COMPLAINT I. PERLIMINARY STATEMENT

1 PRECEPT MASTERY VS. THE WORLDVIEW. BIBLE STUDIES. WORLDVIEW. Plaintiff BOOK NUMBER AND CHAPTER: MATTHEW 1:18-25; 2:13-15. VS. WORLDVIEW SCRIPTURE TEXTS: 1:18-2:23. JESUS CHRIST. Defendant JESUS PRAYER FOR HIS DISCIPLES. COMPLAINT . I. PERLIMINARY STATEMENT . 1. THE WORLDVIEW STATES THERE ARE MANY RECORDED PRAYERS THROUGHOUT THE. BIBLE. SOME ARE VERY BRIEF, AS WHEN THE DYING THIEF CRIED OUT TO JESUS, LORD, REMEMBER ME WHEN THOU COMEST INTO THY KINGDOM (REF: luke 23:42). OTHERS, HOWEVER, ARE QUITE LENGTHY. THIS WAS TRUE OF SOLOMON'S DEDICATORY PRAYER FOR THE. TEMPLE (REF: II CHRONICLES. 6:12-42) AND EZRA'S PRAYER OF CONFESSION (REF: EZRA 9:5-15). MOST OF THE PRAYERS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE ARE UNRECORDED; THAT IS, WE KNOW A. PRAYER WAS OFFERED, BUT NOT WHAT WAS ACTUALLY SAID. 2. EXAMPLE, JESUS SPENT ALL NIGHT IN PRAYER BEFORE SELECTING THE TWELVE. (REF: luke 6:12), BUT WE DO NOT HAVE THE WORDS HE PRAYED.

2 NOR DO WE KNOW EXACTLY. WHAT PAULPRAYED WHEN HE OFFERED THREE PETITIONS CONCERNING HIS THORN IN THE FLESH. (REF: I CORINTHIANS 12:8), THOUGH WE DO KNOW HE ASKED FOR ITS REMOVAL. THIS WEEK, WE LOOK AT JESUS' HIGH PRIESTLY INTERCESSORY PRAYER. OUTLINE WORLDVIEW STATEMENT . 1 PRAYER FOR THE FAITHFUL: IN JOHN 17:6 I HAVE MANIFESTED THY NAME UNTO THE MEN. 2 WHICH THOU GAVEST ME OUT OF THE WORLD: THINE THEY WERE, AND THOU GAVEST. 3 THEM ME; AND THEY HAVE KEPT THY WORD. 7 NOW THEY HAVE KNOWN THAT ALL THINGS. 4 WHATSOEVER THOU HAST GIVEN ME ARE OF THEE. 8 FOR I HAVE GIVEN UNTO THEM THE. 5 WORDS WHICH THOU GAVEST ME; AND THEY HAVE RECEIVED THEM, AND HAVE KNOWN. 6 SURELY THAT I CAME OUT FROM THEE, AND THEY HAVE BELIEVED THAT THOU DIDST SEND. 7 ME. 9 I PRAY FOR THEM: I PRAY NOT FOR THE WORLD, BUT FOR THEM WHICH THOU HAST. 8 GIVEN ME; FOR THEY ARE THINE. 10 AND ALL MINE ARE THINE, AND THINE ARE MINE; AND.

3 9 I AM GLORIFIED IN THEM. 10 GIFT OF THE FATHER: IN JOHN 17:6 THE CHAPTER OPENS THAT JESUS LIFTED UP HIS EYES. 11 TO HEAVEN AND PRAYED. {THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF CHRIST'S GREAT INTERCESSORY. 12 PRAYER ON BEHALF OF HIS APOSTLES AND DISCIPLES. IN PRAYING THIS PRAYER, HE WAS. 13 ALREADY UNDERTAKING THE OFFICE OF HIGH PRIEST.}HE WAS PRAYING FOR US EVEN TO- 14 DAY AS MUCH AS FOR THEM BACK THEN. THE TIME OF JESUS' SACRIFICE FOR SINS WAS. 15 NEAR, AND SO HE PRAYED THAT THE FATHER WOULD GLORIFY HIM SO THAT HE IN TURN. 16 COULD GLORIFY THE FATHER YOU SEE IN VERSE (1). HE DECLARED THAT HE HAD THUS. 17 FAR ACCOMPLISHED ALL THE WORK THAT THE HEAVENLY FATHER HAD GIVEN HIM TO DO. 18 IN VERSE (4). ETERNAL LIFE IS THOSE WHO KNOWS GOD THE FATHER AS HE IS REVEALED. 19 FULLY IN FLESH AS GOD THE SON YOU SEE IN VERSE (3). KNOWING GOD THROUGH HIS SON. 20 IS A FOREIGN CONCEPT TO MANY PEOPLE TODAY.

4 MOST THINK THEY WILL GO TO HEAVEN. 21 IF THEY ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO SEE GOD. ONE MUST HAVE FAITH IN JESUS ALONE AS GOD. 22 IS THE WAY TO THE FATHER HIMSELF YOU ALSO SEE IN JOHN 14:6; ACTS 4:12; AND TITUS 3:5. 23 JESUS CHRIST MANIFESTED THE FATHER'S NAME TO HIS DISCIPLES YOU SEE EVIDENCE. 24 IN JOHN 17:6; HE REVEALED THE TRUE CHARACTER AND NATURE OF HIS FATHER GOD. 25 TO THEM. SINCE A PERSON'S NAME REPRESENTS THAT PERSON, SO IT IS WITH THE SON. 26 REPRESENTING THE FATHER. TO TAKE GOD'S NAME IN VAIN AS WHAT IS SAID IN EXODUS. 27 20:7. IS TO DISRESPECT GOD HIMSELF. WE CAN ONLY BE SAVED THROUGH THE NAME. 28 OF CHRIST AS SHOWN IN ACTS 4:12; IN OTHER WORDS, SALVATION IS FOUND IN NO ONE. 29 ELSE. THE PEOPLE JESUS PRAYED FOR HERE ARE THOSE WHOM THE FATHER HAD GIV- 30 EN HIM. THEY CAME TO HIM THROUGH FAITH, BELIEVING IN THE WORDS HE SPOKE TO. 31 THEM. THEY HAD BELONGED TO THE FATHER, AND THROUGH FAITH THEY NOW ALSO.

5 32 BELONGED TO THE SON. THAT THEY BELONGED TO THE FATHER BECAME EVIDENT. 33 FROM THE FACT THAT THEY RECEIVED CHRIST'S WORDS AS THE VERY WORDS OF GOD. 34 HIMSELF. {THEY HAD ALSO REMAINED OBEDIENT TO HIS WORDS SINCE THEY HAD BE- 35 GUN FOLLOWING HIM. TO CLAIM TO KNOW CHRIST WITHOUT OBEYING HIS TEACHINGS. 36 IS BOTH INCONGRUOUS AND HYPOCRITICAL AS YOU WILL SEE IN HEBREWS 10:26-31. 37 RECEPTION OF HIS WORDS IN JOHN 17:7-8. SOME THREE YEARS WITH JESUS HAD LED. 38 THE DISCIPLES TO THE CONCLUSION THAT HIS WORDS AND DEEDS WERE FROM THE. 39 FATHER. THE LORD JESUS HAD GIVEN THE APOSTLES THE VERY WORDS OF GOD, AND. 40 THEY HAD RECEIVED THEM. HEARING THE WORD OF GOD IS ESSENTIAL TO COMING. 41 TO FAITH AS EVEDIENCE IN ROMANS 10:17, BUT MERELY HEARING IS NOT ENOUGH TO. 42 SAVE ANYONE. WE MUST BOTH BELIEVE THE GOSPEL (GOOD NEWS) AND PROVE OUR. 43 FAITH BY PUTTING WHAT WE HEAR INTO PRACTICE.}

6 JESUS BROTHER JAMES REMINDS. 44 US, THE IMPLANTED WORD IS ABLE TO SAVE OUR SOULS, BUT IF WE HEAR IT WITHOUT. 45 RESPONDING, WE DECEIVE OURSELVES JAMES 1:21-22. RATHER, WE ARE TO BE DOERS OF. 46 THE WORD. THE DISCIPLES BELIEVED THAT JESUS HAD BEEN SENT BY THE FATHER, BUT. 47 THIS DID NOT MEAN THAT THE APOSTLES ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING CHRIST. 48 SAID. THEY HAD EMBRACED THE ESSENTIAL TRUTHS. THEY HAD COME TO SEE HIM. 49 AS THE MESSIAH SENT FROM GOD, AND THEY HAD PUT THEIR FAITH IN HIM (SPROUL, 50 JOHN, REFORMATION TRUST). THE SAME IS TRUE FOR US. ALTHOUGH SOME PEOPLE DO. 51 NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY WE READ IN THE BIBLE, THEY HAVE TO BE WILLING TO. 52 ACT ON WHAT WE DO UNDERSTAND AND SEEK TO GROW IN THE GRACE AND KNOWL- 53 EDGE OF CHRIST AS II PETER 3:18 SAID. GLORY THROUGH THEIR FAITH SHOWN IN JOHN. 54 17:9-10. JESUS SPECIFIES THE PARTICULAR OBJECTS OF HIS HIGH PRIESTLY PRAYER.

7 HE. 55 IS NOT PRAYING FOR ALL PEOPLE OF THE WORLD WITHOUT EXCEPTION. HIS PRAYER IS. 56 OFFERED EXCLUSIVELY ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHOM THE FATHER HAS GIVEN TO HIM. 57 BY FAITH. NONE OF THIS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO MEAN THAT GOD HAS NO CONCERN FOR. 58 THE WORLD. INDEED, GOD LOVES ALL THE PEOPLE OF HIS CREATION, AND HIS DESIRE. 59 IS THAT THEY COME TO A SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST SHOWN IN (I TIMOTHY 2:4. 60 {PROVING TO THE WORLD, THAT JESUS WAS NOT PRAYING FOR ALL THE WORLD THAT. 61 IS OPPOSED TO GOD AND HIS REDEMPTIVE PLAN TO SAVE SINNERS THROUGH FAITH IN. 62 JESUS CHRIST.} IN THIS REGARD, WE TOO ARE NOT TO LOVE THE WORLD AS HE SAID. 63 IN 1 JOHN 2:15-17, SINCE THAT WOULD REVEAL A LACK OF LOVE FOR GOD. INDEED, 64 THE WHOLE WORLD LIETH IN WICKEDNESS SEEING THAT IN VERSE 5:19. THOSE WHO. 65 BELONG TO JESUS ALSO BELONG TO THE FATHER, AND VICE VERSA. THAT BEING SO, 66 CHRIST IS GLORIFIED IN THEM.)

8 THIS IS STILL TRUE TODAY. OUR STEADFAST FAITH IN. 76 CHRIST GLORIFIES BOTH JESUS AND THE FATHER. FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, 68 CREATED IN JESUS UNTO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD HATH BEFORE ORDAINED THAT. 69 WE SHOULD WALK IN ACCORDING TO WHAT JESUS HAS TAUGHT EPHESIANS 2:10. 70 PRAYER FOR PROTECTION AS HE SAID IN VERSE 11 AND NOW I AM NO MORE IN THE. 71 WORLD, BUT THESE ARE IN THE WORLD, AND I COME TO THEE. HOLY FATHER, KEEP. 72 THROUGH THINE OWN NAME THOSE WHOM THOU HAST GIVEN ME, THAT THEY MAY. 73 BE ONE, AS WE ARE. 12 WHILE I WAS WITH THEM IN THE WORLD, I KEPT THEM IN THY. 74 NAME: THOSE THAT THOU GAVEST ME I HAVE KEPT, AND NONE OF THEM IS LOST, BUT. 75 THE SON OF PERDITION; THAT THE SCRIPTURE MIGHT BE FULFILLED. ALTHOUGH HE. 76 WAS PHYSICALLY STILL IN THE WORLD, IN A REAL SENSE JESUS COULD DECLARE, I. 77 AM NO MORE IN THE WORLD. SOON HE WOULD BE CRUCIFIED, ARRIVE IN PARADISE.

9 78 IN luke 23:43, RETURN BODILY TO THE DISCIPLES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION YOU SEE. 79 IN VERSE 24:36-44, AND EVENTUALLY ASCEND HIS FLESH AND BONE BODY BACK INTO. 80 HEAVEN AS STATED IN ACTS 1:9-11. SINCE JESUS WOULD BE TAKEN FROM THEM, IT. 81 WAS APPROPRIATE THAT HE PRAY FOR THE DISCIPLES' WELFARE IN HIS ABSENCE. TODAY, 82 CHRIST CONTINUES TO INTERCEDE ON OUR BEHALF IN HEAVEN YOU SEE IN HEBREWS. 83 2:17-18; 4:14-16. AS JUDE WRITES, JESUS IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING, AND TO. 84 PRESENT YOU FAULTLESS BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF HIS GLORY WITH EXCEEDING JOY . 85 VERSE 1:24. {IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT THE APOSTLES REMAIN UNIFIED IN THEIR TESTI- 86 MONY AND THEIR MISSION. THEY ALL SHARED A SINGLE LORD AND A SINGLE MISSION. 87 WHAT WAS TRUE OF THEM IS STILL TRUE WITH US. LATER IN HIS PRAYER, JESUS PRAYED. 88 SPECIFICALLY FOR THOSE WHO WOULD COME TO BELIEVE THROUGH THE TESTIMONY OF. 89 THE APOSTLES SHOWN TO YOU IN (JOHN 17:20.)}

10 HE PRAYED THAT THEY ALSO WOULD BE. 90 UNIFIED SO THAT SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS MIGHT LIKEWISE BELIEVE THEIR. 91 TESTIMO-NY ABOUT HIM.} SADLY, FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST OFTEN DO NOT PRESENT A. 92 UNITED TESTIMONY TO THE WORLD. MANY PROFESSED FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST ARE. 93 NOT TRUE DISCIPLES, SINCE MANY REJECTED SUCH BASIC DOCTRINES AS THE. 94 INERRANCY AND INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE, JESUS' VIRGIN BIRTH, CHRIST'S. 95 SUBSTITUTIONARY ATONEMENT, HIS BODILY RES-URRECTION, AND MANY OTHER. 96 DOCTRINES OF THE FAITH. BUT EVEN AMONG THOSE WHO HOLD TO THESE TEACHINGS, 97 THEY'RE OFTEN REMAIN PETTY DISPUTES, POWER STRUG-GLES, AND UNBELIEVER. 98 ATTITUDES. WE ALWAYS DO GREAT HARM TO THE TESTIMONY OF CHRIST IN THE EYES. 99 OF THE WORLD WHEN WE CANNOT GET ALONG AMONG OURSELVES. {MENTIONED. 100 ALMOST AS AN ASIDE IN JESUS' PRAYER WAS THE SON OF PERDITION AS IN JOHN 17:12, 101 A REFERENCE TO JUDAS ISCARIOT.