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Today, I shall read in full the Lord's Prayer

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of Consecration as recorded in the 17th chapter

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of John. This will be our last heart -to -heart

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talk on this chapter. It's been a very sacred

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time. It has been so sacred that... Often when

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I have spoken with you regarding portions of

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this prayer, I have felt like whispering rather

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than speaking loudly. It was just as though you

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and I were sitting in silence and listening to

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Jesus talking to the Heavenly Father. We come

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now to that part of the prayer that means so

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much. That 15th verse, I pray not. And always,

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I feel that when Jesus said, I pray, he meant

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it in the sense of, I desire. And he's saying

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here, and he's talking about you and he's talking

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about me, he's talking about his own. For in

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this prayer, he's not talking to the Father about

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the unregenerated, the world. He makes a distinction.

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He says that you and I are in the world, but

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we're not a part of the world. I pray not, I

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desire not that thou shouldest take them out

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to the world, Keep them from the evil. I'm just

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human enough that I'll admit to you that many

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a time in my life at the close of an altar service

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and I've stood on the stage or on the platform

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and I've seen men wiping away the tears from

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their eyes and I've seen the glorious joy of

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salvation on their faces. I've heard them as

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they've stood there with uplifted hands, having

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just found this beautiful new experience of regeneration.

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Their hands uplifted, singing, I surrender all.

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And I've just been human enough to have wanted

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to pray. Wonderful Jesus, take them home to glory

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right now. You know, because... you almost felt

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that it was such a good moment for them to go,

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you know? Many a time I wished that we could

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have had the rapture at that moment. And their

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salvation was so assured. When we gave the benediction,

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it was almost like sending them out into the

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world and like little babes. I felt like the

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mother standing there and I would have given

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anything in the world if I could live the life

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for them. If in that hour of temptation, I could

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stand in their place and fight the evil one for

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them, you know? I suppose that's the way a mother

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feels about her child. A daddy feels about his

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son. They'd give anything in the world if they

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could fight the child's battles for them. And

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I think the most unkind thing that a parent can

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say is, I don't want my child to go through what

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I went through. Because the thing that you went

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through were the things that made you strong,

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that helped you to grow. Turning back the pages

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of my own life, I would have been very much of

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a spiritual weakling today had I not had to go

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through the deep waters. How in the world could

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I have helped you or anyone else who had troubles?

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How could I know what it felt like to have a

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broken heart if my own heart had not been broken?

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How in the world could I comfort someone when

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death comes? in that family if I too had not

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experienced the death of a father, of a mother.

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You know, don't shrink from the hard things.

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Don't seek an easy life. Because, you see, as

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someone says, it's pilots, great pilots. are

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made in the times of storm. And it's in an hour

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of crisis that you really realize what you're

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made of. What you really have on the inside of

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you. These are the things that help you to grow.

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No. Jesus. Asking the best for his own. Now remember,

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we were his children. His heirs. He's talking

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about those who are joint heirs with him. He

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is talking about a precious gift now that the

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Father had given him. And we are that gift that

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he was talking about. We're his possession. We're

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his bride. The Bible likens us to his bride,

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and he's the bridegroom. And he's asking the

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very... best of the Father for us, for you and

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for me. And in asking the best, he said to the

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Father, I desire, watch it, that thou shouldest

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not take them out of the world. Don't keep them

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from sorrow. Don't keep them from heartbreak.

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But that thou shouldest Keep them from the evil.

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Oh, that's glorious. I think I've read that over

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and over and over again. That's so beautiful.

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They're not of the world, even as I am not of

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the world. Lee says, I'll tell you, Father, what

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I desire. Sanctify them through thy truth. Thy

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word is truth. He's made every provision for

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you and for me to go through anything that happens

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in our life and come through victoriously. It

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will stay with truth. Thy word is truth. Oh,

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to me, this is thrilling. I pray not that thou

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shouldest take them out of the world. Their business

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is in the world. Sanctify them. Separate them

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through thy truth. And then, that there might

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be no misunderstanding, in the lengthening years,

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he said, thy word is truth. He goes... Further

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than that, I want you to see something that to

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me is so very remarkable. He was not only praying

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for those who were so close to him as he prayed

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that he could reach out and touch them. He was

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not only praying for you and for me, but he goes

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further than that. Neither for these only do

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I pray, but for them also that believe on me

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through their word. Pause just a minute. There

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will come a time when we come to the end of the

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time of the Gentiles, and the Holy Spirit will

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be taken out of the world for the time of great

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catching up. is the time the Holy Spirit leaves

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and he takes the church along with him. Then

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comes the seven years of great tribulation. The

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Holy Spirit will not be here. There will not

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be the convicting power of the Holy Ghost. And

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yet, as you read the book of the Revelation,

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John saw, he gives us the word through the Spirit,

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that during the great tribulation when Antichrist

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rules and reigns, there will still be literally

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thousands upon thousands thousands who will not

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take the mark of the beast. There'll be thousands

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who will not bow the knee to Baal, who will not

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accept the rule and the reign of the Antichrist

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of Satan. There'll be literally thousands during

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the tribulation who will be saved. And how will

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they be saved? Through their word of testimony.

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And Jesus, looking down through the telescope

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of time, remembered them, even as he expressed

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his desire to the Father, that they too might

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inherit that which he had made possible for them.

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Neither for these only do I pray, but for them

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also that believe on me through their. Word.

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It's all inclusive. Now, we come to the grand

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finale. I will. I determine. In other words,

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he's saying, this is my will. This is my determination.

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This is my decision. That where... I am, they

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also may be with me, that they may behold my

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glory. Where was that? Go back to what he was

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saying about himself. He was going to the cross

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and through the cross to the glory. My determination.

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My will. concerning my own, is that they shall

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have fellowship with me in the glory of the cross,

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and so in the glory that results from the cross.

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In time, with me by the way of the cross, and

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in the cross, and in the ages to come, with me

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forever. and ever in the glory that is yet to

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be revealed. In other words, the best is yet

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to come. Now, for the very first time, I'm going

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to read the entire 17th chapter. Sit there in

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silence. Whatever you're doing, just pause for

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just a moment. It's a sacred thing. We're listening.

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It's Jesus talking to the Father. These words

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speak Jesus and lifted up his eyes to heaven

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and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify

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thy Son. that thy Son also may glorify thee.

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As thou hast given him power over all flesh,

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that he should give eternal life to as many as

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thou hast given him. And this is eternal life,

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that they might know thee the only true God,

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and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. I have

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glorified thee on the earth. I have... Finish

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the work which thou gavest me to do. And now,

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O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self,

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with the glory which I had with thee before the

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world was. I have manifested thy name unto the

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men which thou gavest me out of the world. Thine

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they were. and thou gavest them me and they have

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kept thy word now they have known that all things

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whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee for

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i have given unto them the words which thou gavest

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me and they have received them and have surely

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known that i came out from thee and they have

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believed that thou didst send me i pray for them

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i pray not for the world but for them which thou

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hast given me for they are thine and all mine

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are thine and thine are mine and i am glorified

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in them. And now I am no more in the world, but

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these are in the world, and I come to thee, Holy

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Father. Keep to thine own name those whom thou

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hast given me, that they may be one as we are.

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While I was with them in the world, I kept them

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in thy name. Those that thou gavest me I have

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kept, and none of them is lost but the son of

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perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

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And now I come to thee, and these things I speak

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in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled

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in themselves. I have given them thy word, and

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the world hath hated them. because they are not

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of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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I pray not that thou shouldest take them out

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of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them

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from the evil. They are not of the world, even

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as I am not of the world. Sanctify them. Through

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thy truth thy word is truth. As thou hast sent

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me into the world, even so have I also sent them

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into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify

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myself, that they also might be sanctified through

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the truth. And neither... pray i for these alone

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but for them also which shall believe on me through

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their word that they all may be one as thou father

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art in me and i in thee that they also may be

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one in us that the world may believe that thou

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hast sent me and the glory which thou gavest

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me i have given them that they may be one even

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as we are one i in them and thou in me that they

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may be made perfect and one and that the world

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may know that thou hast sent me and that loved

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them as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that

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they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me

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where I am, that they may behold my glory, which

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thou hast given me, for thou lovest me. for the

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foundation of the world. O righteous Father,

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the world hath not known thee, but I have known

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thee, and these have known that thou hast sent

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me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and

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will declare it. that the love wherewith thou

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hast loved me may be in them and i in them the

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greatest prayer ever prayed when literally the

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divine son of god as much as though he were not

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deity and divinity. Only hours before being crucified,

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before two thieves, talks to the father, his

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father. And to me, that sacred part, of this

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prayer. Oh, how he must have felt within himself.

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Oh, the glory, the thrill in knowing that he

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had completed the work that he'd been sent to

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do, that he had not failed when he said, I have

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finished the work. which thou gavest me to do.

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One of these days, when life is over, I will

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have preached my last sermon. I will have led

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my last man, or woman, or perhaps a young person.

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to the saving knowledge of Christ. I will have

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wiped away the last tear. I will have given my

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last radio message. I will have made my last

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telecast. I will have had my last miracle service.

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prayed my last prayer. I pray to God that I can

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stand in his presence and say, I have finished

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the work which thou gavest me to do.