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SABBATH SCHOOL.
INT ERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
NOVEMBER 10.
LIE ;son Text: ''Christ's Prayer For
His Disciples" John xviii, 1-10
Golden Text: Heb. viii,
25-Commentary.

1. "These words spake Jesus, and lifted
up His eyes to Heaven and said, Father, the
hour is come; glorify Thy Son, then Thy
Son also may g!orify Thee" These words
the words of chapters xiv, xv., xvi, which
Let not your heart be troubled" and clos
ing with, "Be of good cheer" And now He
turns to His Father for Himself and for
them and for us. This is truly "the Lords
Prayer"
2. ':As Thou hast given them power over
! all flesh that He should give eternal life to as
many as Thou hast given Him." See how
He acknowledges all things as given Him.by
the Father; here He speaks Of power, and in
verse of the words which the Father gave
| Him. We are most like Him when we thus
Glorify God.
3. ''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
| gloritying in.
4. II have glori6ed Thee On the earth; I
have finished the work which Thou gaveth
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 be
fully accomplished. Because Of this finished
work God raised Him from the dead and gave
Him glory Il Pet. j., 2n. His life, death
and resurrection completes the work Of
atonement.
5. land 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 strong
est proofs Of the divinity of Christ. He
here says that He has with the Father be-
fore the world was and shared His glory.
Put with this John, j., 1.3, Col. l., 16, Il,
Heb. j., 2. 8, and fail to see how any one
can doubt that Christ was God without most
fearful perversion Of the words Of Scripture.
Jer. %, 81.
6. Il have manifested Thy name unto the
men which Thou gavest Me out Of the world.
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 will, 90. 50). Herevealed
the Father to those whom the Father had
given unto Him tchapter l.. 49,. And the
highest testimony He could give Of them
was, They have kept Thy word"
Z. Now they have known that all things
whatsoever Thou hast given Me are Of
Thee" He had made it so plain to His dis.
ciples, 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 tchapters Xii,
40; xiv, 10y. that they could not but believe
that He was sent Of God, and that the in
visible God, whom no man hath seen, nor can
see, was manifest in Him II Tim. vi, 16; Ill,
16; John xiv, y.
s. For have given unto them the words
which Thou gavest Me: and they have re-
ceived them. and have known surely that
came out from Thee, and they have believed
that Thou didst send Me-" How kindly in
this prayer the Saviour passes by the un-
belief Of His disciples, making mention only
of their faith. So in the letters to the
churches in Rev. H., ill.,. he first approves
and commends all that He possibly can in
each. We would be more like Jesus If we
acted so with Others, and were more ready to
see, and speak well of, their good points
rather than pick out their failures.
Q. II pray for them. l pray not for the
world, but for them which Thou hast given
Me: for they are Thine" Not only when
on earth did He pray for His disciples Q4uke
xii, 32), but now AZ the right hand OF the
Father He ever lveth to make intercession
for US.
10. And all Mine are Thine and Thine
are Mine; and am glorifed in them" He
delights to reassure us that we who eelieve
in Him are not only His but the Fathers,
not only the Fathers gift to Him but His
and the Fathers together (chapter Z, 29)
II. And now l am no more in the world,
but these are in the world, and 1 come to
thee" For thirty-three years He had been
in the world. "God manifest in the hesh;"
now he would be no longer visible person.
ally, but only in the lives OF His followers;
and as He had revealed the Father, so in
these mortal bodies He would have us re-
veal Him in words and deeds to a world
that cannot see spiritual things.
"Holy Father, keep through Thine own
name those whom Thou hast given Ne. that
they may be one, as we are" We are COM
mitted to Him who is able to keep us from
falling Jude 24), or as in the R. v, Guard
us from stumbling"
12. While was with them in the world
kept them in Thy name" He provided for
them in things temporal and spiritual, he
taught them Of heavenly things. He kept
over all the power Of the enemy, He led them
in the right way.
IL. "And now come to Thee; and these
things speak in the world. that they might
have NV JOY fulfilled in themselves" In
chapter 1v., II, he desired them to be full
OF Joy, also in xvi, "a; yet in xvi, 81, de
assures them Of tribulation, but exhorts
them to be Of good cheer. Paul learned to
glory in tribulation and inirmities (kom.
", 3; II Cor. xii, 9, 10y. but his arm was 70
show forth the power of Christ, and his CON-
fort was the glory to be revealed tRom. Will.
u.s.. 9,
Ia. II have given them Thy word, and
the world hath hated them, because they ars
not Of the world, even as 1 am not OF the
world" It is His word received that give,
us the new birth to begin with Il Pet. l., %:
Jas. j., 49,, and as we continue to receive anil
eat His word we are brought into ever in
creasing opposition to the world.
Is. II pray not that Thou shouldst take
g x1.> 1r1I hut Thnn
shouldst keep them from the evil. In
John ", 10, r. ", it is written that the
whole world lieth in the evil one. Our pas
ition then is in the world, not OF the world,
kept by the power of God from the evil one.
Our part is to put on and constantly wear
the whole armor of God that thus we stand
against the wiles of the devil tEph. vi, II,
49,.
16. "They are not Of the world, even as I
am not of the world" It is very manifest
! that Christ was not OF the world, and He
was cordially hated by the world. But con:
slider for q moment who it was that so hated
Christ and you will see that it WIS not the
world as we generally understand it, but the
religious people who prided themselves on
their Righteousness, and whom Jesus called
the world and the cnildren Of the devil John
viii, AZ. ,
II. 'sSancify them through Thy truth:
Thy word is truth" That which will
cleanse us and separate us from this present
evil world is the word OF God dwelling in US
richly.
is. "As Thou hast sent Me into the world.
even so have Ialso sent them into the world"
He told them in chapter xv.. 9, that as the
Father loved Hin so He loved them, but now
He adds that as the Father sent him SO he
sends them.
19. "And for their sakes l sanctify Myself
that they also might be sauctiaed through