The Hour Has Come(17:1-5)

JOHN 17:1-5• When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up

his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent…

JOHN 17:1-5• …I glorified you on earth, having accomplished

the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

JOHN 17:6-19• "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…

JOHN 17:6-19• …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…

JOHN 17:6-19• …I have guarded them, and not one of them has

been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. …

JOHN 17:6-19• …They are not of the world, just as I am not of

the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth

How is Jesus Glorified in the

Cross?• Salvation is Purchased

• Perfect Righteousness is Accomplished

JOHN 17:4• "I glorified You on the earth, having

accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.

Matthew 20:28

• … the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

How is Jesus Glorified in the

Resurrection/Ascension?• He Sheds Limitations of the Incarnation

& Returns to His Pre-Incarnate State…

JOHN 17:5• And now, Father, glorify me in your own

presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed

JOHN 1:1-2,14

• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God… And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory

JOHN 8:57-58• So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet

fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."

Pre-Incarnate Christ

In His essential being, Jesus Christ did not begin to exist when He was conceived in the womb of His mother, Mary…He existed from

eternity as the Second Person of the Triune Godhead.

Philippians 2:8-9

• And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name

Mark 15:33-34

• And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Acts 1:9-11• And when he had said these things, as they

were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven."

Don CarsonWhen Jesus is glorified, He does not leave His

body behind in a grave, but rises with a transformed, glorified body which returns to the Father and thus to the glory the Son had

with the Father ‘before the world began’

JOHN 17:6-9• "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; …

JOHN 17:6-9• …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.

Romans 8:29-30

• For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

What Do Genuine Disciples Look Like?

• They Come to Know Jesus• They Have RECEIVED, UNDERSTOOD, &

BELIEVED His Words• They are Faithful…Keep His Word

Romans 8:29-30

• For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

JOHN 17:7-8• 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.

JOHN 17:7-8• 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.

JOHN 6:41• They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of

Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

JOHN 10:24-26

• So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me, but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep

JOHN 17:8• 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.

JOHN 17:6• "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.

JOHN 17:9-10• – 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.

JOHN 17:11-13

• 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…

JOHN 17:11-13

• …be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.