Study №17122

Yeshua’s Intercession for Believers –

I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one. John 17:15 ASV

John 17 - ¹

This chapter is a prayer, it is the Lord's prayer, the Lord Christ's prayer. There was one Lord's prayer which he taught us to pray, and did not pray himself, for he needed not to pray for the forgiveness of sin; but this was properly and peculiarly his, and suited him only as a Mediator, and is a sample of his intercession, and yet is of use to us both for instruction and encouragement in prayer. Observe,

I. The circumstances of the prayer (Joh_17:1).

II. The prayer itself.

1. He prays for himself (Joh_17:1-5).

2. He prays for those that are his. And in this see,

(1.) The general pleas with which he introduces his petitions for them (Joh_17:6-10).

(2.) The particular petitions he puts up for them

[1.] That they might be kept (Joh_17:11-16).

[2.] That they might be sanctified (Joh_17:17-19).

[3.] That they might be united (Joh_17:11 and Joh_17:20-23).

[4.] That they might be glorified (Joh_17:24-26).

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