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Eric Nelson: Christian Lifehacks

Eric Nelson

Christian Lifehacks 1: John

Christian Lifehacks 2: Paul

Christian Lifehacks 3: Jesus

Before we start our message for this afternoon, why don't we review a little bit about what we've learned so far this weekend.

Again, This weekend I'm sharing Christian life hacks, things to make the Christian life easier, more effective, and hopefully they'll be helpful to you as they have been to me.

Our first meeting Friday night, I shared 2 different life hacks.

And what was what we were supposed to do?

Have the love of the Father in our hearts.

And 1 John chapter 2, verse 15 through 17 shared that message that we shouldn't love the world.

And we talked about some practical ways that, well, maybe we do love the world.

And that's why Jesus has to tell us not to.

This morning at, it was almost the 11 o'clock hour, we talked about 2 other things.

As I look over this room, you know, there's a lot of things in probably each 1 of our lives that it's difficult to give thanks for, you know.

And then what were we not supposed to do?

This afternoon, we're going to share 1 more life hack, only 1, from John chapter 17.

My goal this afternoon is not only to share that 1 life hack, but we're going to paint a bigger picture.

I'm extremely excited about this message because I believe John 17 is 1 of those chapters that all of us need to understand better.

I know that I want to understand it better, and so we're going to try to make it through the entire chapter.

Before we do, why don't we bow our heads for prayer.

I invite you to bow your heads for prayer with me.

Dear God, I ask that the Holy Spirit will be present here.

This is an important message, an important chapter.

1 of the prayers that you prayed for us gathered right here now.

I ask that the Bible will speak and that as we read through these verses of this prayer, each person here will learn something new about Jesus, something new about ourselves, and hopefully something that will make the Christian walk easier.

I pray these things in Christ's name, amen.

This is from a wonderful book called 8 Volume of the Testimonies, and I've put it up on the screen there, you can follow along.

The instruction given me by 1 of authority is that we are to learn to answer the prayer recorded in the 17th chapter of John.

Every gospel minister, every medical missionary.

Do we have any medical missionaries in the crowd today?

And I'm not just talking medical students either.

Every gospel minister, every medical missionary is to learn the science of this prayer.

Prayer is a science, and this prayer specifically.

My brethren and sisters, I ask you to heed these words and to bring to your study a calm, humble, contrite spirit and the healthy energies of a mind under the control of God.

Those who fail to learn the lessons contained in this prayer are in danger of making one-sided developments which no future training will ever fully correct.

John 17 is important, And I hope that we'll all learn more about it through our study today.

So again, we're going to focus only on 1 life hack this afternoon.

But my goal is to paint a big picture of John 17.

I want all of you to be able to read John 17 in the future and understand the outline of the entire chapter John 17 has a lot of good information.

In fact a careful study John 17 talks about justification talks about sanctification talks about glorification Unity you all know John 17 talks about unity, talks about perfection.

John 17 talks about the great controversy, prayer, how to have a relationship with God, and many other huge concepts, all of which we could spend an entire sermon series on.

If you're the kind of person that likes picking 1 thing and studying it very carefully, this presentation may be a little bit frustrating for you because our goal is to paint a big picture.

We're going to study the entire chapter verse by verse, but I'll be skipping over a lot of excellent information, and I realize that, and I'm sorry, I apologize in advance.

What I like to do with this study is something we don't do very often as a church family, and that is I'd like to read scripture together.

What I've done on the screen is simply put the passages, every single passage from John 17 on the screen, And I'd invite all of us to read together.

It helps save my voice, and I think there's some value to corporately reading scripture together.

These words spake Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour is come.

Glorify thy son, that thy son also may glorify thee.

Do you think it's important to study the Bible in context?

It is, and that's especially true when the Bible itself calls attention to the context.

It's fascinating to me that this passage, this prayer of Christ in John 17, which as many of you know is a call for unity in several places, comes in a very specific context.

If you look at John chapter 16, the end of the chapter, Jesus has just told the disciples about what's going to happen to them.

Jesus tells them, you're all going to go this way, that way, and you're all going to leave me.

There's a couple lessons from that, but at least 1 of them is that this prayer of Christ's is prophetic.

It's not looking only at the immediate circumstances that Christ is facing, but he's looking to the future.

There's a few interesting lessons from this verse as well that I invite you to study further, and that is lessons on prayer.

What position is Jesus in when he's praying?

He's not even standing, he's just walking by the way with the disciples, isn't he?

And not only that, he's lifting up his eyes to heaven.

You know, there's at least 7 different positions of prayer that you find Jesus praying in in the Gospels, and it's a very fascinating study.

The rest of this verse we're going to study along with verse 5.

As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him." What do you think the key word is in this text?

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Eric Nelson: Christian Lifehacks

Christian Lifehacks 3: Jesus

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