Sanctified in Truth:

Context:

• Jesus continues His prayer, His talk with the Father.

John 17:6-8 “...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. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me...”

To what people had God’s name been manifested?

• The people given to Jesus out of the world.

Does someone own these people?

• “...yours they were...”
• The Father has entrusted them to the Son.

Have you been given to Jesus?

What distinguishing truth did Jesus reveal about these people?

• “...they have kept your word...”
• They embraced the truth that Jesus was sent by the Father
• They have a belief in the Father because of the Son.

How have the words of Jesus helped you to know the truth?

John 17:9-11 “...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. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one...”

What is about to change?

• Jesus is about to return to the Father.
• Jesus will no longer be present in the world.

What is Jesus prayer for the people the Father has given to Him?

• Unity.
• The Son and the Father are united as One.
• Jesus is praying that believers will be one with them.

John 17:12-19 “...While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth...”

What did Jesus do for the believers?

• He kept them.
• He guarded them.

What is Jesus expecting for believers?

• That they will have joyful fulfillment in Jesus.
• That they have His words and will be hated.

Why will they be hated?

• Because they are not of the world.

What is the alternative to being of the world?

• To be unified with God.
• To be set apart (sanctified) in the truth.

Where is Jesus sending believers?

• Into the world, just as He was sent by the Father.