The Lord's Day Bible Message Outlines
April 4, 2010
Pastor Dana Johnson
"Father, I desire
that they... may be with Me where I
am...."
-John
17:24
"Father, I desire that they also
whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am,
that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for
You loved Me before the foundation of the
world."
1. Because the
sovereign Father and Son are one, their desires are
one.
2. Notice that Jesus
prays specifically for:
a. Those
given to Him by the Father's sovereign choice.
John
17:9 - "I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but
for those whom You have given Me, for they are
Yours."
John 6:37 - "All that the Father gives Me will come to
Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast
out."
b. Those who
believe.
John
17:20 - "I do not pray for these alone, but also for
those who will believe in Me through their
word."
3. Observe the
sovereign desire of the Son:
a.
That we may
be with Him where He is.
John
14:2-3 - "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it
were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a
place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again and receive you to
Myself; that where I am, there you may be
also."
b. That we may be
eternally amazed as we continually behold the magnificent
glory of Christ.
4. Consider what Jesus
must do, in cooperation with the Father to whom He prays, in
order that His people may be with Him in His
glory.
a. He must
die as a sacrifice, bearing their sins.
John
10:14-16 - "I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep,
and am known by My own. 15As the Father knows
Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for
the sheep."
Isaiah 53:5-6 - But He was wounded for our
transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the
chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His
stripes we are healed. 6All we like sheep have
gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us
all.
b. He must rise
from the dead.
John
10:17-18 - "Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay
down My life that I may take it again. 18No
one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have
power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
This command I have received from My
Father."
c. He must give
eternal life to those He has redeemed.
John
17:2 - "As You have given Him authority over all flesh,
that He should give eternal life to as many as You have
given Him"
d. He must keep and
sanctify them during their stay in the world.
John
17:11, 12, 15, 17 - "Now I am no longer in the world,
but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy
Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given
Me, that they may be one as We are. 12While I
was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name.
Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is
lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture
might be fulfilled. 15I do not pray that You
should take them out of the world, but that You should
keep them from the evil one. 17Sanctify them
by Your truth. Your word is truth."
e. He must make
them one in the Father and Son.
John
17:21-23 - "That they all may be one, as You, Father,
are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us,
that the world may believe that You sent Me.
22And the glory which You gave Me I have given
them, that they may be one just as We are one:
23I in them, and You in Me; that they may be
made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You
have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved
Me."
f. He must
resurrect their sinful bodies and give them new ones.
John
6:40 - "And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that
everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have
everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last
day."
g. "In short," He
must overthrow Satan and overcome the world.
John
12:31 - "Now is the judgment of this world; now the
ruler of this world will be cast out."
John 16:33 - "These things I have spoken to you, that in
Me you may have peace. In the world you will have
tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the
world."
5. Will you be there
with Him beholding His glory?
(All
Scripture quoted is from the New King James
Version)
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