If Jesus supplied to wish in your behalf, what would you ask Him to wish for? In His Excessive Priestly Prayer in John 17, Jesus prayed for His disciples, distinguishing them from the world, declaring them to be brokers of His glory, and asking the Father to maintain them in His title. Within the following excerpt from the sermon “‘I Am Praying for Them,’” Alistair reminds us what being a real disciple of Jesus entails.
The testimony of a disciple of Jesus is just not “I’ve determined to show over a brand new leaf and clear up my act. I’ve determined to get entangled in church. I wish to get entangled in a group.” The difficulty in all this stuff is all about group, as if group is the reply. It’s what sort of group that you just’re in is the query. So the group teams at Parkside aren’t about getting collectively and singing “Kumbaya” and scratching one another’s backs, however they’re truly about getting collectively and seeing what the Phrase of God has to say, as a result of we wish to abide within the Phrase of God. “Who else would you go to?” they are saying to Him. “There’s no person else we might go to, as a result of that is what has occurred to us.”
The knowledge that … the disciples categorical, is not any mere emotional fancy. The Bible is obvious. Jesus advised the story: The Phrase of God is sown, and the response to the Phrase of God is numerous. In some instances, it’s prompt bloom adopted by prompt fade, a surge of emotion after which adopted by instant collapse …. Then others, after they hear the Phrase of God, they’ll’t wait to get out at remaining hymn, as a result of there’s a scratching at their ears, they usually worry it may be God Himself calling them to Himself, and the satan says, “Get out when you can. Get out quick!” These are these amongst the stones, the place the seed fell. It had somewhat little bit of a motion, however it was gone. After which the others, who alongside the journey of life choked—choked by riches and by egocentric preoccupations and so forth.
The Bible could be very, very clear. Do you imagine? Would you inform your good friend at work that you’ve come to know that God is the residing, loving, looking for, saving God?
You see, if you happen to’re a disciple, you belong—you have been chosen from eternity—you imagine what the Bible says, and also you behave in step with your believing. That’s the reason, you see, the lordship of Christ is stumbled over by many …, as a result of what they determined was the affect of our tradition in relationship, for instance, to LGBTQ—they determined that they’d succumb to that notion reasonably than imagine the readability of the Phrase of Jesus, that they’d readjust their notions of marriage reasonably than imagine what Jesus has mentioned about marriage. And as quickly as that’s opened up as a degree of departure, it’s only a wholesale collapse from that time out.
So, Jesus is praying for His disciples.
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