No sweeter prayer
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17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
19 And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
24 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.
25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
What does our passage say about God?
22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
First truth about God in our passage is the Father has given the Son glory.
Oxford Dictionary defines glory:
1. high renown or honor won by notable achievements.2. magnificence or great beauty.
What else does our passage say about God?
26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
God is love and the Father has loved the Son and Jesus prayer is that same love may be in us? What is different about God’s love compared to our natural love?
32 “If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount.
35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
36 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
That leads to what does our passage say about us?
17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
What is Sanctify?
set apart as or declare holy; consecrate.
We need to be set apart, we need to be sanctified that is made holy. How is this achieved?
By His word, that is why it is so important that we are in it everyday.
This book will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from this book! D.L. Moody
What else does it say about us?
21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Jesus is praying that we might be one because we default to devision
1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
This leads right into what does this passage require of us?
We are called to unity.
35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
What else does it call us to?
17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
We are called to be in His Word so that we may live holy lives.
What hope do we have from this passage?
24 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.
