I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.
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… world may believe, God, that you have sent me. Jesus says, I've given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one, so that they may be brought together in complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. When you think about this, the night before Jesus is crucified, he prayed that we, you, me, we, the body of Christ would be one. Why? So that the world would believe that the Father sent Jesus. In other words, Jesus tied the credibility of the gospel to the unity of his followers. because when we stand united, the world clearly sees the love of Jesus through his body, which brings us to our message series. We're in a message series called A Church That Pleases God. And what kind of church are we praying that we'll be? We're praying that we will be genuinely a church that pleases God. And what is a church that pleases God made up of? …
… 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. righteous father though the world does not know you i know you and they know that you have sent me i have made you known to them and will continue to make you known in order the love you have for me may be in them and that i myself may be in them here's the climax jesus in his disciples what he has done in their life now reproduced in the lives of others and what i want you to notice is in those verses we read over and over again, you see, well, you see a couple different phrases repeated, but there's one word I want us to focus on, and it's the word world. …
… 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. He was raised by the Father for having accomplished our eternal redemption. He was exalted to the right hand of God, triumphant in His death, and He now ever lives to intercede for us. God will not turn on us. Satan cannot effect a change in God's commitment. Christ would never, ever turn on us because He accomplished everything to secure our everlasting salvation. Okay, what about the other hypothetical? Should a believer reject God? Can you really deconstruct? Can you really say, I'm done with Christianity? I'm worn out with it? You hear this so often. You know, I was raised in some kind of rigid Bible environment, and I didn't get my questions answered, and I don't like the direction that life was taking me, and I don't want anything to do with that. …
… keep them in your name which you have given me that they may be one even as we are one. Jesus prays and he says, God, I want them to be one just as you and I are one. the glory that you've given me, I've given to them that they may be one even as we are one. I in them, you in me, that they may become perfectly one so that the world may know that you sent me and love them even as you loved me. See, this was Jesus' prayer. He goes, God, I want them to be perfectly one, just like you and I are one. The Father and the Son, that's, I mean, some of these verses are very hard to believe. Do you believe you could be perfectly one? Is that your goal when you gather with the other believers? Because God wants it to be your goal. This is Jesus' dying prayer. God, I'm not asking you to take them out of the world. …