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proper Segins He prays for the disciples
How tt,sv must have remembered this in
later days. We now come TO the second sec
ton.
H. Jesus prays for the disciples Tvs. 600.
The description Of the disciples is, "the men
thou gavest ME out of the world" See v. .
Soft is with all disciples, They are God
given and taken out of the world. He often
points this out John K, 2W. Paul explains it in
, Eph /, I, 5. They had learned from him that
he was, all through, doing Gods will, speaking
Gods words, executing plans Tvs. I, s.. From
v. to v. the imperfect tense is better than
the perfect. The have" is left out. How He
taught this we saw in John xii, 40: xiv, 10 For
them He now prays ". 81, not for the world.
They now needed his iHercesson. At later
time HIS prayer becomes more comprehen-
sive, rs on the cross luke XIII, 81 : now He
is thinking Of those whom God had given
Him. They are thine" they are mine; they
are an interest common TO the Father and
the Son, and they are the means of glorify-
ing the Son. They showed by following
Him how worthy they thought Him, and
would show it later, as his apostles, Can Jesus
say this of us; Paul did this Phil. i, 2,S.
Titus and his associates did this III Cor viii,
%. (See III TheSs i, l0l.
Their position, as He had often told them,
would now be changed. He was not to be
longer in the world in visible form, but they
were to be in it, with all its dangers, tempta-
tons, opposition. He appeals again by name
to the Father to keep them, in His name mot
through, MS His own, SO that 10 enemy could
seize them. So Jesus had kept them by teach
ing, influencing, directing and leading ". ~,
and all are there, and SO far safe, but the
son of perdtion,' Judas, and this was ac-
corling to Scripture. CSee for fuller state
ment of this Acts i, l6-l,; ii. 23) The Scrip
ture seems to be Ps XXxxi, o. He desires
that they may be one in aim, object and feel
ing, us He and the Father We're. Whatever
may be said of "brotherly love- and catho-
LEFTY among churches and denominations
tand too much cannot he said, this relates
to the immediate band of fellow workers,
and should be studied 10y all such. 1t is easy
TO feel kindly to the saints in Asia or Europe
of whom we know only by books. 1t is
different thing to bear with the intirmities of
brr,hren in the same schools, committees,
congregations, with Us Many profess wide
catholicity who are lacking in this oneness
Jesus recalls that He is going to the Father
| ". 49, and says that this audible prayer is
uttered thus by Him that the disciples, by and
| joy. e., the strength and comfort He had
from trusting God-fultilled in them. He
wished them to rely on the Father as He did
One cause of their needing divine keeping (see
Pet i, 81 is that they, having received the
word He gave them and followed Him, had
the hatred of the world. So all will have.
When we say to the world, I'VE obey the
word, not YOU" the world dislikes us. They
10 lao, .Iar of bu
be hated. See Acts iv, 20 They would be
treated III degree rs he was. But he does
not ask their removal by TRANSPORTATION, or
seclusion, or death, but protection from the
evil in it--from doing it, or from suffering
from it. Satan, who tempted Jesus and EN-
ployed Judas represents the evil and so the
revision reads from the evil one Like
Him, they are not of the world; all Chris
tians should remember this. To be His wit
nesSes they needed to be made holy. SO He
asks for this ". II. To make men holy the
first step is to teach them the word. Science
is good, but it cannot fill this place (See l
Pet, i, 222|; l Tim, iii, 49, They go to
represent Him among men rs He repre-
scented the Father ". y. He is the sent of
God" They are the sent Of Jesus Christ
That they were SO much to Jesus Christ is an
argument he can urge on their behalf. "For
their sakeS | sanctify'-that is set apart, |
consecrate-myself, that they also might be
consecrated through the truth, or Fin truth"
Heb tx Is, II will give the explanation Of
this in full See also Titus ii, ~ Jesus |
meant his prophetic work to be continued in |
the world, and these men were to be teachers
of men in his name. So nre all true minis |
ters They have the Masters spirit.
III. Jesus prays for the church universal |
Tvs 2O,2C We now come to n wider view |
stll-all the church TO the end of time Not |
for these alone" but for all who should be-
lieve, etc. ". 2W. Men naturally are selfish. |
Jesus unitcS them by overpowering this
seltishness and teaching love. He desires all
believers to be one in aim, character and I
purpose, as the Father mentioned here u
third time and He are one. This would
prove the reality of His work, the power Of
His spirit, the efficiency of His word. "The
glory" ". ~ Is first, the knowing God, the
likeness to him, and at length presence with
him in resurrection body. This was given
in the covenant to Christ; it is given by
Christ to all his people See in proof, ii Cor.
iii, Is, | John iii, 49, On this spiritual union
he dwells ". 81 as affecting, by the display
of it, the race See how John felt this one
ness Il John i, > how Paul felt it Gal. ii, 2W.
" "A expands the idea of v. % in peculiar
language, Il will" This is his testament,
and the Father is in some sense his executor.
He will have his people ut length with him,
that they may see his glory How Stephen
saw this we learn from Acts vii, 50, 81. tSee
also Thcss. iv ~
When are earnestly and tendcrly be
seechng loveG one, to repeat the name is
natural SO he says Father again, recall
ing also His righteousness, which the world
did not value, did not know Him, in fact
But His righteous servant knew Him, and the
disciplcs-rcprescnting all the church-knew
Him as sending the Saviour. again the i'm
perfect Is better than the perfect) 1t is not
a work completed Jesus describes but one in
progress tSee Rom. iii, 26l Jesus (v.2G,
as He had declared the Fathers name would
continue to declare it, 1t is like our doXology
at the close of IA prayer, ana this for the re-
vealing and maintaining Of divine love in the
hearts OF men by his being there enthroned
Let there be the love of Christ set up there
and it will be a new affection, expellng other
and unworthy desires, 1t is needless 10 de-
fine points to be emphasized where they are
so many and 50 great-The Sunday School