The Upper Room Discourse 72

The Upper Room Discourse 72 Rabbi Michael Weiner

John 17:12-13 While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name that You have given Me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled. But now I am coming to You. I say these words while I am…
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The Upper Room Discourse 70 Rabbi Michael Weiner

John 17:11 I am no longer in the world; but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name that You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are. “That they (that’s the Apostles, and by extension, you and me) may…
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The Upper Room Discourse 69 Rabbi Michael Weiner

John 17:11 I am no longer in the world; but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name that You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are. Why does Yeshua pray, “Keep them …?” He is praying that God…
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The Upper Room Discourse 68 Rabbi Michael Weiner

John 17:11 I am no longer in the world; but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name that You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are. Boom!!! Just like that, Yeshua says this for the first time. John…
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The Upper Room Discourse 67 Rabbi Michael Weiner

John 17:9-10 I ask on their behalf. Not on behalf of the world do I ask, but on behalf of those You have given Me, for they are Yours. All Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. According to this verse, Yeshua is “asking” on our behalf. But,…
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The Upper Room Discourse 66 Rabbi Michael Weiner

John 17:7-8 Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You. The words, which You gave Me, I have given to them. They received them and truly understood that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me. This needs to be addressed on several levels. First,…
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The Upper Room Discourse 65 Rabbi Michael Weiner

John 17:6 I have made Your name known to the men of this world that You gave Me. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. Yeshua begins the second paragraph of His prayer with a restatement of the mission for which He was sent … to make God’s…
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The Upper Room Discourse 64

John 17:5 Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world came to be. Yeshua’s prayer (all of John 17) is arranged in orderly thought groupings we have formed into paragraphs. Here in verse 5, Yeshua is providing us with the closing sentence of His first…
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The Upper Room Discourse 63 Rabbi Michael Weiner

John 17:4 I glorified You on earth by finishing the work that You have given Me to do. So much in this verse. Yeshua is continuing in prayer, and begins speaking prophetically. He speaks of finished work, even though it would be another 15 hours before Yeshua would speak from the cross … John 19:30…
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The Upper Room Discourse 62 Rabbi Michael Weiner

John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Yeshua the Messiah, the One You sent. Rabbi Trail: My proposition is that the gospel (good news) can be preached from any verse of Scripture. (This may depend on the preacher’s ability to rightly divide the word of…
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