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Final Words
Final Words
Good morning and happy Palm Sunday. I am so glad you are here. I also want to welcome everyone watching online. As always please like, subscribe, share, and leave comments and prayer requests.
I want thank everyone who came out yesterday to help out with our family fun day. We had around 20 kids and lots of great connections and conversations with families.
Today we enter the most history changing and life altering week the world has ever known.
It began with the triumphal entry into Jerusalem and then a triumphal sacrifice and ends with the ultimate triumph for the whole world.
To get there we have to walk through the cross and I feel so often we try to rush through it.
It is like reading the end of the book and skipping all the drama and good stuff that got us to that point.
I firmly beleive that we can not full appreciate Easter and the ressurection with out going through the cross.
4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
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That is what Friday and our Good Friday service is all about.
Today, we finish Jesus’ high priestly prayer.
Please open your Bible, scroll on your phones or tablets, pull out the carved stone to John 17
As you are doing that, I think I have asked this before, but how many have been a part of a team.
I have been part of football and basketball teams every year growing up.
Everyone has a job or position and everyone needs to working together.
I remember playing football and the coach throwing me in to play offensive guard.
Anyone that uses the phrase dumb jock does not know a lot about football.
I had to know all the play, which direction it was going , who I had to block, and if they were not there who was the next person to block, and how to read what the other team was doing.
It is a lot.
Quarter back called a 36 fly - which was a sweep right, which mean I had to go from the left side to right side to block in front of the running back.
It was my first play in the position, I was excited and ready to hit someone. The quarterback called the play, i took off around the corner and leveled the is kid.
The only problem is I went left when the play was supposed to go right.
Coach grabbed me and said great hit but go the right direction next time.
To this day when I am told to go right, I lift my hands to make sure I am going the correct way.
The biggest team I belonged to was the Army.
When I was in the dessert and we invaded Iraq, it was a massive operation and everyone had to work together
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It is all about unity
As Jesus closes his prayer, he has moved from praying for himself, praying for his disciples, to now all of us who would believe, His church.
Unity, Glory, and Those Who are to Come
Unity, Glory, and Those Who are to Come
Please stand with me as we read the most important words you will hear today.
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.
Let’s pray
Unity, Glory, and Those Who are to Come
Unity, Glory, and Those Who are to Come
It is amazing with what was coming Jesus would think about us. He has already prayed about security and sanctity.
Now the focus is on the unity of his followers and church.
This is more than oneness of mission and purpose.
What Jesus is praying for is a oneness of being.
We are united through Christ by being in Christ.
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.
We are united through Christ by being in Christ.
This does not say that we all agree or all look the same and do the same.
This is about us being in Christ.
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.
We are united through Christ by being in Christ.
This is all about abiding in Christ and His Spirit abiding in us.
On our own we would never stay together. I would annoy you way too much.
It is so funny to me that world is calling for diversity, but everyone is just looking like each other and saying the same things.
The only way to truly unique is to be in Christ and thus be who you were meant to be.
The only place you can be that person and be accepted and loved is in the fellowship of believers.
And when we do that - the world sees Jesus.
When the world sees Jesus.
Through our unity in Christ, we reveal His glory.
The basis for true unity is the person and work of Christ and His glory.
22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
We posses His glory.
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.
Through our unity in Christ, we reveal His glory.
Look at this
We share this oneness because the Father is in Jesus, and Jesus is in us by His Spirit.
This is ultimately expressed in how we are loved by God and how we love each other.
The same Spirit that will raise Christ from the dead on Easter, is the one that dwells is us as followers.
It is not about age, there si no such thing as a teenage Holy Spirit.
It is not about position, there is not a regular or supreme Holy Spirit.
It is not about anything but the work of Christ and the indwelling of His spirit.
As the world sees the love and oneness they will believe God is love.
If all we do is argue spew hated and division, the world will reject the Gospel.
Not only will we reveal His glory,
By being in Christ, we will behold His glory.
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.
By being in Christ, we will behold His glory.
The assurance of Heaven is based upon:
The price Jesus Paid.
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.
The promise Jesus made.
2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
The prayer Jesus prayed
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.
By being in Christ, we will behold His glory.
The Father always answers His Son’s prayers.
There are still more to come
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.”
There are still more to come
The world does not know Him.
There will be no excuses when we stand before Him, but we are still called to make Him known.
Make His name - His character, His standards, His truth.
We cannot separate love and truth in our presenting His Gospel.
Love without truth is hypocrisy.
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As we have walked through this prayer, we have seen the priorities of Christ:
The glory of God, the sanctity of God’s people, the unity of the church, the ministry of sharing the Gospel with a lost world.
His heart is still the same.
Christ came to reveal the Father and to make the way for us to know Him.
That is what this week is about.
What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself. - J. I. Packer
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This is the week that changed everything.
He entered to cheers and left jeers.
All so we could know God.
Don’t rush through this week.
Don’t miss knowing Him more.
Let’s pray.
