This is Eternal Life

Friday, January 9, 2015
John 17:1-5 KJV

1 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: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What did our Lord Jesus' initially ask the Father to do for Him in the Garden of Gethsemane? Why? (v.1)
2) What had the Father given the Son power over? Why? (v.2)
3) What did our Lord say that eternal life is? (v.3)
4) What had Jesus finished? (v.4)
5) What was Jesus final request of the Father in this prayer? (v.5)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
6) How do you know that you have eternal life?
7) How have you glorified the Father in your own life?

LIFE LESSONS
8) As believers in the Lord Jesus, we are guaranteed eternal life with our Lord, when our earthly life is done.
9) Eternal life enables us to have relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
10) The Father was ultimately glorified through the life of Christ by the suffering, death, and resurrection of Christ.
11) The Father is most glorified in our lives when we die to our selves and follow Jesus.