The High Priest now turns from himself to the special objects of his intercessory prayer.

I. THE CALLING OF TEE CLIENTS.

1. They are separated from the world. Made a select and consecrated class, they are set apart from others in the prayer of the Lord.

2. They are the property of the Father.

3. They are the gift of the Father to his Son. The Father drew them with the bonds of love, and they became Christ's.

II. THE MARKS OF THE CLIENTS. It is not to be supposed that there is anything arbitrary in the calling of God. Those for whom the High Priest here pleads:

1. Recognize the Divinity of Christ's works.

2. And the Divinity of his words. These they received, i.e. as from God through him who is "the Word."

3. And the Divinity of his mission. Christ came forth from God; God sent him. But this great fact, the greatest in the history of mankind, was by no means generally recognized. Its recognition became at once, and still remains, a "note" of Christ's people. The just estimate of the words and of the works of Christ leads to a true appreciation of Christ himself.

III. THE SECURITY AND DIGNITY OF THE CLIENTS.

1. All Christ's are his Father's, and all the Father's are Christ's; therefore the clients who have the Savior for their Patron and Protector are doubly secure and doubly blest.

2. Christ is glorified in his friends. Wonderful is the condescension here displayed. The Lord of glory allows those, who by nature are so feeble and so helpless as men are, to add by their adhesion and their praises even to the majesty and splendor which is his by right. This is so in a measure even now; how far more fully shall Christ's ransomed clients glorify him when they are delivered from the infirmities of the body, and the sordid surroundings of time! - T.

I. ITS NATURE. The manifestation of the name of God. (ver. 6). In Himself invisible and incomprehensible (John 1:18; John 6:46; Job 11:7; Job 37:23; 1 Timothy 6:16), who and what He was must have remained a secret. (Genesis 32:29; Judges 13:18), had not God been pleased to make some disclosure thereof. This He did in creation (Psalm 8:1; Psalm 19:1-3; Romans 1:20), and still does in Providence (Daniel 4:34, 35; Romans 11:36; Ephesians 1:11). A further revelation He furnished to the Jews; but never till Christ came, who was the Image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:2); and who could say, "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father" (John 14:9), was God completely manifested. Besides publishing to men the fact of the Divine existence, Christ unfolded. —

1. The nearness of God to man, and conversely man's nearness to God, a thought so little understood that even the Jews with Psalm 139, to guide them had no proper conception of God as a heavenly Friend.

2. The holiness of God — which, though dimly apprehended and vaguely believed in before the Advent, was never adequately comprehended until embodied in Christ (Hebrews 7:26).

3. The graciousness of God, which though referred to (Psalm 103:13; Malachi 2:10) was imperfectly realized until Christ taught men to say "Our Father."

4. The helpfulness of God. No one who looked on Christ healing the sick, pardoning the guilty, &c., could doubt that, if He was God's image, God could also relieve the needy.

5. The blessedness of God or, more correctly, the eternal life which is in God (1 John 1:1).

II. ITS SUBJECTS.

1. The world. Although throughout this prayer a distinction is drawn between the world and the Church (ver. 6), and the Saviour's intercession is for the latter rather than for the former (ver. 9), yet Christ's manifestation of the Father's name has an outlook to the race no less than to believers. Of this perhaps a hint is furnished by the word "men" (ver. 6).

2. The Church. Christ describes those in whom His work took effect as persons who had been —(1) Separated from the race (ver. 6), i.e., in their characters as believers, while the world remained in unbelief (ver. 25, 7:7; 1 John 5:19), separated by grace, which alone made them to differ (1 Corinthians 4:7; 1 Corinthians 15:10), and separated unto the purposes of the gospel (Romans 1:1; Galatians 1:15).(2) Owned by the Father — "Thine they were" — as His creatures (Ezekiel 18:4), as being born of God (John 1:13), and so inwardly disposed to hear and obey God's voice (John 8:47; John 18:37).

3. Given to Christ — "Thou gavest them Me," (Ephesians 1:4, 5; John 6:45).

III. ITS RESULTS.

1. The reception of Christ's words (ver. 8). This world had rejected Christ's words (chap. John 12:48): the disciples had believed them (John 16:27). A gracious soul desirous of learning the Father's name does not begin by criticising Christ's teaching, but with docility receives it into his understanding and heart (1 Samuel 3:9; Psalm 85:8; 1 Peter 2:2; James 1:29).

2. The recognition of Christ's words as the Father's (ver. 7; cf 7:17; 1 Thessalonians 2:13).

3. The preservation of the Father's words (ver. 6). To keep God's word means more than to remember it — viz., to enshrine it in the spirit, to give it a chief place in the affections, to subject to it the entire being, intellect, heart, conscience, will.Lessons:

1. Who would know God must study Him as revealed in Christ.

2. Who would be wise unto salvation must learn at Christ's feet.

3. Who would reach eternal glory must keep the Father's words.

(T. Whitelaw, . D. D.)

We now come to the second part of this prayer, the intercessory portion of it. But before offering any special petition Christ states several preliminary pleas. These pleas are contained in the text. We have here: —

I. THE SCHOLARS. The Lord's words regarding them express a threefold relationship.

1. To the world. "The men whom Thou gavest Me out of the world." Originally these disciples, as they came into the world, belonged to it, with tastes, desires, and modes of thinking, &c, like the men around them. But they had been given "out of the world" to Christ, so that their position in it and their relationship to it were alike changed. So it is with all the people of God; they are given to Christ "out of the world," to be taught and trained for service here and glory hereafter. But, alas I what a commentary does the conduct of myriads supply on these words, when the world seems to bound their ambition and contain their all.

2. To God "Thine they were." They were His by the law of their original creation, by the ties of providential preservation and blessing, and by all the bonds of moral obligation.

3. To Christ. "Thou gavest them Me." By giving them to the Son, the Father did not part with His property or His pleasure in them, for they were given to Christ in pursuance of a gracious purpose, and by the arrangements of an all-wise providence. This was the first small instalment of the promise that Jesus as mediatorial King should have the heathen given Him as His inheritance, &c.

II. THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN. This, generally, was the manifestation of the Divine name. The name of God is often put for God Himself (Proverbs 18:10; Exodus 34:5, 7). How often in aspects of attraction and grace is the name of God put before men in His Word. There he presents Himself as Jehovah-jireh, ever ready to provide for the wants of His people; as Jehovah-nissi, ever willing to defend them and lead them to victory; as Jehovah-tsidkenu, working out and bringing near to them an all-sufficient righteousness for their salvation; as Jehovah-shammah, blessing with His presence every spot to which His providence may bring them. But it was Jesus who manifested the Divine name in all its fulness of glory How did He do it?

1. By what He was. He came to be the representative amongst men of the infinite God. He was "the brightness of His glory," &c. Every element of the Divine glory had its perfect and practical embodiment in Him, so that in His personal history we have a living map of the boundless expanse of the Divine perfections reduced to the scale which our humanity can contemplate and study.

2. By what He said. (ver. 8). Every considerable human teacher has some theme or some aspect of a subject with which he is more especially familiar to which his own taste inclines him, and on which he loves chiefly to dilate Christ Jesus was master of all truth, but especially did He dwell on the glory and excellence of the Father's character.

3. By that which He did. He went about doing good. As His words were not His own, but His Father's, so also were His works (John 10:37; John 5:17).

III. THE ATTAINMENTS MADE BY THEM.

1. They accepted Christ's words. "They have received them." If His words commanded the attention and admiration of His foes, much more might be expected of His disciples; they devoutly received His words. Attention was not enough, nor admiration, nor mere assent: the words of Jesus dropped into the souls of these disciples as Divine seeds of thought, germs of higher life and hope.

2. They had some apprehension of the Divine glory of Christ — "They have known," &c. They recognised —(1) The Divinity of His doctrine. They felt that His words were the truth of God; for they had in them the glow and glory of Divinity.(2) The Divinity of His person: "That I came out from Thee." He that could teach such truth about God, and do such works, and produce such impressions, must have come out from the Father (John 6:69).(3) The Divinity of His mission — "That Thou didst send Me." They mistook, indeed, for a long time its true nature and glorious design; but they recognized its Divinity. This apprehension of the glory of Christ is the highest attainment for men on earth, even as the contemplation of it will be the blessedness of heaven. To discover Christ and trust in Him is the triumph and turning-point of any human life here.

3. They clung to Christ; they maintained adherence to His truth. "They have kept Thy Word." Continuance was essential as it is still. To keep God's word was to obey it, walk in it, and abide by it. They were neither stony-ground hearers nor wayside hearers. Christ will not acknowledge any as His disciples who do not keep His word and endure unto the end. (Hebrews 3:14)

(J. Spence, D. D.)

1. By what He was. He was the representative of God upon the earth.

2. The Lord Jesus manifested the Father's "name" by what He spake. In His teaching He set forth the Father in His nature and character.

3. By what He did, the Lord Jesus manifested His Father's "name." As His words were not His own but His Father's, so His works were the Father's also.

(T. Alexander, M. A.)

Christ here states two facts concerning the school He had established for the diffusion of His doctrines and Spirit — one infinitely superior to those established by any philosopher of ancient or modern times.

I. THEY ARE GIVEN TO HIM BY THE FATHER. What does this mean?

1. Negatively —(1) Not that a certain number were given Him in "the councils of Eternity," on the ground that He would become their substitute, and the rest passed by. This covenant is not found in the Bible, and seems derogatory to the Father, who is Love.(2) Not that men are so given to Christ as to interfere with their freedom as responsible beings. This would reduce men to mere animated machines.(3) Not that men are so given to Christ as to lessen God's claim upon them; nor —(4) So as to render their salvation absolutely certain. If that were the case why does Christ pray for them? And why was Judas, who also was given Him, lost?

2. Positively. This means that Christ, as the Model of Piety, ascribes everything He has to His Father. The power of Pilate to condemn He regarded as the gift of God. The cup of suffering in Gethsemane was also the Father's gift. So with all things — "All power is given unto Me." So pastors are God's gift to a Church, &c.

II. THEY ARE BELIEVERS IN THE FATHER THROUGH HIM. They believed the Father so as —

1. To obey His will. "They have kept Thy word."

2. To accept Christ as His Messenger. They were led to regard Christ as —

(1)The Administrator of the Father's blessings.

(2)The Revealer of the Father's character.

(D. Thomas, D. D.)

Thou gavest them Me —

1. As sheep to the shepherd to be kept.

2. As patients to the physician to be cured.

3. As children to a tutor to be educated.

(M. Henry.)

I. ALL BELIEVERS ARE GIVEN TO CHRIST. As —

1. His purchase and His charge.

2. His subjects.

3. The members of His body.

II. NONE ARE GIVEN TO CHRIST BUT THOSE WHO WERE FIRST THE FATHER'S.

III. ALL THOSE WHO ARE GIVEN TO CHRIST KEEP HIS WORD.

(W. Burkitt.)

The Son loved them as the Father's choice, He loved them as the Father's gift to Him. These are some of the bonds of the everlasting covenant which binds His people around the heart of His Son. They were beloved of His Father with an everlasting love. His Father chose them and set His heart upon them. He gave them to the Son as a gift of His love. Therefore the Son loved them. There are other, and strong, cords that bind Christ and His people together, but these are good and strong. How we love, how highly we prize a Father's gift!

(T. Alexander, M. A.)

Note —

I. THAT CHRISTIANS BELONG TO GOD. "Thine they were."

1. By creative right — as a man has a right to the products of his skill and industry.

2. By sovereign right — as a monarch has a right to the loyalty of his subjects.

3. By Fatherly right — as a parent has a right to the affection and obedience of his children If, then, we belong to God —(1) We belong to One who is wise to guide us, strong to defend us, authoritative to govern us, kind and wealthy to supply all our need.(2) How safe we are!(3) How happy and grateful we should be!

II. THAT THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN BY GOD TO CHRIST.

1. In answer to prayer. "Ask of Me and I shall give thee," &c., and as we are given to, so are we kept by Christ in response to prayer (ver. 11).

2. As the purchase of redemption. "We were not redeemed with corruptible things," &c.

3. As the reward of conflict. Slaves of Satan are rescued and transformed into sons of God and joint heirs with Christ by the Saviour's conquering might. Learn, then —(1) How precious we are to Christ. What so precious as a father's gift, a costly purchase, a trophy of fierce conflict?(2) How honoured we are by God! No higher dignity could be conferred upon us than to be given to Christ.(3) How imperative are God's claims! These are not relinquished, but emphasized. "All Mine are Thine."

III. THAT CHRIST HAS MANIFESTED TO THEM GOD'S NAME.

1. Literally. The "Father's" name was little more than a sublime guess and a devout hope before Christ came. But He taught His disciples to say "Our Father."

2. Exemplarily. "My name is in Him." "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father." All the perfections of the Divine character were embodied in Christ. The Father's wisdom in His teaching; the Father's power in His miracles; the Father's love and justice in His death.

3. Experimentally. "To as many as received Him," &c. (Romans 8:15-17; Galatians 4:4-71. This being so —(1) Study the revelation of the Father in Christ's word and life.(2) Live up to your privilege as children of God.

IV. THAT THEY KEEP GOD'S WORD. This is their distinguishing characteristic and their imperative duty. It covers everything in Christian practice. He keeps this word —

1. In their minds by understanding and remembering it.

2. In their hearts by loving it.

3. In their lives by practising it.

(J. W. Burn.)

On the truth of this saying stands the whole fabric of creeds and doctrines. It is the ground of authority to the preacher, of assurance to the believer, of existence to the Church. It is the source from which the perpetual stream of Christian teaching flows. All our testimonies, instructions, exhortations derive their first origin and continuous power from the fact that the Father has given to the Son, the Son has given to His servants, the words of truth and life.

(Canon T. D. Bernard.)

Jesus, DisciplesJerusalemBelieve, Believed, Certainty, Faith, Forth, Gavest, Hast, Heart, Presence, Received, Sayings, Sentest, Sure, Surely, Taught, Teach, Themselves, Truly, Truth, Truths, Understood1. Jesus prays to his Father.

John 17:8

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October 10 Evening
After this manner . . . pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven.--MATT. 6:9. Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father.--My Father, and your Father. Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.--Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into …
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August 10 Morning
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but thou shouldest keep them from the evil.--JOHN 17:15. Blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.--Ye are the salt of the earth, . . . the light of the world.--Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is heaven. I also withheld thee from sinning against me. The Lord is faithful, …
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July 20 Morning
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.--JOHN 17:16. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.--In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. Such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.--That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Jesus of Nazareth . . . went about doing good, and …
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February 21 Morning
I am the Lord which sanctify you.--LEV. 20:8. I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people. And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine. Sanctified by God the Father.--Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.--The very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus . . . that he might …
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November 16 Morning
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.--JOHN 17:17. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.--Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul: discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep …
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November 27 Morning
The glory which thou gavest me I have given them.--JOHN 17:22. I saw . . . the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.--These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.--Upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness . . . of a man above upon it. As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud …
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November 13 Evening
Through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.--EPH. 2:18. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one. Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but …
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January 1 Morning
This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind,. . . I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.--PHI. 3:13,14. Father, I will that they . . . whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me.--I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.--He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus …
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May 4 Evening
I have glorified thee on the earth.--JOHN 17:4. My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.--I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.--This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou …
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January 25 Evening
The spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.--ROM. 8:15. Jesus . . . lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, . . . Holy Father, . . . O righteous Father.--He said, Abba, Father.--Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.--For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints and of the household of God. Doubtless thou …
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February 12 Morning
They shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels.--MAL. 3:17. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am: that …
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December 31. "I Pray not that Thou Shouldst Take them Out of the World, but that Thou Shouldst Keep them from the Evil" (John xvii. 15).
"I pray not that Thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldst keep them from the evil" (John xvii. 15). He wants us here for some higher purpose than mere existence. That purpose is nothing else than to represent Him to the world, to be the messengers of His Gospel and His will to men, and by our lives to exhibit to them the true life, and teach them how to live it themselves. He is representing us yonder, and our one business is to represent Him here. We are just as truly sent …
Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth

November 5. "I in Them, and Thou in Me" (John xvii. 23).
"I in them, and Thou in Me" (John xvii. 23). If we would be enlarged to the full measure of God's purpose, let us endeavor to realize something of our own capacities for His filling. We little know the size of a human soul and spirit. Never, until He renews, cleanses and enters the heart can we have any adequate conception of the possibilities of the being whom God made in His very image, and whom He now renews after the pattern of the Lord Jesus Himself. We know, however, that God has made the human …
Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth

December 11. "I Pray not for the World, but for Them" (John xvii. 9).
"I pray not for the world, but for them" (John xvii. 9). How often we say we would like to get some strong spirit to pray for us, and feel so helped when we think they are carrying us in their faith. But there is One whose prayers never fail to be fulfilled and who is more willing to give them to us than any human friend. His one business at God's right hand is to make intercession for His people, and we are simply coming in the line of His own appointment and His own definite promise and provision, …
Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth

The Folded Flock
I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory.'--JOHN xvii. 24. This wonderful prayer is (a) for Jesus Himself, (b) for the Apostles, (c) for the whole Church on earth and in heaven. I. The prayer. 'I will' has a strange ring of authority. It is the expression of His love to men, and of His longing for their presence with Him in His glory. Not till they are with Him there, shall He 'see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied.' We …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI

Christ's Summary of his Work
'I have declared onto them Thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them.'--JOHN xvii. 26. This is the solemn and calm close of Christ's great High-priestly prayer; the very last words that He spoke before Gethsemane and His passion. In it He sums up both the purpose of His life and the petitions of His prayer, and presents the perfect fulfilment of the former as the ground on which He asks the fulfilment of the latter. There is a singular …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI

The Intercessor
'These words spake Jesus, and lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee: As Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him. And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent. I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI

'The Lord Thee Keeps'
...They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.'--JOHN xvii. 14-16. We have here a petition imbedded in a reiterated statement of the disciples' isolated position when left in a hostile world without Christ's sheltering presence. We cannot fathom the depth of the mystery of the praying Christ, but we may be sure of this, …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI

The High Priest's Prayer
'Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word; That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me. And the glory which Thou givest Me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI

Sixteenth Day. Holiness and Truth.
Make them holy in the Truth: Thy word is Truth.'--John xvii. 17. 'God chose you unto salvation in sanctification and belief of the Truth.'--2 Thess. ii. 12. The chief means of sanctification that God uses is His word. And yet how much there is of reading and studying, of teaching and preaching the word, that has almost no effect in making men holy. It is not the word that sanctifies; it is God Himself who alone can sanctify. Nor is it simply through the word that God does it, but through …
Andrew Murray—Holy in Christ

Seventeenth Day. Holiness and Crucifixion.
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.'--John xvii. 19. 'He said, Lo, I am come to do Thy will. In which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus once for all. For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.'--Heb. x. 9, 10, 14. It was in His High-priestly prayer, on His way to Gethsemane and Calvary, that Jesus thus spake to the Father: 'I sanctify myself.' He had not long before spoken …
Andrew Murray—Holy in Christ

The Plenary Inspiration of Every Part of the Bible, vindicated and Explained. --Nature of Inspiration. --The Text of Scripture.
Thy Word is Truth. I THANKFULLY avail myself of the opportunity which, unexpected and unsolicited, so soon presents itself, to proceed with the subject which was engaging our attention when I last occupied this place. Let me remind you of the nature of the present inquiry, and of the progress which we have already made. Taking Holy Scripture for our subject, and urging, as best we knew how, its paramount claims on the daily attention of the younger men,--who at present are our hope and ornament; …
John William Burgon—Inspiration and Interpretation

August the Twenty-Fourth the Lord's Body
"I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do." --JOHN xvii. 1-11. This quiet confession is in itself a token of our Lord's divinity. The serenity in which He makes His claims is as stupendous as the claims themselves. "Finished," perfected in the utmost refinement, to the last, remotest detail! Nothing scamped, nothing overlooked, nothing forgotten! Everything which concerns thy redemption and my redemption has been accomplished. "It is finished!" "And now ... I come to Thee." The visible …
John Henry Jowett—My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year

The Cure of Evil-Speaking
"If thy brother shall sin against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear, take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he will not hear them, tell it to the Church. But if he does not hear the church, let him be to thee as an heathen man and a publican." Matt. 18:15-17 1. "Speak evil of no man," says the great Apostle: -- As plain a …
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