02-03-2019 – Jesus Prays for All Who Will Believe in Him

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02-03-2019 - Jesus Prays for All Who Will Believe in Him

John 17:20-26

Read John 17:20-21... Jesus prays for all who will be filled with God’s Spirit, being made as one, placed into the body of Christ (see 1Corinthians 12:13).
Read John 17:22-23... The Father and Son are in total unity; believers are to be unity (see Ephesians 4:4-6).
The Father in the Son, the Son in us, and we in Him (cf. 2Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 2:20).
Jesus said (John 14:21), “he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him,” (verse 23), “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our [home] with him.”
Look again at John 17:23... The Father loves us as He loves His own Son. We are a gift to the Son, He is actually a gift to us (cf. Romans 5:8; 6:23).
Read John 17:24... In heaven we will see the Son of God unveiled in all His glory (Matthew 17:1-2), “Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light.” 1Corinthians 13:12, “ For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.”
Our experience will be like the Apostle John’s (Revelation 5:11), “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing,” (verse 13), “To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.”
Read John 17:25-26... Most in the world do not know the Father, because they do not know the Son.
John 3:18, “He who believes in [the Son] is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” 36, “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”
True believers of Jesus Christ are witnesses of to the world, as Jesus told them (Acts 1:8), “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”
Jesus made the Father known (see John 1:1-2). “Word” [Logos] means God fully expressed. Jesus is God’s revelation of Himself to the world.
John tells us the Word was in the beginning, the Word was with God [face to face], personal relationship with God the Father before anything was created.
John 1:14, “The Word became flesh and made “His” dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth,” 18, “No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.”
John 14:6-7, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.” 9, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father.”
Paul proclaims (Colossians 2:9), “in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form.” Hebrews 1:3 declares, “[Christ] is the radiance of [God’s] glory and the exact representation of His nature.”
Do you belong to Christ? Saved from sin’s penalty? Christ lives in you, if your faith is indeed genuine
(2Corinthians 13:5), “Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test.”
Luke 10:27, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and [love] your neighbor as yourself.”
See 1John 5:11-13; Mark 1:15, 17; 1Corinthians 15:1-4; Romans 10:9-10...
Hebrews 4:16, “Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in [our] time of need.”