"The Lord's Prayer" by Mike Vestal

Equipped Workshop hosted by Lehman Avenue church of Christ

April 21, 2024 - Sunday 9:30AM Auditorium Speaker

Speaker: Mike Vestal

John 17 -

The High Priestly Prayer

17 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. 8 For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 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. 13 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

"The Lord's Prayer" - Best prayer ever prayed.

Jesus is praying - His hour had come - John 12:23-27; John 13:1, John 17:1

"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"

Prayer is how Jesus steered his life while he was on earth. Prayer is measured by its length, but its depth and breadth.

• John 17:1-5 - Glory. The glory of God should be at the forefront of your prayers.
• v6-12 - Security. To be kept by God. To keep God's word.
• v12-19 - Sanctity. Holiness / godly character. - John 17:17.
• v20-23 - Unity.
• v24-26 - Eternity.

• v1-5 - Jesus prays for himself
• v6-19 - Jesus prays for the apostles.
• v20-26 - Jesus prays for those who will believe the word.

The setting of the prayer - Jesus looked up.

He had been waiting for this.

He addresses God as his father - unique relationship.

John 17:3,4 - The Lord wrote his own epitaph. This verse is who Jesus is.

John 19:30 - "It is finished"

John 17:5; Gal 6:14-17; Gal 3:13; Eph 3:20-21; The church glorifies God in Jesus. Luke 24:26

Jesus prays for the apostles. Jesus told God that they have kept his word. Then he committed them to God's car.

Sanctity / Holiness: Heb 12:14; 2 Cor 7:1; Jesus prays that the apostles be sanctified and holy.

The world. "Isolation is not an option" and neither is accommodation.

We need to have a biblical theology of the engagement - a mission.

• Our mission is to glorify God, to tell others and to strengthen others.

Jesus prays for those who would believe - (v20-26)

• Jesus was praying for and thinking of us.
• A healthy harmonious relationship with God is possible in Christ.

What brings people together.

• A great and awesome God. - (v26)
• The love within the Godhead is a love that's shared with us.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2bv3d9JVz4

Duration 38:02