The Redeemer's Prayer E-Book

C. H. Spurgeon

• Herausgeber: Editora Oxigênio
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 31

Beschreibung

The Redeemer's Prayer is one important bible study about the prayer. A book that will bring growth and knowledge about prayer, and invite him to live with greater intimacy with God. Written by Charles Spurgeon, important preacher Christian.

Leseprobe

INTRODUCTION

THE REDEEMER’S PRAYER

BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON

“Father, I will that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am; that they may

behold My glory, which You have given Me: for You loved Me before the foundations of the world.”

John 17:24.

When the high priest of old entered into the most holy place, he kindled the incense in his censer and waving it before him; he perfumed the air with its sweet fragrance and veiled the mercy seat with the denseness of its smoke.

Thus was it written concerning him, “He shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small and bring it within the veil and he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not.”

Even so our Lord Jesus Christ, when He would, once and for all, enter within the veil with His own blood to make an atonement for sin, did first offer strong crying and prayers in this 17th chapter of John. We have, as it were, the smoking of the Savior’s pontifical censer. He prayed for the people for whom He was about to die and before He sprinkled them with His blood, He did sanctify them with His supplications.

This prayer, therefore, stands preeminent in Holy Writ as the Lord’s Prayer the special and peculiar prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ! And “if,” as an old divine has it, “it is lawful to prefer one Scripture above another, we may say, though all is gold, yet this is a pearl in the gold. Though all are like the heavens, this is as the sun and stars.” Or if one part of Scripture is dearer to the believer than any other, it must be this which contains his Master’s last prayer before He entered through the rent veil of His own crucified body!

How sweet it is to see that not He, but His people constituted the staple of His prayer! He did pray for Himself He said, “Father, glorify Me!”

But while He had one prayer for Himself, He had many for His people. Continually did He pray for them “Father, sanctify them!” “Father, keep them!” “Father, make them one!” And then He concluded His supplication with, “Father, I will that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am.” Melancthon well said there was never a more excellent, more holy, more fruitful, and more affectionate voice ever heard in heaven or on earth, than this prayer.

We shall first notice the style of the prayer; secondly, the persons interested in it; and thirdly, thegreat petitions offered the last head constituting the main part of our discourse.

SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

SUMMARY

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 1

First, notice THE STYLE OF THE PRAYER it is singular it is, “Father, I will.”

 I cannot but conceive that there is something more in the expression, “I will,” than a mere wish. It seems to me that when Jesus said, “I will,” although perhaps it might not be proper to say that He made a demand, yet we may say that He pleaded with authority! He was asking for that which He knew to be His own, and uttering an, “I will,” as potent as any decree that ever sprang from the lips of the Almighty!