The Cry of Christ

The Cry of Christ

This sermon excerpt, "The Cry of Christ," centers on Jesus' prayer in John 17, revealing His passionate desire for the church to achieve glorification. It highlights Christ's role as High Priest, showing His concern for His followers and His unwavering confidence in God's protection. The text emphasizes that Jesus, even in the face of the cross, was focused on the ultimate joy and the manifestation of God's glory on earth through His people. Furthermore, it asserts that unity within the body of believers is crucial, serving as both a protective mechanism and a powerful instrument to demonstrate Christ's identity to the world, ultimately leading to the full revelation of His glory.

Scripture: John 17

The Lord is passionately desirous that the church aligns itself to complete the intended process of glorification that Heaven wants.

Christ' Prayer reveals:

1. Alignment with the will of the Godhead. Vs 8

2. The heart of Christ in His function as High Priest. Vs 9

3. The concern for His people but His confidence in His Father to keep them. Vs 15

4. The ultimate objective of the glorification of the believer. Vs 24

   
   

   In this prayer Jesus seems to look past the immediate danger to befall Him of the cross and is focused on the ultimate bliss.

Hebrews 12:2 KJVS Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The Glory is defined as: God's inherent worth, splendor, and majesty; His manifested presence and power; abundant wealth or possessions; human honor, dignity, and fame; and even the bliss of heaven, the kingly majesty which belongs to Him as supreme ruler, majesty in the sense of the absolute perfection of the deity

Revelation 21:23 KJVS And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

• The final claim of Christ is that the expression of the Father in the earth through His life is complete. Vs 4.

  
  

• The prayer of Christ was to bring the same glory that operated heaven and manifest it in the earth. Vs 5

  
  

• The qualification for the glory in our lives is the word of God. Vs 6-8

  
  

• The protective mechanism that guards the life of the believer and the relationship we have with God is His word. Vs 14 & 17

  
  

• The unity of the body is intended to replicate the glory of the triune God and manifest Him in the earth. Vs 21 & 22

  
  

• The unity of the body is the instrument God uses to prove that Christ is who He claimed to be to the world. Vs 23

  
  

• The unity of the body is the prerequisite for the ultimate revelation of the glory of Christ. Vs 24

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