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Grace Fellowship Church

Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard. Grace Fellowship Church. Sunday, June 24, 2012. www.GraceDoctrine.org. John 17 The Great High Priestly Prayer of our Lord!. John 17:20-26 Jesus Prays for the Church!. John 17:24d The Love of God the Father for His Son!.

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  1. Pastor/TeacherJim Rickard Grace Fellowship Church Sunday,June 24, 2012 www.GraceDoctrine.org

  2. John 17The Great High Priestly Prayer of our Lord!

  3. John 17:20-26Jesus Prays for the Church!

  4. John 17:24dThe Love of God the Father for His Son!

  5. John 17:24d, “Because You loved Me before the foundation (creation) of the world.”

  6. “Foundation of the world” is found 9 times in scripture. Mat 25:34; Luke 11:50; John 17:24; Eph 1:4; Heb 4:3; 9:26; 1 Peter 1:20; Rev 13:8; 17:8

  7. The # 9 means, “Divine judgment and the finality or conclusion of the whole matter so far as man is concerned.”

  8. “Foundation of the World” then represents the Father’s Plan of Salvation for the entire world.

  9. In our verse this phrase tells us of the pre-incarnate consciousness of Christ as also seen in John 17:5.

  10. 1 Peter 1:20, “For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you.”

  11. This is proof that the Lord Jesus existed before the creation of the world.

  12. Principles of God the Father’s Love for His Son Jesus Christ.

  13. 1. One of the binding powers of unity in the Triune God is love, because love belongs eternally and coequally to each member of the Trinity.

  14. 2. Love is a part of the essence or being of God.1 John 4:8, 16, “God is Love.”

  15. 3. The love of God has always existed. Divine love is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Heb 13:8

  16. 4. God’s love has always been perfect and eternal in its capacity. The capacity of God’s love is infinite and eternal.

  17. 5. God’s love is incorruptible, unchanging, infinite, immutable, and virtuous, meaning He has perfect capacity for love with no compromise of that love.

  18. 6. In Divine Impersonal Love the virtue of the subject is emphasized and it places all merit on the subject, God.

  19. 7. In our passage AGAPAO love is used where Jesus is emphasizing the integrity of the Father in the Father’s expression of love towards His Son.

  20. 8. God also has Personal Love where the emphasis is placed on the object of love, in this case Jesus Christ.

  21. a. Personal love from God demands that the object of that love be perfect.

  22. 9. Each person of the Trinity has perfect love directed toward the perfect righteousness of the other two members of the Trinity.

  23. 10. God the Father also personally loves the humanity of Jesus Christ, knowing from eternity past that Jesus would complete the Father’s plan for salvation.

  24. John 10:14-15, 17, “I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, 15even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep…. 17For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.”

  25. John 15:13, “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”

  26. 11. God the Father has a special love for Jesus because of His sacrificial obedience to the will of God.

  27. 12. Divine love is God’s motivation, i.e., to bless Jesus for the work upon the Cross. So, He raised Him from the grave in resurrection body, and seated Him at His right hand in eternal glory.

  28. 13. John’s Gospel is rich in this theme. Twice we are told that the Father loves the Son, once with the verb AGAPAO (3:35), and once with PHILEO (5:20).

  29. John 3:35,“The Father loves (AGAPAO) the Son and has given all things into His hand.”

  30. John 5:20,“For the Father loves (PHILEO) the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works than these, so that you will marvel.”

  31. 14. The love of the Father for the Son and the love of the Son for the Father are expressed in a relationship of perfection, untarnished by sin.

  32. John 15:9,“Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love.”

  33. John 17:24,“Father, whom you have given to Me, I desire that where I am they (the Church) may be with Me, so that they would keep on beholding (with understanding) My glory which You have given to Me because You loved Me before the foundation (creation) of the world.”

  34. Grace Offering

  35. Grace Fellowship ChurchSunday, June 24, 2012Tape # 12-071God the Father’s Love for His SonGreat High Priestly Prayer, Part 119John 17:24d; 3:35; 5:20; 10:14-15, 17; 1 Peter 1:20James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2012

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