It is perhaps worth mentioning, though a moment’s thought would reveal it, that the atoning death of the Lord Jesus Christ not only saved sinners from death and hell but gained for them everlasting life and glory. The redemptive sacrifice of the Lord Jesus brought eternal security as well as God’s full and free salvation to all His chosen people. Christ’s death accomplished in time what God’s will purposed from eternity. Our Saviour did not save us on the cross only to relinquish us under the complexities of life and lose us in the end. 

Many reasons render this prayer of the Lord Jesus precious to His people. Foremost among them is the frequency with which our Saviour differentiates between His Church and the ungodly in the world. Let there be no confusion in the minds of God’s people. The Lord God distinguishes absolutely between those who are His own by everlasting love and those who are not; those set apart in the covenant of grace and those who are not; those redeemed by the blood of Christ and those who are not.  

Everything our Lord Jesus Christ did as a man He did according to the will of God and for the glory of God. Throughout His ministry our Saviour constantly ascribed glory to God for all things; the miracles He performed, the doctrines He preached and for the mission of salvation and reconciliation upon which He was embarked. The Saviour was always obedient to His Father’s will and from a child was aware to be about His Father’s business.