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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. Oh, the blessed union of interests between Christ and the Father! How surely do we belong to the Father if we in very deed belong to Christ, and what a holy unity is thus...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. In this, our Lord’s last great intercessory prayer, he was especially engaged in petitions for his own people. There is a sense in which he intercedes for all mankind; but in the higher and more special sense referred to in this verse, Christ’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world,” — That is, not in the same special sense as he prays for his people, not with that personal pleading which he offers on behalf of his own chosen ones: “I pray not for the world,” — Joh_17:9. But for them...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I pray for them: — Blessed word! Christ prays for his own people: “I pray for them:” Joh_17:9. I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, In that last hour, just before his Passion, his thoughts were separating the precious from the vile; and his prayer ascended for his own people: “I pray for them: I pray not for the world,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them It is a wonderful thing that Christ should be glorified in his people. Can it be that he shall be glorified in me? Dear child of God, you sometimes sit in the corner, and think to yourself, “How insignificant I am! The church on earth would not miss me if I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. See what perfect union there is between the Father and the Son, and note their mutual relationship to the chosen people, “They are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou has given me; for they are thine. There is an intercession of Christ which is for all the world, but his choicest intercession — his effectual prayer — is for his own. Nothing, perhaps, makes men so angry as this statement. They cannot endure that God should dispense his gifts...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I pray for them: Oh! how emphatically true this is! Christ always prays for them — for them, one by one — with most effectual prevalence. It is because- he prays that any of us are preserved. “I pray for them.” Joh_17:9. I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me: There is a specialty in intercession, as well as in redemption....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. And now they are left. Their great guardian and protector has gone. They have no visible Head left. “I am no more in the world, but these are in the world.” You and I know...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I pray for them: I pray not for the world but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them. Is not this a wonderful prayer? If anybody, possessing the greatest possible inventive faculty, were asked to produce a prayer which could be fitly prayed by a person who was...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine,.... Christ is speaking not of things but of persons; otherwise all the perfections of his nature as God, and all the works he did, and doctrines he taught as man, were of his Father; as all the perfections of his Father, his nature, his names, his works, his worship, were his; the same that belongs to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Christ is God, and therefore, looking into the future, he can speak of his approaching departure as though it had already happened.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. The disciples were going to be left alone, and Christ’s tender heart made him lessen the pain of the separation by offering this great petition on their behalf: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. I can understand a man saying to God, “All mine are thine;” but no man, unless he is something more than man, dares to say to God, “Thine are mine.” But Jesus Christ, who is both God and man, gives all that he has to God, and all that God has belongs to him, so that he can...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil. Christ did not pray that there might be monasteries and nunneries where his servants might be shut away from the world, nor even that his followers might die in early youth, and go home to heaven; but he prayed that, remaining in the world for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. They will be left therefore. The shepherd will be gone. They will seem to be like orphans with their best friend departed.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And now I am no more in the world,.... In the earth; which is no contradiction to his resurrection from the dead, and stay with his disciples for a while; nor to his return to judge the world at the last day; nor to his reigning on earth with his saints a thousand years; since it will not be the world as it now is, but it will be a new earth,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. Here is a prayer, then, for the preservation and the unity of the people of God; two very necessary petitions. Would God that they might be fulfilled in us, that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, — We also know that we, too, are in the world; we have good reason to feel it, and sometimes to mourn it. Joh_17:11. And I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. When God keeps us, he keeps us in unity, our...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. See the plaintive power of this prayer of a tender heart. First, our Lord shows his love by praying for us, and then by dying for us. Notice what importance he attaches to the unity of his people: “that they may be one, as we are.” Let us all...