Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-13
THE PRAYER OF CHRIST.
LESSON VII, FOURTH QUARTER, M
TERNATlONAL SERIES, NOV is.

up His eyes to Heaven and said, Father,
the honr Is come, gorfy Thy Son, that
Thy Son also may glorify Thee"
2 AS Thou hast given them power over
ali flesh that He should give eternal life 70
as many as Thou hast given Him"
In this verse and in verses 6, Q, II, 12, "a
He speaks seven different times of beliey.
ers as given to Him by the Father" We
are reminded Of chapters vi, 81; x, 20, and OF
the chosen ones of this dispensation, in
training for service in the kingdom, when
through the elect church aud 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, %, "a "IIe that
Rlorieth, let him glory in the Lord"
4. 81 have glorined 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, 8O) 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
lie here says that He has with the Father
before the world was and shared his glory
Put with this John t. l-3, Col /, l6, II, Heb
~, 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 o. 36
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- 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, 5OJ
He revealed the Father to those whom the
Father had given unto Him chapter i, 49,
T. NOW they have known that all things
whatsoever Thou hast given Ne 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,
1O, 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 Il Tim vi, rs, iii, lG,
John xiv, 81 How we should take to heart
the question "What hast thou that thou
didst not receiver" q Cor, iv, y and never
boast as II we had anything or did any
thing as of ourselves.
g. "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 So
In the letters to the churches in Rev. ii,
HI, He first approves and commends all
that He possibly can in each.
o. 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 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 and the Fathers together (chapter
X, 29). A purchased people to show forth
His praises and to glorify God Il Pet. ii, 0,
margin; Cor. vi, 10, 2O) Paul could ties
tify "They glorined God in me" (Gal. /, az,
and by the same power it should be true
of u.s.
II. "And now am no moro nthe 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 IA we are"
We are committed to Him who is able to
keep us from falling dude 24), or as in the
r. ", Guard us from stumbling" We
are kept by the power of God, who is able
to make us stand Il Pet. ID Rom xiv, A. |
And we are so to abide in Him that it may
be manifest that we are one with Him.
IL. "While | was with them in the world
kept them In Thy name"
'rhose 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. cix s. and Acts l. 20, |
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 ia
devil2" John vi, 90. ~, from which we
infer thai 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
selves"
In chapter XIV, ii, He desired them to bo
full of Joy; also In xvi "a; yet in xvi, 49, |
He assures them Of tribulation but ex
horts them TO be of good cheer. Paul |
learned to glory in tribulation and inhrm |
tiles (Rom v, B, II Cor. xii Q, 10Y, but his |
arm was to show forth the power Of |
Christ, and his comfort was the glory to
be revealed URom, viii, lS). The Saviour's |
Joy was also that which He saw before
Him (Heb, XII, @ and which sustained |
Him In His sutlerings,
IL 81 have given them Thy word, and |
the world hath hated them, because they
are not OF the world, even rs | am not OF
the world"
10, ~ pray not that Thou shouldst take
them out of the world but that Thou |
shouldst keep them from the evil"
Or from the evil one "a in the r. V. In |
John v, 10, r. ", 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.
16 "They are not of the world, even as |
am not of the world"
IL "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 sanctfv My.
self that they also might be sanctiiiCd
through the truth
, He was sanotifled or set apart to be ever
about His Fathers business to do His |
Fathers will, to always please His Father, |
and to make atonement for the sins of the !
world. In all but the last we may be like
Him, and In reference to the last we may
lay down or pour out our lives In making