So far we have discovered GOD's plan and purpose for Jesus and that of humanity, is but one. That is to say to bring all back to Himself through the man Jesus. And His anointing of Him by His Holy Spirit making Him Christ and making All others One in Him and through Him to live out the promises and the abundant Life while here on earth being His students and thereby His witnesses. Now we have reached the largest stepping stone, the one that has seemed to cause the religious church world the greatest of consternation and unbelief. This chapter can be broken up into two sections, e first Jesus' High Priestly Prayer and the second His students or disciples in the world. Over the years I have said some sharp criticisms against the religious and religious institutions composed churches of the worldly and earthy sort holding millions upon millions who have chosen to walk in abstract poverty of spirit and thereby denying the Christ and becoming anti-Christ's just as revealed in the book of Christ's Revelation states would come about. There is one more thing to add I have not imposed the scripture links to other epistles that reveal the same thing shared to keep all clean and clearly focused on the subject at hand. I leave this to you to do while the LORD's Holy Spirits help and guidance. In Paul's writings are found the confirmation of Jesus' prayer. And before in Acts record the promise of the Father is realized by the giving of the Holy Spirit's indwelling of humanity at the moment of redemption. Now chapter 17 of John's synoptic gospel, again using the ESV translation.
Jesus' High Priestly Prayer for His own
John 17:1-12 "After Jesus had spoken these words (of chapters 14-16), He lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify You, since You have given Him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they know You the only true GOD, and Jesus Christ Whom You have sent. I glorified You on earth, having accomplished the work that You gave Me to do. And now, Father, glorify Me in Your own presence with the glory that I had with You before the world existed. "I have manifested Your name (Christ) to the people whom You gave Me out of the world. Yours they are, for You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word (plan and purpose of Will). Now they know that everything that You have given Me is from You. For I have given them the words that You gave Me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from You; and they have believed that You sent Me. I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. All Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are One. While I was with them, I kept them in Your name, which You have given Me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled."
The Students or Disciples in the world
John 17:13-26 "But now I am coming to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Your word (Your Promises), and the world hates them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is Truth. As You sent Me into the world, so I send them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate Myself, that they also may be sanctified in (this) truth. "I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word, that they may all be one, just as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be in US, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me. The glory that You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one even as We are One, I in them and You in Me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that You sent Me and love them even as You love Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, may be with Me where I am, to see My glory that You have given Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know You, I know You, and these know that You have sent Me. I made known to them Your name (Christ), and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them, and I in them."
We are now in GOD's so great a Salvation because our home and family life are now one with GOD and GOD alone, having the Godhead within our temple the body of clay. We are the living stones of which the Lord Jesus said that the Father would rise up. Now I will show the scripture references to what I just stated beginning with 1Peter 2:4-5, 4:10-14, Colossians 3:16-17. To this point there are references to this in Matthew, Mark and Luke in relation to the raising of stones to Abrahams lineage.
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