The Lord Jesus Christ concludes His high-priestly prayer by claiming four privileges for His people. That we be with Him, that we behold His glory, that we know the love of God & that Christ dwell in us. These privileges are ours by the will of Christ our Saviour.

Our Lord Jesus Christ enlarged the objects of His high-priestly prayer to include us, all who would believe on Him by the ministry of the Apostles. He claims for us all the blessings of the covenant of peace and re-confirms our union with Himself, the love of God towards us and the certainty of our conversion by the glorious gospel of grace.

The Lord Jesus calls upon His Father to Sanctify His people reminding us that sanctification is not man’s work but a work of God in our lives for our happiness and His own glory.

The Lord Jesus Christ bestows His joy upon His people to comfort and encourage them in this world despite the opposition and hatred they encounter.

The Lord Jesus Christ has saved those given to Him by the Father. He has saved us for eternity. Our eternal salvation ensures our present deliverance in this world in which we are kept by Christ and His Father and the Holy Ghost. Because we are saved eternally we shall be safe day by day.

The Lord Jesus Christ did not come into the world to save the world. He came to save His people and that is what He successfully accomplished. Here He tells His Father that He does not even pray for the world but for those who were given to Him in the covenant of grace to safeguard, protect and deliver from their sins,

The Lord Jesus Christ is glorified because He has accomplished every demand placed on Him under the terms of the Covenant of Grace and Peace and finished the work His Father had given Him to do.

Preached at Hope Fellowship Particular Baptist Church, Leeds Road, Ossett. Sunday evening 1st June 2025.

Preached at Hope Fellowship Particular Baptist Church, Leeds Road, Ossett. Sunday morning 1st June 2025.

The Lord Jesus Christ has authority over all flesh and gives eternal life to those whom the Father has given to Him to save. These blessed people are the chosen of God, the sanctified of the Spirit and the redeemed of Christ.

In John chapter 17 we embark upon one of the most remarkable and profound passages in the whole of Scripture. Every believer reading this chapter must surely feel they are standing on holy ground for the majesty of the subjects involved and the blessedness of those things requested from God by our Lord Jesus Christ.

All the words the Lord Jesus spoke were for our peace and comfort. He spoke of sins forgiven, redemption and reconciliation with God and eternal happiness in heaven. The gospel of Jesus Christ is cheering and comforting because the Lord Himself has accomplished all that is needed to secure its benefits for His people. He says, ‘I have overcome the world’.

The Lord was close to His arrest and crucifixion but He was also close to His resurrection. He knew that the disciples would be greatly vexed by the upcoming events so He encourages them with the promise of imminent and lasting joy, the joy of the Lord, to offset their sadness and sorrow.

The Holy Spirit's comforting work amongst God's people is here detailed by the Saviour as being of a reproving nature. It is the Holy Spirit who brings chosen sinners to salvation and to eternal life by convincing us of our sin, convincing us of our need of Christ's righteousness and convincing us that Christ's death on the cross has successfully delivered us from judgment.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is The Truth and all He says is true. He warns us of future troubles to prepare us for them. He tells us what is expedient and necessary for our salvation. He calls us to trust Him and lean on Him in all our ways.

Our union with the Lord Jesus Christ has gained us many blessings and benefits. By grace and the work of God we are a spiritual people, redeemed by blood and prepared for glory. We are not of this world but look for a city whose builder and maker is God.

The love of the Lord Jesus for His people is a rare and special blessing. Here the Saviour tells us how He loves us as His Father loves Him.

The Lord Jesus is the True Vine. All our spiritual life, grace and blessing comes as we abide in Him. Believers do abide in Him and He promises to freely supply all we need to make our lives fruitful for His Father’s glory.

The Lord Jesus adds promise upon promise, gift upon gift, blessing upon blessing to His troubled disciples as He prepares them for His suffering and departure.

God in three Persons; Father, Son and Holy Spirit are promised to every believer to live in our heart and unite with our soul. The Lord Jesus Christ tells His disciples that that they will be comforted upon His going away from them by the spiritual presence of the Holy Spirit and the coming of the Father and Son to abide with them.