1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:20,240 I'm thinking about today and I'm like wanting to kind of get through the whole prayer. 2 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:24,120 I can't I actually can't rush through it. 3 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:35,440 We will be dealing with the second half of the prayer. 4 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:41,360 So a couple things I want us to remember as we have been doing every week. 5 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,200 Kind of going through some very important points that I want you to carry with you as 6 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:45,200 you're dealing with prayer. 7 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,320 But let's pray father I want to thank you so much for your faithfulness and goodness. 8 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:56,280 Lord I pray that you are high and lifted up that your word is clearly taught. 9 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:02,280 That the full counsel of your word is proclaimed the goodness of our God and Savior and that 10 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:07,160 truth Lord would continue to prevail. 11 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:12,620 That Holy Spirit you would guide us in all truth help us to see clearly what your word 12 00:01:12,620 --> 00:01:25,280 teaches us concerning prayer and how Jesus prayed his last prayer for his people. 13 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,360 Lord I want to praise you and thank you for your goodness and your faithfulness and thank 14 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:36,400 you that your word is living and active and Lord that it digs deep into the life of and 15 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:38,560 into the hearts of your people. 16 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:44,720 I pray that if anyone does not know you that they would walk away today with a deep conviction 17 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:51,080 in their heart that they would come before you as you draw them and as you plant the 18 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:57,000 gift of faith in their lives that you would bring about the salvation of your people. 19 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,520 Lord we praise you and thank you in Jesus name. 20 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:00,520 Amen. 21 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,260 The doctrine of prayer. 22 00:02:03,260 --> 00:02:09,880 The doctrine of prayer is a means of grace offered according to the will of God expressed 23 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,440 in accordance with his word. 24 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:19,920 Prayer is the language of the soul and opening of our hearts before God John Calvin. 25 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:21,680 Prayer does a couple things here. 26 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,880 Make sure you're writing these down. 27 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,580 Prayer reveals our heart. 28 00:02:26,580 --> 00:02:28,800 Prayer reveals our heart. 29 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:34,560 I can know and others can know where your heart is based on how you pray. 30 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:41,680 If you're praying for others with the hopes that you're imparting wisdom to them in your 31 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:46,960 prayer as if you can give them direction on how they should live through your prayer you're 32 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,800 not praying. 33 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,480 Prayer is about aligning ourselves with God's will. 34 00:02:54,480 --> 00:03:02,200 Matthew 26 36 Jesus says not my father not my will father be done but your will. 35 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:06,160 Pros ukami is the word here the word to pray. 36 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:13,040 Pros ukami is two words pros meaning to come before or near ukami meaning to pray or to 37 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:14,640 will. 38 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:20,440 And the question is are we praying as we come near to God for his will and that our will 39 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,240 would be in line with his will. 40 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:23,960 That's what prayer is. 41 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,520 Prayer is more than just a conversation. 42 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:33,120 Dr. Sinclair Ferguson says it this way praying is not an isolated spiritual experience as 43 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:37,580 if we pray and we live in two different components. 44 00:03:37,580 --> 00:03:45,880 The truth of the matter is we live is we live as we pray and we pray as we live. 45 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:49,460 We live as we pray and we pray as we live. 46 00:03:49,460 --> 00:03:55,440 Prayer is so much more than just a conversation with God. 47 00:03:55,440 --> 00:04:01,840 It's an act of worship the purest act of worship. 48 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:09,240 So in John chapter John chapter 17 there are three particular focuses that Jesus has in 49 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:10,460 his prayer. 50 00:04:10,460 --> 00:04:13,120 Many would call this the high priestly prayer. 51 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,260 Others would actually say this is the Lord's Prayer. 52 00:04:16,260 --> 00:04:20,440 Amazing enough when you read the Lord's Prayer it's not a prayer that Jesus would actually 53 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:21,440 pray for himself. 54 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:26,440 You're like what are you talking about? 55 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,440 Jesus did pray the Lord. 56 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:31,120 No Jesus told you how to pray. 57 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,080 Jesus doesn't need to pray for forgiveness. 58 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:40,840 Father forgive me and help me to forgive others as they have sinned against me. 59 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:42,520 Jesus doesn't do that. 60 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:44,840 He doesn't need to ask for forgiveness for sin. 61 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:46,800 He is perfect. 62 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,520 He is the all powerful one. 63 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:55,000 So the Lord's Prayer is a model specifically given to his people so that you know how to 64 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,140 align your will with his. 65 00:04:59,140 --> 00:05:09,720 Now that being said John 17 1 through 5 Jesus prays for his glory and the glory of the Father. 66 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:18,640 These first five verses are about the dox adzo to make renown or render illustrious to 67 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:24,800 cause the dignity or worth of someone or thing to become manifest or acknowledged. 68 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:31,680 Jesus is saying as he prays these five things concerning his glory in the same way that 69 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:38,360 I have made you renowned and rendered you illustrious and caused dignity and worth to 70 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:44,360 be brought to you Father do the same for me. 71 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:51,440 In John 17 6 through 19 Jesus prayed for the disciples who were given the task to continue 72 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:57,160 the ministry of reconciliation that they would continue to make renown. 73 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:05,920 He prays that they will dox adzo him which in turn glorifies the Father that they will 74 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:13,220 make him renowned that they will continue in the word and deed as you would see in verse 75 00:06:13,220 --> 00:06:15,200 8. 76 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:23,480 Verse 8 says for I have given them the words that you gave me and they have received them 77 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:31,320 and have come to know in truth that I came from you that they have believed that you 78 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:32,920 sent me. 79 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:40,200 In verse 14 through 19 I have given them your word and the world has hated them because 80 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,680 they are not of the world just as I am not of the world. 81 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:52,720 I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them from the evil 82 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:53,720 one. 83 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:57,280 We'll talk about that in a minute. 84 00:06:57,280 --> 00:06:59,540 I will shock you. 85 00:06:59,540 --> 00:07:04,440 They are not of the world just as I am not of the world. 86 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:11,800 Sanctify them in the truth your word is truth as you have sent me into the world so I sent 87 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:19,720 them into the world and for their sake I consecrate myself that they also may be sanctified in 88 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:22,720 truth. 89 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:29,120 So you can see why Jesus is praying for the glory of his disciples. 90 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:33,080 It's for the proclamation of the gospel. 91 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:38,760 Everything that Jesus does is for the gospel's sake. 92 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:46,200 Lastly in verses 20 through 26 of John 17 Jesus prays for the believers to come after 93 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:51,080 the disciples which we are among them. 94 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:59,080 Yes, before Jesus is going to the cross before his arrest that very evening he prays for 95 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:04,040 each and every one of his family members. 96 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,440 That includes you today. 97 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:14,260 Even Jesus has not forgotten you as he has said in his word. 98 00:08:14,260 --> 00:08:21,520 The same promises given to those who walk with him are also ours. 99 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:29,040 The same doxadzo that Christ prays for himself, the father, the disciples and all those after 100 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:38,200 him for all of you and remember even for those who are still to come. 101 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:43,600 So that being said let's dive in to verse 9. 102 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:49,320 Principle number one, the father determines those who are his and who are not. 103 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:54,340 The father determines those who are his and who are not. 104 00:08:54,340 --> 00:09:00,160 You do not determine to whom you belong nor do you determine your destiny. 105 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:06,100 God alone determines this truth. 106 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:11,160 Jesus prays for his own because they were always his. 107 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:12,640 Let's read verse 9. 108 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,980 I am praying for them the disciples. 109 00:09:16,980 --> 00:09:23,880 I am not praying for the world those who are not disciples but for those whom you have 110 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,560 given me. 111 00:09:26,560 --> 00:09:28,760 For they are yours. 112 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:29,760 Shocking. 113 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:30,760 Shocking statement. 114 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:36,040 Kind of wrecks everyone's, wreck my theology. 115 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:41,400 I know that when I started my little journey and walked with Jesus. 116 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:46,440 I mean really I don't have any determination of that. 117 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:47,920 No. 118 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:48,920 Well why not? 119 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:52,360 Because I am God and you are not. 120 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,680 Help me figure that out. 121 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:56,340 It's called grace. 122 00:09:56,340 --> 00:10:01,560 It's called a love of God and a peace of God which transcends all understanding. 123 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:05,240 It's a grace. 124 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,480 All mine, Jesus says, are yours. 125 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:11,760 And yours are mine. 126 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:14,640 And I am glorified in them. 127 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:22,160 I am no longer in the world but they are in the world and I am coming to you, Holy Father 128 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:32,360 keep them in your name which you have given me that they may be one even as we are one. 129 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:34,440 I talked a little bit about this last week. 130 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:38,120 Sort of like this little introduction to this truth. 131 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,800 Many churches today gather around going oh we are all one. 132 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:42,920 It's all about oneness. 133 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:47,920 The problem is they want oneness according to their own will and desires. 134 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,100 God wants oneness according to his will and truth. 135 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:58,200 We are going to see that and how he continues his prayer for the disciples to be in truth. 136 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:02,880 Truth is the determining factor of what oneness is. 137 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:08,160 As a church we have a responsibility to walk in love and truth. 138 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:12,400 To walk in, to worship God in spirit and in truth. 139 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,320 There's not an option here. 140 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:16,960 Especially in our world today. 141 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,140 It's not my truth is my truth and your truth is your truth. 142 00:11:20,140 --> 00:11:21,600 God doesn't care about your truth. 143 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:26,480 You are like that's a very harsh statement to say but it's true. 144 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:34,120 You think God is moved in his throne going oh Joe has a new truth. 145 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,360 I wish I knew that. 146 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:39,140 He's not. 147 00:11:39,140 --> 00:11:46,120 But in his love as a father does with his children he guides them in truth. 148 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,400 And as fathers I think we get that. 149 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:57,680 That being said Jesus prays for the preservation of those who are his. 150 00:11:57,680 --> 00:12:01,660 Jesus prays for the preservation of those who are his. 151 00:12:01,660 --> 00:12:09,520 Jesus doesn't leave us shepardless but prays for shepherding and that the father will take 152 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:16,240 care of and be watchful over the sheep. 153 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:24,920 In John 17 12-15 it says while I was with them I kept guarded them in your name. 154 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:26,680 I want you to get that. 155 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:34,880 We are protected guarded according to his name. 156 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,600 Which you have given me. 157 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:47,480 I have guarded or watched over them and not one of them has been lost except the son of 158 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:52,360 destruction that the scripture might be fulfilled. 159 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:53,360 What? 160 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:54,360 Yes. 161 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:59,400 Judas was born for such a time as that. 162 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:03,280 But that's unfair. 163 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:10,840 Why would God allow a man to become the betrayer of himself of the Lord. 164 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:11,840 Sorry. 165 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:17,080 Why would God bring about the reality that he would allow a man to be born with the sole 166 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:23,320 purpose to betray the son of the living God. 167 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,520 So that scripture is fulfilled. 168 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,760 That shows it's not it's not our will it's God's will. 169 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,120 It's a hard truth huh. 170 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:42,920 Now look verse 13 but now I am coming to you and these things I speak in the world that 171 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:48,480 they may have joy fulfilled in themselves. 172 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:55,960 I have given them your word and the world has hated. 173 00:13:55,960 --> 00:14:01,600 This word hated means to pursue with hatred or detest. 174 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:10,800 The world hates believers in Jesus because they are in complete contrary to which the 175 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:15,480 world shows you themselves. 176 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:19,360 Totally different totally opposite. 177 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,320 Like a thorn in the flesh. 178 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:27,120 That's what Christians are to the world. 179 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,360 So they hate us. 180 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,880 The world hates us. 181 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:34,920 Look what it says. 182 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:39,240 World says that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 183 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:45,720 I have given them your word and the world has hated them because they are not of the 184 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:47,360 world. 185 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:53,640 That world that word there means we do not belong to them. 186 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:55,480 We do not belong to them. 187 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,600 Erkoumai taken from one place to another. 188 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:03,360 We are no longer part of this old family or part of the new family. 189 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,900 No longer of the old way part of a new way. 190 00:15:05,900 --> 00:15:09,360 No longer the old life but the new life. 191 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,920 Erkoumai. 192 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,800 Interesting. 193 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,560 Just as I am not of the world. 194 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:23,120 If Jesus is not of this world then we are not of this world. 195 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,600 Then don't hold on to it. 196 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,160 Let it go. 197 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:34,560 The story of Joseph is a perfect example of that in the Old Testament. 198 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:43,160 When he names his kids he gives them Jewish names in the middle of an Egyptian life. 199 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:48,280 The reason why he says that is because he basically says I let that stuff go as Vodi 200 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:54,680 Bakum states. 201 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:56,800 I do not. 202 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:57,800 This word do not. 203 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,960 I want you to hear this. 204 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:03,560 Do not is an absolute negative. 205 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:04,560 So I want you to hear this. 206 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,960 This is a very hard thing to hear. 207 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:19,440 I do not ask that you take them or to remove them or carry them off out of the world. 208 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,560 Has nothing to do with the rapture y'all. 209 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,040 At least not yet. 210 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:32,680 What Jesus is saying is let them persevere in a world who hates them. 211 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,440 Do not take them out. 212 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:37,440 But look what Jesus says. 213 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:42,400 He says to the father, but that you keep. 214 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,640 But that you keep them from. 215 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,080 In all the translations it says evil one. 216 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:54,000 I'm going to give you the word. 217 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,520 This is one of those moments when you do word studies and you go I need to teach this word. 218 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:00,600 I do a lot of that. 219 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,820 But you're going to understand why in a minute based on the context of this prayer. 220 00:17:04,820 --> 00:17:06,920 He says that you keep them. 221 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:12,320 This word keep means to tend carefully or to guard them from. 222 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,320 Paneras. 223 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:19,320 Paneras. 224 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:24,440 So many translations would say evil one. 225 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,720 I've done a deep study on this word. 226 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,620 It is not evil one. 227 00:17:30,620 --> 00:17:36,560 Which makes a lot of sense when you understand what paneras means. 228 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:46,960 He's not praying that God would keep us from Satan's work against you personally. 229 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:56,200 What he's praying for is that God would keep us from hardships, harassment, trouble, perils 230 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:02,040 of the faith as a distraction from the gospel. 231 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:03,600 That's what he's talking about here. 232 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:08,720 If I have given them your word and the truth and I'm not of the world and they're not of 233 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,080 the world. 234 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:18,800 Father, keep them, tend to them, guard them from hardship, harassment, trouble, and perils 235 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:24,760 of the faith that it may not take away from the impact of the gospel. 236 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,640 That's what he's talking about here. 237 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:33,520 It's of so much more value because if all we're worried about is running from Satan 238 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:38,680 and being kept from Satan, you've lost the battle already. 239 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:42,560 You got to stay in the battle. 240 00:18:42,560 --> 00:18:46,000 That's the point. 241 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:51,680 So when you read this and you see the prayer and you see how Christ is calling the Father, 242 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:56,540 asking the Father, calling upon the Father, asking the Father to keep us from the hardships 243 00:18:56,540 --> 00:19:01,800 and harassment, that we may be affected for the sake of the gospel. 244 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:07,400 But if we have to lose our life and be persecuted for the gospel, as long as the gospel is proclaimed, 245 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,240 that's the most important thing. 246 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,000 Why? 247 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:19,600 Why have we missed this important truth? 248 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:28,560 Because we've been fed that your battle has always been with Satan. 249 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,160 He's an adversary. 250 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:31,580 He's a liar. 251 00:19:31,580 --> 00:19:34,320 He is all those things. 252 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:35,320 But guess what? 253 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:41,040 I wake up every single day and I am fighting against my flesh and my sinful desires. 254 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,160 Why do I do the things I do not want to do? 255 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,440 But the things I want to do, I cannot do. 256 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,400 But the things I hate, those I keep on doing. 257 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,600 Every day I'm at war within myself. 258 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:56,640 Every day I have to deal with people who hate Christ and are persecuted for faith. 259 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:00,680 Every day I'm dealing with the hardships and the harassment and the troubles and the perils 260 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:01,960 of the faith. 261 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:08,680 But all we could ever believe is that Jesus prayed that the evil one, because we don't 262 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:12,520 want to deal with him. 263 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:16,360 And we wonder why we walk around in a defeated Christian life. 264 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:22,800 Because we're so focused on the individual and not focused on the struggle and how I 265 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:29,600 can exemplify Christ in the midst of my harassment and troubles and hardships and all those things. 266 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:41,920 There's a moment when I retranslate something, Lord, how could they miss that? 267 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,800 Tradition. 268 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,640 Whole counsel of the word of God. 269 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,120 The complete truth of the word of God. 270 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:57,840 Knowing this, aren't you willing to go out and go into the struggle? 271 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:07,120 Aren't you willing to be like a fireman who runs into the fire? 272 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:09,840 Why does Jesus pray this? 273 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:11,760 Why this so important truth? 274 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,160 Why Paneras? 275 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,960 Because the world hates us. 276 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,960 We are not of this world. 277 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:26,040 And the world will throw everything it has at us. 278 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:31,980 It wants to eliminate us from the earth and keep us from proclaiming the truth, i.e. especially 279 00:21:31,980 --> 00:21:34,280 the gospel. 280 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:42,620 Jesus prays this so that his people will continue in truth. 281 00:21:42,620 --> 00:21:46,280 We are living in the days of the great apostasy. 282 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:51,800 You know that little scripture talks about in the last days, many will turn away from 283 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,880 the faith. 284 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:58,880 Welcome to the days. 285 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,760 You're living it. 286 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:10,800 I am so glad Jesus prayed for the disciples concerning this truth because the same promise 287 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,120 Jesus prayed for his disciples is mine. 288 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:22,080 Father, keep me from the hardship and the harassment and the troubles and the perils 289 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:31,080 of faith if it distracts and takes away from the impact of the gospel. 290 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:40,040 Lastly, in this little bit of the prayer concerning his disciples, Jesus prays that his people 291 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,280 will be set apart in truth. 292 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:43,280 Interesting. 293 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,680 When you see the context of everything that Jesus is praying from the very beginning of 294 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:55,480 his proclamation concerning his disciples that we belong to him and we were always his, 295 00:22:55,480 --> 00:23:02,360 that he would preserve us and keep us, he also prays that his people will be set apart 296 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:10,120 in the truth because the only thing that will get you through is the truth. 297 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:17,520 Unlike several preachers I have talked about in the past who say truth doesn't matter and 298 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:23,280 if you want to be, you want to get fat on theology, go to another church. 299 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,800 Thank God I don't. 300 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,520 Watch that guy. 301 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,320 Truth absolutely matters. 302 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:36,160 This prayer is all about the word. 303 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,600 Doctrine absolutely matters. 304 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,480 Theology absolutely matters. 305 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:41,480 Why? 306 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:48,720 Because Jesus prayed that his people would be set apart in the truth, in the doctrine 307 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:58,000 of his word, in the theology and that we would take the truth to a dying world because the 308 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,760 word is truth. 309 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,720 The world does not determine truth. 310 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,400 God determined truth and his name is Jesus. 311 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:16,360 I am the way, the truth and the life and no man comes to the Father but by me. 312 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:18,240 There is no other way. 313 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,280 There's no sacraments you can do. 314 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,120 There's no begging you can do. 315 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:27,280 There is no other way but to go through the son. 316 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:35,320 He says I am the door. 317 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,960 John 17, 16 through 19, he reiterates this. 318 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:45,480 Notice he links this idea of not being part of the world to sanctification. 319 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:47,280 I want you to see this. 320 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:52,720 They are not of the world just as I am not of the world. 321 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,000 This is now three times Jesus says this issue. 322 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,320 You as believers are not of this world. 323 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:00,760 This is not your home. 324 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:01,760 You are journeying. 325 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,280 You are passing through. 326 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:09,040 Be a shining example of a kingdom kid because when you get to the kingdom you're going to 327 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:15,880 be very happy you're not here. 328 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,920 Look what it says. 329 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,800 Sanctify them in the truth. 330 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,920 Your word is truth. 331 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:28,600 If they're not of the world, if they are different, the way that you show that you're different 332 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:37,720 is that you are in the truth because his word is truth. 333 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,840 And if there is a church that you might attend or that you're involved in that's not teaching 334 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:50,660 you the truth, run forest, run. 335 00:25:50,660 --> 00:25:52,400 Notice what it says here. 336 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:58,720 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 337 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,320 And for their sake I consecrate myself. 338 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,000 I sanctify myself. 339 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:09,000 I set myself apart as a sacrifice for them. 340 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,200 Why? 341 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:17,900 That they also may be sanctified in the truth. 342 00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:23,360 This is what he's saying, you can't go into the world and preach the gospel without the 343 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:27,440 truth. 344 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:35,160 This is so prevalent in today's society because if you ask the quote unquote average American 345 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:43,880 Christian what the gospel is, the vast majority do not know. 346 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:49,840 The one truth that matters, the one commission, the one mission that he's given us as his 347 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,160 people, people don't know the gospel. 348 00:26:53,160 --> 00:27:00,840 I have asked questions when I was a youth pastor. 349 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:07,480 You guys know, youth pastors always went to church with a t-shirt and wrinkled jeans. 350 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:13,440 That's why I got sneakers on. 351 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:20,040 You can tell a youth pastor from a senior pastor, hopefully I stay somewhere like me. 352 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:27,240 But I'm telling you, those were fun days, sometimes. 353 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:33,400 One of the things I want us to remember is that when you're looking at the reality of 354 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:38,760 the gospel and you ask the average Christian what the gospel is, you know what the answers 355 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:39,760 are? 356 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:50,320 Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the good news. 357 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:51,320 Well what's the gospel? 358 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:56,800 Well if it's not Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, it's not the good news and it's not 359 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,760 the word of God, I don't know. 360 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,760 But I'm a believer. 361 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,080 What? 362 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,080 How could you not know? 363 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:10,600 So I'm going to give you the gospel like I did in the beginning. 364 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,920 This is the gospel. 365 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:20,760 First Corinthians chapter 15. 366 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:28,920 Pretty simple. 367 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,920 Listen. 368 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:41,920 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I've preached to you, which you received, 369 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:51,880 in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached 370 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,520 to you unless you believed in vain. 371 00:28:55,520 --> 00:29:02,040 For I delivered as of first importance. 372 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,800 What's that mean? 373 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,920 The most important thing. 374 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,660 There is nothing more important. 375 00:29:08,660 --> 00:29:14,800 Now when you read Jesus' prayer, you get why he prays this for his disciples, that they 376 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:21,160 would be glorified in the same way that Christ is glorified and the Father is glorified. 377 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:26,080 That they will proclaim and make renown the gospel, the reality of Christ. 378 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:35,720 Look what it says, which what I also received that, here's the gospel, Christ died for 379 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:41,200 our sins in accordance with the scriptures and that he was buried and that he was raised 380 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,480 on the third day in accordance with the scriptures and that he appeared to Cephas and then to 381 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,240 twelve and then appeared to five hundred other brothers. 382 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:50,240 What's the gospel? 383 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:54,000 Christ died, was buried, rose again on the third day. 384 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,080 Gospel. 385 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:56,080 What's the gospel? 386 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,560 Christ died, was buried, rose again on the third day. 387 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,240 That is the gospel. 388 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,880 It's a simple story. 389 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,680 We're sinners. 390 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:08,980 He wasn't. 391 00:30:08,980 --> 00:30:10,200 He died. 392 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,280 He was buried. 393 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:16,280 He rose on the third day to give us life, to take away our sin and to give us victory 394 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:17,760 over death, sin in the grave. 395 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,760 Pretty simple. 396 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,440 Important. 397 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:27,120 So when he's praying, he already has this in mind. 398 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:31,200 And the reason why he has it in mind is because he's reminding his he's reminding his disciples 399 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:36,640 as he's praying to the father for them, they're sitting there watching him pray this to the 400 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:37,640 father. 401 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,900 They're listening and watching. 402 00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:45,380 And he says, keep them in the truth because your word is truth. 403 00:30:45,380 --> 00:30:54,360 And what's the first thing we do as churches, stop preaching the gospel. 404 00:30:54,360 --> 00:31:05,840 And you wonder why as a country we are in a situation we're in. 405 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:15,280 Be ready in season, out of season to proclaim the hope that you have in Christ. 406 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:20,840 Christ prayed for his disciples that they would glorify, that they would be glorified 407 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:24,680 as the son is glorified and the father is glorified. 408 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:34,760 And next week we will, well after Christmas, I really want to do it next week, after Christmas 409 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:48,280 Eve, we will finish this prayer in verses 20 through 26 when Jesus prays for you. 410 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,520 Father I want to thank you so much for your faithfulness and goodness. 411 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,920 You are amazing. 412 00:31:53,920 --> 00:32:01,120 That in your wisdom and goodness, because we are not of the world as you are not of 413 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:10,840 the world, you have prayed that the father would keep us from evil. 414 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:15,400 Keep us from Paneras. 415 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:21,640 That we would walk in the victory of Christ willing to give our lives to run into a burning 416 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:28,440 home, to bring the gospel, to bring hope to the dying. 417 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:33,440 Keep us, Lord, to continue to stand fast on your word, to walk in the truth. 418 00:32:33,440 --> 00:33:00,440 We give you praise on the ring.