Sermon Notes
1-3-2010 Jesus Prayer part 4
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 17:16 "They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
When one comes into covenant with God they are no longer their own. No longer of this world!
Colossians 1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
There has been a transfer out of the darkness into the kingdom of Jesus Christ! Some claim salvation but have never left the darkness and come into the light. If there has been no supernatural transformation there has been no salvation! To know if one is saved or not is not difficult, just allow oneself to be held up to the light of the Word of God. I would that every believer would examine himself to see if he is in the faith!
1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
Hebrews 11:10 for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude; innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland.
Do you confess that you are a stranger and pilgrim here on earth? Are you still seeking a homeland? I believe in Bible homeland security! Are you looking for the city whose builder and maker is God! If your relationship with God is to get all you can here on earth, and causes you to seek for earthly things perhaps you have never been born again! True Bible salvation has your hope built on the glorious return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! If your hope is in the here and now the object of your faith has been misplaced! Jesus and His atoning work on Calvary is the only way to be made right with God. The object of your faith must be in Jesus the Messiah exclusively!
1 Corinthians 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For "the two," He says, "shall become one flesh." 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
True salvation means you belong to God lock stock and barrel! Those who can continue in sin without the correction of God are not the children of God! The grace of God teaches us to deny ungodliness.
1 Peter 1:22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,
Believers do not belong to this world because they have been born of incorruptible seed!! Oh the great work of Christ to make you not belong to this world but make you a part of the kingdom of God . Without the Spirit we could not obey the truth.
John 17:17 "Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
The prayer of Jesus has been answered by the Father!
Hebrews 10:9 then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
The scriptures teach us a once for all sanctification! We belong to God and are set apart exclusively by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all! No more need for sacrifice for sanctification. Jesus offered Himself for this very cause! For by one offering… not 2 or 3 offerings! For by one offering once and for all! Did Jesus destroy the works of the devil once for all? YES, Jesus did not fail. Behold the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world! What a great God!
John 17:17 "Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
It makes me go back to the beginning of our lessons in John 1:1. Notice it is all about Jesus!
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 30 "This is He of whom I said, 'After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.'
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him."
The Father has truly answered Jesus prayer to sanctify us by the truth! Jesus is that truth! One of Jesus' last commands to His disciples was for them to preach repentance and remission of sins can be found exclusively in the name of Jesus! There is no other name where men can be saved!
John 17:18 "As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
Jesus sends us into the world to preach this great sanctification message. It is the truth of who Jesus Christ is and what He has done for us on the cross that needs preached. Jesus sanctified Himself so that we may be sanctified by the truth!
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
We have been reconciled; we are committed by God to the word of RECONCILIATION. Oh that the church would get committed to the word of reconciliation! God through Jesus does not impute trespasses; this is the word of reconciliation! This is the word of sanctification! Jesus who knew no sin knew sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God! Jesus accomplished the great work the Father sent Him for, imputed righteousness! You can’t earn it or work your way there in any fashion. Imputed by faith in Jesus redemptive work of the cross exclusively! Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin! This is the gospel of Christ. How powerful the church would be if we would commit to the word that God the Father committed us to!
John 17:19 "And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
Jesus was and is the Word. Jesus for Himself needed no sanctification! It was for our sake!
1 Corinthians 1:27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; 28 and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, 1:29 that no flesh should glory in His presence. 30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God; and righteousness and sanctification and redemption; 31 that, as it is written, "He who glories, let him glory in the LORD."
Christ Jesus became for us wisdom from God, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. The true believers have indeed been sanctified redeemed, made righteous, and have been given the mind of Christ! Let us boast in Jesus Christ the crucified one exclusively!
Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. 16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
1 Corinthians 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.1:18 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.
1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
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