Prayer for protectin from all attacks of the enemy for me and all of my family members and loved ones in Lord Jesus Christ Name, and I connect this to all who connects for them as individuals and their loved ones and family members and I ask that you all pray as led by the Holy Ghost in Lord Jesus Christ Name, amen. Thank you all for being consistent in prayers and praying as led.
Q: "The reference to Zion travailing in labor the Spirit sets forth in a vision and it is assigned to John and not to Isaiah? Who does the woman clothed with the sun represent? What is the significance of Zion and man child in Isaiah ch. 66?"
A:
Let us take the verse " Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child." Before refers to the phrase, 'In the beginning'. Ge.1:1)The foregoing verses prove that it is so. It is about the heaven and is a throne and God asks,"And where is the place of my rest?"(66:1,7). The v.7 makes it clear that the man child has to do more with the covenant God enters with the Man, (Ge.ch.1) leading to the rest of God in Ge.2:1. Forget about the nation of Israel or about the church of God on the earth.
Now for the verse from the vision, in Re.12:2 "And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, ". Who is she? The woman is the mother of all living and her travail is on account of man's sin of disobedience. (Ge.3:16,20)
"Before she travailed she brought forth" is the voice of the Lord and it has a sign. Death on the cross is obliquely stated but the foundation is a stone, "Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone"(Is.28:16)
"And she brought forth a man child,"(Re.12:5) The man refers to the covenant he represents soul of every believer who abides in him. It is preserved in heavenly places which explains the unseen world of the divine Will. His soul body and spirit made man as one. (Ph.2:6-7) Inner man is a proof this sanctification:" For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one". It explains the redemption of our bodies. (Ro.8:23). Thus our faith has its upper end where we abide in Jesus Christ while we are in our bodies, "but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." That is faith with works. (Ro.12:1-2)
Please pray for me and my daughters and their families today please pray for my daughter Jessica she is traveling this weekend pray she has a safe trip , please pray for my mother
"Has the Spirit worded the birth of Cain to indicate that the first man was earthy? Apparently Eva names him to indicate the truth of Pauline dictum in 1 Co.15:47. (Ge.4:1) By the same token would you say Eve called Seth the one appointed by God after the similitude of the Word?"
A:
Similitude as a principle works between the unseen world and the world made to appear so one may say appointed by God .(He.11:3).The The same conflict between body and the spirit of man has their context in the creation. The word of God frames the worlds, which is the sound and also a sign. Thus the Word made flesh is the key to understand the nature of Similitude. God a Spirit, the Voice of the Lord and is also a sign. (Is.7:14) Similitude brings all knowledge of the holy as understanding so only faith can settle the matter. (Pr.9:10) Eve understood the role of Seth without having to be told or put in so may words, Seth was appointed by God to be after the similitude of the lord from heaven, "the second man is the Lord from heaven.". Why second man? Seth is after the likeness of Jesus Christ. The word is already set. "that in all things he might have the preeminence. (Col.1:18) The covenant where man is created "after our likeness" explains the similitude. Jesus Christ the Lord from heaven represent man in the everlasting covenant.
This also explains the significance of 'Abide in me" aspect of the Similitude. "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out"( John 6:37). What it is do the work of God but believe in the one whom he sent. Those who abide in him are dead to world of sin and are in heavenly places. The Mahanaim experience of Jacob tells we live simultaneously in two places so St Paul would despair, "knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:/(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"(Ge.32:1-2. 2 Co.5:6-7)
This is the day that the Lord has made I shall rejoice and be glad in it. I want to send a prayer up for two family members that are in the hospital in the ICU . I pray that God is amongst them and if it so that they be healed in Jesus name. If he did it for me he can do it for others. I pray that they have accepted the Lord Jesus as they Savior in Jesus name I pray. Thank you prayer warriors for doing what y'all do may God bless you.
Tomorrow my husband, Joseph, goes in for gall bladder surgery. He also has heart condition and a cage around his spine. Pray for my dear husband and give him the strength of St. Jerome to heal himself with Jesus' help.
I continue to ask for extra strong protection and breakthrough (esp. salvation of unsaved loved ones, deliverance, healing and infilling with the Holy Spirit) for us and all in need. Thank you.
Prayer for a Blessed day and that The LORD will Bless me to meet and date my future spouse in Lord Jesus Christ Name, amen. I ask that we meet and it works out very well and I will not be hindered in talking to her but I will be confident and able to get her number and it works out well in Lord Jesus Christ Name, amen. Prayer that my family I pray for daily and often have a very good day including me and my loved ones and everyone who connects and their loved ones they have on their hearts in Lord Jesus Christ Name, amen. Thank you all for your prayers and your willingness to pray and intercied for me and my loved ones.
Q:"How valid is the assertion that Jesus Christ epitomises God and the Law of the Spirit in the everlasting covenant? Can you give a coherent example?"
A:
God created Man "in our image and after our Likeness" Whosoever may enter into this Fellowship of God with his Son has to meet both requirements. Man with his tripartite nature possess body, spirit and soul. It only refers to 'in our image'. After our likeness applies to the Word or the Law which was with God and was God. God a Spirit where the Father Son relation places Jesus Christ as the soul component so when God sent him as the Word made flesh. So John refers the Son of man as "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory)" and "And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace."((1:14-16) Jesus Christ is the face of the Law of the Spirit, in bodily form. In being conformed to the image of his Son set Christ as the Head of the body. So after his likeness explains our groying from glory to glory. (2 Co.3:18)
The Psalm 139 delineated by David sets this aspect of soul and David himself is set "a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do."(Ac.13:22)
A few examples we shall consider:"Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me." (139:3) The sovereignty of soul is with God. 'Behind and before' refer to the worlds unseen and made to appear. Laid thine upon me' is David's confession that he is blessed in the covenant.(Ge.1:28) " Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?/If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there./If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;/Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me." Here we see David identifying with death and resurrection of his Son. So his soul is after his likeness,- and as God says, "he will do everything I want him to do."
I left out inadvertently the last line, and a crucial one. "then began men to call upon the name of the Lord." What does the Spirit refer with the word, "then"? (4:25) It refers to the phrase 'In the beginning"( John 1:1) and the day decreed for the Son. "for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."(Ge.2"17) It is part of the generation of Jesus Christ.
Q:"Seth is mentioned only twice after his life is told. In Ge.Ch. 4 he seems 'as appointed by God' to serve the same office as Jesus the branch. Can you explain?
A:Out of the root of Jesse we have a Branch, "and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:"(Is.11:1) Certainly a Messianic prophecy which is applied to Seth as well. God's curse on serpent, "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel," is basically the enmity of the Law of the Spirit and the law of sin. (Ge.3:15) Serpent was cursed under the head of the latter. The sons of perdition arises from this point. Evidence of this enmity we have in this line, "And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel."(He.12:24) Abel's blood cries for vengeance while Seth quietly stepping into the breach made by Cain is after his likeness.' God sets his after our image, the soul aspect. Whereas Seth serves as the role of fulfilling what Jesus would have done, When God calls David as a man after my heart. "'I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do."(Ac.13:22)
Eve chooses the name Seth inspired by the word as he does as Jesus Christ the Word made flesh would have done. " For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew."(4:25)"Another seed refers to the sons of God (Ro.8:14) while Seth is according to the flesh, son of Adam,' after his likeness'. Salvation offered by Jesus refers to the generation of Jesus Christ. (Matt.1:1). The Spirit sets the context by the life of Seth, by delineating a holy family, appointed by God' another seed.
Hello. I am currently trying to work through some questions I have that at first blush don't seem important, but which have served to cause a huge amount of doubt for me. Can someone explain why there are people who believe that Enoch was taken to heaven and other who do not believe this? I read an answer to this earlier and now I wonder how much of the Bible could have been damaged by people who may have changed a word here and there to suit their views when it was translated. (Old argument, I know but the difference is that I have ALWAYS believed the Bible w/o question. Something lately has caused a good bit of doubt and I want to fix it.
John 17:24 - Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Father, I will, (literally I wish), I desire, that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; in order that they may behold my glory. And the word "behold" is the word view, to actually see the very substance and nature and character of God Himself.
John 18:1 - When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
It says, when Jesus had spoken these words, and that would be everything in Chapters 13 through 17 ending off with the prayer.
But when Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth (or went out) with His disciples over the brook Cedron. This would be the Kidron Valley right between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives.
It's called the Brook Kidron (or Cedron) because it flows in the winter time, and that's what the word "brook" means in Greek. It means winter flow. So, over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden. And this is at the foot or the base of the Mount of Olives, into which He entered, and His disciples. This is the place where Jesus spent many of his evenings with the disciples.
John 18:2 - And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
And Judas also, which betrayed Him. And in the Greek text, the word "betrayed" is a Present Participle, the one who is in the process of betraying Him. He knew the place: Judas had gone there many times before with Jesus and the disciples.
For Jesus often times resorted (or gathered) there with his disciples.
So, He knew that Judas had gone out. He's finished instructing the disciples. So, He goes to the garden where Judas knows where to find Him.
John 17:20 - Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
Neither pray I for these alone, (or only), but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; Wow! So, I am not just praying for these that I have right here that the Father's given to me, but also for those who are going to believe, not on me, but INTO me.
That is the literal translation. In the Greek, what it shows is activity. The activity is surrender, not believe about Him, but believe INTO Him, giving my trust over to Him, surrender!
But look at the instrument by which we believe. We believe into Christ through their word. That is what we are doing right now. We have the word of the apostles that Jesus prayed for, so that through their word, God might reach us with their witness and with their testimony.
John 17:22 - And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given to them; (That's the substance, the person), that they may be one, even as we are one:
Interesting, the word "one" in the Greek is a Neuter. So, it's not one in person, but one in function.
John 17:23 - I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
The word perfect is the word complete, and it is a Perfect Tense which means it is a condition. We are complete in Christ. That's why at the beginning of Ephesians Chapter 4, it talks about (keeping) the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace.
We already have unity! You hear people preaching today talking about "We need to work hard at the unity." No, we already have it. If you have Christ, and I have Christ, we have unity! The problem is that we need to be sensitive to what we're doing that is interfering with that. We already have it. We don't create it!
John 17:12 - While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
While I was with them in the world, I was keeping them. Notice the literal translation. When He asked the Father in Verse 11 to keep, that's the word TEREO. "Father, guard them from outside influences taking them away from me!" In Verse 12, He says I was keeping them, (Imperfect Tense) showing continuous activity in the past. So, While I was with them, I was keeping them in thy name: those that thou gavest to me.
Then He says, I have kept, and here is a different word, PHULASO. Jesus said I guarded them so that they wouldn't get away from me, and I guarded so that no influences would come and take them away from me, and none of them is lost, not one, except the son of perdition; and perdition means destruction.
John 17:13 - And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
In the Greek, the word "my" in this verse is not the normal word for my. This is a Possessive Adjective, "mine joy." That is how it is literally translated. If he gives me His joy, He gives me Himself! He says it is mine. It is not yours, but I want you to be filled with it, (mine joy), the joy that is mine. And I mentioned this before, but the word joy means satisfaction.
John 17:17 - Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Sanctify them through thy truth: literally in Thy truth, thy word is truth. Wow, that's a command! Sanctify them, in your truth.
The word "sanctify" means to set apart, to separate. It comes from the word HAGIOS. When the Holy Spirit, and the word "holy" which also comes from the same word (HAGIOS) means separate, or set apart, but when the Holy Spirit comes into my life, my life is said to then be set apart for Christ. It is called sanctification.
John 16:27 - For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Interesting, because that is not the word AGAPE. And this is one of the few times that Jesus used the word PHILEO to talk about His relationship with the Father and the Father's relationship with us. Both times, it is PHILEO.
For the Father himself loves you, PHILEO (family love), because you have loved me (Perfect Tense PHILEO), family love. Remember, He told them before I called you friends. We are family now. We are not rabbi and student, and you have believed that I came out from God.
John 16:31 - Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
Interesting, the word "now" doesn't mean now at the present time. It means "up till now." It is the word ARTI. Have you believed up till now?
John 17:2 - As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
First of all, the Son is glorified in the Father, and the Father is glorified in the Son, and that the Father has given to the Son authority "over" all flesh.
Literally, in the Greek text, He has given Him authority OF all flesh. There is no word "over!" It is a Genitive Case which shows possession. The Son has been given authority by the Father to possess all flesh. Every human being is under the authority of Christ. John Chapter 5 tells us that the Father has transferred all authority to the Son. We are to honor the Son equally as we honor the Father.
John 16:20 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Jesus says to them that they will weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. He's talking about the crucifixion. The world is going to celebrate getting rid of Jesus. But they (the disciples) will weep and lament. And the world will rejoice and ye shall be sorrowful, and again, sorrowful is the word grief in the Greek text.
Jesus is telling His disciples that they're going to be so pained, and that pain is going to be so deep within you that you can't even express it, but your grief shall be turned into joy. Jesus gives an illustration in Verse 21.
John 16:21 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
A woman when she is in travail, she has sorrow. And that is the word LUPAE, (grief), because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish. And this is the word THLIPSIS that means stress, on account of the joy that a man or baby is brought into the world.
So, He's using the proverbial expression that as a woman is going through her labor pains, and has not given birth yet, she's in excruciating pain, and that's the focus of the hour. But after the child is born, the joy of the child being born, just the almost, but not completely, erases all the pain of the past.
1 Timothy 2:5,
Hebrews 12:24,
Proverbs 3:5 kjv.
Q: "The reference to Zion travailing in labor the Spirit sets forth in a vision and it is assigned to John and not to Isaiah? Who does the woman clothed with the sun represent? What is the significance of Zion and man child in Isaiah ch. 66?"
A:
Let us take the verse " Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child." Before refers to the phrase, 'In the beginning'. Ge.1:1)The foregoing verses prove that it is so. It is about the heaven and is a throne and God asks,"And where is the place of my rest?"(66:1,7). The v.7 makes it clear that the man child has to do more with the covenant God enters with the Man, (Ge.ch.1) leading to the rest of God in Ge.2:1. Forget about the nation of Israel or about the church of God on the earth.
Now for the verse from the vision, in Re.12:2 "And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, ". Who is she? The woman is the mother of all living and her travail is on account of man's sin of disobedience. (Ge.3:16,20)
"Before she travailed she brought forth" is the voice of the Lord and it has a sign. Death on the cross is obliquely stated but the foundation is a stone, "Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone"(Is.28:16)
"And she brought forth a man child,"(Re.12:5) The man refers to the covenant he represents soul of every believer who abides in him. It is preserved in heavenly places which explains the unseen world of the divine Will. His soul body and spirit made man as one. (Ph.2:6-7) Inner man is a proof this sanctification:" For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one". It explains the redemption of our bodies. (Ro.8:23). Thus our faith has its upper end where we abide in Jesus Christ while we are in our bodies, "but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." That is faith with works. (Ro.12:1-2)
"Has the Spirit worded the birth of Cain to indicate that the first man was earthy? Apparently Eva names him to indicate the truth of Pauline dictum in 1 Co.15:47. (Ge.4:1) By the same token would you say Eve called Seth the one appointed by God after the similitude of the Word?"
A:
Similitude as a principle works between the unseen world and the world made to appear so one may say appointed by God .(He.11:3).The The same conflict between body and the spirit of man has their context in the creation. The word of God frames the worlds, which is the sound and also a sign. Thus the Word made flesh is the key to understand the nature of Similitude. God a Spirit, the Voice of the Lord and is also a sign. (Is.7:14) Similitude brings all knowledge of the holy as understanding so only faith can settle the matter. (Pr.9:10) Eve understood the role of Seth without having to be told or put in so may words, Seth was appointed by God to be after the similitude of the lord from heaven, "the second man is the Lord from heaven.". Why second man? Seth is after the likeness of Jesus Christ. The word is already set. "that in all things he might have the preeminence. (Col.1:18) The covenant where man is created "after our likeness" explains the similitude. Jesus Christ the Lord from heaven represent man in the everlasting covenant.
This also explains the significance of 'Abide in me" aspect of the Similitude. "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out"( John 6:37). What it is do the work of God but believe in the one whom he sent. Those who abide in him are dead to world of sin and are in heavenly places. The Mahanaim experience of Jacob tells we live simultaneously in two places so St Paul would despair, "knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:/(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)"(Ge.32:1-2. 2 Co.5:6-7)
In God's name we pray.
Jennifer Herrera
Hebrews 4:16 kjv.
2 Tim 3:16,
Ps 119:104-105.
thank you.
and a light unto my path.
Lord Jesus, I present Natasha's needs to you.
And my own also. Help us to leave them in
Your safekeeping. You alone understand.
Thank You for Your Faithfulness and Perfect
Will . For Your Strength for Natasha on this
new day. Alleluia. Amen.
God bless you Natasha.
Q:"How valid is the assertion that Jesus Christ epitomises God and the Law of the Spirit in the everlasting covenant? Can you give a coherent example?"
A:
God created Man "in our image and after our Likeness" Whosoever may enter into this Fellowship of God with his Son has to meet both requirements. Man with his tripartite nature possess body, spirit and soul. It only refers to 'in our image'. After our likeness applies to the Word or the Law which was with God and was God. God a Spirit where the Father Son relation places Jesus Christ as the soul component so when God sent him as the Word made flesh. So John refers the Son of man as "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory)" and "And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace."((1:14-16) Jesus Christ is the face of the Law of the Spirit, in bodily form. In being conformed to the image of his Son set Christ as the Head of the body. So after his likeness explains our groying from glory to glory. (2 Co.3:18)
The Psalm 139 delineated by David sets this aspect of soul and David himself is set "a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do."(Ac.13:22)
A few examples we shall consider:"Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me." (139:3) The sovereignty of soul is with God. 'Behind and before' refer to the worlds unseen and made to appear. Laid thine upon me' is David's confession that he is blessed in the covenant.(Ge.1:28) " Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?/If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there./If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;/Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me." Here we see David identifying with death and resurrection of his Son. So his soul is after his likeness,- and as God says, "he will do everything I want him to do."
Q:"Seth is mentioned only twice after his life is told. In Ge.Ch. 4 he seems 'as appointed by God' to serve the same office as Jesus the branch. Can you explain?
A:Out of the root of Jesse we have a Branch, "and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:"(Is.11:1) Certainly a Messianic prophecy which is applied to Seth as well. God's curse on serpent, "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel," is basically the enmity of the Law of the Spirit and the law of sin. (Ge.3:15) Serpent was cursed under the head of the latter. The sons of perdition arises from this point. Evidence of this enmity we have in this line, "And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel."(He.12:24) Abel's blood cries for vengeance while Seth quietly stepping into the breach made by Cain is after his likeness.' God sets his after our image, the soul aspect. Whereas Seth serves as the role of fulfilling what Jesus would have done, When God calls David as a man after my heart. "'I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do."(Ac.13:22)
Eve chooses the name Seth inspired by the word as he does as Jesus Christ the Word made flesh would have done. " For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew."(4:25)"Another seed refers to the sons of God (Ro.8:14) while Seth is according to the flesh, son of Adam,' after his likeness'. Salvation offered by Jesus refers to the generation of Jesus Christ. (Matt.1:1). The Spirit sets the context by the life of Seth, by delineating a holy family, appointed by God' another seed.
John 17:24 - Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Father, I will, (literally I wish), I desire, that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; in order that they may behold my glory. And the word "behold" is the word view, to actually see the very substance and nature and character of God Himself.
John 18:1 - When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
It says, when Jesus had spoken these words, and that would be everything in Chapters 13 through 17 ending off with the prayer.
But when Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth (or went out) with His disciples over the brook Cedron. This would be the Kidron Valley right between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives.
It's called the Brook Kidron (or Cedron) because it flows in the winter time, and that's what the word "brook" means in Greek. It means winter flow. So, over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden. And this is at the foot or the base of the Mount of Olives, into which He entered, and His disciples. This is the place where Jesus spent many of his evenings with the disciples.
John 18:2 - And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
And Judas also, which betrayed Him. And in the Greek text, the word "betrayed" is a Present Participle, the one who is in the process of betraying Him. He knew the place: Judas had gone there many times before with Jesus and the disciples.
For Jesus often times resorted (or gathered) there with his disciples.
So, He knew that Judas had gone out. He's finished instructing the disciples. So, He goes to the garden where Judas knows where to find Him.
John 17:20 - Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
Neither pray I for these alone, (or only), but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; Wow! So, I am not just praying for these that I have right here that the Father's given to me, but also for those who are going to believe, not on me, but INTO me.
That is the literal translation. In the Greek, what it shows is activity. The activity is surrender, not believe about Him, but believe INTO Him, giving my trust over to Him, surrender!
But look at the instrument by which we believe. We believe into Christ through their word. That is what we are doing right now. We have the word of the apostles that Jesus prayed for, so that through their word, God might reach us with their witness and with their testimony.
John 17:22 - And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given to them; (That's the substance, the person), that they may be one, even as we are one:
Interesting, the word "one" in the Greek is a Neuter. So, it's not one in person, but one in function.
John 17:23 - I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
The word perfect is the word complete, and it is a Perfect Tense which means it is a condition. We are complete in Christ. That's why at the beginning of Ephesians Chapter 4, it talks about (keeping) the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace.
We already have unity! You hear people preaching today talking about "We need to work hard at the unity." No, we already have it. If you have Christ, and I have Christ, we have unity! The problem is that we need to be sensitive to what we're doing that is interfering with that. We already have it. We don't create it!
John 17:12 - While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
While I was with them in the world, I was keeping them. Notice the literal translation. When He asked the Father in Verse 11 to keep, that's the word TEREO. "Father, guard them from outside influences taking them away from me!" In Verse 12, He says I was keeping them, (Imperfect Tense) showing continuous activity in the past. So, While I was with them, I was keeping them in thy name: those that thou gavest to me.
Then He says, I have kept, and here is a different word, PHULASO. Jesus said I guarded them so that they wouldn't get away from me, and I guarded so that no influences would come and take them away from me, and none of them is lost, not one, except the son of perdition; and perdition means destruction.
John 17:13 - And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
In the Greek, the word "my" in this verse is not the normal word for my. This is a Possessive Adjective, "mine joy." That is how it is literally translated. If he gives me His joy, He gives me Himself! He says it is mine. It is not yours, but I want you to be filled with it, (mine joy), the joy that is mine. And I mentioned this before, but the word joy means satisfaction.
John 17:17 - Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Sanctify them through thy truth: literally in Thy truth, thy word is truth. Wow, that's a command! Sanctify them, in your truth.
The word "sanctify" means to set apart, to separate. It comes from the word HAGIOS. When the Holy Spirit, and the word "holy" which also comes from the same word (HAGIOS) means separate, or set apart, but when the Holy Spirit comes into my life, my life is said to then be set apart for Christ. It is called sanctification.
John 16:27 - For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Interesting, because that is not the word AGAPE. And this is one of the few times that Jesus used the word PHILEO to talk about His relationship with the Father and the Father's relationship with us. Both times, it is PHILEO.
For the Father himself loves you, PHILEO (family love), because you have loved me (Perfect Tense PHILEO), family love. Remember, He told them before I called you friends. We are family now. We are not rabbi and student, and you have believed that I came out from God.
John 16:31 - Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
Interesting, the word "now" doesn't mean now at the present time. It means "up till now." It is the word ARTI. Have you believed up till now?
John 17:2 - As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
First of all, the Son is glorified in the Father, and the Father is glorified in the Son, and that the Father has given to the Son authority "over" all flesh.
Literally, in the Greek text, He has given Him authority OF all flesh. There is no word "over!" It is a Genitive Case which shows possession. The Son has been given authority by the Father to possess all flesh. Every human being is under the authority of Christ. John Chapter 5 tells us that the Father has transferred all authority to the Son. We are to honor the Son equally as we honor the Father.
John (Part 31):
John 16:20 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Jesus says to them that they will weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. He's talking about the crucifixion. The world is going to celebrate getting rid of Jesus. But they (the disciples) will weep and lament. And the world will rejoice and ye shall be sorrowful, and again, sorrowful is the word grief in the Greek text.
Jesus is telling His disciples that they're going to be so pained, and that pain is going to be so deep within you that you can't even express it, but your grief shall be turned into joy. Jesus gives an illustration in Verse 21.
John 16:21 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
A woman when she is in travail, she has sorrow. And that is the word LUPAE, (grief), because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish. And this is the word THLIPSIS that means stress, on account of the joy that a man or baby is brought into the world.
So, He's using the proverbial expression that as a woman is going through her labor pains, and has not given birth yet, she's in excruciating pain, and that's the focus of the hour. But after the child is born, the joy of the child being born, just the almost, but not completely, erases all the pain of the past.