Tu‘apulelulu Sepitema 16, 2021
All mine are yours
‘Io, ko ‘eku ngaahi me‘a kotoa pē ‘oku ‘a‘au
Sione 17 (John 17)
(v. 9-10) ‘Oku ou fakakolekole ‘e au koe‘uhi ko kinautolu; ‘oku ‘ikai ko ‘eku fai koe‘uhi ko māmani, ka koe‘uhi pē ko kinautolu ne ke foaki mai; he ‘oku ‘o‘ou ‘a kinautolu: (‘Io, ko ‘eku ngaahi me‘a kotoa pē ‘oku ‘a‘au, pea ko ho‘o ngaahi me‘a ‘oku ‘a‘aku) pea kuo fakalāngilangi‘i au ‘iate kinautolu.
(v. 9-10) I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible
This chapter records for us words of our Lord addressed to His Father. In the first movement He was dealing strictly and only with relationships between Himself and the Father, referring to a past glory, and anticipating the coming glory, first, that resulting from the Cross, and then the return to that which had been abandoned.
In the second section He spoke to His Father of His relationship with the men immediately surrounding Him at the time. His prayer for them was not indifferent to the world, although He prayed at the moment not for the world, but for these men as the instrument by which He would yet reach the world. For them He asked that they might be kept from the evil that is in the world, and that to this end they might be sanctified in the truth. These men no longer belonged to the world in its degradation, but they did belong to it for its salvation. This He indicated as He said, "As Thou didst send Me into the world, even so send I them into the world."
Finally, He said, "Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on Me through their word." Thus He looked on and prayed for the world. Therefore He prayed that they might be one. The closing words of this intercessory prayer reveal our Lord's final purpose for the Church. It is that all His own might be with Him. The first application undoubtedly is to His Cross, with Him in its fellowship; and the last inevitably to the glory, with Him in the glory that will follow.
David Guzik :: Study Guide for John 17
“There is an old proverb, and I cannot help quoting it just now; it is, ‘Love me, love my dog.’ It is as if the Lord Jesus so loved the Father that even such poor dogs as we are get loved by him for his Father’s sake. To the eyes of Jesus we are radiant with beauty because God hath loved us.” (Spurgeon)
All Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine: Jesus already spoke of the shared glory between God the Father and God the Son (John 17:5). Here He spoke of their shared role in the life of the redeemed, that believers belong to both God the Father and God the Son.
Everything we have belongs to God, but not everything He has belongs to us. Anyone can say to God the Father “all mine are Yours“; but only Jesus could say “and Yours are Mine.”
“Each has full title to the possessions of the other; they share the same interests and responsibilities.” (Tenney)
I am glorified in them: In a sense, this is what it means to be a believer, to be born again, to be a true follower of Jesus Christ – to have Him glorified in us. Jesus does not merely want to dwell in or live in the believer, but to be glorified in them.
“Just as the world’s values were all wrong concerning the cross, so were the world’s values all wrong concerning the apostolic band. In them the Son of God, none less, was actually glorified.” (Morris)
The Apostle Paul later understood this, using phrases such as Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27) and noting that God’s work in us moves from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Corinthians 3:18).
No one other than Jesus should be glorified in the believer. Leaders have a tendency to glorify themselves in their followers, but it should only be Jesus.
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