The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-11-14
THE PRAYER OF CHRIST
LESSON WI. FOURTH QUARTER, 81
TERNATIonAL SERIES, NOV. IS.

| lCOmpiicu from Lesson Heipcr HuhrtchlA "
permission Of H. s. Hoffman, publisher. Phil
| adeIphia1
| |. These words spake Jesus, and lifted
| up His eyes TO Heaven and said, Father,
the hour = come; glorify Thy Son, that
| Thy Son also may glorify Thee"
q "As 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 9, 0, IL, 10, "a
He speaks seven different times Of believ-
ers as given to Him by the Father" We
are reminded of chapters VI, 81; x, 70, and Of
the chosen ones Of this dispensation. I'm
training FOR service IN the kingdom, when
through The elect church and elect Israel
| He will bless tie whole world.
| 3. And this II Life Eternal, that they
| might know Thee, the only true God, md
| Jesus Christ. whom Thou hast sent Z
| TO know God ii better than wisdom, Or
| might, Or riches, and Ii the only thing
worth glorying in, Jer. TX. %. ~. HE that
| glorieth, let him glory in the Lord"
| T. II have gloriied 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 finishedp xix, 30). He here seems to
anticipate that which would there be fully
accomplished.
5. "And now, o Father, glorify Thou Me
| with Thine own Self, with the glory which
l 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 !, 1-3. Col. !, 10, IL, Heb.
!, 2, 8, and / fail to see how any one can
doubt that Christ was God without most
fearful perversion Of the words OF Scrip
ture.S Jer. 20, 3D.
O. II have manifested Thy name unto
the men which Thou gavest Me out Of the
world. Thine they were and Thou gavest
them Me, md they have kept Thy word "
Jesus did not manifest Himself but the
Father. He sottght not His own glory, but
the glory Of the Father lchapter viii. 20, 50).
He revealed the Father TO those whom the
Father had given unto Him tchapter /, 49,.
Z Now they have known that all things
whatsoever Thou hast given Me are OF
Thee"
He Ind 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,
was sent Of God, and that the invisible
God, whom no man hath seen, nor can see,
was manifest in Him e Tim vi, 10; iii, 10;
John xiv, 81. How we should take to heart
| the question "What hast thou that thou
didst not receiver" Il Cor. iv, y and never
boast as II we had anything or did any
thing as Of ourselves.
s. For / have given unto them the
words which Thou gavest Me; and they
| have received them, and have known sure
| ly that ! came cut from Thee, and they
have believed that Thou didst send Mel
How kindly In this prayer the Saviour
passes by the unbelief Of His disciples,
making mention only of their faith So
| In the letters to the churches in Rev. ii,
! iii, He first approves and commends all
| that He possibly can in each
8. II 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 glorified 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 and the Fathers together (chapter
X, 29). A purchased people to show forth
His praises and to glorify God Il Pet. ii, 9,
margin; Cor. vi 10, 20). Paul could tes-
tify They gloriied God in me- (Gal i, 24),
and by the same power it should be true
/ of u.s.
II. And now am no more in the world,
but these are in the world, and come to
I Thee"
Holy Father, keep through Thine own
name those whom Thou hast, given Me,
that they may be one as we are"
i i ~. ~. \. ~
keep us from falling Jude az. or as in the
X. ", Guard us from stumbling" We
are kept by the power OF God, who is able
to make us stand Il Pet. Is Rom. xiv, A..
And we are so to abide in Him that it may
be manifest that we are one with Him
4 10. while Twas 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
4 filed"
BY comparing Ps. elk, s. and Acts /, 90
we see the Scripture, or one statement Of
Scripture, which was fulfilled in Judas,
concerning whom Jesus said, Have not
chosen you twelve, and one Of you Is a
devilf' John vi, 20, ~, from which we
infer that he was not given OF God, but
chosen for purpose.
ID. 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, 3S,
He assures them of tribulation, but en-.
horts them to be of good cheer. Paul
learned to glory in tribulation and infirm.
tiles (Rom. 10; II Cor. xii. 8, 10Y, but his
arm was to show forth the power Of
Christ, and his comfort was the glory to
be revealed (Rom. viii, 49,. The Saviour's
joy was also, that which He saw before
4 Him (Heb. XII. q and which sustained
Him in His sufferings
IA. II have given them Thy word; and
the world hath hated them, because they
4 are not of the world, even as am not Of
the world,
Is. II pray not that Thou shouldst take
them out of the world. but that Thou
shouldst keep them from the evil.'
Or from the evil ops rs in the r. V. In
X John v, 49, r. ", it is written that the
whole world lieth in the evil one Our