Author: michael

John 17:20-26 ²⁰ “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, ²¹ that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. ²² I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— ²³ I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. ²⁴ “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. ²⁵ “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. ²⁶ I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

Last time we talked about the Lord Jesus praying for the apostles and disciples before he left the world. Here the Lord Jesus prays for all the believers so that they may be one. The Lord Jesus talked about the glory that the Father gave him, he has given to the believers. This glory is the presence of God and the presence of the Lord. This glory makes the disciples one as the Father and the Lord Jesus are one. The unity of the believers makes the world know that the Father has sent the Lord Jesus, and that the Father loves the believers as he loves the Lord Jesus. The Heavenly Father loved the Lord Jesus before the creation of the world. Here we see once again that the Lord Jesus existed before the creation of the world. The Trinity God is three separate beings, but they are one. The Lord Jesus said that He and the Father are one. They are not the same beings, but they are united in one.
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John 17:1-19 1 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. ² For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. ³ Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. ⁴ I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. ⁵ And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began. ⁶ “I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. ⁷ Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. ⁸ For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. ⁹ I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. ¹⁰ All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. ¹¹ I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. ¹² While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. ¹³ “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. ¹⁴ I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. ¹⁵ My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. ¹⁶ They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. ¹⁷ Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. ¹⁸ As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. ¹⁹ For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.

Here the Lord Jesus looked toward heaven and prayed to God the Father that he would glorify him so that he would also glorify God the Father. The Lord Jesus would soon be crucified. The cross is a shame in the eyes of man, but glory in the eyes of the Lord Jesus. He asked the Father to make him share in the glory with the Father, the glory he had with the Father before the world began. This shows that before the world existed, the Lord Jesus was already with God the Father, and he shared the glory with God the Father, This shows his divinity. His authority to give eternal life also shows His divinity. Eternal life is to know the one true God, and to know Jesus Christ, whom God has sent. To know here means a personal relationship, an intimate relationship. Eternal life is an intimate relationship with God, with the Lord Jesus. Here, the Lord Jesus prayed for his disciples before he left the world, but he didn’t pray for the world. He prayed that the disciples may be one, just as He and the Father are one. The Lord Jesus didn’t pray for the world not because he didn’t care for the world. The purpose of his coming was to to save the world, there are verses in the Bible that ask us to pray for the world. The Lord Jesus asked the Father to protect the disciples from the evil one. The evil one is Satan the Devil, who is the king of the world. Read more

John 16:23-33 ²³ In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. ²⁴ Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. ²⁵ “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. ²⁶ In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. ²⁷ No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. ²⁸ I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.” ²⁹ Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech. ³⁰ Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.” ³¹ “Do you now believe?” Jesus replied. ³² “A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me. ³³ “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

What the Lord Jesus did on the cross enables people to go directly to the Heavenly Father and ask Him in Jesus’ name, instead of Lord Jesus ask the Father for them, and if they ask, they will receive, so that their joy may be complete. The Lord Jesus used many parables to teach people. The time would come when the Lord Jesus would tell the disciples directly about the Father, and there is no need to use parables. The disciples said that they believed that the Lord Jesus came from God, but their faith would be tested. The Lord Jesus knew everything. He foreknew that when He was crucified, the disciples would all run away from Him. But the Father was with the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus said this so that the disciples would have peace in Him and there is trouble in the world, but there is true peace in the Lord Jesus.
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John 16:12-22 ¹² “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. ¹³ But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. ¹⁵ All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.” ¹⁶ Jesus went on to say, “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.” ¹⁷ At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” ¹⁸ They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand what he is saying.” ¹⁹ Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’? ²⁰ Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. ²¹ A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. ²² So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

The Lord Jesus still had many things to tell the disciples, but they couldn’t bear it at this time because they had not received the Holy Spirit. After the Lord Jesus was resurrected and ascended to heaven, the Holy Spirit came to lead the disciples into all the truth. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are Trinity God. The Holy Spirit is not alone, he does not speak on his own. He speaks what he hears. He glorifies the Son just as the Son glorifies the Father. When the Lord Jesus said, “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.” , the disciples did not understand what it meant. The first “a little while” meant after a short time, the Lord Jesus was going to be crucified and died on the cross, and the disciples could not see him. The second “a little while” was resurrection three days after crucifixion, the disciples saw him again. The Lord Jesus knew everything and knew that the disciples did not understand what he said and wanted to ask him. When the Lord Jesus was crucified on the cross, the disciples wept and grieved. When the Lord Jesus was resurrected, the disciples’ grief turned to joy. The grief of the disciples was temporary, but the joy no one could take away.

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John 16:1-11 1 All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, 5 but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. 7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.

It was mentioned earlier that the disciples would suffer persecution, the persecution from the world. The Lord Jesus told the disciples these things so that they would not stumble when they were persecuted. In the days of the Lord Jesus, if anyone believed that He was the Christ, the Pharisees would expel them from the synagogue, and they also crucified the Lord Jesus on the cross. They did this, because they didn’t know God, and didn’t know the Lord Jesus. The apostle Paul once persecuted the church. He thought Christianity was heresy, and he thought persecuting the church was serving God. The Lord Jesus said this because He was leaving the world and going back to the Father. When the Lord Jesus left, the disciples were full of sorrow, but the Lord Jesus left for the benefit of the disciples. After He left, he sent the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, and the Holy Spirit came to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. For sin because they did not believe in the Lord Jesus, and not believing in the Lord is sin, and for righteousness, he made the world know the righteousness of God. For judgment, because the king of this world has been judged, and the king of this world is Satan the devil, and he has been judged.
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John 15:9-17 ⁹ “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. ¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. ¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.

John 15:1-8 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. ² He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. ³ You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. ⁵ “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸ This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

Here the Lord Jesus said that He is the true vine, and the Father is the gardener, He cuts every branch that does not bear fruit. The branch does not bear fruit because it does not abide in the vine, and a man does not bear fruit because it does not abide in the Lord. The branches must abide in the vine in order to bear fruit, we must abide in the Lord in order to bear fruit. We cannot bear fruit by ourselves, we must abide in the Lord, reply on the Lord to bear fruit, and without the Lord we cannot do anything. every branch that does bear fruit the Father prunes so that it will produce more fruit, prune means cleanse, the disciples were cleansed because of the words of the Lord Jesus. If we abide in the Lord and the Lord abides in us, that is, we have the Lord’s presence and the Lord’s words abide in us. The Lord answers our prayers. When we bear much fruit, the Father is glorified, and we bear fruit to the glory of God. So what does the fruit represent?
²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23)
Here it talks about the fruit of the Holy Spirit, and the fruit mentioned earlier on one hand represents the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
¹⁰ so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, (Colossians 1:10)
Fruit here means good work, good deeds.
In the parable of the sower, it is said that good soil bears the fruit many times more, and of course the fruit includes helping people to know the Lord by relying on the Lord.
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