I Want

John 17:8,11,18,20-25 – For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me…I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one…As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world…“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me.

Mark 14:36 – “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

John 15:21 – They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.

John 16:3,27 – They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me… No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

Application:

• ·         “This cup” was the chalice of death and of God’s wrath that Jesus took from the Father’s hand in fulfillment of His mission.
• ·         Because Christians do not belong to the world, persecution from the world is inevitable.
• ·         Not to know Christ is to be ignorant of the Father.
• ·         Three things about the disciples are mentioned: (1) They accepted the teaching. (2) They knew with certainty Jesus’ divine origin. Acceptance of that revelation led them further into truth. (3) They believed.
• ·         We may long for heaven, but it is on earth that our work is done.
• ·         The unity of believers should have an effect on outsiders, to convince them of the mission of Christ.
• ·         There are two indwellings here: that of the Son in believers and that of the Father in the Son.
• ·         Christ is explaining why the disciples can come directly to the Father in prayer: They have loved and trusted in Jesus, and in love God will hear their requests in Jesus’ name.
• ·         The unity is to be like that between the Father and the Son.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV