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All right, guys, glad to have you back. I hope you've been reading John 17 every day this week

because that's where we're parked this week. We're digging deep into the high priestly

prayer of Jesus in John 17. Yesterday we looked at verses 13 through 19 where Jesus prayed for

the mission of the disciples. Today we're in verses 20 through 23 where Jesus is

praying for all believers. I'll read those verses here. I do not ask for those only, but also for those

who will believe in me through their word. That they may all be one just as you, Father, are in me

and I in you, that they also may be in us so that the world may believe that

you have sent me. The glory that you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one

even as we are one. I in them and you and me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the

world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

All right, let's dig in, verse 20.

I do not ask for these only.

So this intercession is not just for the disciples, right?

It's not just for the apostles, and of which there are essentially only 11 of them right now.

So who is Jesus asking on behalf of? But also for those who will

believe in me. So this is presumptive by Jesus, right? It's a presumptive success. And many of you

are in sales, so I'm sure you're aware of something called the presumptive close. It's where you

talk about a deal as if it's done before it is actually done done. And that's what Jesus is

doing here. Through their word. So Jesus believes, knows that the disciples will be successful in

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