Sermon Notes
12-20-2009 Jesus' Prayer part 2
John 17 is filled with the prayer that Jesus prayed! It is filled with much revelation about Jesus and the will of God the Father! The heartbeat of God is expressed!
John 17:4 "I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. 5 "And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
Jesus has come to the end of His earthly ministry here in John 17. Jesus through out His ministry brought glory to the Father! What does the religious word “glory” mean? To make manifest and show off the awesome beauty of God! When Jesus says He glorified the Father he is speaking of making clear who the Father is! True intimacy with God is what true salvation is! Every time Jesus healed the sick, or opened blinded eyes, or cast out demon spirits He was making clear the will and heart of the Father. When Jesus raised a widow woman son to life you were seeing the heart of the Father! Jesus came to set His people free from sin! He who the Son sets free is free indeed!
Some deny that Jesus existed before He came in bodily flesh; however John 17:5 refutes this error of doctrine! Jesus was the Son before He robed Himself in flesh.
Colossians 1:15 He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
Jesus had glorified the Father and prays to be restored to the glory He had before He robed Himself in flesh. The Father not only glorified Jesus but He exalted the Name of Jesus above every name. The Father not only heard Jesus prayer but answered it in very awesome fashion!
Philippians 2:9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
There is only one high exalted name where by men can be saved! It is exclusively in Jesus Christ and no where else! There is not a single exception to this truth! The Father exalted the name of Jesus and exalted Him above all!
The name of Jesus being exalted is to the glory of God the Father! An exclusive trust in the precious name of Jesus is the only way and there is no other way!
1 John 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 John 5:1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.
The Father surely exalted and glorified Jesus, just as Jesus requested in John 17:5
1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
Much false doctrine abide in the church today! Salvation is of Jesus Christ and there is no other source for salvation! If the object of your faith is in Jesus and the work he did at the cross salvation is yours. This is the exclusive doctrine that glorifies the Father and the Son! There is absolutely no other way to made right with God but faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!
1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. 18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
If anyone is preaching salvation outside the cross in anyway, they are preaching a perverted gospel! Behold the Lamb of God (Jesus) that takes away the sin of the world! The Father chose to glorify Jesus by the way of the cross! Your exclusive trust in the work Jesus did at the cross brings you righteousness (right relationship with God). There is no other way of righteousness; any other way preached is a perverted gospel! The message of the cross is the power of God unto salvation! There is no other way!
John17:6 "I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7 "Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. 8 "For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me.
There is no greater authority than the voice of Jesus! Yet many still reject His voice! Jesus is the Messiah, the Only One sent from the Father to provide salvation. All voices that don’t point to Jesus as the exclusive way are false teachers and liars!
Hebrews 1:1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Purging from sins is found exclusively in Jesus and there is no other way to be purged from sin!! What you think of Jesus Christ determines your destiny.
John 6:27 "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him." 28 Then they said to Him, "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?" 29 Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."
Acts 4:7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, "By what power or by what name have you done this?" 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: 9 "If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, 10 "let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. 11 "This is the 'stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.' 12 "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
The object of your faith must be Jesus Christ the crucified one being the one who brings salvation; salvation is exclusively in His name and there is no other way! Jesus’ prayer to the Father was very clear!
John 17:8 "For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me.
Jesus felt his earthly ministry was fulfilled because the people the Father had given Him received the words that He spoke and they believed that the Father had indeed sent Him! Faith in the exclusiveness of Jesus is the only way, and for this purpose Christ has come and has glorified the Father! Now the Father has glorified the Son!
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