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(John 17:4-5)
I. Introduction.
A. Orientation.
Last week, we began to look
At the longest recorded prayer
Jesus made for the church.
As the priest was appointed by God
To sacrifice and to pray for His people
To reconcile them to Himself,
So Jesus
As He was preparing to sacrifice Himself
To take away our sins forever
Prayed.
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With the Father and the Son
A relationship
In which we are bound together
With the Father and the Son in love
By the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
B. Preview.
Having now prayed for the strength
To do the work necessary
To bring us
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His people, His reward
To glory,
Jesus now turns His attention
To another aspect of the reward
That was promised Him by the Father:
That He might be glorified with Him.
II. Sermon.
A. First, Jesus argues that He had met the condition of the reward.
He says in verse 4, I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work
which You have given Me to do.
1. Again, we see here
That there was an agreement
Between Father and the Son
Before Jesus came into the world
He came into the world
To do a particular work.
This agreement actually included
All three Persons of the Godhead.
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Was to reveal His glory
All of His glory,
Particularly that of His justice and grace
Through all that Hes done.
Thats what the creation is all about:
Its the stage on which
The drama of redemption would be acted out.
Thats why He created man,
Why He allowed the Fall,
Why He chose to have mercy on some,
And why He passed over others
And left them in their sins.
The world doesnt exist for man,
But for Gods glory.
In His prayer,
Jesus tells the Father that He did His part
He held up His end of the bargain, so to speak.
Notice He uses the past tense in verse 4,
As though Hes already finished it:
I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have
given Me to do.
He means by this either
That He had done everything
He needed to do up to that point,
Or that He was so certain to finish it
Because He had prayed
And asked the Father
To give Him the strength to finish it,
And was certain the Father would answer that prayer
That He already considered it to be done.
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2. Application:
Jesus wasnt the only One
Who had a job to do in Gods plan:
That plan also includes all of us
He redeemed us for a special purpose,
Actually, for several reasons:
a. That we might be the trophies of His grace
He intends to put us on display
For the rest of time
As the monuments of His love.
b. That we might become like His Son
Jesus reward is that He might be
The First-born among many brethren (Rom. 8:29).
c. And that we might have the high privilege
Of bringing the message of what Hes done to save mankind
To as many as possible.
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Especially when we ask for the strength
To do what He saved us to do
That we can know we have it as soon as we ask.
B. Now, on the basis of the condition met, Jesus prays that the Father would give Him
what He promised: the glory He had with Him from eternity.
Jesus says in verse 5, Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the
glory which I had with You before the world was.
1. Jesus reward was not only to receive a people,
But also glory.
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Its a glory that Jesus had before with the Father:
He says, With the glory I had with You.
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Jesus didnt give up anything
When He became a man
He didnt strip Himself of His divinity
Or of any of His attributes
He gained something:
He took to Himself a human nature,
As we saw earlier in Philippians 2:6-7, 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.
His emptying was an addition,
Not a subtraction
The addition of a nature
That was infinitely below Him.
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Such as what He did on the Mount of Transfiguration
When He pulled back the veil
And revealed something of His glory.
The author to the Hebrews write in 10:19-22, Therefore, brethren, since we
have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and
living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,
and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with
a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean
from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
2. Application:
The Lord has promised glory to us as well
Not the same glory Jesus was to receive,
But still a reward for the work we do for Him.
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And a crown of glory (1 Pet. 5:4);
Its represented as a visible brilliance:
Daniel writes, Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of
the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the
stars forever and ever (Dan. 12:3);
As gold, silver and precious stones (1 Cor. 3:12),
Or simply as glory:
Paul writes in Romans 2:6-7 that God, WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON
ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS: to those who by perseverance in doing
good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life.
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