Christ's High Priestly Prayer
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A Love Story Beyond Time
There are many stories that have been called "the greatest love story of all time.” However, the greatest love story of all time is a....
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Christ Makes Known the Father’s Name
At the closing of Christ’s intercession, He returns to the theme with which He opened His prayer for....
Knowing the Father By the Son
In John 17:25, Jesus says that the world does not know the the Righteous Father but He knows....
The World Doesn't Know the Father
In Christ’s High Priestly Prayer, He distinguishes sharply between the world and those the....
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Children of the Righteous Father
In John 17:25, Jesus addresses God as “‘Righteous Father.” In Scripture, the Father/Son dynamic has more to....
O Righteous Father
At the end the prayer in John 17, Jesus, who always addressed God as “Father,” refers to Him as “Righteous Father.” This is the only....
For God So Loved
When you hear the phrase, “For God so loved,” your mind likely goes to John 3:16. However, if we understanding the....
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The Fount of Eternal Love
God’s love for His people does not originate with anything within them, nor in....
Do I Want What Christ Wants
In John 17:24, we see the heart of our Savior. He desires that we might be....
From Creation to Consummation
Jesus' High Priestly Prayer begins with God’s glory before the foundation of the world and ends with....
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The Beatific Vision Part 3
1 John 3:2 we find that seeing God as He is will be the final step in our transformation into the....
The Beatific Vision Part 1
The greatest blessing and the highest good of the Christian is not our....
Christ's Desire for His People
In John 17:24, Jesus makes His will known to the Father. Christ is not content to....
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Loved that We Might Love
In John 17, we learn that the Father loves us to the same degree that He loves Christ. Jesus had....
Loved as the Father Loves Christ
At the end of John 17:23, Jesus makes an astounding statement. The Father loved His people even as....
That the World May Know
The redemption that unites us with the Godhead and makes us one with the body of Christ witnesses to....
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That We May Become Perfectly One
In redemption, we are united with the Triune God through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit made possible by the atoning work of Christ. We are....
I in Them and You in Me
In John 17:22-23, Jesus says that He has given us the glory that the Father gave Him that we may....
Created to Reflect God’s Glory
God’s glory refers to His weighty and substantial character from which His righteous purpose arises. In....
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Glory Given that We May Be One
In John 17:22, Jesus says that He has given the glory that the Father gave Him that we may be one. This glory is....
Maintaining Our Unity
While God has made us one in Christ and our oneness will be perfected when Christ returns, in the present age, we are called to....
Unity, Liberty and Love
Christ prays that His people be one. Given the diversity of belief and traditions among Christians today, in what way is....
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One that the World May Believe
Everything God ordains is for His glory. It is no different with the unity of the saints. Despite the focus of many modern ecumenical movements, our....
The Triune God Makes Us One
As Christ prays for our unity in John 17, it is the work of God, not the ingenuity of man that brings us into oneness. Paul confirms this in....
The Model for Our Oneness
In Christ’s High Priestly Prayer, the model for our oneness is the oneness of the Father and the Son. Our oneness is....
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The Nature of Our Oneness
The oneness for which Christ prays is not the organizational unity contrived by man. It is the....
Guarding Our Oneness
The world and even many so-called Christians are pressuring the church to accommodate the “new morality” of this age....
The Limits of Our Oneness
In John 17, Christ prays for the oneness, not of the world but of His people. Throughout Christ’s prayer, He distinguished between....
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The Breadth of Our Oneness
The oneness of Christians, both with the Triune God and one another, is very important to Jesus. Our Lord states this as....
The Wonder of Our Oneness
In John 17, Christ prays that we all may be one as He and the Father are one. Human beings....
Believing through Their Word
Christ’s High Priestly Prayer, He prays for all who will believe through “their word” (the word of the Apostles). The word of....
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For Those Who Will Believe
In the final paragraph of Christ’s High Priestly Prayer, Jesus broadens the scope of His intercessory prayer to include....
Jesus Sanctified Himself for Us
After Christ asks the Father to sanctify us in the truth he says, “for their sake I consecrate myself that....
Sent Back into the World
In John 17:18, Jesus says that, as the Father sent Him into the world, He sends His....
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Sanctify Them in Your Truth Pt. 4
God sanctifies us in the truth and the truth is His Word. The process of sanctification is growing in grace so that....
Sanctify Them in Your Truth Pt. 3
In John 17:17, Christ asks the Father to sanctify us in the truth. However, Scripture commands us to....
Sanctify Them in Your Truth Pt. 2
Sanctification is the process by which creation is made holy in relation to the innately Holy God. This sanctification takes place as....
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Sanctify Them in Your Truth Pt. 2
Sanctification is the process by which creation is made holy in relation to the innately Holy God. This sanctification takes place as....
Holy Father, Sanctify Them
In Christ’s prayer, He asks the Father to keep the disciples in His name but not to take them out of the world that hates them. God has a....
Your Word is Truth
In John 17, Jesus prays, “Father, sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” Despite the relativism of this world, “the truth” is....
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Kept from the Evil One
In Christ’s High Priestly Prayer, He says that the world hates His people but He is not asking the Father to take us out of the world, but that....
Kept in the World
In Christ’s prayer, He asks the Father to keep the disciples in His name but not to take them out of the world that hates them. God has a....
Hated by the World
In Christ’s prayer, He says that the world hates His followers because they are not of the world just as Jesus is not of....
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Unconquerable Joy
In Christ’s High Priestly prayer, we find that He has given us His Word that His joy might be complete in us. Immediately following this....
Sharing in Christ’s Joy
In Christ’s intercession, He prays that the disciples would have “His" joy fulfilled in them. Christ’s joy was....
That They May Be One
As Jesus prays for His disciples, He says, “Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you gave to me, that they....
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Keep Them in Your Name
In John 17:11, while Jesus prays for His disciples, He says, “Holy Father, keep them in your name.” To be kept in....
A Grand Tapestry of Prayer
Christ’s High Priestly Prayer in John 17 is unique. It is a prayer only He could pray. However, there are lessons to be learned from....
Holy Father, Keep Them
While Christ was on earth, He kept His own safe. But as He prepared to go to the cross, He prayed, “Holy Father, keep them in....
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Jesus Prays for His Own
In John 17, Christ says He does not pray for the world (the mass of fallen humanity as it organizes itself against God) but for those....
Revealed Through Divine Words
We live in a culture that prefers icons over words and experience over written witness. However, as Christ’s prayer in....
The People You Gave Me
Christ’s prayer in John 17 reveals that all glory belongs to God for salvation is of the Lord. It is the purpose of the Father, accomplished by....
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God’s Glory, Name, & Covenants
In John 17:6, Jesus says He has revealed the Father’s name to the people given to Him out of the world. This is essentially the same as....
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The Covenant of Redemption
In the first 5 verses of John 17, as Jesus is praying to the Father, we see a condensed version of the unfolding of the Covenant of Redemption. This covenant was....
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What is Eternal Life?
In Christ’s prayer (John 17:3) our Lord says, “This is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom....
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God's Glory & Eternal Life
In Christ’s high priestly prayer we see that the Father’s glorification of Jesus in the cross results in all authority being given to....
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Zeal for the Father’s Glory
Christ prays that the Father would glorify Him (in the cross) because that would glorify the Father. A biblical definition of glory is....
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The Glory of the Father & the Son
John 17 contains the longest and most expansive of Christ’s prayers recorded in Scripture. Jesus prays not only for....
Speaker
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Stan McGehee, Jr.
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