45 Days To Read the Gospel Challenge: Gospel of John Chapter 17- Jesus Christ Prays for His Disciples and All Believers.
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The Gospel of John Chapter 17
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Overview of The Gospel of John:
The Gospel of John is written by one of Jesus Christ’s disciples, John, the son of Zebedee. This Gospel is 21 Chapters long. John is described as the “Disciple of Whom Jesus loved”. It has been determined by biblical scholars that John wrote The Gospel of John (also known as “According to John”).
It was written around A.D. 80-90, about 50 years after he witnesses Jesus’ earthly ministry under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and as an eyewitness in composing the gospel. He is not John the Baptist. However, in this book, John the Baptist is discussed.
The Gospel of John explains who Jesus Christ is before creation. It establishes his deity as Creator of the World, The Father (I AM), and is the long-awaited Messiah, the Son of God in the flesh. Its purpose is to explain that even though Jesus is the Creator and God (I AM), believers are to understand that Jesus is the Son of God that came in the flesh and yet while we were sinners, died for our sins and rose again to become Savior of the World-reconnecting us to God. That is why we pray to the father in Jesus Christ’s name.
Defeating death and sin by the shedding of his blood and life, Jesus gives the gift of everlasting life with repentance. That by believing you may have life in his name (20:31) John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” God is omnipresent meaning he can be in more than one place at the same time. He can be on earth (flesh) and in heaven (spirit) at the same time.
Revelation 19:6 “And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.”
Isaiah 9:6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son, is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor,
Jesus Christ Prays for his disciples and all believers.
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45 Days To Read the Gospel Challenge: Gospel of John Chapter 17- Jesus Christ Prays for his disciples and all believers.
Time: 45 minutes to complete lesson: 30 minutes to read the entire post and take the interactive quiz, additional 15 minutes to read the bible chapter.
Overview of Chapter Seventeen
This prayer expresses Jesus Christ’s desire for all disciples and believers. It is really moving. Jesus knew and knows God’s perfect timing. He foretells that the Pharisees will soon be there to capture him to crucify him. He states the hour has come. He prays a final prayer to the Father for his disciples and believers. He expresses that he will soon have completed the work that God has sent him to do. Which is offering salvation, repentance of sins, hope, love truth, and eternal life by his name (Jesus Christ) and his holy blood (sacrifice) to all who believe in his name and word. His word is truth. Note: This chapter demonstrates that Jesús is predestined. He knows the future.
Jesus picked and developed disciples, who were to go into the world, build churches in Jesus’ name by preaching the Gospel. The disciples were to bring people to salvation with the help of the Holy Spirit. Jesus’ prayer is for all believers who believe in him through the words of the disciples. John 17:20 (KJV) Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 7Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
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Objectives Chapter Seventeen
You will learn what Jesus Christ desires for his disciples and all of his believers.
Outline for Chapter Seventeen
A. Jesus prays to his Father to glorify him as he has completed the work to give eternal life to as many as the Father has given him.
B. Jesus prays to his Father to glorify, sanctify, protect, and love the apostles.
C Jesus prays to his Father to preserve his followers from evil and to give love to all his believers as they believe in his name.
Reflection and Discussion
Can you remember a time when you felt loved by God just by being still? Psalm 46:10 Be still and know that I am God. Post all comments below in the comment section or on ePrayer Circle’s new social media Instagram or Facebook. eprayercircle.com
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Click here for the text (pdf), mobile viewing for the web (KJV), and YouTube audio and video version of Gospel of John Chapter 17 ( 4 min. 22 seconds)
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Highlights Chapter 17- Answers to Objectives and Activity-Questions
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Highlights Chapter 17- Answers to Objectives and Activity-Questions
Objective: You will learn what Jesus Christ desires for his disciples and all of his believers.
1These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
8For I have given unto them the words which thou gave me, and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.
11And 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.
12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22And the glory which thou gave me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
26And I have declared unto them thy name and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
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INTERACTIVE QUIZ
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#1. Given John Chapter 17:1-27 (See Chapter Highlights), a prayer of Jesus Christ, complete the following statement by selecting the BEST answer from the list below. Jesus prayed for his disciples and all believers, not the world. What were some of the things he prayed for:
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Call to salvation:
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Romans 10:9-10 9That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation.
John 3:5-6 5Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is the Spirit.
