Today in John 17 we will hear the real Lord’s Prayer. This is Jesus praying to the Father on our behalf. There are three great intercessors in Gods’ word. Moses, Samuel, and the greatest, Jesus right now. Let’s get started, I won’t interrupt Jesus, well not that much. John 17 and verse 1 reads.
John 17:1] These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
[2] As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
[3] And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and you will have eternal, everlasting, life. It is that simple.
John 17:4] I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
[5] And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
[6] I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
[7] Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
[8] For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
[9] I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
Knowing the difference between the tares and the wheat (Mat.13) is so important at this time. Jesus just said he will not lose one of His, but that he did not come for the tares, of that wicked one. The Serpents seed.
John 17:10] And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
[11] And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
[12] While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
Eze.28, that son of perdition is Satan.
John 17:13] And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
[14] 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.
[15] I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
[16] They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
To love this world is to hate the Lord. We are not of this world, look around, it is an evil world.
John 17:17] Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
The Word of God is the truth. We will be sanctified through reading his word.
John 17:18] As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
[19] And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
Truth is his word.
John 17:20] Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
John 3:16.
John 17:21] That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
[22] And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
[23] I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
With his love for all of us, he sent us the Comforter. The Holy Spirit is God the Father and the Son as one within us.
John 17:24] Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Yes, this word “foundation” is G2602 in the Strongs’, and is “Katabole” in the Greek. And it means the overthrow of Satan in the first earth age. Also, catch him using the LORD’s holy name, “I am”. The two are One.
John 17:25] O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
[26] And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
What a beautiful prayer from Jesus to our Father on our behalf. So simple to understand what matters and what doesn’t, to know, that the Father sent the Son into this world to save that which is His. Not all are meant to be saved, but those only that believe on Him. Let’s go to 2Peter and read verse 9.
2Pet.3:9] The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
The Lord doesn’t want anyone to go into perdition. He wants us to come to repentance. Believe on Jesus and ask for repentance of our sins, it is that easy. Let’s go to his throne.
Father, we thank you for your word and ask that you bless all that love you in Jesus’s precious name, Amen.
KJV along with The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible