Two Year Gospel Study Week 72

Up To Jerusalem - Teaching 14
Scripture: John 17:1 - 18:12, Hebrews 7:23-24, Philippians 2:6-11, Matthew 26:36-44, Luke 22:42-46.

Today’s study focuses mainly on Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer, a prayer following His meal with the disciples and the night of His betrayal.

Pastor talks in depth about the prayer
    ⁃    Focusing in on what Jesus says about God’s name
    ⁃    God’s name is His character
    ⁃    God’s name is called the tetragrammaton - it is 4 letters but we are not sure of the pronunciation.
    ⁃    What we do know is that at its root is “To Be” 
    ⁃    The One who always IS
    ⁃    At Mt. Sinai God told Moses “I Am who I Am, if anyone asks who sent you, tell them I AM has sent you.
    ⁃    God is always with us
    ⁃    He does not change - the same yesterday, today and tomorrow - forever!
    ⁃    He is all powerful
    ⁃    All merciful
    ⁃    All loving
    ⁃    He is gracious
    ⁃    Jesus reveals the Father’s character and shows us the Father’s love
    ⁃    He is One with the Father

If you want to know what God looks like — Look at Jesus!

Something to think about: what must this have felt like for the disciples to hear Jesus praying this prayer to the Father?

    ⁃    When we walk with God we walk out of step with the world
    ⁃    God’s word is the Truth - it is a Living Word - Jesus is Truth and speaks only Truth
    ⁃    Sanctification
    ⁃    Believers are to be one with Christ and one with the Father and one with each other. One in Body - one mind - the mind of Chris - focused on spreading the Good new in Christ
    ⁃    God is One
    ⁃    Suffering for faith
    ⁃    Experiencing the glory of God
    ⁃    Submission to God
    ⁃    Everything Jesus does is for the purpose of saving the world
    ⁃    He lives to intercede for us

Following the prayer, Jesus and His disciples head to the Mt of Olives and into the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus takes 3 of the 11 as He moves further into the garden. He tells them to stay awake and pray as He goes deeper into the garden. He is dealing with unimaginable anguish grief, and anxiety as He prays again to the Father expressing that His sole is overwhelmed to the point of death and prayer for “this cup” to be removed but only if it is the Father’s will. Jesus is willing to do what the Father desires, and yet He shares His heart with His Father. Jesus is in so much anguish and agony He is to the point of sweating blood and yet He pushes through in endurance to follow the Father’s plan.

A total of 3 times He prays and then returns to find the disciples asleep instead of staying awake and praying and trying to understand this is Jesus’ greatest hour of need.  The solitude and loneliness Jesus experiences must have been painful. He friends will abandon Him, His Father will abandon Him. It is Christ ALONE and He faces it all with the words of His prayer, “Your will be done.” And this is the true picture of Love.

Today’s study ends with a reading of the betrayal of Jesus and will pick up with this portion of the story next week.  Please join us!

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Up to Jerusalem is a study of the final weeks of Jesus' ministry concluding with His resurrection and ascension, using the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John together with material from ancient sources and recent discoveries. Up to Jerusalem is part five of our Two Year Study of the Gospels. Up To Jerusalem is the story of the plan of God to redeem the world, and the story of a Savior willing to obey the Father’s plan. As we study Jesus’ final days, we will be impacted as we discover the Love of God for each one of us. 

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