1 00:00:00,383 --> 00:00:01,883 Hey, everybody. Thanks for joining us. 2 00:00:01,883 --> 00:00:03,050 I appreciate you being with us. 3 00:00:03,050 --> 00:00:06,350 Move into the 17th chapter 4 00:00:06,866 --> 00:00:09,866 of the Gospel of John and, 5 00:00:12,533 --> 00:00:14,100 What do you say about this chapter, Michael? 6 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:16,433 It it is 7 00:00:16,433 --> 00:00:18,683 it's unique. 8 00:00:18,683 --> 00:00:20,550 In it, we have the longest 9 00:00:20,550 --> 00:00:23,550 sustained prayer that Jesus gives. 10 00:00:23,666 --> 00:00:26,033 There's really correct me if I'm wrong. 11 00:00:26,033 --> 00:00:29,566 There's no equivalent of this chapter in the other gospels. 12 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:30,116 Right? 13 00:00:30,116 --> 00:00:34,216 This is something that is only found in John. 14 00:00:36,450 --> 00:00:38,550 There are 15 00:00:38,550 --> 00:00:41,716 it functions both as a prayer of Jesus 16 00:00:41,716 --> 00:00:45,500 and I think in some ways for John, a summary. 17 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:49,300 And, and we'll see today where John is hitting some of the highlight reel, 18 00:00:50,216 --> 00:00:52,816 in the prayer already. 19 00:00:52,816 --> 00:00:55,583 But we, we really are 20 00:00:55,583 --> 00:01:00,266 here covering some material that is only found really here. 21 00:01:00,533 --> 00:01:03,533 There's just nothing else like this. 22 00:01:03,950 --> 00:01:08,066 It's not the easiest chapter, probably in some ways, but it is fascinating. 23 00:01:08,150 --> 00:01:11,150 So let me jump in here. 17 verse one. 24 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,150 Read through verse ten or so. 25 00:01:13,150 --> 00:01:15,450 We'll come back and talk it through. 26 00:01:15,450 --> 00:01:18,833 After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up at heaven 27 00:01:19,666 --> 00:01:22,650 and he said, father, the hour has come. 28 00:01:22,650 --> 00:01:27,800 Glorify your son, that the son may glorify you, since you have given him authority 29 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:32,400 over all people to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 30 00:01:32,716 --> 00:01:35,566 And this is eternal life, that they may know you, 31 00:01:35,566 --> 00:01:38,900 the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 32 00:01:39,416 --> 00:01:42,650 I glorified you on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 33 00:01:42,916 --> 00:01:46,133 So now, father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory 34 00:01:46,133 --> 00:01:49,550 that I had in your presence before the world existed. 35 00:01:49,966 --> 00:01:53,450 I've made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. 36 00:01:53,866 --> 00:01:56,033 They were yours, and you gave them to me. 37 00:01:56,033 --> 00:01:57,650 And they have kept your word. 38 00:01:57,650 --> 00:02:01,250 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you. 39 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,966 For the words that you gave me, I have given to them, 40 00:02:04,966 --> 00:02:09,083 and they have received them, and know in truth that I came from you, 41 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:12,500 and that they have believed that you sent me. 42 00:02:12,866 --> 00:02:14,550 I'm asking on their behalf. 43 00:02:14,550 --> 00:02:18,300 I'm not asking on behalf of the world, but behalf of those whom you gave me, 44 00:02:18,616 --> 00:02:20,366 because they are yours. 45 00:02:20,366 --> 00:02:22,800 All mine are yours, and all yours are mine. 46 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,700 And I have been glorified in them. 47 00:02:26,850 --> 00:02:28,616 So we have been 48 00:02:28,616 --> 00:02:32,516 talking, throughout this gospel, John has made reference 49 00:02:32,516 --> 00:02:36,016 to the idea of the hour, the time of Jesus. 50 00:02:36,016 --> 00:02:39,500 And that is for John, just a way of saying the cross. 51 00:02:40,133 --> 00:02:42,766 And Jesus now begins this section. 52 00:02:42,766 --> 00:02:45,916 The hour has come and and this for 53 00:02:45,916 --> 00:02:49,216 John, is the kind of no turning back moment. 54 00:02:49,216 --> 00:02:52,250 This is the line that has now been crossed. 55 00:02:53,116 --> 00:02:55,283 So sure is 56 00:02:55,283 --> 00:02:59,566 Jesus of what he's going to do and of John that Jesus is going to do it, 57 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:03,200 that the timeline here gets fluid. 58 00:03:03,766 --> 00:03:06,500 Jesus can speak of things that haven't happened 59 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:09,566 yet, as if they already have, because it is. 60 00:03:09,566 --> 00:03:12,833 It is a foregone conclusion that they will. 61 00:03:13,050 --> 00:03:16,816 So the hour has come, which means the cross 62 00:03:16,816 --> 00:03:20,666 which hasn't come yet but is coming and there's no way around it, 63 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,183 nor would Jesus try to get around it. 64 00:03:23,183 --> 00:03:26,600 In the Gospel of John and so that I think Michael, 65 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,416 right off the right off the jump here, we get 66 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,400 this idea of, 67 00:03:34,666 --> 00:03:39,450 finality is too strong of a word, but but a conclusion of some sort. 68 00:03:39,450 --> 00:03:43,466 This this for John, I think, functions to move us 69 00:03:43,950 --> 00:03:47,600 toward understanding what the end is. 70 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,100 And, and he unpacks that in many ways. 71 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:52,550 You gave them to me. I gave them your word. 72 00:03:52,550 --> 00:03:53,633 We see a lot of that here. 73 00:03:53,633 --> 00:03:57,050 But I think that's a pretty consistent theme as, as at least as I read it. 74 00:03:57,500 --> 00:04:02,183 So I do think that there is a way that this is something what we've seen before. 75 00:04:02,183 --> 00:04:03,466 But I think to understand 76 00:04:03,466 --> 00:04:07,283 that, let's make sure that we are all on the same page as to 77 00:04:07,283 --> 00:04:11,450 what makes John the gospel distinctive from some of the other gospels. 78 00:04:11,450 --> 00:04:17,416 And Clint, you may push back on me here, but I think John is chiefly interested in 79 00:04:17,416 --> 00:04:21,650 peeling away who Jesus is behind the scenes, 80 00:04:21,650 --> 00:04:25,400 and that is especially who Jesus is spiritually. 81 00:04:25,633 --> 00:04:28,666 Another way of saying that is theologically the other gospels 82 00:04:28,666 --> 00:04:29,450 care about that too. 83 00:04:29,450 --> 00:04:32,066 Certainly Matthew cares about the prophecies. 84 00:04:32,066 --> 00:04:36,916 And, certainly we see, you know, in Mark that Jesus is the the supernatural worker. 85 00:04:36,916 --> 00:04:42,266 But so much of their account of Jesus's life is related to the story 86 00:04:42,983 --> 00:04:47,116 of what Jesus did and the narrative of where he went and who he talked to. 87 00:04:47,116 --> 00:04:50,250 All of these things, I think, really sit at the center 88 00:04:50,450 --> 00:04:55,100 of of pinning together the the timeline of Jesus's life in John. 89 00:04:55,966 --> 00:05:00,266 This prayer, as it seems to me, is a transition moment 90 00:05:00,683 --> 00:05:04,766 that is going to stand in between the teachings 91 00:05:04,766 --> 00:05:08,183 and revelation of Jesus Christ, the witness that he gives. 92 00:05:08,416 --> 00:05:13,100 It's a transition moment that is turning the whole equation 93 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:16,133 into the narrative of what we know is going to happen. 94 00:05:16,133 --> 00:05:19,650 If, following this prayer, we're going to move directly 95 00:05:19,650 --> 00:05:22,650 into the thing that Jesus already knows is coming. 96 00:05:22,650 --> 00:05:23,716 And by the way, 97 00:05:23,716 --> 00:05:28,000 I think John assumes that we, the reader, is knows what's coming as well. 98 00:05:28,016 --> 00:05:28,216 Yeah. 99 00:05:28,216 --> 00:05:33,016 I think what's happening here is we're moving from the behind the scenes. 100 00:05:33,016 --> 00:05:35,783 This is who Jesus is as the revealer of God. 101 00:05:35,783 --> 00:05:39,566 And we're we are seeing Jesus some all of this together 102 00:05:39,766 --> 00:05:43,583 as he now is in many ways committing himself to God, 103 00:05:43,583 --> 00:05:46,916 committing himself to these disciples, and committing the disciples 104 00:05:46,916 --> 00:05:50,550 who are not even yet disciples to God, which we're going to see later 105 00:05:50,550 --> 00:05:51,316 in this chapter. 106 00:05:51,316 --> 00:05:54,316 So there's a kind of turning that's going to happen in the story. 107 00:05:54,416 --> 00:05:57,916 Then the narrative is going to kick off the things that you and I take 108 00:05:57,916 --> 00:05:59,866 for granted that we know we're going to happen. 109 00:05:59,866 --> 00:06:01,816 And John is in this moment. 110 00:06:01,816 --> 00:06:06,450 Then I think, helping us see that all of this is connected 111 00:06:06,450 --> 00:06:09,166 and by design, that there's no accident here. 112 00:06:09,166 --> 00:06:12,683 The narrative to come is not and somehow different 113 00:06:12,683 --> 00:06:15,683 from the spiritual reality of who Jesus is. It. 114 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,883 It's a hard chapter to read because I think it is John doing what 115 00:06:19,916 --> 00:06:25,666 John does in part in other places, and John's just allowing it to happen 116 00:06:25,666 --> 00:06:30,983 without any real restraint here, just the words that flow upon words, 117 00:06:30,983 --> 00:06:35,100 the ideas that connect to ideas and, and it can be very hard 118 00:06:35,100 --> 00:06:38,266 to follow a particular through line through the text. 119 00:06:38,266 --> 00:06:42,166 And I just think your idea of, of summation 120 00:06:42,450 --> 00:06:46,100 gets to that, the idea that there's so many things we've seen before 121 00:06:46,316 --> 00:06:50,783 that are all getting compounded in this very, very dense way. 122 00:06:50,783 --> 00:06:55,766 And I do think it makes this, this passage important, but may be difficult to read. 123 00:06:55,916 --> 00:06:59,400 Yeah, I don't think that John is necessarily giving us acts here 124 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:03,000 like a play, but there is also a sense 125 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,433 in which I think this 17th chapter is very much 126 00:07:08,183 --> 00:07:09,916 a conventional chapter, 127 00:07:09,916 --> 00:07:13,883 a summary chapter in some way of what has already been said, 128 00:07:14,116 --> 00:07:18,350 and therefore sets the stage for the drama of what comes next. 129 00:07:18,350 --> 00:07:22,950 And we can we can speak a little more to some of what this means, Michael, 130 00:07:22,950 --> 00:07:26,900 but just in terms of these ties, look here, 131 00:07:29,866 --> 00:07:31,883 to give the authority to 132 00:07:31,883 --> 00:07:35,700 give eternal life to those you have given him. 133 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:37,916 What did we read in John 316? 134 00:07:37,916 --> 00:07:41,333 And, and John, you know, probably didn't know he was writing 135 00:07:41,666 --> 00:07:43,650 the verse that would become the beloved 136 00:07:43,650 --> 00:07:47,000 standard and be shown at hockey games and Super Bowls. 137 00:07:47,550 --> 00:07:49,800 But he knows what he said. 138 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,800 And so what does this have to do with? 139 00:07:53,266 --> 00:07:56,183 This is the one who gives eternal life 140 00:07:56,183 --> 00:07:59,266 and eternal life is that they may know you. 141 00:07:59,516 --> 00:08:01,650 And what have we already read? 142 00:08:01,650 --> 00:08:04,950 That Jesus came, that those who believe in 143 00:08:04,950 --> 00:08:07,950 him would have eternal life? 144 00:08:07,950 --> 00:08:10,850 So John is making some connections here. 145 00:08:10,850 --> 00:08:13,850 I think this is also Michael. 146 00:08:13,950 --> 00:08:15,600 Check me here. 147 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,600 I think this may be the only place 148 00:08:19,250 --> 00:08:23,250 that I'm aware of that Jesus refers to himself as the Christ. 149 00:08:23,783 --> 00:08:26,933 You know, it reads as if it's a third person, 150 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:32,716 probably a better way for us to read it in English would be and Jesus the Christ, 151 00:08:32,716 --> 00:08:37,966 because Christ is the title, Jesus is the name, and Christ is Messiah. 152 00:08:38,483 --> 00:08:41,300 And so Jesus here is not 153 00:08:41,300 --> 00:08:44,483 speaking of himself necessarily in third person. 154 00:08:44,850 --> 00:08:48,150 He's he's making a theological statement. 155 00:08:48,466 --> 00:08:52,283 And Jesus, who is the Christ whom you've sent, 156 00:08:52,283 --> 00:08:57,566 this is probably the boldest proclamation or one of the boldest proclamations. 157 00:08:57,566 --> 00:09:00,266 Jesus makes about himself. 158 00:09:00,266 --> 00:09:03,416 And then if if we could, Michael, jump down to, 159 00:09:04,700 --> 00:09:07,550 verse five here, 160 00:09:07,550 --> 00:09:09,900 glorify me in your presence with the glory 161 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:13,516 I had in your presence before the world existed. 162 00:09:13,850 --> 00:09:16,400 So how did we start this gospel? 163 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,650 In the beginning was the word, 164 00:09:20,666 --> 00:09:22,700 and the word was with God. 165 00:09:22,700 --> 00:09:27,466 And so even here we have a connection with the very opening words of this gospel. 166 00:09:27,866 --> 00:09:29,816 We move into verse six. 167 00:09:29,816 --> 00:09:32,750 I've made your name known to those 168 00:09:32,750 --> 00:09:35,750 who gave me, those who you've given me. 169 00:09:35,866 --> 00:09:40,200 And what did John tell us in the opening chapter? 170 00:09:40,666 --> 00:09:46,050 He came to his own, and his own people did not know him. 171 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:50,033 And so he now has made himself known. 172 00:09:50,250 --> 00:09:53,266 And he, in doing so, has made God known as well. 173 00:09:53,266 --> 00:09:56,816 And so I think it's really fascinating, Michael, the way that John 174 00:09:57,383 --> 00:10:01,150 has sort of reached back in to his own narrative, 175 00:10:01,166 --> 00:10:04,700 his own story, and pulled some of these themes here. 176 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:08,666 Again, not to kind of close this section. 177 00:10:08,666 --> 00:10:10,916 John doesn't work like that. 178 00:10:10,916 --> 00:10:13,916 But I do think to get us ready 179 00:10:13,966 --> 00:10:19,166 to encounter and and maybe more so to get us ready to understand 180 00:10:19,283 --> 00:10:23,483 and the next phase of the story that we are about to enter 181 00:10:23,666 --> 00:10:26,000 as we move to chapter 18. 182 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,833 There is a amazing image of Christ here, though, Clint, 183 00:10:29,900 --> 00:10:33,683 that I think we might miss if we don't slow down to see it. 184 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,050 Verse four I glorified you on earth 185 00:10:37,050 --> 00:10:40,050 by finishing the work that you gave me to do. 186 00:10:40,466 --> 00:10:42,016 That's strong language, right? 187 00:10:42,016 --> 00:10:47,550 The other gospels are all built on the cross is the defining moment in Mark. 188 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,616 The work that reveals who Jesus is, is the moment 189 00:10:52,616 --> 00:10:56,000 in which he dies on the cross, that it all pivots around that. 190 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,833 And and here in John, Jesus Christ is the Savior 191 00:11:01,100 --> 00:11:04,033 from the beginning of time. 192 00:11:04,033 --> 00:11:07,966 That reference from the first chapter in the beginning was the word that John 193 00:11:07,966 --> 00:11:12,616 has presented, this gospel of who Jesus is, the testimony of who Jesus is, 194 00:11:12,833 --> 00:11:18,150 that Jesus is and has been fully the revealed work of God, 195 00:11:18,150 --> 00:11:21,800 the Son of God for all time, including the moment he was born, 196 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:26,116 every teaching he gave, every miracle that he did everything was the summation. 197 00:11:26,116 --> 00:11:28,700 So that Jesus can come to this prayer, 198 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:31,700 glorified you on earth, finish the work that you gave me to do. 199 00:11:31,916 --> 00:11:36,150 When Jesus talks in this language, it is abundantly clear to us. 200 00:11:36,150 --> 00:11:41,900 It is made explicitly clear to us that that Jesus is beyond anything 201 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:45,916 that we could have imagined, that Jesus is the fullness, he's the completion. 202 00:11:45,916 --> 00:11:50,250 He's the perfection, and and John, as a gospel, emphasizes 203 00:11:50,250 --> 00:11:54,533 this in a way that the others have, but it's not nearly as robust or, 204 00:11:54,533 --> 00:11:58,316 I think, as I've single focused in the way that it's presented. 205 00:11:58,316 --> 00:12:04,216 And so you see how theologically important this gospel is to our understanding 206 00:12:04,216 --> 00:12:07,766 of who Jesus is, that the entire church owes a debt to John 207 00:12:07,766 --> 00:12:12,533 because of this idea that Jesus is the Anointed One, the Messiah. 208 00:12:12,533 --> 00:12:15,416 He he explicitly names himself as such. 209 00:12:15,416 --> 00:12:17,933 He's the one who fulfills God's expectation. 210 00:12:17,933 --> 00:12:21,766 He's the one who literally makes known God to the world. 211 00:12:21,766 --> 00:12:24,300 He's the revealer, the witness. He's the first. 212 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:26,366 And that every disciple follows him. The 213 00:12:27,350 --> 00:12:29,033 these are just ways in which 214 00:12:29,033 --> 00:12:33,766 John is continuing to have the same focus John's had all along. 215 00:12:34,050 --> 00:12:38,816 What I do think is different is I think that John here is making 216 00:12:38,816 --> 00:12:43,800 all of this happen through Jesus's red letter words and prayer in a way 217 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:48,900 that in some other places in the gospel, it's been seen in his action or it's bent. 218 00:12:48,900 --> 00:12:50,400 He said it to another person. 219 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:55,316 In this case, it is just a us hearing a conversation between Jesus 220 00:12:55,316 --> 00:12:59,366 and the father and all of these things being laid out sequentially 221 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,300 and explicitly as to what Jesus is doing, what he has done. 222 00:13:05,150 --> 00:13:10,133 Again, just to remember, there's you know, there really is nothing. 223 00:13:10,283 --> 00:13:14,216 There is no equivalent of this in the other gospels. 224 00:13:14,216 --> 00:13:15,900 There are moments Jesus prays, 225 00:13:18,566 --> 00:13:20,333 some recorded, 226 00:13:20,333 --> 00:13:23,600 some simply note that he was praying. 227 00:13:24,083 --> 00:13:28,650 But to to be able to listen in on an extended prayer 228 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:32,250 in which Jesus is specifically praying 229 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,016 for God's glory and tomorrow and the days that come, we'll see 230 00:13:37,050 --> 00:13:41,250 for the the work of the disciples and their safety. 231 00:13:41,966 --> 00:13:46,433 And one of the things I think is interesting about this section 232 00:13:46,433 --> 00:13:50,333 in the way it might have landed on its readers, might go, if you look here, 233 00:13:52,583 --> 00:13:55,733 verse nine, I'm asking on their behalf. 234 00:13:56,100 --> 00:13:59,066 I'm not asking on behalf of the world, 235 00:13:59,066 --> 00:14:03,600 but on the behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 236 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:09,266 And it may seem strange that Jesus is making a distinction of praying 237 00:14:09,833 --> 00:14:13,666 specifically for believers and not for everyone. 238 00:14:14,566 --> 00:14:18,616 Keep in mind that the Gospel of John, we believe 239 00:14:19,283 --> 00:14:23,716 comes to a church is written in a time that reflects a church 240 00:14:23,716 --> 00:14:27,000 that is very much at odds with the world being persecuted. 241 00:14:27,450 --> 00:14:30,500 And and they may have been asking the question, 242 00:14:30,950 --> 00:14:33,300 why doesn't everyone accept this? 243 00:14:33,300 --> 00:14:34,366 Why are we being 244 00:14:35,316 --> 00:14:36,150 singled out? 245 00:14:36,150 --> 00:14:37,800 Why are we suffering? 246 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,800 And here they have the 247 00:14:41,566 --> 00:14:43,800 they have the reassurance 248 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,916 that Jesus not only is praying for them, 249 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:51,600 but understands that not all the world is going to listen. 250 00:14:52,016 --> 00:14:54,266 Not all the world is going to respond. 251 00:14:54,266 --> 00:14:57,466 Now the church is taken that some interesting places. 252 00:14:57,466 --> 00:15:00,466 But I think underneath all of that is, 253 00:15:00,916 --> 00:15:03,233 word of compassion 254 00:15:03,233 --> 00:15:06,500 to a church in a time of struggle 255 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:09,716 and a reminder for that 256 00:15:09,716 --> 00:15:14,183 to pursue the faith is to invite some unhappiness 257 00:15:14,183 --> 00:15:19,216 from the world around you, particularly, especially in the Gospel of John. 258 00:15:19,216 --> 00:15:21,716 And we're not done with that theme. 259 00:15:21,716 --> 00:15:26,116 But I think in this last on this last couple of weeks, we've leaned into it 260 00:15:26,116 --> 00:15:27,983 pretty hard. Now, I don't know if you'd agree with this. 261 00:15:27,983 --> 00:15:32,416 I would argue that this prayer lands in three major movements 262 00:15:32,416 --> 00:15:34,966 and we cover the first today. Yeah. 263 00:15:34,966 --> 00:15:39,950 Where Jesus begins with the relation ship that he has with God the Father 264 00:15:40,166 --> 00:15:44,333 and the work that comes as a result of that relationship, 265 00:15:44,333 --> 00:15:48,500 that Jesus is the ultimate revelation of who God is, that the prayer 266 00:15:48,500 --> 00:15:50,516 is going to move on and it's going to address 267 00:15:50,516 --> 00:15:54,116 directly the disciples and the believers as you speak about it. 268 00:15:54,116 --> 00:15:58,283 And then that there's a section in which Jesus is going to pray specifically 269 00:15:58,283 --> 00:16:01,950 for the disciples, of the disciples, for the people who will come, even 270 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:05,850 because of the testimony of those that Jesus is praying for. 271 00:16:06,016 --> 00:16:06,916 In part two. 272 00:16:06,916 --> 00:16:09,116 And if you'll allow me that part one, two, and three, 273 00:16:09,116 --> 00:16:12,600 what makes part one so important is the finality of it, 274 00:16:12,816 --> 00:16:16,050 that Jesus is saying all of this in past tense, 275 00:16:16,050 --> 00:16:19,066 though the glorification is not yet complete because his death, 276 00:16:19,316 --> 00:16:23,400 resurrection, and ascension has not yet happened, Jesus is praying 277 00:16:23,566 --> 00:16:28,766 with such concluding type language because at the end of the day, it is done. 278 00:16:28,766 --> 00:16:30,316 Jesus has chosen it. 279 00:16:30,316 --> 00:16:34,066 He has lived it out faithfully to this point, and he's committed to the end. 280 00:16:34,216 --> 00:16:35,483 There's nothing that can stand 281 00:16:35,483 --> 00:16:39,350 between the Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah, and the mission 282 00:16:39,350 --> 00:16:43,733 that's been given him, and the authority and the power that Jesus has been given. 283 00:16:44,116 --> 00:16:45,000 At the end of the day, 284 00:16:46,050 --> 00:16:48,866 Jesus has set himself to this task. 285 00:16:48,866 --> 00:16:52,100 It's his compassion that he has for those that will follow him, 286 00:16:52,283 --> 00:16:55,766 whose story is now or yet to be lived out completely. 287 00:16:55,850 --> 00:17:00,050 That, I think, is important because this becomes the foundation 288 00:17:00,233 --> 00:17:04,766 upon which the prayer he's going to pray for those disciples who receive this book. 289 00:17:04,766 --> 00:17:07,066 And we're struggling in lots of different ways. 290 00:17:07,066 --> 00:17:10,950 And when you build a house, it's always wise to build that house upon something 291 00:17:10,950 --> 00:17:15,316 solid and firm, not something that's going to blow away in the night. 292 00:17:15,316 --> 00:17:19,216 And your Jesus's relationship with God is set down. 293 00:17:19,216 --> 00:17:22,816 It is confidently located. It is firm. 294 00:17:22,816 --> 00:17:26,816 You can trust that Jesus Christ is who he reveals himself to be. 295 00:17:27,116 --> 00:17:31,050 And the first part of the prayer, I think, establishes that reality. 296 00:17:31,283 --> 00:17:35,416 And then the rest of the prayer, to be honest, is a it reveals 297 00:17:35,416 --> 00:17:38,700 the heart of what I think is the heart of even the first part of this prayer. 298 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:40,766 And that is as a pastoral prayer. 299 00:17:40,766 --> 00:17:42,983 It's a it's a caring prayer. 300 00:17:42,983 --> 00:17:48,233 He's loving on the people who God has given him to reveal this truth to. 301 00:17:48,533 --> 00:17:52,333 And and this prayer is building towards that end. 302 00:17:53,216 --> 00:17:53,783 I think 303 00:17:55,166 --> 00:17:57,150 maybe this will be easier 304 00:17:57,150 --> 00:17:59,716 when we summarize after having gotten 305 00:17:59,716 --> 00:18:03,800 to the end of the chapter, but the beauty of the beginning of this 306 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:08,250 prayer is to note that Jesus seeks to glorify God, 307 00:18:09,150 --> 00:18:12,950 to thank God, to recognize those 308 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,450 who have come to him, and then he will go on to pray for them. 309 00:18:17,450 --> 00:18:19,816 And it's a it's a it. 310 00:18:19,816 --> 00:18:21,716 You're right. It's wordy. 311 00:18:21,716 --> 00:18:24,533 It may feel difficult to access, 312 00:18:24,533 --> 00:18:27,533 but it's a beautiful beginning to a prayer. 313 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,750 I glorify you, I give you thanks. 314 00:18:30,750 --> 00:18:32,700 I know that you are with me. 315 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:35,700 I know that you are with them. 316 00:18:35,866 --> 00:18:39,716 And where that goes will only, I think, continue to build on that. 317 00:18:39,916 --> 00:18:43,433 You know that this is one of my favorite books in the Bible. 318 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:47,000 I've got to confess to you, this is not my favorite chapter in that book. 319 00:18:48,166 --> 00:18:50,033 Unless I remember 320 00:18:50,033 --> 00:18:53,116 that this is Jesus the Christ, the Son of God. 321 00:18:53,566 --> 00:18:55,133 Praying not just to the father 322 00:18:55,133 --> 00:18:58,133 that we get to here, which is a unique treasure unto itself, 323 00:18:58,216 --> 00:19:01,466 but also that he's praying for us and we're not there yet. 324 00:19:01,816 --> 00:19:04,816 Tune in next time so you can be part of that conversation. 325 00:19:05,250 --> 00:19:08,366 And we'd love to continue on as we make our way through this book. 326 00:19:08,516 --> 00:19:10,733 If you've made it this far in the study, Thank you. 327 00:19:10,733 --> 00:19:12,566 I give this video, like, helps others find it 328 00:19:12,566 --> 00:19:15,116 while they're trying to study their way through John. Just like this. 329 00:19:15,116 --> 00:19:18,383 And a note for all of you friends who are with us live for this. 330 00:19:18,866 --> 00:19:22,816 We will not be here tomorrow, but we'll be back next week on Monday. 331 00:19:22,816 --> 00:19:24,350 So, we'll. 332 00:19:24,350 --> 00:19:25,516 Yeah. That's right. 333 00:19:25,516 --> 00:19:28,516 Sorry my days were mixed up. Yep. 334 00:19:28,583 --> 00:19:29,966 Michael's right. We'll see you then.