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John 17:24 is a text to dwell on<\/em>, and indeed to dwell in<\/em>. John Owen, perhaps the greatest Puritan theologian, wrote his Meditations on the Glory of Christ1<\/a><\/sup>This is included in Volume 1 of the Banner edition of Owen’s Works: The Glory of Christ<\/a><\/span><\/em> on the themes of this verse, and it was carefully treated of by his contemporaries Anthony Burges in England, who preached six of his 145 sermons expositing John 17 on verse 24, and Robert Traill in Scotland, who preached sixteen separate sermons on this one verse. 2<\/a><\/sup>These sermons can be found in Volume 1 of the The Works of Robert Traill<\/a>.<\/span> Traill introduced these sermons to his hearers with the following words: ‘You have heard many a good text taken out of the word of God; but though all be good, there is none better than this. Love the text, and love, above all, the blessed first speaker of it; and you will be the fitter to profit by what you hear spoken in his name from it.’ The following excerpt is taken from J. C. Ryle’s Expository Thoughts (Volume 7, John Part Three)<\/a>, <\/em>and, in treating of John 17:17\u201326, includes his discussion of this wonderful verse:<\/p>\n

17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be\u00a0 sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one: as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they
\nmay be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am: that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. (John 17:17\u201326).<\/p>\n

THESE wonderful verses form a fitting conclusion of the most wonderful prayer that was ever prayed on earth,\u2014the last Lord\u2019s prayer after the first Lord\u2019s supper. They contain three most important petitions which our Lord offered up in behalf of his disciples. On these three petitions let us fix our attention. Passing by all other things in the passage, let us look steadily at these three points. We should mark, first, how Jesus prays that his people may be sanctified. \u2018Sanctify them,\u2019 he says, \u2018through thy truth: thy word is truth.\u2019 We need not doubt that, in this place at any rate, the word \u2018sanctify\u2019 means \u2018make holy.\u2019 It is a prayer that the Father would make his people more holy, more spiritual, more pure, more saintly in thought and word and deed, in life and character. Grace had done something for the disciples already,\u2014called, converted, renewed, and changed them. The great Head of the church prays that the work of grace may be carried higher and further, and that his people may be more thoroughly sanctified and made holy in body, soul, and spirit,\u2014in fact more like himself. Surely we need not say much to show the matchless wisdom of this prayer. More holiness is the very thing to be desired for all servants of Christ. Holy living is the great proof of the reality of Christianity. Men may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a godly life. Such a life adorns religion and makes it beautiful, and sometimes wins those who are not \u2018won by the Word.\u2019 Holy living trains Christians for heaven. The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready shall we be to dwell for ever in his presence when we die. Our entrance into heaven will be entirely by grace, and not of works; but heaven itself would be no heaven to us if we entered it with an unsanctified character. Our hearts must be in tune for heaven if we are to enjoy it. There must be a moral \u2018meetness for the inheritance of the saints in light,\u2019 as well as a title. Christ\u2019s blood alone can give us a title to enter the inheritance. Sanctification must give us a capacity to enjoy it. Who, in the face of such facts as these, need wonder that increased sanctification should be the first thing that Jesus asks for his people? Who that is really taught of God can fail to know that holiness is happiness, and that those who walk with God most closely, are always those who walk with him most comfortably? Let no man deceive us with vain words in this matter. He who despises holiness, and neglects good works, under the vain pretence of giving honour to justification by faith, shows plainly that he has not the mind of Christ.<\/p>\n

We should mark, secondly, in these verses, how Jesus prays for the unity and oneness of his people. \u2018That they all may be one,\u2014that they may be one in us,\u2014that they may be one even as we are one,\u2019\u2014and \u2018that so the world may believe and know that thou hast sent me,\u2019\u2014 this is a leading petition in our Lord\u2019s prayer to his Father. We can ask no stronger proof of the value of unity among Christians, and the sinfulness of division, than the great prominence which our Master assigns to the subject in this passage. How painfully true it is that in every age divisions have been the scandal of religion, and the weakness of the church of Christ! How often Christians have wasted their strength in contending against their brethren, instead of contending against sin and the devil! How repeatedly they have given occasion to the world to say, \u2018When you have settled your own internal differences we will believe!\u2019 All this, we need not doubt, the Lord Jesus foresaw with prophetic eye. It was the foresight of it which made him pray so earnestly that believers might be \u2018one.\u2019 Let the recollection of this part of Christ\u2019s prayer abide in our minds, and exercise a constant influence on our behaviour as Christians. Let no man think lightly, as some men seem to do, of schism, or count it a small thing to multiply sects, parties, and denominations. These very things, we may depend, only help the devil and damage the cause of Christ. \u2018If it be possible, as much as lieth in us, let us live peaceably with all men\u2019 (Rom. 12:18). Let us bear much, concede much, and put up with much, before we plunge into secessions and separations. They are movements in which there is often much false fire. Let rabid zealots who delight in sect-making and party-forming, rail at us and denounce us if they please. We need not mind them. So long as we have Christ and a good conscience, let us patiently hold on our way, follow the things that make for peace, and strive to promote unity. It was not for nothing that our Lord prayed so fervently that his people might be \u2018one.\u2019<\/p>\n

We should mark, finally, in these verses, how Jesus prays that his people may at last be with him and behold his glory. \u2018I will,\u2019 he says, \u2018that those whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am: that they may behold my glory.\u2019 This is a singularly beautiful and touching conclusion to our Lord\u2019s remarkable prayer. We may well believe that it was meant to cheer and comfort those who heard it, and to strengthen them for the parting scene which was fast drawing near. But for all who read it even now, this part of his prayer is full of sweet and unspeakable comfort. We do not see Christ now. We read of him, hear of him, believe in him, and rest our souls in his finished work. But even the best of us, at our best, walk by faith and not by sight, and our poor halting faith often makes us walk very feebly in the way to heaven. There shall be an end of all this state of things one day. We shall at length see Christ as he is, and know as we have been known. We shall behold him face to face, and not through a glass darkly. We shall actually be in his presence and company, and go out no more. If faith has been pleasant, much more will sight be; and if hope has been sweet, much more will certainty be. No wonder that when St Paul has written, \u2018We shall ever be with the Lord,\u2019 he adds, \u2018Comfort one another with these words\u2019 (1 Thess. 4:17, 18). We know little of heaven now. Our thoughts are all confounded, when we try to form an idea of a future state in which pardoned sinners shall be perfectly happy. \u2018It does not yet appear what we shall be\u2019 (1 John 3:2). But we may rest ourselves on the blessed thought, that after death we shall be \u2018with Christ.\u2019 Whether before the resurrection in paradise, or after the resurrection in final glory, the prospect is still the same. True Christians shall be \u2018with Christ.\u2019 We need no more information. Where that blessed person is who was born for us, died for us, and rose again, there can be no lack of anything. David might well say, \u2018In thy presence is fulness of joy, and at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore\u2019 (Psa. 16:11). Let us leave this wonderful prayer with a solemn recollection of the three great petitions which it contains. Let holiness and unity by the way, and Christ\u2019s company in the end, be subjects never long out of our thoughts or distant from our minds. Happy is that Christian who cares for nothing so much as to be holy and loving like his Master, while he lives, and a companion of his Master when he dies.<\/p>\n

Ryle’s Notes on John 17:24<\/h2>\n

24.\u2014[Father, I will \u2026 my glory \u2026 given me.]<\/strong> In this verse our Lord names the fourth and last thing which he desires for his disciples in his prayer. After preservation, sanctification, and unity, comes participation of his glory. He asks that they may be \u2018with him\u2019 in the glory yet to be revealed, and \u2018behold,\u2019 share, and take part in it. \u2018I will\u2019 is a remarkable phrase, though it must not be pressed and strained too far (see Mark 10:35). The daughter of Herodias asking the head of John the Baptist, said, \u2018I will that thou give me\u2019 (Mark 6:25). It may be nothing more than the expression of a strong \u2018wish.\u2019 Yet it is the wish of him who is one with the Father, and only wills what the Father wills. It is probably used to assure the mind of the disciples. \u2018I will,\u2019 and it will be done. Hutcheson says, \u2018I will,\u2019 doth not import any imperious commanding way, repugnant to his former way of humble supplication; but it only imports that in this his supplication, he was making his last will and testament, and leaving his legacies, which he was sure would be effectual, being purchased by his merits, and prosecuted by his affectionate and earnest requests and intercessions.\u2019<\/p>\n

Traill remarks, \u2018Christians, behold the amazing difference betwixt Christ\u2019s way of praying against his own hell (if I may so call it) and his praying for our heaven! When praying for himself, it is, \u201cFather, if it be thy will, let this cup pass from me.\u201d But when Christ is praying for his people\u2019s heaven, it is \u201cFather, I will that they may be with me.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

Stier maintains that \u2018I will\u2019 \u2018is no other than a testamentary word of the Son, who in the unity of the Father, is appointing what he wills, at that second limit of the prayer where petition ceases.\u2019 Alford says \u2018this is an expression of will founded on acknowledged right.\u2019 The expression, \u2018be with me where I am,\u2019 is one of those deeply interesting phrases which show the nature of the future dwelling place of believers. Wherever it may be, whether before or after the resurrection, it will be in the company of Christ. It is like \u2018with me in paradise,\u2019 \u2018depart and be with Christ,\u2019 and \u2018for ever with the Lord\u2019 (Luke 23:43; Phil. 1:23; 1 Thess. 4:17). The full nature of the future state is wisely hidden from us. It is enough for believers to know that they will be \u2018with Christ.\u2019 It is company, and not place, which makes up happiness. Traill remarks, \u2018Heaven consists in the perfect immediate presence of Christ. Perfect presence is, when all on both sides is present: all of Christ, and all of the Christian. But now all of Christ is not with us, and all of us is not with him. On his part we have Christ\u2019s Spirit, word, and grace. On our part there is present with him our hearts, and the workings of our faith and love and desire towards him. But this presence is imperfect, and mixed with much distance and absence.\u2019 The expression, \u2018behold my glory,\u2019 of course must not be confined to the idea of \u2018looking on as spectators.\u2019 It includes participation, sharing, and common enjoyment (compare John 3:3, 36; 8:51; Rev. 18:7). The expression, \u2018which thou hast given me,\u2019 seems to point to that special glory which the Father, in everlasting covenant, has appointed for Christ as the reward of the work of redemption (Phil. 2:9).<\/p>\n

[For thou lovedst me \u2026 foundation \u2026 world.]<\/strong> This sentence seems specially inserted in order to show that the glory of Christ in the next world is a glory which had been prepared from all eternity, before time began, and before the creation of man, and that it was not only something which, like Moses or John the Baptist, he had obtained by his faithfulness on earth; but something which he had, as the eternal Son of the eternal Father, from everlasting. \u2018Thou lovedst me, and didst assign me this glory long before this world was made,\u2019 that is, from all eternity. This is a very deep saying, and contains things far above our full comprehension.<\/p>\n

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