Actually, I think most of my material was taught in class. That happens occasionally.
But his I omitted …
Jesus the Great “I AM” (translating “EGO EIMI” particularly emphasized in John’s Gospel) speaks (in John 17:26) three closing words to His Father … “I IN THEM” in English, but “EGO EN AUTOS” in Greek! Either way, we know (intimately) Jesus God’s Son, His “EGO” at that. (His eternal EGO makes my little ego complete, fulfilled! “He is our life,” Paul preaches in Colossians 3:4.)
The John 17 Prayer ends with a meaningful “hina clause.” a Statement of Purpose. “Father, that (‘hina’ in Greek) the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
Note this. The Upper Room elongated Sermon began way back in John chapter 13. Where another “hina clause” opens the whole Section … “Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that (hina) he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.”
Both Clauses deal with Jesus’ disciples, those who believed on Him! Both these “Purposes” still today rest on our Lord’s Heart … where He is still praying them for us! Yes, from the Father’s Right Hand in Heaven! Our welfare, our “Peace!”
How’s this Word Picture (yet thrilling Reality) of our being made “perfect in one” in Jesus? (Quoting John 17:23.) He is the HEAD of the Church, with us being the body of the Church! (Head and body … organically made as one!)
Oh yes, one more thing …
Heaven is promised us Christians, from the very second we believe in Jesus. Yet Jesus still prays for the Promise to become Reality! (“That they may be with Me,” verse 24.) My point being that God loves it when we remind Him of His previous Words, His Promises!
Ezekiel 36:36-37 verbalizes what Jesus did here …
“Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I WILL DO IT (PROMISE) will do it. Thus saith the Lord GOD; I WILL YET FOR THIS BE ENQUIRED OF (PRAYER) by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.”
Wow!
Now, watch the video if at all possible …
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
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