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Commentary on "Partnership With Jesus"
Day 2: Sunday, March 20, 2011 - The Praying Lord
Prayer is an integral and essential part of our growth in Spirit and in Truth. Jesus spent much time in prayer to the Father, it was how he recharged His spiritual batteries. Jesus had to sleep, eat, travel on foot over rugged terrain and to converse with the Father. We should do the same.
In the passage in Mark I’d like to point out that Jesus technically broke the Sabbath by healing on the Sabbath. Of course since He is Lord of the Sabbath He can heal anytime He wants, His ministry was all about bringing in a new type of relationship not dependent on religiosity or the Law.
In the Book of John Jesus prays a special prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane let’s look at it (John 17:1–26):
1 Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said: Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son so that the Son a may glorify You, 2 for You gave Him authority over all flesh; so He may give eternal life to all You have given Him. 3 This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ. 4 I have glorified You on the earth by completing the work You gave Me to do. 5 Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with that glory I had with You before the world existed.
6 I have revealed Your name to the men You gave Me from the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7 Now they know that all things You have given to Me are from You, 8 because the words that You gave Me, I have given them. They have received them and have known for certain that I came from You. They have believed that You sent Me.
9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world but for those You have given Me, because they are Yours. 10 Everything I have is Yours, and everything You have is Mine, and I have been glorified in them. 11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy w Father, protect them by Your name that You have given Me, so that they may be one as We are one. 12 While I was with them, I was protecting them by Your name that You have given Me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled. 13 Now I am coming to You, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy completed in them.14 I have given them Your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world. 15 I am not praying that You take them out of the world but that You protect them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 I sanctify Myself for them, so they also may be sanctified by the truth.
20 I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe in Me through their message. 21 May they all be one, as You, Father, are in Me and I am in You. May they also be one6 in Us, so the world may believe You sent Me. 22 I have given them the glory an You have given Me. May they be one as We are one. 23 I am in them and You are in Me. May they be made completely one, so the world may know You have sent Me and have loved ap them as You have loved Me.
24 Father, I desire those You have given Me to be with Me where I am. Then they will see My glory, which You have given Me because You loved Me before the world’s foundation. 25 Righteous Father! The world has not known You. However, I have known You, asmand these have known that You sent Me. 26 I made Your name at known to them and will make it known, so the love You have loved Me with may be in them and I may be in them.
Starting in verse 20 the prayer is for us, for those who will believe in the future. In verse 23 He says that He is in us. And in verse 26 he asks that the love that God loved Him with may be in us and He himself may be in them.
This all dovetails back to Saturday’s lesson are you truly born again, you must be born again or He will not be in you. If you are born again He WILL be in you because it’s His promise.
With God in you through the Holy Spirit you enter into something far better than a partnership--a relationship.
This Relationship must be nourished by prayer which is having ongoing daily conversations with the Father, by bible study which means seeking His answers by the Spirit through His living word. And by resting in Christ, knowing and trusting that there is nothing more you need to do other than have a loving, daily, relationship of trust and assurance with Him.
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