The Challenge:
The foundation of our salvation and the ministry of our mission are to contain and create Christ-centered relationships in Love.
Introduction
John 17:1-3
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The High Priestly Prayer
17 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father,the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
I. We share together - us in Christ
John 17:20-21
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20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
II. We stand together - us with Christ
John 17:22-23
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22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
III. We shine together - us through Christ
John 17:24-25
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24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Conclusion
John 17:26
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26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the lovewith which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
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