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A new MP3 sermon from Immanuel URC of DeMotte is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Jesus Prays For Us Subtitle: Jesus High Priestly Prayer Speaker: Roberto W. Rossi Broadcaster: Immanuel URC of DeMotte Event: Sunday Service Date: 6/30/2024 Bible: John 17:20-26 Length: 35 min.

Pastor Royce Ruiz preached from John chapter 17.  Here we see Jesus High Priestly Prayer that he prayed not for the world, but for His Church.  The Church through Christ, glorifies God.

John uses his experience of camel riding on the hill where the ascension took place as a way into – John 17 and Jesus' prayer, Easter and resurrection, the Ascension. All these stories are camel lurch moments and should make us rethink everything.In light of thathow does resurrection/ascension change our present, how does it shape how we live?how does it affect what we see as of utmost importance?The notes can be found here

Matt Whitt

Matt Whitt

Jesus prays unto the Father. This is a high priestly prayer.

Jesus prays unto the Father. This is a high priestly prayer.

Preached at ICC on May 30th, Memorial Day. Today we look at how Jesus prayed: for Himself, and for us as well. Join us!

Each year on the Sunday between Ascension and Pentecost, the Gospel lesson is a portion of Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer, which he spoke the night before his crucifixion. Although he was about to suffer unimaginable torment, his concern was still for his disciples and for us. This prayer is a glimpse into the heart of the One who intercedes for us even now at God’s right hand. Father, protect them! With the hostility of the world around us, with the evils of temptation and indifference and guilt that threaten our souls, Jesus prays for our protection. Our sermon for this weekend is from 1 John 4. Perfect love protects us from fear.

In this message, Pastor Marco examines Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer in John 17 where Jesus prays for Himself and believers for all time.

John 17:23 New International Version 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Today's verse is taken from Jesus High Priestly Prayer, His final prayer before His arrest and crucifixion. Jesus prays for unity among future believers, that the world would know that He was the Messiah, and that they would experience His love. Today, we will consider the importance of unity and love among Christians. If you need someone to talk to that genuinely care about you, your happiness and journey with walking with Christ or if you need prayer, text or call me at (314) 334-6069 or email me at warriorofchrist2021@gmail.com. You don't have to do life alone. Jesus loves you and so do I Also subscribe to my YouTube channel "Up the Price On Your Life Plus TAX&God1st. I have daily videos sharing my testimony as well as videos to encourage and uplift during hard times in life. you can join my private community on Facebook "Up Da Price oN Ya LiFe Den aDD tax" and Instagram "upda_priceonyalife_ngod1st" If God is leading you to sow a seed, they're accepted at Go Fund Me gf.me/u/zbam9k PayPal paypal.me/warriorofchrist2021 https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=E4N37UJ4TFNXS warriorofchrist2021@gmail.com Cash Apps $FashionTips --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/keanna-slater/support

Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me.” John 14:1In John’s Gospel, Chapters 14–17 present us with what is referred to as Jesus’ “Last Supper Discourses,” or His “Final Discourses.” These are a series of sermons given by our Lord to the disciples the night He was arrested. These discourses are deep and filled with symbolic imagery. He speaks of the Holy Spirit, the Advocate, the vine and the branches, the world’s hatred, and these discourses conclude with Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer. These discourses begin with today’s Gospel in which Jesus addresses the coming fear, or troubled hearts, that He knows His disciples will experience.Let’s begin by considering this first line spoken by Jesus above: “Do not let your hearts be troubled.” This is a command. It’s a gentle command but a command nonetheless. Jesus knew that His disciples would soon see Him arrested, falsely accused, mocked, beaten and killed. He knew they would be overwhelmed by what they would soon experience, so He took this opportunity to gently and lovingly rebuke the fear that they would soon face.Fear can come from many different sources. Some fear is helpful to us, such as the fear present in a dangerous situation. In this case, that fear can heighten our awareness of the danger so that we proceed with caution. But the fear that Jesus was speaking of here was of a different kind. It was a fear that could lead to irrational decisions, confusion, and even despair. This was the kind of fear that our Lord wanted to gently rebuke.What is it that causes you to fear at times? Many people struggle with anxiety, worry, and fear for many different reasons. If this is something you struggle with, it’s important to allow Jesus’ words to resonate within your mind and heart. The best way to overcome fear is to rebuke it at its source. Hear Jesus say to you, “Do not let your heart be troubled.” Then listen to His second command: “You have faith in God; have faith also in me.” Faith in God is the cure for fear. When we have faith, we are under the control of the voice of God. It is God’s truth that directs us rather than the difficulty we are facing. Fear can lead to irrational thinking, and irrational thinking can lead us deeper and deeper into confusion. Faith pierces through the irrationality we are tempted with, and the truths that faith presents to us bring clarity and strength.Reflect, today, upon whatever it is that causes you the most anxiety, worry and fear in your life. Allow Jesus to speak to you, to call you to faith and to rebuke those troubles gently but firmly. When you have faith in God, you can endure all things. Jesus endured the Cross. The disciples eventually endured their crosses. God wants to strengthen you, too. Let Him speak to you so that you will overcome whatever is most troublesome to your heart.My loving Shepherd, You know all things. You know my heart and the difficulties I face in life. Give me the courage I need, dear Lord, to face every temptation to fear with confidence and trust in You. Bring clarity to my mind and peace to my troubled heart. Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2021 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.

Text: John 17:20-26 Series: “The Prayers of Jesus” Some years ago, someone sent me a cartoon they thought I would appreciate, and they were correct. It was a cartoon that showed a notice that someone had posted on a church bulletin board, a notice that announced simply, but celebratedly, “213 days without a split!” To appreciate the cartoon, you’d have to have spent a little bit of time in a church. Obviously, the cartoon was a takeoff on those safety notices that get prominently posted in factories as a way of reinforcing everyone’s attention to safety protocols. But in the context of the church, the cartoon clearly was a dig at the tendency of too many congregations to fray and fragment and unravel and divide. How does that happen? How does a congregation that starts out with a vision to be the presence of Christ to their community suddenly become a hotbed of conflict and discord, to the point that they bring nothing but shame to his cause? The answer is complicated because no two churches are alike and the forces that threaten their togetherness are indeed “Legion.” But if there’s one common thread that runs through most of the conflicted churches I have known (and sometimes served), it is their attempt to locate their unity in everything but the one thing that can keep them together, which is of course, Jesus. No church will ever be able to hold things together by agreeing on politics or culture war positions or sports team or even theological viewpoints. The only way a church can rise above all of the things that otherwise could split it up is by grounding its life in Jesus, the one God sent to be the Light of Life and the Church’s True Head. We’re reminded of that truth as we look at this last part of Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer. On this Thursday evening after Jesus had shared his last meal and his last teaching with his disciples, Jesus ends the evening with prayer. He has prayed for himself – that God would honor the sacrifice he would be making at Calvary the very next day and draw others to him and the life God had sent him to bring. He has prayed for his remaining disciples – for their protection and their purity and their unity. Now, he prays for those who will in God’s future come to faith in through the ongoing proclamation of his gospel – people like you and me. “Father,” he prays, “I pray…that all of them may be one. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and (that you) have loved them even as you have loved me.” What’s interesting to me about this part of Jesus’ prayer is how it shows us that the unity of the church is not really because of anything we bring about. It’s not a result of some technique that savvy church leaders take their congregants through. It’s not a program or a plan. It’s not the result of some larger congregational conversation at the end of which the church takes a vote (even though none of those things is inherently a bad thing for a church to do). Instead, the unity of the church, according to Jesus, is more of a gift, a gift from above, a gift that comes about as a result of church members being drawn into the intimacy that exists between God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, who though separate and distinct persons within the Trinity were one in nature and substance. “Righteous Father,” Jesus prays, “I have you known to them, and (I) will continue to make you known (to them) in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.” What Jesus is inviting us to experience is something that is much more “organic” than it is manufactured or invented. Let me explain. The image of a community of believers “completely unified” is like the difference between a living tree and a brush pile. Think about that. Those two things have much in common: they are made of the same material and they both have many branches. But a crucial difference exists between them. The living tree grew by a principle of biological design; the brush pile came about simply because someone threw a bunch of branches on top of one another. The tree is organic and alive. The brush pile is lifeless and meant to be burned. No doubt this is what Jesus was getting at when a few moments earlier, he had said to his disciples in the last of his “I Am” sayings in John’s Gospel: “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; (but) apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire, and burned” (John 15:5-6). In other words, Jesus expects his church to bear much fruit and the only way we can do that is by abiding in him and experiencing the love he shares with the Father, a love he put on display at the cross. What, then, is the fruit that Jesus expects his church to be bearing? Clearly, it is for the church to show this fallen world how Jesus has brought an otherwise disparate and dissimilar people together and made us one body. Especially in a day when so much in life is polarized and people can’t seem to come together over much of anything, for us who look different and think differently and come from different backgrounds to find a common hope and share a common life and to give witness to it in a compelling and contagious way, our unity causes the world to stand up and take notice and ponder the possibilities of what force keeps people together when so many other forces are at work to tear them apart. Our unity points them in the direction of Jesus and is the best evidence we could offer as to how he is indeed the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and whoever believes in him to that effect might have life in his name. Philip Yancey is a popular Christian author. Many of you have most likely read some of his writings. Some years ago, he wrote a column in Christianity Today magazine titled, “Denominational Diagnostics: What I Look for in a Healthy Church.” In the article, he references a conversation with a pastor in India who told Yancey how so much of what happens in a Christian church in India can be duplicated in both Hindu and Muslim congregations there, except for one thing, which is to bring men and women together from different castes and races and social groups. As the pastor told Yancey, “It’s that diversity that causes the church in India to look like a real miracle.” As Yancey thought about his comments, he realized how much diversity complicates life much more than it simplifies it. And it is perhaps for this reason that so many Americans tend to surround themselves with people of similar age and economic class and political opinion and musical taste. But it’s church that offers a place where infants and grandparents, unemployed and executives, immigrants and blue bloods can come together as one body with one purpose. Yancey asks what I think is the question that Jesus was posing to the Father in his prayer: “Where else could anyone go to find that kind of mixture?” So, what are you doing to help unify the Church in general and Mountain Brook Baptist Church in particular? How are you finding it possible to rise above the bias and prejudices, the penchants and the preferences that each of us has in order to come together in the love of God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ to show this divided world a better way to live? One thing is sure: we cannot change the world except insofar as we have been changed ourselves. We can only give away who we are. We can only offer to others what God in Christ has done in us. You know, we could put up a big sign on Montevallo Road that reads: “76 years without a split!” Because we really haven’t had one in the history of this exemplary church. Of course, I’m not sure that the city would let us put up a sign like that. But come to think of it, we don’t need to. We’ve already got something in the front yard of the church that says it all. It’s the cross, which bears witness to the love that has brought us together, the love that has kept us together, and the love that will always make room for everyone God brings our way. Believe it or not, we are the answer to Jesus’ prayer. So, let us go forth in his love that the world might know Jesus, trust in him, and become all that God created it to be. John 17:20-26

After leaving the Upper Room and heading into the Garden of Gethsemane, Christ Jesus brought comfort and encouragement to the Eleven. And then we read these words: When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven . . ..[1] We are now entering into what we often call Jesus High Priestly Prayer. By all accounts it is The Lords Prayer. It is the inner sanctum of the heart of Christ. It is holy ground. Justin Taylor wrote: Jesus high priestly prayer (John 17) is only about 650 words. It takes only 3 minutes and 30 seconds to read it aloud. But it will take all eternity for us to fully understand it![2]

Cory DeForrest (Knappa Location)  Series: Final Hours With Jesus Topic:  Pursue Unity In God’s Truth Core Text: John 17 Recorded: 3/13/21 For more resources check out cconline.cc

Tony Coulombe (Warrenton Location) Series: Final Hours With Jesus Topic: Pursue Unity In God’s Truth Core Text: John 17 Recorded: 3/14/21 For more resources check out cconline.cc

Text: John 17:6-19 Series: “The Prayers of Jesus” The other day Judy and I were rummaging through an antique store with another couple when I came across a collection of commemorative Coca-Cola bottles that were done back in the 1970s to honor a legendary college football coach. Many of you will remember those bottles; some of you may still have one or two. The bottles reminded me of an early “disagreement” with my wife. We were newlyweds in seminary, and we were poor as church mice. We didn’t have two nickels to rub together. The Coca-Cola company had just come out with those commemorative bottles and my dad, being a proud graduate of the school where the coach had earned his fame, thought that I might like to have one, which I did. Truth be told, I was so proud of it, that I set it on the bookshelf next to my seminary textbooks. They were the only two things I owned – the textbooks and the commemorative Coke bottle – and both had a special place in my heart. So, you can imagine my shock and dismay when I came home from classes one afternoon and discovered that while the Coke bottle was still on the bookshelf, it was empty. As I recall, I may have raised my voice a bit when I asked my wife for an explanation, and she may have raised hers as well as she gave it. “I was thirsty. I saw a bottle of Coke. What part of that picture do you not understand?” It was clearly a difference of perspectives. What I saw as something special, something to be set apart, certainly something never to be consumed but only to be seen and appreciated, my wife saw as something that though special was also meant to meet a need. In her way of thinking, just because you set something apart doesn’t mean that you never use it. Because what good is anything if it never serves the real purpose for which it was created? I don’t know where you might come out on that conversation, but Jesus would have agreed with Judy. Some things in life are set apart not just to be different, but to make a difference, especially when there is a pressing need that those very things have ultimately been created to meet. That’s an important lesson we might glean from this part of Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer that is before us this morning from the 17th chapter of John’s Gospel. Last week, we heard Jesus praying for himself, praying that God might honor his sacrifice on the cross so that many might come to know the One True God and the one He had sent to bring them eternal life. This morning, we see Jesus praying for his disciples. We see Jesus thanking God for the privilege God has given him to reveal God’s truth to them. And now, Jesus knows that he is soon to go to the cross and they will be left alone in the world. And so, he prays that they will stay together and even become one, just as he and the Father are one. And he prays for their protection. He prays that God will watch over them by the power of His name, the same power that protected Jesus as he performed those remarkable signs that were to point people in the direction of God. And Jesus prays for one more thing. He prays for their purity. He prays God’s truth will set them free, that it will make their joy complete, and, most importantly, that it will prepare them to go out into a hostile world to pour out their life in obedience to God, just as Jesus is about to do on the cross. “Sanctify them,” Jesus prays. “Sanctify them in the truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself (speaking of his impending death), that they too may be truly sanctified.” In John’s telling of the Jesus story, John puts great emphasis on how the world, though loved by God, is a world shrouded in darkness, and it will only be illumined when it is challenged by the light of life that God has sent forth in Jesus, and in all who belong to Jesus. Which is why we who say we belong to Jesus must never be content to blend in with the world. We are a peculiar people, and our peculiarity is our greatest strength. While on one hand it enables us to stand apart from the world as a distinct and different sort of community, on the other hand it affords us the opportunity to challenge the world as we show them a better way to live, a more abundant way to live, a way that is marked by grace and generosity, not by merit and meanness. This is why Jesus was praying to the Father for his disciples to be set apart. He wasn’t praying for their sanctification so that they might be placed on a pedestal to be spared “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” Jesus didn’t want them to be walled off and sequestered from the trials and tribulations of life. How does Jesus phrase it? “I do not pray that you take them out of the world; I only pray that you keep them from the Evil One.” It’s as if Jesus knew that when his disciples took seriously their mandate to challenge the rules of the old world with the rules of the new world that he would soon bring about, the old world wouldn’t like it and would react to it, but if his disciples were together in the Father’s light as was he, then their light would shine forth in the darkness and the darkness would never overcome it. If I’m not mistaken, it was a year ago that we held our last “normal” church service at Mountain Brook Baptist Church. After that, we went into a transition to online only worship, which we’ve continued to do, even as we have gradually returned to in-person worship. Over the course of that time, we’ve learned a lot of new expressions; have we not? We’ve learned expressions that have helped us to make sense out of the abrupt changes we were forced to make. I think the technical term for those expressions is “neologisms.” Think “pandemic.” Think “essential worker.” Think “quarantine.” Think “PPE,” or “personal protective equipment.” If you’ll think back to the beginning of the lockdowns, it didn’t take long for the country’s supply of PPE to get exhausted. Hospitals didn’t have enough of it. Essential workers didn’t have enough of it. The rest of us struggled to find what we needed to be able to get out in public when we needed to go. It wasn’t that Personal Protective Equipment didn’t exist. It was more the case that no one ever envisioned the demand to become as great as it did. But when the virus began to spread, supplies were quickly depleted, and it took some time, in some cases several months, before everyone could get his hands on what was needed to deal with the virus. But what was the alternative? Leave the equipment on the shelf? Keep it there for essential workers to look at? No, when a need arises, you expend what it necessary to meet it until more becomes available to take its place. And now, you might better understand why Jesus was praying so earnestly for his disciples. “I will remain in the world no longer,” he prayed. “But they are still in the world… So, protect them, Holy Father. Protect them by the power of your name.” Jesus knew that his time had come to go to the cross in completion of the mission God had sent him into the world to do. Now, it was time for the disciples to go out and carry on his ministry, a ministry of love and light, a ministry of grace and truth. That is our ministry and this is our time. So, let us go forth now into the world, or at least our little part of it, to carry on the mission of Christ. Let us be gracious. Let us be generous. Let us be loving and merciful. Let us astound the world by the fullness of our life, as we deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow after Jesus. We are not set apart to be displayed. We are set apart to serve, and even poured out, in the same way as Jesus. So, what part of that picture do you not understand? John 17:6-19

Text: John 17:1-5 Series: "The Prayers of Jesus" Adam Smith is often identified as the “father of modern capitalism.” His major work, titled, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, written in 1776, the same year of our nation’s Declaration of Independence, is required reading in economics classes even today. And yet, Smith was not an economist; he was a philosopher, and most of his writings focused on the natural principles that govern morality and the ways in which we humans come to know those principles and abide by them. One of Smith’s “natural principles” is also one of his most controversial, and that is how every human operates out self-interest. I say it is controversial because of how most of us would like to think that we can rise above self-interest, that we can be selfless and altruistic, but in our natural state we do tend to be driven by what’s best for us, even when we appear to be doing something for others, and to operate from a different place, one that is not in any way motivated by self-interest, requires a transformation of the heart that only God can bring about. That’s a lesson we learn from the prayer of Jesus that’s before us this morning from John’s gospel, the 17th chapter. Our text today is actually a part of a much lengthier prayer that we will be looking at over the next several Sundays, as we draw nearer to Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week. This prayer in John 17 is often called “Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer” because of how it marked by Jesus’ intercession for those whom the Father has given him as his disciples. Jesus, much as did the Old Testament high priests on the Day of Atonement, enters into the presence of God to pray for himself, to pray for his family, and finally to pray for the nation. He prays specifically for their protection and their redemption. But what stands out to me in this first part of the prayer is how on the surface it appears that Jesus, at least in part, is praying out of self-interest. “Father,” he prays, “the hour has come. Glorify Your son…. Glorify me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world began.” What, pray tell, has caused Jesus suddenly to focus on his own fame and honor? If that’s a question that’s creeped into your mind, then it’s because you’re hearing Jesus’ prayer from a completely human perspective, what Adam Smith would call one tainted by self-interest. John’s gospel invites us to hear Jesus’ prayer from an entirely different perspective, from that of one who “in the beginning was with God, and who was God” (1:1-2), from one who was sent by God so that we might behold God’s glory, “the glory of the Only Begotten, full of grace and truth” (1:14). He invites us to follow Jesus as Jesus performs seven signs that “reveal his glory” (2:11) and help us to “behold the glory of God” (11:40). In other words, glory is a signal theme in the fourth gospel, and it refers to the visible display of divine majesty through acts of supernatural power, which as John tells us in his Gospel is precisely what God sent Jesus to do. God sent Jesus to walk a path that would eventually take him to the cross, where in an act of the most noble sacrifice, the very opposite of human self-interest, people might be drawn to Jesus, the Son of Man and the Son of God, be moved to believe in him as the ultimate, definitive expression of God’s love for the world, and through their faith have eternal life (3:15-16). Such is the theological backdrop of this High Priestly Prayer of Jesus, and without it you simply cannot appreciate the power it evokes to transform your own selfish soul. “Father,” he prays. “The time has come.” Here, Jesus is not talking about the time of day; he’s talking instead about how it is time for him to go to the cross. And while Jesus indeed prays for God to glorify him at this time, now you can understand how his prayer is not just for his own fame or renown. No, he prays, “Glorify Your son, that Your Son may glorify You.” What we hear Jesus praying is for God to honor Jesus’ obedience so that his death does not come to be viewed as just one more crucifixion among countless crucifixions that Rome perpetrated against those they perceived might work to threaten their self-interest. Jesus is instead praying that God would turn that “emblem of shame” into a symbol of salvation, which of course God most definitely did. Jesus is praying that his life, which is soon to be devoted to God in death, might be an acceptable sacrifice so that the honor and the glory that belong to God alone may also be his, and that the world might recognize it and believe in it so that through the laying down of his life they might have life and have it in all its fullness (10:10). Do you view the cross of Christ in that light and are you willing to embrace it by setting your personal aims and agendas to the side so that you might give yourself to whatever is necessary to make much of God and His Son Jesus Christ, and to do so for as long as it takes? Are you willing to forego self-interest for God’s interest so that in the process you might follow in the way of Jesus and honor him also with your obedience? Eugene Peterson was a Presbyterian minister who founded a church in Bel Air, Maryland, just north of Baltimore, and stayed there as pastor for some twenty-nine years. Along the way, Peterson had many opportunities to move to another parish, but he always said that Bel Air was precisely where God wanted him and so until the Holy Spirit said otherwise, Bel Air would be where he would stay. I have been blessed by so many of his books, and I would imagine many of you are familiar with his excellent translation of the Scriptures, titled, simply, The Message. There is an expression Peterson used in one of his books to describe the journey of faith. He called it “a long obedience in the same direction.” I like that phrase; don’t you? Peterson uses it to describe how in the face of a prevailing culture that is in love with the quick fix, Christians should take more seriously the example of Jesus, who understood all too well that from the moment he began his earthly ministry, it would lead him to the cross. Once Jesus set out from the wilderness, having been baptized by John the Baptist, there never was a moment when Jesus didn’t understand that in order to fulfill God’s mission, he must be willing to suffer and die, which is why even before that Friday we call “Good,” Jesus could already say to God, “I have brought You glory on earth by completing the work You gave me to do.” What is the answer to that first question posed in the Westminster Shorter Catechism, that summary of Christian doctrine that dates back to 17th century England? “The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.” It’s not to glorify self. It’s not to advance our own interests. It’s to honor God through our obedience, even as did Jesus, and by so doing to bring glory to Jesus as well as the one whom God sent to bring us to eternal life. How do we do that? Not so much by doing great things. Not many of us will ever be in a position to do great things. But we can do small things in a great way, and the best thing we can do is to glorify God by making much of Jesus. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was one of the most sought-after speakers of the last century. Shortly before his death, he was speaking at a large church out in California. When the time came in the service for Dr. Peale to be introduced, the pastor began in this way: “I want to introduce you to the most dynamic person you’ll ever meet in your life. He is exciting. He is positive. He is winsome. He can reach down inside of you more deeply than anyone you’ve ever known. He will give you confidence and courage, and a whole lot of other things you’ve always wanted in life but never had.” Dr. Peale was both astounded and embarrassed. This introduction had blown through the valley of politeness and ascended into the realm of veneration. He had received anything near such an introduction, and he wondered how he should respond to it. And as he was thinking about what he might say, he heard the pastor finish in this way: “The person I’m speaking about of course is Jesus Christ; and here to tell you about him is my friend, Norman Vincent Peale.” An introduction is a small thing, but the pastor did it in a great way. So, go and do likewise, and make much of Jesus so that people may know Jesus Christ and the only true God who sent him that by doing so they might have eternal life. Without question, such a glorious introduction is what Jesus, even now, is praying for you to do. John 17:1-5

In this episode Saso and Ben talk the topic of prayer. Why should we pray? Where should we pray? What and how should we pray? We need to praise Him  When should we pray?  Asking in His name Name it claim it theology Ask in Faith Ask From A Pure Heart What will be changed because you decided to pray? What will God do through your prayers? There is no magic formula for praying. In fact some prayers are simply a few words like “Lord help me”, and some prayers are very carefully thought out like Jesus High Priestly Prayer in John 17. Prayer is simply talking to God. The question is, are you engaging? Is this something you are doing on a regular basis? Support the show (https://abundantlife.fm)

In this episode Saso and Ben talk the topic of prayer. Why should we pray? Where should we pray? What and how should we pray? We need to praise Him  When should we pray?  Asking in His name Name it claim it theology Ask in Faith Ask From A Pure Heart What will be changed because you decided to pray? What will God do through your prayers?  There is no magic formula for praying. In fact some prayers are simply a few words like “Lord help me”, and some prayers are very carefully thought out like Jesus High Priestly Prayer in John 17. Prayer is simply talking to God. The question is, are you engaging? Is this something you are doing on a regular basis? Support the show (https://abundantlife.fm)

In this episode Saso and Ben talk the topic of prayer.Why should we pray?Where should we pray?What and how should we pray?We need to praise Him When should we pray? Asking in His nameName it claim it theology Ask in FaithAsk From A Pure HeartWhat will be changed because you decided to pray?What will God do through your prayers? There is no magic formula for praying. In fact some prayers are simply a few words like “Lord help me”, and some prayers are very carefully thought out like Jesus High Priestly Prayer in John 17. Prayer is simply talking to God.The question is, are you engaging?Is this something you are doing on a regular basis?Support the show (https://abundantlife.fm)

We have a great High Priest who constantly intercedes on our behalf. The Son of God and Man loves you more deeply than you can fathom. He prays for you, that you might walk in the abundant life his death affords you. And in John 17 we get a glimpse into the fullness of his desire for all those who would believe in him. As we dive deeply into the riches of Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer this week, may your heart be awakened and your life be transformed by the riches of God’s love. Our Scripture for today comes from John 17:1-2, and today's worship is All Hail King Jesus by Jeremy Riddle. This Christmas, find the peace God has waiting for you. Get your copy of our printed devotional, Emmanuel,  HERE — and experience God in greater ways in the midst of the holidays! _____ First15 is a daily devotional written and recorded by Craig Denison. If you would like to learn more about the First15 app, books, blogs, videos and our other resources, please visit first15.org. You can always reach out to us on our contact page on the website.  Click here to help even more people encounter God through the ministry of First15.

A new MP3 sermon from Cornerstone Bible Church - Miami is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Is Eternal Life Streets of Gold? Subtitle: Jesus High Priestly Prayer Speaker: Edwin Gonzalez Broadcaster: Cornerstone Bible Church - Miami Event: Sunday Service Date: 9/6/2020 Bible: John 17:1-3 Length: 36 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Reformed Bible Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Made Useful in the World Subtitle: Jesus High Priestly Prayer Speaker: Rev. Mark Baldwin Broadcaster: Reformed Bible Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 5/24/2020 Bible: John 17:17-19, John 17:17 Length: 43 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Reformed Bible Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: "In" but not "Of" the World Subtitle: Jesus High Priestly Prayer Speaker: Rev. Mark Baldwin Broadcaster: Reformed Bible Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 5/17/2020 Bible: John 17:14, John 17:11-16 Length: 55 min.

Nouvelle - Lafayette Church of the Nazarene

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In this final section of Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer, we grapple with the overarching evidence of the believing community’s sanctification: the unity of the church. But what does this unity look like? What is its source, nature, and purpose? Fortunately, we are not left to our own imaginations or desires in answering these questions. Jesus gives us all the answers as He calls us to a unity that flows from our maturity.

Here we explore John 17:20 - 26 as we hear Jesus High Priestly Prayer - For Us. Join your host, Mark Kublank each week for biblical christian topics. Please consider supporting this podcast with a monthly donation at https://anchor.fm/galatians25chriatiantalk click on the Support this podcast tab. Thank You! Next week we continue the in the book of Romans 1. Resources Include: English Standard Bible New American Standard Bible MacArthur Bible Commentary Moody Bible Commentary Blue letter bible (app) Visit us on: Facebook - www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100036359984733 Instagram - www.instagram.com/galatians25christiantalk/ Email - galatians2v5@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/galatians25chriatiantalk/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/galatians25chriatiantalk/support

Luke 17:20-26

John 17:1-19

Jesus’ final words here at the tail-end of the Upper Room Discourse connect directly with Jesus’ opening words at the very beginning of the Upper Room Discourse. As you are about to hear in this PODCAST, Jesus began His parting words to His disciples with this promise: “When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.” That is the beginning of John 14. Jesus added one last exclamation point to it all with this parting prayer: “Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am.” This at the end of John 17. Jesus’ heartfelt emotion in this moment cannot be overstated. These are the heartsick words of a smitten bride-groom about to leave His newly-betrothed bride. His bride with whom He is very much in love. His bride from whom He must now depart in order to — in the words of John 14 — return to His Father’s house to prepare the place where He and bride will dwell together forever. It was back in Podcast #20, at the wedding at Cana, when I first clued you in that when Jesus, in John 14, promised to return to His followers, Jesus painted that promise in the portrait of a Jewish wedding. From the disciples’ point of view, in less than 24 hours, their bridegroom would indeed depart to His Father’s house in order to prepare a place for them. You need to feel it, keenly so, that the dark cloud casting a dreary shadow over entire majestic Upper Room Discourse and Jesus’ glorious High Priestly Prayer is specter of Jesus’ immanent departure. This is in every sense of the words high drama and intense -- very human -- emotion. On a couple of most-significant levels. We are about to gaze directly into Jesus’ sizable soul. And what we are about to discover there is Jesus’ eager anticipation of a bridegroom (that will be fulfilled), coupled with His expression of an expectation that His newly-betrothed bride will historically, dramatically, and devastatingly fail to fulfill. An unconscionable departure from what is clearly the plan, purpose, and will of God, for which the entire world is now paying a very high price. You talk about a clash/collision of contradictory emotions! Welcome to the world of Jesus. Yes, this climax, this high water mark of this Upper Room Discourse is very much the very definition of high drama. Now, just to give you a heads-up as to where we’re going tonight. What you are about to see, in living color, in HD, in real time, is this: When your prayers seemingly go unanswered… When you cry out to God to fix a problem, heal a disease, restore a relationship knowing that such a fix/healing/restoration would meet with God’s approval, but your cries seem to fall on deaf ears… When your faith faces a devastatingly deep disappointment, an unnecessary and totally avoidable set of circumstances, what should be an easily fixable situation into which God for whatever reason does not intervene and does not fix... Know this: Jesus experienced, and continues to experience, all of that, His own disappointment to a degree that we cannot begin to fathom. A devastating disappointment that breaks His heart even to this day. One that breaks His heart -- Hear this -- His own prayers about this very situation notwithstanding. To be blunt: a singularly-important part of Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer has yet to be answered, this after 2000 years and counting. Please remember that depending upon your web browser and connection speed, it may take up to 60 seconds for this podcast to begin to play. God bless you richly as you listen.

Jesus and His disciples have made it to the edge of the city likely standing just outside the gates of Jerusalem in the gathering shadows of the cross. He is on His way to Gethsemane where He will pray alone – in words so fervent that his sweat will fall as drops of blood upon the ground. John gives no account of those moments in the garden where he sleeps while Jesus prays. He does however give us what no other Gospel writer does – a glimpse into the heart of Jesus prayers for His followers then and now. Contained in the 17th chapter of John is what is often called Jesus High Priestly Prayer. The prayer of the Rabbi for His disciples, the prayer of the Shepherd for His sheep, the Prayer of the Father for His children, the prayer of the master for His friends.

This sermon by Dr. Bell is based on Jesus High Priestly Prayer in John 17. He makes several points but focuses on Jesus plea for unity.

Jesus High Priestly Prayer by Rev. William Cwirla

This is a bible study on the intersection of Jesus High Priestly Prayer from John 17 and our mission as a church. Given at Holy Spirit Houston as part of the 2009 Vestry and Wardens Conference in the Diocese of Texas.