#747 – Jesus Praying For Us (John 17:20–21)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 26 August 2019
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Jesus prays for the unity of Christians. If we are not unified, we hinder the spread of the gospel.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | John Chapter 17 verses 20 and 21. |
| 0:10.0 | Jesus prayed, I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through |
| 0:17.3 | their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, father are in me and I in you that they also may be in us so |
| 0:29.2 | that the world may believe that you have sent me. |
| 0:35.0 | Oh, these two verses, amidst this whole chapter, like every verse in this chapter is worthy of meditation, like prolonged meditation as Jesus |
| 0:48.4 | praise for his disciples through the first 19 or so verses and then you get to verse 20 and he |
| 0:56.7 | starts praying not just for his disciples who were around him at that time, but for all who would believe in Jesus through their testimony. |
| 1:07.5 | In other words, this is Jesus praying for us, right here, for you and for me, for all who believe in Jesus today because we have heard |
| 1:16.7 | the Word of Jesus through the testimony of disciples the testimony of followers of his who have gone before us. So Jesus is praying for us. So what does he pray for us? |
| 1:28.7 | Verse 21, that they may all be one. He prays for our unity, for our community together just as, now this is where it's just baffling, just as you |
| 1:47.6 | Father are in me, Jesus says. Think about unity, just as the Father is in the Son, and I in you, just the |
| 1:59.1 | son is in the Father, like Trinitarian Unity. The Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, obviously are |
| 2:09.0 | unified. Like there is perfect union, unity in the Trinity. |
| 2:17.0 | So that's the level of unity that Jesus praying for us here. |
| 2:22.0 | They may all be won just as you, Father, are in me, and I, and you, |
| 2:26.9 | that they also may be in us. We have been invited in to unity with Jesus, the Son, God, the Father, God, the Spirit and one another. |
| 2:40.0 | Our union with one another is grounded in our union in Christ in |
| 2:48.1 | our union in Christ in Jesus, in God that they may also be in us so that the world may believe that you have |
| 2:58.8 | sent me. |
| 2:59.8 | Wow, to think that the world realizing that Jesus has been sent by the Father to be the |
| 3:11.4 | Savior of the world that our unity as followers of Jesus has a direct |
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