Transcript John 17 The Great High Priestly Prayer of our Lord!

Grace Fellowship Church
Pastor/Teacher
Jim Rickard
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012
www.GraceDoctrine.org
Doxology
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.—
Amen.
John 17
The Great High Priestly
Prayer of our Lord!
John 17:6-19
John 17:15-16
The Evil One and His Strategy
Part 2
A. The Person of Satan.
(continued)
12. He is the greatest deceiver
of history. To be such a
deceiver the devil must be the
greatest and most effective
liar in history, John 8:44.
a. When there is no doctrine
or establishment truth
circulating in the stream of
consciousness of either
believers or unbelievers, they
too will automatically lie.
b. Satan works through
human beings who are liars,
2 Thes 2:9-10.
Believers can be deceived just
as easily as unbelievers by the
Satanic strategy.
c. Two illustrations of the
Satanic lie.
1) Socialism. A theory that
actually establishes slavery to
the State rather than freedom
of self-determination with the
government protecting that
freedom.
2) Christian Activism
2 Cor 11:2-4
a) Christian activism
combines the arrogance skills
with legalism; self-righteous
arrogance plus crusader
arrogance. Temporal solutions
to the problems of life are not
spiritual solutions.
b) Paul’s warning against the
arrogance skills is found in
Rom 12:2-3. The basis for all
satanic religions has always
been human sacrifice and the
basis for human sacrifice is
always a satanic lie.
Activism is a way of thinking
of self in terms of arrogance.
Thinking in terms of sanity is
thinking truth.
James 4:7,
“Submit therefore to God.
Resist the devil and he will
flee from you.”
B. His Names:
As ruler of this world, Satan
has three primary
designations since his fall.
1. Originally he was called
Lucifer, the Son of Light. He
was the bright and shining
angel in the throne room of
God.
“Lucifer” is a Latin word used
in the KJV of Isa 14:12 where
the NASB uses a more literal
phrase, “star of the morning”.
They come from the Hebrew
Noun HELEL that means, “a
shining one, light-bearer,
morning star”. Its root
HALAL means “to shine”, or
it can mean, depending on the
context, “to boast or praise”.
The LXX translation of the
OT uses the Greek Noun
HEOSPHOROS, “Bringer of
morning or morning star”.
2 Peter 1:19, “the morning
star” is the Greek word,
PHOSPHOROS, “lightbringing, the morning star”
applied to TLJC who took the
title back from Satan due to
His victory on the Cross.
2. SATAN in the Hebrew and
SATANAS in the Greek,
which means “an adversary or
enemy”.
In the OT SATAN is used 14
times for the devil in 1 Chron
21:1; Job 1 – 2; Zech 3:1-2.
1 Chron 21:1,
“And Satan stood up against
Israel, and provoked David to
number Israel.”
Mat 4:10,
“Then Jesus said to him, “Go,
Satan! For it is written, ‘You
shall worship the Lord your
God, and serve Him only.’”
3. The Greek word
DIABOLOS, “slanderer, false
accuser” is translated “devil”.
The Latin is DIABOLO.
“Devil” is never used in the
OT but the Septuagint uses
DIABOLOS for SATAN.
Judas had this term applied to
him, John 6:70, as it is to
men, 2 Tim 3:3; Titus 2:3, and
women (she devils),
1 Tim 3:11, (gossipers) who
do the work of the arch
slanderer.
4. Satan has had three titles
compared to our Lord who
has three Royal titles. Our
Lord is the Son of God, the
Son of Man and the King of
kings and Lord of Lords.
Grace Fellowship Church
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Tape # 12-014
Jesus Prays for His Disciples
Satan’s Strategy – His Names
Great High Priestly Prayer, Part 64
John 17:15-16; Isa 14:12; 1Chron 21:1; Mat 4:1-10;
Rom 12:2-3; 2Cor 11:2-4
James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2012