Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-06
THE PRAYER OF CHRIST.
LESSON WI, FOURTH QUARTER, M
TERNATloNAL SERIES, NOV. is.


the hour IL come, glorfy Thy Son. that
Thy Son also may Rlorify Thee"
q "As Thou hast given them power over
all flesh that He should give eternal life 10
as many AS Thou hast given Him"
In this verse and in verses 6, o. II, I2, "a
He speaks seven different times of believ.
ers as ''given to Him by the Father" We
are reminded Of chapters vi, 81; x, 90, 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
g. "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 ,Ier TX, 90, "a. HE that
Rlorieth, let him glory in the Lord"
4. II have glorihed 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
anticipate that which would there be fully
accomplished
8. And now, o 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. /, l6, II, Heb
], 2, 8, and | fail sto see how any one can
doubt that Christ was God without most
fearful perversion of the words of Scrip
ture. Jer %, 49,
9. II 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 (chapter viii 30, so
He revealed the Father to those whom the
Father had given unto Him Chapter i, 49,
Nov 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 xiii 40; xiv,
l0), 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, Is; ill., l6,
John xiv, 9) How we should take to heart
the question "What hast thou that thou
didst not receive" q 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 ddst send Me-"
How kindly in this prayer the Saviour
passes by the unbrlicf of His disciples,
making mention only of their faith. So
In the letters to the churches in Rev. ii,
Ill, He first approves and commends all
that He possibly can in each,
0. 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 glorifed 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 Him
but His aud the Fathers together Chapter
X, 29). A purchased people to show forth
His praises and to Floriry God Il Pet. ii, o,
margin; Cor. Vi, 10, 9O) Paul could ties
tify "They glorined God in men gal /, 24),
and by the same power it should be true
of us.
II. And now am no more in the world,
but these are in the world, and | come to
Thee"
"Holy Father, keep through Thine own
name those whom Thou hast given Me,
that they may he one ~ we are"
We are committed to Him who is able to
keep us from falling tJude 24), or rs in the
r. ", Guard us from stumbling" We
are kept BY the power Of God, who Is able
to make us stand Il Pet. l-5 Rom. xiv, ~.
And we are so to abide in Him that 1t may
be manifest that we are one with Him.
~. while ! was with them in the world
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
filed"
BY comparing Ps, elk, s. and Acts i, 60,
we see the Scripture or one statement Of
Scripture, which was fulfilled in Judas,
concerning whom Jesus said, "tlave not !
chosen you twelve, and one of you ia a
devilp (John vi, 70, ~, from which we
infer that he was not given Of God, but
chosen for purpose.
10. And now come | to Thee, and these
things | speak in the world, that they
might have My JOY fulfilled in them
selves"
In chapter XIV, Ii, He desired them to be
full of Joy; also in xvi, "a; yet in xvi, 80,
He assures them of tribuation, but ex-
horts them to be Of good cheer. Paul
learned to glory in tribuation and inirm.
tiles (Rom V, 3; II Cor xii, Q, lO) but his
arm was to show forth the power Of
Christ and his comfort was the glory to
be revealed O&om. viii, ls). The Sayiour's
Joy was also that which He saw before
Him (ieb. XII, q and which sustained
Him in His sutferings.
II. 81 have given them Thy word and
the world hath hated them, because they
are not of the world, even as | am not Of
the world"
Is. IL pray not that Thou shouldst take
them ont Of the world but that Thou
shouldst keep them from the evil"
Or from the evil one as in the r. v In
John v, 10, r, v, it is written that the
whole world lieth in the evil one, Our
position then is in the world, not of the
world kept by the power of God from the
evil one.
l6 "They are not of the world, even as !
am not of the world"
II. "Sanctify them through Thy truth;
Thy word Is truth"
IS. "As Thou hast sent Me into the
world, even so have also sent them into
the world"
10. "And for their sakes | sanctify My.
self that they also might be sanctified
through the truth"
He was sauctilied or set apart to he ever
about His Fathers business, to do His
Fathers will, to always please His Father,
and TO make atonemeut for the sins OF the
world In all but the last we may be like
Him, and In reference to the last we may
Law down or pour out our lives Ia Inaking
that atouement known 10 others