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Hey everybody, this is Pastor 
John Ewart from Inglewood 

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Baptist Church in Rocky 
Mountain, North Carolina. 

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Thank you so much for tuning 
into our podcast. 

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You're going to hear from God 
today as we share from his word 

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about important issues facing 
your life that can guide you 

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according to the Bible. 
I would take your Bibles and 

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actually turn to John 17 
tonight. 

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I didn't mean to give you the 
large note guitar book for your 

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handout tonight, but some of you
have been appreciative of of the

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larger font. 
That's just the way I do my 

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notes and I forgot. 
Usually I translate it back to a

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smaller font to put it on 
smaller pages, but I think we 

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were going to be at 4 pages no 
matter what tonight. 

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I actually think you've come for
a good night. 

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I do. 
I think this is a, this may be a

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study you've never done before, 
or if you have, it's been a 

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while. 
This is a very important study, 

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maybe to me the most important 
one on prayer that we do. 

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So I want this passage to stick 
in your heart quite a bit. 

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In the early to mid 1490s, 
Jerome 77 Nerola preached and 

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prayed passionately while at the
San Marcos Church in Florence, 

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Italy. 
He was praying and his desire 

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was that God would save the lost
masses around him and revive his

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church. 
And God heard his prayers and 

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God answered his prayers, and 
thousands of people were 

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converted and a spirit of 
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Florence for over 2 years. 
It's interesting when we pray 

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for things like that. 
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not just revival or spiritual 
awakening, we're going to talk 

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about Kingdom prayer tonight, 
which may be a phrase that's not

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as common to you in our last 
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And I appreciate you being here 
physically as well as those who 

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are listening to this online. 
So I hope you go back, 

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especially those who who haven't
been here with us. 

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I hope you go back and listen to
the last session on the model 

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prayer. 
Often we call that the Lord's 

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Prayer. 
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to that as the disciples prayer.
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talk about the Lord's prayers, 
the prayers of Jesus himself, 

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which is an amazing thing when 
you think about God the Son 

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talking to God the Father. 
And so in our, that last 

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session, we talked about that 
prayer from Luke 11 in Matthew 6

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as he was trying to teach his, 
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But in one aspect of that 
teaching, if you'll remember, is

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that part of the part of that 
model or Lord's prayer is that 

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his Kingdom would come and as 
earth be done, our ours will be 

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done. 
Excuse me, I'll get this right. 

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His his will be done on earth as
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And so that idea of the Kingdom 
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accomplishment of his will on 
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a focal point of what Jesus is 
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But this is only going to happen
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Christ in our personal lives, as
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we continue to grow in our 
discipleship, it'll be enhanced.

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So in this session, I really 
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the actual Lord's prayers as 
again we see Jesus in this 

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amazing trinitarian moment of 
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Father. 
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prayer range specifically 
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We won't look at every bit of 
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in terms. 
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the past, when you go all the 
way back to last summer and some

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of our sessions, we were talking
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Trinity and things like that. 
What are some of the primary 

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doctrines we have to believe in?
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tertiaries? 
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incredible, this incredible 
fully man and fully God actually

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feeling the need to pray and, 
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definite need not to just teach 
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And there were times in his his 
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be alone. 
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earthly ministry, he pulled away
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A few of these passages are 
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Matthew 1423 says and after he 
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went up on the mountain by 
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When evening came, He was there 
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very early in the morning while 
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and went out to a desolate 
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And there he prayed Luke 516 But
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places and pray, Luke 918. 
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was praying alone, the disciples
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And he asked them, Who did the 
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And so we don't know everything 
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prayer sessions because often 
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then he comes down to make a 
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perform a miracle. 
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after performing great miracles.
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been, he's been healing it, you 
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is coming to him with all of 
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And so you do believe, I believe
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though he is fully God, but also
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I'm sure there were moments he 
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Father. 
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in a sense with the father. 
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his earthly ministry, in fact in
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ministry, Jesus begins to model 
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And we're going to look at it in
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So make sure that you actually 
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17. 
Now I owe a, a huge debt. 

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I want to give him credit and I,
I want everybody to note this. 

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I owe a huge credit debt to a 
friend of mine named Doctor 

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Chris Schofield. 
Some of you might not know 

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Doctor Schofield. 
Doctor Schofield used to be the 

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leader of prayer and spiritual 
awakening for the North American

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Mission Board. 
Then he came to North Carolina 

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and did something similar for 
the state convention here for 

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many, many years. 
He and I are going to be 

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recording a podcast, I think 
next week. 

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By the way, today, today we 
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So pretty soon, not up to yet, 
but soon there'll be a podcast 

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on podcast at the very top of 
the podcast where you can, if 

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you hit that first, it'll tell 
you how to get to everything 

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else. 
OK, Because we have a lot of 

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questions about how do I get to 
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So if you're going to cast a 
pod, you better give 

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instructions on how to get to 
the pod. 

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So I actually start off by 
saying where it's ironic that 

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we're doing a podcast for people
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So they can because they'd have 
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order to find the other podcast.
It was a podcasting moment. 

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Anyway, I owe a debt to Doctor 
Chris Schofield for his research

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and writing on John 17. 
And I want to give full credit 

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to Chris, dear friend. 
He and I've done conferences 

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together and just he and Tammy 
are just good friends at Teresa 

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Knife. 
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And we're going to do some 
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too. 
But anyway, Jesus is sharing in,

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in John chapter 13 through 17, 
these chapters, he's sharing 

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what we would call the farewell 
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In other words, he knows he's 
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He knows he's going to leave. 
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teaching to these disciples done
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So the, the, so there's a multi 
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going on here. 
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intimate moments of fellowship 
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closest followers. 
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found in the Gospel of John. 
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would call the synoptic Gospels 
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It's only in John. 
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moment. 
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soon departure is coming very 
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yet. 
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to help them with that along the
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And so, and he also knew that 
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it because they'd, they'd even 
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the past. 
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had to prepare them for what was
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to be a very hard time for them.
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pretty appropriate passage for 
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corner. 
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in these passages of his abiding
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victory. 
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about promises relating to 
praying in his name back in 

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chapter 16. 
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pray, teaching them some more 
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But then we get to John 17, and 
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high priestly prayer. 
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break down John 17 as much as we
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And here we are in the last week
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So this is prioritized wording 
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You know, at this point, you got
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He's he's going to say things 
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really needs them to grasp. 
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things too. 
These are vitally important 

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instructions. 
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we're going to see that Jesus is
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He's arrested, he's beaten, he's
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finally his sins. 
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time, Jesus could have steered 
all of his prayers toward what 

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he was getting ready to go 
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It would have been 
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And we see him in the Garden of 
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that in a little bit, in a 
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struggling with the cup and 
struggling with that load a bit.

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Maybe struggling is not the 
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And so, but all of these prayers
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him and what I'm about to go 
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massive load that was on him 
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Instead, he's praying on, on 
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would be fulfilled, that the 
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fulfilled. 
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for us. 
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here in summary is Jesus is 
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and fulfill his desire to see 
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and his followers prepared for 
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him. 
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but me kind of idea with Jesus 
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But but he's also, he's also 
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would be proclaimed. 
There's an evangelistic missions

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aspect of these prayers. 
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through the testimonies of the 
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gone. 
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aspect of these prayers too. 
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this. 
But also after I'm gone, what 

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needs to happen next? 
So these are intense and 

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intimate passages. 
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When Jesus had spoken these 
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heaven and said, Father, the 
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Glorify your Son, that the Son 
may glorify you, since You have 

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given Him authority over all 
flesh to give eternal life to 

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all whom you have given Him. 
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they know you, the only true God
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sent. 
I glorified you on earth, having

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accomplished the work that you 
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And now, Father, glorify me in 
Your own presence with the glory

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that I had with you before the 
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And that verse 5 is loaded. 
But anyway, so we're going to 

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just walk through this, just 
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So what we see, this most 
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Jesus is to complete the 
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the Father. 
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relationship with the Father and
the fact he begins with that 

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word in verse one in the word 
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And, and it's interesting 
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we need to note about prayer is 
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sometimes and it's and it's and 
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It's when I say are, I mean 
people like me, we make prayer 

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just something that we do. 
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prayer more. 
And I appreciate Chris really 

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helping me to understand this as
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Let me explain that more. 
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prayer is relational because of 
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So I don't want, I want to be 
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myself from my prayers. 
My prayers are not just some 

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list I read and then I put it on
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else to do with me. 
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followers. 
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just our prayer list. 
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us and we need to really 
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dynamic of who we are with the 
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intimacy, this relationship that
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If ever you wonder who Jesus is 
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always knew what was next. 
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the Father's eternal purpose 
that's going to be accomplished 

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because of what he's getting 
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He's got the, the crucifixion, 
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things that are coming. 
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It it my time here has run out 
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It's time now for what we would 
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And so Jesus knew exactly why 
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need to embrace. 
You know, you hear me talk about

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why and who a lot are, I think I
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It's a powerful thing to know 
why you are. 

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It's a powerful thing to know 
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powerful. 
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He knew that perfectly so soon 
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we'll celebrate on Palm Sunday, 
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this back in John chapter 12. 
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Now is my soul troubled? 
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save me from this hour. 
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come to this hour. 
Father, glorify your name. 

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Then a voice came from heaven. 
I have glorified it, and I will 

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glorify it again. 
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and heard it said that it had 
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Angel has spoken to him. 
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has come for your sake, not 
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Now is the judgement of this 
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Now will the ruler of this world
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when I am lifted up from the 
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myself. 
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and, and when it says his soul 
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troubled in the Greek language, 
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word. 
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It's not a, it's not some, some 
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about something. 
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disturbed because he knows what 
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And he knows that too. 
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God hard for us to grasp. 
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Gethsemane, you, you know that 
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similar passage. 
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And he said to them, My soul is 
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Remain here and watch, talking 
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that if it were possible, the 
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And he said, ABBA father, all 
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Remove this cup from me. 
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period right there and that was 
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Yet not what I will, but what 
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So you see the honesty. 
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It's very, very wide open. 
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struggle. 
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the pain and the experience he's
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So we hear the surrender. 
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voice. 
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will to the Father's will as he 
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So he, he knew that the cross, 
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the ascension were coming. 
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the Father to go ahead and 
complete the work. 

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Now, if you notice back in 
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he's asking the Father to 
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And part of that is, is he prays
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Seems like a weird thing to pray
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You know, Father, glorify me so 
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And he mentions this more than 
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So, so, you know, if I'm 
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glorify. 
You know, this might sound 

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prideful. 
Glorify me, God, you know that 

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that can't be the only part of 
the sentence. 

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You know, don't just ask for God
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Jesus and his perfection and 
sinlessness, you understand 

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there is no pride in him that 
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so that the Son might then 
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And then he goes on, I've 
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17 four, having accomplished the
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And now, Father, glorify me in 
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the glory that I had with you 
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You got to remember, Jesus knows
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was before he took on flesh. 
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prayer. 
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glorification obviously refers 
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proper honor, proper position. 
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desires that that all would 
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through his own glorification. 
In other words, the more Jesus 

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is glorified and the more than 
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more powerful that will become. 
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Jesus is very much tied to the 
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and the ascension. 
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as the Son is lifted up. 
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cross, the God is glorified. 
God the Father's glorified for 

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the empty tomb. 
God. 

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God is glorified even as Jesus 
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Father, now interceding For us 
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what Hebrews says that 
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Consequently, he's able to save 
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near to God through him, since 
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intercession for them. 
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Father is glorified as Jesus 
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So let's go back and and look at
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So Jesus said to them, when you 
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then you will know that I am he 
and that I knew nothing on my 

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own authority but speak just as 
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So everything he's doing is 
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pointing to God the Father. 
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we read a minute ago and when I 
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when I and I, when I'm lifted up
from the earth, will draw a 

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people to myself and Jesus even 
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Then let's go back to that verse
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This is also talking about the 
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the ascension. 
And now, Father, glorify me in 

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your own presence with the glory
that I had with you before the 

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world existed. 
So there's this reunification, 

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so to speak, of the Son 
returning back to his throne in 

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eternity. 
And he obviously knew the Spirit

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would be sent, and he knew that 
the Spirit would continue and 

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begin drawing people to the 
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And the Holy Spirit's going to 
convict the world concerning its

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need for the Son. 
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Trinity at work in this 
incredible and in this 

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incredible prayer experience. 
John 16-8 says, and when he 

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comes, he is the Holy Spirit, He
will convict the world 

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concerning sin and righteousness
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So eternal life's made possible 
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Father through the Son, which 
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the Spirit. 
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Godhead work together for 
salvation, for our for our 

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justification back in 17 two, 
since you have given him 

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authority over all flesh to give
eternal life to all whom you 

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have given him. 
And this is eternal life that 

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they know you, the only true God
and Jesus Christ whom you've 

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sent. 
So as Jesus is glorified, the 

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lost are redeemed, the Father is
ultimately made known and the 

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Father is ultimately glorified. 
And so you see this, this 

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incredible circle of the Trinity
working together. 

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And it's not just for our 
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And, and make sure you 
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nature of love, he wants us to 
be saved. 

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He wants us to know him. 
But remember, our ultimate 

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mission is to bring him glory. 
And so our salvation isn't just 

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for our salvation. 
Our salvation is for his 

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glorification. 
One of the ways God has 

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glorified is when somebody's 
saved and acknowledges him. 

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So you're not just saved for 
your own benefit. 

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And sometimes in our individual 
autonomous type culture, that's,

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you know, well, I want that for 
me. 

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That's for me, That's all about 
me. 

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Well, no, it's not. 
One of the primary reasons 

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you're saved is so that you can 
be a testimony to Him and make 

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Him known and give Him glory, 
which is why it's so important 

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to share about Him with other 
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It's why it's so important to 
actually come and worship the 

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way we should because we're 
acknowledging this publicly 

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together that this is what this 
is all about. 

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It's not about us, it's about 
Him. 

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So you see, we see the heart of 
our Savior's prayer as, as you 

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know, he, he, he could have been
sitting there praying. 

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Lord, I really don't like these 
Romans. 

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I really don't like nails. 
I really don't like a wooden 

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cross. 
I really don't want to die. 

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I really don't, I really don't 
want to hurt. 

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I really and, and, and I mean, 
and we saw the struggle in the 

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garden, but at this point we see
his ultimate heart. 

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Father, I want you to be known. 
Father, I want you to be 

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glorified. 
And so the cross is going to do 

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that. 
The resurrection is going to do 

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that. 
The ascension is going to do 

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that in a moment. 
We're going to see the testimony

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of the disciples are going to do
that and sometimes I just wonder

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can we say the same thing? 
He's same thing about the way we

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pray and when we see this type 
of praying, do we pray Kingdom 

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type praying like this or is it 
God, I want God, I want you to 

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God. 
I want you to God, I want you to

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as a Cherokee word want you to 
you know what I mean? 

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Instead of Lord, I really just 
want you to be known. 

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How can I make you known today? 
How can how can every breath, 

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every second, every heartbeat of
my life help you to be 

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glorified? 
Verse 6 let's read a little link

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there a passage. 
I have manifested Your name to 

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the people whom you gave me out 
of the world. 

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Yours they were, and you gave 
them to me, and they have kept 

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Your word. 
Now that they know what 

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everything that you have given 
me is from you. 

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Or note that now that they know 
that everything that you've 

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given me is from you. 
For I've given them the words 

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that you gave me, and they have 
received them. 

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And I have come to know in truth
that I came from you, and 

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they've believed that you sent 
me. 

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I am praying for them. 
I'm not praying for the world, 

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but for those whom you have 
given me, for they are yours, 

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All mine are yours and yours are
mine, and I am glorified in 

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them. 
And I am no longer in the world,

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but they are in the world and I 
am coming to you. 

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Holy Father, keep them in Your 
name which You have given me, 

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that they may be 1 even as we 
are one. 

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While I was with them, I kept 
them in your name which you have

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given me. 
I have guarded them, and not one

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of them has been lost, except 
the Son of destruction, that the

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Scripture might be fulfilled. 
But now I'm coming to you, and 

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these things I speak in the 
world, that they may have my joy

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fulfilled in themselves. 
I have given them Your word, and

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the world has hated them, 
because they are not of the 

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world, just as I am not of the 
world. 

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I do not ask that you take them 
out of the world, but that you 

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keep them from the evil. 1 They 
are not of the world, just as I 

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00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,160
am not of the world. 
Sanctify them in the truth. 

449
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,160
Your word is truth. 
And as you sent me into the 

450
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,120
world, so I have sent them into 
the world. 

451
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:27,440
And for their sake I consecrate 
myself that they also may be 

452
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,800
sanctified in truth. 
I mean, it's a powerful passage.

453
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,640
So Jesus seems to be so 
confident that the Father heard 

454
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:40,120
his his cries regarding the 
completion of the mission and 

455
00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:43,800
the glorification that he 
transitions now to a season of 

456
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:48,440
prayer for his disciples. 
So it's not, it's not about me, 

457
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,680
it's now this is about them. 
And notice how many times that 

458
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,120
they're mine and you've given 
them mine and they're yours and 

459
00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:57,280
they're mine. 
You see the owners, the sense of

460
00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:00,240
who these these men belong to 
these disciples. 

461
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,320
And Jesus just knew again that 
the next few days were going to 

462
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,200
be very difficult even for the 
most faithful. 

463
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,320
He knew that Peter would deny 
him. 

464
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,560
He knew that others would run 
away. 

465
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,120
He knew it was going to be hard.
And so he was seeking to prepare

466
00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:16,200
them for the task that 
especially when he wasn't going 

467
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,600
to be with him anymore to to 
guide him and to help him. 

468
00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:24,320
And so the disciples were going 
to be eyewitnesses to this 

469
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,440
incredible glorification of 
Christ. 

470
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,520
First they're going to have to 
go through the death, but then 

471
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,080
they're going to experience the 
resurrection and the ascension, 

472
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,240
and they're going to be 
eyewitnesses to this thing. 

473
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,760
And they're going to need to 
bear witness of those things to 

474
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,120
others. 
They don't have a whole Bible 

475
00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:39,240
yet. 
They need this witness 

476
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,000
desperately. 
We can go all the way back to 

477
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,040
the book of Acts and start 
talking about it again. 

478
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:49,120
So Jesus assured them of his 
provision, the promise of the 

479
00:27:49,120 --> 00:27:51,200
Holy Spirit's going to come. 
The Holy Spirit's going to help 

480
00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:53,160
you. 
It talked to them already and 

481
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,040
back in chapter 15 about how he 
was the true vine. 

482
00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:00,840
And if you abide in me and I in 
you, so you got to stay close to

483
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,880
me. 
And then he's instructing them 

484
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,200
on how to pray in his name back 
in chapters 14 through 16. 

485
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,680
So he's, he's all the way 
through this, this court, this 

486
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,760
courses, he's giving them 
instructions, he's showing them 

487
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,480
how he's, he's giving them all 
the guidance they need. 

488
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,440
Now they're not getting it at 
this moment. 

489
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,960
We know that they, they need the
Holy Spirit to help him in a 

490
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:25,160
minute to get it and he will. 
But we, we also recognize that 

491
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,040
he also knew that if they were 
going to be successful in taking

492
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,120
the gospel to the world, that 
they're going to have to walk 

493
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,960
with him and they're going to 
have to walk with his character.

494
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,040
They're going to be, they're 
going to have to be like him 

495
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,720
that that they needed to ensure 
they needed to ensure adequate 

496
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,720
representation of Jesus in the 
world. 

497
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,800
And and that's our job. 
We have to ensure adequate 

498
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,960
representation of Jesus in our 
world. 

499
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,120
And so so he's going to work 
with him on that. 

500
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,160
And in essence, they needed to 
be the gospel as they were 

501
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,840
sharing it, right? 
So, so these are not some 

502
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,880
self-centered prayer requests 
that we might find ourselves 

503
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,120
trapped into sometimes much 
richer, much deeper than that. 

504
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,520
So central to all this is this 
idea again of the Father's 

505
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:15,280
glorification, that moving 
forward of his mission through 

506
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:19,960
the vicarious suffering and also
the victorious resurrection and 

507
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:24,040
ascension of Jesus Christ. 
Look at verse 11. 

508
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,040
And I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world. 

509
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:30,960
They're stuck here. 
I'm not I believe and they're 

510
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,800
they're still here and I'm 
coming to you Holy Father, keep 

511
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,760
them in your name, which you 
have given me that they may be 1

512
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:45,080
even as we are one. 
So Jesus is praying that his 

513
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,920
disciples to be kept. 
The word keep here would be a 

514
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,840
military type guard it to be 
guarded. 

515
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,600
But in this passage, it's really
interesting because in that 

516
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:59,080
first part it's related much 
more to keeping them in intimacy

517
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,160
in the personal relationship 
with the Father rather than is 

518
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,320
to protect them from some 
outside threat. 

519
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,480
Right now he's more concerned 
that they're going to walk 

520
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:12,280
closely, that they're going to 
abide in me and so guard them, 

521
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,680
keep them close. 
This isn't just about protection

522
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,280
from the enemy. 
This is about keeping them and 

523
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:23,480
guarding them in this close 
intimate relationship with us, 

524
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:28,440
so to speak with God. 
And so he desires that they're 

525
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,040
attached to him. 
Back to the the whole vine idea 

526
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,440
again. 
So their hearts would be focused

527
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:39,040
both personally, but also 
corporately as a group on his 

528
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,040
heart. 
And so this departure's 

529
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:42,280
happening. 
He's getting ready to go. 

530
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,120
It's happening fast. 
And the burden for this is 

531
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,800
fairly overwhelming, I would 
think. 

532
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,320
But he, he's praying that they 
would remain in him and they 

533
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:53,240
would focus on the mission. 
So he demonstrates in prayer 

534
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,600
this, this important idea of 
dependency upon the Father. 

535
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:02,560
If we want, if we want to be 
adequate representation of Jesus

536
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,240
in our world, we have to depend 
upon the Father for that. 

537
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,800
The vibrancy, the authenticity 
of our witness, our testimony, 

538
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,800
our lives are going to depend 
upon him. 

539
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,120
That's where the power of 
evangelism comes from. 

540
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,320
It's, it's not something we can 
create. 

541
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,440
It's because we're walking with 
Christ and it's just an overflow

542
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:25,560
of that in our lives. 
And so we see that how important

543
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,440
that is. 
There's also this, this idea in 

544
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:34,320
the prayer of, of, of intimacy 
and oneness in their 

545
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,760
relationships with one another. 
You are supposed to be a 

546
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,800
community together. 
You're supposed to be one with 

547
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,600
one another. 
And we, we need more of this 

548
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,200
today, especially in this 
culture. 

549
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,680
We're so independently 
individualistic and frankly 

550
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:55,600
selfish that in this culture 
today, what this world needs to 

551
00:31:55,600 --> 00:32:00,160
see is genuine Christianity 
being lived out by real Christ 

552
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,040
followers who really love one 
another and work well together 

553
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:09,840
as well as testify to his glory.
We need that both and and so 

554
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,640
this will happen as the Father 
keeps us in Christ's character, 

555
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:17,560
keeps us in intimacy with Him 
guards us there keeps us abiding

556
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,800
and that abiding connection to 
the vine so that we can bear 

557
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,680
fruit. 
And when that happens and 

558
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,200
believers then are going to be 
engaged by real Christians. 

559
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,240
I've shared with you before and 
this is no joke. 

560
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,120
This is not a guess. 
This is a study. 

561
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:35,480
I was a part of a team that we 
did this and and most lost 

562
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,720
people in the United States of 
America could would say that I 

563
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,280
don't even know anybody who 
claims to be a real Christian. 

564
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,920
You think it's absurd, 
especially in Rocky Mountain, 

565
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,560
North Carolina, where there's a 
church building on every half, 

566
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,640
half block. 
That doesn't matter. 

567
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:58,000
The buildings mean nothing. 
A real Christian, somebody's 

568
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,800
really living this out. 
Who really believes this. 

569
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,920
We've had a a visitor, and I'll 
be very careful I tell this 

570
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,800
story because they're still 
around. 

571
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:13,560
But we've had a visitor who has 
been coming here some and they 

572
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:17,840
come from a very different 
tradition and they've been 

573
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:23,160
sharing with a friend of theirs 
and they said, your, your priest

574
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:24,840
really believes what he's 
saying. 

575
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:32,320
My priest never did. 
So that authenticity that, that,

576
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:36,680
that realness that that matters.
Because when that when this 

577
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,720
happens, unbelievers are engaged
by real Christians walking with 

578
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,440
a real savior who can really 
deliver them from real darkness 

579
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,000
that Colossians Paul writes 
about in Colossians 1. 

580
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,400
He says He has delivered us from
the domain of darkness and 

581
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:55,000
transferred us to the Kingdom of
His beloved Son, in whom we have

582
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,560
redemption, the forgiveness of 
sins. 

583
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:02,920
We want that transfer to take 
place. 

584
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,800
Look at verse 15. 
I do not ask that you take them 

585
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,639
out of the world, but that you 
keep them from the evil. 1 So 

586
00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:12,360
Jesus is also praying for that 
outside protection, not just 

587
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:17,159
that you keep them close, but 
you also keep them safe from the

588
00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:20,000
evil one, right? 
It very much parallels what he 

589
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,080
prayed and what we would call 
the Lord's Prayer. 

590
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,400
He knew protection from Satan 
and he knew the protection from 

591
00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:30,120
his deceit were only going to be
possible to the Father's power 

592
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,679
through the Spirit helping that 
this. 

593
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:35,239
And so he's very concerned for 
them is because he's going to be

594
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,159
departing soon and he obviously 
doesn't want them to fall into 

595
00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:41,960
temptation, but to be delivered 
from from Satan's Wiles and 

596
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,920
strategies that you might read 
about in Ephesians 6. 

597
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,800
Because Satan's a thief. 
He's a liar and a thief. 

598
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,760
He's a the father of lies and a 
liar and a thief. 

599
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:58,680
Did you hear that? 
You're a liar and a thief and 

600
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,600
listen to what he says. 
He wants to steal and destroy 

601
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,040
your joy. 
He wants to steal and destroy 

602
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:08,000
your testimony. 
Listen to John 1010. 

603
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,360
The thief comes only this is all
he knows. 

604
00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:16,040
He wanted to steal God's glory, 
wanted to steal God's place in 

605
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,320
heaven. 
Now he just wants to steal 

606
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:23,680
yours. 
He he comes only to steal and 

607
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,520
kill and destroy. 
Jesus came that they might have 

608
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:32,200
life and have it abundantly. 
So Jesus understood his 

609
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,080
disciples are going to fail. 
Listen, they're going to fail on

610
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:35,880
their own ability. 
He's in fact, it's going to 

611
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,560
happen soon and they're going to
fail in their own ability to be 

612
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,440
able to overcome this. 
So but to be able to succeed, to

613
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,520
be able to be victorious, they 
had to be dependent upon God and

614
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,960
not their own wisdom, not their 
own ability, or they're just 

615
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,160
going to fall flat. 
Same thing is true for us. 

616
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,720
You're not strong enough on your
own. 

617
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:01,080
And so the, the part of the fear
is that the mission of God 

618
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,800
creeps forward today in North 
America. 

619
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,480
In fact, if you look at the 
continents of the world, there's

620
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,040
only only a couple of them where
it's just creeping. 

621
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,720
Other places it's growing And 
North America and Europe is 

622
00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:20,080
creeping, maybe Australia. 
But the reason is creeping here 

623
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,080
is because many of Christians 
are just being deceived by an 

624
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,360
enemy. 
They think they're fine. 

625
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,080
Even Christians, even quote UN 
quote Christians. 

626
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:30,720
And that's not a judge mental 
statement. 

627
00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:36,120
I don't know who's what who 
think they are, but they're not,

628
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:40,640
or who once were and they're not
anymore, or never understood 

629
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,720
what 1 was but grew up in 
something so they claim it. 

630
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,760
And so living a godly life and 
holiness can't take place apart 

631
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,640
from the work of God's power 
that we experience through the 

632
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,280
Holy Spirit. 
Spiritual warfare is real and 

633
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,480
prayer is the key to a 
believer's ability to 

634
00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:01,800
successfully say no to the 
stupid, lying, stealing thief of

635
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:05,280
an enemy. 
I don't like him much. 

636
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,960
So this is spiritual warfare 
that's actually proactive. 

637
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,320
Chuck Lawless talked about that 
when he preached for us a few 

638
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,720
weeks ago that many times we're 
just reactive in our prayers. 

639
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,800
We need to be proactive praying 
against this and praying for the

640
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:23,800
abundance that God has for us. 
I mean, it's interesting that 

641
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,520
that Jesus when they asked him 
back in Luke 11 when they said 

642
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,360
Lord teach us to pray and we see
the the bigger section of that 

643
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,240
in Matthew 6 that we studied in 
the last session. 

644
00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:37,560
He teaches them to pray for the 
protection from the evil 1 back 

645
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:44,720
in Matthew 613 deliver us from 
what evil and he prays the same 

646
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:46,240
thing here. 
This is important. 

647
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,000
He's repeating it. 
This is important. 

648
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,640
This an important prayers that 
we ought to be praying for each 

649
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,400
other. 
See, not just for ourselves, but

650
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:59,000
for each other. 
You need to see his urgency that

651
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,960
recognizes the spiritual battle 
that we face. 

652
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,840
Because again, Lawless reminded 
us a few weeks ago or whenever 

653
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,120
that we a couple weeks ago, that
most of our praying is just 

654
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:13,440
reactive, not proactive. 
We start praying after we learn 

655
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,960
if somebody's losing a battle, 
not before. 

656
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,040
And we need to make it 
proactive, but Jesus also prayed

657
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,680
for his followers to be 
sanctified. 

658
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,400
If you notice in this passage to
be set apart, to grow, to be 

659
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:30,520
discipled, to to be holy. 
And, and the way that is, is 

660
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,120
it's in his word, it's through 
the truth. 

661
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,040
You'll see that look at verse 
17. 

662
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,560
Sanctify them and the truth. 
Your word is truth about as 

663
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,880
clear as you can get. 
Here's how they're going to 

664
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,280
grow. 
Here's how they're going to 

665
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:43,880
mature. 
Here's how they're going to be 

666
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,120
discipled. 
They got to grow in the word of 

667
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,000
God. 
And so if his witnesses were to 

668
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,480
have his character and they were
actually going to be the the the

669
00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:56,760
proper representatives of him in
the world, then they're going to

670
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,440
have to show his character. 
They're going to have to live 

671
00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:59,920
that their lives have to be 
shaped. 

672
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,360
Their lives have to be directed.
We have to be defined by the 

673
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:08,360
word of God and Jesus prays 
specifically for their personal 

674
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,200
sanctification. 
And and you got to recognize 

675
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:15,680
that the word truth or the idea 
of truth in John's gospel is the

676
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,880
representation of the revelation
of God through Jesus Christ. 

677
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,720
Jesus is the truth and that's 
how it gets presented. 

678
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:27,120
In fact, you know that verse, 
You know John 14, six I am the 

679
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:33,920
what? 
Yeah, He is the truth. 

680
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,760
And so they're going to be 
sanctified through him. 

681
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,640
And then for us, we have this 
wonderful thing. 

682
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,640
Now we have this wonderful 
addition to that called the Word

683
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,000
of God, the Bible, the whole 
Bible that we get to have and 

684
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,040
study. 
So not only do we have the 

685
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,920
presence of Christ, the truth, 
not only do we have the Holy 

686
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,440
Spirit helping us to understand 
all that, but now we have this 

687
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,920
written thing that actually 
helps us even more, that's alive

688
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,840
and active. 
We're in much better shape. 

689
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,040
And so he he also refers to his 
own sanctification. 

690
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:11,600
Which he accomplishes through 
his work, and then he 

691
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,080
accomplishes those things so 
that his fathers or followers, 

692
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:16,360
excuse me, I'll get the words 
right. 

693
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,960
His followers could also be 
sanctified in the truth. 

694
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:24,280
Look at verse 19. 
And for their sake, I consecrate

695
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:28,760
myself that they may also be 
sanctified in truth. 

696
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,720
In other words, I'm, I'm going 
to live out this mission. 

697
00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:33,560
I'm going to live out this 
perfect life. 

698
00:40:33,720 --> 00:40:36,360
I'm going to live out and I'm 
going to die for our for your 

699
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,080
sins. 
I'm going to rise again. 

700
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,480
I'm going to go through this 
whole experience of consecration

701
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,880
and sanctification that I'm 
going through and glorification 

702
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,040
that I need to go through a so 
the Father can be glorified and 

703
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:52,000
known, but also so that you can 
share in this thing called 

704
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:56,120
sanctification. 
You have a chance now of being 

705
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,440
holy. 
You got a chance now of being 

706
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,440
like Jesus. 
You got a chance now to actually

707
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:05,880
live this life that he's 
modeling for us. 

708
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:10,720
And so this prayer referred to 
the life of obedience as they 

709
00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:14,640
encounter the truth of God in 
Christ and in his word, right? 

710
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,360
And so when we pray for 
believers to be sanctified, the 

711
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:21,400
truth, we're praying for daily 
encounters, not just with the 

712
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:27,680
Bible, but with Christ himself, 
who is the truth, the living 

713
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:31,480
Christ in US. 
How am I abiding in him? 

714
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:37,840
How am I living for him? 
So Jesus sanctified himself 

715
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,400
their obedience and gave us 
truth in the living and active 

716
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,000
word of God. 
And so these encounters, this, 

717
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,160
this idea ought to lead the 
Christian to, to live a life of 

718
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:53,080
radical obedience to him. 
And, and, and we need to be 

719
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,160
different. 
We need to be set apart. 

720
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:59,520
If this Pagan world around us is
going to believe Jesus is the 

721
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,160
one who can give him eternal 
life. 

722
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:02,880
They've got to see something 
different in US. 

723
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,920
And this intentional, proactive 
prayer life is essential for 

724
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,600
that to happen. 
I look at verse 20. 

725
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,440
I do not ask for these only. 
This is huge because now he's 

726
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:18,440
getting ready to pray for you. 
Believe it or not, Jesus prayed 

727
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,840
for you before he died on the 
cross. 

728
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,560
And, and I don't ask for these 
only, but also for those who 

729
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:29,680
will believe in me through their
word, that they may all be one, 

730
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:35,200
just as you, Father, are in me 
and I in you, that they also may

731
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,720
be in us, so that the world may 
believe that you have sent me 

732
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,200
the glory that you have given 
me. 

733
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:45,520
I have given to them that they 
may be 1 even as we are one, and

734
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:49,320
I and them and you and me, that 
they may become perfectly one, 

735
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:53,240
so the world may know that you 
sent me and loved me even as 

736
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,840
limb, even as you love me. 
Father, I desire that they also,

737
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:02,280
whom you have given me, they may
be with me where I am to see my 

738
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:05,640
glory, that you have given me 
because you loved me before the 

739
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,160
foundation of the world. 
Oh, righteous Father, even 

740
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:13,440
though the world does not know 
you, I know you, and these know 

741
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,760
that you have sent me. 
I made known to them your name, 

742
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,640
and I will continue to make it 
known that the love with which 

743
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,840
you have loved me may be in them
and I in them. 

744
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:27,640
I mean, what a special passage. 
So he prays not only for his 

745
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,600
followers, but for those who are
going to the the generation 

746
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,880
after generation after 
generation who are going to 

747
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,600
believe because of what they 
share. 

748
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,720
Praying for those future 
generations of his followers who

749
00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:44,400
are going to believe because of 
the disciples testimonies and 

750
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,480
also because of their disciples 
testimonies and their disciples 

751
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,880
testimonies and their disciples 
your testimonies. 

752
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:59,080
He's praying for us. 
He's praying for the way for the

753
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:00,920
mission to move forward after 
he's gone. 

754
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:05,040
How's this going to continue age
after age after age. 

755
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:07,520
The impact on the world will be 
huge. 

756
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:11,160
And so he he prays over. 
Notice the the prayer for 

757
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,440
oneness that you see here 
especially look at verse 21. 

758
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,600
Perhaps, but especially this is 
oneness that centers on the 

759
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:22,720
father and the son being one and
and we're to be 1. 

760
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,000
I I don't know that there's 
anything more disheartening when

761
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:30,440
believers are not one. 
We got to go back and remember 

762
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,080
that one of the great themes of 
the book of Acts in the early 

763
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,880
church is that they were of 1 
accord. 

764
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:42,440
They were one together. 
They had problems, but they were

765
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,280
1. 
And I see church after church 

766
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,720
after church after church. 
Anyway, drives me nuts. 

767
00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:56,920
We've got to be together with 
him and with one another. 

768
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,840
And so this passage again, we we
see this revelation of some of 

769
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,520
the mystery of the Trinity as we
see all three persons of the 

770
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,840
Godhead working here. 
So Jesus was praying for unity 

771
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:10,800
that has experienced the work of
the Spirit and focuses on the 

772
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,560
intimacy and relationship of 
oneness with the Father. 

773
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,920
But this is not unit unity that 
centers around some kind of 

774
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:21,520
temporal ideology or 
methodological presuppositions 

775
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,960
or worship styles or attitudes 
or personal preferences. 

776
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,920
It's this is much bigger than 
that, much different than that. 

777
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:31,480
This is oneness that centers on 
the Father's mission and glory, 

778
00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:37,200
which takes place as we unite 
our hearts together and join him

779
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:43,480
and what he wants us to do. 
So there was nothing about Jesus

780
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:48,040
and his character that obviously
needs sanctifying because he was

781
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:52,280
perfect. 
Yet his act of pleasing, his act

782
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:56,680
of obeying the Father is central
to the act of sanctification. 

783
00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:00,080
So just as he was set apart and 
completed the mission, this is a

784
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:03,640
model, this is an example, not 
only not only for his perfection

785
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:06,880
and what he needed to do, but 
also for us to see the obedience

786
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,480
we need to have to the Father. 
And so the disciples now needed 

787
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,720
to bear witness to that truth, 
and they would be able to take 

788
00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:16,600
it and walk in obedience as 
they're being sent out. 

789
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:22,360
And so this prayer aims at a 
oneness with the Father through 

790
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:26,840
the Son and demonstrates the 
dependence that Christians must 

791
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,920
have on Jesus to experience the 
love of the Father and to be 

792
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:34,960
involved in his work. 
Again, this prayer, according to

793
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,720
Chris Scofield, puts the glory 
put the Father, puts the 

794
00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:41,200
Father's glory at the center, 
and spreads out a concentric 

795
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:45,640
circles of his will and purpose.
And so the result of this unity 

796
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,080
is that the mission moves 
forward. 

797
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,360
So if ever you see me drawing 
diagrams where I have the word 

798
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,480
mission at the center, there's a
reason for that. 

799
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:59,520
It's the center of everything. 
Our mission here is to bring God

800
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,040
great glory and to join him in 
his work. 

801
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,560
That's the simplified version. 
That's what we're here for. 

802
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:08,920
That's why we're alive. 
That's why this church exists. 

803
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,280
That's why this building's here.
That's why we come together. 

804
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:17,120
And so we recognize that that 
Jesus is trying to point his 

805
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:19,720
disciples and protect them in 
this look at verse 24. 

806
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:24,200
Father, I desire that they also 
whom you've given me, may be 

807
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:28,440
with me where I am, to see my 
glory that you have given me 

808
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,920
because you loved me before the 
foundation of the world. 

809
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:33,760
And we know what he's talking 
about now. 

810
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:37,040
I hope so here. 
He's also praying toward his 

811
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,360
desire for his followers to be 
with him. 

812
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:43,520
He loved these guys, and he 
looks forward to the day they're

813
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,880
going to be with him again in 
eternity, these specific people,

814
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:52,480
but also for us. 
And so we see this 

815
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:57,760
eschatological promise, we see 
an end time type conversation 

816
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:02,920
here where we we get to be with 
him, where he is in his future 

817
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:06,040
glory. 
And so the day when life is 

818
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,880
over, Christians are going to 
experience the bliss of heaven 

819
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:10,920
with Jesus forever. 
We're going to talk about that 

820
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:13,320
in our upcoming series. 
What is heaven like? 

821
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,200
Who's there? 
What's hell like and who chooses

822
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,760
to be there? 
We're going to talk about some 

823
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,240
false paths and some false 
teaching about these things, as 

824
00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:25,360
well as what the Bible really 
says about these things. 

825
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,880
But, but, but those of us who 
really believe and who trust in 

826
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,760
Him are going to experience this
with Him. 

827
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:35,040
But this prayer shouldn't just 
be understood as talking about 

828
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:38,520
that future blessing of heaven. 
Don't misunderstand it. 

829
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:42,440
It's not just about that. 
It's also about the fact that 

830
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:47,360
eternal life is something that 
we experience right now, and so 

831
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:51,560
it allows us to participate in 
the redemptive activity that the

832
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,240
saving activity of His present 
glory that's at work right now 

833
00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:57,720
around us. 
We're going to baptize 4 people 

834
00:48:57,720 --> 00:49:02,760
Sunday and some of them amazing 
testimonies. 

835
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:03,880
I won't. 
I don't want to give it away. 

836
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:08,000
It's too good of a surprise. 
We got some phenomenal 

837
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:12,520
testimonies on Sunday, and if we
ever grow tired of that, shame 

838
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:16,360
on us. 
And so it's amazing what he's 

839
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:20,640
doing right now in his glory 
right now in our midst. 

840
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,520
And so we see that this is for 
right now too. 

841
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:26,680
And so maybe one of the reasons 
the gospel isn't running rapidly

842
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,560
in North America, but just kind 
of creeping forward is that the 

843
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,720
church isn't praying to be with 
Jesus where he's at work in the 

844
00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:36,920
world right now. 
We don't get to pick the place. 

845
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:39,640
We need to pick his place and 
his way. 

846
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:45,080
We got to join his work. 
And so Jesus consistently 

847
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,800
pointed us back to this 
relational aspect of Kingdom 

848
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:53,960
prayer where the Father's 
glorified and his purposes and 

849
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:57,440
his desires are fulfilled and 
sought after. 

850
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:01,400
And then he also emphasized our 
relationship with the Father and

851
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:04,400
the Son as it relates to oneness
among believers. 

852
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:07,600
As we join together, this is 
essential for us to be 

853
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,400
successful. 
Unity is essential for it. 

854
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:13,520
Again, Schofield writes being 
the gospel. 

855
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:17,120
And notice that Word being the 
gospel before a lost world makes

856
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:20,000
makes it thirsty for the Christ 
we represent. 

857
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:26,120
Being the gospel before a lost 
world makes it thirsty for the 

858
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:29,880
Christ we represent. 
And so when our our Christian 

859
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:34,840
talk and our Christian walk are 
incongruent, why should anybody 

860
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:38,400
believe us? 
We confuse the world when we say

861
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:42,840
one thing, we act another. 
There's got to be a consistency 

862
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:46,280
of oneness in our character and 
our behavior. 

863
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:51,160
So Christians are dependent upon
the Father for protection in 

864
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,040
order to help us do that, to 
stay clean, to stay pure. 

865
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:58,000
And so prayers that move the 
Kingdom forward are those that 

866
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:02,200
focus on seeing several things, 
the lost, saved believers 

867
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:07,480
growing and maturing, the 
glorification of the Father and 

868
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:11,080
and us as his followers joining 
him and his redeeming work. 

869
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:13,440
So it's all part of why we're 
here. 

870
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:19,880
So the church isn't making slow 
headway in North America because

871
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:23,320
I'm afraid much of its praying 
is earthly. 

872
00:51:24,720 --> 00:51:26,440
Much of its prayers are 
temporal. 

873
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:30,480
We don't pray for eternity. 
We pray for temporary things. 

874
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:35,920
We pray for things for ourself. 
And there's an old adage, a very

875
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,200
famous old adage. 
You may have heard that and you 

876
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:39,280
may have said it a million 
times. 

877
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:41,480
Maybe you never heard it before.
But that's the church goes the 

878
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:46,160
culture goes as goes the church,
so goes the culture. 

879
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:48,480
And you may think that's 
backwards, but it's not. 

880
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,280
There's a reason our world's the
way it is. 

881
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:57,440
We haven't done our job. 
We haven't done our job. 

882
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,400
So as the church, as goes the 
church, so goes the culture 

883
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:04,560
we're desperate for Spiritual 
awakening. 

884
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:12,000
Theologian and historian Jaya 
Winor, he defines it this way. 

885
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:15,720
He says an awakening is a 
movement of the Holy Spirit 

886
00:52:15,720 --> 00:52:18,680
bringing about a revival of New 
Testament Christianity in the 

887
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:20,960
Church of Christ and it's 
related community. 

888
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:25,840
Spiritual awakening is when 
revival spills out into the 

889
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:29,120
lostness of the world around it.
Malcolm McDowell, another 

890
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:32,240
professor, says this. 
He says revival is God's 

891
00:52:32,240 --> 00:52:35,520
invasion into the lives of one 
or more of his people in order 

892
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:38,320
to awaken them spiritually for 
Kingdom ministry. 

893
00:52:39,720 --> 00:52:42,720
So to pray for revival. 
There's a reason why I have 

894
00:52:42,720 --> 00:52:47,080
preached through Nehemiah. 
It's a reason for it. 

895
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:51,040
You may not see it until this 
Sunday, but there's a reason we 

896
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:55,200
needed to remember that story 
because God's people needed 

897
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:59,200
restoration. 
And So what we recognize is that

898
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:03,080
the spiritual degradation that 
we face in North America can in 

899
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,960
part be attributed, I think, to 
the absence of this Kingdom 

900
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:10,200
mindedness in our prayers. 
We pray too small. 

901
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:16,920
We pray too selfishly. 
We pray too temporarily. 

902
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:20,600
I'm not saying we don't pray for
those things. 

903
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:22,240
James tells us to pray for those
things. 

904
00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:24,240
We should pray for the sick. 
We should pray for the hurting. 

905
00:53:24,240 --> 00:53:25,680
We should pray for our friends. 
We do that. 

906
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:29,160
We're supposed to do that. 
But if that's all we do, where's

907
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:32,080
the balance? 
Where's the balance? 

908
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:35,080
So the church often, not 
necessarily Englewood, but the 

909
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:38,200
church as a whole in the United 
States of America is hunkering 

910
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:42,440
down in the trenches in fear 
because the culture around it 

911
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:46,240
grows more and more Pagan. 
And we're just in a defensive 

912
00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:51,560
circle, the wagons mode, and 
it's time for us to strike out 

913
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,080
in faith. 
And if a church like this 

914
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:55,960
doesn't do it, I don't know what
church will. 

915
00:53:58,120 --> 00:53:59,640
You think there's a reason why 
I'm here. 

916
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:03,000
I know why I'm here. 
I know why I breathe. 

917
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:05,240
I know why I'm alive, and I know
why I'm at Inglewood. 

918
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,680
And I'm going to beat that horse
till you ought to either ride it

919
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:18,880
or I eat it for dinner. 
So our praying will often 

920
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,760
reflect where our hearts and 
minds are focused. 

921
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,200
When you listen to somebody 
pray, you can see what they're 

922
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:25,960
thinking about, what they're 
focused upon. 

923
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,600
All right. 
And so we often pursue the 

924
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:32,560
things for which we're praying 
and that and that's why we need 

925
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:36,440
to focus our prayer on the 
Kingdom coming as Jesus did, 

926
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:43,840
that your Kingdom come, that 
your will be done on earth as it

927
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:47,360
is in heaven. 
Again, we want to pray for our 

928
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:49,080
hurting friends. 
We want to pray for the person 

929
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:50,840
with cancer. 
We want to pray for that person.

930
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,760
We just had a dear friend lose a
dear friend. 

931
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:57,560
We had a death again in the 
church this week. 

932
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:01,640
And and so to think about if you
don't know Aretha James passed 

933
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:07,520
away, if you don't know about 
Missus Miss James, but and we 

934
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:10,360
need to pray for the Brian. 
We need to pray for the family. 

935
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:12,920
We need to lift up our friends. 
That's part of this. 

936
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:14,320
That's part of the oneness, 
right? 

937
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:17,920
That's part of the oneness. 
But we got to look beyond us 

938
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,560
too. 
We got to look beyond this. 

939
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:25,960
Our wood is get trapped in 
that's in that temporal cycle. 

940
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:29,560
So Christianity that's 
patiently, passionately praying 

941
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:31,720
and taking the gospel to the 
this is in the essence what 

942
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:33,280
Jesus is praying for in this 
chapter. 

943
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,800
I mean, what would happen if 
most of our praying was God 

944
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:42,760
centered and focused on his 
purpose, his desire and and his 

945
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:46,520
will to be accomplished in the 
world instead of simply what I 

946
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:51,520
want, what I wish if we could 
refocus. 

947
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,560
Spiritual awakening includes a 
renewing or reviving of the 

948
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:56,640
church. 
And it's desire to be holy, it's

949
00:55:56,640 --> 00:56:01,160
desire to be godly, it's desire 
to be 1, to abide with the true 

950
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,640
vine, to be in right 
relationship with Christ, That 

951
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:06,400
oneness is about him. 
And that lack of Christ like 

952
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,240
character. 
Frankly, and this is not a 

953
00:56:08,240 --> 00:56:11,120
guess, but the lack of Christ 
like character is frankly 

954
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:16,280
paralyzing the American church. 
We don't act like him. 

955
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:20,440
We talk about him, but we don't 
act like him. 

956
00:56:21,720 --> 00:56:23,720
Now, fortunately here at 
Inglewood, I, I think we're 

957
00:56:23,720 --> 00:56:26,800
better than that. 
I pray we're better than that. 

958
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:30,880
And so Jesus prays in John 17 
for his disciples characters. 

959
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:34,000
He prayed for them to be 
guarded, to be kept in His name,

960
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,360
and to be protected from the 
evil 1 and set apart for His 

961
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:39,240
truth. 
You see these things coming 

962
00:56:39,240 --> 00:56:42,240
about, and when this happens in 
our lives, it represents a life 

963
00:56:42,240 --> 00:56:45,520
that's truly, wholly, intimately
related and depended upon Him. 

964
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:49,000
So that proactive praying is 
much better than the reactive 

965
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:52,040
praying that just seeks to 
restore the integrity of a 

966
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:56,880
believer after it's lost because
somehow we failed to walk in our

967
00:56:56,880 --> 00:57:01,640
intimacy with Christ. 
So this type of John 17 praying 

968
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:06,320
produces a spirit filled living 
and intimacy with Christ that 

969
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:11,000
that's eternal as we walk with 
him and we join him in that 

970
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:13,320
mission. 
So wherever Christ, wherever the

971
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:17,160
Christ is, if you'll notice in 
this prayer, wherever Jesus is, 

972
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:18,920
he wants his followers to be 
there too. 

973
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,400
That's future one day I look 
forward to that. 

974
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:26,920
I'm I, I cannot even imagine. 
I mean, I, I read and I read I'm

975
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,320
a biblical literalist. 
So I read the Book of Revelation

976
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,080
pretty literally. 
I see all that. 

977
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:35,720
I see what happens. 
But it's also right now it's in 

978
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,360
your prayer closet. 
It's in your daily actions, your

979
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:42,800
thoughts, your life with him. 
He wants us to be with him right

980
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,280
now. 
For some of you, that might even

981
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:49,520
mean salvation because you're 
not with him right now and you 

982
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:52,080
need to talk about what it means
to be saved. 

983
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:55,480
So praying for the believer to 
be on mission with Christ then 

984
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:59,040
can lead to this revived life. 
Be involved in that redemptive 

985
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:03,120
activity as we're experiencing 
him on a continual basis. 

986
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:07,320
And that that really is 
awakening in its beginning form.

987
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:11,440
But this is only going to happen
as the church practices 

988
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:15,560
heartfelt prayer toward God's 
Kingdom coming and his will to 

989
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:21,400
be done on earth. 
So if the church, if the church 

990
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:24,680
were to faithfully give itself 
to the biblical prayer patterns 

991
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:29,080
found here in John 17, if we 
really did have this Kingdom 

992
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:33,320
mindedness in ministry and 
moving forward, the moving 

993
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:37,440
forward of the Kingdom in times 
of spiritual awakening, we would

994
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:41,280
be much more likely to see it. 
Stanley Grants, who wrote a 

995
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,720
powerful book on prayer, writes 
this. 

996
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:50,040
He says the challenge that we 
face today, it's the challenge 

997
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:53,800
to pray. 
Meeting this challenge requires 

998
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:57,920
that we cease merely talking 
about prayer and begin to pray. 

999
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:04,000
Let us therefore pray. 
Let us invoke the in breaking of

1000
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,320
the Kingdom into the situations 
of life that we face. 

1001
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:15,040
Let us cry for the Kingdom. 
So before we quit tonight, I 

1002
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:19,040
want us to have a time of prayer
and I want you to reach out to 

1003
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:22,120
God. 
I want you to reach out to God 

1004
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:26,640
and to ask him to help you to be
one with him, to be one with 

1005
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:31,680
other Christians, to to to be 
focused upon his Kingdom work 

1006
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:34,320
and how he can use you and that 
Kingdom work. 

1007
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,920
And then I'm going to pray for 
us in just a moment. 

1008
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:39,800
Take a moment to just silence 
you and the Lord. 

1009
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:45,520
Go to your garden, go to your 
prayer closet with Him and just 

1010
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:49,400
ask Him about how far off of 
oneness with Him are you? 

1011
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,320
What needs to change for you to 
be one with Him? 

1012
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,720
What needs to change for you to 
really be pursuing Kingdom work,

1013
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:02,360
To be that that appropriate, 
effective represent 

1014
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:07,680
representative of Jesus here on 
earth, to live such a life that 

1015
01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:10,000
it makes it makes them thirsty 
for Him. 

1016
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:14,880
They want what we have. 
They want what you possess. 

1017
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:17,080
Because they see it in your 
life. 

1018
01:00:35,850 --> 01:00:41,290
When Jesus had spoken these 
words, he lifted up his eyes to 

1019
01:00:41,290 --> 01:00:45,050
heaven and said, Father, the 
hours come. 

1020
01:00:47,210 --> 01:00:54,890
Father, we seek your glory, we 
seek your Kingdom, we seek your 

1021
01:00:54,890 --> 01:00:59,920
will, we seek your truth. 
Father, my prayer is that it 

1022
01:00:59,920 --> 01:01:04,280
would shatter the barriers of 
our lives and Pierce us to the 

1023
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:06,600
deepest part of our soul or 
spirit. 

1024
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:10,720
Lord, that we might walk with 
you in a new way, that we might 

1025
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:15,680
pray in a more powerful way, 
that we might live in a greater 

1026
01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:19,520
service. 
Father, we have people all 

1027
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:24,720
around us who do not know you. 
They don't know oneness with you

1028
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:29,240
or with us, and Father, they 
desperately need that. 

1029
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:33,520
And we, Father, are the ones who
now possess the testimony. 

1030
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:38,400
It has been handed down to us 
and entrusted to us, generation 

1031
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:42,280
after generation after 
generation, from your disciples 

1032
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:45,600
to us. 
And we now possess the mission 

1033
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:47,280
that we are to accomplish for 
you. 

1034
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:51,280
We now are the ones who must 
participate. 

1035
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:56,160
So, Father, help us, Lord, to 
turn whatever corner we got to 

1036
01:01:56,160 --> 01:02:00,680
turn, to turn whatever page we 
got to turn, to confess whatever

1037
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:06,200
we need to confess, to make 
right whatever is wrong, so that

1038
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:11,000
we can be your disciples truly, 
so that we can walk with you and

1039
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:15,400
serve you in a new way. 
Father, I pray for our church. 

1040
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:18,920
I know what you want to have 
happened here. 

1041
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:24,000
And I pray, Father, this Easter 
season, we'll begin to see. 

1042
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:29,400
Father, please help us. 
Help us to abide and to be 

1043
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:33,520
obedient. 
Help us, Lord, to truly walk 

1044
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:36,240
with you. 
Thank you, Father, for the way 

1045
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:40,120
that you have helped us. 
We thank you that the Son is 

1046
01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:43,640
interceding on our behalf, that 
the Holy Spirit is helping us, 

1047
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:48,600
Father, all of you, working with
us and for us. 

1048
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:53,680
What an amazing, powerful thing.
Help us, Father, to embrace it, 

1049
01:02:54,840 --> 01:03:00,360
to enjoy it, to love it, to live
abundantly, protect us, keep us 

1050
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:05,960
close to you, and protect us 
from the evil one in Christ's 

1051
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:10,440
name, Amen. 
Thank you so much for listening 

1052
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:12,120
today, and I also hope that 
you'll go to 

1053
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:15,920
ourwebsite@inglewoodbaptist.com 
as well as our app and find many

1054
01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:18,320
other resources that will bless 
you and your families. 

1055
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:19,520
Thank you once again.