Hello and welcome to
another edition of Faith Chapel.
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My name is Terry Shelton.
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Our message today is entitled
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the power of prayer.
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Do you love prayer?
Do you exercise prayer
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in your Christian life everyday?
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We are going to look
at some scriptures today
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some instances, some
examples of Bible prayer
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and how these prayers affected
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those who pray them.
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Before we begin I
would just invite you
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to by with me for
a moment of prayer.
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Heavenly father,
we thank you Lord
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that we have been
given the gift of life today
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and that we have your word.
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We pray just now
as we open your word
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that you would open
our eyes in our hearts
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to receive your
word with gladness
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in Jesus name Amen.
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Let's look at some
Bible instances of prayer.
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Some different
prayers that were prayed
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and how they
affected those around.
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Let's look at Luke chapter 22
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and beginning the verse 31,
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And the Lord said,
"Simon, Simon! Indeed,
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Satan has asked for you,
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that he may sift you as wheat.
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But I have prayed for you;
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that your faith should not fail;
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and when you
have returned to Me,
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strengthen your brethren.
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" But he said to Him, " Lord,
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I am ready to go with You,
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both to prison and to death."
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Let's think about the
life of Simon for a moment.
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At this point, the crucifixion
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had not taken place,
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at this point
the denial of Peter
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had not occurred yet.
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Peter had not,
had not denied Christ
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though three times.
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And Jesus knew what Peter
was getting ready to face,
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he knew the trail
that was coming up on Simon
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and Peter and he said to Peter
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I have prayed for you that
your faith should not fail.
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As we know, as we
continue on in scripture
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we find that Peter became
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a powerful apostle of Christ.
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A powerful leader of
the New Testament church,
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what I want us to see
is that prayer can bring
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conversion into any
life, no matter who it is.
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When you love to have
Jesus look you in the eye
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and say I have prayed for you.
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What a blessing
that would have been,
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what a blessing
to hear those words
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coming from Christ.
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Another thing that
prayer can do for you
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or for us is found in
the book of Acts chapter 4
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beginning with verse 31.
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And when they had prayed,
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the place where they were
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assembled together was shaken;
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and they were all
filled with the Holy Spirit,
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and they spoke the
word of God with boldness.
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Now the multitude
of those who believed
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were of one heart and one soul;
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neither did anyone
say that any of the things
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he possessed was his own,
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but they had all
things in common.
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And with great power
the apostles gave witness
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to the
resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
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And great grace
was upon them all.
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Also over in Acts
chapter 8 and beginning
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of verse 14 it says,
Now when the apostles
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who were at
Jerusalem heard that Samaria
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had received the word of God,
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they sent Peter
and John to them,
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who, when they had come down,
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prayed for them that they might
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receive the Holy Spirit.
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For as yet He had
fallen upon none of them.
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They had only been baptized
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in the name of the Lord Jesus.
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Then they laid hands on them,
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and they
received the Holy Spirit.
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The second thing I
want to emphasize today
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is that prayer can
bring unity to God's church.
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Are you maybe in a small church
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or in a big church
and there is always seems
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to be division
maybe one person seems
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to be at hours with another,
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maybe people
don't see eye on things.
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I would encourage you
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to get together
and pray about it.
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Pray that God
will lead this church
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into the unified body
like he wants us to be.
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God's New Testament church here
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they were of one
heart and one mind
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and they were
together in their purpose
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to evangelize the world.
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Another thing that
prayer can do for us
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is found in the Book
of Acts also chapter 9.
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Acts chapter 9 and verse 40;
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But Peter put them all out,
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and knelt down and prayed.
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And turning to the body he said,
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"Tabitha, arise."
And she opened her eyes,
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and when she saw
Peter she sat up.
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We also find in the book of John
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chapter 11 in
verse 41, where it says;
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Then they took away
the stone from the place
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where the dead man was lying.
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And Jesus lifted
up His eyes and said,
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"Father, I thank You
that You have heard Me.
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What was the result of
this prayer that Jesus prayed?
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A dead man came
out of the grave,
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Lazarus came forth.
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You see prayer can bring
healing to a broken body.
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This can work for
you and I today friends;
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prayer can bring
healing to a broken
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and even destroyed body.
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What about this one
in Romans chapter 8.
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Romans chapter 8 in
verse 26 we read these,
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this passage. Romans
chapter 8 in verse 26;
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Likewise the Spirit also
helps us in our weaknesses.
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For we do not know
what we should pray
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for as we ought,
but the Spirit Himself
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makes intercession
for us with groanings
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which cannot be uttered.
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Prayer can reach
the spirit of God
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with our inexpressible thoughts.
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So, have you ever
gone to your knees
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in a moment of
prayer? Perhaps things
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were so wrong in
your life at that point,
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things were just
completely out of kilter
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and you went to your
knees and you say God
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things are so bad.
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I don't even
know what to pray for.
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The scripture says
that the spirit of God
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will intercede for us
and take our inexpressible
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thoughts to the thrown of grace.
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You know Jesus had a
wonderful prayer life.
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Jesus had a prayer life,
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I would venture
to say like no other.
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Jesus had a prayer life
that he was consistent in.
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He was always going to
his father and scripture
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says that he would
rise up early in the morning
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and go and pray with his father.
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You know there is a
certain passage of scripture,
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there is a certain
story that we can find,
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where Jesus prayed for
endurance and for strength.
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Let's look at Mathew chapter 26
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beginning with verse 36.
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Then Jesus came to them,
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came with them to a
place called Gethsemane,
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and said to the
disciples, "Sit here while I go
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and pray over there.
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" And He took with Him Peter
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and the two sons of Zebedee,
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and He began to be sorrowful
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and deeply distressed.
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Then He said to them,
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"My soul is exceedingly
sorrowful, even to death.
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Stay here and watch with Me.
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" He went a little
farther and fell on His face,
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and prayed,
saying, "O My Father,
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if it be
possible, if it be possible,
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let this cup pass
from Me; nevertheless,
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not as I will, but as You will.
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" You know this
passage of scripture is kind
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a repeated in Mark 14:32
to 41 and also in Luke 22.
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Have you ever wondered
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aside from what it says here?
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Have you ever
wondered what Jesus prayed for,
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prayer Jesus
spent much time night
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in prayer in the garden.
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He spent much time in agony
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praying with his father,
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where the good news
is that it tells us,
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the scriptures tells us
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what he was
praying for that night.
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We are going to
spend the rest of our time
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looking at John chapter 17,
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John chapter 17
because here we have recorded
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the prayer that Jesus
was praying that night.
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There is so much encouragement;
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there is so much
strength in this prayer.
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Let's look at John 17
beginning at verse number 1,
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Jesus spoke these words,
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lifted up His eyes to heaven,
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and said:
"Father, the hour has come.
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Glorify Your Son, that Your Son
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also may glorify You,
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as You have given Him
authority over all flesh,
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that He should give
eternal life to as many
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as You have given Him.
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And this is eternal
life that they may know You,
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the only true God,
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and Jesus Christ
whom You have sent.
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I have glorified
You on the earth.
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I have finished the work
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which You have given Me to do.
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And now, O Father,
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glorify Me
together with Yourself,
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with the glory
which I had with You
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before the world was.
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Let's do a verse
by verse examination
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of these passages of
scripture John 17:1 to 5.
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First of all I want
you to get that Jesus
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was always consistent to
give glory to his father.
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Jesus never
wanted any, any praise
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necessarily here on earth.
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He wanted, he
always pointed things
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back to his father.
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Another thing that
we can get out of these
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passages is that Jesus is
the grantor of eternal life.
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He is just that he
should give him eternal life
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for as many as
you have given him.
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He is talking
about himself there.
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You know I find it
so interesting about
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this eternal life is
mentioned in verse 3.
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Watch this; this is
eternal life that they may know
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you the only true
God and Jesus Christ
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whom you have sent.
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I remember hearing out
a sermon one time on 3ABN
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I believe it is by Ty Gibson
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and he brought
up this point to me
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that just really spoke to me.
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What is eternal life?
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According to this passage
of scripture eternal life
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is not measured
in time and space.
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Eternal life is simply
knowing God the father.
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Eternal life is not measured in
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some amount of time
that goes on and on forever,
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but eternal life is being in
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the presence of the
father and Jesus first
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and highest priority was to do
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the will of his father.
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Is that your priority today?
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Is that it should my
and your priority today
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to do the will of
our heavenly father.
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And I like what he says;
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he says glorify me
together with yourself
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with the glory, which I had with
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you before the world was.
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There should be no
question in your mind
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or my mind today
about who or what Christ
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was before he
came to this earth.
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He was with the
father and he had glory,
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heavenly glory
before the world began.
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This is the
prayer that Jesus prayed
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he was asking for
strength and endurance.
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And now he changes his
prayer just a little bit.
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Let's look at verse number 6,
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we gonna read 6 through 8;
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I have manifested
Your name to the men
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whom You have given
Me out of the world.
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They were Yours,
You gave them to Me,
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and they have kept Your word.
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Now they have known that
all things which You have
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given Me are from You.
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For I have given
to them the words
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which You have given Me;
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and they have received them,
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and have known surely
that I came forth from You;
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and they have
believed that You sent Me.
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I believe that Jesus is saying
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that he is the channel,
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he is the path, he
is the delivery method
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for the father's words.
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A little sentence
here from the book
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Testimonies
volume 8, page 286 says,
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All that man needs to
know or can know of God
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has been revealed in the life
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and character of His son.
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Do you want to
get to know God today?
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Then get to know
his son Jesus Christ
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whom he has sinned.
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Do you want to get
close to God today?
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Then get close to
his son Jesus Christ.
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And I like that, where
he says I have known surely
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that I came forth
from You and they have
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believed that You sent Me.
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This is the evidence that Jesus
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and the father were one his life
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testified that they were one.
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So, now reading on in
verse number 9 of John 17.
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I pray for them. I do
not pray for the world
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but for those
whom you have given me,
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for they are yours.
And all mine are yours,
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and yours are mine,
and I am glorified in them.
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Jesus spent some
of his last moments
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on planet earth
praying for his disciples,
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praying for this
rag-tag group of believers
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who had come to
him, who had developed
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a relationship with him.
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Jesus' prayer was not
primarily for himself,
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but for those who
had believed on his name.
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Let's go on in verse
number 11 Jesus says;
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Now I am no longer in the world,
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but these are in the world,
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and I come to you. Holy Father,
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keep through
Your name those whom
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You have given Me,
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that they may be one as We are.
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While I was with
them in the world,
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I kept them in Your name.
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Those whom You
gave Me I have kept;
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and none of them is lost
except the son of perdition,
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that the Scripture
might be fulfilled.
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You see Jesus by faith believed
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that he would see his
father that's why he said,
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he said I come to you father
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and now he says
please keep them,
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please keep them
in your name he wanted
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his followers to be unified
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and kept in the fold of God
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reading on in verse 13 it says.
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But now I come to
you, and these things
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I speak in the
world, that they may have
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My joy fulfilled in themselves.
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I have given them Your word;
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and the world has
hated them just because,
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because they are
not of the world,
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just as I am not of the world.
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I do not pray that
you should take them
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out of the world, but
that You should keep them
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from the evil one.
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They are not of the world,
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just as I am not of the world.
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Sanctify them by your truth,
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Your word is truth.
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As you sent Me into the world,
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I also have sent
them into the world.
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And for their
sakes I sanctify myself,
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that they also may be
sanctified by the truth.
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Again Jesus expresses his belief
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that he would
soon see his father
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and he had joined his belief
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and he wanted youand
I to have that same joy,
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you know, it is said
the Christians should be
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the happiest people
on the face of the earth
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why because we are going
to see our savior some day,
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we are going to see
him coming and that should,
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that should give us joy,
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we shouldn't go around
with moppy smile like this
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or with the moppy face
like this all the time,
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we should be happy,
enjoy us because we know
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that he is coming for us soon.
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You know what I like
about one of these passages
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is that he lifts us up
to his position by stating
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that the world hates him just,
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hates us as just
as they hate him.
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He kind of brings
us up to his level,
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he says the world
is goanna hate you,
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but they hated me first
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and don't worry about that,
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don't worry about that,
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he says he asks the father
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to keep us from the evil one.
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Think about that he
knew what was going to
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happen to his disciples
later on in their life,
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he knew what was
going to happen to Peter,
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he knew what was
going to happen to Steven,
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he knew what was
going to happen to James,
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he knew what was
going to happen to John,
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and he says, he said
he didn't ask the father
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to deliver them from
that he said please keep them
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from the evil one
and see them through it.
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He prayed that you
and I would go through it
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with him and again he
counts us with himself
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not as once of the
world we should not
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count ourselves
as part of the world.
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Are you part of
the world, I hope not,
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I don't want to be
a part of the world,
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I want to be a part
of the family of God.
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I like that
passages scripture that says
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sanctify them through
thy truth thy word is truth.
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It says in the
book of Christ's Object
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Lessons page 101 "Sanctify
them throught thy truth:
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thy word is truth. "
Received into the heart,
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the leaven of truth
will regulate the desires,
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purify the thoughts,
and sweeten the disposition.
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It quickens the
faculties of the mind
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and the energies of the soul.
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It enlarges the
capacity for feeling,
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for loving.
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Friend I have a
question for you today.
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Do you want to have new desires,
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do you want to have new thoughts
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then study the word,
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do you want your
thoughts to be pure
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and holy then study the word,
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do you want to have
a disposition a mind
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like Jesus study the word,
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do you want to love more,
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do you want to love
your brothers and sisters
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more then study the word,
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do you want to get smart,
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do you want to
have increased mentality
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and spirituality
then study the word,
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that is my
challenge for you today.
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Then Jesus went on and
he said as God sent Jesus,
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Jesus sends us
to reach the world
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with the everlasting gospel
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and each one of us have a part
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to play in that
everlasting gospel.
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There is none,
who is insignificant,
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there is none
who doesn't matter,
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if you are a part
of the family of God
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there is something
that you can contribute
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to the work of God
and finally that we found
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that Jesus wanted his
disciples to be sanctified
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and he made
himself as their example
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that they might follow him.
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He wanted Peter
and James and John
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and the rest of his disciples,
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he wanted them to grow in him,
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he wanted them to
become like himself.
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What Jesus now,
now Jesus kind of
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he kind of broadens
his prayer just a bit,
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just a little bit.
Now we read on in verse 20
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and it says "I do
not pray for these alone,
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but also for those
who will believe in Me
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through their word;
that they all may be one,
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as you, Father, are in Me,
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and I in You; that
they also may be one in Us,
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that the world may
believe that You sent Me.
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And the glory which You
gave me I have given them,
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that they may be
one just as We are One:
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I in them, and You in Me;
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that they may be
made perfect in one,
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and that the world may
know that You have sent Me,
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and have loved them
as You have loved Me.
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"Father, I desire that
they also whom you gave Me
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may be with Me where I am,
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that they may behold My glory
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which You have given Me;
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for You loved Me before
the foundation of the world.
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O righteous Father! The
world has not known You,
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but I have known
You; and these have known
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that You sent Me.
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And I have
declared to them your name,
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and will declare it,
that the love with which
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You loved Me may be in them,
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and I in them "
Friend think about
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these last moments of Jesus life
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shortly before the cross
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and he spent
these moments praying
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for you and for me,
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for each one of us
we were on his mind
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and it said oh son
it says when he was on
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the cross I was on his mind.
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What was Jesus saying
in these last few passages,
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he broaden his
prayer to pray for all
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who would believe in
his name that's you and me
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and he wanted his children
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to be of one heart and one mind
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united under the wings of God.
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We cannot be one
unless we have hidden
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our life with
Christ in God and Jesus
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he wants to glorify his church,
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he wants to give us glory,
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he wants to
lift us up to help us
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when we need help,
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you know he is
stressed over and over again
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that his desire
was to see his church
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become one perfect and whole
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and when we become one,
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when we Gods
people today become one
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that we will
testify of the fathers love
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to the whole
world and he even prayed
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that the father would
love us get this friend
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to the same degree
that he loves his son.
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Did you hear that
Jesus said I want you to love
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my children as
much as you love me,
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how much does
God love Jesus, wow!
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there is no way to count it,
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there is no way to
tell the infinite love
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that God has for his
son and his son prayed
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that he would love
us to the same amount.
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It's an incredible
thought friend incredible,
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he expressed his
desire to have his church,
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his bride with him
physically united with him,
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do you long for that day,
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do you long to throw
your arms around Jesus
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and just tell him
how much you love him,
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and how much you appreciate
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what he did for you
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I do I long for
that day dear friend,
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I long to be in his presence,
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to listen to his
voice and to be right there
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with him no matter
if we don't say a word,
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just want to be with Jesus
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and that's what Jesus want,
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he wanted to have his followers,
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his children with him
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to be
physically united with him.
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I think that he
wanted us to see him
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in all of his
splendor and all of his glory,
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think about it 2000 years ago
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when he walked on planet earth
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there was no former comeliness
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that we should desire him.
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There was nothing
special about his looks
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and even possibly
as Christians today
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in our mind we can see pictures
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and paintings of
Jesus hanging on the cross,
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bruised and beaten and bleeding
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for you and for me.
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These are some of the last,
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some of the things
that stay in our minds,
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but Jesus
doesn't want us to think
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about that necessarily,
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he wants us to
see him in his glory,
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the glorified body that
he came from the grave with,
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he wants us to see the
splendor that his father
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has given him since that day.
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He doesn't want to
just see us as to see him
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as just walking
talking man on earth,
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he wants us to see
him as the risen savior
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and he wants to
reveal himself to us
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so that we might have
a better understanding
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of who God is, of who he is,
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and the fact that he was here
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before the world began.
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And finally Jesus'
final words in this prayer
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was he expressed his
desire to have the fathers
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love present in his
church in you and in me.
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Is that your desire today,
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is that your desire
to have the love of Jesus
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in your heart.
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We have seen examples of prayer.
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My question to you today is
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how is your prayer life friend?
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How is your prayer
life? Yeah, we are told
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that Jesus got up
early in the morning
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to spend time in
prayer with his father.
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I find it for
myself, I need that time,
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I need that time a
prayer with my heavenly father
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and you know
sometimes we get into this habit
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of getting up and we
get up in the morning
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and of course we get up late,
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so we look at
the clock and say oh,
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I got to get to work.
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First of all
before I get to work,
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I've got to get,
get to get bathed
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and I've got to eat and
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I've got to do all these things
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and I've got to
get to work on time
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and sometimes we neglect
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that time in prayer with God.
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Friend don't let
the devil get the
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best of you that way.
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That's what he wants to do,
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the devil wants to
throw so many things
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at you that you don't
have time to spend time
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in prayer with
your heavenly father.
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Jesus gained strength
and endurance through prayer.
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Prayer can bring
healing to a broken body,
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prayer can
bring, can bring life,
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where there is death,
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prayer can bring conversion
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into stone heart, cold heart.
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Prayer can bring
unity to Gods church.
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I would encourage you today
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to please do not
neglect your prayer life,
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spend sometime in the morning
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and in the evening in prayer.
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We think that our
prayers have to be these fancy
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King James prayers,
but that's not the case
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just talk to God
and he will talk to you,
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spend time in
prayer in the morning
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when things are
cool and calm and quite
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and I guarantee you,
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your day will go much better.
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Spend time in prayer today
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and let God speak to you.
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