Jesus’ Own Desire
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
What motivated Jesus in His final days on earth? His concern wasn’t for Himself but for those whom God gave Him. Are you included in this group? Study along with Truth For Life as Alistair Begg examines Jesus’ final request in the High Priestly Prayer.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Truth for Life where today we're resuming our study of Jesus' high-priestly prayer |
| 0:30.1 | by considering his final request, which was not for himself but for those whom God had given to him. |
| 0:36.8 | Are you included in that group? |
| 0:39.6 | Well, think about your answer as Alistair Begg teaches from John chapter 17. |
| 0:44.1 | We're focusing on verse 24. |
| 0:51.8 | The 24th verse reads, Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me may be with me where I am to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. |
| 1:08.8 | It is an immense privilege for us to listen in as Jesus prays. We are taken, |
| 1:16.6 | as it were, into the closet with Jesus here, and we hear him as he intercedes. And the clarity |
| 1:25.0 | with which he addresses the Father is unmistakable. This is his final request |
| 1:30.3 | in this prayer. There is still verses 25 and 26, but verse 24 is his final request. Jesus' own |
| 1:39.3 | desire is here. What does he desire? He has prayed already for his disciples' protection. He's been |
| 1:48.0 | praying for their sanctification. He's been praying for their unity that the world might know. |
| 1:54.5 | And here, he prays expressly that they might see His glory. |
| 2:02.1 | Now, let's just first of all notice something very straightforwardly, that Jesus' own desire |
| 2:09.9 | is selfless. |
| 2:11.6 | It is selfless. |
| 2:12.6 | I don't know about you, but often as I pray, I'm always asking God for things that are going to directly |
| 2:18.8 | affect me or mine and so on. It's not wrong to do, but it declares something of our focus. |
| 2:26.3 | Jesus, you will notice here, prays in a selfless way. We can see that by just allowing |
| 2:33.0 | our eyes to go beyond the end of chapter 17 and into |
| 2:37.2 | chapter 18, because there we read that when Jesus had spoken these words, the words that |
| 2:43.8 | were just reading now, he went out with his disciples across the brook, Kedron, where there was |
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