John 17:11-12, 20-23 | Kept One In Christ

About this Episode

Preacher: Joel Fair
John 17:6

1. Kept In The Name Of God - VS 11-12
2. United In Christ - VS 12 & 20-22
3. So That The World May Know - VS 21-23

Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken,
and will he not fulfill it?

John Calvin
Let the world then condemn us a thousand times, this alone ought to satisfy us, that Christ acknowledges us to be his heritage, and pleads
with the Father for us."

John Flavel
Can such a Father deny the importunity, and strong reasonings and pleadings of such a Son; O, it can never be! He cannot deny him: Christ hath the art and skill of prevailing with God.

Proverbs 18:10
The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.

Numbers 6:24
The LORD bless you and keep you;

C. H. Spurgeon
"The Father himself loveth you." The Father gave you to Jesus because he loved Jesus. He wanted Jesus to have that which would give him most delight, and so he gave you to him; and now that Jesus cannot be with you by his corporeal presence, he gives you over to the great Father, from whose loving hand he first received you, and he says, "Holy Father, keep them." Do you think the Father will answer the Son's request? I am sure that he will.

A. W. Tozer
So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.

Ephesians 4:1-3
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

John Calvin
Our happiness lies in having the image of God restored and formed anew in us, which was defaced by sin.

John Paton
Without that abiding consciousness of the presence and power of my dear Lord and Savior, nothing else in all the world could have preserved me from losing my reason and perishing miserably. His Words, "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world," became to me so real that it would not have startled me to behold him, as Stephen did, gazing down upon the scene. I felt his supporting power.... It is the sober truth, and it comes back to me sweetly after 20 years, that I had my nearest and dearest glimpses of the face and smiles of my blessed Lord in those dread moments when musket, club, or spear was being leveled at my life.

Matthew 28:18-20 18
And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.

John 17:1 1
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'

John 17:4-5 4
I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that
I had with you before the world existed.

John 17:22
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one