lives, but the
Disciples of all time who would follow the lord Jesus?
He looked toward heaven and he prayed again, father the time
has come glorify your son so that your son may glorify you.
What is this saying? What is this reviewing about
Christ? In this lesson, I want you to
see What this reveals. Not only about prayer.
But what it reveals about Christ. how compassionate he is,
how focused he is, how determined he is to do, the will
of God First thing that I want you to see as we look at this
first sentence of this prayer, as Jesus prays.
He Reveals His demeanor in prayer, his demeanor in prayer.
Look what it says he looked toward heaven and prayed.
This is no accident. That the holy spirit is through
John the Apostle included this very important detail in
Scripture. You ever come to Something in
Scripture? That you think?
Well, that's not that important you're wrong.
If it isn't included in scripture, the Holy Spirit
sought that it was very important.
In fact, it is infallible And it's important that we see this
Jesus demeanor. He looked toward Heaven, not an
unimportant detail, but a very crucial detail to understanding
everything else that we're going to see in chapter 17.
He looked toward Heaven. What does that tell us about?
Jesus reverent demeanor here during his prayer?
It tells us that he had a clear focus in his prayer.
He was focused with clarity. On his prayer and he was praying
to, he was not just casting wishes into the window.
That's so often is what our prayer life is.
We pray just casting our wishes into the wind, hoping that
somehow they make it all the way to heaven.
Presenting our wishlist to God. Hoping that it gets there.
He was not just casting his wishes into the wind.
He focused his eyes toward the father.
He focused himself toward the throne.
He was not just aimlessly throwing upwards as the pagans
do in fact, Jesus himself ridiculed people for doing that.
No, he had a purpose and a clear focus in his prayer.
He had a focus toward the father.
Why is this important because in Matthew chapter 6, when he told
his disciples? How to pray, look how he starts.
It's a lord, teach us to pray. Verse 9, this then is how you
should pray. They wanted to know how do we
pray in? Jesus said this then is how you
should pray. Our Father in heaven Hallowed Be
Your Name. Our Father in heaven.
Hallowed be your name. What did he teach them to do?
Cast your eyes to the Heavens to the father?
Jesus, demeanor in prayer here. Had a clear Focus.
For the father. He was exercising exactly what
he taught his disciples to do here.
Jesus didn't teach them. The praying to their Heavenly
Father only to somehow bypassed that in his prayer life.
No, it says he looked toward Heaven.
Why is that so important? Because that is where the Throne
of God resides. Jesus knowing full.
Well, this to be the truth. He looked toward the father with
a clear focus in the sprayer. Not only did he have a clear
focus in his prayer, he had a fervency in his prayer.
Now this is not going to be as we see.
John's 17th chapter unfold in the next few weeks.
This is not going to be a lifeless cold impasse in it
prayer. No, he is driven by fervent
passion in his prayer. To pray without passion is to
pray cold prayers. The Puritan Thomas Brooks said
this, he said cold prayers always freeze before they reach
heaven. What wisdom and insight into
that cold prayers just based from our fleshly desires or
maybe base from are a pathetic attitudes.
He says those prayers, don't even reach heaven.
Jesus did not pray with a lack of passion as we will see in
this chapter We prayed with fervency.
Not offering a cold prayer. Returns, a passionate gaze
toward the Father in heaven and reverence and in fervency James
5:16 to King James says it like this, the effectual fervent
prayers of a righteous man. Availeth much those fervent
prayers. What does that even mean?
That word at, we sieve for fervent.
Effective. You'll see it in a modern
translation that is the Greek word at where we get our English
word energy, so many times. Our prayers are dead and
lifeless weed out when we pray. You don't passionately focus on
God in our prayers. Here Jesus doing the exact
opposite of that fervent. In his prayer with great energy
and passion. We refer to these days that
we're going to see unfold toward the cross and the resurrection
as The Passion of Christ. But, you cannot be passionate in
his action, fervent in his actions unless he was first
fervent in his prayer. I would to God that every
Christian in this room here that you will only live the Christian
Life to the fervency to which you pray in your prayer closet.
You will only. Live out your passion in the
day-to-day. That you pray with in the
secret. Jesus, showing us this principle
here with a fervency in his prayer passion.
Toward the heavens toward the father, his entire demeanor as
we will see step-by-step laid out for us.
That he is passionate and not cold in his prayers.
We see Jesus fervency as our great high priest and how that
over Joy's my soul. To know that Jesus.
Dispassionate in the sprayer that we are about to discover
about to examine. His fervent in his demeanor.
He's clear and focused in his demeanor, Jesus is again,
fulfilling all of his Offices here but specifically The office
of priest. He being our Prophet, our
priest, and our King. We see him here praying, As that
great high priest would pray for those who he was making
atonement for. Next is Jesus.
Praise He reveals not only his demeanor in prayer.
But secondly, he Reveals His determination to do.
The father's will What he says next.
He looked toward heaven and he prayed father. the hour of the
time has come, You know, we've seen other instances in John's
gospel had only you remember with me and chapter 2 there at
the marriage in Cana of Galilee, there was the marriage supper
and they ran out of wine. And Jesus turned the water into
wine, but when his mother came to him, she said Jesus you've
got to do something here. This whole family is about to be
embarrassed, the party's not over and they never run out of
wine. What did Jesus say to her woman?
My hour has not yet. Come.
We see another time. At the Feast of Tabernacles in
John 7:30. But a desire to seize Jesus.
The father would not allow it why he escaped because his hour
had not yet come. We see again in John chapter 8,
verse 20, there at the temple and wanted to seize Jesus again.
They were not permitted to see him at this time, either why his
hour had not yet come, but in just a few hours here from John
17, there in the Garden of Gethsemane, they are going to
seize him only because he allowed them to do it, why?
Because his hour had come. The perfect timing and
fulfillment of the will of God had come.
And Jesus knew this, he says father the hour has come and he
is determined to in that statement to do the father's
will what a prayer? Jesus here, approaching the
father turning his eyes to heaven.
Knowing everything that is coming.
Father. The hour has come what he was
not doing, he was not giving the Father, the news that it was
time. That would be ridiculous.
Jesus was acknowledging. We're on the same page.
And I'm ready to fulfill what has been destined for me in
eternity past. The hour has come Jesus prayed,
knowing in and accepting whatever lie ahead.
Oh, we could learn so much from the Savior here in his prayers.
Lord, I don't know what lie ahead.
But I'm trusting in your will Jesus fully.
Knowing All of the terror. That just hours from then he
would inder. And he says, my hour has come my
hour has come to do your will father.
He knew the pain and the suffering that he would undergo.
He knew the ridicule in the mockery that he would face.
He knew that his beard as the prophet had proclaimed would be
ripped from his face and that his flesh would be torn from his
back and that Nails would be driven in his hands and his feet
and that a thorn crown of thorns would be pressed into his skull.
He knew all of these things. Said, it's time for this thing
the hour. Has come.
He knew the weight of sin. If he would carry the weight of
sin that he would carry, he knew that he was going to be weighted
down with the wrath of God, that belonged to the wicked Sinners
such as myself. He said the hour has come for
that. The hour has come.
That I submit to do the will of the father.
He was determined to do the will of the father, praying knowing
and accepting, what lie ahead. Why would the gun that we would
learn? That?
I would learn that we collectively could learn to
pray, whatever, lie ahead, Lord, your will be done.
The hour had come. And he would not make an
attempt. To evade that hour.
He would walk through the valley of the shadow of death. knowing
that he need not fear any evil here, he is knowing that full
well Accepting what lie ahead. Not only that Jesus prayed.
Embracing what he must do in accordance with the father's
will In accordance with the father's will in specifically
redeeming Sinners for God. The plan of the father had been
established in eternity past. Jesus was not just now getting
the memo on that. He knew the plan and he knew
that the time had come to its full fulfillment.
And that he Was embracing. Everything that the father had
planned in eternity past, he's embracing it in this prayer.
The hour has come Let It Be. Your predestined plan.
Has arrived. Acts chapter 2 Peter speaks of
this predestined plan in Chapter 2 of Acts.
Peter says this, in verse 23, this man was handed over to you,
by God said purpose. He's talking about Christ and
for knowledge for God, set purpose and foreknowledge.
That means this, it was set in eternity past through the
foreknowledge of God. He knew exactly how it was going
to play out. And you with the help of wicked
men, put him to death by nailing him, to a cross.
But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony
of death because it was impossible for death to keep
its, hold on him. Jesus embraced what the father
had willed. Even though he probably wasn't
giddy about it in his Humanity. Oh we not are and forget that
though he is fully God. He is also here in John 17,
fully man. He wasn't giddy about going to
the cross. He was determined to do.
The father's will in spite of what he had to suffer.
What he had to endure? Knowing that the father would be
faithful to do, all that he had promised Jesus prayed embracing
what he must do in accordance with the father's will in
redeeming Sinners. And I'm so thankful today that
he did Where would we be? Had Jesus run from the will of
God in regard to the cross. I can tell you where I would be,
I would be a sinner lost in my sin forever.
Condemned to already destined for hell and wrath and judgment,
were it not for Christ obediently, fulfilling the will
of God through his death burial and Resurrection Calvary.
The plan of the father that had been established was now being
enacted by Christ. Not only did he embrace it.
And accept it as the father's will in this prayer.
We're going to see he obeyed it with his actions.
He obeyed it with his actions, John 4:34.
The Lord said my food said Jesus is to do the will of him who
sent me and to finish his work. He didn't say was just to accept
it and to embrace it, he said it is also to do it.
The follow-through in the action with the plan of the father,
Isaiah 50 verse 6. The prophet writing hundreds of
years before Christ, watch what he says, I offered my back to
those who beat me my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard, I
did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.
Isaiah hundreds of years before Christ revealed the plan,
exactly what was going to happen.
Exactly what did happen. And you know what Isaiah says,
he did not hide his face from this. but instead, He offered
his back to those who beat him, he offered himself, his cheeks
to those who pulled out his beard.
He did not hide his face from mocking and spinning, he endured
this. Jesus went through this to
redeem Sinners because it was the will of the father.
He embraced the father's will and he enacted it.
I putting it into action little lesson to learn here if we're
going to pray for the father's will.
We must also be willing to do the father's will so many times
we pray the will of the father because it's a spiritual thing
to do and then when we know the will of the father because we
see it clearly in the word of God, we neglect to do it.
That's simply just words, Thomas Watson said if the heart does
not accompany Duty. It's speaking not praying.
Thomas Watson, understood this and if you're truly praying from
the heart, you will embrace the will of God and you will act it
out in the duties of the Christian Life.
Jesus is acting this out. Here he is doing What he was
predestined to do. We mustn't ever mustn't, ever
pray. The will of God and then turn
around only to disobey the will of God that is just empty
speaking, that's not prayer, prayer is saying.
Lord Reveal Your Will to me why Not simply so I can know it.
But so as your child I can obediently do your will so many
times you know the will of God but you aren't actively doing it
should not be. So Jesus gives us a different
example here that we must do all that the father has willed in
every hour of our life just as Christ did even in his hour of
suffering and death. In our prayers.
Let us pray as Jesus did. But as trust in God's
providential plan, let us be determined to do the will of God
watch this even if it contradicts your will.
I am so thankful that the will of God contradicted, my will in
Salvation. I would have never come to God.
Had he not drawn me unto himself?
we've already learned that in John's gospel hadn't, we And no
man comes unless the father draws him.
How beautiful that is when we see the truth of that.
Jesus prays here and he reveals in his prayers.
Determination to do, the father's will As he continues to
pray in this one short sentence. We also see that he Reveals His
dependency upon the father, His dependency upon the father,
watch what he says. Next father, the time has come
Glorify your son. Glorify your son.
The only Glory that Christ was interested in was to be
glorified because of his obedience to the father.
Jesus depended on the father's glory and not in His glory
alone. John chapter 8.
Verse 54. Jesus replied.
If I glorify myself. My glory means nothing.
My father whom you claim as your God, remember he was rebuking
the religious leaders there. He says is the one who glorifies
me. Well see the dependency of
Christ upon the Father. The glory of the sun was
finished and complete through the preordained work of the
cross. That the father had determined
in eternity past would come to be.
And here we see Christ accepting that and depending on to the
father to give him glory through.
It just as the father has promised that he He would Jesus
was simply trusting in the father to accomplish the plan.
That plan that he had laid out that plan that was his that men
would be redeemed and reconciled to a holy God.
So how beautiful it is to see the dependency of Jesus upon his
father? She the fathers?
Power. Displayed in his suffering
Christ depended on this. The father's power in his
suffering on the cross. He trusted the father would
glorify the sun in all of his suffering.
To take what wicked men intended for harm and to use it for the
greater good. And for the glory of God,
Hebrews chapter 2, the writer of Hebrews says this in verse 9,
but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the Angels,
that's the condescension of Christ that we talked about
before, As we sing the song All sufficient Merit Now crowned
with Glory though we saw him made a little lower than the
Angels. Now he's crowned with Glory and
Honor because he suffered death And that by the grace of God.
He might taste death. For everyone.
Now, we see him, crowned, with Glory and Honor.
Why? Because he pleased the father in
his suffering, and in his death, Well, that is so foreign for us
to even attempt to grasp that the father would be pleased in
our suffering. Yes.
In fact, we're promised in Scripture that our sufferings
our light and momentary in this world.
They are light and momentary compared to the glory that we
will receive in Christ. And oh, what hope we have in
that Glory. Father's power.
Jesus was, depending upon it here in his prayer that he could
endure the suffering of the cross that he would once again,
where the glory of that suffering.
He also depended here, as we, look at his dependency upon the
father in Paris, he says, glorify your son.
He depended in the father's presence and his abandonment.
Remember back in 1632, he told his disciples.
You're all going to abandon me, but don't worry.
The father's never going to abandon me.
He depended upon the father to do just as the father had
promised. He would do Though he was
abandoned by all of those, he knew In the Flesh in his
lifetime. Though, he was placed in a grave
and buried. He was never abandoned by his
ever-present father Peter again preaching in Acts chapter 2 in
the same sermon watch what he says he quotes the prophet David
verse 25 David said about him. He said this about the Lord, I
Saw the lord always before me because he is at my right hand
and I will not be shaken. Therefore, my heart is glad and
my tongue rejoices my body. Also will live in Hope because
you will not abandon me to the Grave.
Nor will you let your Holy One? See, Decay Jesus knew that
through David, that there was a promise that was already made in
eternity past, hit the father, would not let the sun stay in
that grave. And he depended upon the father
in his prayer here. Glorified me through my death
glorified me through my burial. Glorify me through my
resurrection trusting in the father to do that work.
Glorify your son. You trusted in the father's
presence. When all others abandon him.
Jesus trusted. The father would soon glorify
him. Price dependent on the father.
Defendant depended on the father's power in his suffering.
He depended on the father's presence and his abandonment.
And he depended upon the Father's Promise of his
resurrection from the dead Isaiah 53.
Verse 10, Isaiah being used by God.
To foretell the resurrection of Christ verse 10 is said yet.
It was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer was
God's will. We've already talked about that,
Jesus was embracing that the hour has come Glorify your son.
Though, the Lord makes his life a guilt offering.
He will see his offspring and prolong his days and the will of
the Lord will prosper in his hand.
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life
and be satisfied by his knowledge.
My righteous servant will justify many and he will bear
their iniquities there. In Isaiah's prophecy.
The Plan of Salvation is laid out that the Lord's will.
Was that the Sun be crushed? And then he suffer and that he
died. But he promised him, I'm not
going to leave you there. You suffer in your soul.
On the third day. That stone is going to be rolled
away and you are going to see the light of life and you are
going to be satisfied. Why?
Because the will of the father was accomplish It is through
Christ, that that Will was accomplished.
He trusted in the Father's Promise of his resurrection from
the dead here, as he says, glorify your son, he knows all
that that entail. Because the glory of the son is
in his suffering, it is in his death, it is in his period-- is
in his resurrection. It is in his Ascension, it is in
his soon to be returned. He knew that all of these things
had to be accomplished in the only way that they could be
accomplished. God, glorified the Sun.
Not the son seeking his own Glory.
Father, glorify. Son.
What a beautiful picture. We see there.
In a world where we so often seek to find and to achieve our
own Glory. Lord, I don't want to be
successful. In the eyes of this world.
Lord, you glorify your son. I want to be successful in your
eyes. I want to live out, the good
works, which you have prepared in advance for me to do that.
Bring you glory in this world. And on this Earth, as I live
this life, father I depend on you for any Glory that I have
and it is the glory of Christ that I share and that alone.
I tell people all the time. If you see any good in me, it is
the glory of Christ that has been graciously, granted to me,
by the father, You see Christ in me, not me.
Jesus here as he prays Reveals His dependency upon the father,
father's power in his suffering on the cross, the father's
presence and his abandonment and the Father's Promise of his
resurrection from the dead. And then lastly, as Jesus prays
revealing so much in this one little verse, He Reveals His
desire to bring, glory to the father.
What's this? He says, father, the time has
come glorify your son. and the only reason that I want to be
glorified, So that I can glorify you.
Glorify your son. That your son may glorify you.
Oh how different that is from our prayer.
Life Lord do work so I can benefit or do work so I don't
have to suffer any pain or any Agony Lords or do something.
So I have to go through any trial.
No knowing full. Well, what lie ahead, Jesus says
glorify your son so that I can bring you glory.
Oh, we could learn so much from the Heart of Jesus that is being
revealed. And just the intro to this
wonderful passage. He has here a desire to bring
glory to the father that the son may glorify you.
John chapter 12 we got a glimpse into this In this passage.
If you remember back with me verse 23 it said Jesus replied,
the hour has come for the son of man to be glorified.
He was letting his disciples know that the time is
approaching. He said I tell you the truth,
unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it
remains only a Single Seed but if it dies it produces many
seeds. How many of you here today are
thankful? That you were one of those many
seeds that because Christ fell to the ground and he died in
that. We have been produced Just seeds
unto God, the man who loves his life.
He says, we'll lose it while the man who hates his life.
In this world will keep it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me and where I am.
My servant also will be my father will honor the one who
serves me. Now, watch what Jesus says, here
in verse 27. Now, my heart is troubled.
And what shall I say? Why was his heart trouble?
He knew what was about to happen, but watch what he says.
Shall I say father, save me from this hour.
Watch what Jesus says, no. It was for this very reason.
I came to this, Our Father, glorify your name.
Then a voice Came From Heaven, I have glorified it and will
glorify it again. How is he doing this?
He was glorifying his name through the Life of Christ of
the Miracles that he wrought to the preaching that he preached.
And now he's saying I'm going to glorify it again.
Then your death, your burial and Resurrection your Ascension and
your return. I'm going to glorify your name
because in glorifying your name, my name will be glorified.
Jesus prays that in his desire is to bring glory to the father.
Where is that in the American church?
When we pray, Lord, your will be done.
So that you can receive glory and honor and praise.
Jesus understood is that the glory of the father was his
entire purpose? The father's glory is the whole
purpose of Christ. Jesus came.
He said it many times to do the will of the father who sent him.
And he did it flawlessly. Is all sufficient Merit.
Flawlessly. He did, the will of God.
So that the father would receive all of the glory.
As he praised there in verse 1 of 17 that the son may glorify
you. The father's glory is the whole
purpose of Christ. May we never forget that.
And the father's Glory. Should be the whole purpose of
all who are in Christ. You share that purpose in your
prayer. What do you pray?
So that the father may be glorified or do you like most in
the American church? Pray only.
So you can get more The whole charismatic movement that is
built on selfish, American Greed, praise that way.
Don't join their ranks. What would happen if the church
started praying? This Lord, your will be done, no
matter what that is, even if I have to suffer.
So long. As you.
Are glorified. So long as you are glorified, be
analyzed the death, be it suffering in pain.
That's how Jesus prayed here, knowing suffering and pain was
just ahead. And he says I need you father to
glorify me for one purpose and that is so I can glorify you
Lord, build the Christians up. Why build them up?
Encourage them, strengthen them not so that they can go around
arrogantly claiming to be better than anyone else know.
So they can bring glory to their Heavenly Father.
You said Kirk, why are you so passionate about this?
Because no one seems to be. That she that Jesus is. well,
that the Sun may bring Glory. To you.
The father's Glory should be our whole purpose.
Let's go back to the Reformation where we got this Latin phrase
Sola Deo Gloria. Solid Deo Gloria.
For those of you who aren't Latin students like myself, I'll
translate it as Google translated it for me.
God's glory alone. That is why we exist that is why
he's breathing life into us. That is why he has saved us
through Christ Jesus sacrifice. It is for His glory and His
glory alone. Here in a reach group and you
signed up for the five Solas, you're going to learn about all
of those things, and I'm excited for you.
You're going to see that your purpose is to glorify God.
The second London, Baptist confession of faith and 1689.
The long with the Westminster Confession of Faith.
You've heard me mention them and you go to our website.
You will see that the London, Baptist confession of faith of
1689 is on our website. And both of those confessions of
faith. Both of them agree.
But the chief end of man man's entire purpose.
It's to bring glory to God. To enjoy fellowship with him
forever. That's what we were created to
do and it is in Christ that we are recreated so that we can do
this. But so many times Our prayers
are just words hoping that God will hear them so that we can
get what we want. I would challenge every
Christian in the room as I challenge myself with the
statement. What would happen?
if you said, Lord take away, Everything in my life, that is
not Christ. And let me glorify you through
that. Oh, the American Church would
never. Pray, such a radical thing,
would they? We see the one that we claim to
follow here, the Lord Jesus. Pray exactly that.
I know all my friends are going to abandon me.
I know that they're going to disown me, those who have spent
the last years of my life pouring into I know that the
people of Israel, my people. Have arranged this whole thing
that one of my own has betrayed me and committed treason against
God and flat. I know.
That Roman soldiers. Her just doing what they are
told to do. You're going to beat me.
And torture me. And eventually kill me.
But Lord. If it brings you glory, father.
So let it be. Oh, how the Sun brought glory to
the father? We see his desire in prayer to
do. That Jesus wasn't running from
the cross. Each moment he was taking
another step toward it. You know, how thankful I am for
that? What do we do with this?
What do we do with what this reveals about, Jesus, and his
prayer life. What can we take away from this?
I'll tell you what we can do. We can examine our lives in
light of this opening, to this great prayer that we're going to
see made by Jesus, and we can examine ourselves in light of
this by asking a few questions. If you questions that are
related to this one verse, I'm going to make a huge assumption
here, though. I know that I are in doing
those. Assuming that we are all
believers here. We can ask ourselves these
question. Number one is my demeanor in
prayer like that of Christ. Do I lift my eyes to my heavenly
father? Very my prayer life.
Am I so focused on all of my Earthly concerns that I really
give him no regard unhappy when he gives me what I want but I'm
upset when he doesn't. Is my demeanor in prayer like
that of Christ. Is my determination in prayer to
know and to do the father's will as Christ.
Did the father's will is that a part of my prayer life to know
the will of God and to do the will of God 43.
Do my prayers. Indicate my dependency upon the
father. When you pray, you depending
upon the father Are you trying to alter the father's mind so
that he does? What you will and what you
desire? Are you asking the father to
depend upon your want list as if he's Santa Claus and you're
making out a Christmas list to send to him, hoping that you get
everything that you want and being upset when you don't, How
about we take Jesus example? See that in his prayers.
He depended upon the father. Are you trusting the father with
everything everything in this life, everything in the Life to
Come. Are you solely dependent upon
him? Then ask yourself this question.
Does my prayer life reveal that my greatest desire?
Is the glory of God. Does my prayer lives reveal
that? My greatest desire is the glory
of God and no glory of my own. Oh, I can only answer those
questions for myself. I would ask that you would
examine yourself and ask yourself those questions or
perhaps? unfortunately, you have to say,
Prayer life. I can't tell you the last time I
actually took out of my busy schedule.
To get on my face and get alone with God In Prayer.
I don't say that to beat any of you up.
I say that because to miss out, on the intimacy of prayer that
Jesus died for you to have is to Forfeit one of the greatest
blessings that we have here on this Earth.
Again. Christian will only be as strong
as his prayer life. Don't be deceived by all of the
lies that contradict that You can have all the talent in the
world. You can have all of the
giftedness in the world, but if you do not spend time in private
prayer with God, You're missing out on the greatest, blessing
and fellowship. You could ever even begin to
imagine. So assuming that you're a
Believer here today, ask yourself those questions.
But perhaps you're here today and you're not a Believer, I
would encourage you. To turn it to Day from your sin.
And to turn to Christ as Lord, and Savior by faith.
Trusting in Him and him alone. And what he did for you.
At the cross. What did he do for you at the
cross? He died in the place of every
Wicked sinner, who would believe, and trust that he is
Lord and Savior today. When he draws you unto himself
drawing you out of sin drawing, you out of the deceit of
Darkness drawing. You out of the wickedness of
this world. Believe and trust in him and his
ability to save you and to save you forever more and you shall
be saved call on the name of Jesus today.
The scripture is true and it says, for whosoever, shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
You say today. Well I don't know that I need to
call upon the name of the Lord. Then the Lord is not drawing you
unto himself. Because if he were revealing
your condition and drawing you unto himself, you would want to
call on the name of the Lord. You would see how desperate you
are and how depraved you are in your sin and how a need.
You are of a savior and if he is showing you that today, and he
is drawing you unto himself. Cry out to Jesus today, to save
you and to wash you and to cleanse you from all of your
sin, because he is the only hope that you have. he saved today,
as you, believe in you trust in Christ, and as you repent of
your sin, because it is then and only then, You can know the will
of God. and that you can pray true prayers and that you can
live out God's plan and that you can see the glory of God
displayed in your life and so that you can bring glory to God
with your life. You don't know Christ, run to
him today and faith and repentance and be saved if you
do know Christ. Be challenged by our wonderful
savior. With one sentence today.
And see his heart revealed. Let's pray together.
Father, in the name of Jesus, we come to you now.
Thanking you so much for this one verse.
That reveals so much about you Lord, Jesus.
May we see your prayers? May we pray with the same
consistency in fervor. Determination and passion.
May we have the same heart for the will of the father as you
do. And I pray for the soul who's
here, who does not know you that today?
They not let this day slip by. That today.
It would repent of their sin. And turn to you as Lord, and
Savior, and be forgiven and granted eternal life.
As you've died for them to have. We give you all the glory and
all the praise. Holy Spirit, we yield to you
now, in the name of Jesus, we pray.
Amen. Thank you for listening to the
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