Being a Seeker of Truth is what we're to be. John 8:31-32 with 2Timothy reveals this, this taken from the daily thought of Pastor Hoekstra, in my e-Sword studies program where we find this: "Truth to Set Us Free from the Enemy's Bondage: 'If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free . . . that they may know the Truth . . . and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him. (John 8:31-32 and 2Timothy 2:25-26)
As followers of Jesus Christ, it is so imperative that we abide in His word. We are called to live in the word of the Lord that we might know His Truth. Then, as we are embracing God's Truth, we are impacted by its liberating power. "The Truth shall make you free." Religious and political Bondage's are the enemy of all mankind, they are of one fundamental area where people need, require spiritual liberation.
Now to look at our subject area of John 17 as we finished chapter 16 in post 2410. Jesus is speaking and I shall carry this through verse 19 as follows:
The High Priestly Prayer:
John 17:1-5, 6-19 These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said,'Father, the hour is come; glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You: As You have given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. This is life eternal, that they might know You the only true GOD, and Jesus Christ, Whom You have sent. I have glorified You on the earth: I have finished the work which You gave Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify You Me with Your own self with the glory which I had with You before the world was.
I have manifested Your name to the men which You give Me out of the world: Yours they were, and You gave these to Me; and they have kept Your word. Now they know that all things whatsoever You have given Me are of You. For I have given to them the words which You gave Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from You, and they have believed that You did send Me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which You have given Me; For they are Yours. All Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come again to You. Holy Father, keep through Your own name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one, as We are One. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name: those that You give Me I keep, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
Disciples in the World:
John 17:13-19 Now come I to You; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Your word; and the world hates them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I Sanctify them through Your Truth: Your word is Truth. As You have sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also be sanctified through Your Truth.'
Now I have not yet finished my course with this post,as there remains verses20 through 26 ahead of us.
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