Sermons about John 1715 1716 (2024)

FAQs

What does glorify mean in John 17 1 5? ›

Part of glorifying God is obedience to His will, and perseverance in difficult circ*mstances. What Jesus is about to experience will give glory to God, in that usual sense, by demonstrating humility and submission. It will also bring immense glory to God as the pivot point of salvation by grace through faith.

Jesus asks that he will be glorified in this hour so that the Father will be glorified. The events that are about to happen are to be for the Father's glory. But it is amazing how Jesus is going to be glorified. Jesus' glory was not something personal or selfish.

Jesus Prayed For Our Safety From the Evil One

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. —John 17:14–15 Jesus recognizes that the world is set against the kingdom. There are no illusions that the disciples will be able to avoid hardship and persecution.

These verses speak to the Christian's position in the world today. God never intended to remove us from in the world, but to protect while we are in the world. Because our citizenship is in heaven (Philippians 3:20-21), we will never feel completely at home in the world.

To glorify God is to mirror His image, which is to love, and to love generously, as He does. No one can glorify God as perfectly as Christ did, which is why we are in need of His mercy, but to believe in Jesus is to believe not only what He did for us but in the wisdom of the life that He modeled for us.

Jesus' prayer for His glorification is also a prayer for His humanity to share fully in the divine glory. As the incarnate Mediator between God and humanity, He asks to be glorified in both His divine nature and in His human nature.

The gospel links glorification to the process that culminates in the crucifixion. And this brings us back to John 17, where Jesus says that he has glorified God on earth by finishing the works that God gave him to do.

Intimacy and unity. Jesus came to reveal that as God's sole intention, to model that unity, to complete that unity. Jesus glorified God by completing the works God sent him to do. The baton gets passed in the same way, of course, from Jesus to believers who will do greater works than Jesus.

In this passage, known as the High Priestly Prayer, Jesus speaks to God about three main topics. First is Christ Himself, asking God the Father to glorify Him so He can glorify the Father. Next, Jesus prays for the faith and courage in His closest disciples.

Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

What is the only prayer that Jesus taught us? ›

“He said to them, 'When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come Give us each day our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation. '”

Sermon Breakdown

It shows us our need for grace. Grace and truth came through the person of Jesus Christ, not just His teaching. Christianity is centered on Christ himself. The word "came" in John 1:17 emphasizes that grace and truth came in the person of Christ, who came from heaven to earth.

Christ only prays that while they are in the world, employed in the work of the ministry, they may be preserved from the influence, του πονηρου, of the evil one, the devil, who had lately entered into Judas, John 13:27, and who would endeavour to enter into them, ruin their souls, and destroy their work.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on John 17:15-18

Christ does not pray that they might be rich and great in the world, but that they might be kept from sin, strengthened for their duty, and brought safe to heaven. The prosperity of the soul is the best prosperity.

As Jesus prayed in John 17:14, He made a profound statement. He said, “I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.” This statement proclaims how Jesus Christ transformed His disciples by giving them God's word.

This study provides an exegetical analysis of John 17:20–23 in an attempt to define glory and explain how its granting enables unity and witness. I argue that glory in John 17:22 is both the radiance of God's character and the status of being children of God.

Instead, it is suggested that the concept of “glorification” of the Son of God in John's gospel is a complex idea, and that the best way of summing up what it means is that it refers to the whole sequence of events whereby the Lord Jesus is crucified, rises from the dead, ascends to be with the Father in glory, and ...

: to make glorious by bestowing honor, praise, or admiration. b. : to elevate to celestial glory.