Understanding Jesus' Prayer for His Disciples' Mission

Jesus prays for his disciples in John 17, focusing on their preservation and mission in a hostile world. He reveals the tension believers face as people who are in the world but not of it, consecrated for God's purposes.

• Jesus prays that his disciples will have joy fulfilled in themselves
• Being "in the world but not of it" creates both separation and opposition
• Jesus doesn't pray for removal from the world but protection from the evil one
• Isolation makes believers vulnerable to Satan's schemes
• God's Word is identified as Truth and the means of sanctification
• Jesus consecrates himself through sacrifice so believers can be sanctified
• Disciples are sent into the world just as Jesus was sent by the Father
• Sanctification only becomes possible through Christ's atoning work

Read John 17 every day this week and come back tomorrow where we'll get into Jesus praying for all believers.

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