Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-11-13
THE PRAYER OF CHRIST.
LESSON VII, FOURTH QUARTER, IN
TERNATlONAL SERIES, NOV rs.

Stearns.
Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by
permission of II. s. Hoffman, publisher, Phil
adelphia.
1. "These 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"
g. GAS Thou hast given them power over
all flesh that He should give eternal life to
as many as Thou hast given Him"
In this verse and in verses 6, 8, II, l2, "a
He speaks seven different times of belev
ers as "given to Him by the Father" We
are reminded of chapters vi, 81. X, 30, and of
the chosen ones of this dispensation, in
training for service in the kingdom, when
through the elect church and elect Israel
He will bless the whole world
8. and this is Life Eternal, that they
might know Thee, the only true God, and
Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent"
To know God is better than wisdom, or
might, or riches and is the only thing
worth glorying in, Jer tx, 90, "a "Ile that
| glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. "
4. 81 have glorifed Thee on the earth,
| have finished the work which Thou gavest
| Me to do"
One of His last words on the cross was,
ut is finished" xix, 30) He here seems to
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/ accomplished
8. And now Father, glorify Thou Me
with Thine own Self, with the glory which
had with Thee before the world was"
This is to me one of the simplest and
strongest proofs of the divinity of Christ.
| He here says that He has with the Father
before the world was and shared his glory
Put with this John l. l-3, Col i, rs. II. Heb
|, 2, s, and ! fail to see how any one can
doubt that Christ was God without most
fearful perversion of the words of Scrip
ture. Jer. %, So
G. 81 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"
Jesus did not manifest Himself but the
Father He sought not His own glory, but
the glory of the Father tchapter viii %, 50)
He revealed the Father to those whom the
Father had given unto Him tchapter i, 1S)
Z Now they have known that all things
whatsoever Thou hast given Me are of
Thee"
He had made it so plain to His disciples,
both by words and deeds, that He only
said what the Father told Him to say, and
that all His works were simply the Father
working through Him chapters xii, 40; xiv,
10y, that they could not but believe that He
was sent of God, and that the invisible
God, whom no man hath seen, nor can see,
was manifest in Him q Tim vi, lG; iii, l6,
John xiv, 81. How we should take to heart
the question "What hast thou that thou
didst not receive" Il Cor. iv, y and never
boast as if we had anything or did any
thing as of ourselves.
8. For have given unto them the
words which Thou gavest Me. and they
have received them, and have known sure
ly that | came out from Thee, and they
have believed that Thou didst send Me-"
How kindly in this prayer the Saviour
passes by the unbelief of His disciples
making mention only of their faith Sc
in the letters to the churches in Rev. H.
Iii, He first approves and commends all
that He possibly can in each
o. 81 pray for them. ! pray not for the
world, but for them which Thou hast given
Me; for they are Thine"
10. And all Mine are Thine and Thine
are Mine; and am gloriied in them"
He delights to reassure us that we who
believe in Him are not only His but the
Fathers, not only the Fathers gift to Hin
but His and the Fathers together tchaptel
Y, 29J. a purchased people to show forth
His praises and to glorify God Il Pet. ii, o
margin, Cor vi, 10, 2O) Paul could ties
tify They Elorifed God in me- (Gal i, "a
and by the same power it should he tru,
of us.
II. And now | am no more in the world
but these are in the world and | come tt
Thee"
Holy Father, keep through Thine owl
name those whom Thou hast given Me
that they may be one as we are"
We are committed to Him who is able t.
fol I T,,l . /,
r. v, Guard us from stumbling" ",
are kept by the power of God, who is abl,
to make us stand q Pet. l-5 Rom xiv, A
And we are so to abide in Him that it ma,
be manifest that we are one with Him.
II "While was with them in the work.
kept them in Thy name
Those that Thou gavest Me have kept
and none of them is lost but the son of per
dition that the Scripture might be full
filled"
BY comparing Ps. cix s, and Acts /, 90
we see the Scripture, or one statement o
Scripture, which was fulfilled in Judas
concerning whom Jesus said. Have not
chosen you twelve, and one of you is
devilf' John vi, 70, ~, from which w
infer that he was not given of God, bu
chosen for purpose.
ID, And now come to Thee and thes
! llluBS 1 SPEAK III lne WOTlu, tnaL Lnel
might have My JOY fulfilled in them
selves
In chapter XIV, II, He desired them TO b.
full of joy, also in xvi "a, yet in xvi, 80
He assures them of tribulation, but ex
horts them to be of good cheer Pau
learned to glory in tribulation and inlirm
titles from v, 3. ii Cor. xii, 9, 100, but hi
arm was to show forth the power o
Christ. and his comfort was the glory t
be revealed (Rom. viii 49, The Saviour
joy was also that which He saw befor
Him Heb xii, q and which sustaine,
Him in His sufferings
IA. 81 have given them Thy word; ant
the world hath hated them, because the
pre not of the world even as | am not o
The world"
Is II pray not that Thou shouldst tax
them out of the world. but that Tho,
shouldst keep them from the evil"
Or from the evil one as in the X V. Ii
John v, 10, r. ", it is written that tn
NJ whole world lieth in the evil one. Gu
position then is in the world, not of tn
world, kept by the power of God from tn
evil one