Join us as we read the scriptures and a daily devotion written by Don Crisp. We pray these messages will bless us all at this time.
Day 25 – John 17:1-5
Categories: Don’s Daily Devotions
Read John 17:1-5:
Introduction: Sometimes called the “High Priestly Prayer”, it is made in the shadow of the Cross, as Jesus pours out His heart to the Father, and takes up some of the themes of these chapters we have looked at.
V1: Jesus looks up to heaven – the normal Jewish posture of prayer – He knows this is the very hour for which His Father sent Him, the hour which will take Him to the cross. His first prayer is that His Father will glorify Him in this – that the cross itself will bring glory to both Jesus and His Father, as He dies in the work of redeeming love, and in full obedience to God.
V2: His Authority is from the Father, the full Authority of God, which includes authority over life and death. In this authority He gives eternal life to all His true disciples, those the Father has given Him. (compare John 10:28-29 )
V3: The source and essence of that life is to know God – the One true and living God – and to know Jesus Himself, the Saviour, in Whom alone we can truly know God. (John 14:6.) and know eternal life through faith in Him.
V4: All that Jesus has said and done is to God’s glory – in full obedience to Him – and He can speak of that work as finished ( accomplished ), as if the Cross has already taken place, for His obedience will not waver.
V5: So, He prays the Father will bring Him again to the glory He has known in His eternal Oneness with Him – but in terms of time, at least – He will return with the added glory of our Redeemer, of course. (Philippians 2:8-11)