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John 17 - Devotion · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Welcome to Five Minute Bible in our journey through the New
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  Testament. In each episode, we take just a
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  few minutes to focus on one chapter of the New Testament,
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  exploring the truths God is teaching us through His Word and
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  expanding our view of who He is. Before you listen, make sure
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  you've gone straight to the source, either by reading
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  today's chapter of the Bible yourself or listening to today's
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  read along episode in this podcast feed.
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  If you haven't done that yet, feel free to pause and do that
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  now. When you're ready, let's dive
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  into God's word together. In John chapter 17, we are given
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  what is widely known as Jesus High Priestly Prayer.
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  This chapter takes place immediately before Judas betrays
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  Jesus, literally. At the point that Jesus is
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  praying this prayer in John 17, Judas is executing his plan to
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  hand Jesus over to the Jewish religious leaders.
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  So what is it that Jesus prays in the upper room with his
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  disciples at this moment of pressure, at this moment when he
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  knows his death is imminent? Jesus prays for his disciples.
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  He advocates for them. He, as verse 9 says, makes
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  requests to the Father on behalf of those whom you have given me,
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  for they are yours. He prays that they would truly
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  know God and know him. He prays, Father, the hour has
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  come. Glorify your Son, that the Son
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  may glorify you even as you gave Him authority over all flesh,
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  that to all whom you have given him, He may give eternal life.
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  This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God
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  in Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
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  He goes on to pray that the Father would keep them, that He
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  would sustain and hold these followers and friends of Jesus.
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  In particular, He asked that the Father would unify them, hold
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  them, and hold them together. Listen to verse 11.
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  I'm no longer in the world, and yet they themselves are in the
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  world, and I come to you, Holy Father, keep them in your name,
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  the name which you have given me, that they may be 1 even as
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  we are. He prays that his joy, the joy
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  that he experiences in the fellowship with God, would be
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  made full in his disciples. Asking this in verse 13.
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  But now I come to you, and these things I speak in the world, so
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  that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
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  Then he asked the Father to keep the disciples from the schemes
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  of the enemy, echoing the Lord's Prayer.
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  He asked that God would sanctify them in the truth, make them
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  holy by the life changing power of the Word.
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  Finally, he double s down on his request for unity, praying that
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  the disciples would be one, that their unity would echo that of
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  God Himself. Listen to verses 21 through 24.
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  It says that they may all be 1. Even as you, Father, are in me,
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  and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may
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  believe that you sent me. The glory which you have given
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  me, I've given to them that they may be one, just as we are one,
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  I in them and you and me, that they may be perfected in unity,
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  so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even
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  as you have loved me. Father, I desire that they also,
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  whom you have given me, be with me where I am, so that they may
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  see my glory which you have given me.
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  For you loved me before the foundation of the world.
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  Here's the wild thing. Jesus isn't just praying for his
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  disciples, He is praying for you and for me and for all who would
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  follow him. In verse 20, he spells it out,
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  saying I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also
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  who believe in me through their word.
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  And this is what Jesus does. Jesus is our advocate.
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  He is even now, as Romans 8 tells us, at the right hand of
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  the Father, interceding for us. He is working on your behalf.
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  He is praying on your behalf because He cares for you.
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  He desires your sanctification. He desires your joy.
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  He desires that you would be guarded from the schemes of the
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  evil. 1 He desires that you would know God.
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  He desires that you would be unified with other believers.
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  He desires that God would glorify himself in and through
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  you. So take confidence in this.
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  Find joy here. Jesus, your Savior and Lord, is
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  also your advocate. He is interceding for you even
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  now. Desire and pursue these things,
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  sanctification, joy, unity, the glory of God that He is desiring
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  and pursuing and praying for on your behalf.