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Speaker 2Welcome to a new week of the Daily Blade .
Speaker 2Happy to have you guys here . This week we're studying the longest recorded prayer in the entire New Testament . So it's the prayer of Jesus as recorded in John 17, . And it's often referred to as the high priestly prayer of Jesus . But let's set the scene a little bit here . John 13 through 17 is the upper room discourse . Okay , with John 17 being the climax .
Speaker 2At this point Jesus is winding down his earthly ministry and he marches ever closer to the cross at Golgotha . But before getting to the upper room , jesus has performed many miracles . He's had a triumphal entry into Jerusalem and he had predicted his forthcoming death to his disciples . And while in the upper room for the Passover feast , jesus washed the apostles' feet . He predicted aloud that there was a betrayer in their midst . He predicted aloud that Peter in particular would deny him three times , expressed his exclusivity that no one could come to the heavenly Father except through him , foreshadowed the coming of the Holy Spirit and prepared his disciples for the hatred that would soon be coming their way from the world . So Jesus is wrapping up this last meeting with the apostles before he is betrayed and arrested .
Speaker 2So let's actually go to the text here John 17 , verses one through five , and I'll be reading everything in the ESV this week . When Jesus had spoken these words , he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said Father , the hour has come . Glorify your son , that the son may glorify you , since you have given him authority over all flesh to give eternal life to all whom you have given him , and this is eternal . So all week this week we're going to be looking at each individual verse and we're going to be breaking them down . So let's go ahead and go to verse 1 here . He lifted up his eyes to heaven . So the posture Jesus takes here is that of direct communion with God . Father . This is a very intimate address . It's very familial in nature and it reflects the oneness of the Trinity . The hour has come . So this is the most pivotal moment in history , really in the history of humanity . It's about to take place the crucifixion and then the subsequent resurrection of Jesus . Glorify your son , that the son may glorify you . So Jesus is not asking for earthly exaltation here at all . The son is perfectly glorifying the father by enduring the shame of the cross , which , paradoxically , is the path to glory .
Speaker 2Now , verse 2 . Since you have given him authority over all flesh . So the Son of man you know , not man , not Satan has been given dominion over all people . He has the authority To give eternal life to all whom you have given him . So these are the elect that he's talking about here .
Speaker 2Then we get verse 3 , and this is eternal life that they know , you , the only true God . So the knowing here doesn't stop in the world of the intellectual or stay in the world of the ethereal . Even this knowing is an intimate knowledge , it's a relational knowledge in nature , and also this is a direct repudiation of the heresy of polytheism . There is but one God and Jesus Christ , whom you have sent . So we receive this eternal life through communion with God , through his son Jesus .
Speaker 2Now , verse 4 , I glorified you on earth . So Jesus's entire life , his sinlessness , his ministry , his miracles , all of that served to the glory of God , having accomplished the work that you gave me to do . So this refers back to the divine mission that God sent Jesus down here to do in the first place . And then verse five and now , father , glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed . So Jesus is asking the father to restore their pre-incarnate right , their pre-incarnate relationship . He wants to be restored to his full heavenly glory again , and so this is just clear affirmation that Christ was with God before the world began and was existing in full , glorious fellowship with his father . So let me leave you with this question to ponder today how can we change our perspectives where we live on this earth , as if eternal life begins right now as opposed to when we pass away ? So do yourself a favor and read the rest of John 17 . I'll see you back here tomorrow .
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