As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world.
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… believers that would come, succeeding generation of disciples, including you and me. Look in verse 17. Jesus prays, sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified. 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 gave me one as we are one, I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity, to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you 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. …
… Your word, second time he emphasizes this, is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself that they too may be truly sanctified. Wow. What is the big idea Jesus is wanting us to see and understand about our relationship with the world? He's wanting us to know, A, that we're not of the world, but that he's sending us into the world. I think if we miss what Jesus is wanting us to understand about our relationship with the world, we're going to end up on two tracks. One track is just oblivious, oblivious to everything, oblivious to the fact that we have a mission and a purpose in the world. We are going to be mimicking the world. We're going to be leaning on the world to get our pleasure, to get our applause, to get our approval in life. Or we're going to be on this other track as Christians, where we are running from the world or we're spending all of our time condemning the world. …
… Sanctify them by your word, Father. as you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world and for them I sanctify myself. So Jesus is doing what he's asking us to do that they too may be truly sanctified by the word. The second way we're sanctified is to be woven into godly community. You will never be sanctified alone. sanctification is not a solo endeavor the proverb writer said it this way in proverbs 27 as iron sharpens iron so one person sharpens another i read recently someone was saying that each one of us will be shaped by the five people we're closest to in life so whoever those people are that's what ultimately you're going to be and if you're in there right now going no i'm the lone ranger in here and i got five wackos around me but i'm going to fix them all no you're not going to fix them all you're going to become like them you're going to become like the aggregate of them Amen. …
them in the truth, Your Word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified. I do not ask on behalf of those alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their Word, those who come in generations after the apostles, that they may all be one, even as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be in us, and the world may believe that You sent Me. The glory which You have given Me, I have given to them, that they may be one just as We are one. I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me and loved them even as You have loved Me. Father, love them the way You love Me." Christ isn't going to turn on us. He died in our place. …