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| 11/03/2012 recording date. audio/video is 11 minutes takes a few minutes to load so be patient please. Or just read ahead. Also the following week it is air on utube on turtle30cshell channel. Just type in website name when you got to utube. Christ Prayed For Those That Believed Coming live from turtle30cshell.com, I am your host Christina Farris. I am talking today about Jesus praying in the garden before his death for you, for me, for his disciples and most of all Himself. In Christ humanity though He be God’s only begotten Son, He demonstrates how we ought to commune or pray for others including our own needs. The compassion of Christ knowing He was going to the cross is remarkable for us. To love us knowing we all would nail Him to that tree for our sin. All of us would be guilty for doing so. We nail Him each time we believe not God’s word, use God’s word in vain. Misuse God’ s word to glorify ourselves. Christ is the word of God according to John 1:1. And when we think about it Christ being in the flesh, born of virgin, named Jesus. Born to die at Calvary, yet born to live eternally as He always had to show the victory over the grave. The victory over sin of killing the word of God. Yet God can raise up the Word again. Christ demonstrates this through His death and resurrection. All for the purpose of glorifying the Father. Let us go to garden where Christ prayed for his disciples, the world and Himself. John 17:1-26 KJV (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. (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. (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. (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. (17) Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (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. (20) Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; (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. (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. (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. Word of God brings life to all men, women, boy and girl. It brings spiritual by belief in Jesus. Even if you never heard of Jesus in the flesh, you either believe the word of God or you do not. Most people fail to grasp what faith is all about. It is both spiritual and physical in the flesh. Meaning Christ is both spiritual and fleshly. What God speaks is truth, Christ is truth in the flesh. He is the Spirit of Prophesy foretold by the saints in the Old Testament, fullfiled in the New Testament, yet He always was and is on the right hand of the Father, yet He was and is the sacrifical Lamb in the center of the throne in Revelations who is worthy to open the seven seals. Christ judgment is coming. Yet here in the garden we see Christ praying for each of us. For His disciples. Those that follow Him, that they be united as one, as He and His Father were united. Are we united by the spirit of truth the Holy Spirit living in each believers heart. The word written on our heart that says we are His child. We all make mistakes, we all fail, but the one thing that unites his children is the word of God who is Jesus. Belief in Christ and seal of the Holy Spirit that comforts our hearts while we are absent from the Lord. Christ prayed for not just our unity, but the struggles we would have. Prayed that we be kept from evil. That we would be sanctified. Sanctification begins when one is saved. We are completely cleansed upon salvation from all our sins. However we often need our feet washed from the road dirt in life. The world taints and tempts us. Yet God’s grace is sufficient to those that trust in Him. The word renewing us daily, weekly and yearly upon the hearing of it. But it more then that, it first step of belief and God begins to change us through His word. Christ prayed for the keeping of our soul. Paul said: 2 Timothy 1:12-14 KJV (12) For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. (13) Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. (14) That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us. Though God is able to keep what we commit our hearts to Him, He does not force it. That why the sanctification must continue in our life. For we slip and fall not meaning to or in simple teen like rebellion to the yoke and bridle God places on us. Though His burden be light, we often get muddy by sin of flesh, by our human nature, for we are ourselves are not God. Yet as a believer we sin not against God in unbelief, but believe until the day of redeemption, for the Holy Spirit speaks to our hearts of the truth of God. It takes faith to believe and a continuing growing in faith to learn to trust God even daily. Next week we will be speaking on the son of perdition and the betrayal of Christ. We have not over looked the reference in this chapter but has postponed it. |
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