Rev.C.J McKnight
Seattle, October 8, 2005. (1)
JESUS PRAYED TO HIS FATHER. This is the real prayer of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. Jesus knew that the reason for His visitation to earth was quickly coming upon Him. He was about to become, factually, the Lamb of God. He said, “Father the hour is come.” John 17:1 All the Godlike emotions and the human emotions were brought into play in His life. He had been from everlasting. Now, He humbled Himself to be come a man. As a man He was about to suffer further humiliation by being crucified on the tree. An ignominious death reserved for hopeless criminals. He went to the very bottom, the depths of sin and despair that He might be able to rescue and redeem the guiltiest, the filthiest of sinners. He is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9.