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Sermon Outline:
“The Lord’s Prayer” (pt 2) – (John 17:6-12)
Outline:
1. Presents from the Father to the Son (v.6-7)
I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.
2. Precepts Received Produces Belief (v.8)
For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
3. Particular Redemptive Prayer (v.9-10)
I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
4. Preservation and Unity of the Saints (v.11-12)
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Sermon Text:
John 17:6-12
“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Sermon Notes:
Thinking Biblically to Live Holy
In John 17:1-5 Christ prays for Himself; in v.6-19 He prays for His living disciples.
“Manifested your name” means to reveal the Father, His character, and display His perfections.
Psalm 22:22; Eph. 1:4-11; Isaiah 53:10-12; John 6:37-39.
The power of God’s Word: God’s truth received submits to Christ’s authority in belief.
Romans 10:17; Romans 10:13; 1 Pt. 1:23-25; James 1:19-21.
Limited Atonement Prayer: For whom He is propitiation He is advocate; for whom He died, He prays for.
Mt. 5:44; 1 Jn 2:2; Roms. 8:34;
Our divine assurance: kept by God, guarded by the Son.
1 Pt. 1:3-5; Jude 1:1, 24-25
Even Judas’ betrayal was by Scriptures’ decree:
Psalm 41:9, 69:25, 109:8; Acts 1:16-20; John 13:18
