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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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.
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: —
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. This was as though he had said, “Thou hast given them to me, my Father, to become my bride; and now I am about to die, and to return to thee, I give back this bride of mine into thy charge. Take care of her, I pray thee, till I can come back...
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. It has been well said that this expression, “My Father,” is a binding up of the Old and New Testaments in one. The Old Testament reveals the holiness of God, but...
And now I am no more in the world,— He was going away; he has gone now. Joh_17:11. But these are in the world,— We know we are; do we not, brethren? We have a thousand things some of them very painful and humiliating to us,— to remind us that we are still in the world. Joh_17:11. And I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those...
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. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of Perdition; that the...