9 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
It’s amazing that Jesus prays for His own here. And notice He says He’s not praying for the world here. There is a particular, special, and sovereign love Christ has believers. God gave them to Jesus. God elected them. God gave them to Jesus and they are His. And Jesus is glorified in them. He is made much of among these, His own. Jesus says He is glorified in them.
Jesus prays for them in a special way for the Holy Father to keep them in His Name. This is a prayer that believers will be kept or protected in the God’s name. Jesus says that He Himself protected His disciples in God’s name while He lived among them. Meaning, Jesus represented the name of God before them. He perfectly displayed God to His own and that sight of seeing the glory of God in the face of Jesus is what protected His disciples. And this sight of the glory of God in Christ is what protects believers now.
What do you need today in the face of oppression, opposition, trouble, or whatever? Jesus prays for your protection believer, and that protection comes from seeing the glory of Christ. And this is a supernatural work of the Spirit. The Spirit opens the eyes of the heart, enlightens the eyes of the heart, reveals Christ to the heart, through the Word as we saw in John 14–16. Now Jesus prays this happen and you believer be protected by that glorious sight!
This sight of the glory of God in Christ is what will keep you to the end believer. This is what Christ prayed for and prays for even now I believe. Would you pray this other Christians in your life, those who live among persecuted areas, and pray this for me? That we all would be protected as Jesus prayed?
John 17:9-12
John 17:9–12
9 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. 12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
It’s amazing that Jesus prays for His own here. And notice He says He’s not praying for the world here. There is a particular, special, and sovereign love Christ has believers. God gave them to Jesus. God elected them. God gave them to Jesus and they are His. And Jesus is glorified in them. He is made much of among these, His own. Jesus says He is glorified in them.
Jesus prays for them in a special way for the Holy Father to keep them in His Name. This is a prayer that believers will be kept or protected in the God’s name. Jesus says that He Himself protected His disciples in God’s name while He lived among them. Meaning, Jesus represented the name of God before them. He perfectly displayed God to His own and that sight of seeing the glory of God in the face of Jesus is what protected His disciples. And this sight of the glory of God in Christ is what protects believers now.
What do you need today in the face of oppression, opposition, trouble, or whatever? Jesus prays for your protection believer, and that protection comes from seeing the glory of Christ. And this is a supernatural work of the Spirit. The Spirit opens the eyes of the heart, enlightens the eyes of the heart, reveals Christ to the heart, through the Word as we saw in John 14–16. Now Jesus prays this happen and you believer be protected by that glorious sight!
This sight of the glory of God in Christ is what will keep you to the end believer. This is what Christ prayed for and prays for even now I believe. Would you pray this other Christians in your life, those who live among persecuted areas, and pray this for me? That we all would be protected as Jesus prayed?