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🗓️ 2 July 2022
⏱️ 95 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right. Let it begin. Okay, so let me bring my counter back down to one. This is the |
0:12.8 | first question for today's Q&A, and it comes in anonymously, but the question is this. |
0:18.9 | My father believes that there are people who we do not, as in should not, pray for. He |
0:25.2 | backs it up with John 17, nine. I always appreciate people using a verse to back up things |
0:30.0 | like that, saying that it may be a sin to pray for people who we shouldn't pray for. I |
0:35.6 | would love to hear your thoughts. So let's start by just looking at John 17, nine, because |
0:39.9 | there's actually so much scripture we can bring up on this topic. It isn't just a black |
0:43.7 | and white issue, but you'll see. Okay. So John 17, nine. Now, now this is in the great |
0:52.1 | high priestly prayer of Jesus. This is like that's what we often call it today, right? |
0:56.4 | This is Jesus's prayer just before his crucifixion in the gospel of John. He's lifting up, |
1:02.1 | you know, in prayer several different issues, his own issue with the father, like father |
1:06.4 | glorify me, then he prays for the disciples, then he prays for the people who will follow |
1:10.7 | after. So he prays in different sections for different groups. Well, in one of those |
1:14.7 | sections, John 17, nine, he says, I'm praying for them. I am not praying for the world, |
1:23.5 | but for those whom you have given me for they are yours. So let's just analyze this in |
1:30.7 | the context, because we're bringing a context to this that maybe wasn't there when Jesus |
1:34.1 | said it, but in the context of the question, hey, is it wrong to pray for certain people? |
1:38.8 | And the only way I can see using John 17, nine to say it's wrong to pray for certain people |
1:43.3 | is if you use it to say it's wrong to pray for the whole world or anyone in the world. |
1:49.6 | So when Jesus here says, I'm praying for them, his disciples, he's not praying for the |
1:54.3 | world. If you take this as a command, hey, everyone, I want you to pray for disciples. |
1:59.4 | I do not want you to pray for the world. Then it's a very extreme command. It's not just |
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