WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:16.359 Jesus, chapter 17, Jesus prays before he's arrested and crucified. 00:00:17.240 --> 00:00:20.879 And the first five verses, he prays for himself. 00:00:21.240 --> 00:00:24.580 And these verses we're going to read from 16 to 19. 00:00:25.240 --> 00:00:27.080 He prays for his disciples. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:35.060 I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. 00:00:36.100 --> 00:00:41.140 Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 00:00:42.100 --> 00:00:45.899 Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. 00:00:46.780 --> 00:00:53.539 For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come 00:00:53.539 --> 00:00:56.980 to know in truth that I came from you. 00:00:56.979 --> 00:01:00.459 And they have believed that you sent me. 00:01:01.619 --> 00:01:03.199 I am praying for them. 00:01:03.899 --> 00:01:09.060 I am not praying for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 00:01:10.099 --> 00:01:14.900 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 00:01:14.900 --> 00:01:20.300 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world. 00:01:20.940 --> 00:01:22.700 And I am coming to you. 00:01:23.800 --> 00:01:32.040 Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:38.580 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. 00:01:39.580 --> 00:01:47.660 I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction that the scripture might be fulfilled. 00:01:47.659 --> 00:01:58.739 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 00:01:59.859 --> 00:02:08.719 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. 00:02:08.719 --> 00:02:16.520 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 00:02:17.460 --> 00:02:20.659 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 00:02:22.020 --> 00:02:24.139 Sanctify them in your truth. 00:02:25.060 --> 00:02:26.500 Your word is truth. 00:02:27.819 --> 00:02:32.579 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 00:02:32.580 --> 00:02:40.260 And for their sake, I consecrate myself, that they may also be sanctified in truth. 00:02:49.040 --> 00:02:49.800 Thanks, team. 00:02:49.840 --> 00:03:00.060 It seems fitting to sing a song about prayer, or that is a prayer, as we're about to study a prayer that Jesus prayed over his disciples. 00:03:00.060 --> 00:03:11.080 So if you are new to the church today, then we're actually preaching through the last section of John, but we're in John chapter 17 at the moment. 00:03:11.219 --> 00:03:19.719 Jesus, what they call high priestly prayer, where he prays for himself, his disciples, and the disciples to come, the believers to come. 00:03:20.180 --> 00:03:21.699 And today we're looking at the second part. 00:03:21.780 --> 00:03:23.099 That's verses 6 to 19. 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:27.420 So if you have a Bible, open it up to John chapter 17. 00:03:27.419 --> 00:03:30.979 If you don't have a Bible, but you have a Bible app, then grab that and open that. 00:03:31.339 --> 00:03:34.060 I'll be putting up the Bible verses on the screen. 00:03:34.179 --> 00:03:35.280 Well, I won't be, but we will be. 00:03:35.379 --> 00:03:36.259 We'll have them up on the screen. 00:03:36.659 --> 00:03:43.039 And they are from the ESV, English Standard Version, just in case it doesn't match exactly with the one that you have. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:44.319 Alrighty. 00:03:45.739 --> 00:03:52.339 As that passage was read out, I'm not sure if you noticed, but there was a word that turned up quite a few times. 00:03:52.340 --> 00:03:54.479 And that word was world. 00:03:55.500 --> 00:03:56.819 Have you guys heard of word clouds? 00:03:58.020 --> 00:04:01.039 Because what I did was I took this passage and I stuck it in a word cloud up. 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:03.520 And so if we go on to the next thing, there you go. 00:04:03.780 --> 00:04:07.340 This shows you how the larger the word, the more frequently the word appears. 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:12.740 And so if you look at that, it's pretty obvious which word comes out most, isn't it? 00:04:12.939 --> 00:04:13.659 The word world. 00:04:13.659 --> 00:04:20.600 Jesus is praying for his disciples in relation to this world. 00:04:21.819 --> 00:04:30.259 He identifies in this, as we go through it, you'll see, he identifies in this prayer two realms that people can belong to. 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:37.879 We can belong to the world, the world of people that we live amongst, or we can belong to God. 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:42.680 A lot of the language is actually related to this perspective. 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:47.800 So you'll see things like those the Father has given Jesus, those Jesus has kept and guarded. 00:04:48.339 --> 00:04:52.500 Those who are mine, Jesus says, those who know, those who believe. 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:55.240 These are the ones that Jesus is praying for here. 00:04:56.819 --> 00:05:06.920 And there's a particular word group that actually holds these concepts together in terms of those who are mine in relation to the world. 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:10.800 And that word group is the sanctification word group. 00:05:11.580 --> 00:05:13.080 The sanctify word group. 00:05:14.460 --> 00:05:16.040 It's a very small word. 00:05:16.980 --> 00:05:19.520 So we go back onto that, the word cloud, sorry. 00:05:19.819 --> 00:05:22.000 It's a very small word right down in the bottom corner. 00:05:22.780 --> 00:05:29.980 Now if you're in years three to six, you're in here before you go out to your children's program, you'll actually have one of these. 00:05:30.060 --> 00:05:35.200 If you're in year three to six and you don't have one, then there's probably one spare on the back up there. 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:37.740 And some special people got an extra one too. 00:05:38.060 --> 00:05:47.599 But the idea of that is, for you guys in year three to six while you're here, what I want you to do is find that word sanctify and then see if you can find every word that relates to it. 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:58.319 And that's every word that gives you the sense that something is taken out of or treated in a special way as distinct from the world around us. 00:05:58.939 --> 00:05:59.620 Okay, have you got that? 00:05:59.620 --> 00:06:02.300 If you haven't, your parents can explain it to you as you sat next to them. 00:06:02.579 --> 00:06:05.819 See if you can find all those words that actually relate to sanctify. 00:06:06.860 --> 00:06:08.120 And I'll give you a little hint. 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:11.160 Consecrate and sanctify are the same word in Greek. 00:06:11.860 --> 00:06:13.519 Okay, they're the same word. 00:06:14.379 --> 00:06:18.480 Now, the fact that you've got the word even in ESV, which is fairly literal translation, 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:21.340 the fact that you've got the word translated two different ways in the one passage, 00:06:22.100 --> 00:06:28.240 is it tells you that this word, this sanctify word group, is kind of a big word group. 00:06:29.140 --> 00:06:29.840 It's big. 00:06:29.900 --> 00:06:33.200 It's a big concept in the context of the whole Bible. 00:06:34.180 --> 00:06:37.280 I mean, we translate this word, different words to mean specific things. 00:06:37.400 --> 00:06:38.640 So, for example, runs. 00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:41.040 You know, the Cricket World Cup's on. 00:06:41.220 --> 00:06:43.200 So, runs on the board is what matters. 00:06:43.860 --> 00:06:48.920 Someone who runs as a form of exercise, they're crazy, but it's actually something, 00:06:48.979 --> 00:06:52.579 you know what I mean when I say that they, you know, when someone runs for exercise. 00:06:53.139 --> 00:06:56.099 And someone who has the runs, you know that that's very different. 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:58.319 Although it may involve running. 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:00.599 It actually, different points. 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:01.899 It is actually very different. 00:07:01.899 --> 00:07:09.839 Well, this sanctify word group is not like that in the sense that it's one word that means a bunch of different things. 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:13.679 It's one word at different times. 00:07:13.899 --> 00:07:18.079 This is one word that means a whole bunch of things all at the same time. 00:07:19.359 --> 00:07:27.279 And so, I guess I could say in this, you know, recognizing there are so many people pregnant in our church at the moment, 00:07:27.779 --> 00:07:30.479 that this word is pregnant with meaning. 00:07:31.919 --> 00:07:33.739 So, what is that meaning, you ask? 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:35.579 And I'm glad you do because I'm going to answer that. 00:07:35.579 --> 00:07:47.079 But sanctify means to set apart, to prepare for holy service, to purify, to be like God, to be for God, to belong to God. 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:49.539 That means all of those things roll into one. 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:52.519 Holiness is another translation of this word. 00:07:53.659 --> 00:08:01.860 It has, so it has in it the sense of who I am and how I live and who I live for all rolled into one. 00:08:01.860 --> 00:08:08.939 It speaks to my identity, my purpose, and my destiny all at the same time. 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:13.379 And this word is what shapes Jesus' prayer. 00:08:14.540 --> 00:08:17.100 God's mission has always been to gather a people for himself. 00:08:17.580 --> 00:08:18.939 His treasured possession. 00:08:21.100 --> 00:08:26.439 And this word describes what Jesus is doing. 00:08:26.580 --> 00:08:27.960 It's exactly what he's doing. 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:31.939 He's calling people out of the world and he's setting them apart from the world. 00:08:33.179 --> 00:08:35.620 Purifying them or making them holy. 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:38.419 Preparing them for holy service. 00:08:41.579 --> 00:08:44.879 And I'm not sure if you find this. 00:08:45.319 --> 00:08:55.279 But as a Christian, I think it can be really hard for us to work out how we actually be this set apart people while still being in the world. 00:08:56.079 --> 00:08:56.799 Do you find that? 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:04.839 I know that, for example, it's a couple of years ago now, isn't it, when the plebiscite for same-sex marriage came through. 00:09:05.199 --> 00:09:11.000 I know that when that was coming through and there were conversations around how we should vote, 00:09:11.379 --> 00:09:16.000 that there were a number of people in this congregation who were unsure about how they should vote. 00:09:16.099 --> 00:09:24.219 Or even adamant that it wasn't right to vote or express a religious opinion in the political sphere. 00:09:24.220 --> 00:09:31.420 There are so many different ways that we struggle to actually know what it means to be a Christian and to own our Christian faith. 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:36.000 And at the same time, live in and engage with the world around us. 00:09:36.700 --> 00:09:37.980 It seems like a minefield. 00:09:37.980 --> 00:09:48.460 And if you didn't have that issue with that particular vote, just think about how many times you're involved in a conversation over the coffee table at work or whatever. 00:09:48.860 --> 00:09:54.659 And it drifts into an area where you start to think, oh man, I really know that I should witness at this point. 00:09:54.899 --> 00:09:56.960 But this issue is just so complicated. 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:01.060 I don't even know how to bring my faith to bear on this. 00:10:01.680 --> 00:10:07.960 Or I'm actually too afraid to say what my faith actually speaks to at this point. 00:10:08.460 --> 00:10:09.440 It's just too hard. 00:10:09.600 --> 00:10:10.379 It's too scary. 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:12.160 I know that it'll cost me if I do. 00:10:13.259 --> 00:10:19.480 Those points of tension, points of tension that were arising for the disciples, they were about to be left in the world. 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:25.960 And Jesus did not want them to think that they were for one moment alone in it. 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:32.779 So, Jesus prays for those who's called out of the world. 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:39.740 These disciples that he prays for are representative of all of us who are being called out. 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:44.200 They're the starting point, but we're the continuation of God's work. 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:51.080 And in a word, Jesus' prayer is that the Father would sanctify. 00:10:52.680 --> 00:10:53.940 Would sanctify them. 00:10:55.640 --> 00:11:01.420 So, let's break this prayer down now and actually look at it in terms of how it unfolds. 00:11:01.560 --> 00:11:03.280 Because what Jesus does is he does three things. 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:07.220 He says, I am praying for and identifies the specific people he's praying for. 00:11:07.700 --> 00:11:12.720 And then he says, I'm praying because, which is the reason why he's praying this prayer. 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:19.500 And then finally, he gets around to saying what he's asking for, what he's asking the Father for on behalf of. 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:20.860 So, that's I am praying that. 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:23.779 So, if you look on the back of your bulletins, that's the basic outline that I'll be following. 00:11:25.060 --> 00:11:28.540 And right from the beginning of this section, we see the sanctifying work of Jesus. 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:32.460 Jesus is specific about who he's praying for. 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:35.500 And he speaks about them from two perspectives. 00:11:36.560 --> 00:11:40.680 And these two perspectives, I think, are really hard for us to hold in our heads at the same time. 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:45.519 You see, he speaks from the perspective of, firstly, the people you gave me out of the world. 00:11:47.139 --> 00:11:51.459 And then he goes on to say, the people who kept your word. 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:53.719 Notice the difference in perspective there. 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.859 Let's start with the people who you gave me out of the world. 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:58.679 And that's straight up in verse 6. 00:11:58.939 --> 00:11:59.859 We read these words. 00:11:59.860 --> 00:12:21.980 This is a significant thing that Jesus is talking about here. 00:12:21.980 --> 00:12:25.700 You see, the Israelites got the personal name of God through Moses. 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:29.960 And if you remember, that's the burning bush story, if you have any familiarity with the Bible. 00:12:30.259 --> 00:12:33.840 That's where God actually gave Moses his personal name. 00:12:34.180 --> 00:12:35.860 They got a glimpse of God through Moses. 00:12:35.920 --> 00:12:37.279 And we talked about that last week. 00:12:37.340 --> 00:12:43.300 When Moses was actually, even got a glimpse of God's glory, his skin glowed for days afterwards and he had to wear a veil. 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:46.420 They got a glimpse of God. 00:12:46.419 --> 00:12:50.240 But they couldn't see God and live. 00:12:51.199 --> 00:12:54.919 The Jews understood the vast distance between them and God. 00:12:55.759 --> 00:13:00.099 And they knew it was so great that they wouldn't even speak his name out loud. 00:13:02.079 --> 00:13:07.379 We believe that the best pronunciation of God's personal name is Yahweh. 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:09.259 Some people say Jehovah. 00:13:09.259 --> 00:13:17.220 But the reason we don't know for certain is because they never said it out loud, the Jews. 00:13:17.539 --> 00:13:19.399 So it's one of those things that we just don't know. 00:13:19.460 --> 00:13:22.720 And this was out of reverence for God, his recognition of this vast distance. 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:31.480 But the people that Jesus is praying for have been taken to a whole new level in terms of relationship. 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:34.200 In Jesus, they have seen God. 00:13:34.419 --> 00:13:35.340 They know him. 00:13:35.539 --> 00:13:37.519 They've seen him face to face, finally. 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:45.360 And John introduces this biography of Jesus with the words, if you go back to John chapter 1 verses 1 to 4, he says these words. 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:50.679 In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. 00:13:51.299 --> 00:13:52.939 He was in the beginning with God. 00:13:53.259 --> 00:13:57.139 All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. 00:13:57.620 --> 00:14:01.139 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:05.699 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:09.980 People sometimes say that all religions are the same. 00:14:11.139 --> 00:14:15.559 But the God of the Bible didn't leave us in any doubt about who he is. 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.519 He didn't leave it to us to try and find him or to discover him as if we could. 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:25.919 This God has made himself known to his people in Jesus. 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:33.699 The people Jesus is praying for are those who recognize that Jesus, as God, has come to his people. 00:14:35.339 --> 00:14:42.599 So we get this perspective from Godward, looking at the people that God has set apart from even before the foundations of the world. 00:14:42.839 --> 00:14:49.679 And then we get this second perspective, which is the people who kept your word, we read in the following verses. 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:56.759 John also describes his people as those who have kept your word. 00:14:59.000 --> 00:14:59.939 And they have. 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:02.759 Now, I'm not saying the disciples were perfect. 00:15:02.899 --> 00:15:04.219 They may be not in the fullest sense. 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:05.699 They certainly weren't perfect. 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:11.279 If you look at, just take Peter as an example, he kind of stands out as one of those disciples who kept putting his foot in it. 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:16.100 And they certainly didn't understand the place of Jesus' death on the cross. 00:15:16.259 --> 00:15:20.339 We know from the past several sermons that they're really struggling with that. 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:26.019 But they accepted that Jesus was from God in verse 7. 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:30.919 They received Jesus' words as from God in the first part of verse 8. 00:15:31.339 --> 00:15:36.439 And they have believed that Jesus was sent from God in the second part of verse 8. 00:15:37.959 --> 00:15:40.419 These disciples didn't have the full gospel at this point. 00:15:40.419 --> 00:15:44.000 But they had come to the appropriate gospel response. 00:15:45.219 --> 00:15:46.579 They were all in. 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:49.379 That's what belief is. 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:51.979 All in. 00:15:53.299 --> 00:15:56.339 I'll give you an illustration of this that might be helpful. 00:15:56.740 --> 00:15:59.819 When two people marry, they make promises to each other. 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:02.159 They're absolute promises. 00:16:02.779 --> 00:16:04.939 I promise to be, to do, to stay. 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:09.099 No exceptions. 00:16:09.100 --> 00:16:12.500 Have you noticed that when you listen to those promises? 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:19.279 Perhaps, certainly for me before I was married, I would read those promises or I'd hear them at weddings that I went to and think, 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:20.120 My goodness. 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:23.279 Will I ever get to the point where I can say those things? 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:25.820 Where I can be all in with someone else? 00:16:28.220 --> 00:16:28.899 Don't get me wrong. 00:16:28.899 --> 00:16:30.779 You don't keep those promises perfectly. 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:38.399 But who in their right minds would marry someone who would only commit half-heartedly? 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:42.959 I promise to, most of the time. 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:48.180 I promise to, dot, dot, dot, dot, when I feel like it. 00:16:50.820 --> 00:16:59.120 I promise to, well, I'll look after you in sickness, but man flu is not a real thing, so buck up and get out of bed and get on with life. 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:00.980 You know, we just don't have that, do we? 00:17:00.980 --> 00:17:03.420 We promise wholeheartedly all in. 00:17:04.339 --> 00:17:05.680 We fail at points. 00:17:06.700 --> 00:17:07.759 But we own that. 00:17:08.220 --> 00:17:09.400 And we repent of it. 00:17:09.539 --> 00:17:11.559 And we move on all in. 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:15.740 To resist this is to hold something back of yourself. 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:20.359 You know, to say, I'll stay committed while it suits me, but I'm reserving the right to decline. 00:17:23.299 --> 00:17:27.759 But if you ask me for a part of my life that I don't want to share, then I'm sorry. 00:17:30.259 --> 00:17:36.339 Here we find the way that Jesus describes his disciples is that they had turned their backs on the world. 00:17:36.859 --> 00:17:38.480 They chose Jesus. 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:41.799 It's why they were so devastated when he died. 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:44.319 They were all in. 00:17:45.120 --> 00:17:46.759 The way that we too should be. 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:49.980 When we say that we're believers, we should be all in. 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:56.880 So these two perspectives that Jesus describes these people from, 00:17:57.720 --> 00:18:01.559 he says, and he says in verse 9, just to clarify that he's doing this, 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:03.360 he says in verse 9, 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:05.120 I'm praying for them. 00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:11.379 I'm not praying for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 00:18:12.879 --> 00:18:15.039 These are the people that Jesus is praying for. 00:18:15.639 --> 00:18:16.659 Not for the world. 00:18:17.519 --> 00:18:20.139 Just for the ones that the Father has given him out of the world. 00:18:22.259 --> 00:18:26.379 And I've got to acknowledge at this point that Jesus places two truths together that seem contradictory. 00:18:26.380 --> 00:18:31.100 Because he says this, the ones that you've given me, on the one hand, 00:18:31.660 --> 00:18:35.060 and then he says on the other hand, the ones who have believed. 00:18:36.580 --> 00:18:39.340 And there's no embarrassment or apology about this. 00:18:40.040 --> 00:18:42.800 It's absolutely clear that in terms of the way Jesus prays, 00:18:43.020 --> 00:18:45.900 that there's one that's actually superintending over the other as well. 00:18:46.900 --> 00:18:52.240 That God's choosing comes so much to the forefront in comparison to our believing. 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:56.180 No embarrassment or apology, that's just how it is. 00:18:57.700 --> 00:19:01.620 And if we're really honest, there's times when we really don't like this. 00:19:02.059 --> 00:19:04.920 It kind of impinges on our sense of personal sovereignty, doesn't it? 00:19:05.120 --> 00:19:10.660 The reason that it does that is because we see life from our own perspective. 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:13.920 We live life moment by moment in real time, 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:18.920 making decisions on the basis of conscious and unfortunately too much subconscious thought. 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:22.720 We see life from our own perspective, 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:25.840 but Jesus is giving us a glimpse from God's perspective. 00:19:27.300 --> 00:19:30.500 From our perspective, we hear the gospel and we respond. 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:33.980 We can choose to believe on the one hand or not on the other. 00:19:35.740 --> 00:19:40.860 God's perspective reveals that we who believe were already chosen, 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:42.440 were already set apart. 00:19:45.560 --> 00:19:46.560 You following me here? 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:50.240 Let me give you an illustration that might help a little bit. 00:19:50.619 --> 00:19:51.960 It doesn't actually explain it. 00:19:52.059 --> 00:19:53.240 I think this is too big a concept. 00:19:53.460 --> 00:19:59.460 I would say that to actually understand how God is sovereign over this 00:19:59.460 --> 00:20:02.839 is above my pay grade in terms of ability to understand. 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:05.759 But here's an illustration that kind of puts those two things together. 00:20:06.419 --> 00:20:08.399 When I hear the gospel, it's like I come to a door 00:20:08.399 --> 00:20:10.359 and a sign on the door says this, 00:20:10.740 --> 00:20:13.240 all who believe in me enter here. 00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:15.980 I choose to believe. 00:20:16.940 --> 00:20:19.380 And so I walk open and walk through that door. 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:23.559 But once I've gone through that door and I look back at that door, 00:20:24.579 --> 00:20:27.039 the sign on the door says on the other side of the door, 00:20:27.500 --> 00:20:31.019 all whom I have chosen, I will bring through here. 00:20:31.019 --> 00:20:36.599 Friends, I think this is a truth, 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:38.740 like a combination of truths 00:20:38.740 --> 00:20:43.859 that we perhaps don't understand in any sense 00:20:43.859 --> 00:20:45.660 until we've walked through the door. 00:20:46.660 --> 00:20:49.920 And we perhaps won't understand even in its fullest sense 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:52.819 until we meet our God face to face. 00:20:52.819 --> 00:20:56.799 We don't know how it works. 00:20:57.839 --> 00:20:59.079 It's above our pay grade, 00:20:59.159 --> 00:21:01.779 but ultimately we get to rest in the truth of it. 00:21:03.399 --> 00:21:05.399 Because if you have walked through the door, 00:21:06.220 --> 00:21:08.980 then you are someone whom the Father chose before time 00:21:08.980 --> 00:21:11.179 and who the Son died to rescue 00:21:11.179 --> 00:21:14.839 and who God delights to call his precious child. 00:21:16.099 --> 00:21:18.319 Look at how many times God owns us in this passage. 00:21:18.679 --> 00:21:20.299 Mine, yours, ours. 00:21:20.299 --> 00:21:23.200 The ones you set apart I've come to claim. 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:25.139 The ones I am glorified in. 00:21:26.639 --> 00:21:29.180 The ones I would love to have my joy. 00:21:30.259 --> 00:21:32.299 This is who Jesus is praying for. 00:21:33.419 --> 00:21:35.539 The disciples Jesus called out of the world 00:21:35.539 --> 00:21:38.159 and through them all who would follow. 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:43.379 So I am praying for, Jesus says. 00:21:44.379 --> 00:21:46.460 These people, these set-apart people 00:21:46.460 --> 00:21:50.139 who believe, who are all in in their belief in you. 00:21:50.659 --> 00:21:51.059 In me. 00:21:52.819 --> 00:21:53.819 And then he goes on to say, 00:21:53.899 --> 00:21:54.700 I am praying because. 00:21:55.180 --> 00:21:56.460 Why does he need to pray? 00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:57.319 What's going on here? 00:21:57.759 --> 00:21:59.019 Well, Jesus prays for his own 00:21:59.019 --> 00:22:01.399 because he has reached this transition point 00:22:01.399 --> 00:22:02.079 in his ministry. 00:22:03.220 --> 00:22:05.700 The transition point where he is actually leaving them. 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:08.519 And we see this in verse 10 to 11a. 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:11.419 All mine are yours and yours are mine. 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:13.539 And I am glorified in them. 00:22:14.180 --> 00:22:15.799 And I am no longer in the world, 00:22:15.859 --> 00:22:16.799 but they are in the world. 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:19.039 And I am coming to you. 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:23.980 Now, as we talked about last week, 00:22:24.399 --> 00:22:26.379 Jesus is glorified at the cross. 00:22:27.619 --> 00:22:29.460 But it means that he has to leave them. 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:32.919 His death is a part of that. 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:36.519 But that's only a temporary separation. 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:38.139 We know that, you know, spoiler alert, 00:22:38.379 --> 00:22:39.759 he died and he rose again. 00:22:39.759 --> 00:22:42.000 And he spent some time with them after that. 00:22:43.940 --> 00:22:45.299 Jesus is actually talking here 00:22:45.299 --> 00:22:47.539 about his longer term return to heaven, 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:51.119 where he still is interceding on our behalf. 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:55.160 This departure is a big deal for them. 00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:57.480 The disciples have not been able 00:22:57.480 --> 00:22:58.519 to understand this yet. 00:22:58.579 --> 00:22:59.440 And again, you'll have seen 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:01.460 from the past several chapters that we've read, 00:23:01.700 --> 00:23:02.980 as Jesus is talking with them, 00:23:03.059 --> 00:23:03.700 it's like they're, 00:23:04.700 --> 00:23:06.420 yeah, like Jesus is talking to a brick wall. 00:23:06.420 --> 00:23:07.480 It's just not sinking in. 00:23:07.539 --> 00:23:08.460 They don't understand. 00:23:09.940 --> 00:23:10.860 John's recorded them, 00:23:11.140 --> 00:23:12.840 Jesus telling them a number of times. 00:23:13.259 --> 00:23:14.860 Even the crowds challenged Jesus 00:23:14.860 --> 00:23:16.080 on this point. 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:18.200 In John chapter 12, verse 34, 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:19.820 that triumphal entry, 00:23:20.740 --> 00:23:23.100 Jesus talks about being lifted up, 00:23:23.700 --> 00:23:25.700 to talk about the way that he's going to die, 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:26.860 we read in John chapter 12. 00:23:27.460 --> 00:23:29.180 And in 12 verse 34, 00:23:31.560 --> 00:23:33.680 the crowd actually responds to him, 00:23:33.720 --> 00:23:35.000 thinking, you're talking about dying. 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:36.660 They say, 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:38.319 we have heard from the law 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:40.380 that the Christ remains forever. 00:23:41.339 --> 00:23:42.559 How can you say 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:44.619 that the Son of Man must be lifted up? 00:23:46.500 --> 00:23:48.680 They couldn't understand Jesus' plan 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:51.819 because it was outside of their expectations, 00:23:52.019 --> 00:23:53.019 their understanding 00:23:53.019 --> 00:23:55.119 of who the Messiah would be, 00:23:55.380 --> 00:23:56.740 what glory looked like, 00:23:57.059 --> 00:23:58.279 as we looked at last week. 00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:01.059 If he goes away, 00:24:01.740 --> 00:24:04.420 then their hopes would be shattered. 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:08.460 And Jesus knows this. 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:10.559 He knows that their hopes will be shattered. 00:24:12.259 --> 00:24:14.140 But he also knows beyond that, 00:24:14.660 --> 00:24:17.440 that those hopes will be rebuilt correctly 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:20.859 by their Father through the Holy Spirit. 00:24:20.859 --> 00:24:23.479 So he prays for them. 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:27.779 He knows he's going away. 00:24:28.659 --> 00:24:31.639 There's another aspect to Jesus' concern as he leaves. 00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:33.459 You see, Jesus also knows 00:24:33.459 --> 00:24:35.139 what he has done for them 00:24:35.139 --> 00:24:36.500 while he has been with them. 00:24:37.939 --> 00:24:39.279 He has kept them. 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:41.559 He has guarded them. 00:24:43.139 --> 00:24:44.299 Now these words, again, 00:24:44.379 --> 00:24:46.399 you can see them on surface value, 00:24:46.459 --> 00:24:47.399 and you think, okay, that's great. 00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:50.259 But actually these words in Jewish usage, 00:24:50.380 --> 00:24:52.540 so in the Septuagint, 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:56.000 which is the Greek translation of the Old Testament, 00:24:56.680 --> 00:24:58.160 these words were used 00:24:58.160 --> 00:25:00.860 very specifically for 00:25:00.860 --> 00:25:04.800 describing covenant faithfulness. 00:25:05.800 --> 00:25:07.080 So faithfulness of the people 00:25:07.080 --> 00:25:08.280 in keeping the commandments, 00:25:08.420 --> 00:25:09.259 that keeping word. 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:11.200 Or faithfulness of God 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:13.360 was described as him guarding his people. 00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:16.599 So what we're seeing here is 00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:17.699 when Jesus uses these words, 00:25:17.779 --> 00:25:18.179 he's saying, 00:25:18.659 --> 00:25:19.539 I am Yahweh, 00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:21.919 faithfully protecting my people, 00:25:22.399 --> 00:25:23.939 helping them to keep the covenant. 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:27.519 Even the one who was lost, 00:25:27.699 --> 00:25:28.779 we read in these verses, 00:25:29.259 --> 00:25:30.240 was only lost 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:31.899 because the scripture said he would be. 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:35.579 Jesus prays 00:25:35.579 --> 00:25:37.379 because now he is leaving. 00:25:37.380 --> 00:25:40.760 And he wants his disciples to know 00:25:40.760 --> 00:25:43.480 that they will be taken care of 00:25:43.480 --> 00:25:44.660 after he has gone. 00:25:48.500 --> 00:25:49.340 And the final, 00:25:51.360 --> 00:25:52.540 oh, there's a couple more reasons, sorry. 00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:56.960 Yeah, the next thing that Jesus says, 00:25:57.060 --> 00:25:57.440 actually, 00:25:58.540 --> 00:25:59.580 the reason he prays 00:25:59.580 --> 00:26:00.640 is because he actually, 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:03.000 for him, 00:26:03.340 --> 00:26:04.340 his perspective is 00:26:04.340 --> 00:26:06.020 that he is returning to the Father, 00:26:06.019 --> 00:26:08.000 and that's an incredible sense of joy for him. 00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:10.279 To be one with the Father again 00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:12.779 is a huge thing for Jesus. 00:26:13.539 --> 00:26:15.359 He is so looking forward to it. 00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:19.339 And so Jesus prays 00:26:19.339 --> 00:26:21.420 that they might actually experience 00:26:21.420 --> 00:26:22.180 the same thing. 00:26:22.819 --> 00:26:23.599 In verse 13, 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:23.920 he says, 00:26:23.980 --> 00:26:25.099 Now I am coming to you 00:26:25.099 --> 00:26:27.079 and these things I speak in the world 00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:29.160 that they may have my joy fulfilled 00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:29.819 in themselves. 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:33.139 His prayer is that they will be kept in him. 00:26:33.779 --> 00:26:35.339 As painful as the separation will be, 00:26:35.339 --> 00:26:36.919 the joy of knowing what it is 00:26:36.919 --> 00:26:37.859 to abide in Jesus 00:26:37.859 --> 00:26:39.519 is far greater. 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:42.220 And they will need the Father 00:26:42.220 --> 00:26:44.619 to intervene in their lives 00:26:44.619 --> 00:26:46.359 so that they can endure. 00:26:49.779 --> 00:26:51.500 He wants them to have the joy 00:26:51.500 --> 00:26:52.639 of knowing what it means 00:26:52.639 --> 00:26:53.859 to abide in the Father. 00:26:56.220 --> 00:26:57.559 To abide in him. 00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:00.740 And finally, 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:01.399 Jesus prays 00:27:01.399 --> 00:27:01.980 because he knows 00:27:01.980 --> 00:27:03.919 the life they will live. 00:27:05.539 --> 00:27:06.819 The disciples of Jesus 00:27:06.819 --> 00:27:08.839 are set apart from the world 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:09.839 like he is 00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:11.279 and we saw what they did to Jesus. 00:27:12.419 --> 00:27:13.440 In verse 14, 00:27:13.559 --> 00:27:14.119 Jesus says, 00:27:14.679 --> 00:27:15.899 I have given them your word 00:27:15.899 --> 00:27:17.559 and the world has hated them 00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:19.039 because they are not of the world 00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:21.179 just as I am not of the world. 00:27:21.180 --> 00:27:24.400 The very truth 00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:25.500 that brings joy to us 00:27:25.500 --> 00:27:26.960 brings opposition from the world. 00:27:28.320 --> 00:27:30.000 It's not too harsh to say 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:31.560 that the world 00:27:31.560 --> 00:27:33.080 will hate us. 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:36.400 The more I abide in Jesus, 00:27:37.140 --> 00:27:39.180 the less I will fit into this world 00:27:39.180 --> 00:27:39.840 because of him. 00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:41.180 The more 00:27:41.180 --> 00:27:42.700 I sit under 00:27:42.700 --> 00:27:44.539 and bring myself under God's word, 00:27:45.620 --> 00:27:46.400 the less 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:47.700 I will be liked 00:27:47.700 --> 00:27:48.519 because of him. 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:52.059 Some knowledge of God 00:27:52.059 --> 00:27:52.879 is tolerated. 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:53.519 We know that. 00:27:55.259 --> 00:27:56.779 And I would suggest 00:27:56.779 --> 00:27:58.639 that so much of the Bible, 00:27:58.740 --> 00:27:59.720 I think this is one of the ways 00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:00.299 Tim Keller 00:28:00.299 --> 00:28:01.720 looks at the Bible. 00:28:01.859 --> 00:28:02.700 He talks about 00:28:02.700 --> 00:28:03.400 Doctrine A 00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:04.180 and Doctrine B. 00:28:04.660 --> 00:28:05.639 In every passage 00:28:05.639 --> 00:28:06.200 in the Bible 00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:07.259 there is something good 00:28:07.259 --> 00:28:08.559 that appeals to everybody. 00:28:09.859 --> 00:28:10.980 But there's a flip side 00:28:10.980 --> 00:28:11.339 to it 00:28:11.339 --> 00:28:12.019 that challenges 00:28:12.019 --> 00:28:13.180 and really grates 00:28:13.180 --> 00:28:13.839 against the way 00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:14.920 we choose to live 00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:15.539 in our society, 00:28:15.660 --> 00:28:16.139 in our world. 00:28:16.140 --> 00:28:19.180 Some knowledge of God 00:28:19.180 --> 00:28:19.780 is tolerated. 00:28:21.140 --> 00:28:21.960 But it's God 00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:22.740 on their terms 00:28:22.740 --> 00:28:24.040 and from the world's perspective. 00:28:25.180 --> 00:28:26.160 It's not the whole God, 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:26.440 is it? 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:27.320 The God that we know. 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:31.420 So these are the reasons 00:28:31.420 --> 00:28:32.580 why Jesus prays. 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:33.240 And this, 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:33.820 and let's go on 00:28:33.820 --> 00:28:34.220 and have a look 00:28:34.220 --> 00:28:35.680 at what Jesus actually prays. 00:28:37.220 --> 00:28:37.620 See, 00:28:37.660 --> 00:28:38.480 Jesus prays 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:40.240 that God will keep them 00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:43.020 within this hostile world. 00:28:43.900 --> 00:28:44.900 In verse 15, 00:28:44.900 --> 00:28:46.480 I do not ask 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:47.040 that you take them 00:28:47.040 --> 00:28:47.759 out of the world, 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:49.480 but that you keep them 00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:50.380 from the evil one. 00:28:51.500 --> 00:28:52.660 They are not of the world 00:28:52.660 --> 00:28:53.920 just as I'm not of the world. 00:28:55.660 --> 00:28:56.940 Sanctify them in the truth. 00:28:57.560 --> 00:28:58.980 Your word is truth. 00:29:00.120 --> 00:29:01.040 As you sent me 00:29:01.040 --> 00:29:01.740 into the world, 00:29:02.540 --> 00:29:03.600 so I have sent them 00:29:03.600 --> 00:29:04.200 into the world. 00:29:04.560 --> 00:29:05.720 And for their sake 00:29:05.720 --> 00:29:07.220 I consecrate myself 00:29:07.220 --> 00:29:08.960 that they also 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:10.640 may be sanctified in truth. 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:15.020 We live in a world 00:29:15.020 --> 00:29:15.820 that is hostile 00:29:15.820 --> 00:29:17.920 to who we are. 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:19.759 It hates us 00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:20.800 because of who we are 00:29:20.800 --> 00:29:21.380 in Christ. 00:29:22.060 --> 00:29:22.880 And this hatred 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:23.480 comes at us 00:29:23.480 --> 00:29:24.200 in two forms. 00:29:24.520 --> 00:29:25.259 The point of tension 00:29:25.259 --> 00:29:26.000 is the truth 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:27.380 and the enemy 00:29:27.380 --> 00:29:28.680 is the father of lies. 00:29:31.020 --> 00:29:31.960 Now it's possible 00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:33.040 that we'll be attacked physically 00:29:33.040 --> 00:29:33.680 and if you read 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:34.380 the news reports, 00:29:34.700 --> 00:29:36.020 certainly in Nigeria, 00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:36.960 the places like that, 00:29:37.180 --> 00:29:38.220 you'll hear of Christians 00:29:38.220 --> 00:29:40.400 being attacked and killed. 00:29:40.539 --> 00:29:41.240 India as well. 00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:43.120 Christians being attacked 00:29:43.120 --> 00:29:43.700 and killed 00:29:43.700 --> 00:29:44.740 because they are Christian. 00:29:49.120 --> 00:29:50.279 It's tragic to hear 00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:50.660 of Christians 00:29:50.660 --> 00:29:51.660 dying for their faith. 00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:54.759 But notice here 00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:56.420 that that's not 00:29:56.420 --> 00:29:57.660 Jesus' main concern. 00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:00.059 Most of the disciples 00:30:00.059 --> 00:30:01.779 Jesus is praying for here 00:30:01.779 --> 00:30:03.440 will die for their faith. 00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:07.160 But Jesus' main concern 00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:09.400 is that they would not 00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:10.360 step away 00:30:10.360 --> 00:30:11.560 from the truth 00:30:11.560 --> 00:30:12.500 that makes them 00:30:12.500 --> 00:30:13.519 distinct in the world. 00:30:15.560 --> 00:30:17.120 And so this is where 00:30:17.120 --> 00:30:18.900 the world attacks us. 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:21.360 It seeks to undermine, 00:30:21.940 --> 00:30:22.759 to ridicule, 00:30:23.060 --> 00:30:24.060 to shame us 00:30:24.060 --> 00:30:25.200 in our thinking 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:26.100 about God's word. 00:30:27.660 --> 00:30:28.480 And Satan, 00:30:28.860 --> 00:30:29.779 elsewhere described 00:30:29.779 --> 00:30:31.320 as the father of lies, 00:30:32.420 --> 00:30:33.580 Satan will spin 00:30:33.580 --> 00:30:35.060 lie after lie 00:30:35.060 --> 00:30:36.060 into a web of deceit 00:30:36.059 --> 00:30:36.740 that we can't see 00:30:36.740 --> 00:30:37.539 our way clear of. 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:39.259 He'll try to turn us 00:30:39.259 --> 00:30:40.659 around so many times 00:30:40.659 --> 00:30:42.019 that we'll think 00:30:42.019 --> 00:30:42.359 we're going 00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:43.220 in the right direction. 00:30:45.779 --> 00:30:46.539 He's capable 00:30:46.539 --> 00:30:47.879 of convincing us 00:30:47.879 --> 00:30:49.399 that we are following 00:30:49.399 --> 00:30:50.039 the truth 00:30:50.039 --> 00:30:51.500 even when we're not. 00:30:52.619 --> 00:30:53.819 Think of how women 00:30:53.819 --> 00:30:55.619 have been oppressed 00:30:55.619 --> 00:30:56.579 and are being oppressed 00:30:56.579 --> 00:30:57.139 by people 00:30:57.139 --> 00:30:58.079 who call themselves 00:30:58.079 --> 00:30:58.599 Christians. 00:30:59.819 --> 00:31:00.919 Husbands who abuse 00:31:00.919 --> 00:31:01.559 their wives 00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:03.079 in the name of the Lord. 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:06.059 think of how many 00:31:06.059 --> 00:31:07.599 Christians justified 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:08.399 slavery, 00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:11.439 the stolen generation. 00:31:11.639 --> 00:31:12.079 I'm not saying 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:13.199 every Christian did. 00:31:13.919 --> 00:31:14.639 There were many Christians. 00:31:14.699 --> 00:31:14.899 In fact, 00:31:14.939 --> 00:31:15.319 the movement 00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:16.119 against slavery 00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:17.259 was led by Christians. 00:31:18.220 --> 00:31:19.000 Many Christians 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:19.980 actually ministered 00:31:19.980 --> 00:31:22.679 to the indigenous Australians 00:31:22.679 --> 00:31:23.899 at the same time 00:31:23.899 --> 00:31:24.899 that other Christians 00:31:24.899 --> 00:31:26.579 were advocating 00:31:26.579 --> 00:31:29.000 for this stolen generation 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:29.519 policy. 00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:31.700 think of how many 00:31:31.700 --> 00:31:32.680 churches supported 00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:33.319 the Nazis 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:34.299 in World War II. 00:31:35.059 --> 00:31:35.759 I believe it was 00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:36.420 all the major 00:31:36.420 --> 00:31:37.039 denominations 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:37.440 in Germany 00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:37.859 at the time. 00:31:40.819 --> 00:31:42.019 Think of the Christians 00:31:42.019 --> 00:31:44.940 who actively campaign 00:31:44.940 --> 00:31:47.599 against God's teaching. 00:31:50.039 --> 00:31:50.720 I'm not sure 00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:51.139 if you're aware. 00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:51.500 I'm going to bring 00:31:51.500 --> 00:31:51.839 one up 00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:53.700 that's certainly 00:31:53.700 --> 00:31:54.779 coming onto the news 00:31:54.779 --> 00:31:55.200 recently. 00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:56.519 And this is a current 00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:57.500 debate over conversion 00:31:57.500 --> 00:31:57.920 therapy. 00:31:57.920 --> 00:31:59.720 Victorian government 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:01.740 and the Queensland 00:32:01.740 --> 00:32:02.019 government 00:32:02.019 --> 00:32:02.600 are actually bringing 00:32:02.600 --> 00:32:04.000 in some legislation 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:04.700 to do with 00:32:04.700 --> 00:32:06.080 banning conversion 00:32:06.080 --> 00:32:06.519 therapy. 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:07.740 And I've got to say 00:32:07.740 --> 00:32:08.200 up front 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:09.340 that what I've read 00:32:09.340 --> 00:32:10.539 of conversion therapy 00:32:10.539 --> 00:32:11.900 is appalling. 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:13.660 It should be banned. 00:32:15.539 --> 00:32:16.779 But activists 00:32:16.779 --> 00:32:18.460 wish to go further. 00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:21.680 One has said 00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:23.000 people who have 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:23.580 an issue 00:32:23.580 --> 00:32:24.400 with this legislation 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:24.880 when they asked 00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:25.100 about, 00:32:25.220 --> 00:32:25.259 well, 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:25.980 is it going to 00:32:25.980 --> 00:32:27.080 impinge 00:32:27.080 --> 00:32:27.820 on religious freedom? 00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:28.720 He says 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:29.400 people who have 00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:29.740 an issue 00:32:29.740 --> 00:32:30.779 with this legislation 00:32:30.779 --> 00:32:32.140 are the people 00:32:32.140 --> 00:32:32.779 who come from 00:32:32.779 --> 00:32:33.360 a place 00:32:33.360 --> 00:32:34.360 that says 00:32:34.360 --> 00:32:36.140 being LGBTIQ 00:32:36.140 --> 00:32:37.360 is somehow 00:32:37.360 --> 00:32:38.660 disordered. 00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:42.560 And that 00:32:42.560 --> 00:32:44.279 any approach 00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:47.560 that actually 00:32:47.560 --> 00:32:48.480 challenges someone 00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:48.980 for being, 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:49.980 for expressing 00:32:49.980 --> 00:32:50.580 themselves in 00:32:50.580 --> 00:32:51.160 these ways 00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:52.660 should be banned 00:32:52.660 --> 00:32:53.300 whether in a 00:32:53.300 --> 00:32:53.920 formal clinical 00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:54.720 setting or not. 00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:57.480 therapy needs 00:32:57.480 --> 00:32:57.720 to be banned. 00:32:57.720 --> 00:32:58.160 Another has openly 00:32:58.160 --> 00:32:59.100 said the law 00:32:59.100 --> 00:32:59.559 needs to go 00:32:59.559 --> 00:32:59.920 further. 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:00.319 He said the 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:00.880 majority of 00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:01.299 therapy that 00:33:01.299 --> 00:33:01.700 is happening 00:33:01.700 --> 00:33:02.579 today is 00:33:02.579 --> 00:33:03.160 happening in 00:33:03.160 --> 00:33:03.700 the context 00:33:03.700 --> 00:33:05.220 of one-on-one 00:33:05.220 --> 00:33:06.400 conversations. 00:33:07.660 --> 00:33:08.200 This is taking 00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:08.720 it very much, 00:33:08.940 --> 00:33:09.079 I mean, 00:33:09.299 --> 00:33:10.880 the legislation 00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:11.440 is meant to be 00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:11.640 about the 00:33:11.640 --> 00:33:12.240 clinical setting, 00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:12.860 but this is 00:33:12.860 --> 00:33:13.440 where activists 00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:14.079 want to go. 00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:16.579 One-on-one 00:33:16.579 --> 00:33:17.259 conversations. 00:33:18.299 --> 00:33:18.860 And goes on 00:33:18.860 --> 00:33:19.259 to say, 00:33:19.259 --> 00:33:20.039 in all 00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:20.619 situations, 00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:21.579 all times, 00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:22.440 all settings, 00:33:22.879 --> 00:33:23.920 this type of 00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:24.539 therapy needs 00:33:24.539 --> 00:33:25.059 to be banned. 00:33:28.579 --> 00:33:29.259 Those two 00:33:29.259 --> 00:33:29.640 quotes were 00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:29.940 from two 00:33:29.940 --> 00:33:30.500 different people. 00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:32.160 The first 00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:33.019 one was 00:33:33.019 --> 00:33:34.160 from the 00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:34.339 Right 00:33:34.339 --> 00:33:34.579 Reverend 00:33:34.579 --> 00:33:34.920 Jeremy 00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:35.420 Greaves, 00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:35.960 an archbishop 00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:36.539 in Queensland. 00:33:38.180 --> 00:33:38.640 Sorry, 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:39.240 a bishop in 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:39.440 Queensland, 00:33:39.539 --> 00:33:40.059 not an archbishop, 00:33:40.500 --> 00:33:41.119 Anglican bishop. 00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:43.000 The second 00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:43.400 one was 00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:43.799 from Alex 00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:44.240 Pitaway, 00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:45.460 a pastor 00:33:45.460 --> 00:33:46.480 of a church 00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:46.940 in Brisbane. 00:33:49.259 --> 00:33:52.619 I haven't 00:33:52.619 --> 00:33:52.980 even gone 00:33:52.980 --> 00:33:54.480 outside of 00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:54.879 our own 00:33:54.879 --> 00:33:56.299 faith to 00:33:56.299 --> 00:33:56.720 show you 00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:57.420 how hard 00:33:57.420 --> 00:33:59.420 it is to 00:33:59.420 --> 00:34:00.039 stick to 00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:00.779 the truth 00:34:00.779 --> 00:34:01.740 in this 00:34:01.740 --> 00:34:02.099 world. 00:34:03.799 --> 00:34:04.960 It is so 00:34:04.960 --> 00:34:05.819 hard to 00:34:05.819 --> 00:34:06.140 own our 00:34:06.140 --> 00:34:06.559 own faith 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:06.799 in the 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:07.059 world. 00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:10.679 The world 00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:11.260 wants us 00:34:11.260 --> 00:34:11.840 to give 00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:12.840 up our 00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:13.639 set-apartness, 00:34:14.139 --> 00:34:14.860 our holiness. 00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:15.960 It grates 00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:16.380 on them when 00:34:16.380 --> 00:34:16.940 they see the 00:34:16.940 --> 00:34:17.539 difference. 00:34:19.260 --> 00:34:20.940 We are 00:34:20.940 --> 00:34:21.300 seen as 00:34:21.300 --> 00:34:22.020 bigoted, 00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:23.820 judgmental, 00:34:24.340 --> 00:34:24.780 harsh, 00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:25.560 unloving, 00:34:27.120 --> 00:34:27.720 oppressive. 00:34:36.300 --> 00:34:37.220 This world 00:34:37.220 --> 00:34:37.600 wants us 00:34:37.600 --> 00:34:37.840 to give 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:38.140 up our 00:34:38.140 --> 00:34:38.820 set-apartness. 00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:41.540 So Jesus 00:34:41.540 --> 00:34:42.940 prays that 00:34:42.940 --> 00:34:43.540 the Father 00:34:43.540 --> 00:34:44.340 will do 00:34:44.340 --> 00:34:44.840 the opposite, 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:46.640 that the 00:34:46.640 --> 00:34:47.260 Father will 00:34:47.260 --> 00:34:48.300 strengthen us 00:34:48.300 --> 00:34:48.580 in the 00:34:48.580 --> 00:34:48.980 truth, 00:34:49.260 --> 00:34:49.880 and that 00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:50.680 through this 00:34:50.680 --> 00:34:51.920 we would 00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:52.360 actually be 00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:52.700 the ones 00:34:52.700 --> 00:34:53.160 who invade 00:34:53.160 --> 00:34:53.780 the world 00:34:53.780 --> 00:34:54.120 with this 00:34:54.120 --> 00:34:55.260 truth instead 00:34:55.260 --> 00:34:55.600 of the 00:34:55.600 --> 00:34:56.480 world invading 00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:57.920 us with 00:34:57.920 --> 00:34:58.360 lies. 00:34:59.680 --> 00:35:00.740 That we 00:35:00.740 --> 00:35:01.140 would know 00:35:01.140 --> 00:35:01.480 the joy 00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:02.060 that Jesus 00:35:02.060 --> 00:35:03.140 has of 00:35:03.140 --> 00:35:03.800 being one 00:35:03.800 --> 00:35:04.400 with God 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:05.880 and that it 00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:06.540 would be 00:35:06.540 --> 00:35:07.680 unquenchable 00:35:07.680 --> 00:35:08.420 and attractive 00:35:08.420 --> 00:35:09.420 and challenging 00:35:09.420 --> 00:35:10.500 and ultimately 00:35:10.500 --> 00:35:11.540 sanctifying for 00:35:11.540 --> 00:35:12.140 a world 00:35:12.140 --> 00:35:13.520 that lives 00:35:13.520 --> 00:35:14.080 apart from 00:35:14.080 --> 00:35:14.420 God. 00:35:14.420 --> 00:35:15.039 God 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:18.260 friends, 00:35:18.360 --> 00:35:18.579 Jesus 00:35:18.579 --> 00:35:19.139 prayed for 00:35:19.139 --> 00:35:19.639 himself, 00:35:20.340 --> 00:35:20.880 glorify 00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:21.340 me 00:35:21.340 --> 00:35:23.360 and he 00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:24.000 was glorified 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:24.260 at the 00:35:24.260 --> 00:35:24.619 cross. 00:35:27.579 --> 00:35:28.180 Jesus 00:35:28.180 --> 00:35:28.760 prays for 00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:28.920 his 00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:29.440 disciples, 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:31.119 sanctify 00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:31.619 them 00:35:31.619 --> 00:35:34.460 and we 00:35:34.460 --> 00:35:34.860 are 00:35:34.860 --> 00:35:35.840 as we 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:36.539 live by 00:35:36.539 --> 00:35:37.260 his truth, 00:35:37.680 --> 00:35:38.159 by his 00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:38.539 word 00:35:38.539 --> 00:35:39.280 in this 00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:39.680 world. 00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:42.980 If I 00:35:42.980 --> 00:35:43.179 were to 00:35:43.179 --> 00:35:43.679 distill the 00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:44.139 three parts 00:35:44.139 --> 00:35:44.480 of Jesus 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:45.019 prayer down 00:35:45.019 --> 00:35:45.359 to one 00:35:45.359 --> 00:35:46.259 word or 00:35:46.259 --> 00:35:46.859 one phrase, 00:35:46.980 --> 00:35:47.199 it would 00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:47.699 be this. 00:35:48.199 --> 00:35:48.579 The first 00:35:48.579 --> 00:35:48.859 part, 00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:49.419 glorify 00:35:49.419 --> 00:35:49.799 me. 00:35:49.919 --> 00:35:50.099 This is 00:35:50.099 --> 00:35:50.460 from Jesus' 00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:50.919 perspective. 00:35:51.399 --> 00:35:51.799 Jesus is 00:35:51.799 --> 00:35:52.599 saying glorify 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:52.980 me. 00:35:53.359 --> 00:35:53.699 Jesus is 00:35:53.699 --> 00:35:54.559 saying sanctify 00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:55.440 them and 00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:55.699 then the 00:35:55.699 --> 00:35:56.440 third part 00:35:56.440 --> 00:35:56.799 next week 00:35:56.799 --> 00:35:57.179 without wanting 00:35:57.179 --> 00:35:57.719 to be too 00:35:57.719 --> 00:35:58.099 much of a 00:35:58.099 --> 00:35:58.319 spoiler, 00:35:58.599 --> 00:35:58.980 the third 00:35:58.980 --> 00:35:59.579 part is 00:35:59.579 --> 00:36:00.579 unify 00:36:00.579 --> 00:36:01.339 us, 00:36:02.319 --> 00:36:02.699 Father, 00:36:02.899 --> 00:36:03.119 Son, 00:36:03.279 --> 00:36:04.000 Spirit and 00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:04.480 the church 00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:06.119 that Christ 00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:06.599 is building. 00:36:07.919 --> 00:36:08.539 Set us 00:36:08.539 --> 00:36:09.039 apart. 00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:10.739 Purify us 00:36:10.739 --> 00:36:11.119 through the 00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:11.460 cross. 00:36:11.839 --> 00:36:12.480 Prepare us 00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:13.179 for service. 00:36:13.699 --> 00:36:14.199 Glorify 00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:14.899 yourself in 00:36:14.899 --> 00:36:17.199 us is the 00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:17.659 prayer that 00:36:17.659 --> 00:36:18.279 Jesus wants 00:36:18.279 --> 00:36:18.559 on our 00:36:18.559 --> 00:36:18.839 lips. 00:36:21.059 --> 00:36:21.779 So let me 00:36:21.779 --> 00:36:22.319 pray those 00:36:22.319 --> 00:36:22.879 things now. 00:36:23.299 --> 00:36:23.519 And we're 00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:24.259 actually going 00:36:24.259 --> 00:36:24.500 to share 00:36:24.500 --> 00:36:24.819 the Lord's 00:36:24.819 --> 00:36:24.960 Supper, 00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:25.199 which will 00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:25.819 remind us 00:36:25.819 --> 00:36:27.139 of the 00:36:27.139 --> 00:36:28.599 glory of 00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:29.079 the cross 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:31.059 and hopefully 00:36:31.059 --> 00:36:32.199 will help 00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:32.980 us in 00:36:32.980 --> 00:36:33.440 terms of 00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:34.059 our frame 00:36:34.059 --> 00:36:34.659 of reference 00:36:34.659 --> 00:36:35.119 in holding 00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:35.460 on to 00:36:35.460 --> 00:36:35.960 truth in 00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:36.399 this world. 00:36:37.179 --> 00:36:37.599 Let me 00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:38.019 pray those 00:36:38.019 --> 00:36:38.379 words. 00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:40.099 Let's 00:36:40.099 --> 00:36:40.559 pray together. 00:36:41.739 --> 00:36:42.679 Father God, 00:36:43.219 --> 00:36:44.039 I pray that 00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:44.259 you would 00:36:44.259 --> 00:36:44.699 set us 00:36:44.699 --> 00:36:45.159 apart, 00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:47.539 sanctify us, 00:36:48.579 --> 00:36:49.299 purify us 00:36:49.299 --> 00:36:49.659 through the 00:36:49.659 --> 00:36:50.079 cross, 00:36:51.239 --> 00:36:52.039 prepare us 00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:52.519 for works 00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:53.099 of service 00:36:53.099 --> 00:36:53.559 in your 00:36:53.559 --> 00:36:53.899 name, 00:36:54.460 --> 00:36:56.099 and glorify 00:36:56.099 --> 00:36:56.899 yourself in 00:36:56.899 --> 00:36:58.099 us as we 00:36:58.099 --> 00:36:58.579 live in the 00:36:58.579 --> 00:37:00.039 world faithfully 00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:01.159 and joyfully 00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:01.799 bearing your 00:37:01.799 --> 00:37:02.139 name. 00:37:03.139 --> 00:37:03.759 In Jesus' 00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:04.379 name we pray 00:37:04.379 --> 00:37:04.719 this. 00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:05.879 Amen.