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So we are still on this wonderful journey of prayer.
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We got two more weeks left on this before Christmas Eve.
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Are you guys excited about Christmas?
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Oh, really?
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Oh, let's shout for joy.
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Are you excited for Christmas?
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Yeah.
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Come on.
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I mean, I don't, we've, listen, I was like almost completely, I know others have been,
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are far more in advance when it comes to Christmas, for some people, start in October.
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Mine starts Christmas, Thanksgiving Day, right?
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But all that being said, I've been, it's been nice just having family and to me I think
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that's going to be the greatest gift.
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So we're going to be dealing with this issue of prayer and Jesus' prayer and I talked to
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you guys about the when and the whom.
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When should you pray, whom should you pray?
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I think this answers this question, these two questions quite definitively.
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So we're going to be going through John 17 over the next several weeks.
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But I want you to hear Jesus' prayer and how he prays for his people.
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Most people when they read John 17, they have no clue when this happens.
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They just think it just happens.
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And in many cases, many preachers or teachers will avoid this particular prayer.
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In all the years that I've known Christ, I think I've heard the message, a message or
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a lesson taught on this one time in like my entire life in Christendom.
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Why?
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Because this prayer wrecks all kinds of theology, but they miss the glory of this amazing prayer
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that Christ prays on behalf of his people.
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Okay?
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So just to give you some background, if you turn to chapter 13, okay?
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Chapter 13, Jesus has his triumphal entry comes in and he then throughout that week
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comes to this point where it's time for Passover meal.
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So as you guys know the story, they go out, they find all the things they need for the
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dinner.
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They sit down, they have dinner.
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Jesus does all these amazing things.
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He washes their feet.
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He breaks bread.
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He institutes the Lord's Supper there.
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All those things happen in John 13.
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And so during this time of John 13, this is the Lord's Supper, his last meal with his
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people.
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And so during this time, Jesus literally goes through and he gives them a new commandment.
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A new commandment I give you that you love one another as I have loved you.
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He then foretells Peter's denial.
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He then gives this amazing proclamation that I am the way, the truth, and the life and
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no one comes to the Father except by me.
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He then gives the proclamation of the promise of the Holy Spirit that I will not leave you
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as orphans.
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I will not leave you without a shepherd.
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I will not leave you alone, but he promises the Holy Spirit and he promises that the Holy
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Spirit will guide them in all truth.
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He also proclaims in chapter 15, I am the true vine and you are the branches.
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If a man remains me and I in him.
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All of this is happening at the Supper and on their way to the Garden of Gethsemane.
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Can you imagine all of these truths are happening within a very few hours?
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And why does Jesus do this?
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Because he's been walking with them for three years.
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He's at the end of his ministry.
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His hour is about to come and he wants to make sure that he gives them everything that
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he has taught them and clarifies these things to them.
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So much to the point that they say that he prays for them and says they know me because
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of the truth.
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He also lets them know that because the world hated him, they will hate us also.
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Chapter 16 comes and he's letting them know that you're not alone.
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He also encourages them after he says that the world hated me, it's going to hate you.
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And he encourages them to stand in the truth.
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In verse 26 of chapter 15 he says, but when the helper comes whom I will send to you from
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the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about
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me.
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He then explains to them that the Holy Spirit will guide them in all truth and that he has
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overcome the world so fear not.
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And that's where I want us to begin.
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Before we go there, I want you to know a few things.
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We talked about these last week, lastly for the last two weeks, but I want to reiterate
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them and then I'm only give you a statement from Dr. Sinclair Ferguson.
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Here it is, you ready?
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The doctrine of prayer is a means of grace offered according to the will of God expressed
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in accordance with his word.
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Prayer is the language of the soul and opening of our hearts before God, John Calvin.
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Prayer reveals our heart.
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Prayer is about aligning ourselves with God's will, Matthew 26.
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Prayer is this word, pros ukami, pros meaning to be near or come before, ukami meaning to
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pray or to will.
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Dr. Sinclair Ferguson states it this way, praying is not an isolated spiritual exercise.
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We pray and we live are not two compartments, are not two compartments.
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The truth of the matter is we live as we pray and we pray as we live.
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Dr. Sinclair Ferguson.
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What Jesus does is he prepares his people and what's interesting, I want you to imagine
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this, he gets done eating and as he's walking with them and talking with them, he's teaching
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them these truths, he comes to the end of the lessons.
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He has nothing more to teach, nothing more to say to them.
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And on his journey, Jesus does something quite remarkable.
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Turn to chapter 16, John 16 verse 25.
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So all the things that I've just mentioned to you, I'm divine and all those things, this
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is what he says, I have said these things to you in figures of speech.
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The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell
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you plainly about the Father.
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In that day you will ask in my name and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father
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on your behalf for the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed
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that I came from God.
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I came from the Father and I've come into the world and now I am leaving the world and
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going to the Father.
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In other words, what he's saying is one day you're not going to need to come to me here
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on earth.
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His disciples said, ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech.
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What?
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You mean three years and just all of a sudden you had a V8.
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I understand everything you're saying to me.
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Look what they say to him.
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Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you.
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This is why we believe that you came from God.
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Three years after watching him do all these miracles, now you know because of what Jesus
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said to you.
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Interesting.
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Jesus answered them, do you now believe?
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Like now?
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You believe now.
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Based on what I just said to you, we had dinner, broke bread, told you I'm the vine, you're
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the branches, all these things.
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I say I'm not going to be speaking to you in figurative language in this type of simple
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speech and now you're turning around going, now I believe you.
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Interesting.
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But look what Jesus says, behold, verse 32, behold the hour is coming and indeed has come
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when you will be scattered each to his own home and will leave me alone, yet I am not
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alone for the Father is with me.
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I have said these things to you that in me you may have peace in the world.
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You will have tribulation, but take heart I have overcome the world.
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Do you remember previously in chapter 15, if they hated me they're going to hate you?
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So Jesus says I'm not going to be talking to you in figures of speech anymore, in parables.
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I'm going to talk plainly to you, I'm going away.
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It's interesting that Jesus says that you guys are all going to run and you're going
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to go home and you're going to leave me alone.
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Because if you remember previously before this statement, Jesus predicted that Peter
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would deny him.
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You notice this time Peter doesn't argue because now Jesus says all of you are going to leave
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me.
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I'll be left alone.
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Look what else it says in the end of chapter 16, in the world you will have tribulation,
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but take heart I have overcome the world.
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The world is full of suffering.
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You cannot avoid it.
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It's part of the deal.
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So find joy in your suffering.
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Think about that.
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Jesus was joyful to suffer for you.
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Why would we not be joyful to suffer for him?
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The scripture says that the father counted it joy to destroy his son.
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So understanding all that as Jesus is walking and having conversation with his disciples,
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he stops.
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Just stops walking.
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Look what it says, and when Jesus has spoken these words, what words?
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13 to 17.
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When Jesus had told him all these things from the supper to this moment, look what he says,
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when Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the
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hour has come.
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My work is finished is what he's saying.
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This is it.
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My purpose of coming is here.
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Father, the hour has come.
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Glorify your son that the son may glorify you.
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Now what's interesting about this word glorify, many would think, hey, make him amazing.
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No, it's more intimate than that.
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This glorify, this word glorify here, it's dox azo.
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This word dox azo means to make renown or to render illustrious.
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Now there are many churches today who are always talking about making Jesus famous.
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We got to make him renown.
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Jesus doesn't need your help to be famous.
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He is already the most famous person to ever live.
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He was famous before he even created anything.
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His creation will proclaim him if his people don't.
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Jesus doesn't need anyone to make him renown.
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He already is.
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So this word here to clarify means to cause the dignity or worth of some person or thing
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to become manifest or acknowledged.
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Think about glory from that perspective.
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In other words, Jesus is saying, Father, the hour has come for me, your son, to be manifest
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and acknowledged as the worthy one.
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In that your son may manifest and acknowledge you.
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Think about that.
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When Jesus went to the cross, who is he acknowledging and manifesting that he is the one who has
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dignity and worth?
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His father.
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And the father was pointing to the son saying, no, he has dignity and worth.
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And the Holy Spirit points to the son, he has dignity and worth.
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He is the worthy one.
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Revelation tells you who the worthy one is.
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So when we think of glory, it's recognizing that the creation is not glorified because
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of itself.
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The creation is glorified because Christ is made manifest or acknowledged as the God of
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its creation.
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So I make manifest and acknowledge the worth and dignity of my King and my Savior.
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That's what glory means.
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Jesus' praise for the glorification of him and the Father.
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I want you to understand, pray that God will be glorified in your life so that he is manifest
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and acknowledged in your life as the King of your life.
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Verse two, since you have been given authority, since you have given him, meaning Jesus talking
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about himself, since you Father have given me, given him authority over all flesh.
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You hear that?
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Who's in charge of all flesh?
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Who is the one in authority of all flesh?
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God puts a monkey wrench in a whole must of stuff, doesn't it?
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If he has authority over all flesh, that means Satan doesn't.
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If he has authority over all flesh, it means he's the one in control.
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He's sovereign.
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We aren't.
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If he has authority over all flesh, then he determines who he has mercy on and who he's
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compassionate to.
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As a matter of fact, he clarifies this, he has authority over all flesh to do what?
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To give eternal life to all whom you Father, you have given him.
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Ouch.
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Now you know why people don't teach this.
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Because this whole prayer is about the sovereignty of God.
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It's all about sovereign grace.
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This puts a major monkey wrench in all kinds of issues.
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As a matter of fact, there's a gentleman on YouTube named Dr. Layton, and he uses John
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17, and he calls it the un-Calvinism of John 17.
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Really?
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Have you even gotten to verse two yet?
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How do you explain that away?
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If he has all authority over all flesh, and he is the one who gives eternal life to whom
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the Father has given him, that implies that the Father, that we belong to the Father before
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the foundation of the world.
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Isn't that what the scripture says?
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That your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life before the creation of all things?
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And if that's true, Jesus continues to clarify what eternal life is.
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So what is eternal life?
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Many would say eternal life is confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe
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in your heart that God raised him from the dead.
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No, that is not eternal life.
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Eternal life is a person.
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Look what it says, this is eternal life.
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What is eternal life?
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This right here.
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And what is eternal life?
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That they know you, the only true Elohim, and Yahshua ha-Mashiach, whom you have sent.
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That's what he says in his language.
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You are the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
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Who is eternal life?
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God is eternal life.
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You don't get eternal life, you are given eternal life.
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And you are given life because God is your life.
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That's what Jesus is saying.
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You, to know you, the only true God in Jesus Christ whom you have sent, that's eternal
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life.
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It's not a prayer.
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So what's he say?
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I have made manifest and acknowledged the dignity and worth of you Father on earth.
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That's what he says, I have glorified you on earth.
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He has obeyed the Father in every intimate detail, not a dot or a tittle.
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Was forsaken in the work of Christ on the earth.
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Having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
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In other words, Jesus did it perfectly and without any mistakes.
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There is nothing undone.
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Verse five, and now Father, and he's saying Abba, glorify me in your presence with the
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glory that I had with you before the world existed.
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In other words, I have veiled myself of the glory that I had with you.
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And now Father, I am coming back, going home to sit at the right hand of God the Father.
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And this is what Jesus says, and this word glory means the most excellent state.
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Hear it in these terms.
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And now Father, glorify, manifest and acknowledge the worth and the dignity of the Son in your
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own presence with the most exalted state that I had with you before the world existed.
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It's kind of amazing.
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Because here you see the God man who was fully God, truly God, like how R.C.
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Sproul says, truly God and truly man.
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John MacArthur says it that way too.
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And you're seeing him come to the Father saying, bring me to my most exalted state.
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In other words, I'm going back to where I was.
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Why?
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Because God had to become man to die for his creation.
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As a matter of fact, let's clarify this in John 6 verse 37.
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John 6, turn there.
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Just so you see the context, you know it's important.
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John 6, 37, all that the Father gives me will come to me.
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I thought I had freedom of choice.
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President Ecclesiastes says it this way, love is as strong as death.
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When death calls you, you've got to come.
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Everyone, when it's time to die, will die.
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You can't say, no, it's not my choice right now.
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I'd really rather not do that.
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No.
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Love is as strong as death.
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When the love of God calls you, you've got to come.
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Jesus says here, all that the Father gives me will come to me.
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And whoever comes to me, I will never cast out.
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For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent
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me.
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And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given
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me, but raise him up in the last day.
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For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son believes in him and should
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have eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day, except for one.
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And the reason why that one was lost is because prophecy must be fulfilled, and everybody
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knows who that is.
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Judas was brought in for the sole purpose to betray the Son.
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That being said, let's look at Jesus acknowledges the Father's will in prayer.
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God's will for his people is to have eternal life.
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So when you pray, are you praying for his will?
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Verse 6.
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Verse 17, verse 6, I have manifested your name.
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You might even be able to use the word glorified your name.
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I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world.
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Ercomi, you gave me people out of the world.
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He took you out of one place and placed you in another.
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Ercomi, my favorite word, one of my favorite words.
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I have made manifest your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world, yours they
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were and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
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Well, did we ever hear this?
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Have you ever really listened to a message based on John 17?
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Has this making you a little bit uncomfortable?
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Not for me.
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It gives me so much security.
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I enjoy lavishing in the amazing faithfulness and goodness of God to me.
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Look what it says in verse 17.
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Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.
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Wait.
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What are we learning here?
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What two doctrines is he proclaiming here?
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There's actually three.
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The doctrine of sovereign grace.
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God is completely sovereign over all things.
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Second, the doctrine of election.
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God is the one who chooses.
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God is the one who does the work.
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God is the one who brings us out of the world and brings us into his family.
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It's God the Father.
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We were his before the foundation of the world and we always were his.
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We were then given to the son because of the goodness of the Father and the accomplishment
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of the work of Christ on the cross.
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What's the second?
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What's the third doctrine we're learning here?
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Eternal security.
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That whoever was the Father has always been the Father and he loses none.
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So for all of our Arminian friends and charismatic friends who say you can lose your salvation,
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here's a clear doctrinal proof in the prayer of Jesus that you cannot lose your salvation
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if you are truly his child.
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Stand in the security of our amazing God knowing that in his lavishing love toward you and
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in his promises that he keeps his word consistently all the time.
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Has nothing to do with you.
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That should make you feel happy that you have no part in the process of what God does, that
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in God's goodness and kindness, he does the work.
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Because if I did any part, I'd think I'd wreck it.
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Matter of fact, I would because I'm a sinful man.
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I'm trying to avoid squirrels here.
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So Jesus here affirms the promises and the will of the Father.
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We were his from all eternity and will always be his.
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Why?
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Because we are elected and are secure in Christ.
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What kind of comfort and surety do you have now?
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Jesus says, for I have given them the words that you gave me.
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You hear that?
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For I have given them the words that you gave me and they have received them, meaning the
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words, and have come to know in truth that I came from you.
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They have believed that you sent me.
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Why?
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Do you remember what we read at the end of chapter 16?
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Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative language.
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Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you.
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This is why we believe that you came from God.
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I want you to hear this.
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Your experience means absolutely nothing to the reality of the work of Christ on the cross.
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Do we get the benefit of experiencing a loving kindness from God?
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Yes.
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That is not the determining factor of your salvation.
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The determining factor of your salvation is solely on the truth of the word of God.
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They lived for three years experiencing the miracles of the hand of the living God in
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front of them.
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They actually were sent out to go out and cast out demons and heal the sick.
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And they still did not understand and comprehend this reality of eternal life.
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Then all of a sudden when the work is done and he is about to be arrested and taken to
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the cross, all of a sudden because now he is no longer talking in simple terms, he is
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just talking plainly to them, they go, now we believe.
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Isn't that interesting?
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It is not the experience that determines your eternity.
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It is the reality of the word of God being active in your life.
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It is the word of God that brings you to salvation.
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It is the word of God, the gospel by which the gift of faith comes and is planted in
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your life by which the Holy Spirit makes alive this faith, the seed of faith, and it produces
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in you fruit leading to eternal life.
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That is the point.
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If it is dependent on the experience, you lost the point.
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But if it is dependent upon the truth of the word of God, you can absolutely bank on it.
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That is what he means here.
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Does that mean that I didn't enjoy seeing God at work in my life as an experience?
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Yes, but that experience didn't determine my salvation.
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It is the word of God, the gospel, which determined my salvation, the work of the Holy Spirit
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in my life through that word.
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That is exactly what happens here.
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As a matter of fact, to prove that out, turn to chapter 16, verse 13.
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Jesus' prayer confirms the truth in his people.
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We are changed by the ministry of the truth, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Look what it says in chapter 16, verse 13.
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When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak
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on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will declare to you the
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things that are to come.
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He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
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All that the Father has is mine.
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Therefore, I have said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
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The work of the Holy Spirit is the same work that Jesus did on behalf of the Father when
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he was on the earth.
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What's that?
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What did Jesus declare?
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Truth.
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I'm going to say this and I hope it doesn't offend you.
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Well, sort of.
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The Charismatics would say that the point of the reality of the truth of God is the
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experience of God in the working of miracles.
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That is not true.
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That's a lie.
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Because they want you to put your hope in man instead of putting your hope in the word
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of God.
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As a matter of fact, Jesus even clarifies this truth to those on the left.
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Didn't we cast out demons in your name?
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Didn't we heal the sick in your name?
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Didn't we do all these workings of miracles in your name?
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He's going to say, depart from me, you who doers of iniquity.
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I never knew you.
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That doesn't mean you're not going to see crazy stuff happen because it's obvious that
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you do.
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Some of them is charlatans.
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All of it's fake.
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But what does he say to those on his right?
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Those who practice the word of God.
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When I was hungry, you fed me.
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When I was thirsty, you gave me drink.
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When I was sick, you cared for me.
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When I was in prison, you visited me.
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When did we do that?
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When you did it for the least of these, you did it for me.
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That's the word of God active in the life of a believer.
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So the reality of conversion is based on the full truth of the gospel.
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The word of God being living and active in the life of an individual.
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So when Paul says that the word of God is living and active, sharper than the double
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edged sword, divides soul and spirit, bone and marrow, judges the intents of the heart,
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it's literal.
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Why do you think people avoid this?
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Why do you think they don't teach the full counsel of it?
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Because they don't want the secrets of the heart to be revealed.
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John 17 verse 9, verse by verse, which we've been doing this whole time, but it's pretty
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simple.
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He starts off with this.
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I am praying for them, meaning his people, specifically the disciples, and I am not praying
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for the world.
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Ouch.
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I don't know if the world would like that today.
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They would say, God is not tolerant.
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He's intolerant.
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Exactly.
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God is exclusively inclusive.
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What's that mean?
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He's exclusive to those who are his people and only inclusive to his people.
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He says, I am praying for them, but I'm not praying for the world.
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Ooh, world's in deep trouble.
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But for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
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Are yours, have always been yours, will always be yours, will continue to be yours, and they
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will never not be yours.
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That's what this means.
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Pretty clear.
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All mine are yours and all yours are mine.
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I know, gentlemen.
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I wish we could say that in our marriage.
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Because all mine is my wife's and all my wife's is my wife's.
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Winter, winter, chicken dinner.
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My wife's gone.
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That's my boy.
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It's just a joke.
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I did that over in first service.
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Nobody laughed.
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At least you guys get it.
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Millennials, I love it.
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Gen Zers.
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All right.
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Here we go.
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Look what he says at the end of that verse, verse 10, and I am glorified in them.
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In other words, I am made manifest and acknowledged with dignity and worth in their lives.
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And I am no longer in the world.
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In other words, I'm out.
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My days are done.
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But they are in the world.
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We're still going to be here and I am coming to you.
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He said, I'm coming to you.
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Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one even
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as we are one.
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And this is what Jesus is saying.
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Jesus has been the shepherd of his sheep for three years.
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He has carefully guarded and protected them.
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And he is leaving.
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And what he's saying to the Father is, they don't have a shepherd anymore.
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You are their shepherd.
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The Holy Spirit is our shepherd.
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He does not leave us nor forsake us.
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He does not leave us alone.
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He says, I am leaving you.
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I will not leave you as orphans.
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I will send you a comforter, a helper, who will come for you and care for you and guide
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you in all truth.
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What you're seeing, the ministry of the Holy Spirit, is the work of the shepherding of
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God in your life.
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The Holy Spirit is more than just some force.
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He's not a force at all.
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He's a person.
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He's not a genie who gives you everything you wish for.
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He is a person who is active and living in your life, shepherding your soul.
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He is your spiritual shepherd.
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And I am his under shepherd, along with all the other elders in our church.
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Isn't that interesting?
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Look what he says, which you have given me, that they may be one even as we are one.
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What did Jesus do that proved that he was one with the Father?
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I only speak what my Father says I should speak.
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I only do the will of my Father.
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You want to know who, this whole issue of all these churches being ecumenical that we
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should all be one.
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That's what he wants for us.
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That's what he says in his prayer.
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No, he wants you to be one according to his will and his word.
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I'm not going to be one with your church over there that's being pro this and pro that.
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Sorry.
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That's not a oneness because that's not according to the will and the word of God.
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You have an issue with that, take it up with Jesus.
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Not my problem.
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Jesus is one with the Father because he came and accomplished exactly what the Father said
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he should do and say and do what the Father said he should do.
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You want to know what oneness is?
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Get in line with the will of God, his word.
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That's oneness.
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And the reason why churches have a hard time with that is because they don't want God to
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be the Lord, master in God or their life.
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They want to determine.
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They want to be self-determined.
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Lastly, look what he says, and I will no longer be in the world, but they will be in the world
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and I am coming to you, Holy Father, keep them in your name, that which you have given
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me.
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And what is the name?
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Yeshua, the God who saves.
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We will pick up on verse 12 next week.
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While I was with them, I kept them in your name.
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What you're going to see is Jesus is praying the doctrine of shepherding concerning his
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people.
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So you've seen the doctrine of election, the doctrine of sovereign grace, the doctrine
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of eternal security, the doctrine of the shepherding of God.
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And we'll pick up and finish off next week on the rest of this amazing prayer.
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So here's what I want you to do for homework.
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I want you guys to listen and read this over and over and over again all week.
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Listen to what Jesus is saying to the Father on your behalf, because that's what this prayer
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is about.
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He's leaving.
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He has done the work and he says this prayer out loud for his disciples to hear as he is
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speaking to the Father so that they are left with these truths and how he prays.
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When he prays, he prays instantly and immediately.
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To whom he prays?
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He prays to the Father.
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What does he pray?
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He prays that God would be glorified.
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How does he pray?
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He prays four things.
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Prayer, praise and exaltation of God, supplication, prayers on behalf of others, petition, prayers
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of requests for others and yourself.
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And what's the last one?
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Thanksgiving.
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Give God glory and be thankful for he alone is God.
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The four components of prayer all follows the model of prayer, which Jesus is doing
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right here.
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Yeah, I said cheer.
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Right here.
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All right?
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So, let's pray.
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Father, I want to thank you so much for your faithfulness and goodness.
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Thank you for this amazing prayer.
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I pray, Lord, that you would continue to guide us in all truth, that we would understand
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and know your will, that the full counsel of your word is proclaimed, that we would
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be clearer in understanding not only your word, but who you are, confident and sure
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of our God and our Savior.
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We thank you and praise you.
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In Jesus' name, amen.