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a.m. Now, let's open God's word and
ask him to reveal his truths for our lives.
Would turn to John's gospel. The 17th chapter John in the
seventeenth chapter of his gospel is recording here for us
as we have seen in the last two lessons.
What is known as Jesus High Priestly prayer which we have
labeled the true Lord's Prayer. The true Lord's Prayer.
Contrary to what many people think that the Lord's Prayer is
found in Matthew. That is the model prayer that is
Jesus teaching his disciples. How to pray this here in John.
Chapter 17 is Jesus actually praying.
This is the true Lord's Prayer. We're going to see in this
prayer today that Jesus intercedes.
For his own. We will begin examining this
portion of the high Priestly prayer in this third lesson.
And in this third lesson, we are going to see that Jesus
intercedes. For his own as their great high
priest. Isn't it good to know that we
have a great high priest who intercedes for his own?
He's going to direct petitions to the father on behalf of his
sheep in this prayer. In fact, specifically those
sheep over there with him. During this time they are the
eleven eleven remaining Apostles.
We know Judas Iscariot has already betrayed Christ.
He's already gone his way of Perdition.
Now, it's Jesus. The 11 who remained. we're going
to read about this today, and he's going to pray specifically
for them, but there are lessons in this for all disciples who
will follow after them, Sinclair Ferguson says this.
In his book entitled lessons, from the upper room, he says
that we should turn to the high Priestly prayer of Jesus
frequently. To find out what Christ most
wants. We should turn to this prayer
frequently to find out what Christ most wants.
This is the deepest desires of Christ.
He is petitioning, the father. It's the same as when you go to
the father and you pour out your deepest desire, Christ tears,
pouring out, his deepest desires to the father and in this
portion of the high Priestly prayer, we are going to as mr.
Ferguson has said, we are going to see and to find out what
Christ most wants for his disciples.
To even begin to imagine. That the Lord cares for me
enough. That he cares for you who are in
Christ enough. To have any other desire for us
than that, we would perish in hell, like we deserve.
Is astounding. We're going to see he Reveals
His desire for his own. In this prayer.
He is going to pray specifically.
For the Believers. We are going to see that in this
lesson, and then when we meet again for our John lesson, after
the Resurrection Sunday break, which we will take next week,
you don't have to advertise that on Facebook to know that a
church is going to have a resurrection service on the
resurrection holiday. We have one every week here.
Every weeks the Lord's day every week is Resurrection Day. but
when we return, we're going to see not only does he pray for
these eleven who are with him on Earth, the apostles He's going
to then pray for us. and to think, That 2000 years ago.
Jesus is going to share in a prayer.
To the father. What he most wants for me.
The one who was a deserving of hell and of judgment.
Yet he rescued me. So as we look at the true Lord's
prayer. Today, we're going to see Jesus
interceding for his own. I told the men when we started
this, as one of my favorite passages of scripture, and I
really do mean that and I know you find me saying that all the
time about every passage that I come too. but this one, If you
will, pay close attention with me today.
Begins to reveal the true heart. That Jesus does have.
As intercessor for those who the father has given him.
We talked a lot about that. Last week.
We're going to see that again. Look at John chapter 17.
Verse 9. I'll read it all in and we'll
break it down. He says, I pray for them.
I'm not praying for the world attention to that.
Not praying for the world, but for those, you have given me
over all the people in the world who just think that Jesus is on
their side, the wrong. I'm praying for all those you
have given me for. They are yours.
Who are his, those who the father has given.
There's no need to work that out again.
First 10, all I have is yours and all you have is mine.
Glory has come to me through them.
He's saying again so that we can understand it.
We are one in essence. I will remain in the world no
longer, but they are still in the world, and I'm coming to
you. Holy Father, protect them by the
power of your name. I'm coming to you.
Then he calls on the father, Holy Father.
Protect them by. Your name.
The name, you gave me so that they may be one as We Are One.
While I was with them, I protected them and kept them
save. By the name you gave me.
None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so
that the scripture would be fulfilled.
I want Doom to extract the destruction, he didn't say the
one who was saved and then got lost.
He says, he was doomed to destruction.
He was never of Christ. John told us this is epistle.
He went out from us because he was not of us.
I'm coming to you now. But I say these things while I'm
still in the world so that they may have the full measure of my
joy within them. Stop for a second.
Jesus is just hours from the cross.
Hours from the cross. And he's not focused on nails,
he's not focused on a Crown of Thorns.
He's not focused on the scourging, that's about to take
place as they rip flesh from his back, he's not focused on his
beard being ripped from his face.
He's not focused from the embarrassment and the shame of
hey me hanging naked there on a tree.
He's not mentioning those things.
He's wanting to join of his disciples to be complete.
What a beautiful picture here of the savior's heart.
He says this, in verse 14, I've given them your word and the
world has hated them for they are not of the world, any more
than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take
them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil
one. They are not of the world even
as I am not of it sanctify them by the truth.
Your word is truth as you sent me into the world.
I have sent them into the world for them.
I sanctify myself that they too may be truly Sanctified.
Jesus said I set myself apart so that they would do the same
thing. Let us look at this and let us
break down this prayer of intercession from Christ.
This is an intercessory prayer. He is praying for others.
That is the definition of an intercessory prayer, where one
prays for another, where one stands in the gap for an
individual or a group of individuals, he is interceding
in his prayer petitioning. The father for his own, this is
a prayer of specificity. Now you've heard me say
specificity wants I'm going to try not to say that too many
times today because if I say specificity, I'll mess it up.
If I say specificity too many times, I'm going to mess it up
but don't you see? This is a specific prayer, this
is a specific prayer, a pointed prayer, a directional prayer.
Not a general prayer not, not another blanket prayer.
This is a direct prayer for an exclusive group in that
exclusive group is his own. They are that specific prayer.
Verse 9 makes this very clear. I pray for them.
I am not praying for the world. Who is he praying for his own?
But for those, you have given me, those, the father has given
him his true sheep for. They are yours.
He's not praying for Judas here. Judas was not his own to father,
had not given him Judas. He was not of the sheep pen,
he's praying for his own. All I have is yours and all you
have is mine. Glory has come to me through
them, he is praying specifically for the Believers.
This is specific intercession for his own for the elect.
He said, I pray for them. It doesn't make any two ways
about it doesn't apologize for not praying for anyone else.
He is interceding for the Saints.
Those the father had given him, what a privilege it is to be,
given to the son by the father and to know that the sun is
interceding for us. He says, I'm praying for them.
He says, I'm not praying for the world.
Do you know, he knows who the world is.
He knows all of the unredeemed Just as he knows all of the
redeemed before they ever know it.
He knows it. He says are not praying for
them. Jesus was not praying for the
unbelieving world, why? He's not the intercessors for
the unbeliever. If he were the intercessor for
the unbelievers, they would be saved because he would mediate
between them and God. Just as he does for the
believer, they are not saved and he's making that very clear.
I'm not there intercessor. That's why he includes the
phrase. I'm not praying for the world.
Oh, what a privilege. It is your Christian to have
Christ interceding for us. Is, I'm not praying for the
world. I'm praying for my own.
Intercedes for his church. He doesn't understand for the
world. Why does he not intercede for
the world? Because he's going to judge the
world. Although man on Thursday, nights
are studying and walking through the Book of Revelation.
Just this last week, we saw the great white Throne judgment.
It is at the great white Throne judgment that all of those whose
names were not written in the Lamb's Book of Life before the
foundations of the Earth, Resentenced to the lake of
everlasting fire. Which is the second death for
their unbelief and their sin, they were judged out of books
and the books that we learned about, were these.
There were books that contain to every sinful deed that they had
ever committed, aren't you thankful that in Christ?
All of our sinful Deeds have been cast as far as the East is
from the west where he remembers them no more.
Aren't you thankful that they are at the depths of the ocean?
Never to be seen again, but for the unbeliever, this is not
true. The unbeliever, he will stand
before God and he will answer for every single Wicked deed.
And then if that's not enough, he will then answer for the fact
that his name is not in the Lamb's Book of Life that he is
not truly saved that. He did not truly believe unto
Christ for salvation. He'll be their judge.
And the situation. All the world loves to scream
that. Oh, don't judge me.
And I warned you this there is a judgment that is coming upon the
unbelieving world. Jesus is not praying for you in
this text here. In John chapter 17 because he
knows each and every one and he knows they will stand before
him. And he has been given authority
to judge them and they will experience the second death in
Hell forever. You can't erase that from the
word of God. He says, I'm not praying for
them. But I am praying for my own.
He intercedes for those and only those who were his those and
only those who are hints. When the enemy wants to bring an
accusation against a True Believer, it is Christ who
intercedes for us and says they have been covered in the blood.
All of the accusations that you bring against them they are they
are arranged. They are null and void, why?
Because my blood has cleansed him as we sing about just a
moment ago from all of their sin.
He's praying for his own. It's specific intersection.
Intercession Ford Is he laying not only?
As we look at this intercessory prayer of specificity, is it
specific? Intercession for his own.
It is specific intimacy with his own.
Look at verse 10 verse 10 there. In the first part.
All I have get have is yours and all you have is mine.
He's talking there about the deep and intimate Fellowship,
that is own have with the father.
And with the sun, this is revealing specific intimacy for
his own. It is revealing that they have
been allowed communion with the father and that they have been
allowed at communion with the sun.
This is specific intimacy. Meaning this that he loves his
elect with a different kind of love than the general love that
he has for the world, he loves them with a communing
fellowshiping. Intimate love, he reveals that.
Here it is. That love it is that love that
allows us to commune with the father and fellowship to be one
with him and to commune with the sun and fellowship and to be one
with him. In fact, first John John says
this in his first epistle chapter 1 verse 1 that which was
from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen
with our eyes, which we have looked at in our hands have
touched this. We Proclaim concerning the word
of life. The life appeared.
Yes, it was Christ. We have seen it and testify.
Do it. And we Proclaim to you, the
eternal life, which was with the father and has appeared to us.
Eternal life was with the father.
When in eternity past, Now, we've seen and heard of it, so
that you also may have fellowship with us and our
fellowship. Watches is with the father and
with his son, Jesus Christ. Now, see if John didn't borrow
this. From the words of Jesus, we
write this to make our joy complete Was John saying here,
John was saying this and there's intimate Fellowship for the
saint with the father and the son.
There is true, intimate communion and there is no
intimate communion in any other way.
Why is there true intimate communion between the father and
the son with the believer? Watch this because Jesus prayed
for it in John chapter 17. Jesus is praying for that
intimacy for his own that they would No, the father as he knows
the father and they would know the Sun as the father knows the
son and that they would be one with the father.
And with the son is a specific intimacy for his own being
revealed. He praised not for the world
here. He has no deep intimacy and
communion with the world. In fact, they shrug at his
General love that he shows them everyday.
And how does he show them General?
Love the lost. Man is alive right now,
somewhere, eating lunch, enjoying life, and it's only
because of God's General benevolent.
Love for mankind, that he does that because he deserves to die
and he deserves judgment and he deserves hell.
Oh, how much deeper? Is the love of God in Christ for
those who the father has given the sun.
Allowing them, intimate communion with the godhead, deep
intimacy, only for the True Believer.
This intercessory prayer of specificity is special
intercession for his own and specific intimacy with his own
thirdly. He reveals in this specific
intentions for his own specific. Intentions, look at verse 10,
all I have is yours and all you have is mine & Glory has come to
me through them. You said?
My specific intention for my followers.
Is that they bring me Glory? That Christ would be seen in and
through his disciples. He speaking in past tense as if
it's already happened because it's already determined it's
going to happen. Don't you love when Jesus does
that he speaks of something that hasn't yet happened?
As if it's already happened because the father has already
spoke it into existence in eternity past, he said these
disciples are going to bring me Glory really Peter's going to in
that deny him three times and in just an hour or so.
How could that be? Jesus knows the full story.
Aren't you thankful for that and he doesn't base the full story
based on your mess ups on the front end, he's got the whole
thing already figured out. He's saying that here specific
intentions for his own. What is this specific intentions
for his own? It's this and he would be seen
through his true disciples and that in Christ being seen in his
true disciples. They would bring glory to him
with their lives. It's as good as done.
All of these who he's praying for here.
You know what they went on to do Bring glory to God with their
lives. He's apostles who he is
specifically praying for here today, are the reason that we
are here this morning, because they continue to be faithful to
that, which Jesus prayed, they would be faithful to and that
was the Gospel and the glory of the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Do you see when Jesus prays things happen?
What Comfort we have of knowing that if we are truly his His
intentions for us will come to pass and what is his attention
intention for the True Believer. That Christ would be seen in
them and that they would bring Glory with their lives and bring
others to the gospel with the message that they preach.
The words that they Proclaim, this is an intercessory prayer
of specificity is specifically for his own before you go making
accusations, who does Jesus think that he is?
I'll go ahead and tell you, he's king of kings and Lord of lords
and he can pray for whoever. He wants to whenever he wants
to, and you have no business and trying to tell him how to do it
differently. I'll take that, as praise.
I hope he does. The next thing we see this
intercessory prayer is I prefer security.
Want you to pay close attention to this?
11 through 16 talk about security.
Jesus is praying that his disciples would be secure verse
11 speaks of this. He says, I will remain in the
world no longer, but they are still in the world.
Jesus grieving that he's leaving his disciples.
I am leaving the world. Where is he going?
Just as he said, he's going back to the father.
But he knows he's going to leave them into the world and you
know, this he knows everything that they're going to face.
He knows the persecution. He knows that Peter's going to
deny him three times. He knows the agony and the
internal Agony that Peters going to face in the shame because he
denies Christ. But he also knows that he's
going to restore Peter on the Sea of Galilee and he knows his
that Peter is going to go on and on the day of Pentecost, he's
going to preach the greatest sermon that the world has ever
heard since Christ, preached and thousands are going to be saved.
And he knows that Peter one day is going to be crucified upside
down on a cross, and he's going to do that with great joy in his
heart. He knows what's going to happen
here. Yeah, he knows that they need
security. I will remain in the world no
longer, but they are still in the world and I am coming to
you. Holy Father, protect them by the
power of your name. He's saying, father protect
them. The name you gave me so that
they may be one as we are one while I was with them.
I protected them and kept them save by that name you gave me.
None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction.
It was destiny that he was lost, so that scripture would be
fulfilled. He's praying for the security of
his own Jesus interceding here in prayer for his disciples that
they would be secure and protected by God.
This is the reason for a Believers eternal security.
This is the sun petitioning, the father to preserve his own, this
is the doctrine which is called the preservation of the Saints
or persevering faith. This Doctrine was wrought not in
the minds of theologians. This Doctrine is wrought to the
prayer of Jesus here. In John, chapter 17, Jesus asked
that his father followers be preserved.
People ask me, why do I believe in eternal security?
Because Jesus prayed that his followers would be eternally
secure and I doubt That Jesus didn't pray.
The father's will. But he did pray, the father's
will because that's how he taught others to pray.
And he prayed perfectly, the father's will and the father
secures, all those who are truly in Christ, he keeps them 1st
Peter, chapter 1. Verse 3 says, praise be to the
God and father of our Lord, Jesus Christ in his great Mercy.
He has given us a new birth into a Living Hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into an
inheritance that can never how many times never perish spoil or
fade. Watch this kept in heaven for
you. I'm glad it's not kept here
because I would probably find it in mess it up.
It's kept in heaven for you who through faith or shielded by
God's power until the coming of the Salvation that is ready to
be revealed in the last time. Why are we shielded by God's
power? Because Jesus prayed that we
would be preserved by the father's power.
Look at that verse 11. He praised this I will remain in
the world no longer but they are still in the world and I am
coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the
power of your name. You are protected in Christ by
the name of Jehovah, God of God. Here's another is Almighty.
There's no one above him. You're a preserved by the
father's power. You were kept.
Why? Because you're good.
Because you're a churchgoer. No, you're kept by the father's
power because the sun asked the father, that it would be.
So I'll see the prayer of Jesus here and how beautiful this is.
You were kept and preserved. You are eternally secure
preserved by the father's power because Jesus asked that it
would be. So second Corinthians 1:21 says,
now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ,
who does it? Is God.
It's God who makes us stand. Firm in Christ.
You thought it was you. I'm sorry that you're sadly
mistaken. It is God, he anointed us set
his seal of ownership on us and put his spirit in our, hearts,
as a deposit guaranteeing. What is to come, why didn't you
do this? Because here, in John chapter
17, Jesus asked that the father would the father is faithful to
do with the sun, ask just as the sun is faithful to do what the
father asked of him. What a beautiful picture.
We see there that we are preserved by the father's power.
He said Holy Father, protect them.
Not only preserved by the father's power were preserved by
the sun's position. The sun's position, look at 11
as it continues. He says, I will remain in the
world no longer, but they are still in the world and I am
coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the
power of your name. The name, you gave me So that
they may be one as we are one. He says the name that you gave
me. And what does that name?
That name is familiar name. I hope to us.
It is the name Jesus. Jehovah saves it is the name of
that. The father gave to the son and
his Incarnation. Why is that so important?
Jesus says, father, protect them by your name and then also
protect them and preserve them by my name.
The name you have given me the position that you have
established for me. And what is that position?
Let me just tell you what that position is in case you think
that Jesus is ever going to let you down.
Philippians 2:9 says, therefore God, exalted him to the highest
place. This is right after we see
Christ condescend into this Earth.
As a human humbling himself and humbling himself to death on a
cross. And because of that watches his
therefore God, exalted him to the highest place and gave him.
The name, that is above every name that at the name of Jesus,
every knee should bow in heaven and on Earth and under the
Earth. And every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God, the Father who
protects us who preserves us Jesus, it is the name that is
above every name and who gave him that name.
It is the father and it is Jesus here saying father continue to
preserve them by the name that you gave me.
Orange, you think for this morning that you were preserved
in Jesus the Christ, aren't you thankful that?
He is your lord and your savior and you have no reason to doubt.
What he says is true, your preserve your preserved by the
father's power. Your preserved by the sun's
position. Protected by Jesus himself.
In fact, Philippians, 1:6 tells us this Being confident of this
that he who began a good work in, you will carry it on to
completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
You can Bank on it. If you are his, you are secure
in him until the day Christ returns and you are glorified,
Protected by Jesus. There is no other name.
It is the name that is above every name.
Hebrews 7:25 it says, therefore, he is able to save completely to
the uttermost. He is able to save completely
those who come to God through him, because he always lives to
intercede for them. He started interceding for us in
John, chapter 17 and he always continues to intercede for his
own. Showing us that the work that he
has begun will be completed. Also thankful for that this
morning. I'm so thankful that he didn't
let me get in here and mess that up.
I told the first service, I'm glad he didn't let me be
involved in that because I'm a professional Messer upper Earth.
I know that's not proper English.
But you get what I mean. If you ever just had one of
those days where Everything You Touch, just fell apart.
How about one of those weeks? How about one of those months?
We could go on, couldn't we? If we could mess it up.
We would mess it up. Aren't you thankful that he
doesn't let us? That were preserved by the
position of Jesus Christ. Unless somehow he falls off the
throne. And he's not going to.
Because there's no one big enough to knock him off the
throne. Is the name that is above every
name that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow.
And every tongue confess and he is the one who is preserving his
own. Oh, I get so aggravated with
people who don't want to adhere to the doctrine of eternal
security security, the preservation of the Saints.
I get aggravated with them and the reason that I get aggravated
with him is because they miss the whole point.
That we are eternally secure, not because we deserve it, we
are eternally secure because Jesus Christ prayed that it
would be. So, and I got a problem with you
thinking that you can somehow override a prayer of Jesus by
your behavior. I'm thankful that Jesus preed.
Those that the father has given him would be preserved by the
father's power and by the sun's position.
We also see this. Will be preserved from the
prince of this world. Look at verse 15.
Verse 15. My prayer is not that you take
them out of the world. That's what the charismatic
wants. They won't live to be peachy and
Rosie chipper all the time. So in this life Jesus said,
you'll have all kinds of troubles.
It's going to be that way. He's not going to take us out of
the troubles just for the sake of taking us out of the troubles
until it is. His appointed time what he's
going to do is he's going to receive Glory through our
suffering. He's going to receive Glory.
Through our trials, he's going to receive Glory through our
pain just as the father of receive Glory through the pain
and the trials and sufferings of Christ.
Oh what shoes we get to fill isn't that amazing?
He says I'm going to ask that you take them out of the world
but you protect them from the evil one, protect them from the
evil one, The Prince and the power of this world.
Satan, Jesus is praying right here for the protection of his
own from the enemy. Boy, don't we need this prayer?
Doesn't it seem as we look around in the society and the
culture that we live in that Satan is just running rampant in
our culture. Aren't you thankful that?
Because of the prayer of Jesus, he's not running rampant in your
life. He's not destroying your home,
he's not destroying your family. He's not taking away your
salvation. He can't do those things.
You're secure in Christ. Okay.
Need to see view. Yes, he tries all the day long,
doesn't he? But he has no power in
comparison to the power of Christ when we dressed in that
he dressed in the protection from the prince of this world.
In fact, Romans chapter 8, Paul says this, in verse 37, no, in
all things, we are more than conquerors.
How many things? All thing?
It all things we are more than conquerors through him who loved
us for, I am convinced. That's what Paul's convinced up.
That neither death nor life Christ, Our Hope and life
deaths. We just saying Neither death,
nor life, neither angels, nor demons.
Neither the present, nor the future, nor any powers neither
height, nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be
able to separate us. Who's the us there?
The True Believer is own. Nothing will be able to separate
us from the love of God. That is in Christ Jesus.
Our lord, not even the evil one Satan himself.
Why? You got it all figured out.
Is your here on Sunday morning at your Bible open, reading it
because you went to enrich and get a little deeper Bible study.
Or is it because Jesus prayed that it would be, so I'll go
ahead and answer it for you. It's because Jesus prayed that
it would be so that we would be preserved and protected from the
prince of this world from Satan himself.
I'll remember when you were lost and undone and without Christ,
and Satan would just wreak havoc upon your line.
But now that you are in Christ, you can take the word of God and
you can apply it to your own life.
You can see the words of James where he says, humble yourself
resist the devil and he will flee He has no power over your
life, why? Because you were more than a
conqueror in every situation because of Christ, Jesus.
That's a promise that he has given us through a prayer that
he prayed in John, chapter 17. We see this is a prayer of
intercessory in regard to security.
This was a prayer of security and preservation of his own.
Each of us here in Christ, we were preserved because of Christ
and his prayer here that we are seeing this morning were
preserved by God. The father has requested by
Christ, the son confirmed by the indwelling holy spirit that
lives in each of us confirming. Guaranteeing that we have a
redemption in store for us in an inheritance in store for us for
all eternity just as the word of God promises.
What a picture of the Triune godhead.
Completing the work in accordance with the prayer of
Jesus. In John chapter 17, he said
father protect them, preserve them.
The father done. Protect them by your name,
protect them by my name. And then he sends his
indwelling, holy spirit to live in us to show us and his prayer
was answered on thankful for the holy spirit this morning and my
life who confirms over and over and over again.
It doesn't matter what I feel. What matters is what I am
according to the word of God. And I am a born-again
blood-bought redeemed, adopted child of the most high God
through Jesus Christ. Our Lord, he gives us great
security and this prayer as he prays that his followers would
be protected and preserved. And then, in the last couple of
verses, I want you to see this This is also an intercessory
prayer. For sanctification for
sanctification sanctification. For his own 417, says this
sanctify them who his own? He still talking about those,
the father has given him sanctify them by thy truth.
Your word is truth as you sent me into the world.
I have sent them into the world for them.
I sanctify myself that they too may be truly Sanctified Jesus.
Praying that his followers would be distinctly set apart.
That's what, Sanctification means it means that you are set
apart. They would be set apart from the
wicked unbelieving world that they live in.
Then he goes on to praise specifically how they would be
set apart. He says sanctify them by truth.
Set them apart. My truth.
And then he says she word is truth.
How is the Believers set? Apart from the world through the
word? He says sanctify them by the
word because that's truth again, Sanctified being specifically,
set apart for God and His glory and his gospel through obedience
in Christ. It's the word that sets us
apart. It's the word that makes us
different. It is the word that finds us
like fire. It is the word that changes us
from the inside out. It is the word that renews our
minds daily. If you're not being transformed
by God's word, there is a good chance that you're not being
Sanctified because you are not Sanctified and if you're not
being Sanctified, there's a good chance that you're not truly
saved. Is the one that hurts my
feelings? I'm not here to hurt your
feelings. I'm here to cause you to examine
your life. Are you being set apart by the
word of God? The pastor you don't understand.
I just don't have time and I just really don't have interest
in the Bible therein my friend, lies your problem.
You're not set apart from the world because you don't have
time for the word of God. And I take issue with a person
who calls himself a Christian who does not have a hunger for
the word of God. He said sanctify them by the
truth. Your word.
It's true. We can learn so much from the
psalmist on this issue. Psalm 119 verse 9 says this how
can a young man keep his way pure?
How can a young man keep his way, pure all in this day and
time? How can an old man keep his way
pure? How can a young man keep his way
pure watch this by living? According to your word here, you
can go ahead. And you can reverse that By
living according to your word, a young man, keep his way pure,
but if he doesn't live according to your word, he's not going to
keep his way pure. Verse 10 says, I seek you with
all my heart. Do not.
Let me stray from your commands. Think the psalmist loves the
word of God. Don't, let me stray from your
commands. He's got a hunger for the word.
He says, in verse 11, I've hidden your word in my heart.
Why? So that I can be smart and do a
lot of things. No.
Watch as I've hidden your word in my heart, that I might not
sin against you. It's all misunderstood
sanctification by the word. Verse 12, says, praise be to
You. O, Lord, teach me your decrees
with my lips. I recount all the laws that come
from your mouth. I rejoice in following your
statutes as one, rejoices, and great riches.
I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways.
I Delight in your decrees, I will not neglect your word.
Why did he not want to neglect his work?
He knew that the word is truth, and that the word is the key to
True sanctification. Why?
Because Jesus prayed it in John, chapter 17, Word is truth.
We are to be set apart by that true Force.
Peter. 1:22 says, now that you have purified yourselves by
obeying the truth, so that you have sincere love for your
brothers. Love one, another deeply from
the heart for you. Have been born again, not of
perishable seed. But of in perishable through the
living and enduring word of God, watch what he continues to say
for all men like grass are like grass and all their glory is
like the flowers of the field. The grass withers.
The flowers fall but the word of the Lord stands forever.
He quotes from The Prophet there.
And he goes on to say this and this is the word that was
preached to you and you usually stop there because you think
it's the end of a chapter but keep reading because there's
more in Chapter 2. Therefore therefore what?
Therefore, because he has given us the living and enduring word
of God that has redeemed us, watch what he says, next.
Therefore, rid yourself of all malice and all deceit,
hypocrisy, envy and slander of every kind like newborn babies
crave, pure spiritual milk. Milk.
So that by it you may grow up in your salvation.
Now that you have tasted that the Lord is good, I dare you get
in his word and taste and see how good the Lord is and watch
when you do how he grows you up. Spiritually.
This is word that sets us apart of his, his word that sanctifies
us. The true disciple of Christ will
be set apart by the word. In fact, Ephesians chapter 5,
talks of the church being Washed by the Water through the word.
When he's talking about the husband-and-wife relationship in
regard to the relationship of Christ and his church, it is the
word that sanctifies us and cleanses us and sets us apart
the True Believer, hungers for the word, the True Believer
wants to sit under the preaching of the word.
The True Believer wants to join a Bible study the truth Ever
wants to join a research group. The True Believer wants to be
discipled. He wants to learn, she wants to
learn. Growth is something they desire.
Why? Because Jesus prayed it in John,
chapter 17. That the father would sanctify
the True Believers by his word. If you're indifferent toward the
word of God, you have no interest in the word of God.
It's not that. I doubt your salvation.
It's that you should. You should.
You should really test yourself and say, wait a second.
I have no desire for the word of God.
And Jesus prayed at his own would be Sanctified by truth.
I can't be Sanctified by truth, which is the word if I have no
desire for the word. Perhaps you have no desire for
the word because you don't truly know Christ.
I would encourage you to repent and turn to Christ today.
Cry out to him to rescue your wretched soul.
You would be saved and that you would be Sanctified.
We're Sanctified by the word as Jesus praise here.
But he also praised that through the word at sanctifying them,
that they would be Sanctified, not just by the word, but
Sanctified from the world Sanctified from the world.
It's interesting here. The same word that brings
persecution to the believer. Jesus is talking here and he
says that they hate you because of my word.
That same word that brings persecution to the believer,
will also bring protection to the believer.
The world is going to hate you because you stand in the world
word over and over and over again.
We see that in scripture. Let me give you a warning.
If the Believers Are hated by the unbelievers.
Because the unbelievers hate the word of God.
It's according to scripture, he said that is what is going to
happen. Jesus even told his disciples.
Remember the hated me first? Why do they hate cry?
So much? The word that came from his
mouth. The truth, wh the truth Jesus
praying here, that we would as Believers be Sanctified by the
word. So that we will be Sanctified
from the world set apart. Wholly different.
Knowledge and submission to God's word in the life of a
believer. Is what should and will
distinguish us from this lost and sinful world.
If you look just like the world, if you act just like the world,
if you talk just like the world, you use their same language you
and take the same substances that they enjoy.
You've not yet been set apart from the World by the word.
You have a spiritual issue here and I would say work out your
salvation with fear and trembling see if you truly do
know Christ, Because I believe this, I believe that Christ
prayer didn't fail here. Some of you call yourselves a
Believer, you think Christ's prayer fell because you're not
Sanctified by the word. You're not Sanctified from the
world and you think somehow Christ's prayer failed.
It didn't Remember who he's praying for.
He's praying for the True Believer so we can come to this
conclusion. The True Believer will be
Sanctified set apart by the word and the True Believer will be
Sanctified and set apart from the world.
The apostles agree with this. In fact, they teach it, they
lived it and we are to be Sanctified from the world.
Second Corinthians chapter 6, The Apostle.
Paul in this discourse, watch what he says, verse 14 do now
Not be yoked together with unbelievers.
Who are the unbelievers the world?
It is a synonymous term. For what do righteousness and
wickedness have in common? Or what Fellowship can light
have with Darkness. What Harmony is there between
Christ and Belial? What does a Believer have in
common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between
the temple of God and Idols for we are the Temple of the Living.
God, I told you a moment ago, the True Believer has the
indwelling, Holy Spirit living in them.
They are the temple of God. He's saying what is the true
temple of God have in common with all of this wickedness from
the world? As God has said, I will live
with them and walk among them, and I will be their God and they
will be my people watch. What verse 17 says, pay
attention. When you see a therefore in
scripture of everything that you read, just before that, he says,
therefore come out from them who the unbelievers the world,
therefore come out from them and be separate says the Lord.
Sanctification is not optional for the True Believer and
follower of Christ. Sanctification is evidence that
you are a True Believer. You will be Sanctified by the
word and you will be Sanctified set apart from the world.
Why? Because Jesus prayed that his
own would, now we can come to this conclusion, if you're not,
it could be. That is because you are not his
his own. You look like the world and you
act like the world and you talk like the world, you do as the
world does. say, whatever you want to say, you're the world.
Stop being foolish. If you don't look different from
the world. Because of God's word, you are
not Sanctified, you cannot continue in friendship with the
world and think that you have an intimate communion with God,
friendship with the world. According to what James wrote is
emnity toward God, John said, this John said you can't love
the world. And love the father that if you
love the world, the love of the father is not in you.
I have preached this for years and I have not made many friends
because of it and I am thankful that I'm not here to make
friends, but I am here to Make Disciples of Christ.
A disciple of Christ cannot hold onto the world with their left
hand and hold onto Christ with their right hand and think that
this is the biblical Christ that they are holding onto.
This is a make-believe non-biblical non-Christian
Christ. Because the True Believer as
Christ Just prayed. Will be Sanctified by the word
and Sanctified set apart from the world.
There will be a distinct difference, he is marking his
own out, and he is separating them, even at this moment.
If there's never been a change in your life, You have not yet
been born again. For if you are in Christ, you
are a new creation. I don't think that the word can
be erased and changed to fit your life.
Are you a new creation? He said sanctify them by the
truth. Your word is truth and then he
prayed that they would be Sanctified from this world The
world that does and looks and speaks and acts.
Contrary to the word of God. He says you're going to be
different than that. Can I ask you just a common
sense question while we're on that subject?
Why would Jesus save you just so you can be what you've always
been? Wouldn't that be a pointless
death when that be for nothing? But, you know, that's not what
scripture? Teaches scripture teaches that
Jesus died. So, that you could be changed
and transformed so that the Lost World could see that
transformation. And know that God has done a
work in your life, that brings us to the next part,
sanctification here. He's praying for sanctification
that we would be Sanctified by the word is Sanctified from the
world and then Sanctified to reach the world Sanctified in
order to effectively reach the world.
With the gospel, we're set apart by the word set apart from the
world so that the world will see that we are different.
Something different about us if you look, And talk and act just
like the rest of your coworkers. And claimed to have Christ.
They see no need for Christ. Well that's just pure basic
Common Sense, isn't it? But did you know the True
Believer who is set apart by the word and set apart from the
world? Scripture tells us that the
world will inquire of the hope that we have in Christ.
They're going to see when that situation comes in our life that
they would be moaning and groaning complaining and
cussing. Swearing about That in our life,
we handled it completely different.
Why? Because we handle it, according
to the word why we've been set apart by the word.
We handle it opposite of how the world would handle it.
They'll take note of that they're going to come to you and
there and some of you have walked with Christ long enough
to know that this is true. They're going to come to you and
they're going to say, why did you handle that?
That way. That's not how I would have
handled it. What's going on?
I knew you before and you wouldn't have always handled it
that way. Then there you can declare to
them. The reason that I handle it this
way is because I now belong to Jesus Christ.
He has saved me. Yes, changed me is done a work
in my life. I am no longer the creature that
I used to be full of sin and full of self.
I have been redeemed. I have been set apart and
Sanctified for the glory of God in any good.
You see in me, that is Christ. Give him all the credit that he
deserves. And share the gospel with them
that they might believe. Sanctified to reach the world.
Why is it important that we hear this prayer of Jesus?
He prayed at his own, Would be people of the word and people
opposite of the world. So that through them and the
message of Christ that they preached, he could then continue
to draw others out of the world. Isn't that the way that he
designed it to work? How will they know less the
preacher tell them and how can a preacher be effective if he's
just like them? All of you say, well praise the
Lord, I'm not called to preach. You're all called to preach the
gospel. Just because you don't stand in
the pulpit and preach, it doesn't mean that you're not
called to preach the gospel. You were called to tell everyone
with every breath that you have the Glorious.
Good news of Jesus Christ. He's offering here prayer of
sanctification that they would be Sanctified by the word
Sanctified from the world and Sanctified to reach this Lost
World. What a beautiful prayer we see
here in John's gospel, You know that as Jesus was just ours.
Away from the cross. His mind at this place was not
on what he had to endure. He was praying that his own
would be saved secured and Sanctified saved, secured and
Sanctified in. Aren't you thankful that?
That's what he does in the lives of those who are truly, his The
prayer of Jesus. Didn't go on answer.
Aren't you thankful for that this morning?
I'm thankful in my life at the prayer of Jesus.
Didn't go unanswered. That in eternity past, the
father gave me to the Sun and he made sure that I was saved
secured and sanctified. Jesus prayers.
Didn't go on answer. Let's close with this a true
disciple. A true disciple.
Will. They will know the father and
the son, intimately through the communion, that Jesus died for
the believer to have, that's his prayer that they would be saved.
That they would experience that true communion you have this in
your life. Do you have communion with the
father and with the son? Do you have that deep
fellowship? If you're a Believer here today,
I'm not telling you something that you don't know anything
about. You know, you can testify.
Yes, I do have that. You can sing.
As the old hymn says Andy walks with me, and he talks with me
along, life's narrow way. Yes, I have that communion with
him because of Christ. Do you have that this morning?
Have you truly surrender to Jesus as your lord and savior?
Are you one of the ones here that he's talking about who were
truly his? Have you surrendered by faith to
Jesus as Lord and Savior as your only hope of forgiveness and
eternal life? Are you trusting in his cross as
the thing that cleanses you from your wickedness?
Are you still lost in your sin? Are you still of this world?
If you are, he wasn't praying for you here.
I'm praying for you now. I'm praying to God now that he
would graciously open your eyes that you would see your need for
Christ and that he would graciously save you this very
morning. Raps, you are in Christ.
No, this a true disciple will be secured forever. because of the
preservation that Jesus prayed for right here in John, chapter
17, Well, good news. We have there.
Why am I preserved forever? Is it?
Because I'm good now and I get it.
All right. No, in my flesh.
I'm still as rotten as I've ever been.
I am preserved by the goodness of the Lord Jesus Christ.
By the power of the Father, by the position of the sun proven
by the indwelling, Holy Spirit who lives in me until that day,
that I longed for where I'm glorified and redeemed eternally
because of Jesus Christ in the price that he paid on my behalf
on the tree of calvary. Be secure in that believer.
Rest in that. Walking Insurance.
Always that Christ prayed in John chapter 17.
For his own. And if you're his own, you will
be secure forever. I make no apologies for that.
A person who wants to believe in a doctrine that contradicts that
believes that Jesus didn't know how to pray.
I'm here to tell you today. Jesus knew exactly how to pray
because he knew this guy would mess it up if I could.
And he prayed that I wouldn't And I can't.
True disciple. We'll find security in Christ
and Christ Alone. In the sprayer that we've seen
today. A true disciple will be
Sanctified by the word. Is the word sanctifying you?
Is it changing you? How do you leave men's bible
study on Thursday night? Challenged and changed.
By what you hear motivated to share the gospel motivated to
live a life that brings God glory pretty leaving in
different. An apathetic attitude.
A True Believer. He's going to be Sanctified
through the word and they're going to love his word, just as
the psalmist in Psalm 119. Ramada, Tate it on it.
Day and night. Are you being Sanctified is God,
setting you apart? For his glory.
And for his gospel will be encouraged today by the prayer
of Jesus. If you were a Believer here
today, Because you're not a Believer here today.
I pray that God would graciously save you.
As you cry out to him this hour. as you cry out to him, the only
one Who can rescue center from hell and judgment.
Let's pray together. Father, in the name of Jesus, we
thank you for your word. Lord.
How beautiful are your words to us who are in Christ?
To see your heart. For your own.
Causes me to worship and adore, you even all the more.
Thank you for being gracious and compassionate savior.
God, I pray for those who are not saved in the in our midst,
Even This Moment. God, I pray that you would be
gracious to them and save them today.
Draw them out of Darkness into your Marvelous Light.
Regenerating them to the power of your holy spirit, that they
would believe forsaking, all sin and self and turning to you
Lord, Jesus as Lord and savior of their life today.
But your will be done as we yield to your Holy Spirit now in
Jesus name. Amen.
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