Message Notes

SUNDAY SCHOOL SPECIAL                                                     22 JANUARY 2023

Text: John 17:13-19

Subject: A Special Prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ IV

A QUICK REVIEW

1. A Prayer to be kept (Protection) (John 17:11a)

2. A Prayer for oneness (Unity) (John 17:11b)

FURTHER PRAYER REQUESTS

¹³ But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. 

¹⁴ 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. 

¹⁵ I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. 

¹⁶ They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 

¹⁷ Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 

¹⁸ As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 

¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

John 17:13-19

1. A Prayer for Joy

a) The Lord’s Joy

b) To be fulfilled in the Disciples

2. Joy (Review)

a) The Lord’s Joy

That My joy may remain in you
And that your joy may be full             John 15:11

b) Sorrow into joy

But your sorrow will be turned into joy                      John 16:20

c) Joy that cannot be taken away

Your heart will rejoice
and your joy no one will take from you                      John 16:22

d) Fulness of Joy

Ask, and you will receive
That your joy may be full                                            John 16:24

3. The Word of the Lord given

a) The Lord Jesus had given them God’s word (John 17:14a)

b) His word is truth                                     (John 17:17b)

c) Sanctified by the word of truth                         (John 17:17, 19)

d) The Lord Jesus was sanctified by truth             (John 17:19)

4. The special keeping by the LORD God

a) Protected from being destroyed by the Devil (John 17:15)

b) Protected from the world

i) The hatred of the world

ii) To be kept by the Lord from the world’s hostility

5. Sent by the Lord

a) The Lord Jesus has sent His Disciples into the world

b) This is sometimes called The Great Commission

¹⁸ And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 

¹⁹ Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Matthew 28:18-20

i) Backed up by the authority of the Lord Jesus

ii) Sent to maker disciples of all the nations

iii) Sent to baptise believers

iv) Sent to teach believers to observe all that He has commanded

CONCLUSION

1. Review what the Lord Jesus prayed for:

a) Protection

b) Unity

c) Joy

d) Sanctification by the word of God

e) Sent to fulfil the Great Commission

2. Check if these things are being fulfilled

3. Seek to comprehend and fulfil these things