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0:00John chapter 17 [music] verse 1. This
0:03begins the high priestly prayer.
0:05And this is the culminating chapter of
0:09his ministry [music] before crucifixion.
0:12And this intensive volume of ministry
0:16that Jesus gave before crucifixion is
0:18not represented in the other three
0:19Gospels. It's only found here in John.
0:22[music]
0:22And this is the culmination of what he
0:24ministered to them between the departure
0:28of Judas to go betray him
0:30>> [music]
0:30>> and his arrest.
0:32He's just been telling them
0:34that he's going to go away so that they
0:35can [music] have a direct relationship
0:37with him, with the Father. And they all
0:40understand plainly [music] about the
0:42Father when they come into a
0:44relationship with the Father through the
0:46Holy Spirit.
0:48And then he's told them that
0:50>> [music]
0:50>> they're going to be able to ask anything
0:52of the Father in his name
0:54and the Father will give it to them
0:57because the Father loves them.
0:59Jesus spoke these things and lifting up
1:01his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father,
1:04the hour has come. Glorify your son
1:08that the son may glorify you.
1:12Even as you gave him authority over all
1:15flesh
1:16that to all whom you have given him, he
1:19may give eternal life.
1:22So, what is about to happen is a
1:24crucible. Jesus is going to pay a price
1:27[music] as the high priest.
1:30But he's not going to offer a lamb,
1:32another animal. He's going to be the
1:34lamb.
1:35And he's going to be the high priest
1:37making the offering.
1:39And he's going to be the altar
1:40>> [music]
1:40>> upon which the offering is made. And
1:43he's going to be the temple in which the
1:45offering is made. And he's going to be
1:47the God to whom the offering is made.
1:50Because because he's going to offer
1:52himself.
1:54And he in this, the Father is going to
1:56be glorified. And that he's removing the
1:59barrier so that we can have confident
2:02access to the Father as he had access to
2:06the Father.
2:08Do you understand?
2:09So, the in this, he is our mediator. He
2:12is serving as our mediator. And in this,
2:15the Father is going to be glorified. And
2:17the son is going to be glorified. The
2:19humanity and the divinity are going to
2:22reach complete unity.
2:25You gave him authority over all flesh
2:28that
2:29to all whom you have given him, he may
2:31give eternal life.
2:33This is eternal life.
2:36That they may know you, the only true
2:38God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
2:44This is the most defining statement of
2:46salvation that Jesus gives.
2:48He doesn't say this is eternal life to
2:50know about the only true God but to know
2:54the only true God
2:56and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. The
2:58word and here
3:00is confusing.
3:02But it can be translated as even.
3:05So, it can translate like this. This is
3:08eternal life that they may know you, the
3:11only true God, even Jesus Christ whom
3:13you have sent. So, it doesn't always
3:16mean in addition.
3:18It means another expression or the same
3:21thing.
3:22I glorified you on the earth having
3:25accomplished the work which you have
3:28given me to do.
3:30Now, Father, glorify me together with
3:32yourself with the glory which I had with
3:35you before the world was.
3:37You say, "Well, does this mean that
3:39Jesus lived in time and place before he
3:42was born
3:44of a woman, born of Mary?" No.
3:47In the mind of God, Jesus was always a
3:51reality. But it also says in Revelations
3:5313 that Christ was crucified before the
3:56foundation of the world.
3:58But it also says in Hebrews that he was
4:00crucified once for all. So, he was
4:03crucified in the mind of God. When God
4:06knows that something will be it is. He
4:10calls those things that are not as
4:12though they were. So, in that sense,
4:14Jesus had glory with the Father before
4:17the foundation of the world. God was
4:19always seeing the journey that he was
4:22going to lead his son on. He was always
4:25seeing the crowning faithfulness and the
4:27crowning glory that the son was going to
4:30receive, the second Adam, who was going
4:32to be faithful to him from the
4:34foundation of the world, from the
4:36conversation with Eve in the garden when
4:39he said, "You're going to bruise the
4:41heel of your son, but that son is going
4:44to crush the head of the serpent."
4:48Now, Father, glorify me together with
4:50yourself with the glory which I had with
4:53you before the world was. I have
4:56manifested
4:58your name to the men whom you gave me
5:01out of the world.
5:04They were yours and you gave them to me
5:07and they have kept your word. Whose name
5:10has Jesus manifested
5:13to the disciples?
5:15He's manifested his own name. But his
5:17own name, Yeshua, means Yahweh become
5:21salvation. He bears the name of Yahweh.
5:26Now, they have come to know that
5:30everything you have given me is from
5:33you.
5:34He's manifested the Father's authority
5:37and identity and name.
5:40So, that everything that he does, they
5:42know is coming from the Father.
5:46For the words which you gave me, I have
5:48given to them and they received them and
5:51truly understood that I came forth from
5:54you and they believed that you sent me.
5:58This is incarnation language. Jesus
6:02speaking in his humanity is saying, "I
6:04did not represent myself. I represented
6:08the Father." He doesn't ever speak of
6:10representing an entity called God the
6:13Son because the duality is between the
6:16humanity and the divinity of the Father.
6:19He is the manifestation of the Father in
6:22flesh.
6:24I ask on their behalf. I do not ask on
6:27behalf of the world
6:29but of those whom you have given me.
6:32For they are yours and all things that
6:35are mine are yours and yours are mine.
6:39And I have been glorified in them.
6:43I am no longer in the world and yet they
6:45themselves are in the world. I come to
6:48you, Holy Father.
6:50Keep them in your name
6:54the name which you have given
6:59to me that they may be one as we are
7:04one.
7:06So, he's saying
7:08God the Father gave his name, Yahweh, to
7:12Jesus
7:14when he named him Yeshua
7:17which means Yahweh become salvation.
7:21The name which you have given to me,
7:24keep them in your name. Keep them by
7:29your name, in your name, protected by
7:31your name.
7:33That they may be one.
7:35We don't have any hope of oneness except
7:39by understanding
7:40the incarnation.
7:43That God the Father was united with the
7:46flesh. And the whole burden of Jesus in
7:49the last chapters of John is for us to
7:52see his union with the Father
7:56as a hope and a precedent of our own
8:00union with the Father.
8:02He is the firstborn of many brethren
8:05that he might bring many sons to glory.
8:09Will we have the Father in us like Jesus
8:12had the Father in him? No, because it
8:14pleased the Father that all the Father's
8:17fullness dwell in Jesus.
8:19Where it pleases the Father that only a
8:21measure of his fullness dwell in us. We
8:25don't have of his fullness we have all
8:28received. But Paul says it's according
8:30to the measure of Christ's gift. We did
8:33not receive his fullness, we receive of
8:35it, a piece of it.
8:38While I was with them, I was keeping
8:40them in your name which you have given
8:42me and I guarded them and not one
8:44[clears throat] of them perished but the
8:45son of perdition so that the scripture
8:48would be fulfilled. But now I come to
8:51you and these things I speak in the
8:53world so that they may have my joy made
8:56full in themselves.
8:58I have given them your word and the
9:01world has hated them because they are
9:03not of the world even as I am not of the
9:07world. I do not ask you to take them out
9:11of the world but to keep them from the
9:14evil one. The world is the domain of the
9:17evil one. And he wants us to be in this
9:20world living in victory over the power
9:23of the evil one.
9:24It's not escape from the temptations or
9:27problems of the world, it's prevailing
9:30and proving victorious by the power of
9:33the Spirit over the power of the evil
9:35one. They are not of the world even as I
9:38am not of the world. Sanctify them in
9:42the truth. Your word is truth.
9:46So, sanctify means separate them
9:50in the truth. Not the truth of concepts,
9:53not the truth of doctrine.
9:56That is part of how they're going to
9:57kill Jesus, the Pharisees' doctrine,
10:00but your word, your voice, your
10:03anointing is truth.
10:06Your word is truth.
10:08As you sent me into the world, I also
10:10have sent them into the world.
10:13As Jesus came in a high priestly
10:15mediating function,
10:17the church is also going to have a
10:20mediating function. As ambassadors, we
10:24beseech you in Christ's stead, be
10:26reconciled to God, Paul would say.
10:29For their sakes, I sanctify myself, that
10:31they themselves also may be sanctified
10:34in truth.
10:36I do not ask on behalf of these alone,
10:39but for those who believe in me through
10:42their word,
10:43that they may all be one,
10:47even as you, Father, are in me and I in
10:52you.
10:53So, he's saying, the same unity that I
10:56have with you, God the Father, I want
10:59them to have.
11:00And what is that unity? It's the
11:02indwelling divine. It's the indwelling
11:05spirit of God in
11:08you, in me.
11:11So, he wants us to have the Father in us
11:14like he has the Father in him. And that
11:17is the only hope of unity, the unity of
11:21the spirit in the bonds of peace.
11:24That they may be one, even as you,
11:27Father, are in me and I in you, that
11:29they may be one in us,
11:32so that the world may believe that you
11:34sent me. How is the world going to
11:37believe that the Father sent Jesus?
11:39Because the Father was living in Jesus.
11:42And how are they going to believe that
11:44the Father sent Jesus through our
11:45example? If they encounter the Father
11:48living in us,
11:49if they encounter people filled with the
11:52spirit of God, who have the Father in us
11:55like he had the Father in him,
11:58it's only going to be in measure, in
12:00teaspoon measures of many
12:02many according to the measure of
12:03Christ's gift, but together, we have the
12:07mind of Christ.
12:08The glory which you have given me, I
12:12have given to them, that they may be
12:14one, just as we are one.
12:19What is the glory? The glory is when the
12:21spirit of the divine comes into the life
12:27of the mortal.
12:28That's glory. When there is a union
12:31between what is human and what is
12:33heavenly and divine, what is God. And
12:36so, he's saying, the glory which you
12:38have given me,
12:39the glory of God the Father living in a
12:41man,
12:43I have given to them,
12:45that they may be one,
12:48as we are one.
12:50So, that's the indwelling presence glory
12:54that he's saying. He's talking about
12:56Pentecost. He's talking about the
12:58infilling of the Holy Ghost.
13:02The glory which you have given to me, I
13:04have given to them, that they may be
13:05one, just as we are one. Here's how
13:08they're one. I in them, you in me, that
13:13they may be perfected in unity, so that
13:16the world may know that you sent me and
13:19loved them, even as you loved me.
13:24God so loved the world that he gave his
13:25only begotten son.
13:27But he's saying, Father, I want you to
13:29love them like you've loved me.
13:31And the love that the Father had
13:33is
13:35to put his presence, his spirit, [music]
13:37his power, himself in a human being.
13:41And he's saying, I want you to love them
13:42that way, too.
13:44Father, I desire that they also, whom
13:47you have given me,
13:48be with me where I am.
13:52Now, this is the culmination of
13:54everything [music] he's been saying, I'm
13:55going somewhere and you can't come yet,
13:58but you will come.
13:59And here's where he is.
14:03The space that he's in is the space of
14:06living in God and God living in him.
14:11Father, I desire that they also, whom
14:13you [music] have given me, be with me
14:15where I am, so that they may see my
14:18glory which you have given me, for you
14:21loved me before the foundation of the
14:22world. O righteous Father, although the
14:25world has not known you, yet I have
14:27known you, and these have known that you
14:30sent me.
14:32And I have made your name known to them,
14:36and I will make it known, so that the
14:38love
14:39with which you loved me
14:42may be
14:43in them,
14:45and I
14:47in them.
14:49That's [music] where he's going.
14:51He's going to complete unity with the
14:53Father.
14:54He already knows that place. He already
14:56[music] lives in that place. He's going
14:58to, after the resurrection, put off all
15:01kenosis, [music] all emptying of
15:03himself, and take the throne. But he's
15:05saying, I want them to come where we've
15:07been. I want them to have the indwelling
15:10[music] presence of God in them. I want
15:13there to be a corporate incarnation of
15:16God in us, Christ in us, the hope of
15:20glory. So, he's saying, Father, give
15:22them the same glory. Father, give them
15:24the same love.
15:25>> [music]
15:25>> Father, give them the same spirit,
15:28so that they can be
15:30where I am. They can know what I've
15:32known with you.
15:35>> [music]
15:45[music]

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