Category: John 17
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Of another world
John 17:11 “Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.” John 17:14 “they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.” If someone were asked to categorize you, would they say that you are “one with the world” or “one with…
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Christians: Are there more than one kind?
John 17:9-10 “I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.” I read a commentary in the newspaper last Saturday. It was written by a self-described “Christian” but it was about…
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What does it mean to “receive” God’s Word?
John 17:8 “For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them. . .” Mark 4:16-17 “And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.” What…
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Manifestations of God
John 17:6, 18 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. . . As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.” God is invisible . . .…
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Will it be worth it all, in the end?
John 17:5 “And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.” In the end, will it have been worth it all to have followed Jesus? Like Moses, who chose “rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin”…
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What is life’s purpose?
John 17:4 “I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.” Do you have a purpose in life? Do you realize why you were given life? Do you ever think about this? When this life is over, will you have fulfilled the purpose for which you were given it? These are…
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Are you a spiritual person?
John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” Are you a spiritual person? Are you interested in spiritual things? Do you work on cultivating yourself spiritually, be it by reading, meditation, yoga, or other practices and pursuits? Perhaps you call yourself a Christian, or maybe…
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The knowledge that is eternal life
John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” How is it that knowing God the Father and Jesus, God’s son, is the same as eternal life, for that’s what Jesus claimed in the verse above? How is it that to know any being is equivalent…
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Who knows God?
John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” Do you know God? Jesus said that to know God is to have eternal life. Conversely, according to Jesus, if you don’t know God, you don’t have eternal life. But what does it even mean to “know…
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