Good morning. It wasn’t just to be with Jesus here on earth
for the original disciples. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have
given Me, may be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You
have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundations of the world. It was
forever. O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I have known
You; and these have known that You sent Me; and I have made Your name known to
them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be
in them, and I in them. Remember that several chapters ago Jesus and said “let
us be gone from here”. When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with
His disciples over the ravine of the Kidron, where there was a garden, in which
He entered with His disciples. What is interesting is that this is the same way
that King David went when he was being pursued by his son Absalom who wanted to
kill him. Now Judas also, who was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had
often met there with His disciples. Judas then, having received the Roman
cohort and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with
lanterns and torches and weapons. Unlike the other Gospels, John does not go
into detail about Jesus’ experiences in the garden, and how He struggled with
what was about to happen. In a way that seems unusual, since the others put a
great emphasis on it. Perhaps John just felt that they had said all that needed
to be said. Father thank You that Jesus wanted us to be with Him where He is
now. Help us to bring others into the kingdom so that they too may be with
Jesus where He is now.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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