A Prayer Certain to Be Answered

Q: What does the Bible say about the prayer of Jesus in John 17?

John 17 captures Jesus' priestly prayer, where He expresses His will for those given to Him by the Father to be with Him and behold His glory. In John 17, Jesus offers a profound prayer to the Father, expressing His desire for those whom the Father has given Him to be with Him in glory. This prayer, unlike any other, exemplifies the intimate relationship between the Father and the Son, highlighting that they share one will. Jesus articulates His purpose in this magnificent prayer, focusing on His followers and affirming that their eternal union with Him is assured because He has accomplished the work of redemption. The prayer reflects Christ's role as the High Priest, interceding effectively for those chosen by the Father.

Q: How do we know that Jesus' prayer will be answered?

Jesus' prayer will be answered because it is based on the unbreakable union of His will with the Father's will, and He has accomplished His redemptive work. The assurance that Jesus' prayers will be answered stems from the profound truth that His will and the Father's will are one. In John 17:24, Jesus states clearly, 'Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am.' This is not a mere expression of hope; it is a divine certainty. Moreover, Jesus has fulfilled His mission as the Redeemer and High Priest, having glorified God through His obedience and sacrificial death. Thus, the certainty of His intercession is rooted in His completed work, affirming that all for whom He prays will be saved and ultimately stand in His presence in glory.

Q: Why is it important for Christians that Jesus prays for them?

It is vital for Christians that Jesus prays for them as it underscores their security in salvation and His divine advocacy on their behalf. The fact that Jesus prays for His followers serves a crucial role in the believer's assurance of salvation. Jesus' intercession acts as the ultimate advocate for His people, affirming their identity as those given to Him by the Father. This prayer confirms the truth of Romans 8:33-34, where it states, 'Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies.' Jesus' role as intercessor guarantees that those whom the Father has chosen will not be lost, as He continually represents them before God. Therefore, for Christians, knowing that Jesus is praying for them provides profound comfort and confidence in their eternal security.

Q: What does John 17:24 teach about the relationship between God's love and Jesus' prayer?

John 17:24 reveals that Jesus' prayer for His followers is grounded in God's love for the Son before the foundation of the world. In John 17:24, Jesus explicitly connects His plea to the Father with the love the Father has for Him, stating, 'For thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.' This highlights the foundation of His desire for His followers to be with Him and behold His glory. The profound implication here is that Jesus does not plead for His disciples based on their merit but based on the perfect love shared between the Father and the Son. This eternal love serves as the impetus for the divine plan of redemption and positions believers to receive grace and favor from God, emphasizing that their acceptance is rooted not in their works but in Christ's righteousness and the Father's love for the Son.

I believe a scriptural illustration
of what that song is teaching, be still, keep quiet, be at rest,
my soul, might be when God told Aaron that he would be called upon
to endure one of life's greatest trials. The scripture says, an alien
held his peace. An alien held his peace. He didn't have anything to say.
Be still, my soul. Open your Bibles with me to John
17. I'm preaching this morning on
the subject, a prayer certain to be answered, a prayer
certain, sure to be answered. Now tonight's message at 7 o'clock,
or 6.30, 6.30 service tonight, I'm going to be preaching from
two chapters in 2 Corinthians, chapter 8 and chapter 9 of 2
Corinthians. My subject tonight is the grace
of giving. The grace of giving. We're going
to deal with that subject tonight. Giving, the grace of giving.
See what God says about this business of giving. All right,
John 17, verse 24 is our text. You're familiar with the 17th
chapter of John. It's the Lord's prayer, the great
priestly prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ, when the Son talked to
the Father about his work of redemption and about his people. And the words of this prayer
are most unusual here in this particular verse. Look at verse
24. no human lips ever prayed like
this before or since. You'd better not pray this way. John, chapter 17, verse 24. Father, I will that they also whom thou hast
given me be with me where I am. That's my will. That they may behold my glory
which thou hast given me. For thy love is me before the
foundation of the world." Now, like I said, most unusual. Here's a man praying, and this
man is bold in telling the Father
what he will. I will. I will. This is my will. Like I said, no human lips ever
prayed like that before or since. Abraham was a friend of God. And God spoke to Abraham face
to face as a man does with a friend. And Abraham got very near to
God, but he never prayed this way. An illustration of Abraham's
prayer goes like this. Oh God, I have taken upon myself
to speak to you. I am but dust and ashes." That's
Abraham's grace. He never said, I will. And he
was interceding there for Sodom and for Lot. Jacob had power
with God. Jacob was named by God a prince. God said to Jacob, your name
will be Israel, which means a prince with God. Jacob never prayed
this way. The boldest thing he ever said,
when he wrestled with the Lord God, and he said, I won't let
you go till you bless me. I'm in need of a blessing, and
I'm gonna hang on till you bless me. Daniel, Daniel was a man
of prayer. Daniel never prayed like this.
In fact, Daniel said this, O Lord God, to thee belongeth righteousness,
to us confusion of faith. We have sinned. He prayed like
the thief on the cross, I'm getting what I deserve. Paul never prayed
this way. Paul said, O wretched man that
I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death? But here,
when our Lord Jesus talks to the Father, he says, Father,
I will, I will, that those whom thou
hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my
glory. Now, how can this man be so bold? Well, I'll tell you why. This
is no ordinary man. He is a man, every bit man. He
was made of a woman, made under the law. He was flesh of our
flesh and bone of our bones. He was tempted in all points
as we are, yet without sin. But this man is the God man.
This man is the only man who could say, I and my Father are
one. This is the only man who could
say, if you've seen me, you've seen God. That's what he said. He thought it not robbery to
be equal with God. And that's the reason this man,
this God-man can say, My Father, I will, because he is God. And
secondly, his will and the Father's will are one. His will and the Father's will
are one. Turn back a few pages to John
chapter 6. John chapter 6, and listen to
what the Lord said in verse 38. He said in John 6, go back to
verse 37, John 6, 37, and he says, All that my Father giveth
me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no
wise cast out. For I came down from heaven not
to do mine own will, that is, the Messiah the Redeemer, says,
I don't have a will of my own in this regard, but I came to
do the will of him that sent me. I'm the servant. The servant
does his master's will. My will is his will. And this
is my Father's will. This is the will I came to do.
This is the Father's will which has sent me, that of all which
he hath given I'll lose nothing but raise it up at the last day.
This is the will of him that sent me, that everyone that seeth
the Son, that is, that understands with spiritual eyes he's seen
and heard and believes on him, may have everlasting life. I'll
raise him up at the last day." How can he pray this way? Because
he's wonderful counsel of the mighty God, the everlasting Father,
the Prince of Because his will and the Father's will is one
will. One will. And thirdly, because he has done
what the Father gave him to do. Back to our text. Back to John
17. This is the Redeemer. This is
the Christ. This is the Messiah praying.
This is the high priest. In John 17, he says in verse
4, I have glorified thee on the earth. I finished the work you
gave me to do. I've done what you sent me to
do. Therefore, this is my will. I finished the work you gave
me to do. Look at verse 6. I've manifested thy name unto
the men which thou gavest me out of the world. I've done what
you told me to do. I've revealed you to them. Look
at verse 8. I have given them thy words,
the words which you gave me. I'm the prophet. I've delivered
the message. Look at verse 12, And while I
was with them in the world, I kept them, those that thou gavest
me, and none of them is lost, but the Son of perdition, Jesus,
that the scripture may be fulfilled. I haven't lost a one of them.
It's all right. Having done all that the Father
required, having accomplished all that justice demanded, having
met the full requirements of the law in every jot and tittle,
he's entitled to have what he purchased. Is that not right?
Absolutely. I say the same thing to you.
You want to merit heaven? Obey God practically. That's right. Then you can say,
I will. Be born without sin, live without
sin, go to glory without sin. And then you can say, I will.
And Jesus Christ can say, Father, I will. Because he is one with
the Father. His will is the same as the Father's,
and he did every jot and tittle the Father told him to do, perfectly. And not only that, but it's impossible
for this prayer not to be answered, because he said, I always do
those things that please my Father, and my Father always hears me. You see, if the Father's will
is a person's salvation, and the Son wills a man's salvation,
the man will be saved. That's good sense, isn't it?
If the Father wills a person's salvation, and the Son wills
it, and dies to accomplish it and prays for it, shall it, how
shall he not with him freely give us all things? If the sheep
were in Christ's And in the Father's hand, how can they perish? If
Christ paid my debt, I don't owe any debt. All right, back to the prayer.
Let me ask you a second question. Now listen carefully to this. For whom does he pray? Father, I will that those whom
thou hast given me be with me where I am. For whom does he
pray? Without question, this prayer
will come to pass. This prayer will be answered.
Without question, this prayer will be answered. So it's important
to me for whom he prays. Well, he identifies them here.
Father, this is my will, that they also whom thou hast given
me be with me where I am. You know, he says that six times
in this prayer. Here's a prayer just 26 verses
long, a prayer which our Lord, as the great high priest and
mediator, intercessor, prayed with the Father. Look back at
verse 1. These words spake Jesus and lifted
up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hours come. I glorify thy Son, that thy Son
may glorify thee. Now, here's the first time he
uses it identifies the people for whom he's praying. Listen
to verse 2. As thou hast given him, the Son, authority over
all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou
hast given him. Look at verse 6. I have manifested
thy name unto the men which thou gavest me. Look at verse 8. I have given them thy words which
thou gavest me, and they have received them." Verse 9, I pray
for them. I pray not for the world. If
he had prayed for the world, he would have had the world.
If he had died for the world, he would have bought the world.
If he had made intercession for the whole human race, he would
have had the whole human race. But he distinctly says, I don't
pray for the world. I pray for them. which thou hast
given me." Verse 12, while I was with him
in the world, I kept in thy name those that thou gavest me. And he says that six times. And
he declares this, he says, those that you've given me are not
only mine, but they're yours. That's how I got them, because
they're yours. Look down at In verse 9, he says, I pray for
them. I pray not for the world, I pray
for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine. And mine
are thine, and thine are mine, and I'm glorified in them. What's
yours is mine. What's mine is yours. See, the Father chose them. There's
a scripture to teach that. You know, I had a, I preached
a message on television a few weeks ago, and one of my wrote
to me, and she said, I've never seen that in the Bible. I said,
I got with a friend of mine, she'd never seen that in the
Bible, and we couldn't find it, that God chose a people before
the foundation of the world. She said, would you write me
some scripture? Well, isn't that strange that people 40, 50, 60,
70 years of age have never seen
that God chose a people? Look at Ephesians 1. Ephesians
1. Our children here in this church,
five, six years old, know that. Ephesians 1, verse 3 says, Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed
us with all spiritual blessings in the heavens and places in
Christ, according as he hath chosen us in Christ before the
foundation of the world. that we should be holy without
blame before him in love, having predestinated us to the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ himself according to the good pleasure
of his will." Turn to 2 Thessalonians. That's what the Scripture says.
Turn to 2 Thessalonians 2.13. He says here in 2 Thessalonians
2.13, "...but we are bound to give thanks always to God for
you, brethren, Beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the
beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the
spirit and belief of the truth. For unto he called you by our
gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God chose his people when? Before the world began. Why?
Because he would. The answer was the reason found
not in you, but in him. He pleased the Lord to make you
his people. Christ said to his disciples,
you didn't choose me, I chose you. Known unto God are all his
works from the beginning. So here he prays for these people
because the Father gave them to him, and the Father gave them
to him because they belonged to him. He said, yours are mine,
and mine are yours. The Father chose them, and the
Son redeemed them, and the Spirit caused them. Romans chapter 8, look at verse
28, Romans 8, 28. I won't make any comment, I'll
just read this. Let Scripture say what it will.
In Romans 8, 28, we know that all things work together for
good to them that love God, to them who are the called according
to his purpose, by whom he did foreknow. He also did predestinate
to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son might
be the firstborn among many brethren. And moreover whom he did predestinate,
then he called. And whom he called, he justified.
Whom he justified, he glorified. What shall we say, then, to these
things? I said, God be pardoned, who can be against me? He that
spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all? I shall he
not with him also freely give us all things?" Who can lay anything
to the charge of God's elect? It's God that justifies. For whom does our Lord pray?
He says, I pray for them which thou hast given me. They're yours
and you gave them to me, and yours are mine and mine are yours.
I don't pray for every human being, I pray for those you've
given to me. Well, is there any mark so that
we might know these people? God knows them. Christ said,
I know my sheep. I know my sheep. I know my sheep. I'm known of mine. I lay down
my life for my sheep. Is there any way we can know
them? Yeah. Yeah. There's some sure marks. The
first one is this. Turn back to John 6, 37. Here's
the first one. What would you say is the first
mark? of a person who knows God, whom God knows, let's put it
that way. Paul said that one time, now that you know God or
are known of God, in John 6, 37, John 6, 37, here's the first
mark of the people for whom our Lord prays, all that my Father
giveth me shall come to me. That's who they are, they're
those who come to him. That's very simple, isn't it?
They come to Him. They come to Him repentantly.
They come to Him in faith. They come to Him, to
Him, not to a church, not to a preacher, not to a sacrament,
not to an ordinance. They come to Him. They come to
me, Christ says. Come to me, I'll give you rest.
They come to Christ willingly. They come to him lovingly, they
come to him obediently, they come to him unreservedly, they
come to him. All that my Father giveth me
will come to me. And him that cometh to me, I'll
never cast him out. How true they are. Have you come
to Christ? That's not coming down an aisle. Doesn't say anything
about coming down an aisle if it's coming to Christ. It's not
coming to the front, it's not coming to an altar. I don't know
where that originated. I don't know where that started.
That was unknown in the church back here and back in the Reformation
and back two, less than two, more than 200 years ago. An altar
call, a public invitation. The word invitation is only in
the Bible three times. And every time it's inviting
somebody to dinner. Every time. I mean actually a
dinner. Every time. The disciples never
invited people to Christ. They commanded them to believe.
Never. Preachers who are inviting sinners,
kings don't invite people. They command. God commands men
to repent. The gospel is not an invitation,
it's a command. You don't have any prerogative
about believing God. You believe God or perish. That's
king talk. But the God being preached today
is not a king. He might be in the millennium,
but he's not yet. But the God of the Bible is king,
and he does not issue invitations to servants or to subjects. He commands. God commands all
men everywhere to repent. God commands men to bring to
God. So coming to Christ is not coming down an aisle and turning
over a new leaf and joining the Church and making a profession.
Coming to God is coming to Him in here, vowing, submitting,
coming. All that my Father gives me,
give it to me. I'll tell you another mark of
these people, they love Christ. That's right, they love Him.
Whom having not seen, you love. In whom though now you see Him
not, yet with rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory. You look to the shepherd of your
soul. You love him. Peter, do you love me? Take my
shoe. They love each other. Here's another march of these
people. By this shall all men know you are my disciples, if
you love each other. That's not the way he said, I
know it. That's the way they know it. That's the way men know
it, if you love each other. They walk in the Spirit, not
in the flesh. Their goal is to glorify God. Their goal is to know Him, whom
to know is life eternal. Their goal is to win Christ and
be found in Him. They're just not interested in
the world's applause, in the world's fame, or in the world's
possession. They're interested in His glory. That's right. That's the mark
of these people. I don't pray for the world. Christ
Jesus, the Messiah, the Redeemer, is not in glory praying for the
world. He's praying for those whom the
Father gave him. They're his. They're his. They're the Father's. All mine
are thine and thine are mine, and I pray for them. All right,
let's see the prayer itself, John 17. Let's go back to that
verse 24. because his prayers will be answered. What is it that he prays for
these people? Father, John 17, 24, let's look
at it. I will that they also whom thou
hast given me, number one, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory.
There's the twofold prayer. Oh, my goodness, my goodness.
I pray, and his prayers must, he shall not fail, nor be discouraged. He shall see the travail of his
soul be satisfied. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many. The pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his hands. This prayer will be answered.
Everyone for whom he prays is going to be with him where he
is." But he said, I go to prepare
a place for you, and if I go to prepare a place for you, I
will come again and receive you to myself. And where I am, there
you may be. Where I am, I pray that ever
one of these be with me where I am. Where I am. Where is he? He's
seated at the right hand of the majesty and glory. This is too
much for me to talk about and too much for me to comprehend,
but there you have it. I pray. My friends, this is the
Son of God. This is God himself. This prayer
must be answered, will be answered, is effectual. My sheep hear my
voice. I know them. They follow me.
I give them eternal life. They shall never perish. My Father
which gave to me is greater than all, and no man can pluck them
out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. It will
be answered. Everybody for whom he prays will
be with him where he is. Are you going to heaven? If he
prayed for you, you are. If he died for you, you are.
If you come to him, you are. If you love him, you will be.
Won't a one of them be lost? And they can sit around arguing
about once in grace, always in grace, once saved, always in
grace. That's fools' arguments. That's fools' debates. That's
right. His sheep will never perish. He that hath begun a good work
in you will finish it in the day of Jesus Christ. Now, that's
wisdom talking. He cannot fail nor be discouraged. That's wisdom speaking. If God
saved you, you're saved. That's absolutely. I pray that
they'll be with me where I am. And then the second thing he
says, I want them to behold my glory. Oh, my. What is this glory? threefold, his threefold. And I'm in an area that I don't
know much about. But I do know this, his glory
is threefold. There's his original glory. Look at verse 5. Now, Father,
John 17, 5, O Father, glorify thou me with the glory, with
thine own set with the glory which I had with thee before
the world That's his original glory. I was daily his delight,
he said in proper objection. Think of the glory when God dwelt
alone, and God made the heavens and the earth, and God made the
cherubims and seraphims and angels. There was no sin, there was no
death, there was no darkness, there was no evil. God was in
his glory. unspeakable glory, original glory. Glorify me with the glory which
I had with thee before the world was. I'm going to behold that
someday. Breathtaking, isn't it? And then
there's another glory, there's his incarnate glory. John wrote,
And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld
his glory. as the incarnate glory that we
have seen, that the disciples saw. And we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the Father, the God-man, God
incarnate, God in human flesh, God within Christ, full of grace
and truth. That is his redemptive glory.
That's That's when Moses said, well, Lord, you show me your
glory. He wasn't asking to see the pre-incarnate glory of Christ. He wasn't asking to see the original
glory of Christ. He was asking to see the redemptive
glory of Christ. And God said, all right, I'll
make my goodness pass before you. My glory is my goodness.
I'll be merciful. I'll be gracious. The Lord forgiving
sin, that's my glory. I've seen little of that. And
then thirdly, Peter said, over here in 1 Peter, there's another
stage or another part of his glory. In 2 Peter 5, 10, Peter says,
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal
glory, by Jesus Christ. But the God of all grace, who
hath called us unto his eternal glory by Jesus Christ, after
you've suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen,
settle you to him be glory and dominion forever." I'm going
to see that too, his eternal glory. I can't speak of it now. I know it says in Revelation,
and God will dwell with them and be their God, and the tabernacle
of God is with me. And God will wipe away all tears
from their eyes. There will be no more death,
no more darkness, no more pain for the former things of pastoral.
That's his eternal glory. His original glory, his redemptive
glory, his eternal glory. Now, Father, I will that those
whom thou hast given me, for whom I have suffered, for whom
I have finished the work of redemption, I will, that every one of them
be with me where I am, that every one of them may behold my glory,
and the glory you gave me, I've given them." This is a kingdom. You see, you read about it in
Corinthians, and I know that this is not what the preachers
are preaching. This is what the Scripture teaches. This is what
the old-timers preach. This is what Luther preached,
and Calvin, and Zwingli, and Hutt, and Knox. and Bunyan, and
Whitfield, and Spurgeon, and Owen, and the men who knew God.
This is what Cary, and Jensen, and Brainerd, and McShane, this
is what Edwards preached. This is what our fathers preached. But this is a new generation
of Bible ignorance. This is a new generation where
men don't study and preach, they sing. They sing, they clap their
hands, they entertain. They don't teach. My people perish, God said, for
want of knowledge. They don't know. This is what
I, this is those great old hymns you've been singing. That's what
those people believed. Watts, Calper, Hart, those men
who wrote the great hymns. Charles Wesley. John didn't know
much about it, but Charles did. I will, those whom you've given
me, be with me where I am, to behold my glory." Not to walk
around, this silly preacher last week preached on the five crowns
that he was going to get when he got to heaven. And we all
going to stand back and point at him and say, that's Brother
So-and-so, he's got five crowns. I don't have a one, but he's
got five. I wish I'd have done more. I wish I'd have given more. His yo-yo is bigger than my yo-yo.
Now you laugh because it's stupid. I want them to be there to behold
my glory, not one another's glory, my glory. Paul said to be excellent
from the body to be present with Christ, that they may be with
me where I am, that they may behold my glory. He's going to
declare the riches of his grace to us in Christ Jesus. Isn't
that what Scripture says? Everybody here who's included
in this prayer, whether you've been brought to Christ one year
or forty years, you're all going to be paid the same thing. You're
going to be loved with the same love, occupied with the same
glory, with the same Redeemer, under the same banner. of love
in the same bride, in the same kingdom, there's no difference. That's exactly right. When the
Bible talks about crowns of righteousness and crowns of rejoicing and crowns
of glory, it's just talking about using that in a figurative language. I anointeth my head with oil.
That doesn't mean you pour oil all over your head. Mine's greasy
enough now. But he anoints my head with his
presence, with his glory, with his power. You see that? It's strange that men take some
of the Scripture so literally and disregard the rest of it. All the same, all love the same. Read that parable where he hired
those people in the early morning and hired those people in the
evening and paid them all the same. Because if I've been saved
40 years, that's by God's grace. If I've been saved one year,
it's by God's grace. If I've been a preacher or a
singer or if I've just been one of the fellows sitting in a pew
rejoicing in Christ, he put me in both places. It's all by his
will and his grace. I am what I am by the grace of
God. Why should I get rewarded for something I didn't do, something
he did? All right, I've got to quit.
Here's the fourth thing about this prayer. the argument for
a full and complete answer to this prayer. I'll tell you why
this prayer is going to be answered. Father, I will. For whom does
he pray? That those whom you've given
me. What does he ask for them? Be with me where I am, that they
may behold my glory, which you gave me. And here's the reason,
because you love me. because you love me, therefore
the foundation of the world. That's the reason God's going
to bless you, because you love Christ. Our Lord doesn't plead
our work, he doesn't say I will, that those whom you give me be
with me where I am, because they've been faithful? Nope. Because
they made a profession? Nope. Because they lived good
lives? He doesn't plead that we're worthy
because they're worthy, they're not. He pleads one thing. He doesn't even plead the Father's
love for us. He said, I want them to be with
me where I am, to the home I grow in, not even because you love
them, because you love me! You bless them for my sake. Now,
I can get in on that, Bob. I can get in on that then. I
can have some hope. If God's going to receive me
and accept me because of who I am, I've got a shaky foundation,
because I'm not what I want to be, not what I ought to be, not
what I'm going to be. I'm not what I used to be by
his grace. But it's shaky. If Christ prays
for me based on anything I've done or am or thought or given,
I've got problems, because it's all imperfect. But if he prays
for me and says, Father, I want you to take Ronnie to glory,
because you love me. You got a shot at it. A good
one, too. I want you to take him to glory.
You bless him because you love me. You bless him for my sake. You love him for my sake. You
accept him for my sake. I love my children. I believe
that someone came to me and said, I'm asking you to do this, because
I'm a friend of Becky's, I'm a friend of Daniel's, I'm a friend
of Paul's. Would you help me for their sake? I'll do all I
can. And I'm just a human being. But
my Lord says, Father, those you've given me, they're yours and they're
mine. I want you to take them to glory
for my sake. I loved them and I died for them.
And I want you to receive them because you love me." You see,
that's the argument Christ used for Peter's service. He said,
you love me, then you feed my sheep. That's the argument he uses for
us to forgive one another. Look at Ephesians 4, just a moment,
just one more scripture. This is worth looking at. This
is why he tells us to be kind to one another, and to forgive
one another, because God forgave you for Christ's sake. Look at
Ephesians 4, verse 32. You got it? And be ye kind one
to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for
Christ's sake, has forgiven you. That prayer means more to you
now, doesn't it? when you realize that it's all
for his sake, his sake. Father, I will that
those whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they
may behold my glory. But I love this need before the
world began.

A Prayer Certain to Be Answered

What does the Bible say about the prayer of Jesus in John 17?

How do we know that Jesus' prayer will be answered?

Why is it important for Christians that Jesus prays for them?

What does John 17:24 teach about the relationship between God's love and Jesus' prayer?

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A Prayer Certain to Be Answered

What does the Bible say about the prayer of Jesus in John 17?

How do we know that Jesus' prayer will be answered?

Why is it important for Christians that Jesus prays for them?

What does John 17:24 teach about the relationship between God's love and Jesus' prayer?

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