PASTOR'S CORNER

  John 18:1-14 Let’s set the scene as Jesus and His disciples enter into the garden to pray because His hour has finally come.   Jesus, has spent the last remaining hours with His disciples; closed off to the world to prepare Himself, and His disciples, and the those who would believe in the future…. that Jesus came from the Father .  This is why John concludes near the end of his letter, “Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” John 20:30-31.  It is time, for Him to do what He came to do, for sinful man and woman.  We have seen throughout John’s gospel that Jesus said “ my hour has not come.”  Even as early as John chapter 2, when Jesus turned water to wine, he knew, “My hour has not yet come.” John 2:4   But Jesus acknowledged H...

John 17:1-26   We have been looking closely at the prayer that Jesus gives to the Father about His disciples in John’s gospel here in chapter 17.  It’s here that Jesus’ prayer contains some deep things which are hard to understand , but absolutely wonderful according to the Scriptures.  The Lord Jesus does things for His believing people which He does not do for the wicked and unbelieving. (v6-v10)  The Lord Jesus does not pray that His believing people to be taken out of this world, but to be kept from the evil of it. (v11-v19)   And here Jesus changes His prayer from His disciples, to others, which should be treasured by every Christian.   What I do mean? If were to ask you “Where does Jesus pray for you in the Bible?”  You could say with full confidence that answer is right here, if you are a believer this morning.  This is pretty incredible to say the least; that out of the 6 plus billion people, on planet earth, the Lord ...