THE
GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
ACCORDING TO JOHN CHAPTER
SEVENTEEN Comment
from Steve Van Nattan: Jesus prays in this chapter. He prays for his disciples,
and if you are born again, he prays for YOU in verse 20. Jesus prays that God
the Father will keep the disciples from being lost, and he then prays that those
who follow after the disciples, believing the Gospel they preach, will be kept
by God. If
Jesus could pray a prayer out of God's will, then you might lose your salvation.
But, since Jesus and the Father are one, Jesus' prayer is in the will of the Father,
and the Father will answer it. You cannot lose your salvation unless God is a
liar. | Steve
Van Nattan's questions are in blue and are NOT inspired and final. You do not
have to agree with Steve. Also, if you do not understand something you are reading,
do not stop and dwell on it too long. Just keep reading and deal with what you
do understand. |
John
17:1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father,
the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
2 As
thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to
as many as thou hast given him.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might
know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
4 I have
glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to
do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory
which I had with thee before the world was.
6 I 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.
7 Now they have known that all things
whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
8 For I have given unto them the
words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely
that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
9
I pray for them: I 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
I am glorified in them.
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are
in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those
whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
12 While I was with
them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept,
and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be
fulfilled.
13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world,
that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them
thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out
of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16 They are
not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through
thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even
so have I also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify
myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 Neither pray
I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that
they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be
one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made
perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved
them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast
given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast
given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous
Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known
that thou hast sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will
declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in
them. __________________________________
Remember
the key verse of John:
John
20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ,
the
Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
Questions
to help you decide if you believe the Gospel in John Chapter Seventeen Do
you believe God will answer Jesus' prayer? Do you understand that this means that,
once you are born again, you belong to God and Jesus Christ forever? Will you
ever again let preachers or priests try to make you believe that you lost your
salvation?
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