John 17:11 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 that You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are. Why does Yeshua pray, “Keep them …?” He is praying that God…
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John 17:11 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 that You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are. Boom!!! Just like that, Yeshua says this for the first time. John…
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John 17:9-10 I ask on their behalf. Not on behalf of the world do I ask, but on behalf of those You have given Me, for they are Yours. All Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. According to this verse, Yeshua is “asking” on our behalf. But,…
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John 17:7-8 Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You. The words, which You gave Me, I have given to them. They received them and truly understood that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me. This needs to be addressed on several levels. First,…
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John 17:6 I have made Your name known to the men of this world that You gave Me. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. Yeshua begins the second paragraph of His prayer with a restatement of the mission for which He was sent … to make God’s…
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John 17:5 Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world came to be. Yeshua’s prayer (all of John 17) is arranged in orderly thought groupings we have formed into paragraphs. Here in verse 5, Yeshua is providing us with the closing sentence of His first…
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John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Yeshua the Messiah, the One You sent. Rabbi Trail: My proposition is that the gospel (good news) can be preached from any verse of Scripture. (This may depend on the preacher’s ability to rightly divide the word of…
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John 17:2 Even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, so may He give eternal life to all those You have given Him. This is likely to be the shortest piece ever. There are two reasons for this. First, God gave me a really short message as I meditated on this verse. Secondly, time…
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John 17:1 Yeshua spoke these things; then, lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, so the Son may glorify You.” Last time we took a detour. Today we’re back on track. Yeshua prayed, “The hour has come.” What “hour” is that? Yeshua wasn’t telling the time…
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John 17:1 Yeshua spoke these things; then, lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, so the Son may glorify You.” And so Yeshua begins His prayer to His Father (and to our Father) in Heaven. Think about the miracle. We know these words because we read…
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